Why People Flip Over Vintage Pinball Machines
By Maribeth Keane and Ben Marks
— I didn’t really get into to pinball machine collecting until maybe 15 years ago, but when I was a freshman in college, video games were really big. I went to Purdue University. They had a huge arcade there. I always said that Space Invaders and Pac-Man took so much of my money—money that I really didn’t have—that it would have been cheaper to just buy one of those machines.
So one day I went to an auction of coin-operated video games. They had pinball machines there, too, including a 1980...