There no longer are any pinball machines in my hometown. The last one remaining hold out sold its last pinball machine a few months ago. The good news is that I purchased it!
My own collection helps feed my pinball thirst, but sometimes one can get tired of your own collection. I have been having that itch to play some new games or...
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I am terribly late bringing you a review of Pinball Magazine (what’s Pinball Magazine? — checkout our interview with the publisher).
But I have a valid excuse. This magazine is not your average rag. No sir. Not in any way.
This magazine has more reading content than many novels I have read.
It is completely epic in every...
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Well the big day has come and arrived. The pictures of the upcoming Stern pinball machine have been released to the public.
In case you are not a Stern fanboy, or comic book geek — maybe you did not realize that the next Stern release is going to be The Avengers.
The games will quite possibly be released in time for Christmas...
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Do you remember being a young teenager going to arcades? Feeling awkward and filled with weird hormones?
Being too immature and unsure of yourself to actually have much contact with real girls, we fantasized about strip poker games that never happened and were naturally lured to play pinball machines with gorgeous women on...
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My son keeps on asking me when the Avengers Blu-Ray is out (any day now son!)…so it made me think to finally getting around to writing about this old game.
With the surprising fact that there was no official video game released to coincide with the release of movie (there is one coming out eventually). I thought I would go...
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With a limited release (unfortunately just like most documentaries) — you probably never saw Indie Game:The Movie in theaters.
Thankfully it was released for home viewing recently.
Indie Game may be the best documentary about video games I have ever seen.
The movie takes a different view from previous films. It does not go...
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After seeing Wizard in Oz in action at the E3 show, we had to add two more items to the list. So the top ten items now is top twelve.
Cabinet
Wizard of Oz cabinets are going to be printed directly on wood and then clearcoated. This will allow for striking cabinet artwork and should also prove to be less prone to...
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Game room aficionados are always starving for new content. Let’s face it; neither pinball or arcade news is exactly mainstream.
Luckily Al and Paul have stepped up to the plate with a new offering to fulfill our appetite.
Pins and Vids 4 — A New Hoax has just been released.
What is Pins and Vids?
Pins and Vids 4, like...
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The original Star Wars arcade machine given to us by Atari in the early 80’s is no doubt one of the all time arcade classics, as well as being a great collectors item.
Well one game that trumps it in the collectors market is Empire Strikes Back.
The Empire Strikes Back, while it is the second Star Wars movie, for whatever reason...
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When it comes to movies there are some that really were just designed to be turned into a video game.
Disney’s 1982 sci-fi classic Tron is certainly one of those movies, and today we are going to look at the second arcade game based on this movie Discs of Tron made by Midway. Specifically we will be looking at the environmental...
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