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 ...

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 ...

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[Quinn Dunki] has come to realize the pinball machines of her youth aren’t the lame games she remembered. They’re actually quite marvelous in terms of electronics, mechanics, engineering and the all ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- Scott Hepburn, 47, not only likes to play pinball, he likes to fix the machines. A lifelong tinkerer, his hobby turned into a career when a friend needed a repairman to cover for him ...

Old pinball machine in need of repair? There’s a guy for that. Dan Kearney, owner of Pinball Fixer here in Sioux Falls, has been working on coin-operated machines for the past 14 years, including ...