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Confirmed: Stern's Next Pin is The Walking Dead

By RobT

9 years ago


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#140 9 years ago

Although I have played pinball for 50 years, and although I own LOTR, I am a true neophyte in this whole pinhead social media business. Nonetheless, I am perplexed by all of the hype about Gary Stern and his next game. Stern is very good at running his assembly line and churning out a multitude of games for, I suspect, a reasonable profit for both him and his new-found investors. Moreover, he, unlike other newcomers in the industry, can turn over a new title very quickly and then very efficiently, move onto the next project. In addition, I think he recognizes the extremely elastic market for NIB's and it's Achilles' Heal of being remarkably sensitive to the U.S. and even global economy ( in other words, in a recession, most folks are selling their toys and almost no one is buying new ones.). However, with all of that said, I still struggle with some of the games he puts out (e.g., Roller Coaster Tycoon -lacking in theme,play, and most importantly, durability), and more substantially, with the quality of the games. Despite a bit of ability with electronics and repair, I am frankly fatigued with soldering new switches and new coils onto my current machine. Is that the state of this industry????? I.e. F-o-r-d???? (Fix Or Repair Daily?) I hope JJP will do better, but the preliminary feedback on WOZ is not promising. He has $7500 of my hard earned cash as a pre-pay for the Hobbit. Hopefully it will be more durable. So the bottom line from my perspective is this, and I ask this in a very humble and simply inquisitive way........at what point will pinball consumers demand higher quality, more durable games?

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