At last! In February, Stern Pinball plans to release in North America and Europe its newest pinball game: "The Simpsons Pinball Party". Stern calls this game its most challenging design ever and it sure looks promising in the first photos.

William LaRue of barfan.com did an interview with Stern Pinball spokesman Marc Schoenberg.

Yancy Blaylock photos reveal a lot of this new game.

Pinballnews.com reports on the Simpsons Pinball Party

The first 'testing' machine at Season Tickets got abused by Two Grumpy Old Men, read their review here

Yancy did a transcription of the instruction card.

The game has been designed by Keith Johnson (Who earlier designed High Roller Casino for Stern). Software is also his work (Keith previously worked on the software for Austin Powers, Revenge from Mars, Sharkey's Shootout, Striker Extreme and more).

And further:

- Pinball "Mecha dude" Joe Balcer (Who worked on a lot of the SEGA machines, including South Park) did the original playfield layout.
- Mechanical engineering was done by Wes Chang and Ray Tanzer
- Sound & music are again done by Chris Granner, this time teaming up with the great Dan Forden
- Playfield art done by Kevin O'Connor
- Dot art: Mark Galvez (Who did almost all of the recent Stern machines)
- Dot software: Dwight Sullivan
- Cabinet & backglass: Done my Matt Groening's people.

The game looks like great fun to me, can't wait to play it...!
Don't forget the Pinside entry for this machine