In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...

"Pinball," which scores points by striking balls on an inclined platform, was once a mainstay of the game as entertainment. Although it is a pinball with a feeling of being completely deprived of the ...

Brian Halac, left, at work restoring pinball machines at Hollywood Candy. Brian Halac works on a Gottlieb Melody pinball machine at Hollywood Candy in the Old Market, restoring lights, bumpers and ...

If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...

[Quinn Dunki] has come to realize the pinball machines of her youth aren’t the lame games she remembered. They’re actually quite marvelous in terms of electronics, mechanics, engineering and the all ...

Stern Pinball and others in the industry say demand for their tables is on the rise Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to avoid the sounds and flashing lights of pinball machines in pubs, ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- Scott Hepburn, 47, not only likes to play pinball, he likes to fix the machines. A lifelong tinkerer, his hobby turned into a career when a friend needed a repairman to cover for him ...

Old pinball machine in need of repair? There’s a guy for that. Dan Kearney, owner of Pinball Fixer here in Sioux Falls, has been working on coin-operated machines for the past 14 years, including ...

That's because those who share his specific set of skills are hard to come by in London, Ont., and surrounding area. And in the past 20 years, he's built a clientele of at least 200 customers who he ...