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 ...

Meet the man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive Steve Young's passion built a business that keeps historic tables running.

"Pinball is a game of skill, it's not a game of luck," Taylor said. But it isn't just about the games. They offer hot dogs, ...

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.

The sounds, the feel, the flashing lights, there is nothing quite like a pinball machine.And there is nothing quite like The ...

Winona Area Public School high schoolers Jarek Lapides (back) and Corey Duncan (front) work on restoring a pinball machine through the Pinhawks club.

If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...

Nineteen-year-old Escher Lefkoff grew up watching his dad play competitive pinball. Now, the son is world champion. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on 3/20/23.) ...

From small-town Benton, Wis., entrepreneur Charlie Emery's Spooky Pinball has tapped into a renaissance for the old-school arcade game.

Nineteen-year-old Escher Lefkoff grew up watching his dad play competitive pinball. Now, the son is world champion. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on 3/20/23.) ...

The world's top competitive pinball player is a 19-year-old from Longmont, Colo. How did Escher Lefkoff become No. 1? Colorado Public Radio's Matt Bloom wanted to know.

Escher Lefkoff grew up playing pinball at his world pinball champion dad's knee. Now, the son is world champion. Dad is proud — if a little miffed he can't still beat his protege.