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Pinball. It's a term we all know to one degree or another and has been part of Americana for as long as most of us have been alive. Over a 75 year period it has gone from a table top game played with a marble, to the wood bordered classics of the 1950s, to the electronic, digitized, licensed game it has become today. It has always been a classic. It always was able to create a certain magic connection between player and ball. Pinball has always tried to improve and better itself to appeal to a new and broader market. But, as it had done in the past, pinball has came back. The manufacturer has added more features and playfield design innovations.

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  1. Black Spiderman Limited Edition Pinball Machine
  2. Family Guy Pinball Machine
  3. Indiana Jones Pinball Machine
  4. Pirates of the Carribbean Pinball Machine
  5. Simpsons Pinball Party Pinball Machine
  6. Shrek Pinball Machine
  7. Spiderman Pinball Machine
  8. Wheel of Fortune Pinball Machine

Wheel of Fortune Pinball Machine
This year, Wheel of Fortune, television's #1 syndicated series, celebrates its 25th Anniversary. Stern Pinball, Inc. honors this achievement with its newest pinball machine, WHEEL OF FORTUNE™.

The WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ pinball machine is the perfect piece for all locations, especially street locations. In many bars the game show is shown 5 nights a week. It will also win over avid Wheel of Fortune viewers, including the 4 million members of the Wheel Watchers Club. This title will be extremely popular for home sales when operators complete their use of the game.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ pinball features original speech by Pat Sajak, host of the Wheel of Fortune television show, as well as Charlie O'Donnell, the show's announcer. Backglass art also features Pat Sajak and co-host Vanna White.

Dennis Nordman, Keith Johnson, and the engineering staff at Stern Pinball designed the WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ pinball machine.

The WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ pinball machine plays like the television game show. Pinball players start the game by spinning the wheel on the playfield, thus collecting points and/or prizes in their Prize Bank. Players must then hit the three bobble head contestants to collect consonants and vowels, to solve the puzzle on the dot matrix display. Once the puzzle is solved, the player collects the points and/or prizes in their Prize Bank.

The WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ pinball machine offers exciting features, including: 1. A mechanical spinning wheel on the playfield; 2. Three animated, bobble head contestants that call out puzzle letters when hit; 3. A dot matrix display in the backbox that shows the puzzle; 4. A mini dot matrix display in the playfield that directs the player during gameplay; 5. Challenging in-line drop targets; and 6.Lots of multi-ball action.

Kevin O'Connor and Margaret Hudson created the art for WHEEL OF FORTUNE™, while David Thiel did the sound.

Dennis Nordman says, "Everyone will easily comprehend the basic rules of this game, solving puzzles that appear in the dot matrix display. It's classic ‘complete a sequence' pinball."

Gary Stern says, "WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ is a great game designed by great designers. Dennis last did our Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean and Keith is responsible for the rules of The Simpsons™/Pinball Party and The Lord of the Rings™."

The WHEEL OF FORTUNE™ pinball machine will begin shipping in October 2007.

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Black Spiderman Special Limited Edition
Pinball Machine
This Special Limited Edition comes with these special features not found on the standard model Spidey" :

Special Limited Edition with only 500 machine made!

  • New Cabinet!
  • Backbox Art featuring Black Spider-Man!
  • New "Shaker Motor" makes this special version even more exciting while playing!
  • Special Mirrored Backglass, first one made for a pinball machine in over 15 years!
  • Cool Chrome Machine Trim
  • Also includes "side armor" in the shape of a spiderweb!

Authentic Plaque on Backbox and Certificate of Authenticity signed by Gary Stern himself!

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Shrek Pinball Machine
Everybody's favorite Ogre is making his way to pinball! DreamWorks Animation's SHREK® franchise is the highest grossing animated movie franchise of all time and now has an officially-licensed pinball machine.

