In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...

Pete Deardorff, owner of pinball machine repair shop Silverball Specialties, lifts the playing board to begin work on a Monopoly pinball machine Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, at his shop in Harrison, Tenn.

FRAMINGHAM – Like a master mechanic looking under the hood of a car, Stuart Bloomstein lifted the play field of a pinball machine to expose its anatomy: the wiring and switches, the chimes and coils.

[Quinn Dunki] has come to realize the pinball machines of her youth aren’t the lame games she remembered. They’re actually quite marvelous in terms of electronics, mechanics, engineering and the all ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- Scott Hepburn, 47, not only likes to play pinball, he likes to fix the machines. A lifelong tinkerer, his hobby turned into a career when a friend needed a repairman to cover for him ...

Behind the counter at Porter’s Pinball Parlor on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine, proprietor Brian Porter has erected a shrine of sorts, a series of questions and answers noting important moments in ...