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Stern Pinball produces pinball after our favorite pop culture icons, music legends, comics and more. GAD Vending has Stern Pinball machines in stock in Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. GAD Vending loves Pinball.

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 [email protected].  If you do encounter any bugs please feel free to provide information to [email protected].  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.

Stern's Code Updates for 007 Pinball

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!

 

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.

Pinball Tournaments Bring In Customers. Learn How!

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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.

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. 

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.”

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.

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.

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 940 788 GAD Vending

(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.

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

James Bond 60th Anniversary LE – 1 Available

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The highly collectible James Bond 007 60th 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 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machines will immerse players in the history of 007.  Limited to 500 machines globally, the rare 60th 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 60th 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.”

Immediate Pinball Classics You Should Have

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GAD respects Stern tremendously. They have a tough job.

Develop new, exciting games to wow the pinball fanatics. Keep the best pinball games available for those that are saving up to buy their next game. Have affordable games for commercial use, arcades, bars and for home use. And have lots of different types of games available to satisfy a diverse range of ages, passions and interests.

How does Stern do it? We don’t know but we are glad they do! With that, they have decided that within their production schedule they are keeping a few of the emerging favorite games. Here are three that we stock.

If you are looking at buying any of these games, contact us on where to play or check on Stern’s website for their pinball locator.

THE MANDALORIAN

Within the Star Wars franchise, the emerging star is The Mandalorian TV series. Stern has captured this franchise by bringing their experience with other Star Wars pinball games to make this game phenomenal.

Features of The Mandalorian­-inspired pinball machines include a large custom sculpture of Grogu, authentic video and audio from seasons one and two, and exclusive custom speech performed by actor Carl Weathers (Greef Karga). The game includes the iconic title theme song by Ludwig Göransson and stunning hand-drawn artwork by Randy Martinez, one of today’s most popular comic artists.

ELVIRA’S HOUSE OF HORRORS

This is the third and campiest installment of the Elvira pinball trilogy!  Trying to sell her mansion through “Alternate Realty”, Elvira’s house is haunted by the movie characters from her past.  These ghouls, ghosts, monsters, and strange assortment of vintage characters with horrific acting skills seek revenge on Elvira while she and the player confront them, sending them back to the “film” from which they came!  Elvira’s House of Horrors immerses players in a fun, campy, B-movie universe filled with all of the humor expected from the Mistress of the Dark including custom speech and, in a pinball first, exclusive filming of Elvira for custom video scenes featured throughout the game!

Elvira’s House of Horrors has earned her place in the Stern’s current production schedule. And, GAD is a fan! We stock and sell Elvira on a regular basis. If you haven’t played this game, you are missing out! Give it a try.

GODZILLA

Chaos and destruction ensue on the playfield with Godzilla multiball, started by shooting one of the various shots in and through the centrally located skyscraper.  In the Premium and LE models, a motor actuates the skyscraper, diverting balls through each of its five stories as it collapses, ultimately locking three balls on its roof.  The Premium/LE playfield also features a collapsing bridge ramp. This animated breakaway ramp is guarded by a custom molded Godzilla and can divert pinballs back to the flipper or directly onto the playfield during Bridge Attack multiball.

On the Premium and LE models, Mechagodzilla features a motorized three-bank target set which rotates to reveal a spinner and jump ramp. Players will engage the Kaiju in battle by launching  pinballs with the jump ramp and bashing the magnetic ball catch on its chest to start Mechagodzilla multiball.

All models of Godzilla pinball machines feature an innovative “Magna Grab” magnetic newton ball, capable of catching pinballs from five different shot paths, including off the plunge. This device can also divert pinballs to set up shots from the upper left flipper. The game also includes the iconic title song “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult, stunning hand-drawn artwork by Zombie Yeti, intricate wireform ramps, three spinning targets (Heat Ray, Mechagodzilla, and Monster Rampage), three flippers, three “powerline” themed stand-up targets and a UFO pop pumper. The game highlights video and audio from ten* Toho Showa Era Godzilla films to create a one-of-a-kind immersive Godzilla pinball experience.

