The 2022 Pinball Expo marked several firsts, one of which was the first ever Jersey Jack Pinball factory tour. Visitors to the Schaumburg Convention Center on the morning of Thursday 20th October could sign up to join one of the tour groups and be given a free coach ride followed by a guided tour around [...]
Legendary pinball designer Steve Ritchie has left Stern Pinball and joined Jersey Jack Pinball. Steve Ritchie Steve had his first day at Jersey Jack Pinball today, where he was greeted by JJP founder Jack Guarnieri and the Head of Game Design, Steve’s former fellow designer at Williams and Stern, Pat Lawlor. Jack, Steve and Pat [...]
Steve Ritchie holding Santiago Ciuffo’s PINBALL book Famed veteran pinball designer Steve Ritchie has left Stern Pinball and started working for competitor Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP) today. JJP founder Jack Guarnieri made the announcement following a week of rumors of Steve’s possible jump. Ritchie, currently aged 71, has a long history of designing pinball [...]
Following their announcement of last week, Stern Pinball revealed their newest game title Led Zeppelin earlier today. The game is designed by veteran game designer Steve Ritchie, with Tim Sexton on code. The game features ten Led Zeppelin songs, three flippers, steel ramps and is partly focused om the various tours from the band, which [...]
We’ve been talking about Stern Pinball’s upcoming Led Zeppelin game for some time on our joint Pinball News & Pinball Magazine podcast, but today Stern teased the upcoming reveal of the game on their social media feeds. Stern’s teaser video for Led Zeppelin The game is believed to be a three-flippered design from Steve Ritchie [...]
Stern Pinball have revealed a new version of their 2017 release, Star Wars. The original Star Wars game featured artwork created by a number of different artists in collaboration with Lucasfilm. Creating a design which was acceptable to the licensor was a rather fraught process, so it’s a little surprising that Stern have sought to [...]
Following yesterday’s teaser video, Stern Pinball today released pictures and a video of their new Black Knight: Sword of Rage pinball. The translite for the Pro model As usual, the game is available in three variants – Pro, Premium and LE – with suggested prices of $5,999 for the Pro, $7,599 for the Premium and [...]
UPDATE: Stern has posted a press release, which I’ve added at the end of the post. You can also download a PDF file of the full features matrix here. Yesterday was the teaser on Stern’s new Black Knight game, which means that today is the full course. Let’s get to it. As mentioned in yesterday’s [...]
Stern Pinball today released a teaser video revealing the title of designer Steve Ritchie’s next game. Until now universally referred to as Black Knight 3000 as the follow-up to his 1989 title Black Knight 2000, the actual name will be Black Knight: Sword of Rage. The title of Stern Pinball’s next release You can watch [...]
It’s about that time for Stern Pinball to reveal their next game, as it is Spring, and they tend to do such unveils about now. If that’s your expectation, then you won’t be disappointed, as the company has released this non-game, non-playfield trailer. Here it is, then we’ll discuss a little of what we know [...]