''Stern Pinball Arcade'' is a

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simulation video game developed by

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and a spin-off of their earlier title ''

The Pinball Arcade ''The Pinball Arcade'' is a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios. The game is a simulated collection of real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb, Alvin G. and Company, and Stern Pinball, a company which also owns the rights of machines ...

''. This game includes recreations of pinball machines manufactured or licensed by Stern Pinball Inc., which also owns the rights to machines from

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and

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. ''Stern Pinball Arcade'' is available for Android,

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, Microsoft Windows and

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(through Steam), PlayStation 4,

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, Nintendo Switch.

Development

The game was announced on September 20, 2015 by FarSight Studios in partnership with Stern Pinball Inc. The game was revealed on May 2, 2016 to promote the subsequently cancelled Kickstarter campaign for the ''AC/DC'' pinball machine. Due to a new partnership, the intended funding was no longer necessary. The first four tables launched for the game on Samsung Gear VR included '' Ripley's Believe It or Not!'', '' Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'', ''Star Trek'' and '' Starship Troopers''. With the exception of ''Star Trek'', these tables were previously released for ''The Pinball Arcade''. The Steam (Windows) version released on December 22, 2016 to "Very Negative" reviews, owing to widespread frustration with an apparently incomplete and buggy interface and inability to purchase DLC. Players recommending the game praised Farsight granting access to tables already purchased for ''

'' and expressed hope that issues would be resolved in the future.

Tables

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