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GAD Knows Pinball
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Looking to play your favorite pinball? Locate your favorite games – https://pinside.com/pinball/map 

If you are seeking a pinball game for your home in the Midwest, GAD is the place. We stock a variety of pinball game titles for home, free play.

Contact us for pricing and availability for pinball.

INSIDER CONNECTED™ FROM STERN PINBALL EARNS INNOVATION & TECH TODAY TOP 50 MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AWARD
INSIDER CONNECTED™ FROM STERN PINBALL EARNS INNOVATION & TECH TODAY TOP 50 MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AWARD 714 482 GAD Vending

The annual program highlights an elite group of technology products

DENVER (February 15, 2021) – Stern Pinball is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Innovation & Tech Today as a Top 50 Most Innovative Product.

Stern Pinball’s Insider Connected is the greatest technological advance to pinball in decades, giving players even more reasons to play. Insider Connected lets players track scores and offers new achievements for connected pinball machines. Through their mobile phones or computers, players can access their profiles, post scores, find the locations of connected machines, or explore pinball activities in their area.

Insider Connected Pro provides tools for commercial operators to improve earnings and operational efficiency through remote updates and diagnostics. All Stern Pinball machines now ship with Insider Connected enabled. All pinball players can register for Insider Connected at insider.sternpinball.com/.

“Insider Connected will transform how players interact with pinball machines.  Operators will benefit greatly from new tools to drive play and maintain games,” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc.

Innovation & Tech Today (I&TT), one of the leading publishers of content on innovation, technology, and the sciences, announced winners of its annual Top 50 Most Innovative Products competition today.

The Top 50 Most Innovative Products is I&TT’s most popular feature every year. The feature includes a collection of business innovations, new products and connected services, along with gadgets from industries such as healthcare, smart home, outdoor and adventure, STEM, gaming, and entertainment.

“Every year we unearth some of the most innovative products on the market. We pride ourselves on having a sharp eye for finding novel products that are technologically advanced and highly useful,” said Charles Warner, chief executive officer of Innovative Properties Worldwide, and publisher/editor-in-chief of Innovation & Tech Today. “Each product was vigorously tested by our entire editorial staff, as we narrowed down the entrants to the best possible reflection of products that will appeal to our readers.”

Products were selected from the following categories:

  • Health Tech
  • Connected Life
  • Outdoor and Adventure Tech
  • Gaming and Entertainment
  • General Tech Products

About Stern Pinball, Inc.

Stern Pinball, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball. Headquartered minutes from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. Stern Pinball serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the globe.

Recent Stern Pinball titles include Rush, Godzilla, The Mandalorian, Led Zeppelin, Avengers: Infinity Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stranger Things, Elvira’s House of Horrors, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball’s games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.

GAD is an authorized Stern Pinball dealer for Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and South Dakota.

About Innovation & Tech Today

Innovation & Tech Today is an award-winning digital and print publication covering all things tech. While we maintain global coverage of the sciences, innovation, and technology, we also celebrate the many cutting-edge products making headway in the marketplace today. Our noted cover personalities have featured Ricky Gervias, Dave Bautista, James Gunn, Scarlett Johansson, and Penn & Teller on our covers.

How to Get Your Guns ‘N Roses Pinball Online
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Did you know that all Guns N’ Roses ‘Not In This Lifetime’ pinball machines are online enabled right out of the box? Once connected, you will enjoy great online features such as effortless code updates, online leaderboards, and Achievements (Scorbit). As a Jersey Jack Pinball owner you’ll be happy to know that all of these features are immediately available and absolutely free of charge!
Let’s get your game online now! Open your coin door and press the BLACK ENTER button. From there navigate to FULL MENU, UTILITIES, NETWORK SETTINGS, and CONNECT TO WI-FI. Follow the on screen prompts to connect.
If you have any questions, GAD supports our customers getting their pinball online!

Lots and lots of New Pinball On the Way!
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We hear you! GAD has ordered pinball – and we are checking with our manufacturers regularly for production updates.

Most of the delays are lack of computer chips to run the games. But this is slowly getting better.

Here’s an idea of what we have on order now –

Stern Mandalorian Pro and Premium | Stern Rush Pro and Premium | Stern Godzilla Pro and Premium | Avengers Pro and Premium

Chicago Cactus Canyon SE and SE+

American Pinball Houdini, Hot Wheels, Oktoberfest and Legends of Valhalla Classic and Deluxe

Jersey Jack Guns ‘n Roses LE

Our warehouses are located to service Missouri, Kansas City, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.

Want to Provide 24/7 Fresh Food Options? Think Vending
Want to Provide 24/7 Fresh Food Options? Think Vending 786 901 GAD Vending

Why choose Crane’s Shopper Vending Machine?

