11/19/24

Stern Pinball Launches Full Line of Metallica Remastered Pinball Accessories

Give your Metallica game the fuel to ‘Seek and Destroy’ with Stern Pinball upgrades

CHICAGO, IL – November 19, 2024 –Stern Pinball, Inc., announces a full line of Metallica Remastered pinball machine accessories compatible with the recently announced Remastered Limited Edition and Premium Edition pinball machines.

The “…And Justice for All” Metallica Topper accessory will accentuate your gaming experience. Featuring RGB lighting, watch each letter in Metallica light up as it keeps progress of your Lady Justice mode progression as well as special lamp flashers highlighting your Grave Marker, Electric Chair, Coffin, and Snake multiball status as you build your progress to the Blackened Wizard mode from each main multiball. Through the power of Insider Connected, players will be able to unlock “And Justice for All” song straight from the start of gameplay in addition to rocking out to a special new “And Justice for All” Multiball.

Seek and destroy right from the plunge, jump into action with the Illuminated Metallica Logo Shooter Knob. Featuring RGB lighting, this accessory will kickstart your pinball quest.

Ride the lightning and protect your game with the official Metallica Sword Side Armor. This exciting side armor adds further dimension to your Metallica Remastered gaming experience.

For the Premium Edition, make your rock concert in a box experience explode with the Expression Lighting System™ accessory. With 96 intelligent RGB LEDs, the Expression Lighting System enables full color spectrum control. Positioned in pockets cut into the cabinet sides to provide color themed full playfield illumination, this integrated playfield lighting system is synchronized to custom light shows specifically designed for every song and dynamically responsive to game events. In addition you can make your speakers pop with the official Speaker Lighting System accessory. With intelligent RGB LED lighting, your speakers will light up and flash as you rock out, fully integrated and dynamically responsive to game events.

“We can’t wait for players to give their game fuel with these officially licensed pinball accessories,” said Seth Davis, President and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc. “Bring the rock concert home with Metallica Remastered!”

Pricing and Availability:

Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price:

“…And Justice for All” Metallica Topper $US 999.99

Illuminated Metallica Logo Shooter Knob $US 224.99

Metallica Sword Side Armor $US 399.99

Cabinet Expression Lighting System^TM $US 599.99

Speaker Expression Lighting System $US 199.99

MSRP for sales to USA end-users, before any VAT, GST, Sales Tax, Duties, or other taxes.

Metallica Remastered pinball machines and accessories are available now through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world, which can be found here or on the official Stern Store here.

About Metallica Remastered Pinball

Metallica Remastered is updated with a full-color LCD display featuring all-new animations and live concert video footage. Stern’s modern Spike 2 electronics will power the gameplay experience. Fans will enjoy expanded gameplay and improved presentation with 22 songs (8 more than the original) and expanded gameplay rules. Cabinet improvements include an Expression Lighting system and 2 all-new art packages by Metallica artist Rhys Cooper. Players will experience the same great flow from the original Metallica playfield layout with geometry and mechanical improvements, new versions of gameplay toys, updated mechanical devices, and new UV lighting effects. To learn more about Metallica Remastered, please visit https://sternpinball.com/game/metallica-remastered

About Insider Connected

Insider Connected™ is Stern Pinball’s community network that allows players and owners to engage with pinball games in rapidly expanding ways. The platform unites pinball players worldwide and enhances fun through connected features such as achievements, leaderboards, and quests. Every new Stern Pinball product includes Insider Connected, and it is also available as an add-on for existing games.

Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com or in the intuitive Insider Connected™ mobile app on iOS and Android. By tapping a device on any enabled machine, players can track and resume game progress wherever they play, earn new game-specific achievements, engage with the pinball community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests. In addition to offering benefits to players, Insider Connected allows Stern to serve its game owners worldwide by upgrading games, offering new features and quests, and extending machines’ longevity for years to come.

About Stern Pinball, Inc.

Stern Pinball, Inc. creates compelling entertainment that inspires a lifetime love of games, sparks passion, forges friendships, and connects people everywhere through fun, innovative, technologically advanced pinball games, and experiences. Headquartered minutes from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. Stern Pinball serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the globe.

Recent Stern Pinball titles include Metallica Remastered, The Uncanny X-Men, John Wick, JAWS, Venom, Foo Fighters, James Bond 007, Rush, Godzilla, The Mandalorian, Led Zeppelin, Avengers: Infinity Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stranger Things, Elvira’s House of Horrors, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball’s games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.

About Metallica

Formed in 1981 by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich and including guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo, Metallica has become one of the most influential and successful rock bands in history, selling nearly 125 million albums worldwide and generating more than 17 billion streams while playing to millions of fans on all seven continents—more than 1.3 million of whom belong to the band’s fiercely loyal and consistently growing Fifth Member fan club. Metallica’s catalog of multi-platinum studio albums includes Kill ‘Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …And Justice for All, Metallica (commonly referred to as The Black Album), Load, Reload, St. Anger, Death Magnetic, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, and most recently the Grammy-winning 72 Seasons, released April 14, 2023 on the band’s own Blackened Recordings label. Metallica’s awards and accolades include nine Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, multiple MTV Video Music Awards, a 2009 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Sweden’s Polar Music Prize. In 2017, Metallica established the All Within My Hands Foundation to give back to communities that have supported the band. To date, All Within My Hands’ collective efforts have raised nearly $15 million – providing $8.2 million in grants to career and technical education programs, over $3.6 million to combat food insecurity, and more than $3.5 million to disaster relief efforts.

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