Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually ...

You’d probably assume the first Star Wars pinball machine came out of the United States, and fair enough. The film was ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. You might not think a pinball machine has a place in Australian cultural history. But five made in ...

If you’ve ever been in a good arcade, you’ve been inundated by the sounds of electronic boops, beeps and pew-pews. One of the most recognizable sounds you’d hear were the sounds of pinball machines.

The licensing cost? One personal machine for George Lucas.

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...