There are old pinball machines and arcade cabinets littered here and there in dive bars and restaurants all across the country. But have you ever considered what it takes to maintain and repair them?
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 ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Two brothers have taken a love for pinball and turned it into a business. Ryan and Clay Wilfahrt own Retro Bros. Pinball. The two work to restore and repair pinball machines ...
[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 ...
You think it’s hard being the only company around that still makes pinball machines? What about the people left who still repairs them? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting write up about Mike ...
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 ...
MARTINEZ — Nearly every day, Bryan Mao plunges his hands into the nostalgic circuitry of Americana and makes the past flicker back to life. Mao, 56, is a fix-it man. And from his 4,000-square-foot ...
Geoff is such a fan of pinball machines, he’s filled his flat with them (Picture: David Pickens) Geoff Harvey, aka Pinball Geoff on BBC One’s The Repair Shop, once got hold of ten pinball machines for ...