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.

It's a paradise for pinball lovers: About 150 clinking, clanking pinball machines from modern games all the way back to the 1960s and '70s. "It's an amazing collection of machines," says pinball ...

Mike Loftus grew up playing pinball in Ottawa. Rob Illuiri played the same arcade games in the northern suburbs of Montreal. Decades later, the two met through their shared passion for collecting and ...

GIRARD, Ohio – Like all collections, it started with one: One pinball machine, circa 1947, in the basement of Rob Berk’s childhood home in Warren. Fast forward more than 60 years, and Berk now ...

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For Loftus, the machines are a portal back to another time before the Xbox. "It's nostalgia, from a simpler time when things were more tangible," he explained. "You had to actually go out and ...