I recently attended the Louisville expo and one of the vendors had all of their Sterns connected. High scores for each game were listed on a central monitor-very cool. Is this an operator only function or can we in the home environment do this as well?

Thanks for the response! Yeah, kind of figured that was the case, but thought I would throw it out there. The future for interconnected pins is certainly solid- so many possibilities. When first announced I was “meh”. Now I am ordering units for all of my games.

Thanks for the update! I look forward to my little (green? white?) frog in the mail. Enjoy TPF-envious!

Bm66 (coin door), SW (coin door), BKSOR, Elvira HOH, the Beatles, Mando, DP, GZ. Yeah I like SIC, but plan on putting Scorbit on most titles as possible since they support many more games as well as have an open platform. I can have active scoreboards in my home environment- huge hit on pinball night.
So...come on Stern support us little guys! The software is already out there as I have seen it at a recent pinball expo.

I am not bashing Stern- really like IC and achievements.

I bought a bunch of Scorbit devices for my Sterns and other games mainly for the leader boards. I have a home league with folks that also play at the local arcades (as I do). Scorbit is constantly playing wack-a-mole with Stern Spike 2 games trying to update Scorbit software to work with Stern IC which only works on 18 games. Scorbit potentially works on hundreds of games.

Stern IC is very slick and their integration into their games is really good. I have almost all of the spike 2 games and all have IC. According to Gary Stern, the home market is 70% of their business. Is there really an issue of operators feeling left out by the home market? Or is Stern trying to pressure operators to get on board? I think the latter is more likely, but that is total conjecture on my part.

Stern has survived some very trying times in the pinball world. I really enjoy pinball and am happy with all of the progression in this hobby the past few years (ok, not pinflation). However, as a soon to be Medicare recipient, I don’t have too many years left to patiently wait for these very important issues to shake out.

Cheers!

Ditto