An Ontario man has spent nearly three years building an award-winning pinball machine — a DIY project that's now generating ...

K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

Before video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball machine ...

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 ...

ROUND ROCK — It’s mostly quiet on the warehouse assembly floor off Interstate 35 just north of Austin. A half-dozen or so assemblers, each working at their own station, are silently piecing together ...

The history of pinball has a long and storied past. The first commercially successful pinball machine was introduced in 1931 by Gottlieb and it didn't even have the now-ubiquitous flippers. In fact, ...

For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the ...

Barrels of Fun has announced that they will launch a new pinball machine based on Jim Henson's Labyrinth, the 1986 classic about a young girl doing anything she can to save her brother from a ...

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...