Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

Learn about the history of pinball in this High Times print piece from July, 1979. Bagatelle, a popular game in the 19th century, is the granddaddy of pinball. Bagatelle is similar to pool, in that ...

Play more than 100 vintage and modern pinball machines today at the Pacific Pinball Museum.

There is something fundamentally compelling about pinball. The basic idea of keeping a shiny, silver ball from draining down a trough, with only a couple of flippers at your defense, seems impossibly ...

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Pinball has a history that stretches back to France in the 1600s.

“The only certainty about pinball is that every game will be different,” declares Chad (Science Comics: Solar System) in this illuminating and thorough graphic history. Chad chronicles the craze from ...

The game of pinball has entertained the minds of many across the globe for more than 100 years. Its future wasn't always so certain and has been rocky. A resurgence of new fans has given the classic ...