It’s deceptively simple. Pull the plunger by its flying-saucer-shaped handle, and hear that satisfying clack. Watch the silver marble roll around the playfield, and wing it with your flippers. Come up ...

Correspondent photo / Maurita Hoffman Marcelo Blanco flanked by pinball machines from the 1970s, available to be played at Past Times arcade in Girard. Blanco was born in Argentina and is world ...

Santo Cordero smooths decals on the cabinets of pinball machines at the Stern Pinball Factory in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, on Feb. 22, 2024. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — Due ...

Come for the custom framing, stay for a few rounds of pinball. Here's how "The Flipper Room" is bringing classic pinball fun to the East Bay.

Pinball has a history that stretches back to France in the 1600s. Over the centuries, the game has certainly evolved, but at the end of the day, the mechanics and gameplay remain largely the same. You ...

CONCORD — As California’s pinball elite battled head-to-head for the state championship title at The Flipper Room last month, an international audience tuned in to watch pinballs ricochet through ...

Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude Stein’s ...