Stern's new King Kong pinball machine would be more stylish and exciting if it looked more like the original movie.

By the 1970s, pinball machines — sans payouts — had become ubiquitous throughout Virginia, described in a February 1978 Times-Dispatch article as “all but denuded of its image as a backroom ...

There’s a quarter mile of wire and 3,500 components in each pinball machine, and it takes about 30 hours of work to finish assembling one. They are methodically inspected every step of the way.

It includes photography, six pinball machines and a drum set played by ... a photographer for Rolling Stones magazine ...