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Special When Lit: A pinball crawl across South Williamsburg (NY)
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Vox feature on Pinball – “Not as random as it seems”
“When you look at a pinball machine, you might think it’s nothing more than a bunch of flashing lights. Many people think the game is random, but it’s actually carefully laid out in groups of targets that correlate to specific objectives, called modes.”
Pinball Wizards! Project Pinball Charity Donates Machines to Both Houses – Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities
“Both machines are getting plenty of use in our game rooms. Parents, kids and staff alike are taking full advantage…”
Pulling Back Curtain To Reveal Master Behind Pinball Expo | Journal & Topics Media Group
This first Pinball Expo was an overwhelming success and what Rob Berk and his associates thought was going to be just a one-time affair, has endured and thrived for 33 consecutive years.
The Ball is Wild Interviews Developer of Yoku’s Island Express
“Mattias Snygg, co-founder of Swedish indie studio Villa Gorilla, [talks] about the long development process of their debut game and how pinball was merged with traditional action-adventure gameplay. “
Indiana NEW PINBALL ARCADE
“I was kind of collecting pinball machines and arcade games and I was starting to run out of space”
GALLERY: First State Flippers’ August Annihilation Pinball Tournament
“Featuring 24 machines and 46 players from all over the mid-Atlantic region, men, women and children competed for cash prizes and bragging rights.”
Pinball resurgence nears peak popularity – Story | KTVU
If the pinball resurgence is nearing “peak popularity”, that’s not good. We want more!
‘Ghostbusters’ Stern Pinball for Nintendo Switch – GeekDad
Review by Skip Owens: “… Stern did a good job of porting the mechanics of the game over to the Switch.”
Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame owner still flipping mad at Elton John – Las Vegas Review-Journal
“Whenever a person who starts a museum leaves or dies, 90-percent of the time, the museum dies, too.”
Practice makes future perfect
Collect Bonus analyses ways to practice to get better at pinball, which may not involve the games themselves.
Michigan Arcade Scenes – MLive.com
MLive introduces multiple arcades available in the Michigan Area