This story was first published online at UNC Media Hub. It’s a Wednesday night in February at The Neighborhood Sports Bar and Arcade in Cary. It smells like beer and french fries, and neon lights from ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - On a side street near the Acropolis, a new museum is exhibiting items a little different from the elegant white marble statues of ancient Greek antiquity. Here, there are flashing ...

Come for the custom framing, stay for a few rounds of pinball. Here's how "The Flipper Room" is bringing classic pinball fun to the East Bay.

The history of pinball has a long and storied past. The first commercially successful pinball machine was introduced in 1931 by Gottlieb and it didn't even have the now-ubiquitous flippers. In fact, ...

[alanamon] had an old pinball machine in his basement, and thought it would be cool to rig it up to serve as a clock as well. He didn’t want it to be just any clock however, he wanted the pinball ...

May 2—Lodi will be going full "tilt" this month when dozens of pinball machines fill the Grape Festival grounds and players test their mettle to become tournament champions. Games based on the ...

Long before Pinball Pete's was a cultural landmark next to the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, the arcade had humble beginnings in a rival college town.

There’s something about pinball that draws in hackers, makers, and engineers. Maybe it’s the flashing lights, the sounds, the complex mechanical movements. Could it be the subtle tactics required to ...

The Beatles are the subject of what’s rumored to be the most expensive pinball machine of all time, according to industry sources. Set around the band’s record-breaking year of 1964 – when, at one ...

Sometimes, you come across a new TV show that mostly is ridiculous but opens up a small window of intrigue that keeps you coming back. It’s like watching “Dancing with the Stars” just to see if ...

He designed the iconic two-flipper pinball machine we know today, went on to build over 100 pinball games and lived for over a century: Steve Kordek, one of pinball’s pioneers, passed away on Feb. 19.