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Pinball makes a comeback in Colorado, U.S.
Posted May 30, 2010 | By jody.dankberg
Pinball is speaking Italian
Who would have thought that an Italian player could win the IFPA World Pinball Championship when only a few months before the competition the presence of an Italian team at the tournament seemed like an impossibility?
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
Last Manufacturer
by Mike Conklin (Chicago Tribune)
It seems unthinkable.
And only a few months ago it would have been.
Here was a stranger being ushered into a pinball manufacturer's innermost sanctum, its design room.
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
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Monopoly game release
by Raad Cawthon (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Gary Stern is a nonpracticing attorney with silver, close-cropped hair, a booming tenor voice, and the infectious personality of a natural-born salesman. Sitting behind a desk with a heavily smudged glass top in an office for which "shabby" is an apt description, he looks nothing like the king of the pinball universe.
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Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
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Mechanical Action Pinball
Vending Times
MELROSE PARK, IL — The new millennium begins with one manufacturer building pinball machines, one of the coin-op industry's most popular entertainment devices in the second half of the 20th Century. And, in recent years, equipment operators and distributors, along with other industry players, have been questioning the game's future.
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Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
Game ROI and reliability
Vending Times
CHICAGO ' Pinball, a game category whose very survival was questioned by some as recently as two years ago, is enjoying a contained but passionate renaissance as 2002 dawns. According to U.S. pinball operators, distributors, and manufacturing executives, today's flipper market has solidified its position and is even trending up in certain respects.
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
Stern Pinball on ABC television
by Brad Kloza (stn2)
With all the cutting-edge home game systems out there, pinball has long been dead.
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
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Playmates on Fear Factor
Well, with all the success Playboy has seen over the last few months, maybe that's what this year should be called. Not only is the magazine hotter than ever, but, these days, Playboy products are on everybody's goodie list. Stern's PLAYBOY pinball machines have seen phenomenal earnings and sales continue to grow each month. Still need more convincing' Read on...
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Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
Gary Stern and Pat Lawlor
RePlay Magazine
The goal of the classic board game Monopoly is to corner the real estate market and become the last man standing. It's a fitting license for the most recent Stern Pinball release, the first by-product of a working relationship between the sole remaining pinball factory and the well-known designer of many Williams' pins, Pat Lawlor. He was responsible for one of the best selling flippers of all time, The Addams Family, as well as many other popular games.
Posted May 06, 2010 | By Stern
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Gary Stern and future of pinball
RePlay Magazine
"My father started me at age 16 working summers in the Williams stockroom. I learned that in a small-margin manufacturing business like pinball, material control is where you make or lose the money. If you order too much, you waste money. If you don't order enough or you lose parts, you waste labor waiting for expensive added parts to be ordered and received. That Bill of Material drives the whole process...."
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Posted November 27, 2005 | By Stern
Pinball's still in play
Players who like a little body English with their games keep pastime alive
By Chris McNamara
Special to the Tribune
Published November 27, 2005
The normally staid lobby of the Wyndham O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont was accessorized last weekend with the oversized pinball machine Hercules, containing footlong flippers and a fist-sized metallic ball.