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The Surprising Pinball Life of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen loved pinball. Here is one arcade’s spiritual journey with the Canadian songwriting legend.
What’s your toxic pinball trait?
From listening to questionable podcasts to acting like a dink at the arcade, we all have some toxic traits from time to time. The first step is admitting that you have a problem
Confession of an ex-rage tilter
For a long time Ben Granger was an unapologetic rage filter. He’s come back from the dark side since then, but he’s here to give you a breakdown of the darker side of pinball.
2 Pinball Designers, 2 Nudge Writers, 1 Prius: 32 Hours in Chicago
Jack Danger and Scott Danesi are two of pinball’s hottest (and youngest) designers. Here’s what happened when we hung out with both of them over the course of one KRAZY weekend.
The Benzik 500: One Man’s Mission to Bring Pinball to the Michigan International Speedway
Everyone said you couldn’t bring Pinball to a NASCAR race, well guess what? Those losers never met a man like Matt Benzik. Here’s how one man brought pinball to the Michigan International Speedway.
24 Hours at the Electric Bat
The Electric Bat hosts crazy pinball parties with 70+ people every single week. We had them shoot some shots and explain the debauchery.
Gina X Gene: Film Swap 1
Gina Collecchia is our fave Nudge photog. What happens when she teams up for a double exposure roll with one of our other big faves, Gene X of Orange Photography? Welp, it turns out as cool as you think.
Y So Sirius? What to do with the overly-competitive competitive pinball player
Got someone in your league who’s a little too serious for their own good? Rick Brewster tells you your countermove.
Quarters, Cards, or Tokens: What a location’s chosen currency says about them
Quarters, cards, or tokens? Not all arcade currency is equal. Here’s how to know what’s equalest.
Small Wallet? Big Guns. Why your next pinball purchase should be an old-ass game.
Big Guns is THE best game from 1987, and Ii a world where pinball prices can be more than $20,000 for a machine — it won’t cost you much more than 3k to make it yours.
The State of Pinball 2022: The Arcades (South and Northeast)
Here’s the best of pinball locations in the Northeast and South
State of Pinball 2022: The Arcades of the Midwest and Normal West
On location pinball is better than it’s ever been in our lifetimes. Here are the people makin’ it happen in 2022. Midwest + West Coast addition.
State of Pinball 2022: The Streamers
The state of pinball streaming in 2022? Good as hell. Thanks to Deadflip, Hot Nudge, and a whole buncha others.
If the game is a Thnokin’, don’t come a Knockin’
What is a free game noise called in pinball? We break it down by region.
Nudge 8: Do not go gentle into that Daylight Savings Time.
Sure it gets dark at 5 pm? So WHAT? Daylight Savings Time is meaningless here. Time to Rage.
Chicago Pinball Expo: Dirty Deeds, Free Weeds, Cale Succeeds
Chicago Pinball Expo 2022 was an insane, debauched time. We give you the blow by blow. Feel the sweat. Smell it. Drink it? Don’t drink it.
Multipliers a poppin’: What makes a multiplier based game good or STR8 ASS?
Multiplier-based games: fun, high stakes and cool or terrible and lame? We did the deep dive.
PART II: HOW TO PREVENT JINXES
Ok, so you can identify them, but what can you do? Use your big brain, you nut! Here’s how to prevent a pinball jinx.