The sound of clacking pinball machines filled Charlotte's Super Abari Game Bar near uptown on Saturday, as 24 of North Carolina's best players faced off in a state championship. An announcer supplied ...

Put in the quarters, the oversized ball bearing shoots into the “ball launch” trough, pull back the launch lever and the ball rolls into action while the scores ring up on the backdrop digital screen, ...

Pinball player Rachel Engels says she doesn’t need all the bells and whistles. “When I first started playing I hated the older machines … they didn’t have the fancy lights and sounds like the newer ...

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, the Electromagnetic Pinball Museum co-founders talk about the history, science, and design of pinball machines — and rocking out while playing the Rush machine ...