Pat Lawlor Design, along with software and rules designers Lonnie Ropp and Mike Kyzivat, designed the SHREK pinball, featuring eye-popping, original art from John Youssi, newly elected Pinball Hall of Fame artist. Mark Galvez and Tom Kyzivat created original dot matrix display art for the pinball.

The SHREK pinball machine's main feature is Donkey's mini-playfield, a small pinball playfield that sits in the upper right hand corner. It has mini-flippers that the player controls with the regular flipper buttons when the game is in ‘Donkey mini-playfield' mode. The mini-playfield has ramps and targets to shoot at while an actual Donkey figurine spins in front of the mini-playfield.

Additional features on the game include: figurines of five SHREK characters, including Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots®, Princess Fiona and Gingy®. A mirror sculpture of Prince Charming sits in the center of the playfield and can be struck by the pinball. Two captive pinballs spell out P-I-N-B-A-L-L when hit; and SHREK also includes plenty of exciting multi-ball action.

"SHREK pinball has great depth and is fun and easy to understand for the casual player. This is a great game for both home owners and game operators," said Gary Stern, President of Stern Pinball.

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Family Guy Pinball Machine
THE FAMILY GUY ® - Based on the hit TV series. FAMILY GUY is also Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine, designed by Pat Lawlor, his team at Pat Lawlor Design, and the engineers at Stern Pinball.

The Family Guy has plenty of new game features and playfield toys! Comes with a 4 target "drop target bank, 1 target drop target, captive “Newton” balls, up post between the flippers, a upper flipper on left side, stand up targets, spinning target, ramps, a beer can to shoot at, and many Family Guy TV characters! A new feature in Family Guy is the upper playfield ! What is new and unique about this is that it is played with its own small pinball and flippers, and is the first upper playfield to come complete with its own game rules!

The FAMILY GUY pinball offers three different adjustable levels of speech (Adult, Moderate and Family), plus alternative decals are provided with each game to allow users to change the Beer Can to a Root Beer or to change "Adult" speech into "Family" speech to allow for wholesome family use! The FAMILY GUY pinball machine features exclusive never before heard phrases by FAMILY GUY show creator, Seth McFarlane The FAMILY GUY pinball machine also features original artwork from the artists who create the FAMILY GUY television show, as well as famed pinball artists John Youssi and Margaret Hudson.

Additional features on the game include: character figures of each of the six Griffin family members by Mezco Toys; a Patriot Ale can with a Brian Griffin toy standing on top that can be struck by the ball (the game owner will be provided with an extra set of decals if they want to change Patriot Ale to Patriot Root Beer); two captive pinballs, which spell out P-I-N-B-A-L-L when struck; and plenty of multi-ball features.

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Pirates of the Carribbean Pinball Machine
The greatest pirate adventure of all-time is now the latest pinball machine from Stern Pinball, Inc. Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean pinball machine adapts the characters and settings from the two Disney films perfectly into a pinball playfield. Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean is the perfect title and theme for a pinball machine. It lends itself to lots of mechanical action pinball shots and toys for casual players, yet the story cries for deep rules to challenge the best players.

The goal of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean pinball is to go on a pirate adventure to defeat Davy Jones, Jack's nemesis in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean/Dead Man's Chest.

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean offers the following features:

  • A mechanical pirate ship that the player strikes with the pinball. With each hit, the ship lowers its sails and eventually sinks into the playfield, thus revealing a shot into the Kraken's mouth. In this area, the player can sink the ship, destroy the Kraken, and fight Davy Jones.
  • A mechanical treasures chest, the Dead Man's Chest, through which the player can shoot the ball. When the player has the KEY, the chest opens. They can then spell H-E-A-R-T to begin HEART multi-ball.
  • A contained spinning rubber disk where the player can capture up to three pinballs. The disk bounces them around in the contained area and holds them for an extended period of time till the player starts multi-ball. The disk sometimes represents Tortuga and other times Port Royal.
  • A map compass comprised of playfield inserts that shows the player each feature they need to finish. Complete all eight features and play Four Winds Multi-ball.
  • Kevin O'Connor created the artwork for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean pinball machine. David Thiel, former IT and Microsoft sound engineer, developed the sound and music for the game. Together the team delivered a great package of sound and art.

