Game of skills or evil gambling? It is hard to believe that there was a long period in the history of arcade games when pinball machines, these amazing mixtures of art, design, engineering, technology ...

In modern-day arcades, pinball machines are widely considered four-legged, glass-topped dinosaurs. They represent portals to an era before Xbox and PlayStation. Yet there was a time -- starting in the ...

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 ...