In our high-tech world, it’s easy to forget the joy of things that aren’t on the internet. One of those is pinball.

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...

My goal driving into Las Vegas is probably like everybody else’s: have fun! I can’t wait to park, get inside and throw quarters into the first machine I see. Mind you, I drive about 2 miles east of ...