The seeds of the pinball industry were planted in 1871, when Montague Redgrave of Cincinnati worked some revisions on a popular game of the time and called it “Improvements in Bagatelle,” which ...

A virtual pinball machine sounds like a really good idea. No less then 17 tables, on a LCD display (so the playfield doesn’t wear out). Best yet, the virtual pinball machine has some of the most ...

To hang with the Crazy Flipper Fingers is easy. Pull up a bar stool, talk away and drink tall boys. To be a member of Portland's notorious pinball gang, however, takes patience. Not even favoritism ...

If you go into a trendy bar in the Marais and ask if there’s a pinball machine—or, as they say in France, “un flipper”—the barman’s going to smile at you, perhaps with a nostalgic sigh, and say, ...

CONCORD, Calif. -- Come for the custom framing, stay for a few rounds of pinball. When Mike Moretti opened "The Art of Picture Framing", a friend of his, who owned a demolition business and just ...

It’s a surprising link with the city’s past—the pinball machine, the bumpers-and-flippers bar game that entertained generations of proto-slackers and inspired a rock opera, owes much of its history to ...

It’s unlikely that anyone would mistake Bowen Kerins' hobby for a sport, though it does have a few whiffs of athleticism. For starters, it requires agility, quickness and coordination. Plus, there are ...

There was a time, not so long ago, when pinball was considered evil, a magnet for organized crime and gambling, a rolling silver ball to hell. So much so that the City of New York officially banned ...