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 ...

Chicago — Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude ...

Pinball machines have something for everyone. They’re engaging, fast-paced games available in a variety of sizes and difficulties, and legend has it that they can be played even while deaf and blind.

When The Wizard of Oz pinball machine arrived in 2013, it was a revelation—a technicolor dream, much like the movie itself. The first American pin made by a company other than Stern in over a decade, ...