Star Wars Pinball is a Stern Pinball manufacturing game released in 2025 based on the Star Wars franchise (original trilogy Episodes IV-VI). Designed by John Borg on the Spike 3 platform, it was positioned as Stern's flagship 2025 title with premium pricing ($13,000 LE, ~$10,000 Premium, ~$6,700 Pro). Despite strong IP recognition and high expectations, the game has received predominantly negative critical reception for rushed design, poor execution, quality control issues, and failure to justify premium pricing, with notably weak sales performance and licensing restrictions preventing European release.
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Star Wars Pinball has poor art package and screen integration compared to Pokémon
Star Wars LE is selling for $10,000 in secondary market ($3,000 off MSRP)
Star Wars Pinball was a humongous disappointment and one of the biggest failures of a major IP
Star Wars pinball sold well through Christmas 2025
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Star Wars Pinball reveal occurred in the week of September 11th alongside Charlie Kirk news
Star Wars Pinball has poor visual design that appears cheap
Star Wars Pinball has licensing restrictions preventing European release
Star Wars Pinball is the highest-performing rental machine at Bruce's location despite player criticisms
Star Wars Pinball LE has poor design quality that makes it look cheap despite premium pricing
Death Star shot on Star Wars is experiencing quality control rejections
Star Wars Pinball includes movie clips from original trilogy
Star Wars Pinball would be appropriately priced at $8,000 for the LE tier rather than $13,000
A 50th Anniversary Star Wars Pinball edition will include full Spike 3 features and make the LE release less attractive
Distributor phones are not 'ringing off the hook' for Star Wars LE pre-orders despite franchise strength
The opening crawl text is cut off on the Spike 3 screen in Star Wars Pinball, unlike in the original Star Wars films
Stern recycled shooter rod handles and Stormtrooper heads from the 1977 original Vader-era Star Wars game
The AT-AT toy mechanism is undersized compared to Star Wars film source material
Star Wars Pinball features only two flippers and eight linear shots with no creative gameplay variety
Star Wars Pinball will be mediocre; just another Stern game; will not deliver the Star Wars experience fans deserve
Star Wars Pinball Limited Edition (770 units) will not reach $18,000 secondary market; will underperform
Star Wars Pinball uses a smaller AT-ST walker mech (not iconic AT-AT) recycled from Avatar design
Jabba the Hutt has a sculpt featured in Star Wars Pinball
Star Wars Pinball is the rumored next cornerstone release from Stern
All existing Star Wars pinball machines are poor quality and not worth the space they occupy
Leaf switch vibration on this Data East machine was caused by contacts being spaced too closely together
A pin on the 12-pin power supply connector was not fully seated in its slot, causing connection issues
Star Wars Pro pinball is divisive in the community with some finding it one of the funnest modern games while others dislike it fundamentally
Star Wars Pinball has poor shot geometry and problematic plunger design
Star Wars tournament mode uses 10x playfield multiplier in competition settings, not the standard 40x
Star Wars 1.0 adds a ball save feature to the mystery hole that can be enabled in settings
The 1.0 update includes call-outs for nearly every action including plunges and mode selections
Version 1.0 makes Star Wars harder overall
Battle of Endor and Death Star modes cannot be stacked in 1.0
A custom 'dead flip' code animation featuring Jack Danger is integrated into Star Wars 1.0
Back-handing the Death Star is easier on Pro than Premium models