Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually be made available for the public to play at a special exhibition.

The Red Hook Pinball Museum is an analog oasis where machines beam with light and sound but screens are sparse.

If you’ve ever been in a good arcade, you’ve been inundated by the sounds of electronic boops, beeps and pew-pews. One of the most recognizable sounds you’d hear were the sounds of pinball machines.

Winona Area Public School high schoolers Jarek Lapides (back) and Corey Duncan (front) work on restoring a pinball machine through the Pinhawks club. CATHY WURZER: Do you recognize that sound? If you ...

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...