Stern Pinball Archives

  After last week's leaks of the new Star Wars Pinball from Stern, Stern has finally given us a better look at their newest, and possibly coolest, machines! In a recent press release, Stern had the following to say.. "ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL – June 6, 2017 – Stern Pinball, Inc., the world's oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball machines, proudly announced today[...]

Steve Ritchie's Star Wars Pinball will be released later this year. It looks like there will be a Pro, a Premium, and an LE, focused on the first trilogy.

This past weekend I got to spend time in Chicago for C2E2, but Chicago has a deeper meaning to me. If you've been following my posts, then you'll know

If you're American, or are just aware of pop culture, you've heard of Family Guy. The Seth McFarlane show hit airwaves in 1999, and is currently one of

According to the Stern website, their anti-reflection glass is supposed to block out any kind of reflection (mostly from the head of the machine) and it

Everyone seems to love HBO's Game of Thrones, based on the books by George R.R. Martin. So Stern decided to cash in on this popularity and released their

Comics and pinball have been in bed with each other since the 70's. The original Superman, Hulk and Spider-Man machines prove that. So it's no surprise

Stern Pinball officially debuted in 1999, and while they kept producing machines, pinball just wasn't as popular. In 2006 things started to turn around Stern had acquired the rights to release a Pirates of the Caribbean machine based on the movies By 2008 Stern was releasing 3-4 new machines per year, a trend they've managed to[...]

  It's safe to say I'm not the biggest fan of The Walking Dead. I read the first graphic novel and I've seen a handful of episodes, but it never

In the landscape of pinball, there are dozens of manufacturers. At this point in time we don't have that many (Stern being top dog currently) but back in

TRON was the first modern machine we ever had in my house. I've been lucky enough to play a number of variations of the game, and I honestly think this is

Aerosmith are a classic rock band that almost everyone with a pulse has heard about, so it only makes sense that Stern would release a machine based off