Stern Pinball Production Schedule: Comic Star Wars is Back

by Knapp Arcade | Jan 8, 2025 | 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, KnappArcade, Pinball, Stern

I’m sitting here with no Internet or television, so I figured why not use my cell phone to write another article. I just saw a Facebook post from the distributor Mad Pinball (https://www.madpinball.com) staring that the much requested Comic Edition of Stern Pinball’s...

Berzerk: An Arcade Dream Come True

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 3, 2025 | 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

Berzerk is one of the first video games in the history of the industry to truly live up to its name. A 2D shooter that inspired classic games the likes of Robotron 2084 and Smash TV, it was a massive success in arcades across the United States well before iconic games...

Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition

by Old School Gamer | Jan 2, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Early IBM DOS, Press Release, Stern

Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition resurrects a timeless classic on Steam for PC in January 2025 Independent developer and publisher Eastasiasoft Limited announced today that platforming adventure classic Montezuma’s Revenge is coming to Steam on...

Defective $1000 Atari XP Carts; the State of Modern Atari | An Editorial

by GenX Grownup | Dec 30, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Stern

About two weeks ago, a user on X by the name of Cear Dragon posted that two of their limited AtariXP carts – Haunted House & Crystal Castles – were defective. Haunted House, he claimed, had the PCB inserted backwards and Crystal Castles, he said, was buggy and...

Rally Heroes in the Past to Save the Future in Stern Pinball and Marvel’s All-New “The Uncanny X-Men”!

by Stern PInball | Dec 20, 2024 | 2020s, Pinball, Stern

[embedded content] [embedded content] Based on the legendary X-Men “Days of Future Past” and “Mind out of Time” comic book stories originally from 1981, players will experience the X-Men franchise like never before. CHICAGO, IL – September 20, 2024 – Today, Stern...

STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – NOVEMBER 2024

by Stern PInball | Nov 30, 2024 | 2020s, Pinball, Stern

The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: San Diego Comic-Con: This year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the biggest and best to date with none other than...