If you grew up in the '60s, '70s or '80s, you likely have fond memories spending Saturday afternoons at a dark arcade surrounded by the dings, clunks, whizzes and zings of a classic pinball machine.

In the series premiere of VICE's American Obsessions, we take a look at the beloved game of pinball, its controversial history and days of corruption, and dive into the story of the family rooted deep ...

Pinball was banned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America's big cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, where the game was born and where virtually all of its ...

Roger Sharpe saved pinball. It's hard to believe now, but pinball machines used to be illegal, from New York to California and even Chicago, the pinball-manufacturing capital of the world. Pinball ...