In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...
"Pinball," which scores points by striking balls on an inclined platform, was once a mainstay of the game as entertainment. Although it is a pinball with a feeling of being completely deprived of the ...
There are old pinball machines and arcade cabinets littered here and there in dive bars and restaurants all across the country. But have you ever considered what it takes to maintain and repair them?
If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...
[Quinn Dunki] has come to realize the pinball machines of her youth aren’t the lame games she remembered. They’re actually quite marvelous in terms of electronics, mechanics, engineering and the all ...
You think it’s hard being the only company around that still makes pinball machines? What about the people left who still repairs them? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting write up about Mike ...
Old pinball machine in need of repair? There’s a guy for that. Dan Kearney, owner of Pinball Fixer here in Sioux Falls, has been working on coin-operated machines for the past 14 years, including ...
Brendan and Annie Fitzgerald, owners of FitzCo, stand inside SpareMe Bowl & Arcade on Wednesday, where they were hosting FitzCo’s monthly internationally ranked pinball tournament in Iowa City. The ...