Just when you thought pinball was dead... well, it's still pretty much dead. The New York Times reports on Stern Pinball Inc., the last pinball factory in the world, and profiles its president, Gary ...

Mariana Juliano for Slate. The last guys who tried to save pinball bet all their quarters on a bunch of 3-D aliens. With sales of new machines dwindling in the late 1990s, the top execs at Williams, ...

Jody Dankberg still doesn’t know who leaked the pictures. He’s been doing his best to keep the machine mysterious. He made it almost to launch without a leak. Almost. Three more days would have done ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, if you lost a quarter to a mercilessly tough pinball machine, you likely lost it to a game designed by one of the four big players: Stern, Williams, Bally, or ...

For our latest issue, Ryan Smith delved into the seedy history of pinball and the champion player Roger Sharpe, who helped lift the ban on the game while his sons are leading today’s renaissance. We ...

If you find yourself enjoying a modern pinball machine at one of the Jersey Shore's fine arcades this summer, there's a good chance the game in question was created close to home. Lakewood-based ...

Chicago — Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude ...

Did you know that there’s only one manufacturer of pinball machines left in the world? That sole survivor of the pinball age is Stern Pinball, based outside of Chicago, and it’s the last purveyor of ...