It's kind of unbelievable to think about it now, but it's true: America went through a period between 1940s and the 1970s when pinball was banned in many of the biggest cities, including New York, Los ...

This is the Transparent Pinball Machine, a custom piece created out of a 1976 “Surf Champ” unit by Michael Schiess, owner of the Lucky JuJu Pinball Arcade in Alameda, CA (which looks like the coolest ...

If you’ve ever been in a good arcade, you’ve been inundated by the sounds of electronic boops, beeps and pew-pews. One of the most recognizable sounds you’d hear were the sounds of pinball machines.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bill and Wendy speak with Pinball historian ...

Pinball machines at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Courtesy of Sam Howzit/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the ...