At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...

Arcades during the 1980s were the place to be. The digitized siren songs of newly developing computer arcade games mixed with the bells, whistles, thumps, and flipper flaps of the long-established ...

Pinball lives, and it was never on life support either. With home video game consoles driving people away from arcades, you might think pinball machines started collecting dust during the ‘90s, but it ...