Widely considered the best pinball machine ever made, games that land on the resell market go for around $14,500, when they appear at all. ... “The flow is very basic.

There’s a quarter mile of wire and 3,500 components in each pinball machine, and it takes about 30 hours of work to finish assembling one. They are methodically inspected every step of the way.

A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike. The echoes of arcade game history fill the otherwise quiet Aviation Mall – they’re coming from ...

As an adult, he’s been buying and collecting pinball machines for more than a decade — 70 at last count — and he has a new home to share many of them with the public, including for tournaments.

It’s also led him to assist in an ongoing project in UVA Engineering to create a UVA-themed pinball machine. Gavin Garner, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, leads the ...