It has been a crazy 14 months since we started on Houdini and I am happy to say our first machine has shipped and a few more will be on their way today. When we announced we would have a prototype game at TPF, the general belief was it would be little more than a flashing box of lights, but the world of pinball was shocked when we showed up with two fully functioning prototypes, designed, built and coded in just four months. Then the naysayers were saying no way could we be shipping by the end of the year, well once again we have achieved what few thought was possible and have shipped our first games.
The first handful of games are leaving here today and a couple should be showing up on location in Wisconsin and Iowa in the next few days. I expect another half dozen or more should ship out over the next week to different parts of the country. Most of our distributors are going to try to get these first games into their showrooms or out on location so as many people as possible can start to enjoy them.
Here are some photos from the last days, leading up to the first game shipping. As I've said, while our goal remained to ship by end of year, that no games would ship until they were ready, and were fully blessed by Joe, Jim and myself.
Here you can see Joe checking one of the games and making some final adjustments.
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Here is the first official sign off on a game.
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Here are the first half dozen or so games, going through fine burn-in and testing.
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Joe and I with our production manager Juan with the first game getting ready to be put into a box . . .
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Getting it all the boxed up . . .
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And out the door with one of our distributors
Rochester, NY
Beauharnois
Helsinki
