Fans of coin-operated video games and pinball machines can zap away an afternoon for a few quarters at Southgate Arcade in the White Center area south of Seattle.

The Red Hook Pinball Museum is really a museum to two things: pinball, and the friendship of its co-founders, Kevin Murray and Wesley Michalski. Tucked into an unassuming storefront on Van Brunt ...

Hey, I get it. I used to make fun of video pinball, too. It seemed pointless, a misguided attempt to recreate that which could not be recreated. For pinball to be pinball you need an elaborately ...