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Stern Pinball Announces New Expanded Partnership with Digital Game Developer FarSight Studios

World’s Leading Maker of Arcade Quality Pinball Games Teams Up With Digital Pinball Wizards to Connect the Real and Virtual Worlds

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL – September 22, 2015 – Stern Pinball, Inc., the world's oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball games, announced a new expanded partnership with FarSight Studios, a developer and publisher of multi-platform digital games including The Pinball Arcade. FarSight will develop a new digital platform called the Stern Pinball Arcade that will feature exact virtual replicas of Stern Pinball’s hottest terrestrial pinball machines.

FarSight Studios has been developing top videogame products across platforms for more than two decades. From movie licensed strategy games and hardcore sports titles to edutainment games for kids and mass-market software. Over the years, FarSight has developed many best-selling franchises, such as Game Party, Sega Sports’ NFL games for the Genesis, NCAA college football games for EA, Backyard Sports for Atari, PlayTV for Radica/Mattel and the Pinball Hall of Fame for Crave.

“At Stern, we’re always looking for new ways to excite our existing fans and gain new ones,” said Gary Stern, CEO of Stern Pinball. “Expanding our partnership with FarSight Studios is helping us do just that. Both gamers and pinball enthusiasts of all stripes and abilities will love the new products we create together.”

“Anyone in the gaming world knows Stern Pinball, which is why we are so pleased about the renewal and expansion of this partnership,” said Jay Obernolte, CEO of FarSight Studios. “We always want to be offering our customers more and we think our fans will love the pinball titles that Stern has to offer.”

Pricing and Availability

Availability of the new products and pricing will be announced later this fall. To learn more about the partnership please visit http://www.SternPinball.com.

About Stern Pinball, Inc.

Stern Pinball, Inc., headquartered just outside Chicago, Illinois, is the oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball games in the world. Stern’s highly talented creative and technical teams design, engineer and manufacture a full line of popular pinball games, merchandise and accessories. Recent Stern titles include KISS, WWE WrestleMania, The Walking Dead, Mustang, Star Trek, Metallica, The Avengers, X-Men, AC/DC, Tron, Transformers,Avatar, Iron Man, Batman, spiderman and many more! All of Stern’s pinball games are crafted by hand and assembled by Stern’s expert team. A broad range of players enjoy Stern’s games from professional pinball players that compete in high-stakes international 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 http://www.SternPinball.com.

About FarSight Studios

FarSight Studios started developing pinball video games in 2004 with the critically acclaimed Pinball Hall of Fame games. G4TV awarded Best Mobile Game of 2012 to FarSight’s Pinball Arcade. Pinball Arcade features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Williams®, Bally®, Stern Pinball®, and Gottlieb® together in one game with a new table added each month. Pinball Arcade has been downloaded over 12 million times across mobile, console and PC platforms, and has over one million active players each month. Check out FarSight Studios and The Pinball Arcade for more details.
 
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This is good news. I do wonder if the A-list licence based machines (think AC/DC, anything Marvel) will have to be kickstarter funded
 
Does that mean that the previous information from about 2 weeks ago about Zen studios working on stern releases was incorrect? Probably Gary just making a mistake? I hope so.
 
Thank Christ, about time! So far we have RBION which is alright but not a stellar game (at least in my opinion, I know some guys on pinside LOVE it), High Roller Casino (Poor) and Harley Davidson (Again poor, and a Sega game) and for some reason all those Data East/Sega titles that are re-labelled as Stern games because they now own the rights? I can't wait to see some modern DMD's in the lineup.

I imagine though it will come as a special 'Stern' table pack rather than just a release within a season.
 
Good move by Stern.

I've never seen a Kiss, never played a Mustang. Maybe this way a few more people will buy one. Great way to get revenue in for the tables no longer in production. Can't really see a downside to this

I'll be damned though if I'll give the greedy ****s at Pinball Arcade a penny in kick starter funds. I'll happily buy it but they need to pay for the development themselves
 
Can you transfer your purchased tables across platforms ?
I have a fair few on iPad and wouldn't mind playing on PS4 too.
 
