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When Houston’s first pinball machine maker, Barrels of Fun, debuted its initial game in 2023, it was a surprise hit. Well, maybe it was a surprise to the pinball collecting community ...

Kyle Scott competes for his team at Wedgehead's weekly Howdy Pardner pinball tournament in Portland, Oregon, on April 10. (Monique Merrill/Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — It’s an overcast ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor is updating its zoning code to say it’s OK to have pinball parlors in more areas. City Council unanimously approved pinball-friendly ordinance changes Monday night ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Pinball enthusiasts gathered in droves Saturday at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center for Pinball at the 'Zoo. Now in its 25th year, Pinball at the 'Zoo featured over 175 games ...

There's something about the rush of *** pinball game. the luck of how the ball bounces off things. From plunger to artistically designed playfield. I'll tell you that really gets the heart rate ...

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It’s 1993. I don’t even remember where I first began playing the Jurassic Park pinball machine, but the sounds are burned into my brain: the roar of a T. rex, the driving score, and the famous ...

Toronto is home to the largest pinball arcade in all of Canada, and it's all hiding in a Koreatown basement. Steve Lefort, the owner and founder of Bloor West's Antisocial Pinball Lounge ...

WHEN MOST people think of pinball, if they think of it at all, they probably imagine an old, unloved machine, starved of coins and gathering dust in the back of a bar or pizza parlour as its ...