Pinball machines rely on small coils of wound copper ... even coming up with custom high-power models to make slow old games faster. Sometimes, they're too fast. "I have a regular pop bumper ...

Pinball machines were the video games of their day ... [Technology Connections] has several videos about an old Aztec machine and he promises more to come. You can watch the first two below.

The Electromagnetic Pinball Museum is home to over 100 pinball machines, from the 1940s to today. Emily Rose and Michael Pare are two of the co-founders who started the museum when they found that ...