Here's What Happened In 2025 In Pinball
Here's What Happened In 2025 In Pinball
2025 was an amazing year for Pinball where we averaged a new game announcement every single month. In this video I cover all the launches from companies like Stern Pinball, Jersey Jack Pinball...
Highlights
- American Pinball laid off its entire development team in 2025
- Evil Dead shipped in 2025 and secondary market values climbed as more machines arrived
- Harry Potter is the likely game of the year for 2025
- Winchester Mystery House sold out within 48 hours at Pinball Expo
- Star Wars: Fall of the Empire felt underdeveloped at launch
- Dungeons & Dragons features Stern Insider Connected progress tracking that can be viewed in the app
- Portal Pinball introduced two major innovations for the P3 platform: screen-based simulated inserts and shots above the screen
- Texas is becoming a secondary geographic hub for pinball development with companies like Turner Pinball and Barrels of Fun
Notable quotes
“If you have a monster game, you can then absolutely ball out and build yourself the second largest shiny sculpture in Cook County, Illinois. But if you have a game that's not so great, let alone a string of mediocre games, then it can be challenging to get your business going.”
“The game feels solid. It's held up through constant play in multi-day tournaments. There are a few awkward return angles, especially off the left orbit... The game is genuinely fun to play, and it has very good lighting and shaker effects.”
“It's Harry Potter. It's like the number one game that pinball people wanted since Harry Potter came out was Harry Potter and then Jersey Jack did Harry Potter and it's Harry Potter and it's fun.”
“If there wasn't a front runner for game of the year in 2025, this is it.”
“It turns out that the difference between a game being fun and not comes down to the code.”
“Spooky's hot right now. They're coming right off of Evil Dead... Spooky have a winner on their hands right now.”
“Jersey Jack, along the bridesmaid, looks to be the bride this year with the hit Harry Potter game.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Valve· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Beetlejuice· game
- Cactus Canyon Remaster· game
- Dune· game
- Dungeons & Dragons· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Harry Potter· game
- King Kong· game
- Merlin's Arcade· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Portal Pinball· game
- Star Wars: Fall of the Empire· game
- The Walking Dead Remaster· game
- Winchester Mystery House· game
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- JK Rowling· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Ree Cooper· person
- Tim Sexton· person
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