A High Schooler's perspective on competitive pinball

On November 20th 2021, my dad took me to my first competitive pinball tournament, I was 15 at the time. We had heard of these tournaments for a while but had no idea how to get into one. Anyways I entered it, and I was actually doing alright. I actually felt pretty horrible for my dad as neither of us realized this would be a full day ordeal. Much to my surprise (About six hours later) I took home a > Read the full story...

“A story of how I got started”

May 5th, 2023

My story is pretty simple. I got into arcades and arcade machines back in 2015 and I didn't have the money, a car, or the ability to get > Full story...

“Just What I Needed”

April 22nd, 2023

During the first few months into the pandemic I lost my step-father. He went in for surgery for an aneurism in his heart, that ended up taking two > Full story...

“Bally Freedom an American Icon”

April 16th, 2023

I was born in Chicago, the year 1976 along with 5,000 brothers. My creator the Bally company incorporated in me the latest electromechanical technology. I had hundreds of > Full story...

“Pinball Journey”

April 15th, 2023

..Started out when my dad got me a cool electronic hand-held pinball game called "Wildfire". Other kids had the hand-held football games - but I had Wildfire.! When staying > Full story...

“Pint-sized pinball wizards compe...”

April 9th, 2023

Dave Gong | For The Journal Gazette Ten-year-old Eli Mitchell’s gold medal lightly touched the edge of the pinball machine at Wizard’s World Pinball Arcade on Saturday afternoon as > Full story...

“Pinball Needs to Take More Risks...”

March 27th, 2023

Pinball is for boomers. Boomers, I have nothing against you. People of your generation and non-boomers who were influencing the height of Western boomer culture in the 60s > Full story...

“My Early Pinball Years”

March 8th, 2023

My current lineup represents the era I grew up in, the 80's. Having been born in the 70's it wasn't until the early 80's when true memories began > Full story...

“How we met Jolly”

March 3rd, 2023

Having a random look at Marktplaats.nl, a dutch Marketplace, I stumbled across an add for a affordable Pinball machine. Showed it to the misses, reaction : Hmm, looks nice. > Full story...