I’ve always enjoyed digital pinball on a variety of systems. Particularly the recreation of physical machines in digital form as these tables had months and months of development and design time ...

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Hey, I get it. I used to make fun of video pinball, too. It seemed pointless, a misguided attempt to recreate that which could not be recreated. For pinball to be pinball you need an elaborately ...

Modern games have evolved to be competitive with other forms of video gaming, says Dave Ruck, a fellow collector and pinball ...

Video games originated in the immediate post-World War II era, with some early prototypes created as an experiment from surplus military equipment. Later, video games made their way to arcades, where ...

Video games have been slowly killing physical games like pinball and board games, but now they're starting to bring them back. Thanks to new distribution channels and control methods, these old-school ...

Video games have had a bad reputation since the day they were born. Whether it’s fears about violence, sexual content, or kids being brainwashed, there’s not a lot that video games haven’t been ...

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. - The old-school arcade game of pinball is resurging in popularity. Interest has skyrocketed over the last decade or so, with the number of players and competitions growing ...

Unlike some of the other spots on this list, Ace Bar has a rather limited selection of arcade games. So why is it on our list? Skee-Ball—that's why. A staple of arcades everywhere, Skee-Ball requires ...