In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...

In today’s age of artificial intelligence, smartphones, video games and virtual reality, pinball has undergone a ...

When you suggest to Keith Elwin that he might be a bit nerdish for having spent a good part of his 36 years playing pinball, he is quick to point out that he has interests other than flipping a little ...

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 ...

Phoebe Smith plays at least one pinball game a day. With 57 of them at her house she doesn't have trouble finding one. The blinking lights and bells of more than a hundred pinball machines fill a ...

I fondly remember a wasted youth cozying up to glass-topped boxes of flashing lights, strange sounds and steel balls flying around an angled assault course. But, apart from helpful nudges from mates, ...