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Pinball Expo 2024

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Longest running Pinball Show!

Hundred of pinball machines set for free play. Pay on price to play all day.

This is an amazing show of all the premier pinball games available today. See Stern, American Pinball, Jersey Jack and Chicago Gaming. Games that GAD has in stock are available for you to play in one place to help you with your purchase of a favorite game.

This show is a massive 100,000 square feet of show floor plus tours and events to enjoy.

Stern Insider Connected for October 2024

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The Uncanny X-Men:

To me, my X-Men! Check out all of the latest news on Stern’s latest and greatest game, The Uncanny X-Men. Stay tuned for upcoming details on the official Stern Army Launch Parties taking place in locations all over the world.

Insider Connected:

For all of October, log in and play any Insider Connected JAWS pinball machine to see where your score stands amongst the rest of the world on this special month-long Global Leaderboard.

Play at home or on location anywhere in the world to climb the ranks, follow the action, and see who’ll emerge victorious.

Courtesy of the IFPA and Stern Army, (4) random participants of this Global Leaderboard will win prizes!

Follow the leaderboard action on the Insider Connected App!

JAWS:

Did you take advantage of Stern’s Shark Week with Insider Connected? Regardless, it’s always fun to watch Karl DeAngelo destroy things as he puts up his personal best JAWS: The Revenge Challenge Mode game. Also check out a fun interview with lead game designer Keith Elwin with Joel on the Flip N Out With Friends stream!

Rally Heroes in the Past to Save the Future in Stern Pinball and Marvel’s All New “The Uncanny X-Men”!

Rally Heroes in the Past to Save the Future in Stern Pinball and Marvel’s All New “The Uncanny X-Men”! 940 788 GAD Vending

Based on the legendary X-Men “Days of Future Past” and “Mind out of Time” comic book stories originally from 1981, players will experience the X-Men franchise like never before.

CHICAGO, IL – September 4, 2024 – Today, Stern Pinball, Inc. announced its all-new line of pinball games, The Uncanny X-Men. The game features iconic Marvel characters including Wolverine, Professor X, and many more. Created in collaboration with Marvel Comics, players will step into the lives of their favorite X-Men. To save the world from a future ruled by Sentinels, they must first change the past! The Uncanny X-Men pinball games are available today in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition (LE) models.

The X-Men is one of the highest-grossing superhero franchises of all time, with hundreds of millions of comics sold, over $6B in Box Office earnings from films to date, and the critically acclaimed X-Men ’97 series which extended the original X-Men animated series from the 1990s.  Multiple X-Men characters were featured in the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie which has grossed over $1BN making it the highest earning R-rated film of all time.

Stern’s new The Uncanny X-Men pinball games feature Wolverine, Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Jean Grey, Bishop, Kitty Pryde, and Magneto, along with a supporting cast of allies and foes. The adventure takes players to familiar X-Men locations including the Danger Room, Beast’s Lab, the X-Mansion, and Genosha. Along the way players will interact with fabled X-Men devices like Cerebro and the X-Jet.

The Uncanny X-Men playfield is a unique pinball layout that features an array of new crossing shots and ramp designs with surprising ball trajectories to deliver kinetic satisfaction. The all-new Danger Room design, located to the left of the main flippers, offers a high-risk, high-reward experience that includes a mini-flipper and a novel outlane spinner. Premium and Limited Edition models also include an all-new elevated captive ball vari-target themed as Beast’s Lab.

The Uncanny X-Men pinball game features a mechanically articulated Sentinel for the player to battle. The Sentinel’s large robotic head changes its state based on the player’s actions. In the Premium and Limited Edition models, the Sentinel rises from underneath the playfield and fights back by destroying the player’s ramps or attacking the ball with its extended hands.

“X-Men is a time-honored franchise that Marvel and Stern fans love.  It’s the superhero franchise that I grew up with. We’re excited for fans to experience the fun of The Uncanny X-Men pinball,” said Seth Davis, President & CEO of Stern Pinball.

The Uncanny X-Men’s game experience is masterfully illustrated in comic book style art by renowned artist Jeremy Packer, aka Zombie Yeti. Each game also features a custom X-Men soundtrack with diverse musical styles designed to immerse the player into the game’s various time periods.  The soundtrack was composed by Charlie Benante of Anthrax and Pantera fame. The game’s video presentation makes the classic Days of Future Past story come to life in animated motion graphics style.

