Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball

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WP:PINBALL

Welcome to WikiProject Pinball, a WikiProject formed to become a source for improved Wikipedia coverage of the great pastime of pinball. Please consider participating if you have any interest in the game and wish to help us help Wikipedia cover this great game.

Goals and scope

Goals

Make Wikipedia a quality source for information about pinball.
Create guidelines for articles about pinball, to improve article consistency and make article creation and editing easier.

Scope

Arcade pinball machines, notable home (small-scale) pinball machines, video game pinball simulators, pinball-related devices or equipment.
Individual biographies with a strong association with pinball, including those of pinball developers, designers, artists, champions, etc.
Companies, organizations, publications and other non-individuals with a strong association with pinball
Games ancestral or closely related to pinball, including pachinko and bagatelle (some of which may also be within the scope of WP:WikiProject Cue sports)
Video simulation games of pinball (also within the scope of WP:WikiProject Video Games)
All articles with a strong association with pinball, even if it is not the primary topic of the article, which may be within the scope of other projects as well (e.g., Tommy (rock opera)).

Sources for Pinball information

Have a useful resource to share with other editors working on articles related to pinball? Add it here:

Databases

News and Reviews

Pinball News
PinGame Journal
Pinball Magazine (Upcoming pinball machines at Pinball Magazine)
Skill-Shot
Performance Pinball
Play Meter. Especially helpful for reviews. Use https://archive.org/
Pinball Mag

Manufacturer

Forums

DON'T cite these as sources in an article

History

Books

Documentaries

Museums

A row of pinball machines at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pacific Pinball Museum, a museum in Oakland, California
Pinball Hall of Fame, a museum located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Museum of Pinball, formerly the world’s largest pinball museum with over 500 vintage and modern pinball machines in Banning, California.
Silverball Museum, a museum located in New Jersey and Florida.
Seattle Pinball Museum, a museum located in Seattle.
Budapest pinball museum, one of Europe's leading pinball museums, located in Budapest, Hungary.
Paris Pinball Museum, a museum located in Paris, France.
Pinball Museum Solothurn, a museum located in Solothurn, Switzerland.
German pinball museum, a museum in Neuwied, Germany.
Pinball museum Schwerin, a museum in Schwerin, Germany.
Vintage Flipper World, a museum in Ann Arbor, MI.
Dutch Pinball Museum, a museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Search

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Project monitor

New articles that contain the word pinball

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-07-29 23:01 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

Draft:Moondog Okiextreamist (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Morback1991 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2025-07-28, score: 10

Draft:Five Star Final (pinball) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Mindstrm (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2025-07-26, score: 20

List of Pac-Man video games (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pppery (talk · contribs · new pages (89)) started on 2025-07-18, score: 20

Draft:Golden Ticket Awards (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Casablanca Rock (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2025-07-17, score: 10

Recent changes of everything related to WikiProject Pinball

An automated project watchlist of recent pinball related edits. Note: Some edits may not be relevant to this project.

Bot-generated list of articles needing cleanup

an automated pinball cleanup listing

Article alerts

You can find all Pinball article alerts here and subscribe at the bottom of this page to get informed for example about Pinball articles for deletion or miscellaneous discussions and nominations.

Articles for creation

26 Jul 2025 – Draft:Five Star Final (pinball) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mindstrm (t · c)
22 Jul 2025 – Draft:Williams Pinball Classics (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wilbers (t · c)

Selected new articles

Here you can announce and add links to new created or expanded pinball related articles.

Whiffle - Pinball History! (please add to or edit as needed)

Assessment

Pinball articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		1			2
GA		1	1	6			8
B	3	3	6	3		1	16
C	4	4	19	11			38
Start	4	24	48	51			127
Stub	3	8	71	34			116
List	2	3		2			7
NA			4	10	148		162
Assessed	16	44	149	118	148	1	476
Total	16	44	149	118	148	1	476
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,547			Ω = 5.04

Importance is not necessarily related to the popularity of an article, and is importance to pinball only, not importance more generally.

Importance scale
Type	Top .	High .	Mid .	Low .
Pinball machines	Very few will be here, only major industry changing tables (e.g. Baffle Ball, The Spirit of '76)	Machines that had a lasting impact upon the industry or were crucially successful (e.g. Space Shuttle, The Addams Family)	Innovative machines will likely be here. Can be machines that introduce a new concept or mechanism (e.g. Twilight Zone	Most will be of low importance, even if popular amongst players (e.g. Hurricane, Cirqus Voltaire)
Individuals	{{{1}}}	Those who made a major contribution to the industry over several decades (e.g. Roger Sharpe, Steve Ritchie)	Those who have made a significant contribution to the industry over decades, but of less lasting significance (e.g.Chris Granner)	Still notable enough for a Wikipedia article, but whose contribution to pinball was less significant (e.g. Dan Forden)
Companies	Industry leading companies that were critical to pinball (e.g. Williams, Stern)	Major pinball companies (e.g. Jersey Jack Pinball)	Companies who neither fit in the Low or High importance groupings (e.g. Data East)	Companies whose importance for pinball was relatively brief, or who only made a small contribution to the industry (e.g. Atari, Inc., Chicago Gaming)
Pinball video games	{{{1}}}	Games that had a significant and lasting impact (e.g. Pinball FX, The Pinball Arcade)	Games that are more than just a single release of a few tables (e.g. Full Tilt! Pinball)	Most pinball games will be of low importance (e.g. Yoku's Island Express, Pokémon Pinball)
Other	Major articles (e.g. Pinball)	Articles of significant importance (e.g. Pinball Wizard)	Those of some importance to pinball in general (e.g. Play Meter, Special When Lit)	Pinball locations, articles only loosely associated with pinball etc. (e.g. Dutch Pinball Museum, Arcade video game)

Participants

This user is a participant in WikiProject Pinball

Feel free to sign up as a participant in this project, and add yourself manually or with the userbox {{User WikiProject Pinball}} to Category:WikiProject Pinball participants. Any help is very welcome. :) Feel also free to make suggestions or ask questions on the project's talk page.

Fractalchez - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, current league & tournament organizer
DuoDeathscyther 02 - Casual pinball player; created or improved these pinball articles
David Pro - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, has created these pinball articles
Rich Fife - Longtime collector and enthusiast.
SarahStierch long time pinball enthusiast and will lend a hand when possible to articles (especially the pinball article itself.
VMzB - 8-bit era veteran, especially interested in the electronic guts of pinball machines (and some arcade games) and their repair. Imho IPDB is a great resource and we should try to refer to it, or even establish automatic data transfer.
Wilbers Digital pinball player, created and improved many pinball articles
Blake W - Child of the 80s, grew up with Pinball and recently fell in love with the prewar era of pinball. Created or improved these pinball articles

Open tasks

Key articles

General

Games

Companies

People

Technologies

Pinball 2000

Video game simulations

Digital preservation & creation

Templates

{{Infobox Pinball}}
{{WikiProject Pinball}}
{{User WikiProject Pinball}}
{{The_Pinball_Barnstar}} - The Pinball Barnstar
Pinball Wizard Userbox - Pinball Wizard Userbox

Relation to other WikiProjects

Parent project

WikiProject Games

Related projects

WikiProject Cue sports (pinball ultimately derives from billiards, by way of games like bagatelle and bar billiards)
WikiProject Video games (electronic arcade games, the original video games, were an outgrowth of pinball)