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Seduction of the silver ball.

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#9: Press the button

  • June 15, 2025
  • Tagged as: buttons, culture, flipper, gambling, pinball, seattle, videogames, videopins
Visitors at EPC playing a 2-player pinball game.

Have you ever thought about what happens when you press buttons on a pinball machine? It seems trivial to bring that up, but there is more to button pressing than you might think. Issue #9…

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#8: Pin and Pong

  • April 7, 2025
  • Tagged as: arkanoid, book, breakout, brickbreaker, culture, flipper, pinball, videogames, videopins
Logo and ad for the videogame Breakout

Bring out your paddles, because in the eighth issue of The Ball is Wild 🪩 pinball culture newsletter, published on April 7th, it’s all about brick breaker videogames. The reason for this coverage is that…

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Experimental pinball music! An interview with composer Suzana Lașcu

  • March 3, 2025
  • Tagged as: culture, dutch, flipper, music, pinball
It’s not everyday that three trained musicians meet for an improv session in order to record a pinball album. Under normal circumstances this perhaps wouldn’t have happened. But because of COVID, all of us had...

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#7: Marvellous Marble Machines

  • December 3, 2024
  • Tagged as: academia, culture, flipper, marblemachine, marbles, pinball, rogersharpe, videogames, videopins
Collaborative Marble Machine

Marbles abound! In the seventh issue of The Ball is Wild 🪩 pinball culture newsletter, published on December 3rd, presents a deep-dive into the wondrous marble machines and how they came to be. We also…

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#6: Spooky Silverballs

  • October 30, 2024
  • Tagged as: balloween, culture, flipper, pinball, spooky, stopmotion, videogames, videopins
The Addams Family pinball machine

The sixth issue of The Ball is Wild 🪩 pinball culture newsletter, published on October 30th, is all about Balloween! The editorial is about vertical pinball stacking, meaning virtual pinball playfields stacked on top of…

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Flipping up! A conversation with Tom Voros, developer of Pinball Spire

  • October 26, 2024
  • Tagged as: flipper, pinball, pinballspire, spire, tomvoros, videopins
Rolling and flinging through a pixelated dungeon, accompanied by a mysterious but always friendly score, and discovering an enigmatic tower. When I first encountered Pinball Spire at the online gaming showcase Steam Next Fest last...

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#5: Balancing balls

  • September 30, 2024
  • Tagged as: astrobot, culture, flippaper, flipper, icecoldbeer, pinball, rolling, silverball, tilt, ufo50, videogames, videopins
In the fifth issue of The Ball is Wild 🪩 pinball culture newsletter, published on September 30th, the editorial is about the arcade classic Ice Cold Beer. In this game, you indirectly control a small...

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#4: Pinball in the public

  • August 31, 2024
  • Tagged as: culture, flipper, music, pinball, videopins
The freshest edition of The Ball is Wild 🪩 pinball culture newsletter is out! Published on August 31th 2024, issue #4 tackles the tense relationship between pinball in the wilds and in private homes. Also:...

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#3: Machine manipulation

  • July 28, 2024
  • Tagged as: culture, flipper, pinball, videopins
In the third issue of The Ball is Wild 🪩 pinball culture newsletter, published on July 28th 2024, the editorial is about nudging and tilting. Other stories are about basic pinball skills, a crowdfunding campaign,...

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Interview with Derek Thomson from YEGPIN

  • July 5, 2024
  • Tagged as: canada, flipper, pinball, show, tournament
One of the biggest pinball tournaments is Canada’s YEGPIN, named after the airport code of Alberta province’s capital Edmonton and, of course, pinball. Robert from The Ball is Wild 🪩 took part in this year’s...

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