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8th June 2023

Incredible Stern’s James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition

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Step Inside The Stern Studio to get a behind the scenes look at the James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine. Honoring a retro-inspired pinball experience with mechanical scoring reels and nostalgic sounds, the Stern Design Team highlights what makes this machine so special.

GAD has been allocated (1) James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Edition. Contact us if you are interested in the amazing pinball machine.

1st June 2023

What to get the Dad who has everything…

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All Dad’s are the Best Dad Ever!

This deserves something more than another tie or aftershave – not that its bad but you can do so much better.

How about Pinball?

In stock titles may include – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars Home Edition, Jurassic Park Home Edition or Toy Story LE.

Call our Omaha office and we’ll get you directed to the closest office to you. We have stock in Kansas City and Des Moines.

Check out the Star Wars Home Edition by Stern – perfect for Father’s Day.

How about Golden Tee PGA?

Home Edition Golden Tee PGA is the newest game in the Golden Tee line up. And what a hit this is!

Stylish. Fits in a small space. Games for the entire family. This game stores scores, standings and can be a great team game for the entire family!

With new courses, equipment and avatar options constantly being updated, this game is a family winner.

16th May 2023

Stern Code Updates

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Stern Pinball keeps expanding and improving its award-winning Insider Connected platform with new code updates across all LCD machines with platform improvements and bug fixes including new connection robustness, ability to recover player score and achievements, and updated node board firmware.

Stern Pinball is also continuously working to update and improve software for our machines. There are always code updates and bug fixes in various stages of development; we will release them upon update completion. If you would like to join our mailing list for code updates, please send an e-mail to Code.Updates@sternpinball.com. If you do encounter any bugs please feel free to provide information to bug.report@sternpinball.com. Get Connected and play! https://insider.sternpinball.com/

Code updates and read me files are available at https://sternpinball.com/support/game-code/

If you don’t know if you have the latest and greatest, here’s a start.

12th May 2023

More Good Updates from Stern Insider Connected

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Are you ready for Foo Fighter Launch Parties? Get connected to find out locations and times near you.

Find launch parties.
Earn special badges.

Need help getting a high score or winning that next tournament? Dive right into the official rulesheet!

And in case you missed it live, check out a replay from the latest MarcoTV stream with Foo Fighters’ lead software engineer, Tanio Klyce!

10th May 2023

Stern’s Insider Connected Just Got Better

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What do you get with Stern’s Insider Connected App? Lots!

What’s new –

Insider Connected Location Map – Search by Location
Insider Connected Location Map – Search by Game

Connect to keep your scores. Play with friends. Play against the world. Join the Stern Army to play against the best. And so much more…

GAD knows how to set up Insider Connected on your home pinball game. If you bought your pinball machine from GAD or want a pinball for your home or office, give us a call! Our offices are located in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City.

1st May 2023

Pinball Tournaments Bring In Customers. Learn How!

Pinball Tournaments Bring In Customers. Learn How! https://gadvending.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/tournament-ivi.jpg 850 545 GAD Vending GAD Vending https://gadvending.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/tournament-ivi.jpg 1st May 2023 6th April 2023

Hosting a pinball tournament is an excellent way to build foot traffic. This is the type of event that has become much easier with internet products like Stern’s Insider connected. This is something easy to set up for Memorial Day 2023 to test how well this will work for your establishment.

Step 1 – When

Create an event calendar that you can promote two or three events at one time. You may want to have a Golden Tee tournament, a pinball tournament and a dart league in the second half of 2023. Include the idea of quick knowledge or trivia tournaments with your AMI digital music system.

Start with a busy holiday weekend like Memorial Day to get people to sign up for summer leagues.

Step 2 – How

Have you ever wanted to run your own pinball tournament, but not sure how? This is a great way to grow the pinball community at your location and the Stern Army is here to help! We’ll show you how easy it is.

Match Play Events is one of many great resources you can use in organizing and running a tournament – https://matchplay.events/
The International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) is the official source of the World Pinball Player Rankings (WPPR) system. Find tournaments taking place all over the world and become an officially ranked pinball player today! – https://www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/
Who is the Stern Army? https://sternpinball.com/stern-army/
Get connected! http://sternpinball.com/insider
Locate to play – https://sternpinball.com/pinball-loca…
Need fresh pinball games? – GAD

If you are looking to add a Golden Tee tournament, contact us at GAD if you have questions.

AMI digital music systems are easy and quick to set up knowledge or trivia contests to your offerings.

Step 3 – Marketing

The key to any event is awareness marketing.

Promote in your establishment.
Have nice flyers created to distribute –
- In the shopping area around you.
- Post on coffee shop bulletin boards.
- Ask your staff to promote to their influence groups.
- Hand out to your regulars.
Make sure you post your pinball tournament at the IFPA.
Promote on your social media.
Add to event calendars like EventVesta.com.

