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After giving his personal history in teaching he related his pinball buying experience, including a Stern Iron Maiden and a Williams Indiana Jones. Zach Fuchs is a professor at the University of Cincinnati where, amongst other courses which include pinball, he teaches Pinball Design alongside guest speakers from Stern Pinball and Jersey Jack Pinball.
#CINCINNATI COMIC EXPO 2019 PASSED SERIES#
We’ll add details of each presentation as we receive them.ġ:15pm – Tilt Pinball: The Series – Marc GreeneĢ:00pm – Pin Spotting LIVE! – Jim Schelbergģ:00pm – Pinball Applications for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math (STEAM) Education – Zach Fuchs The first of the numerous seminars began at 1:15pm on Thursday. Although George said they would answer difficult questions the discussion would need to be kept polite. They also said that they plan to host their own discussion forum, but said it will be moderated. Spike 3 is due to be introduced in 2-3 years’ time. They are working on a Spike-3 system capable of driving 4K displays, as they believe they will be standard in a few years. So, Stern are building games for which they have the parts, although that makes production difficult to track. They had chosen a chip for the Spike-2 system which had a long guaranteed production life, but it was a chip which Ford also used in their F-150 truck. In the following Q&A session, the Stern team said that there was a chip supply problem. His goal now, he said, was to spend the next ninety days leaning every aspect of Stern Pinball and their customers. He said he’s be at Disney working on digital and physical products for ten years. Seth said he was only four days into the job having previously worked at Disney on their streaming platforms. George spoke a little about Insider Connected, Stern new online system, before introducing Seth as the new President of the company. Gary office was also shown, which features many historical artefacts from his time in the business along with more posters and two historically-significant games Pinball – the first game by Stern Electronics, and Laser War – the first Data East title.Īfter a look around other areas in the factory, the action returned to the Seminars Hall as a special commemorative poster designed by artist Christopher Franchi was handed out to attendees. There are backlit playfields at the top of the walls in the design area along with game posters and banners. Jack is now a designer at Stern Pinball and he showed his office which is just outside George’s. They estimated that between twelve and fifteen thousand people are employed at the businesses which supply Stern Pinball.Īfter showing the game completion and packing areas, Jack took the audience into the model shop where they produce the initial versions of the models seen on the playfield, and then into the locked design area where the designers work on their next games. Jack said next week they would have different titles on the two lines. There are two production lines at Stern and they can quickly switch between producing different titles. In addition, playfields were show for Jurassic Park, Deadpool, The Avengers: Infinity Quest and The Mandalorian with those titles also being produced in 2021. Jack then moved on to the subassembly area in the factory where they are mounting Godzilla models for the company’s latest title alongside Jurassic Park ramp assemblies and parts for the Iron Maiden and Star Wars games which are both still being produced.
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Stern are working on a new cleaner, simpler cabinet design now there is no longer the need for a transformer, in the same way they redesigned the backbox when they introduced the Spike boardset. The artwork decals were then shown being applied to the bare cabinet. They are then decontaminated and go into the digital printer. Once the glue has dried, the playfields are initially hand-sanded before going into a proper sanding machine. They now make their own playfields, so shots of their CNC machine were shown, along with the playfields inserts and the special glue they use. Stern are now producing more games than they were before the pandemic thanks to several efficiencies they have introduced. Although it is a regular part of the Expo experience, by a show of hands less than half the audience had been on a Stern Pinball factory tour before.