Winona Area Public School high schoolers Jarek Lapides (back) and Corey Duncan (front) work on restoring a pinball machine through the Pinhawks club. CATHY WURZER: Do you recognize that sound? If you ...

If you grew up in the '60s, '70s or '80s, you likely have fond memories spending Saturday afternoons at a dark arcade surrounded by the dings, clunks, whizzes and zings of a classic pinball machine.

The pings and pops and pongs of old-school pinball machines are the sounds of playtimes past. But at Southern California’s Museum of Pinball – which houses close to 1,400 vintage machines in a massive ...

It’s getting ever harder to build a truly unique digital clock. From electronic displays to the flip-dots and flip-cards, everything seems to have been done to death. But this pinball scoring reel ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like scores of players before him, 14-year-old Frankie Leone mumbled something about his ball not getting enough bounce off a rubber-padded kicker and ...

The tip of Gary Vollmer’s index finger touches the glass surface of a pinball machine and traces a hopeful path. Red and purple lights reflect off the walls of the inner cabinet as the game waits for ...

It's been a few years since I last stepped foot inside an arcade, and even longer since I've actually plunked quarters into a machine. But I really don't have much urge to play video games in arcades ...

Escher Lefkoff grew up playing pinball at his world pinball champion dad's knee. Now, the son is world champion. Dad is proud — if a little miffed he can't still beat his protege. Right now the ...

Right now the world's No. 1 competitive pinball player is 19-year-old Escher Lefkoff from Longmont, Colo. So how does one become the world's No. 1 competitive pinball player? Lefkoff says by learning ...