Foo Fighters

"If you have a Foo Fighter LE, you can't even get 8,500 for it. So that means you're taking eight grand on the table for a Foo Fighter LE. And this is another game in which Stern made a $2,000 topper for it. And so there are dudes out there that are 15 grand out of their pocket in on a Foo Fighter."

Foo Fighters LE demonstrates Stern's value destruction - down to $8500 from $13000

"bond over Foo Fighters over X-Men there's no way that James Bond shoots better than Foo Fighters like that like gang like no"

Foo Fighters shoots much better than James Bond

"His first designed game, Foo Fighters is amazing. If you've ever played the game, you know what I'm talking about. Yes, I wish it had a few more toys in it, but from a pure satisfaction standpoint, that game is phenomenal."

Foo Fighters by Jack Danger is phenomenal

"How is that the number one mechanism in a pinball machine? It's just a post that pops up. I mean we got to get back to expecting some magic especially at these prices."

Foo Fighters lacks meaningful mechanisms despite shooting well

"overall, I would say that Foo Fighters will go down as a very, very, very good game from Stern Pinball, it won Game of the Year, it was Jack Danger's first game"

Foo Fighters is a very good game despite overpriced topper

"His first game. He comes out of the gate and he makes a game that everybody loves to shoot. I would even argue that I sometimes enjoy shooting Foo Fighters more than Godzilla."

Foo Fighters is an exceptional first game by Jack Danger

"13,000 for a Foo Fighter LE. Now it's all the way down to around $9,000. People were losing $3,000 to $4,000 in one year."

Foo Fighters pinball significant value loss shows market problems

"number three on my list of biggest surprises in 2023 is how well executed and how awesome the creative idea was to make Foo Fighters the way Stern Pinball made Foo Fighters... if I were to tell you in 2022, 2023's Game of the Year is going to be Foo Fighters. You would have told me I'm nuts and here we are and it is going to win Game of the Year."

Foo Fighters exceeded all expectations and will be 2023 Game of the Year

"One of the most simple things in all of Thinball, but boy does it create a wow moment, and is this where we're at, right, just a single post that pops up... Crazy, right, that maybe something as simple as this could be the most magical mechanism in all of Thinball in the year in which Thinball was the most expensive it's ever been"

The overdrive post in Foo Fighters might be the most magical mechanism in all of 2023 pinball

"The Game of the Year. It is going to be the Game of the Year. It is a phenomenal pinball machine, Jack Danger's inaugural effort. It is such a good machine"

Jack Danger's Foo Fighters is Game of the Year despite market collapse - phenomenal machine

"Everything else that happened last year was an absolute dud to me. Absolute dud, because nothing else happened. Other than Foo Fighters, what happened in the entire year of pinball? Nothing exciting."

Foo Fighters was the only good pinball game released in the past year

"I think that dead save post is a wow mechanism in modern pinball"

Foo Fighters dead save post is genuinely creative despite simplicity

"What a game. What a game to come out of the gate with. I think this game hits on so many levels of originality, of uniqueness, of layout, of satisfying to shoot."

Jack Danger's Foo Fighters is an incredible debut that shows what fresh talent can achieve

"Remember, we all thought Foo Fighters was gonna come and go and nobody was gonna care and look what happened with Foo Fighters. I think it's now like in the top five games of all time you guys have rated Foo Fighters."

Foo Fighters became a surprise top-rated game despite initial skepticism

"But here's my prediction ladies and gentlemen. I'm just going to end this show by saying this. We've seen a lot of weird decisions in pinball since March. Ultimately I think Foo Fighters is turning out to be an incredible hit for Stern Pinball."

Prediction: Foo Fighters is turning out to be an incredible hit for Stern Pinball.

"Both LEs and premiums are arriving. Wait for it at the same time. And this is why Stern is the master of manufacturing. Because what's the commonality between food fighter LE and food fighter premium when the game is on the line? It's the exact same game."

