In a previous life, James Austin was a Porsche-racing electrical engineer who worked on classified military projects and, in retirement, settled down to become a pinball and video game technician.

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 ...

Modern games have evolved to be competitive with other forms of video gaming, says Dave Ruck, a fellow collector and pinball enthusiast. Along with immersive playfields, modern games incorporate ...

WHEN MOST people think of pinball, if they think of it at all, they probably imagine an old, unloved machine, starved of coins and gathering dust in the back of a bar or pizza parlour as its lights ...