Snatch these up folks, when they're gone you're going to kick yourself for not buying one

I wouldn't even call it an 80's game, if anything it's more like an early 90's game (attack from mars). row of standup targets that drop, bash the ship (ahem ghost). 2 return ramps back to the inlanes. Also attack from mars doesn't have 800 custom speech, a hi-fidelity speaker system, open source platform (code and parts), a hellevator (something different than sticking a stock VUK there). It's sort of a bargain at $6k.

Based on what was shown at MGC last year, I can sort of agree with that as a snapshot. Stern sort of took the wind out of everyone's sails by releasing the walking dead (yes I know charlie is pushing the cheesy B movies with scantily clad women). There's no telling what that title will become, heck maybe Charlie is already changing the theme and the layout? Only him, his employees, and Ben heck likely know his direction. For a first shot pinball design, it actually was sort of a nice layout. I like his concept of using slings to replace pop bumpers just to be a little different, as well as trying to use servos for gates instead of giant overkill solenoids that suck up power.

So you ARE hiring an artist (you already have a new programmer). Title 2 should be a giant weight off your shoulders.

I sort of like the green DMD, but that's an interesting question. Would the pinheck system support a colorDMD? Not sure if it would be worth all the work for 150 machines (if everyone even desired to upgrade to color) :-/

I pre-ordered end of January, Chuck gave me a build date of between May - June, so ordering today would probably be closer to July-August. You may get it earlier going through a distributor because they may have a queue of preorders

Keep in mind, AMH NOT selling out isn't necessarily a bad thing. The steady influx of orders has kept a pretty consistent 4-5 month leadtime. As Charlie has said, it's a balance game. Too many orders up front means people waiting for product, too few orders up front means people sitting around doing nothing.

Of course even if they sold out, a year wait time is still a better timeline than all the other boutique manufacturers

Are you sure?

Man what a light show, new code looks awesome! 2 months can't come soon enough

They may have gotten out another couple weeks worth of product if they weren't wasting their time making 10 predator playfields, plastic sets, and UV ramps

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that could be dangerous, you remember how the Tron apron escalated in price?
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-extremely-rare-tron-apron-999-obo

*And yes, I'd like a signed apron as well, even if I have to yank my apron off and bring it to Expo :-d

From what I overheard, yes (may actually be oversold)

that's not good. Isn't that a matter of grounding the speakers? Surely Ben knows a fix?

How else is Ben going to beat your score? Muhawhaw! Seriously though, it sounded like Nate waited a very long time. If anything, you would think the default name would be something like what Stern does (ABC). Of course even with Stern you can change the default high scores in pinball browser, I would imagine you could easily alter Pinheck code to default to your own initials by default.

I'd rather it be socketed, especially in a home envoirnment. Unsoldering chips is a big pain in the ass.

Stern could learn some things from you, possibly the most detailed code ever.