At a high point in pinball’s popularity, a rock opera and a movie were made about it. Mesa pinball machine restorer and collector Bruce Artman recalls those days with vivid imagery. Now it seems ...

Elton John kicks my ass. Well, it’s not so much the big-goggles singer as it is his namesake 1975 Bally Capt. Fantastic pinball machine. I go through quarters — three balls for 25 cents — the way some ...