Ah, nostalgia...

Although it was mentioned in WIRED magazine, you may have missed the article about pinball machine emulation. You too can play a facsimile of a real world pinball machine on your computer, through the help of the kind folks at VPForums. Registration is required to download files, but it is free. More than 400 tables have been recreated, so chances are your favorite machine can be found. Be a pinball wizard!