FIRST LOOK: Stern’s New Star Wars Pinball - Fall of the Empire!
FIRST LOOK: Stern’s New Star Wars Pinball - Fall of the Empire!
I had the chance to visit Stern Pinball HQ for an exclusive hands-on with the brand-new Star Wars: Fall of the Empire pinball machine! In this video, I’ll give you a first look at the gameplay...
Highlights
- Star Wars: Fall of the Empire features an 18-inch LCD screen in Spike 3 platform that does not change the traditional backbox form factor
- Limited Edition will have 770 units produced, with mirrored back glass and foiled artwork
- Spike 3 adds HDMI output with both video and audio for streaming purposes
- The game code is currently at version 0.78 and has significant room to grow
- Star Wars: Fall of the Empire does not feature foiled artwork on side panel due to snow artwork aesthetic conflict
- The game has an accessible layout with easy multiball modes and a Jedi-themed ball saver mechanism
- Spike 3 includes Bluetooth headphone connectivity, eliminating the need for proprietary headphone kits with 3.5mm jacks
- Raymond Davidson (credited as 'raydaypinball') programmed the game code
- The playfield layout is intentionally approachable and designed to engage new pinball players
- Zach Sharpe granted press access to Star Wars at Stern facility after official media day
Notable quotes
“Spike 3 (Stern pinball hardware platform) adds an 18in screen, but what's cool about this is it does not change the form factor of the backbox.”
“They're going to only make 770 of these. This is actually uh one of 770. So, this is the number one James Cameron's Avatar (Limited Edition).”
“For the for those of you that are streaming pinball, you're going to really love that because not only is it going to give you the video out for the LCD, but you're going to give you audio out, too.”
“I like that because I feel like some of the modern games are a little difficult for someone new. And I think this is going to be fun cuz not only is it a big license, like Star Wars, but you're going to get people that have longer ball times.”
“they tried to use the foiled artwork with but with this snow look. It made the snow look blue. So, they decided it would look better if they didn't do the foiled side artwork on this one.”
“It has this like weird cutout that's near the um the flipper buttons I'm not crazy about.”
“there's a sculpt of Vader's head, uh, Stormtrooper, and Jabba of the Hutt. It looks like the plastic's a little bit thin. So, the way the light um, sort of diffuses out of them. I don't love the look that it that it gives.”
“I don't know that I love the art. Like, I don't love the art on almost any of them, but there's elements of each one I do like.”
“there's a lot of room to grow. and raydaypinball um you know did such an awesome job on Metallica that I'm sure he'll continue to do a kick-ass job with this.”
“The question you're all wondering is, am I going to buy it? I'm not even going to tell you. You already know the answer to that.”
Entities
- Flipping Out Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Black Knight· game
- Godzilla· game
- Metallica· game
- Star Wars: Fall of the Empire· game
- John Borg· person
- Mason· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- RetroRalph· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
- Spike 3· product
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