17th April 2023

Family Friendly Pinball for Home Game Rooms

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Pinball is – and remains – a family friendly game. It promotes timing, skill, strategic thinking and hand-eye coordination. And, with Stern’s Insider Connect system, you can easily keep a running score between family members and/or friends.

Why has it resurged in popularity?

Pinball has found an entirely new audience with Millennials. Having grown up with TV games, this generation is finding playing pinball in the “real world” is a fun and challenging new way to play.

Pinball also has found a new lane with technology.

Stern’s innovative Insider Connected is only one faucet of the new pinball experience.
The play field has improved with computers design assistance.
The music with better with improved speaker systems.
Graphics technology has improved the back screen ability to be programmed with movie clips and other graphics to keep the game interesting.
Improved Code Updates through the internet have provided real time updates to increase the playability of Stern’s pinball games.

Stern’s Home Editions

Stern has introduced a line of pinball games that are designed for home use. These games take all the best Stern has to offer and trim down the bits for a better cost, better game and better price for home game rooms.

There are three games to choose from:

Stern Pinball’s Star Wars™ Home Edition™ is a new stylish, affordable and fun pinball machine designed and engineered for the home. Stern’s new Star Wars™ Home Edition™ immerses players in the dynamic Star Wars™ galaxy. The Home Edition™ is packed with features that provide players with an irresistible game experience including select speech and footage from the original Star Wars™ trilogy, color-changing playfield inserts, a custom sculpted Death Star, and a custom sculpted and interactive TIE fighter.

The easy to setup Star Wars™ Home Edition™ is built to last and engineered with genuine Stern commercial-quality parts. The playfield is housed in a stylish cabinet with dynamic, high definition artwork. The all-LED playfield lighting provides optimal color and brilliant light shows.

“The Star Wars™ Home Edition™ is designed to provide quality family entertainment and bring pinball fun to homes everywhere,” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc. “We are pleased to bring these pinball machines celebrating the Star Wars™ galaxy and adventures to our fans.”

Complementing the immersive theme and exciting gameplay experience, Stern Pinball’s powerful SPIKE™ electronics hardware system enables high-definition graphics and innovative animations. SPIKE™ reduces system complexity and energy usage, resulting in enhanced reliability and simplified servicing.

A Pinball Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making… Stern Pinball Jurassic Park Home Edition™, a new stylish, affordable, and fun pinball machine designed and engineered for the home!

Jurassic Park Home Edition immerses players in a pinball journey 65 million years in the making. Based on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the Jurassic Park Home Edition experience will transport players to Isla Nublar, an amusement park where escaped dinosaurs are running amok! With the volcano on the island erupting and threatening to destroy everything in its path, it is the player’s mission to rescue park staff, evacuate and recapture dinosaurs, and escape before it’s too late! Players will experience heart-pounding excitement right from the start in this action-packed pinball adventure filled with suspense, twists, and turns around every flip.

Jurassic Park Home Edition brings to life the most fearsome predator ever to walk the earth with an interactive, custom sculpted T. rex. Players will battle against the Spinosaurus by bashing a captive ball and corral Raptors in their enclosed pen with precision shooting. Fast flowing metal ramps, lightning quick spinners, and kinetically satisfying physical drop targets will provide players with an adrenalized game experience packed with unmatched action and fun. The all-LED playfield lighting provides dazzling light shows in sync with the iconic Jurassic Park theme music to create an immersive pinball experience.

The easy-to-setup Jurassic Park Home Edition is affordable, reliable, built to last, and engineered with genuine Stern commercial-quality parts. The playfield is housed in a stylish cabinet with dynamic, high definition, hand-drawn artwork. Complementing the iconic theme and exciting gameplay, Stern Pinball’s powerful SPIKE™ electronics hardware system enables high-definition graphics and innovative animations on the LCD display. SPIKE™ also reduces system complexity and energy usage, resulting in enhanced reliability and simplified servicing.

Stern’s Star Wars™ Comic Art Home Edition™ immerses players in the dynamic Star Wars™ galaxy. The Home Edition™ is packed with features that provide players with an irresistible game experience including select speech and footage from the original Star Wars™ trilogy, color-changing playfield inserts, a custom sculpted Death Star, and a custom sculpted and interactive TIE fighter.

Star Wars™ Comic Art Home Edition™ pinball machines feature the artwork of one of today’s most popular artists, Randy Martinez. Randy has been illustrating for over 30 years receiving countless accolades for his work. Randy has been creating cartoons, caricatures, illustrations, paintings, and 3D art for Lucasfilm since 1999.

The easy-to-setup Star Wars™ Comic Art Home Edition™ is reliable, built to last, and engineered with genuine Stern commercial-quality parts. The playfield is housed in a stylish cabinet with dynamic, high definition artwork. The all-LED playfield lighting provides optimal color and brilliant light shows.

