A pinball diehard loves the classic ... plonky paradise — giving up the usual comforts of home to squeeze in 16 of the hulking, colorful machines into her railroad-style apartment.

“Half of the women there are people that you meet that casually play pinball and get really, really into it,” she said. As ...

Follow your ears, and you’ll soon find yourself standing at the threshold of pinball paradise. The back of the shop opens up ...

Yet it has always come back, today again riding a wave of popularity driven by the successes of high-tech machines capitalizing ... at a facility in pinball's traditional home of Chicago.

Then, she found herself playing pinball machines for fun, listening to the dings whenever she flipped the ball from one side to another. She eventually participated in tournaments, too.

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. As for the pinball table’s campaign, Stern says that ...

Ian Parnell, and his mom Aime Zick, in background, playing pinball Wednesday at Can Can Wonderland in St. Paul. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

And many of the best in the world inhabit the Columbus pinball community. “It’s gotten huge in Columbus over the last 20 years,” says Augenstein. “There are more pinball machines and barcades than ...

The Ann Arbor Pinball Museum in Brighton, Michigan, is a hidden gem packed with vintage machines and fascinating history ... be sure to check out the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum’s website and Facebook ...

The Pinball machine features game elements such as rolling dice to create random events and choose story paths, the ability to unlock new characters, and multi-axis motion and omnidirectional impact ...

The Saskatoon woman and her teammates meet regularly to train and compete at the different flashy machines ... while the Flippin' Queens Pinball League has its home in Regina.

There’s something magical about a pinball ... for each machine. The experience is the closest you can get without tracking down the cabinet itself and plugging it in for use in your own living ...