While the game is not intended for pinball enthusiasts that prefer buying the real thing, this could be a nice addition to the various Stern models for an audience that aren’t looking to spend over $5K on a game. Earlier models of The Pin were distributed through Costco and Amazon, but this game will be availeble through normal Stern distributors. What is interesting about this new home model is that Gary Stern presented it to traditional Stern distributors in a live webinar earlier this week. Since all games are prototypes, Stern may decide to manufacture these game up to the demand for it from their distributor. at Comic Con six protoypes of the Star Wars Pin are present. The game streamed on the Deadflip Twitch channel is running on game code 0.62, which indicates there might be additional rules coming up if Stern decides to develop it up to version 1.0. It may not be super deep in terms of rules, but there is enough in there to entertain novice pinball players with a game that will quickly teach them there are several diffrent goals to achieve in order to advance. While this game may not be intended for the hardcore pinball enthusiast market, gameplay actually appears to be quite fun and entertaining. Completing the FORCE targets on the left will enable the these characters and once a character shot is made, the player continues to complete that character by completing designated shots. Object of the game is to complete all four characters pictured in the center of the playfield. Based on gameplay streamed by Jack Danger, the game appears to have a lot of flow, at least three multiball modes (R2D2, Tie Fighter, Death Star) and a timed wizard mode called Jedi Multiball. Releasing the locked ball starts R2D2 2-ball multiball. The playfield – a George Gomez design – features an 11-shot fan layout, two ramps, three popbumpers, three drop targets guarding the left ramp, a spinner, and the same static carry-over ball lock as used on the Spider-Man home edition right of the droptarget bank. The Spider-Man home edition featured a large color dotmatrix display, so this new display, albeit smaller, can be seen as an upgrade. The earlier mentioned display in the speaker panel appears to be of the same size as used in WWE Wrestlemania Limited Edition. Contray to the Spider-Man home edition, Star Wars does feature a real plunger.
The left ramp feeds into a Death Star toy and then via a wireform back to the left inlane. The playfield layout appears to be a further developed version of the Spider-Man home game with two metal ramps. The playfield features artwork that is similar to the previous Pro and Premium Star Wars models. Since this is a home model it does feature a coindoor, but without coin mechs or the possibility to add these, although one can assume this can be achieved by replacing the entire coindoor. However, as the home model uses a much smaller display, the speaker panel appears to be unnecesary high, which is covered up with two white stripes on the lower part of the speaker panel. A good eye would notice how Stern seems to have chosen to use the same translite, with the same dimensions, as on the Pro model. The translite in the home model is the same as the Pro model. The artwork on the cabinet is a combination of previous cabinet artwork used on Stern’s Pro, Premium and LE models based on the same theme. The newest Star Wars home model is a further development of the Spider-Man home edition. This allowed the playfield to be placed in a standard Arcade-sized cabinet for the later developed Supreme game, which featured the same layout with different artwork. Also noteworty is that the playfield size of the Spider-Man home edition is only about two inches shorter than a standard playfield. Interstingly that model premiered the Spider-Man cartoon artwork, which was received very well (the artwork) that is lead to a Spider-Man Vault Edition with cartoon artwork. Then the home odel was upgraded even more, which resulted in Spider-Man home edition. The Pin itself underwent further development as well as the second iteraytion of that game had a backbox that was more shaped like a traditional backbox.
They followed that model with a much more trimmed down apatation called The Pin, which was available in a Transformers and an Avengers model.
Stern started with home models in 2007 with Batman Standard. The new Star Wars-themed game can be seen as a further developed version of earlier home models by Stern. One of the first photos of the Star Wars home model, taken at the preview night of Comic Con (source: Pinside)Īt the San Diego Comic ConStern Pinball revealed a new pinball model, aiming at the home market.
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