  • Flexible merchandising options with trays that can be easily configured
  • Refrigerated product compartments with the best air distribution system in the industry
  • Shopper 2 is compatible with coin and cashless payment systems
  • Nine levels, each with 127 mm tall vend doors provide optimum product visibility and sales
  • Individual sales pricing
  • Side-of-drum storage area keeps additional products refrigerated and available for immediate re-stocking
  • Provides around the clock fresh foods, snacks and cold drink vending all in one vending machine

GAD Vending has offices in Des Moines, Kansas City and Omaha. Equipment and parts are available for pick up, shipment or delivery. Service and parts are also located in our offices. Please call us if you need a new vending machine or parts to repair your existing machines.

Happy VDay
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Elvira Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational
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Mark your calendars for a special date night with the Mistress of the Dark as Elvira hosts the latest Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational!  Who will win a brand new Elvira’s House of Horrors pinball machine?  Tune in February 12th at 6pm CT to find out!  Full details on this adrenaline-inducing competition here!

Crane BevMax Vending
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Looking to increase sales to the people that come through your doors? Want to satisfy the need to deliver soft drinks without employees? Want to reduce shoplifting while increasing profits? Crane Vending BevMax 4 takes cold drinks vending to the Max!

Vending machines aren’t just about delivering a cold drink. Vending machines reduce employee time. Vending machines reduce shop lifting. Vending machines can be managed with a smart phone app for low stock alerts, sales data, etc.

With a fast, smooth product delivery system, Crane’s BevMax delivers.

  • Fast and accurate X-Y product delivery mechanism is able to vend virtually any permutation of cans, PET and glass bottles.
  • Delivery cup smoothly retrieves each vended product with little or no agitation.
  • The system provides total control throughout the vend cycle, eliminating the possibility of product tipping from the tray during or after the vend.
  • Delivery hopper rotates and opens automatically when a product is dispensed into it
  • delivery port is vandal resistant, preventing pilfering from the cabinet.

Features a large, illuminated shopping window. Energy efficiency. Maximum reliability. Increased profitability.

GAD Vending stocks all types of vending machines, payment options and configuration shelving. Parts and service are also available from GAD Vending in and around Omaha, Kansas City and Des Moines. Equipment available for pick up or installation. GAD Vending sells in St. Louis, Sioux City, Kansas City and all of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Call GAD for a full quote today.

What Does GAD Inventory?
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With supply chain shortages continuing, GAD’s long standing relationships with our manufacturers means we are still getting the newest equipment. GAD also has limited used equipment that has been refurbished and run through our service department.

Games, ATM’s and Digital Music

Due first quarter of 2022 are the following pinball titles:

Rush, Godzilla, Avengers, Guns ‘n Roses LE, Legends of Valhalla, Hot Wheels, Oktoberfest and Houdini.

In stock pinball includes Beatles Gold, Star Wars Home Pin, Star Wars Comic Art Pina and Jurassic Park Home Pin.

Golden Tee PGA – estimated beginning of January. Golden Tee Home is in stock.

In stock are Hyosung Halo II ATM and various digital music solutions.

Vending Machines

GAD Inventories Vending Machines. As with all our equipment, our inventory depends on how our manufacturers are doing with their supply chain. Please call with questions for the vending equipment you are looking for.

All of our equipment is available for home or commercial use. We sell and service homes, arcades, game rooms, bars, pool halls, hotels, hospitals, commercial offices and break rooms. GAD sell equipment and parts and can suggest vending route sales people to upkeep your equipment.

New Pinball at GAD
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Do you have what it takes to save the day? Cactus Canyon Remake puts you in the game as the future lawman of the old west town of Cactus Canyon. Save the town bank from a robbery, show off your skills as an expert marksman, even tame wild broncos and don’t forget to save Polly Peril from the train!

Cactus Canyon is the fourth game in the exciting line of remakes of the greatest Bally/Williams pinball machines.

Cactus Canyon features expanded game rules, new display art and new sounds all of which are exclusive to Cactus Canyon Remake. All new full-color display artwork, re-imagined within the framework of the original Williams display artwork at four times the resolution. Thousands of frames have been painstakingly animated to create a display that features full color and four times the number of dots as the original Williams game.

Both models feature Chicago Gaming’s 19-¼” XL Color Display which has twice the viewing area of the display utilized in the original game. Modern Electronics, LED lighting, and today’s manufacturing technology help deliver a game experience that exceeds expectations.

GAD’s order of Cactus SE and SE+ are in production. Pre-orders are encouraged as supply chain shortages continue to make inventory more and more difficult. Contact us to learn expected delivery dates on the games you are interested in.

GAD Vending

Greater America Distributing (GAD) is your premier marketer and servicing distributor of vending equipment and amusement games in Mid America.  The company has been operating for over 40 years with offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; and Grimes, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines.

Omaha

6161 Grover Street, Omaha,
NE 68106

1-402-553-2812
jerry@gadvending.com

1-402-553-2812
andy@gadvending.com

Kansas City

3230 Roanake Road, Kansas City,
MO 64111

1-816-531-4300
brettz@gadvending.com

1-816-531-4300
matt@gadvending.com

Des Moines

2105 SE 37 Street, Grimes,
Iowa 50111

1-515-278-4455
bill@gadvending.com

1-515-278-4455
bill@gadvending.com

Greater America Distributing

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