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Portrait of The Last Remaining Pinball Wizard

Posted by timothy on from the sole-proprietorship dept.

Ant writes "Shacknews posted BusinessWeek's Pinball's Last Remaining Wizard article that is a portrait piece on Gary Stern, president and owner of Stern Pinball, which is the last remaining pinball manufacturer in the world. Yearly, his company produces 10,000 hand-built machines and designs about 3-4 different models. A few of their most recent releases used licensed rights of the Sopranos and The Simpsons."

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  1. Pinball Wizard? by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm deaf, dumb and blind, you insensitive clod!

    Oh, hang on....

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    1. Re:Pinball Wizard? by CSMastermind · · Score: 2, Funny

      He stands like a statue becomes part of the machine.......God I love the Who

    2. Re:Pinball Wizard? by SilentChris · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm deaf, dumb and blind, you insensitive clod!

      Oh, com'on, who are you? Tommy?

    3. Re:Pinball Wizard? by SamSim · · Score: 2, Funny

      Can you play by sense of smell?

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  2. Tommy - The Who by Vamphyri · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the story was going to be about an actual pinball machine player who gets massive highscores, not the CEO of a game corporation. That's one minute of my life I will never get back.

  3. Deaf, dumb, blind? by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the real question is, does he always get the replay?

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    1. Re:Deaf, dumb, blind? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I've never seen him fall.

    2. Re:Deaf, dumb, blind? by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      > But the real question is, does he always get the replay?

      Sits there like a statue, reloads like a machine,
      Clicks on the day passes, gets the first post clean,
      Smokes crack like he's got mod points, never seen him fall,
      That insensitive clod - Slashdotting Stern pinball!

      He's a Slashdot wizard, there has to be a twist!
      None of my business where he got those supple wrists...

  4. Shake It! by INetEngineer · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, is he allowed to shake his own machines without the TILT going off?

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  5. Re:Competition? by -kertrats- · · Score: 2, Funny

    They actually sell their monopoly, so I don't think that laws apply.

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  6. So whose with me? by CSMastermind · · Score: 3, Funny

    All right I see a market that's ripe for the picking, anybody else want to post the captial to get my new company off the ground?

  7. Not the way I know it... by MikeXpop · · Score: 2, Funny

    That blind, deaf, and dumb boy,
    Sure runs a successful pinball-producing company.
    *riff*

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  8. Re:Gone with arcades by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Pat Lawlor should be as famous as Sid Meier or Will Wright or Chris Sawyer

    Uhm, he is, at least to me. I ain't never heard of none of em!

    (Well, I have heard of Sid Meier, but the point still stands...)

  9. Slashdot Pinball by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, now a Slashdot pinball machine would be a game worth playing. Knock over webservers and destroy bandwidth to get the bonus. Multiplay after three first-posts in a row.

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    1. Re:Slashdot Pinball by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 2, Funny

      and if you do something really stupid you get to see the goatse guy? Think I'll pass. Then again, imagine a Beowulf of....oh nevermind.

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  10. Re:Seen lack of playability imagination by jazman · · Score: 4, Funny

    > I've owned a few pinball machines, and loved them literally to death.

    Ewww...