Spooky Pinball Confirms Beetlejuice Price & Production Number; Stern Star Wars: Fall of the Empire Crushing It on Location; The New Scorbit
By knapparcade
Hi everyone. Happy Friday! I have a few news bits to end the week with. Hot on the heels of essentially confirming that its next pinball machine is indeed based upon the 1988 Horror / Comedy film Beetlejuice a week or two ago, Spooky Pinball's Luke recently confirmed that the Company is manufacturing 999 units of the game and that they will be priced at $9,999 without the upgraded topper. As to when we will get to see the game, Luke added in a post on Pinside: "Working on it fellas! Just waiting for the final marketing materials to roll in and we will launch this monster! I'm not worried about fomo regret on this one. It holds up 100% With production of Spooky's current game Evil Dead, likely to run into January originally they were expected to reveal Beetlejuice in late November / early December, but I suspect that we will see it sooner than that. If you are not on a distributor's list for the game already, you may have a tough time finding one. I have already seen some mentioning on Facebook that they have sold out of their allocations. The good news is that Spooky Pinball does sell a portion of its games directly to the public without any sort of list, so if you're lucky you could get one through them at launch.I heard a really interesting story on the Electric Bat Podcast recently. During the latest episode, the show's hosts and location's proprietors, Rachel and Cale, talked about how when they returned from their trip to last week's Chicago Pinball Expo they were notified that their new Stern Pinball Star Wars Fall of the Empire pinball machine wasn't working - it wasn't accepting quarters. When they opened the game up to look at its non-working coin mechs...a bunch of money just fell out of the game because the coinbox was overflowing! There is no doubt that Star Wars pinball machines absolutely crush it on location. Another really interesting tidbit that came out of this week's episode is that Stern Pinball's Godzilla is the Electric Bat's most played location game of all time with over 80,000 plays!
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Another interesting announcement that came out of Pinball Expo was the relaunching of the Scorbit connected pinball app. For those who are not familiar with Scorbit, it's app allows pinball players to track their scores and share them to global leaderboards, earn achievements and now even make mobile payments for games. The new Scorbit app has received a ton of media attention over the past week, including an article in the mainstream National publication Forbes Magazine. Scorbit secured a whopping $3.7 Million in seed funding and it has been testing the latest version of its software and hardware at pilot locations in Portland, New York City, Nashville, Minneapolis and Monterey with additional locations to come. Scorbit is working on integrating its software directly into Chicago Gaming Company's Pulp Fiction and Dutch Pinball's Big Lebowski as well. Check out the links below for more information: Scorbit Takes Aim At Modernizing Pinball Machines Via The Cloud The New Scorbit is Here! The Future of Connected Arcade Play
Last up, we have a look at this week's "Factory Friday" video from Stern Pinball. Last week during its official Pinball Expo factory tour, Stern had Dungeons & Dragons on the production line. The video that it shared today shows D&D as well, but this footage may actually be from last week. The last time I looked into Stern's fall production schedule, they had an empty spot at the end of October that most assumed would be used to produce its upcoming Walking Dead Remastered pinball machine. The reveal of that game was pushed back a little by the delays in launching Star Wars. I suspect that Walking Dead is still being built right now and they just aren't showing it to us for obvious reasons, but it is possible that production of it was pushed back as well.
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