Achievements and Pokémon Collection Coming From Stern Pinball In September; Godzilla Production Milestone
By knapparcade
Whew. I’m back home after a great family vacation to Wyoming last week. You may have seen pictures from my visits to Flippers Family Arcade in Cheyenne and Arcade Laradise in Laramie. I hit up a third fantastic spot on the drive back to the Denver Airport - Sip n’ Flip Arcade and Soda Bar in Windsor, Colorado yesterday. Stay tuned to the Knapp Arcade Facebook page because I have lots of pictures and video from there to share. I managed to get out a couple of articles here last week, including one about the launch of American Pinball’s Cirqus Voltaire Reimagined, but you can expect to see even more articles in September now that I’m back from the woods (my cabin in WY has no Verizon cell service and only satellite internet). I have news from Stern Pinball for everyone today. The Pokédex that everyone has been clamoring for are coming to Stern’s Pokémon pinball machine next month! Here’s what Stern had to say about it in an e-mail this afternoon: “Going live this September! Utilizing Stern Pinball’s award-winning Insider Connected, Pokémon by Stern Pinball elevates the experience by connecting Trainers and their adventures across machines and locations. When Trainers play Pokémon by Stern Pinball signed in with their Stern Insider Connected Account, the Pokémon they CATCH will be added to their Insider Connected Pokémon Collection, which can be viewed in the Insider Connected app.” Pokémon Owners will be thrilled. I can’t wait to collect monsters in the game. I’ve actually found myself intentionally playing other pins because I don’t want to “waste” a good game on Pokémon that I could have earned a bunch of achievements on lol. I have reached out to Stern to see if achievements will be part of the new September updates and will let everyone know what they say. UPDATE: I heard back from George Gomez about Pokémon achievements. They’re definitely coming too! Specifically he said: “Yes- we have approval for all of IC - so you’ll see everything you’re used to”
In other news out of Stern, the company’s game designer Keith Elwin shared an image of a Godzilla coming off the production line that said:
“Another Godzilla Milestone! Congrats to the team!
I reached out to Stern asking what the exact milestone was and they said that they don’t discuss numbers but that the milestone was “significant.” So what do you folks think the milestone is? 10,000 units, 15,000, 20,000?
