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.

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 ...

David Bowie is front and center in the pinball game based on Jim Henson's Labyrinth--and it's somehow the first pin to ever ...

In a previous life, James Austin was a Porsche-racing electrical engineer who worked on classified military projects and, in retirement, settled down to become a pinball and video game technician.

Arcades during the 1980s were the place to be. The digitized siren songs of newly developing computer arcade games mixed with the bells, whistles, thumps, and flipper flaps of the long-established ...

If you’ve ever been in a good arcade, you’ve been inundated by the sounds of electronic boops, beeps and pew-pews. One of the most recognizable sounds you’d hear were the sounds of pinball machines.

The United States, the world's largest pinball market, has seen a dramatic revival since the mid-2000s, fuelled by the rise of arcade bars that pair vintage games with food and drink.

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 ...

In Glendale, Gene Lewin has amassed a bounty of pinball machines and old-school video games. There are about 80 inside the Vintage Arcade Superstore showroom, with more stored in his three warehouses.

When you spend a great deal of time in the car graveyards of the world, as I do, you learn that many interesting items take their final tow-truck ride to Ewe Pullet inside the doomed vehicles. Usually ...

A local man turned a hobby into an award-winning business in Brunswick, featuring more than 200 pinball machines.

Chicago — 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 ...