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By Retro Refurbs|2022-08-01T17:40:58+01:00August 1st, 2022|Pinball News|Comments Off

Wayne Neyens, the most prolific pinball designer of all time, has died just one day after celebrating his 104th birthday. Wayne Neyens Wayne was in a hospice with his two daughters, Patty and Phyllis, in attendance when he died on Saturday 30th July. Wayne’s life in pinball spanned five decades and saw enormous changes across [...]

THE HISTORY OF ‘STREET LEVEL’ PINBALLS

By Retro Refurbs|2018-02-24T05:52:57+00:00November 16th, 2017|Pinball News|Comments Off on THE HISTORY OF ‘STREET LEVEL’ PINBALLS

In the course of preparing for a podcast segment, I began my journey down the rabbit hole on ‘street level’ pinball machines. A short-lived experiment, that in brevity could merely be described as tried and failed, but in reality is a slightly more complicated story of a pinball manufacturer that thought it saw a market [...]