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Digital all right guys I'm here with Gary Stern from Stern Pinball Inc and
we're checking out a pinball machine which is not necessarily something I expected to see when we came to CES but
it's actually pretty awesome I grew up on pinball a little bit and my dad loves
pinball all the time so what what's special about this machine I know you brought up LEDs what else is special
about this machine well this this is obviously it's a Star Trek pinball
machine um this is our Limited Edition version of it we make games in various
versions uh three new titles a year we make a pro for operators and many
homeowners we make a limited edition uh numbered games this is one of
799 uh there will not be 800 and uh and
then we make a premium which has all the Play features of the limited edition uh
not quite as much eye candy this game has a few more bells and whistles and as
to play features and some more ey cand your artwork
now now those other tiers and this tier how much would that take you in the
wallet uh take you in the wallet that's a good I like that phrase Luke um the
limited edition will sell a little bit north of $88,000 uh the uh Pro the normal game uh
which many operators use and many home owners is $5,000 plus or minus and the
premium is oh $7,000 something like that
we also make some games uh that are not coined op at all don't have a coin door
like this one does and uh they are somewhat under $3,000 you'll see some of
them at the show now the price tag might
make some people surprised but there's a lot that goes into this this isn't
exactly like just building a computer like a lot of you guys are going to be familiar with so what goes into building
one of these first of all about a million dollars of design goes into it
uh a very large staff designing the game uh between uh Playfield designers
software rules designers they're not just programmers they're not just coders
and uh artists and and mechanical engineers and what have you um as to the
content what's in there material-wise there's 3,500 different parts in Parts
in there okay there's 100 of this screw and 200 of that but a total of 3,500
Parts over half a mile of wire uh printed circuit boards and more man
hours of labor than uh than was in the four tourist when it used to be built
not far from our plant in the Chicago land area so it's potential that if you
buy this it took longer for this to be made than your car which is actually
pretty interesting I played for a little while and it is really fun it's really
interesting how it'll set you up to do different things and different goals in
the game and I know there's other pinball machines that do that but I I liked how fluid this one was if you
haven't ever played pinball before which I know a lot of our viewers will not
have ever played pinball before that's amazing to me you have to play Pinball
it's very important it's part of it's part of life you must play Pinball and a
few of you that have will have played like 3D pinball back on XP or even some
of the newer pinballs through Steam that I know a few of you have played it's not
the same just just like everything you have to operate it you have to press the
buttons on the side you have to feel the flipper move you have to nail the ball
down the column on the right hand side it's very different it's a it's a ball
and bat game uh and uh as Harry Williams
a great pinball designer once said the ball is wild it's not programmed you
know which you a simulated uh pinball on on video uh they're programmed uh and
and some of our games are on far side for example to some of our games that's
very interesting but the real game is the real game the ball is wild yeah and
with computers things are prediction it might not be perfect and random number generators on computers are never really
perfect this is actually what's happening because of physics thanks for
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