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Star Wars and Walking Dead | Stern Pinball's Latest Creations

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The Legendary John Borg sits down with us to talk about his two more recent games, Star Wars Fall of the Empire and The Walking Dead Remastered.

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Highlights

  • Star Wars was designed with only one movie initially, then expanded to full trilogy in December
  • Star Wars features a new Death Star ball lock bracket kit that fixes rejection issues
  • Walking Dead Remastered will include new voice lines from multiple characters beyond the original Rick callouts
  • Walking Dead Remastered uses a full LCD display, not a DMD-sized window, with all-new screen renderings
  • Star Wars is designed to be more accessible than typical John Borg games, with most shots hittable within 30 seconds of plunge
  • Spike 3 3 platform's main enhancement Borg highlighted is the sound system with four-speaker LE configuration
  • John Borg took both Star Wars and Walking Dead projects simultaneously after December 2024, completing two full prototype sets
  • Walking Dead Remastered will add mini wizard modes at 30, 60+ zombie kills to make Last Man Standing more achievable
  • Star Wars (Pro) version removes the AT-AT motor, keeping it stationary rather than animated
  • Metallica Remastered released in October 2024, with Borg on location support in November before pivoting to Star Wars

Notable quotes

“I'm out of game jail now. I'm off the line with the startup for The Walking Dead”
John Borg
“This is the first game I think I've ever made where I could plunge the ball and I could probably hit every shot within the first 30 seconds.”
John Borg
“It's better to make a good game that works great than a great game that works good.”
John Borg
“If you buy one of these, you set the volume level at 32 and it sounds great. And if you put it up to 55, all your neighbors are going to know you have one.”
John Borg
“Everything I did, I did twice. I built two sets of prototypes...two sets of licensing issues, you know, all the way through from the beginning to the end.”
John Borg
“He reminded me of Goldeneye, James Goldeneye, back in the 90s...it had a standard four-lane bottom, and the flippers are right in the middle of the game. Where this game, you've got a five-lane bottom, so the flippers are offset.”
John Borg
“I didn't want to lose my head in this one.”
John Borg
“We're going to give you some like, almost like, I want to say mini wizard modes along the way. So when you get to 30, you'll get something cool.”
John Borg

Entities

  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Metallica Remastered· game
  • Star Wars: Fall of the Empire· game
  • The Walking Dead Remastered· game
  • LoserKid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Andrew (Stern)· person
  • Daniel Clark· person
  • Dennis· person
  • George (Stern mechanical)· person
  • Jerry· person
  • Jody (Stern licensing)· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Keith· person
  • Mike Vinikour· person
  • Nicole (Flipping Out Pinball)· person
  • Ray Day· person
  • Robert Laskey· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Seth (Stern)· person
  • Tim Lee· person
  • Vince Prost· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person
  • Spike 3· product

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