Andreas Bernard teaches History of Science at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.

• 1.  Time Warp2.    Monaco3.    Harlem Globetrotters4.    Pinball Champ ’825.    Paragon6.    Earthshaker7.    Taxi8.    Star Trek: The Next Generation9.    Tilt10.  Same Player Shoots Again

"Part memoir, part cultural history, Same Player Shoots Again beautifully evokes a lost world through a single object. It offers an illuminating window on that strange and unknown land, the very recent past."Joe Moran, Liverpool John Moores University"Charming... often poignant... Reading this book was like my experience of playing pinball: it was all over much too quickly."Will Wiles, Literary Review"Touchingly Proustian... Bernard's genius is to communicate something of his life's grand obsession, while recognising how pinball machines are emblematic of an industrial culture that was slain by digital in the 1980s."Stuart Jeffries, The Spectator"The German writer Andreas Bernard is right: a pinball machine belongs to the bar, the arcade, the pier and other places of ill repute and misspent youth."Will Hodgkinson, The Idler"A beautifully melancholy story... I was never an aficionado, having grown up with video-arcade machines instead, but after finishing this deeply evocative book I've resolved to play the next machine I happen across."Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal

Andreas Bernard teaches History of Science at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.

• 1.  Time Warp2.    Monaco3.    Harlem Globetrotters4.    Pinball Champ ’825.    Paragon6.    Earthshaker7.    Taxi8.    Star Trek: The Next Generation9.    Tilt10.  Same Player Shoots Again

"Part memoir, part cultural history, Same Player Shoots Again beautifully evokes a lost world through a single object. It offers an illuminating window on that strange and unknown land, the very recent past."Joe Moran, Liverpool John Moores University"Charming... often poignant... Reading this book was like my experience of playing pinball: it was all over much too quickly."Will Wiles, Literary Review"Touchingly Proustian... Bernard's genius is to communicate something of his life's grand obsession, while recognising how pinball machines are emblematic of an industrial culture that was slain by digital in the 1980s."Stuart Jeffries, The Spectator"The German writer Andreas Bernard is right: a pinball machine belongs to the bar, the arcade, the pier and other places of ill repute and misspent youth."Will Hodgkinson, The Idler"A beautifully melancholy story... I was never an aficionado, having grown up with video-arcade machines instead, but after finishing this deeply evocative book I've resolved to play the next machine I happen across."Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal

Andreas Bernard teaches History of Science at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.

• 1.  Time Warp2.    Monaco3.    Harlem Globetrotters4.    Pinball Champ ’825.    Paragon6.    Earthshaker7.    Taxi8.    Star Trek: The Next Generation9.    Tilt10.  Same Player Shoots Again

"Part memoir, part cultural history, Same Player Shoots Again beautifully evokes a lost world through a single object. It offers an illuminating window on that strange and unknown land, the very recent past."Joe Moran, Liverpool John Moores University"Charming... often poignant... Reading this book was like my experience of playing pinball: it was all over much too quickly."Will Wiles, Literary Review"Touchingly Proustian... Bernard's genius is to communicate something of his life's grand obsession, while recognising how pinball machines are emblematic of an industrial culture that was slain by digital in the 1980s."Stuart Jeffries, The Spectator"The German writer Andreas Bernard is right: a pinball machine belongs to the bar, the arcade, the pier and other places of ill repute and misspent youth."Will Hodgkinson, The Idler"A beautifully melancholy story... I was never an aficionado, having grown up with video-arcade machines instead, but after finishing this deeply evocative book I've resolved to play the next machine I happen across."Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal