Eddy’s game’s all definitely have a “feel” to them. All 3 of his designs are absolute masterpieces, and he never had the chance to “jump the shark.”
Agree with Taz though. He’s got some big shoes to fill, even if they’re his own shoes.
Looking forward to what he brings next. I have shadow and AFM and love them both.
Would love to see him do a title like The Munsters.
Was such a fun, campy show and it could translate into a fun theme for a pin if done properly.
In any event, he would be a great edition to the Stern team.
Quoted from kvan99:I guess he's there courtesy of Kapow....right? He works for the gaming division owned by Kaminkow.
Sounds like he’s an outright employee now - “Senior Game Designer”. Shows the strength of Pinball at the moment - he was lured away from Pinball by vids and poker machines, and is now back.
Fantastic news - here’s hoping they put Lyman on code for his first game. Dream team.
Stern certainly investing back into the company to keep the momentum going.
Brian did 4 great games. He designed 3 and helped with Black Rose. I still think The Shadow is brilliant.
This is great news for Stern and bad news for my wallet 
This hiring shows that things are really heating up and the effect that CGC, JJP and Spooky are having at the Stern HQ.
Might even mean games in the back catalog get extra code polish as Stern need to go the extra mile now.
They haven't really needed to in the past but things are different now.
Even more so if Deeproot and AP start to be serious contenders going forward.
I am stoked-way to go Stern. Great hire, he is very talented. I see great things for the future of Stern 
I can only laugh a little about what might have been for jpop if he wasn't a mental case that threw away a million dollars of the hobby's money on hubris and ego.
He could have returned like Brian Eddy as a conquering hero, with his own famous "pinball trilogy" and everyone would have been celebrating for him to be back in pinball at Stern or something.
Quoted from frolic:He could have returned like Brian Eddy as a conquering hero, with his own famous "pinball trilogy" and everyone would have been celebrating for him to be back in pinball.
He did. We did.
Attack from Mars has a sequel, medevial madness is a great game on its own. We have the remakes by PPS/CGC and we’ve all played those, Stern getting a license for those titles will probably not happen... it’s time for new things!!!
I hope he has lots new ideas tucked away from the years he hasn’t designed... and Carte blanche from stern
Eddy is the king!
Shadow is such a unique and challenging game.
One can only dream that he makes an original theme game.
Edit, he also made some other games
Quoted from Methos:So Ritchie, Gomez, Lyman, and now Eddy. Stern basically is B/W continued....
Except twice the price, half of the quality. 
Quoted from Methos:So Ritchie, Gomez, Lyman, and now Eddy. Stern basically is B/W continued....
Dwight worked at WMS as well.
Quoted from shovelhed:The only thing that could stop Brian is Stern’s cheap ass Bom. This is great news for Stern and us pinheads if they let the Genius do his thing.
Yes but unfortunately sterns cost cutting and low bom will never produce pins like b/w did.....
Quoted from frolic:I can only laugh a little about what might have been for jpop if he wasn't a mental case that threw away a million dollars of the hobby's money on hubris and ego.
He could have returned like Brian Eddy as a conquering hero, with his own famous "pinball trilogy" and everyone would have been celebrating for him to be back in pinball at Stern or something.
Sorry - it is this kind of disconnected reality that led to people throwing money at him. All the opinions of him from real insiders didnt form in recent times - they formed from his actual work. Dont forget that
Stern wouldnt hire him for good reason
Only bringing the Eddy announcement and potentially freezing wallets going elsewhere is an awesome move by Stern.
All this competition is great for pinball, exciting times in the hobby!
Quoted from Vino:All this competition is great for pinball, exciting times in the hobby right now
Maybe. I can't help but think the market isn't big enough to sustain all of this, the excitement may turn into some deathwatching too. Who knows, not like any of us have access to numbers, but the prices keep going up, new companies keep appearing, and everyone I know is out of space for games. I know, we have a stupid bubble thread every other month, but is this all really sustainable?
