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A man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive

Steve Young’s passion built a business that keeps historic tables running.

For a game that feels refreshingly simple and two-dimensional compared to the latest PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X releases, pinball has a surprisingly tumultuous history, involving everything from organized crime to Supreme Court rulings. New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's goons dragged hundreds of games out of businesses and smashed them in the streets in the 1940s, creating a sea of broken glass and shattered wood not seen since the prohibition's frothier demolitions a decade earlier. That attitude has earned The Pinball Resource a perfect five-star rating in online reviews from Google to Yelp, plus legions of loyal customers worldwide, each with a shared passion for keeping machines once considered disposable alive for the next generation to enjoy.

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