Fast & Furious would be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and I guess 8? lol. Thats a lot of pins.

But for real, I cant comment on such things. Don't drag me out to often or I may have to stop posting on Pinside all-together. (We) are watching and read (everything) here... there... everywhere. If you type it.. we read it. lol. Just can't respond to most stuff.

By the way, this response is a non response, lol.

Speculation... well.. it's part of the fun. So: ya'll have fun.

If you think they have coding problems with the number of games they have coming out now there's no way they could pump out that many and have any chance of decently coding them. I say no way.

Thing is, Stern don't really seem to care whether their games get coded properly or not. It's not as if people refuse to buy unfinished games- have a look at Kiss sales.

I think Fast and Furious would be the ultimate theme to release the long awaited Stern LCD screen with. Tons of great movie assets, better stuff than even Game of Thrones.

Oh, no...you did NOT just say that...

Yes they do, Mustang, Star Trek, Met all have great code, took them a while but they are great. Can you imagine a back log of 8 games needing coding with 8 new ones coming out just around the corner. They don't have 30 people coding there games ya know.

I think I just threw up in my mouth. I could not disagree with you more.

Whoa...hey...no way.

Wait...I....don't...see....a....smiley.....after....that.... Post.....

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Hehe, I mean it. F&F has some advantages. The movie budged are huge and they have action sequences and effects you just don't see on HBO shows (obviously, I'm. Big time fantasy guy, so I like GoT as a theme better).

The one theme I always wanted Stern to make was Resident Evil based on the movies with the LCD screen. That would have kicked butt but TWD likely ended those dreams.

Oh man you must have a crappy DVD collection.

FF = WWLE with cars.

I was thinking they could just do a simple retheme on mustang for FF....

How many lines did Williams or Bally run back in the day?

Did they run multiple titles at one time?

Or did they finish a run on a specific title and then move on?
chris

I recall this same commentary way back when Avengers was going to be the first game with a LCD, and all the same comments apply!
Feels like Stern isn't going to do it until a game with an LCD outsells one of theirs.

Exactly. It takes them a year or more to finish code on one title. If they just pump out VEs with no coding, sure.

Stern will produce an LCD game this year, probably in October I would bet. They hired 2 guys to do the LCD animations/display work. They are not going to sit around and do nothing, that's for sure. I don't recall their names, but they were introduced in the latest KISS video.

They ran two lines - the main line and an engineering test line. The main line would run a single game, and they'd be prepping the next run on the test line.

Is this the same video where they show the full CGI Gene Simmons then scale him down to single color 1983 era resolution? Wonder if the next step will be a higher resolution color LCD screen the same size as current DMD's instead of a bigger backbox screen?

Don't mean to sound like I'm just shitting on Stern, I love their games and actually find the current DMD and animations sort of charming. They are just a company that takes very incremental steps because it has worked for them in the past.

I think you are absolutely right. The first stern lcd screen will probably be the same size of the current DMD or slightly bigger and have color dots instead of 16shade red dots. I definitely see this as a progression for Stern that will take several models and iterations.

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It will probably be Sega Super DMD sized. They won't get 1080p out of that ARM they chose.

I think that's a perfect size actually. WOZ is too big.

Sega-sized, Yes.

Dots only, No.

It will be a Lcd with real HD video. 720P? I'm ok with that for a Sega sized LCD.

There were 30 games during the gap between those games?

Which would work out right NOW because there's been 7 movies, there's 7 main modes in Mustang, leaves ya with the "Silverball Stampede" to reuse for a wizard mode...

Rename "GEARS" to "BOOST"? lol... Drift..er...TOKYO Drift multiball is already in there..

No way will they get 8 titles out in a year. In house or otherwise. 5 at the most.

I tend to agree. Maybe 5 or 6 new titles per year if you count third party games Stern assembles, but not 8.

Okay, A Doctor Who 50th anniversary pin would sell better than another clapped out band theme. There, it's typed, did you read it?

Tom Baker was my fav Dr and yes I watched most of the original episodes BITD, but I sincerely doubt another Dr Who pinball would outsell any of those 'clapped out band themes'. Look at KISS sales, AC/DC sales, etc...

Don't get me wrong, I really liked the Bally/Midway machine but don't think there's a market for a sequel.

I think band themes limit a lot of buyers. I love the ac/dc pinball. Despise the music. Couldnt own one because of it. Now a Rush pinball on the other hand with an lcd...

A new DW would probably end up being my first nib...

I think people are underestimating the impact of Stern shipping pins with incomplete code which is even to the point of having limited functioning machines. This is going to start to have an impact on sales unless they can improve getting updated code out quicker. People are giving them a pass now provided that they eventually get complete code within a year, but that won't last if they are pumping out 6-8 pins per year and never getting complete code out.

I would think they could keep costs down considerably and sell just as many pins by putting out 3-4 great titles per year than 6-8 titles of meh. The buildup/excitement/anticipation factor will diminish if they are putting out a pin every 1 1/2 to 2 months.

I'm not Gary Stern though. He knows what he's doing. Most other manufacturers are proving that.

I'm not Gary Stern though. He knows what he's doing. Most other manufacturers are proving that.

Gary Stern makes a trip to the Homepin factory in china recently, why who knows we have enough crap Chinese components in pinball.

Maybe a stern thunderbirds selling in the USA made in china..

But are you comprehending it? What do we want? Iron what? IRON FUCKING MAIDEN that's what!

So many reports of broken KISS machines. Teething pains on the SPIKE system? I guess they didn't sell enough WWEs to see the problem?