Stern's manufacturing efficiency allows simultaneous LE and Premium production

"We always see this where pro buyers you know they always try to make up the reason why the pro is the way to go and they can't just get their pro as for a hoes machine, they have to say here's why I'm getting the pro because the gameplay on the LE and the premium isn't as good"

Foo Fighters has incredible gameplay on all three versions, pro buyers just make excuses

"I think this game right now with nothing else coming out is easily the game of the year."

Foo Fighters is easily game of the year with nothing else competing

"Foo Fighters is a beautiful machine. I played the game, I had a lot of fun on the machine. It is gonna sell like hotcakes. It's just a really good feel good game"

Foo Fighters is beautiful and fun but has limited physical interactions

"I think if you're a pinball fanatic, will it stay in your collection very long? My prediction is this thing will stay in your collection until Keith Elwin's new pin comes out, which is rumored to be Jaws."

Prediction: The game will stay in collections until Keith Elwin's new pin (rumored to be Jaws) comes out.

"I still think the theme integration on Foo Fighters has been the best theme integration of the year. The fact that they made like a Foo Fighter Saturday morning cartoon adventure was absolute genius. And the art package by Freakin' Zombie Yeti is insane."

Foo Fighters has the best theme integration of the year

"I wouldn't pay 13,000 for foo fighters. I think it looks to me like an $8,500 stern LE"

Foo Fighters is overpriced at $13,000 for a Stern LE

"Foo Fighters is a better Scooby-Doo. It out Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo... I think it's the best animation stern pinball has ever done in the history of stern pinball."

Foo Fighters is better than Scooby-Doo and has the best Stern animations ever

"how good how cohesive and how much better does foo fighter look now after seeing what this game is when you actually see gameplay footage"

Foo Fighters looks much better in comparison to Godfather

"the game looks like Godzilla Light and I mean it when I say it, it looks a little bit like Godzilla Light"

Foo Fighters gameplay is like Godzilla Light

"these are the greatest animations Stern has ever done, it's like you're watching a Saturday morning cartoon and I was so impressed"

Foo Fighters has the best animations Stern has ever done

"I just think the game needs more call-outs and I was sad to see that Dave Grohl did not do any call-outs, there's no band members doing call-outs in the machine itself"

Foo Fighters needs more call-outs from Dave Grohl and band members

"I'm absolutely shocked how wrong I was about Foo Fighters, about this game's ability to excite people, this game's ability to win people over in the pinball world. I thought Foo Fighters was going to be like a B theme."

Foo Fighters pinball completely exceeded expectations and represents what pinball should be about

"please wait and see. Don't buy the game directly from Stern, you're going to spend more money than you probably will have to if you just wait."

Don't buy Foo Fighters directly from Stern - wait and see approach recommended

"I think this game from Stern pinball from Jack Danger from zombie Eddie. I think this game is going to be a sleeper hit... I think this is going to be a modern day Metallica"

Foo Fighters will be a surprise sleeper hit and modern day Metallica

"I think Foo Fighters is going to be next... This is Jack Danger's first cornerstone game. And I love a new designer coming into pinball because they're going to share with us their design philosophy"

Foo Fighters pinball is next from Stern and will be Jack Danger's first cornerstone game

"My prediction is that Stern is going to lower that number. They're going to lower it to 500 LEs of Foo Fighter if they want to charge $13,000."

Prediction: Stern is going to lower the number of Foo Fighters LEs to 500 if they want to charge $13,000, or make a thousand but lower the price.

"The Foo Fighters are not that popular and I mean it. Even though they have 10 studio albums and don't shoot the messenger, the Foo Fighters have sold 20 million albums."

Foo Fighters is a strange selection for a cornerstone theme due to low album sales

"I think there are way better bands that deserve a pinball machine over the Foo Fighters and over Rush. How about bands like you too? How about the Red Hot Chili Peppers? How about Motley Crew?"

Foo Fighters and Rush are not universally loved bands and there are better options for pinball