Las Vegas Weekly The Pinball Hall of Fame Photo: Christopher DeVargas "Is there really pinball in there?” A woman, still in her car, asks me that question as I walk through the parking lot of the new Pinball Hall of Fame location, on Las Vegas Boulevard near Mandalay Bay. She gestures to the building, painted with massive red letters shouting “PINBALL.” “There are literally hundreds of pinball machines in there,” I tell her. “Some of them are 60, 70 years old, and you can play all of them.” Satisfied, the woman parks, gets out of her car and hustles inside. Tim Arnold, the owner of the Pinball Hall of Fame and its sprawling assortment of new and vintage pinball machines, video arcade games and various mechanical amusements, has seen several impulsive visits like this one since the PHOF soft-opened in its new location less than a month ago. “We had a guy two nights ago who was up in an expensive restaurant on the top of the Mandalay Bay, looked out the window and saw ‘PINBALL,” finished his meal and scooted right over here,” Arnold says. “And another one saw it from the window of a plane when the high winds changed [McCarran’s] approach pattern.”