Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast October 2021 recap
What an action-packed month October was in the pinball world, and Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine & Martin Ayub from Pinball News are back with their regular Pinball...
Highlights
- American Pinball expanded Legends of Valhalla limited edition production from 300 to 500 units due to high demand
- Chicago Gaming Cactus Canyon SE priced at $8,000, LE at $9,250 with 1,250 units limited edition
- Chicago Gaming working with Scorbit to incorporate their internet-connected system into Chicago Gaming software
- Stern Pinball invested millions of dollars in developing Insider Connected platform over two years
- Seth Davis came to Stern from Disney where he worked for 13 years on streaming and connected gaming products
- Stephen Bowden, former Deep Root Pinball staff, joined American Pinball as corporate account manager and creative/marketing consultant
- Cactus Canyon remake uses flipper buttons (not a gun mechanic) to control the shooting gallery topper
- American Pinball announced American Dream contest for homebrew developers to submit games for Expo 2022 with potential production deal
Notable quotes
“when the game is announced, he wanted the game to be straight up... games were ready to be played at locations, preferably in the US and in Europe and Australia as well”
“I'm 76 years old, Jonathan, and we need to continue the pinball company and the pinball market and its growth to the future”
“our future direction is not a change in a direction but an addition... we have started with Georgia's development over the last two years and millions of dollars invested to create Insider Connected”
“There's, you know, 350 people in our building at any day, an extended community of people making their living supplying those parts, maybe 3,000 people have a good part of their living coming from it”
“I'm thrilled... I'm a week in now to being at Stern and part of the team, and learning a lot from Gary and the rest of the team here”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming· company
- Riot Pinball· company
- Scorbit· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Two Steps From Hell· company
- Pinball Expo 2021· event
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Legends of Valhalla· game
- Pinball Magazine· media
- Pinball News· media
- David Hicks· person
- Frank Igliotti· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Scott Gullix· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Stephen Bowden· person
- Insider Connected· product
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