LEARN PINSPOTTING: HERE AND THERE – JANUARY 2019 “I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Welcome to the Winter edition of PinSpotting. …
LEARN WAYNE NEYENS AT 100 Earlier this year legendary pinball designer, Wayne Neyens marked a very special landmark event at his home in Mountain Home…
LEARN AMERICAN PINBALL VISIT In October 2018, just a couple of days before the official unveiling of American Pinball’s second title, Oktoberfest: …
LEARN PINSPOTTING: HERE AND THERE – SEPTEMBER 2018 Welcome to the first edition of PinSpotting. This column will be submitted to Pinball News occasionally to share with the re…
LEARN MIDDLE-POP PINBALL Throughout the decades flipper pinball has existed, numerous designers experimented with innovative concepts, goals, and eve…
LEARN GAMBLING, PINGAMES & MANUFACTURER PERSPECTIVES Gambling, Pingames & the Shifting Sands of Manufacturer Perspectives Nicholas Baldridge, Steven Doellefeld, & Dennis…
LEARN PINBALL HOUSE Pinball machines have traditionally been ‘closed-box’ devices. You play a game, get a great score, but then what…
LEARN ATARI PINBALL How Video Game’s Behemoth Failed at Tradition While Atari’s legacy in the arcade revolution (away from pinball and towards v…
LEARN THE RENEGADE OF PINBALL’S GOLDEN AGE The Ted Zale Story By Dr. Steven Doellefeld and Dennis Kriesel Introduction For most residents of Chicago, May 14, 1901 was …
LEARN ADPIN FLIPPER BATS AND BUTTONS Making pinball is, as we have described before, hard. But playing pinball can also be hard, and games which are overly chal…
LEARN THE CURIOUS CASE OF HARRY WILLIAMS & BALLY Harry Williams, famed pinball designer and founder of the Williams Manufacturing (a major player in the electromechanical pi…
LEARN THE HISTORY OF ‘STREET LEVEL’ PINBALLS In the course of preparing for a podcast segment, I began my journey down the rabbit hole on ‘street level’ pinb…
LEARN PINBALL WIZARDS BOOK Everyone has a tale to tell about how they became involved in the hobby or business of pinball. Some stories are quite brie…
LEARN PIN-‘UINO What is a pin-‘Uino? The term is a portmanteau of the words pinball and Arduino. As you are probably reading this article in…
LEARN INTRO TO ARDUINO WHAT IS AN ARDUINO? Great question! There are several versions (different board configurations) of the Arduino. An unofficia…
LEARN ADDAMS FAMILY CHALLENGE CHAIR The story starts a few years back during a lull at work, while partaking in a favourite pastime; scouring Ebay looking for a…
