Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

6 of 296 comments (clear)

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

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

    Oh, hang on....

    --
    "Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
  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. Shake It! by INetEngineer · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    --
    --I smoked my sig.
  4. 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...

  5. 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.

    --
    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  6. 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...