There is no way that what is essentially a big marble stuck inside a gaudy clock can teach us anything about life, right?

Wrong! Here are five important life lessons you can learn by playing pinball.

Though the pinball machine's reign was largely shattered by the rise of games like Asteroids and Pac-Man, everyone knows that without the trail blazed by pinball the explosion of electronic gaming in arcades around the world would have occurred in a much different, almost assuredly less exciting way.

mchankwilliams via joystickdivision.com »