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4 Ways to Make Money with Pinball Machines
Pinball machines typically measure six feet high, five feet long and two and a half feet wide. With these enormous features, storing them inside your home can take up a significant amount of space, which can be bothering – unless everyone else will consider it as a memento worthy to be displayed inside your home.
However, there is more to pinball machines than being just a house display. In fact, you can make a […]
Silverball Rodeo: A Pinball Championship Event with a Purpose
In Labour Day weekend, Calgary pinball wizards have met to put their flipper fingers to the test at the annual Silverball Rodeo pinball championship held for the first time. More than just being a venue for pinball enthusiasts, the event served a more meaningful purpose.
During the Saturday prior to the Labour Day in Canada, the two-day pinball event commenced at the Atlantic Trap and Gil Pub. It was presented by the […]
Playing Pinball like a Pro: 8 Essential Skills of Pinball Wizards
Pinball machines are enjoying a bit of resurgence in popularity. In recent years, the arcade favorite is popping up in various exhibits around the world and pinball tournaments are being held in different countries.
Now that it’s making a comeback, it’s only rightful to remaster the skills you once prized in the early times. To help you start with, here are 8 essential skills of Pinball Wizards to teach you how to […]
13 Legendary Pinball Heroes who designed the Best Machines Ever
Behind every popular pinball machine is a legendary pinball designer who made a significant contribution to the development of the arcade staple today.
Every pinball machine is different. Each play field is completely unique, offering different playing experiences. Some tests your accuracy and reflexes while others are for pure fun and entertainment. Even if you are a non-pinball wizard, you have surely been curious who the geniuses behind such sophisticated creations were.
Build Your Own Pinball Machine in an Hour with This DIY Kit
At the height of the comeback of pinball machines in the arcade gaming scene, comes an upgraded pinball game made out of cardboard, the “PinBox 3000.” What’s unique and interesting about this pinball machine is that the game can be built in just an hour. All you need is a do-it-yourself (DIY) kit and your wit to assemble the pieces!
DIY Pinball Machine
“PinBox 3000” is the first tabletop pinball […]
Chabot Center Exhibit Proves There Is Science and Art in Pinball Machines
An exhibit in California recently proved that a classic pinball machine is more complex and scientific than how it looks from the outside. “The Art and Science of Pinball” at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland exposes the playful secrets of the game and it will leave you never looking at the arcade favourite the same way again.
The exhibit explains that science is responsible for the addictive thrill of […]
7 Best Rock Legends-themed Pinball Machines
Back in the day, bands and musicians gauge their success status and influence by having a themed pinball designed after their craft. It is like having a film or a TV series dedicated to them. To this day, only legendary bands and singers have this kind of accolade under their belt. And rock bands are not short of the privilege of having their names on a Pinball machine.
Sure you have in […]
A 24 Year-Old Software Engineer is the New World Pinball Champion
A 24-year old software engineer won the 14th Annual International Flipper Pinball Association’s World Pinball Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark. Raymond Davidson, from Mukilteo, Washington beat 20 of the world’s greatest pinball wizard earlier this month to become the new world pinball champion.
The players in the event were invited based on their points from world tournaments around the globe. His winning game was a 9-game marathon against his former mentor Cayle George. Their […]
A Customised 2-Player Pinball Machine You can DIY at Home
Pinball used to be a one-player game and the best you could get is a multi-ball machine in which you could play two or three balls at a time. But an artist upgraded pinball into a two-player game. Cristiana Felgueiras from Get Hands Dirty signed up for the Inventables challenges and made this awesome two-player pinball machine out of scratch.
In her video, she said that […]
7 Best Vintage Pinball Machines Before 1970s
While the 1970s era is often considered as the golden era of Pinball, with its notoriety reaching the zenith, there are a number of pinball machines before this decade that are noteworthy. The pre-70s pinballs are the machines that served as the guinea pigs for the many features that we now enjoy in our modern pinball machines.
To explain further, in this list we gather 7 of the best vintage pinball machines […]
Stern Pinball to Release Star Wars: A New Hope Pinball Machine
This year’s the 40th anniversary of the most successful sci-fi franchise in Hollywood, Star Wars. In celebration of their Ruby Anniversary, Stern Pinball has announced that it is developing a new Star Wars pinball machine.
The new pinball machine franchises the Star Wars: New Hope, which follows the most recent franchise by Williams, the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
The table will be designed by the classic designer […]
How Playing Pinball Helped this Guy Live with Autism
In a recent feature in BBC Magazine, a Canadian pinball player said that autism has helped him become a Pinball Champion. Robert Gagno is a Canadian born winner of 2016’s Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) World Pinball Championship in Pennsylvania.
Now aged 27, his mother first suspected that he has autism when he was three.
“It wasn’t well known back then. The library books I found blamed bad mothering, which […]