Past Times Pinball History Ep 22: Harley Davidson
Harley Davidson marked the end of an era and the beginning of the legacy that is "Stern Pinball." Find out how this game played the role in history!
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for this episode of Past Times pinball
history you're feature this 1999 Sega
Harley-Davidson lead designers Lonnie R
and John bour before we talk about this
let's go back to
1985 in 1985 Data East was founded by
perching Stern
Electronics later in 1994 Sega bought
out Data East which brings us to this
game so this is
1999 and at this time pinball was dying
Gary Stern came in and said I'm going to
create Stern Pinball and he purchased
Sega pinball during this production run
so this game was the last game produced
by Sega they continued the production
run under Stern Pinball with the only
difference being Stern's logo in the
backglass now when this game was
released in 1999 it was the same year
that Bal Williams ended up closing their
doors as well with their final game
being Star Wars Episode 1 as a pinball
2000
division this game was very successful
and in 2002 was Stern being the only
main manufacturer left they released a
second production run exact same
Playfield exact same
design two years later 2004 Stern
actually released a third production of
this game of 300 units historically
significant not only the last game made
by Sega but the first game that created
Stern Pinball come on in check out this
1999 Harley-Davidson at pastimes arcade
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