Skee-Ball is to the Shore as what baseball is to Cooperstown — a game that connects generations. “Skee-Ball has been part of the Jersey Shore forever and ever since 1907,” said Ed Pohlman, owner of ...

It was Oscar-winning screen writer William Goldman who, when it came to predicting the success of movies, reportedly said "Nobody knows anything". It's a similar situation in the App Store: certainly ...

Among summer indoor sports, Skee-ball owns a popular niche. It has long been an outlet for seasonal and vacation entertainment, situated, as it often is, inside oceanside arcades along the boardwalk.

Bowling takes too much room. Darts are dangerous. Shuffleboard is messy. Skee-Ball is the bar game of the moment. Every kid who ever wandered into a Chuck E. Cheese's or spent a long afternoon in a ...

PULASKI - Bay Tek Games Inc. has rolled an iconic arcade and amusement park game into its stable of coin-operated games. The manufacturer of classic and new games recently bought Skee-Ball Amusement ...

Reporting from Brooklyn, N.Y. — The odd coupling of tradition and trendiness that characterizes Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is perhaps nowhere more evident than at Full Circle Bar, a watering ...

Skee-Ball lanes are lined up in an arcade on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk. (Star-Ledger file photo) Pick up the plastic ball, roll it up the cork lane, try to deposit it into one of the ...

The founders of Brewskee-Ball like to say they've taken Skee-Ball from the arcade to the bar, turning the old-time amusement park game into a competitive sport with hundreds of dedicated players in a ...

The rowdy crowd is ready to roll as Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” cranks at Elixir Bar & Grill. It’s mostly dudes in various combinations of beards and ball caps gathered on this recent Tuesday night, a ...

In 1909, the same year that William Howard Taft became president, the arcade game known as skee-ball made its appearance. That same year, an issue of Popular Mechanics heralded this “new and unique ...

What it takes to become the national Skee-Ball champion. — -- After years of near-misses in tournaments and hours of practicing on the Skee-Ball machine he keeps in his in-law’s garage, ...