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 ...

When you suggest to Keith Elwin that he might be a bit nerdish for having spent a good part of his 36 years playing pinball, he is quick to point out that he has interests other than flipping a little ...

Phoebe Smith plays at least one pinball game a day. With 57 of them at her house she doesn't have trouble finding one. The blinking lights and bells of more than a hundred pinball machines fill a ...

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 ...

Among rows of flashing pinball machines along with the sounds of flippers and bumpers reverberating throughout Starfighters Arcade in Mesa, 16 women competed to become the first Arizona women’s ...