K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

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

For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the ...

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, ...

Earlier this month, Montrose bar Poison Girl celebrated its 19th anniversary with the usual bells and whistles: special cocktails, live music and food for purchase on the back patio, T-shirts for sale ...

Las Vegas arcade operator Tim Arnold doesn’t claim to be much of a businessman. The 62-year-old used to install pinball machines at bars and restaurants but, he says, is “too stupid to stop.” He doesn ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

You can play virtual pinball on everything from your smartphone to your tablet to your laptop. But the best experience is, oddly enough, on an actual standup pinball machine with a giant screen ...