The Days of Future Past story takes place in Marvel’s Earth-811 timeline and as an homage, our numbered Limited Edition games will be limited to 811 games globally for The Uncanny X-Men.  The highly collectible Limited Edition model includes the new Speaker Expression Lighting System with X-Men-themed game effects, a “Danger Room” inspired mirrored backglass, reflective foil “Future vs. Past” high-definition cabinet decals with artwork by Zombie Yeti, exclusive “Sentinel Armor” powder-coated pinball armor, a custom designer-autographed bottom arch, upgraded audio system, anti-reflection pinball playfield glass, shaker motor, a sequentially numbered plaque, a signed Certificate of Authenticity, and a digital Insider Connected LE owner’s badge on registration.

The Uncanny X-Men pinball games include Stern’s ever-expanding Insider Connected™ platform, which enables players to interact with the game and a global network of players in multiple ways. Through Insider Connected, players can track progress, earn game-specific Achievements, and discover new mutants with Cerebro. Every player who logs in with Insider Connected will discover their own mutant power to aid them with online Quests. Original buyers of The Uncanny X-Men pinball will also receive new Uncanny X-Men themed Pro, Premium, and LE owner’s badges after initial registration of their game. Ongoing code updates from Stern Pinball will enhance and extend the player experience.

Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com/ or in the Insider Connected App. Download it today on iOS and Android.

Pricing and Availability: 

Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (“MSRP”)*:

*MSRP for sales to USA end-users before any VAT, GST, Sales Tax, Duties, or other taxes.                                         

Pro Edition:                                                            $US 6,999

Premium Edition:                                                   $US 9,699

Limited Edition:                                                    $US 12,999

The Uncanny X-Men pinball games are now available through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers worldwide, which can be found here or via request for availability on the game information page here. Accessories will be available at a future date.

About Insider Connected

Insider Connected™ is Stern Pinball’s community network that allows players and owners to engage with pinball games in rapidly expanding ways. The platform unites pinball players worldwide and enhances fun through connected features such as achievements, leaderboards, and quests. Every new Stern Pinball product includes Insider Connected, and it is also available as an add-on for existing games.

Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com or in the intuitive Insider Connected™ mobile app on iOS and Android. By tapping a device on any enabled machine, players can track and resume game progress wherever they play, earn new game-specific achievements, engage with the pinball community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests. In addition to offering benefits to players, Insider Connected allows Stern to serve its game owners worldwide by upgrading games, offering new features and quests, and extending machines’ longevity for years to come.

About Stern Pinball, Inc. 

Stern Pinball, Inc. creates compelling entertainment that inspires a lifetime love of games, sparks passion, forges friendships, and connects people everywhere through fun, innovative, technologically advanced pinball games, and experiences.  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 John Wick, JAWS, Venom, Foo Fighters, James Bond, 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 competing in high-stakes global competitions to novice players discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time.  To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.

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Stern Tech School: Learn How…

Stern Tech School: Learn How… 940 788 GAD Vending

GAD offers full service support to our customers. Some areas, we have actual, real (wonderful people!) service techs that can come out and fix for you. Depending on your issue and warranty will depend on your costs. In other areas, we offer full phone support. Or, you are welcome to come to our office and we can walk you through how to fix your issue. The good news is – GAD knows you like to fix it yourself.

GAD has a large stock of parts – just under 100,000 parts in stock in our various warehouses. And – if we don’t have it, we have the back-up of fully stocked manufacturers. We ship parts daily to customers looking to fix their machines from pinball and arcade games to vending machines.

Also, Stern has started a new YouTube series called Stern Tech School. Go to YouTube’s channel and take a look if your service issue is already out there.

Pinball Expo is Coming to Chicago

Pinball Expo is Coming to Chicago 449 365 GAD Vending

Coming October 15 – 19 in Chicago, this is the premier pinball event of the year!

Open to the public (did we say ROAD TRIP)….