Godzilla pinball machines also debut Stern’s Insider Connected system, which includes a QR code reader on the bottom arch that enables players to interact with the game and this new network in a variety of ways. Stern Insider Connected provides new entertainment and player engagement features and an operator focused tool set to drive location play and remotely manage every aspect of the machines. Insider Connected goes live with the launch of Godzilla, with the full scope of features scheduled for roll out over the next year.

Foo Fighters and Stern Pinball Announce New Rock and Roll Pinball Machines

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Headlining Exclusive SXSW Event

CHICAGO, IL – February 28, 2023 – Stern Pinball, Inc. unleashes a new line of pinball machines celebrating and created in cooperation with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2021 inductees Foo Fighters.  The Foo Fighters pinball machines are available in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition (LE) models.

Foo Fighters first stepped onto the world stage in 1995 with their classic self-titled debut album.  Over the course of their career, the band has released 10 studio albums, amassed over 32 million records sold worldwide, won 15 Grammy Awards, were recipients of the first-ever MTV “Global Icon” award, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.  One of the biggest headliners on the global stadium, arena and festival circuits, their music will soon begin filling game rooms and entertainment locations in pinball form.

 

Stern’s Foo Fighters machines bring the Foo Fighters concert experience home as players are immersed in an epic pinball adventure featuring 15 iconic songs spanning the band’s expansive catalog, including All My Life, Best of You, Breakout, Everlong, Holding Poison, I’ll Stick Around, Learn to Fly, Monkey Wrench, My Hero, Run, Something from Nothing, The Pretender, This is a Call, Times Like These, and Walk.

More than two years in the making and with creative input from the band’s own Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee, and the late, great Taylor Hawkins, Stern’s Foo Fighters is a top-shelf pinball machine—and so much more. An entire new universe has been developed with jaw-dropping hand-drawn artwork and custom animations including “Foo Fighters Saturday Morning Action Time!”—a fictional TV series chronicling the band’s quest to save rock and roll… AND THE WORLD!  Join Foo Fighters on this rescue mission to thwart the evil, mysterious alien Overlord and his army of bots.  Search the Area 51 upper playfield to break into and unleash pinball chaos.  Jump in the van for a righteous tour of duty to save humanity from extinction and let rock rule!

Foo Fighters pinball machines include Stern’s 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/.

Limited to 1,000 machines globally, the highly collectible Limited Edition includes the Expression Lighting System™.  With 96 intelligent RGB LEDs, the Expression Lighting System enables full color spectrum control.  Positioned in pockets cut into the cabinet sides to provide color themed full playfield illumination, this integrated playfield lighting system is synchronized to custom light shows specifically designed for every song and dynamically responsive to game events.  The LE version also includes an exclusive Rock-Battle inspired full-color mirrored backglass, exclusive full color high definition reflective foil decal cabinet artwork, custom high gloss Overlord green powder-coated pinball armor, a custom designer-autographed bottom arch, exclusive inside art blades, 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.

“Partnering with Foo Fighters, we created an entirely new pinball universe under the backdrop of incredible music.  The energy from this unique, fast and flowing game design, choreographed with spectacular lightshows and stunning hand-drawn artwork has created the ultimate gaming experience,” said Seth Davis, President & CEO.  “Get connected today and become a hero.”

The new Foo Fighters pinball machines will be on display and available to play at a special debut launch event at The House of Internet party during SXSW March 10th-12th at The Pershing in Austin, Texas.

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

Foo Fighters pinball machines and accessories are available now through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world.

About Insider Connected

Insider Connected is a comprehensive technology initiative to connect the universe of Stern pinball machines. The platform is designed to enhance and extend player engagement with the games across both home and commercial environments. It also presents professional operators of the pinball machines a robust set of tools to drive location play, build player loyalty, analyze performance, make adjustments remotely, and maintain the machines.

Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com. Players can also register at a connected game by scanning a registration QR code on the machine. Once a player registers, they are issued a unique QR Code that can be used to identify that player at any connected Stern pinball machine anywhere in the world. When a player scans into the machine, they can track progress, earn new game specific achievements, engage with the player community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests.

“Insider Connected is transforming how players interact with pinball machines. Operators are benefiting from new tools that drive repeat play and help maintain games remotely while players can earn special entertainment location badges,” said Seth Davis, President and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc.

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 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 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.

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