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<blockquote data-quote="EldarOfSuburbia" data-source="post: 254991" data-attributes="member: 4106"><p>Flight 2000 is <em>not</em> part of the DE/Sega/Stern lineage.</p><p></p><p>A little bit of history:</p><p>In the late 1970s, Chicago Coin was bought out by Sam Stern (Gary Stern's father), who until that point had worked for Williams (or was it Bally... memory is fuzzy... one of those two at any rate), and renamed Stern Electronics. They produced a number of tables, the best-known of which are probably Flight 2000, Meteor, and Seawitch. In the early 1980s, Stern Electronics ceased trading and stopped manufacturing pinball tables. Sam Stern retired from the business.</p><p></p><p>In the late 1980s, Sam's son, Gary, went to the video games manufacturer Data East with a proposal to create a pinball division. The proposal was successful, and thus Data East Pinball was born. Their first game was Laser War (1988?) and the rest you know. Sega took over the business around 1995, before Sega themselves bowed out and Gary Stern rebranded the business as Stern Pinball Inc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EldarOfSuburbia, post: 254991, member: 4106"] Flight 2000 is [I]not[/I] part of the DE/Sega/Stern lineage. A little bit of history: In the late 1970s, Chicago Coin was bought out by Sam Stern (Gary Stern's father), who until that point had worked for Williams (or was it Bally... memory is fuzzy... one of those two at any rate), and renamed Stern Electronics. They produced a number of tables, the best-known of which are probably Flight 2000, Meteor, and Seawitch. In the early 1980s, Stern Electronics ceased trading and stopped manufacturing pinball tables. Sam Stern retired from the business. In the late 1980s, Sam's son, Gary, went to the video games manufacturer Data East with a proposal to create a pinball division. The proposal was successful, and thus Data East Pinball was born. Their first game was Laser War (1988?) and the rest you know. Sega took over the business around 1995, before Sega themselves bowed out and Gary Stern rebranded the business as Stern Pinball Inc. [/QUOTE]
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