Mariana Juliano for Slate. The last guys who tried to save pinball bet all their quarters on a bunch of 3-D aliens. With sales of new machines dwindling in the late 1990s, the top execs at Williams, ...

Pinball hasn't really swooped down onto the portable market in the Game Boy Color's two year lifespan. Other than Pokémon Pinball and the Europe and Japanese released Hollywood Pinball, there hasn't ...

Williams was America's largest manufacturer of pinball games for the better part of a century. In the closing years of the last decade, pinball's slow decline thanks to the popularity of video games ...

After decades of decline in hopeless competition with videogames, pinball has found refuge on the web. Fans sell weighty multi-volume pinball histories and DVDs of restoration and repair lessons, talk ...