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Spiderman Pinball Machine
SPIDER-MAN™, was designed by Steve Ritchie, Lyman Sheats, and the engineering staff at Stern Pinball, the pinball machine takes Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 and puts them all into one fast-paced pinball machine that will excite both operators and homeowners.

In the SPIDER-MAN™ pinball machine, you are Spider-Man™. Your goal is to defeat the villains from all three movies: Green Goblin from Spider-Man, Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2, and Sandman and Venom from Spider-Man 3. There are detailed, vibrant toys of each of the four villains on the playfield with an associated shot. Defeat all four villains and experience Battle Royale!

The pinball machine offers incredible features, including: Doc Ock's magnet that simulates a "Fusion Malfunction" by holding the ball; Green Goblin hovering on his glider above Pumpkin Bomb targets; Venom's ramp that quickly feeds the ball back to the left flipper; Sandman's whirlwind of targets and a motor 3-bank at the center of the playfield; and a whole lot of amazing multi-ball action.

Steve Ritchie says, “Many hours have gone into the making of SPIDER-MAN™ pinball machine. Lyman Sheats has created a set of elegant yet simple rules that anyone can learn in a few plays. SPIDER-MAN™ pinball is a game of speed, flow and constant action and excitement. Lyman and I have always wanted to make a SPIDER-MAN™ pinball game since forever, and it contains the best work and ideas of many people who work at Stern Pinball. We are extremely pleased with the results, and we think you will be, too!”

Kevin O'Conner utilized the film’s art resources and created the back glass and playfield art, while Marc Shoenberg and Mark Galvez also worked with the film’s art direction, to produce the cabinet art. The pinball machine has a phenomenal music and a sound package composed and adapted by David Thiel, along with over 800 speech calls. The game also features stunning dot matrix animations created by Mark Galvez, recapturing key scenes form Spider-Man , Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 3. Earning very well and eminently collectable, SPIDER-MAN™ pinball from Stern is a solid and entertaining package that will rock the pinball universe.

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The Simpsons Pinball Party Pinball Machine
This awesome machine has the deepest rule set in all pinball history and is an excellent family game.

THE SIMPSONS ® / PINBALL PARTY! The adventures of the "Simpsons" Family are transformed into a wild affair in this pinball! It features many of The Simpsons favorite characters on a two-level playfield, influenced by classic Simpson's episodes. The object of Simpsons Pinball Party is to help the citizens of Springfield to party like there’s no tomorrow. The game features a talking / moving Homer head, and Bart on a skateboard attached to a captive ball, Itchy and Scratchy drop targets, Comic Book Guy, dot matrix color TV, a monorail that transports the ball across the playfield and a couch that when
filled with 3 balls starts the multiball!

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Indiana Jones Pinball Machine
Info to come.

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THESE PINBALL MACHINES ARE OUT OF PRODUCTION

  1. Austin Powers Pinball Machine
  2. Dale Jr. Pinball Machine
  3. Elvis Pinball Machine
  4. Grand Prix Pinball Machine
  5. Harley Davidson 1st, 2nd and 3rd Edition PInball Machines
  6. Hich Roller Casino Pinball Machine
  7. Lord of the Ring Pinball Machine
  8. Monopoly Pinball Machine
  9. NASCAR Pinball Machine
  10. NFL Pinball Machine
  11. Playboy Pinball Machine
  12. Ripley's Belive It or Not! Pinball Machine
  13. Roller Coaster Tycoon Pinball Machine
  14. Sharkey's Shootout Pinball Machine
  15. Striker Extreme Pinball Machine
  16. The Sopranos Pinball Machine
  17. Terminator 3 Pinball Machine
  18. World Poker Tour Pinball Machine

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