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Trapped on Doomed Hardware: The Strange, Brilliant Legacy of Lucienne’s Quest

When you walked into a game store in the mid-90s looking for a legitimate, awesome Japanese RPG to play on whatever console you had, your options were surprisingly slim. The SNES was winding down its legendary run, the Sony PlayStation was still finding its footing...

Ultimate Lemmings: The Puzzle Classic for the Modern OS

Before they became Rockstars, DMA Design was an Amiga development house working primarily with Psygnosis. While it wasn't their first title (that would be the shooter Menace), arguably their most famous game and game series was the puzzler Lemmings. For the...

Testing the M64: Extreme-G: Turbo Fusion

  The original Extreme-G games for the Nintendo 64 are very much of their era. You drive very fast bikes around futuristic tracks while listening to trance music. Most racing games are aiming to get the player into a particular zone and in the case of these...
STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – March 2023

STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – March 2023

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: James Bond 007: In case you missed it live, make sure you catch the replay of the latest Marco Pinball...

Berzerk – by Eugenio Agueira

Berzerk – by Eugenio Agueira

In 1980, Stern Electronics released a multidirectional shooter game with the title Berzerk. This game was programmed by Alan McNeil and it was among the first games to use voice synthesis. Mr. McNeil stated he came with the idea of the game after having a dream in...

Gary Stern – by Kevin Butler

Gary Stern – by Kevin Butler

Stern is an interesting company. Although it is actually one of the relatively newer companies in  the world of arcade and pinball, Stern has a rich and very colorful history dating back over nine decades before it became Stern. Other companies, such as Atari, Bally...

“More Than A Game”

“More Than A Game”

Chris Williams Games aren’t just games. Sure, they can bring about great pride in gaming achievements, but more importantly, we’ve all had times that games massively affected our lives, whether they connected us with new friends, helped mend old relationships, or...

Made of Stern Stuff – by John Michonski

Made of Stern Stuff – by John Michonski

As you read in our January 2018 issue as addressed by Roger Sharpe, the Stern Family has been part of pinball and thus arcade history through SamStern being president of Williams Electronic Manufacturing Corporation. The Stern Family (Sam and Gary) purchased Chicago...

This Day In Video Game History

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