American Pinball

"I really think American Pinball should have done it a little differently... Stop talking. Go find a designer. Go find a code team. But don't talk about remaking Legends of Valhalla."

American Pinball should have stayed quiet until they had a new game ready

"I think it's a colossal mistake. I think this doesn't, to me, speak of an all new company. Just because you changed the logo."

American Pinball's strategy of remaking old games is a colossal mistake

"I look at a brand like American Pinball, beyond repair. They are American Pinball beyond repair. I put something up on Facebook. It's like this company acts like the old employees that they fired and treat it like crap are not going to now come out of the woodwork and articulate what a garbage experience they had at American Pinball."

American Pinball is beyond repair as a brand due to poor employee treatment

"I don't think American pinball is ever going to have a successful pinball machine I hope I'm wrong I hope I eat my words I just don't think that they have the front office that understands pinball"

American Pinball will never have a successful pinball machine

"I don't like American Pinball because of what they did to me personally. I accept any apologies they want to give to me. They have not. But I just think Karma and this company is going to play a big factor with how people receive them moving forward. I really don't like giving them much airtime."

American Pinball did something personal to Kaneda

"American pinball is dead They're not making any more games"

American Pinball is dead and not making any more games

"American Pinball under the leadership of David Fix was a total failure, I mean there's no other way to skin it, they made so many bad decisions in a row"

American Pinball was a total failure that made terrible decisions and deserved their karma

"American Pinball, by the way, is done. I don't know if you've seen this, but they did not even renew the trademark around their name, American Pinball... I think we can probably finally stick a fork in this company."

American Pinball is done - they didn't renew trademarks and Cuphead will never happen

"It's never coming out by the way. Someone asked me yesterday like, hey, where's Cuphead? And I'm like, bend over and I'll show you where Cuphead is. It's never coming out."

Cuphead will never come out, American Pinball needs to sell all inventory first

"It's like American Pinball is like the Ed Wood of Pinball. They set out to make really good games. They just never did."

American Pinball is the Ed Wood of pinball - tries to make good games but fails

"Look, I to go back to American pinball. They're done. Like it's over gang. It's the Mukesh is not going to kick start this thing. Here's the true story. He doesn't want to make another game until all the existing inventory is sold. The problem is they might have upwards of 200 games or parts for games that need to be sold. The problem from there is the games are f and terrible."

American Pinball is finished as a company

"There is no American Pinball gang. They're done. Like they'll come out with Cuphead because of licensure agreements. And then that's it. They're never going to make another game."

American Pinball is done after Cuphead - they'll never make another game

"I don't think they're designing any more Pinball machines. I think Mukesh is done."

American Pinball likely won't design more games after Cuphead

"I don't even think anyone works at American Pinball right now. There is no line going. They are sitting on a bunch of old inventory. Nobody wants."

American Pinball is essentially a dead company with no direction and Cuphead will fail commercially

"What designer have they hired? What move have they made that makes you think American pinball has got a magical game ready to go that's gonna be successful in this pinball market?"

American Pinball lacks magic and design talent

"I think Mukesh is now at a place where he's either going to hire a new leader and bring new pinball machines to market, or he's going to stop making pinball machines."

American Pinball is in a weird place and should either hire new leadership or stop making pinball machines

"This is actually disrespectful for Lyman Sheats, if you ask me, to sort of put his name or say that you're doing this for him. He would not go anywhere near this game."

Connecting Lyman Sheats' name to Galactic Tank Force is disrespectful

"You pick Stern. Absolutely. The second company you picked is American Pinball. Are you freaking kidding me? Would you give these guys a dollar?"

American Pinball did not help revitalize the pinball hobby

"The ability for this industry to pick horrendous themes and use no market research before selecting a title. Never ceases to amaze me."

American Pinball's downfall due to poor theme choices

"if you really could give out an award for the worst marketing ever, it is to a company that every time they seem to be celebrating pinball, they're doing it in front of other company games... Cuphead is gonna come out, it's gonna bomb, and I don't think there's really a future here until they make a leadership change"

American Pinball has terrible marketing and no future without leadership change

"David Fix, as long as he's still there, this company is done."

American Pinball is done while David Fix is there

"American Pinball is a joke. And they've been a joke now since this leadership team has been in place. And David Fix and Steve Bowden and Ryan McQuaid could not steer a hungry overweight child towards a piece of cake."

American Pinball is a complete failure with atrocious sales numbers and incompetent leadership

"If American Pinball went away tomorrow, would any of you care with what's going on in pinball right now? If American Pinball went away tomorrow, how many of you raise of hands would actually miss them?"

Nobody would miss American Pinball if they went out of business tomorrow

"American Pinball is over. This company has no way out. And I don't often say that, but normally there's a way out for a pinball company."

American Pinball is completely finished as a company with no way out

"These guys have made the worst decisions consistently of any pinball company since I've been covering pinball. I mean it, because this company has the ability to manufacture and yet they can't get it right. And David Fix has been making such a bone headed moves"

"David Fix, Steve Bowden, Mukesh, the entire family over there, guys, game over. Game over. You've got nothing, nothing. Your brand is worth less than zero now... It's ironic because the man is named Fixed and all he's done is broken this company."

