Winona Area Public School high schoolers Jarek Lapides (back) and Corey Duncan (front) work on restoring a pinball machine through the Pinhawks club.

In the '90s, Gary Stuart of Midlothian got rid of his pinball machines because his wife was pregnant. He transformed his game room into a nursery. "It was hard letting go of them," he said.

That's an extreme challenge given some of those pinball machines date back to the 1940s and '50s, games designed to survive in the field for a year or two before being replaced.

Peter Gustafson, the executive vice president of the Illinois-based American Amusement Machine Association, said home sales for pinball machines, which can range in cost from $2,000 to more than ...

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While Poison Girl’s other machines come from fellow pinball owners who buy and trade machines, this one-of-a-kind, free-play (read: you don’t need to feed it quarters) machine comes courtesy ...

In December of 1937, pinball machines were in the sights of State’s Attorney E. D. Barron, as he ordered all such devices removed under the threat of stiff financial penalty and jail time.