There was no way I could have anticipated this: During a stroll through one of the many piers in Bergen, Norway’s second largest city at the west coast of the country, my girlfriend and I...
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...
The Ball is Wild 🪩 is kicking off its new pinball culture newsletter on June 10th 2024! It approaches its subject from social, artistic and overall curious angles. It’s also inclusive in a way that...
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I have been to Dutch Pinball Museum in Rotterdam (Netherlands) recently where a big tournament took place – the Dutch Pinball Open 2022 from November 11th to 13th. Although I like taking part in tournaments,...
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It’s interview time! The Ball is Wild has been talking to Márk Pataki from Hungary where he and a very motivated team is in charge of the wonderful Budapest Pinball Museum or “Flippermúzeum”, as the...
Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony, Germany, has quite a strange history. The small city did not grow over the years. It was invented, if you will, by the car manufacturer Volkswagen in 1938. Therefore, Wolfsburg is…