Event highlights:

PINBALL EXPO EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Tuesday, October 15:
Chicago Gaming Factory Tour & Galloping Ghost Arcade (lunch served)
Wednesday, October 16:
Logan Arcade, American Pinball Factory Tour & Enterrium (lunch served)
Thursday, October 17:
Jersey Jack Pinball Factory Tour & Seminars
Event Hall Open 12:00 Noon – Midnight
Friday, October 18:
Stern Pinball Factory Tour & Seminars
Event Hall Open 10:00 am – Midnight
Saturday, October 19:
Seminars, Autograph Session, Live Music
Event Hall Open 10:00 am – 2:00 am

SILVERBALL CELEBRATION

Although there was a 1948 United Baby Face pinball machine in his basement, it was during the annual family vacation to visit his aunt in Florida when a very young Rob Berk became completely captivated by the wonders of the silver ball. As Berk remembers, “My dad, for whatever reason, always made it a point to take the kids to the arcade. I guess he liked pinball, so it was his way of introducing me to it. And it became our ritual. In fact, there was a bookstore called Alfies on Alton Road in Miami Beach that had two pinball games and we would just play for hours.” The connection and fascination intensified when Berk’s father added a D. Gottlieb Texan, manufactured in 1960 and the last 4-player wood rail game from the company, to the family basement.

Rob Berk’s life was to completely change when he started college at Kent State University in 1972 and discovered as he recalls, “…a room full of pinball machines as far as your eye could see, and that really got me going to the point where I decided I wanted to collect pinball machines from the 1960s.” The first game he purchased was a 1969 Williams Post Time, which also triggered his love affair for add-a-ball pinball machines. His collection has grown to over 1,000 pinball machines, spanning all eras, with his personal favorite electro-mechanical game still being that very first Post Time and for more modern machines, he counts Williams’ Medieval Madness at the top of the list.

It was this ardent passion for pinball that drew Berk into an entirely different enterprise that has endured far beyond his initial plan. With pinball all around him and reading books on the subject as well as joining a club of collectors who would get together once a month to play games, Berk had a thought that would not only change his life, but also change the fortunes of pinball for more than thirty years and counting.

Berk had an idea as he expressed, “I was such a pinball enthusiast, playing as much as I could and reading about the history of the machines and industry. In doing this I learned the names of the artists and designers responsible for the games and realized they were bringing me a great amount of happiness through what they were creating. And I thought wouldn’t it be something special to recognize them and pay tribute to them.” And so it was that Pinball Expo was born over the November 22nd-24th weekend in Chicago in 1985.

For the first time, there was an exposition dedicated to celebrating individuals, many of whom were around when pinball was starting out during the height of the Great Depression in the early 1930s. This exposition allowed collectors, enthusiasts, and hobbyists to show their appreciation. Berk established a program of seminars featuring such legendary individuals as Alvin Gottlieb, Steve Kordek, Norm Clark, Wayne Neyens—men who had shaped an industry. There were exhibits of old and new machines, parts, and a banquet to top off a weekend pinball lovin’.

This first Pinball Expo was an overwhelming success and what Rob Berk and his associates thought was going to be just a one-time affair, has endured and continued to thrive for years. Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running pinball exposition in the world, the Pinball Expo continues its tradition of paying homage to the wonders of pinball past, present and a peak into the future.

Beginning in 2021 the Pinball Expo was staged at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois. The festivities included a tour of the Stern Pinball factory, a full schedule of speakers and seminars, pinball tournaments, a vendor hall to find anything and everything imaginable for the pinball curious, and a host of other activities that, once again, brought the best of what pinball means to so many. For more information, please contact Rob Berk at ([email protected] or [email protected]); call 330-716-3139. Or contact us here.

Iron Maiden Pinball Tutorial

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Iron Maiden is back in production at Stern Pinball – and in stock at GAD.

Formed in 1975, Iron Maiden led the wave of British heavy metal music and became a global institution. Over the course of 40 years the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence, ferocious dedication to fans, and a cheerful indifference to critics. Iron Maiden has built a following that reaches every culture, generation, and time zone. With over 90 million album sales, more than 2,000 live performances in 63 countries, tens of millions of fans and 16 studio albums of unerring quality, Iron Maiden has more than earned its proudly-held status as one of the most influential and revered bands of all time.

The Iron Maiden pinball machines aim to reflect the same excitement, energy, and experience of a live Iron Maiden concert. Players will immerse themselves in an interactive Iron Maiden universe transforming into various forms of Eddie, the band’s legendary mascot. Players, as Eddie, will embark on a quest to defeat the Beast and his minions across the Legacy of the Beast mobile game and comic book world. Iron Maiden pinball entertains with an amazing array of modern and classic features, making it suitable for all skill levels.

