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 ...

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Jan. 23—The clicks, dings, chimes and buzzers from old pinball machines are music to Paul Hodges' ears — not only because they were the soundtrack to his childhood in Skowhegan, but also because for ...

FRAMINGHAM – Like a master mechanic looking under the hood of a car, Stuart Bloomstein lifted the play field of a pinball machine to expose its anatomy: the wiring and switches, the chimes and coils.

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 ...

Brendan and Annie Fitzgerald, owners of FitzCo, stand inside SpareMe Bowl & Arcade on Wednesday, where they were hosting FitzCo’s monthly internationally ranked pinball tournament in Iowa City. The ...

With what pinball aficionados pay for the machines they so lovingly restore, it’s hard to imagine that these devices were once built to a price point. They had to make money, and whatever it took to ...