Growing up, Brian Soares was never a pinball guy. The Attleboro native remembers playing a game or two over the years, but that was about it. These days, the basement of this 50-year-old’s Norton ...

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The Red Hook Pinball Museum also has a vintage Bell Atlantic pay phone, a 1950s 3D photo viewer, a 1924 Mills Slot Machine, ...

"I just like bringing them back from the dead – they give a lot of harmless fun," said Mark Squires A man who has fixed more than 500 pinball machines from the converted double garage of his home ...

Restoring vintage technology can be a tricky business, especially without the appropriate schematics and documentation. To this end [Mark] has spent the past twelve months building a comprehensive ...

A local pinball machine restoration hobbyist has brought to light an archaic piece of Metro law that is worthy of placement in the nationally syndicated “News of the Weird” newspaper feature. Now ...

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FEASTERVILLE — Don’t talk to Russ Snyder about the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360. For Snyder, there is nothing like the sound and feel of a classic electromechanical pinball ...

Pinball restoration is actually called ‘shopping.'" “Most staff members like Chris [Rader], myself, anyone on staff with this project knows how to shop a machine at this point," Hopkins said. "It’s ...

Geoff is such a fan of pinball machines, he’s filled his flat with them (Picture: David Pickens) Geoff Harvey, aka Pinball Geoff on BBC One’s The Repair Shop, once got hold of ten pinball machines for ...

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Pinball machine repair and restoration expert Clay Harrell will open a pinball museum in Ann Arbor, Mich. in the next few months, with the help of more than $10,000 raised through Kickstarter. The ...