There are old pinball machines and arcade cabinets littered here and there in dive bars and restaurants all across the country. But have you ever considered what it takes to maintain and repair them?

Patrick Scott Patterson used various tools to replace the capacitors and fix solder joints from an arcade monitor chassis from the early ’80s that a client had sent him to fix. He gained a reputation ...

Michael Bells is the manager of an arcade repair shop. He travels around the state repairing arcade cabinets, from ancient magnet-based pinball machines to new cabinets that are essentially PCs in a ...