The assembly line is at the heart of the operations at Stern Pinball, one of the largest remaining pinball machine manufacturers in the world. At its Elk Grove Village headquarters, more than 250 ...

George Gomez has been making coin-operated games in the Chicago area for decades, and he's spent the last few years ushering in a “renaissance in pinball” in Elk Grove Village. “We're the largest ...

The whirring and dinging pinball machines that once dominated arcades lived, for a while, shrouded in nostalgia in your grandparents’ basement. But now they are having a resurgence, brought on by the ...

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 ...

Mariana Juliano for Slate. The last guys who tried to save pinball bet all their quarters on a bunch of 3-D aliens. With sales of new machines dwindling in the late 1990s, the top execs at Williams, ...