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Stern announces new NBA machine

Stern has just announced their latest game: "NBA", a licensed theme featuring USA basketball. For basketball fans -and there are quite a lot, according to the Stern press release, it was about time for another game of basket-pinball. After all, it's been over » Read the full story...

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Stern announces "24" pinball mac...

Jack Bauer is back, but this time in Stern Pinball’s new 24 pinball machine. Designed by Steve Ritchie (Designer of some of the greatest games of all time like Black Knight, Terminator 2, Star » Full story...

New Stern machine: CSI --- UPDATED!

Update: Two weeks after publishing our initial CSI story, Stern has now released an offical press statement about Crime Scene Investigation. Possibly going slighly over the top this time, calling Gary Stern the "Godfather » Full story...

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NBA - The In-Depth Review Pt 1

We explore Stern's NBA game, showing you the outside, the inside and the underside. We explain how every feature works and even bring you some of the in-game music. Read on...

SHOWS SPECIAL

The pinball show season is in full swing and we've got a bumper bundle of six new reports from first-time and established events in Italy, Germany, the UK and three in the US. Read on...

A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

A new pinball museum opens in the UK. With a range of pinballs from the flipperless to the dot matrix, bowlers, shooting games and a penny arcade, we had to pay a visit. So we did. Read on...

SUPER JACK-POT

We all need a lift sometimes, so Todd Andersen shows us how to build a pinball jack out of inexpensive plumbing supplies. Read on...

A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2

This time we're in Las Vegas to check in at the Pinball Hall Of Fame and find pinball in the sky over Fremont Street. Read on...

Gambling and pinball, part one: roulette

In this first story of a series of three on "gambling and pinball", we take a look at roulette themed pinball machines. From the early electro-mechanics to the recent Sterns, the game of roulette has always been a hot theme in pinball. We'll study 5 machines from different times to look for their "roulette wheel » Read the full story...

Gambling and pinball, part two: Poker!

In this second story in our series about gambling and pinball (here is the first one), Pinside.com will tell you why you won't need to learn poker strategy to play a poker themed pinball machine. We'll have a look at poker in general, the poker community and the popularity » Read the full story...

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