Attack on American Pinball leadership, especially David Fix, calling for his firing

"American Pinball could take $5,000 off of their pins and nobody's buying these things. It's just there's too much. There's too much out there"

American Pinball could take $5,000 off their pins and nobody would buy them

"It's game over for American pinball. It's game over for Haggis pinball."

American Pinball and Haggis Pinball are failing companies

"this is how bad it's gotten, this is how like, a name and ridiculous David Fix and the team over at American Pinball is, they have no idea what they're doing, it doesn't work like this"

American Pinball is completely clueless about marketing and operations

"It's game over American Pinball. You had your window and you failed."

American Pinball is failing and will be overshadowed at Expo by better games

"Is the next big move in pinball going to come from American pinball? It doesn't even make any sense. Like everyone's just laughing. I don't even see an out for this company."

American Pinball is essentially dead with no viable path forward

"I think David Fix's company is done... it's the biggest joke in the entire industry it's one of the worst pinball machines ever made and everyone associated with green lighting that game should be shown the door... he's destroyed the brand"

American Pinball is done and David Fix destroyed the brand

"I would fire everybody over there that's making these decisions because they have driven this company over the edge, off the rails, and there seemingly is no accountability."

American Pinball leadership should be fired for repeated theme failures

"But this is arguably the worst decision they've ever made. And I think as long as David Fix is at the helm of a creative company, a man that has no creative vision of what this community wants and what will work in Pinball"

"This is a Nepo Baby company. This company was made because they got ripped off by J-Pop. It's been a series of disastrous decisions for almost like eight years now... I think as long as David Fix is at the helm of a creative company, a man that has no creative vision of what this community wants and what will work in Pinball, this company will never make a game that will take your money."

American Pinball is done and David Fix has no creative vision

"I just don't think there's any future for American Pinball. As long as this team is over there, this company is never going to make a hit pinball machine. They just don't have the creative vision to make hit pinballs."

Believes American Pinball lacks creative vision and won't succeed

"unanimously, everybody is telling me the game is terrible, I don't know what else to tell you, I don't think the game is any good, the fact that David Fix is bringing this thing to Texas Pinball Festival, and he thinks this game is not an embarrassment, it is David, like this game is basic, this game looks like it's $3,000, nobody's really gonna want this game, man, and it's over, like it's just game over"

American Pinball's BBQ Challenge game is terrible and the company should shut down

"American Pinball is done. They are done. They do not have the talent. They do not have the vision to survive this."

American Pinball is done as a company - they lack talent and vision to survive

"And they banned Kaneda from Facebook, which is also very stupid. Are you going to ban a guy? That's got 3,000 people listening to what he says on Facebook. Another 6,700, 800 here. I have got more people who listen to my show than you sell games."

Kaneda criticizes American Pinball and Jersey Jack Pinball for banning him from their Facebook pages

"You know me, I'm very skeptical of this game. I think it's going to be a failure. I think American Pinball needs new leadership. I don't think they've done anything really that successful in so many years."

American Pinball's upcoming barbecue-themed game will be a failure due to poor leadership and lack of understanding of the pinball community

"If American Pinball did have the He-Man license, they must be morons for making a barbecue game in front of He-Man."

American Pinball making barbecue game before He-Man shows poor priorities

"This company is going to be the laughing stock of the entire pinball world... when David Fix gets up there with Maurice. And unveils to the world the secret sauce of American Pinball, which is going to be their barbecue themed pinball machine... this could be the end of American Pinball."

American Pinball's barbecue game will be the laughing stock of pinball and could end the company

"There is no way this game is going to survive in a modern pinball marketplace with the themes we have. It's game over fix and he has driven his company off the tracks into the ocean. He is basically making the worst decisions I've ever seen a pinball leader make."

"I think American Pinball and I think Homepin Pinball are going to be done in 2024. And I would be pleasantly surprised if they both survived."

Homepin Pinball and American Pinball will likely be done in 2024

"the problem with American pinball, and let's talk about it, is David Fix doesn't know what a good game is. And he's leading the company. So the Barry Oursler game is going to be a barbecue game... they're sort of becoming like the joke of the industry."

American Pinball leadership doesn't know what makes a good game and company is becoming industry joke

"let me tell you this, the game's going to be a sales disaster. I don't even have to see it. I don't have to play it. I can just tell you right now if David Fix and Maurice and Steve Bowden, who knows what he's doing over there every day, Steve Bowden, my gosh. So if they walked into my office and said, hey, we're going to make a Barry Oursler tribute game, I would fire all of them on the spot"

American Pinball's upcoming Barry Oursler food-based game will be a sales disaster

"companies like American Pinball deserve to fail. Because they don't make stuff people want and they haven't made good decisions and the product is not there."

American Pinball deserves to fail because they don't make products people want

"Do you really expect this company that has made every boneheaded move a pinball company could make? Is all of a sudden going to improve? They're not going to improve, you know, this whole thing, it's just a charade."

American Pinball is a fundamentally broken company that will never improve or make hit games

"I gotta ask, everybody out there, have they ever made a great decision ever? Has anything they've ever done pay off?"

American Pinball makes terrible decisions and should fail due to poor execution

"I am hearing things over there are not good. I think if we were to kick open the door to American pinball, we would not see a pinball manufacturing company taking place. We would not see games on the line. We would not see a bunch of people assembling pinball machines."

American Pinball is in dire straits and appears to be for sale