SITES SILVER BALL PLANET PINBALL ARCADE In late September 2016, I paid another visit to Silver Ball Planet Arcade and stayed two-and-a-half days there. The followin…
SHOWS PINBALL EXPO 2016 This year’s Pinball Expo is looking as though it will be one of the most interesting ever, with a number of new game a…
SITES CHICAGO PINBALL SITES 2016 The once dismal pinball on location scene in the Chicago area is a distant memory. There is now an immense variety of qualit…
SHOWS BELGIAN OPEN PINBALL 2016 This year the Belgian Open Pinball tournament moved out of its former home at the JC Den Eglantier nightclub near the centra…
SHOWS VANCOUVER FLIPOUT PINBALL EXPO 2016 America has had a very mature show schedule for some time, with successful new shows being added every year. So when the Van…
COMMENT RETRO GAMING: A GROWING TREND Arcades are going retro. Thanks to at-home game consoles, arcade owners are scrambling for ways to draw gamers out of their …
GAMES AMERICAN PINBALL’S HOUDINI REVEAL Las Vegas was built on magic. How else can one explain this lush paradise smack dab in the middle of the desert? And there a…
SHOWS EUROPEAN PINBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 2016 The European Pinball Championship (or EPC) is the continents biggest competitive event and it is held in a different country…
NEWS AMERICAN PINBALL GOES PUBLIC A new pinball design and manufacturing company has announced its presence. American Pinball is based in Streamwood, Illinois…
GAMES THE HOBBIT: IN-DEPTH REVIEW Hello and welcome to this Pinball News In-Depth Review of Jersey Jack Pinball’s latest game, The Hobbit. For most of o…
GAMES BATMAN 66 FEATURES Stern Pinball today finally announced details of their upcoming Batman game based on the original TV series rather than any …
GAMES BATMAN 66 CONFIRMED Having previously announced the existence of the Batman 66 game, Stern Pinball has now given more details of the features al…
NEWS PINBALL ARTWORK EXHIBITION OPENS A new pinball exhibition, Skillshot, The Collaborative Art of Pinball opened in downtown Chicago on September 6th and runs t…
SITES FIVE & DIME Five & Dime in the west downtown Evanston area is a brand-spanking new combination restaurant, bar and entertainment cen…
SITES BREWDOG SHEPHERD’S BUSH BrewDog is a Scottish craft beer brewery with an ever-expanding estate of their self-branded bars. At the time of writing, t…
SITES FLEX Flex is a bar and music club founded more than twenty years ago in the Civic Centre of Munich. It is located in the basement…
SITES NEO COCKTAIL CLUB In early 2016 I located a pub in Hong Kong called Neo Cocktail Club which I learned probably had a Bally Playboy pinball. Un…
SITES MOONWALKER ARCADE There is a new place to play pinball in upstate NY. Moonwalker Arcade, located in Vestal, is just a short drive from Robot C…
GAMES FULL THROTTLE: IN-DEPTH REVIEW Yes, it’s time for another In-Depth Review and this time we are privileged to not only review the first game from a ne…
GAMES THE PABST CAN CRUSHER Stern Pinball today announced a special re-themed version of the WhizBang Pinball’s Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons game…