Last month I was finally able to play the pinball machine based on Jim Henson’s 1986 movie Labyrinth. It’s the first game by a new company called Barrels of Fun, and although it apparently shipped in ...

When The Wizard of Oz pinball machine arrived in 2013, it was a revelation—a technicolor dream, much like the movie itself. The first American pin made by a company other than Stern in over a decade, ...

There is probably not a single living soul in this world who, at one time in their lives, hasn’t crossed paths with a pinball machine or game in one way or another. Until this week, though, not a ...

When Houston’s first pinball machine maker, Barrels of Fun, debuted its initial game in 2023, it was a surprise hit. Well, maybe it was a surprise to the pinball collecting community, who’d heard that ...

Arcades during the 1980s were the place to be. The digitized siren songs of newly developing computer arcade games mixed with the bells, whistles, thumps, and flipper flaps of the long-established ...