All models include twelve Iron Maiden songs with players going to battle as Eddie with the help of four flippers, two spinners, a set of 3-bank drop targets, metal and wireform ramps, a captive ball mechanism, a dual up-post lock mechanism, and a center bullseye target.

GAD has Pro and Premium in stock. Call us to see what game makes sense for you, all the cost, and to set up installation.

New at GAD: Kalkomat Boxer

New at GAD: Kalkomat Boxer 1500 1457 GAD Vending

Discover the power of the punch!

The Kalkomat Boxer is one globally renown product. Available in various products, in stock, at GAD.

American Fire Boxer

  • Free game mode
  • Works with bills and coins in all currencies and tokens
  • Works with coin- and bill acceptor simultaneously
  • Electronic coin acceptor included
  • Green technology
  • Easier settings operation

DIMENSIONS

  • H 224 cm x W 70 cm x D 125 cm, weight 125 kg
  • H 88″ x W 28″ x D 49″, weight 276 lb
  • Weight Brutto: 435 lb / 197 kg**
  • ** For freight purposes please add the weight of the palette and/or other packing materials.
  • Standard crate dimensions: W 41″ x L 52″ x H 93

Fire Boxer

  • Free game mode
  • Difficulty levels
  • Works with bills and coins in all currencies and tokens
  • Works with coin- and bill acceptor simultaneously
  • Unbreakable record setting
  • Manual high score resetting
  • Solid mechanism
  • Electronic coin acceptor included
  • Green technology
  • Extra save cashbox
  • Custom design ready (promotional purposes)

DIMENSIONS

  • H 224cm x W 70cm x D 125cm, weight 125kg
  • H 88″ x W 28″ x D 49″, weight 276lb
  • Weight Brutto: 435 lb / 197 kg**
  • ** For freight purposes please add the weight of the palette and/or other packing materials.
  • Standard crate dimensions: W 41″ x L 52″ x H 93″

Combo Boxer

  • Free game mode
  • Difficulty levels
  • Works with bills and coins in all currencies and tokens
  • Works with coin- and bill acceptor simultaneously
  • Unbreakable record setting
  • Manual high score resetting
  • Flashing halogen lights mode
  • Solid mechanism
  • Rubber legs
  • Electronic coin acceptor included
  • Compact two game machine (boxer+kicker)
  • Modern type soccer ball (without bladder)

DIMENSIONS

  • H 228cm x W 92cm x D 130cm, weight 159kg
  • H 90″ x W 36″ x D 51″, weight 351lb
  • **For freight purposes please add the weight of the palette and/or other packing materials.
  • Standard crate dimensions: W 45″ x L 52″ x H 84″.

New! Galaxy 3 Ice – In Stock!

New! Galaxy 3 Ice – In Stock! 1500 1928 GAD Vending

The G3 Ice is the new kid on the block with a glowing cabinet.

All the exciting features from the G3 Fire, including worldwide online play, tracked player rankings and statistics. In addition to the glowing cabinet, the machine is equipped with a larger display, better player camera, automatic target flip, and flip games! All of this while maintaining the compatibility amongst all other G3’s that are already out in the world.

In stock at GAD for you home or commercial game room.

G3 Ice Features:

  • USA Made
  • Larger 24″ Monitor
  • Enhanced Player Camera
  • Automatic Target Flip
  • Flip Games
  • Compatible with all G3’s
  • Live Remote Play
  • Standard & Remote Leagues
  • Glowing Cabinet

New! Stern’s Brewery Pinball Map

New! Stern’s Brewery Pinball Map 523 399 GAD Vending

Stern Pinball has become mind readers!

Taking a breweries tour while playing the best pinball is amazing.

The map is interactive and allows you to zoom in, roll over the red bubbles and find directions.

Link to the awesomeness. 

New! Golden Tee PGA 2025 Release Schedule

New! Golden Tee PGA 2025 Release Schedule 284 284 GAD Vending

Very exciting to get these dates from Golden Tee.

Golden Tee has consistently sets deadline for new software and hardware – and they meet these dates! Very impressive to work with Golden Tee.

GAD has service personnel that can assist our customers with upgrading their software on their existing equipment – or deliver new Golden Tee PGA games to either commercial or residential customers. Call us with questions – if you are a current or future customer! We are here to help.