A pinball arcade has a particular kind of sound. There are the mechanical dings and bells of any arcade, lilting up when a player does something good—you’ve defeated the bad guy! And there’s the ...

Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. You might not think a pinball machine has a place in Australian cultural history. But five made in ...

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...