Quoted from ledge:another "repair kit " !!... for a freaking NIB... sweet mother of.......
"THEY DONT MAKE EM LIKE THEY USED TO" !
News Flash!
Stern NEVER made them like they used to, they were always a 2nd or 3rd tier game source. Hell, even Sega's were far better than Stern's in the day. Stern still proudly retains that tradition today, (sure they were #1 when they were the only game in town).
We bought handfuls of Stern's like HRC, Sharkeys, Etc., back when W/B shuttered to supplement our stable of W/B routed games we stole on closeout, (CV's for $1900 for example). The Sterns constantly required 2-3X the service calls. Our pagers...yes, pagers were always going off...and...they always earned way less than B/W and even P2K.
Just gotta laugh at apologists like Icepick that don't have a clue and costantly post the same insipid, banal things over and over thinking that they might become fact if repeated enough times.
The most ironic thing I find funny is the lack of memory with W/B in that era that hampered rules, features and such. Now with Stern, they have oodles of memory and can't afford the programming, or don't want to for profits sake.
My recent Stern experience was buying 2 NIB's, STLE and a METPRE. The ST might have been the best Stern value ever made with the nice laser cut panels, RBG led's, etc. BM66 looks and feels like a toy compared to STLE imo. Loved the eye candy and fast play with ST but could not wait for finished software, so flipped it a push. The MET had a great rule set since it had been out for years, but it was built on the cheap (compared to ST) and the materials just felt inferior. No comparison to my B/W's & JJP's, so again, flipped it at a push.
Imo, opening up these latest Stern titles with all the QC issues does not impart -made in the USA-.