“The Star Wars™ Comic Art Home Edition™ is designed to provide quality family entertainment and bring pinball fun to homes everywhere,” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc. “We are pleased to bring these pinball machines celebrating the Star Wars™ galaxy and adventures to our fans with beautiful new comic artwork.”

GAD has Star Wars Home Edition and Jurassic Park Home Edition available in stock. We are happy to order Star Wars Comic Art Home Edition and can give you an estimated delivery date.

28th March 2023

Review

Stern’s The Mandalorian Pinball Machine Gets Pinballs Craziest Mod Ever: A Holographic Topper

Stern’s The Mandalorian Pinball Machine Gets Pinballs Craziest Mod Ever: A Holographic Topper https://gadvending.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Neon-Yellow-mandalorian.png 940 788 GAD Vending GAD Vending https://gadvending.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Neon-Yellow-mandalorian.png 28th March 2023 9th March 2023

(IGN on YouTube) This holographic topper add-on is fully interactive, adding and augmenting several game modes. It tracks your progress, and reacts to many shots and as you play. Toppers normally just sit up on a back box and look cool for the most part, so the interactive ones including Mando and Black Knight Sword of Rage are really the latest craze in pinball.

This Mando topper is a hefty piece of hardware on an already complex machine, and it has an MSRP just under $1999. To put that in perspective, the price of this Premium game has an MSRP of $8999, so it’s a chunk of pinball you are adding.

And what’s even cooler is that we’ve outfitted this machine with another mod: We’ve upgraded it with Stern Insider Connected, a system that uses a phone app and QR codes to track progress, achievements, and connect machines to players in innovative ways — and the topper also benefits from this connection, with exclusive achievements and some other goodies. #IGN #Mandalorian

GAD has The Mandalorian Premium in stock at our warehouses. We have locations in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City.

For The Mandalorian Pinball Holographic Topper, we’ll order from Stern for you.

GAD stocks pinball, parts and has an awesome service department.

22nd March 2023

Stern’s Upgrade to Insider Connected

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Stern Pinball continues to expand its award-winning Insider Connected platform with new features including the brand new Location Map. Upon logging in to Insider Connected, players can search for their favorite Stern Pinball machines near them on the new Insider Connected Location Map!

Such a great app for all your Stern Pinball play! Can also track your home pinball game play, team play and if you want to play as a pro.

GET CONNECTED AND PLAY! http://sternpinball.com/insider

16th March 2023

James Bond 60th Anniversary LE – 1 Available

James Bond 60th Anniversary LE – 1 Available https://gadvending.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/march-bond-.png 940 788 GAD Vending GAD Vending https://gadvending.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/march-bond-.png 16th March 2023 16th March 2023

The highly collectible James Bond 007 60^th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine highlights the entire franchise of 25 films, all James Bond actors, villains, and henchmen. And GAD has 1 available (while supply lasts).

Stern Pinball’s James Bond 007 60^th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machines will immerse players in the history of 007. Limited to 500 machines globally, the rare 60^th Anniversary Limited Edition offers players a one-of-a-kind pinball experience. Control the chaos from Oddjob’s kinetic spinning disc hat as you battle villains and utilize special gadgets. Survive tactical precision shots against 10 drop targets as you start Mission Multiball mayhem. Escape SPECTRE’s evil henchmen as you navigate pinballs through 4 fast-flowing optical spinners. Like a hidden gadget from Q Branch, learn your assignments through a custom LCD screen located inside the playfield and watch your high scores rack up on the unique classic-style mechanical score reels.

Log into our award-winning Insider Connected™ system, which enables players to interact with the game and a global network of players in a variety of ways. Through Insider Connected, players can track progress, earn new game-specific achievements, engage with the player community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests. Insider Connected also provides an operator-focused toolset to drive location play through Location Leaderboards, build player loyalty, analyze performance, make adjustments remotely, and maintain the machines. Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com/.

Commemorating this exclusive pinball machine, the James Bond 007 60^th Anniversary Limited Edition includes the official James Bond 007 pinball topper, an exclusive full-color mirrored backglass inspired by 60 years of James Bond, custom high gloss and powder-coated pinball armor, a custom designer-autographed bottom arch, an exclusive Union Jack pinball shooter knob, upgraded audio system, anti-reflection pinball playfield glass, shaker motor, a sequentially numbered plaque, and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Stern Chairman Gary Stern and President & CEO Seth Davis.

“For the ultimate James Bond fan, we wanted to celebrate 60 years of this beloved film franchise in style. Partnering with EON Productions/Danjaq, MGM Studios and Aston Martin, we created a timeless pinball experience.” said Gary Stern, Chairman. “Get connected today and become a legend.”