K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

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, ...

If you like to tinker with your tech and have a penchant for pinball, the DIY “Makerball” kit is something of a no-brainer. Described by its Swiss creator as an “affordable, stable, mutable, pure, and ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

The history of pinball has a long and storied past. The first commercially successful pinball machine was introduced in 1931 by Gottlieb and it didn't even have the now-ubiquitous flippers. In fact, ...

A little competition and a whole lot of fun – pinball machines in children’s hospitals inspire kids to have a good time! That was the vision of Project Pinball Charity, a registered 501c3 organization ...

Some people are just insane, and do crazy projects that make everyone wonder what they're really doing with their life. And I am one of those people! There were multiple custom-built pinball machines ...

You’d probably assume the first Star Wars pinball machine came out of the United States, and fair enough. The film was American, the franchise was American (obvious Japanese samurai film ...

ROUND ROCK — It’s mostly quiet on the warehouse assembly floor off Interstate 35 just north of Austin. A half-dozen or so assemblers, each working at their own station, are silently piecing together ...

Las Vegas arcade operator Tim Arnold doesn’t claim to be much of a businessman. The 62-year-old used to install pinball machines at bars and restaurants but, he says, is “too stupid to stop.” He doesn ...