The Pinball Arcade boasts dozens upon dozens of licensed tables, including Tales of the Arabian Nights and The Twilight Zone. Farsight Studios sucks you in with one free, rotating pinball machine that ...

Chris "Captain" Campbell runs Captain's Auction House in Anaheim. On Sunday, Ryan Adams' collection of pinball and arcade machines is up for bid.

Game of skills or evil gambling? It is hard to believe that there was a long period in the history of arcade games when pinball machines, these amazing mixtures of art, design, engineering, technology ...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. Just over 50 years ago, Atari, then an enterprising Silicon Valley startup, released an ...