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 ...

In our high-tech world, it’s easy to forget the joy of things that aren’t on the internet. One of those is pinball.

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 ...

Ricky Jordan's three-year-old son loves Disney. Even Jordan, 42, is a self-described “Disney head.” So, this year, he decided to snag a Toy Story-branded game for their house. It cost a tad more than ...

More than 80 years after it was banned, pinball will soon be legally available to the good people of Oakland, California, once more. Pinball machines were viewed as gambling devices in the 1930s, and ...

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.