Addams Family

The first thing you hear when you sidle up to *The Addams Family* pinball machine—Bally, 1992, a time when America lived in irrational fear of Crystal Pepsi and irrational hope […]

Alice Cooper’s Nightmare Castle

If you’ve never heard the haunted call of **Alice Cooper’s Nightmare Castle**—released by Spooky Pinball LLC in 2018—then you’ve missed a rare recipe: equal parts horror, hard rock, local Wisconsin […]

Attack From Mars

Attack From Mars (1995, Bally) Attack From Mars is what happens when a room full of pinball designers—half of them bitter science fiction junkies, the other half still nursing hangovers […]

Avengers: Infinity Quest (LE)

If you ever wanted to punch quarters into a cabinet and feel like you’re saving the world with half the dignity and twice the neon, “Avengers: Infinity Quest (LE)” from […]

Banzai Run

*Banzai Run*, 1988. Williams. The neon fever dream of a motocross addict lost in the unventilated bowels of a Midwest laundromat—the kind that sold Cocoa-Cola in a can, with a […]

Cactus Canyon (Remake Special)

Cactus Canyon (Remake Special)—2021, Chicago Gaming Company If you ever wished your rootin’-tootin’ arcade nostalgia came with high-def LEDs and a side order of existential crisis, saddle up. Cactus Canyon […]

Cirqus Voltaire

There are pinball machines, and then there’s **Cirqus Voltaire**—and I say that as someone who’s spent enough hours skulking around suburban roller rinks lit entirely by the lurid glow of […]

Creature from the Black Lagoon

The first thing you notice about **Creature from the Black Lagoon**—Bally, 1992, for those scoring at home—is that it’s a pinball machine that’s less homage to Universal horror than it […]

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