Same here I'd like to transfer from ipad to laptop but pretty sure the answer is no.
 
dount they'll be cheap, especially as all Stern seem to produce is licensed games. Particularly if they ever do simultaneous releases, while the license is still 'hot'.
 
Andrew Stockdale said:
Can you transfer your purchased tables across platforms ?
I have a fair few on iPad and wouldn't mind playing on PS4 too.
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No, sold via difference app stores. Screwed. I was told the Mac version is very 'laggy' compared to the iPad. I only play it on the bog, and a laptop would be very impractical.
 
Monkeyboypaul said:
No, sold via difference app stores. Screwed. I was told the Mac version is very 'laggy' compared to the iPad. I only play it on the bog, and a laptop would be very impractical.
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The bounders !
I can't recall the last time I bought a table.
 
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The bounders !
I can't recall the last time I bought a table.
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Quite! I only buy the season packs, which used to be a good option when they sold it at the start of the releases and each new table was available immediately after release. Now you have to wait till the end of the season and avoid the temptation. Enjoyed Safecracker and thought TAF was quite well done (would've been bedlam if they'd made a bad job!). So much so I traded my actual nice TAF. Have to get my SHOWTIME fix on there now.
 
i still buy every table they release on TPA, even the new one F14 Tomcat out this week (though i haven't played it yet).
agree completely with John that TPA as a now-successful company can pay their own ****ing development costs though, i think it's well cheeky of them to ask people to chip into a hat so they can buy an expensive license for them though - buy it yourselves you ****s, it's not like you divvy up your profits with the customers.

as for the idea of TPA linking up with Stern - duh! i've been saying for years that Stern should release a game on TPA at the same time as they do a real machine, but I suspect this announcement pertains instead to games like LOTR and SM (also to RCT and 24 though) as Gary Stern still seems to think that virtual pin sales will eat into his real pin sales. seems a daft thing to assume if you ask me, but word has it (Gary Flower told me he asked him) that Gary Stern wasn't keen on live virtual releases just a few months ago, and he seems a little long in the tooth to have changed his mind on that unless someone made it worth his while.

i really hope Andy @Heighway Pinball decides to go talk to TPA sooner rather than later and sells them the rights to make Full Throttle and Alien, and release them as soon as possible. they wouldn't dent sales, i think the opposite - they'd be adverts for the game, adverts that people would pay to make, and pay to buy.
 
For the kickstarter i bought the ipad platform and PS3 but the PS3 Europe wouldn't install the base game, dunno if they fixed it, not been on to check for ages.
 
Hadn't bothered playing anything on PA for 12 months or so. Just looked at the last 2 years lot of releases. Nothing too exciting on there really apart from TAF. I suspect they need Stern as much as Stern need them.

I don't think virtual tables harm real tables at all BUT maybe they harm operators takings which then would affect sales of Pros later on. Personally I would have thought it would act as a great ad to people who were unaware that pins were still being made
 
I haven't bought any TPA release in 2 years.....I'm a beta tester so get them for free :D.
Farsight always used to say that they couldn't do anything newer than Whitestar, it just takes too much power to run the emulation so it will be interesting to see if they can do SAM/Spike games well, especially on less powerful devices like mobile/ipad etc.
 
I don't see it negatively impacting on new machine sales for Stern. If someone is going to buy a machine then they are more than likely going to whether a virtual version exists or not. If anything if they can release a virtual version around the same time as a new physical release then it could help increase sales, not by a large percentage but could tip some people over the edge towards buying
 
If anything the real machines might affect the virtual table sales, both positively and negatively.

If its a good real table it will get more virtual tables sold than if its a poor real table. Dont really see how a virtual table being sold a £2 is going to affect a real table at £5k+

Granted someone that is thinking about buying a real table might want to see how it plays before ordering but they are more likely to play a real table than base their decision on a virtual version
 
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