It's been a few years since I last stepped foot inside an arcade, and even longer since I've actually plunked quarters into a machine. But I really don't have much urge to play video games in ...

In 2016, when Smith and his partners opened up Loosa Brews, they installed a pinball machine, an old 1974 Dealer’s Choice Electrical Mechanical Machine. “For a quarter, you had five balls.

It was a big success in a moment where pinball had a lot of pull. In the early 1990s, advances in computing had allowed pinball machines to get ever-more complex, and arcades were still big business.

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The two were at a pinball party Saturday, Dec. 4, at Gary Martin's home in Lawrence, where he restores old pinball machines. Gary Martin’s pinball machines Eight Ball Deluxe, released in 1980 ...

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MJ Kusel, left, works an old-fashioned pinball machine as Mona Shah-Anderson, who handles marketing for a lot of popular Orange County restaurants, watches.

The broken pinball machine in my fiancée's parents' basement has been in the family longer than I have. Despite zero pinball-repair experience, I decided to try to fix it.

One directory lists 750 of them in 50 states. They can charge (cash preferred) $150 an hour. But pinball games weren't built to last. Even if a repair guy does come out, that doesn't mean success.