Brian Eddy is one of my all time favs, I wish him nothing but the best of luck.
This is huge. HUGE!! Funny how he never really got much credit for the great work on IJ. Oh well, I look forward to seeing his first game. Even with JT out it does seem like things are getting a little crowded at Stern. On the other hand the more great designers the better. Brian can be a force for good on all fronts: hardware, concepts, rules and software. Gotta wonder if Brian is here to stay, whether this might be retirement time for Ritchie soon?
Quoted from Aurich:Maybe. I can't help but think the market isn't big enough to sustain all of this, the excitement may turn into some deathwatching too. Who knows, not like any of us have access to numbers, but the prices keep going up, new companies keep appearing, and everyone I know is out of space for games. I know, we have a stupid bubble thread every other month, but is this all really sustainable?
Brian Eddy is one of my all time favs, I wish him nothing but the best of luck.
I agree with this sentiment too. It's great for pinball to have Eddy back but with prices going up and the secondary market just now starting to feel the effects of big write downs on $8k plus games you wonder what the fallout is going to be.
Maybe it just the secondary market that feels the brunt of all this NIB hitting us. It's fantastic but like Aurich says, people who are out of space have to move one out to move one in.
For now its great to have such awesome choices! Plus the new talent being developed like Eric at JJP, Spooky etc. with current crew and now Bowen and the old timers coming back like Eddy.
Enjoy it for as long as it lasts! Hopefully a LONG time.
Quoted from iceman44:I agree with this sentiment too. It's great for pinball to have Eddy back but with prices going up and the secondary market just now starting to feel the effects of big write downs on $8k plus games you wonder what the fallout is going to be.
Maybe it just the secondary market that feels the brunt of all this NIB hitting us. It's fantastic but like Aurich says, people who are out of space have to move one out to move one in.
For now its great to have such awesome choices! Plus the new talent being developed like Eric at JJP, Spooky etc. with current crew and now Bowen and the old timers coming back like Eddy.
Enjoy it for as long as it lasts! Hopefully a LONG time.
My brain is also thinking about what this means long term. I think only good things can come from this. it's exciting. I don't need to own everything, but I can play everything!
So Stern now has: Borg, Elwin, Ritchie and Eddy.
This can only be a good thing for the designers. It gives them longer time to work on the their games, which hopefully leads to more complete code at launch with the new software employees that were recently hired.
Hopefully the complaints of Aerosmith being a KISS clone and Guardians being a Metallica clone will be a thing of the past, with more development time for each designer.
Quoted from Aurich:I can't help but think the market isn't big enough to sustain all of this, the excitement may turn into some deathwatching too.
Stern seems to be the only company announcing new international deals in emerging markets. Everyone else seems to fighting for the ‘pinball show’ crowd and that is definitely very finite.
Quoted from iceman44:Eddy and Lyman teaming up on Munsters
If that is true, i got four words......TAKE MY MONEY NOW!! 
Oops i forgot, i just bought MET Premium and dont have any money now! 
Quoted from Aurich:Maybe. I can't help but think the market isn't big enough to sustain all of this, the excitement may turn into some deathwatching too. Who knows, not like any of us have access to numbers, but the prices keep going up, new companies keep appearing, and everyone I know is out of space for games. I know, we have a stupid bubble thread every other month, but is this all really sustainable?
Brian Eddy is one of my all time favs, I wish him nothing but the best of luck.
On the other hand could be just a straight forward replacement for the gap left by John Trudeau, all be it probably a more expensive hire.
Quoted from cooked71:On the other hand could be just a straight forward replacement for the gap left by John Trudeau, all be it probably a more expensive hire.
The flipper "gap" left by Trudeau? 
Don't forget, Stern and every other pinball manufacturer just got a huge tax cut for 2018.
Time to deploy to those funds into growing the business and being more competitive and offering us consumers more for what we pay!
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