Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast December 2021 recap
A new year and a new PINcast as Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine and Martin Ayub from Pinball News review all the news from the pinball world throughout December 2021 and the first few days...
Highlights
- Rush Pinball is a Cornerstone game (Pro/Premium/LE with 1000 unit limited edition)
- Michael Barnard (Rush artwork artist) was contacted in 2020 and hired in August 2020
- Rush Pinball features three flippers including upper right flipper (mirror image of Tron's upper left)
- Jack Danger officially joined Stern Pinball as in-house pinball designer
- Stern is prioritizing Pro model production first to get games to operators before Premium/LE home units
- Rush band members Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee provided voice calls directed by Ed Robertson of Bare Naked Ladies
- Stern conducted competitive artist pitch process for Rush artwork (five to six artists competing)
- Expression Light System available in LE (1000 units) and as add-on kit for Premium/Pro models
Notable quotes
“I think John Borg really outdid himself...I was impressed...by what everything...I think this is a really packed layout.”
“It's probably like the first 10-15% of the game...the software and the graphics and the displays...which has to be allocated and probably stuck to. So that probably ties them down.”
“They're trying to get those Pro models out to operators to get the game experienced a lot more and drive sales...Gary is certainly very keen on pushing the operators...He still sees that as the heart of Stern's sales.”
“It's the first time that Stern is pitching artwork jobs to artists to see who comes up with the best package in their eyes.”
“Congratulations to Jack and to Stern and the other designers in the team John, Brian and Keith so it's a powerful team they have there now.”
“Stern may be lucky to have Jack Danger come on as a new talent, but we're also happy to have Jack Danger as a streamer, because he's brought a lot to the hobby.”
“the theory that I heard yesterday is that as you may be aware of there is a shortage of containers to ship games overseas and by focusing on Rush most of the production games would actually remain in North America saving a lot of money.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- EAG Show· event
- Park Avenue Preview· event
- Virtual CES· event
- Rush· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Alex Lifeson· person
- Brian Eddy· person
- Ed Robertson· person
- Gary· person
- Geddy Lee· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Borg· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Martin Ove· person
- Michael Barnard· person
- Neil Peart· person
- Deadflip· product
- Insider Connected· product
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