Pinball was invented nearly a century ago, yet the number one player in the world today is a teenager in northern Colorado. Escher Lefkoff, 19, obtained the rank of number one pinball player in the ...

Keri Wing is the reigning Kansas pinball champion. She also recently won the women's world championship. Every Wednesday night, 20 or so pinball enthusiasts gather at The 403 Club in the Strawberry ...

In our high-tech world, it’s easy to forget the joy of things that aren’t on the internet. One of those is pinball.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia is known for a lot of things: The Gamecocks, the State Fair, famously hot temperatures, and now pinball can be added to that list. One of the largest pinball groups in the ...

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. Right now the ...

Raymond Davidson is a pinball-playing machine. The 24-year-old from Mukilteo won the World Pinball Championship held June 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark. With that win, he is currently the No. 3 ranked ...

Walk into Helena Walter Higgins’s home in Thornton and it’s like walking into an arcade. There are about a dozen full-size pinball machines lining the walls of the living room, and just as many in the ...

September 25, 2020 update: This story first ran shortly before the coronivirus pandemic gripped San Antonio, putting Steve Bowden's plans to help launch Deeproot Pinball on hold. In March, just before ...

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 ...

The pinball world has its youngest-ever world champion. Over the weekend, the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association held its world championship and a 13-year-old boy from Colorado took home the ...

The Jefferson City league is an extension of solidified pinball leagues in Columbia at the Tokyo Club and Hexagon Alley. The ...

Editor's note: This feature was originally produced back in 2015, and has since been updated. Before mobile phones, home consoles, and arcade cabinets, there was pinball. With flashing lights metallic ...