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 ...

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, ...

In the early 1900s, the thing Joseph Fourestier Simpson desired most was to create something people respected. A career hustler—real estate agent, cash register salesman, and railroad clerk were just ...

NEW YORK – Most people are lucky to get a stuffed animal when winning a Skee-Ball game, but an Edison college student became a high roller after scoring the title of Skee-Ball world champion, which ...

UPDATE AUG. 16, 2019 : An earlier version of this story indicated the lottery's online prize giveaway included a $30,000 cash prize giveaway. Only the scratch game has a cash prize of $30,000. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

“TRY leaning your leg against the machine,” says Alex Choi, one of the best rollers in Brooklyn’s Brewskee-ball league. “That’ll keep your body from moving too much.” It works: your correspondent’s ...

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.

On December 8, 1908, a little more than a year after submitting his application, Joseph Fourestier Simpson was granted a patent for a “game apparatus.” Simpson's contraption featured a long alley ...

We may have reached the end of an era last week when Skee-Ball Inc., the Bucks County-based company that invented the arcade hit in 1909, was sold to Wisconsin-based rival Bay Tek Games. That doesn't ...