To fund and promote the project, Wonderland Amusements is taking to Kickstarter. Officially launching in March, the ...

Pinball machines were the video games of their day ... the relay uses something like a mechanical flip flop. Sound complicated? That’s nothing. Don’t forget, the machine also has to reset ...

Believe it or not, playing games on pinball machines in many major American cities for decades was illegal. In 1963, however, ...

Mechanical components receive just as much ... And then there's the coils. Pinball machines rely on small coils of wound copper wire, electromagnets that eject a plunger that pushes or pulls ...

Before video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball ...

Combining two things once thought to be detrimental to young people, Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye is Stern’s latest mechanical marvel featuring challenges like an owlbear, a gelatinous ...

A full-size pinball machine from the mechanical era looks just as impressive in a game room as it plays.” What's more, arcade machines actually aren't hard to find online, whether they're being ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. As for the pinball table’s campaign, Stern says that ...