Galactic Tank Force

"That game now is worth around like $7,000. They were selling them from the factory for like $7,500 recently. So it just goes to show you that was one of the most arbitrary. Inflated FOMO games of all time that just never worked out."

Galactic Tank Force was one of the most arbitrary inflated FOMO games of all time

"When you go into the thread and you listen to people that have it, it's almost become like a cult pinball classic. Why do we like some really bad movies? Because they're so bad, they're good. And I think that is what Galactic Tank Force will end up being."

Galactic Tank Force is so bad it's good, like a cult classic bad movie

"At what price would you want a signature edition of Galactic Tank Force? Do you even want one for eight grand or seven grand? I think the price for these games is more like $5,000. I do, it's just like no one wants it. Nobody really wants it."

American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force is overpriced and unwanted

"I'm looking at this galactic tank force LE that was like almost $11,000 NIB just a year ago. And now it's selling for $7,500. You know why? Because there's no demand."

Galactic Tank Force demonstrates complete lack of demand research

"It's been a year since Galactic Tank Force tanked. Nobody's ordering that game"

American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force is a commercial failure

"I mean, think about it, like in Elton John, where are the mechs? In Galactic Tank Force, where are the mechs? You want it, mechs. You want it, toys. You want it, a world under glass. And I think this game is gonna deliver it like no other."

Jaws delivers the mechs and toys that recent Stern games have been lacking

"Dennis is a really nice guy, but he never should have made this game. He should have known better. He made this game for Dennis Nordman."

Dennis Nordman made Galactic Tank Force for himself, not the market, resulting in sales disaster

"American Pinball had 3 years, 3 freaking years to make Galactic Tank Force amazing. Are you telling me if you go into a Pinball workshop or a Pinball factory and you're sitting in a room with talented designers like Dennis Nordman and Zofia Ryan and the coders and the artists. You can't come up with better stuff to screw to that wood than just a button that changes a diverter, a tank mechanism that's way too close to the freaking flippers and a cow hanging from a wire."

American Pinball wasted 3 years on Galactic Tank Force with minimal creativity

"Hitting that dangling cow is terrible. It's silly"

Galactic Tank Force mechanisms are poorly executed

"I think after 30 years of all these great Pinball machines from Bali Williams to today, if you're going to drop Galactic Tank Force out into the Pinball world, the only people that are going to buy this original theme, no Pinball very well, no one's going to be fooled by it. And what was the point? What was the point of spending three years making a game that almost nobody wants?"

Galactic Tank Force not worth premium pricing

"I listened to a little bit of the Dennis Nordman interview on the slam tilt podcast and I have to say, like, it's like all he wanted to do was make this interesting cabinet. It's like the weirdest thing ever. I get what he was going for, but man, the whole thing just doesn't come together for me."

Galactic Tank Force design prioritized weird cabinet over good gameplay

"We've played the game, we've seen the airballs, we know the game is about ice cream and tanks and whatnot and cheap 3D printed parts... that game has been a failure"

Galactic Tank Force is a failure with airballs, cheap 3D printed parts, and poor sales

"Galactic Tank Force is easily the worst move a pinball company has done in 2023. It's worse than The Godfather. It's worse than Spinal Tap"

Galactic Tank Force is worse than The Godfather and Spinal Tap - worst pinball move of 2023

"But I think Galactic Tank Force is in big trouble. And I know people think I have an agenda against the game. I just think this game was in thought through very, very thoroughly. And the fact that Flinnie Bus, the fact that Flinnie Bus who was advocating for this game is like, look, this game's not, it's not engineered right."

Galactic Tank Force is poorly engineered and in trouble

"I don't think it's meeting or exceeding where people's expectations were for this title. I don't think people are seeing a mech or toys that blow them away. I think the code is really confusing. The story line is confusing... I think it shows his limitations a little bit working with an original IP. I think he's much better suited for license theme games."

American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force doesn't meet expectations and reveals artist limitations with original IP

"Iceman and Ferret are not going to be enough to turn that game's sales around. Like they really can't get any sales momentum going."

Galactic Tank Force has poor sales momentum despite celebrity endorsements

"I'm being very candid about this game is a total weird game. And if you want something different and you want something weird, by all means go buy a Galactic Tank Force. Boy, did they make the game for someone who wants something that's completely weird and crazy. And there's absolutely no focus group they used. There's absolutely no market research."

Galactic Tank Force is a totally weird game with no market research

"I think out of all the games, all the new games that have come out, I think this game is going to be the one that falls the fastest and falls the hardest. I can just feel it"

Galactic Tank Force will fall fastest and hardest of all new games

"What is it about tanks battling tanks in outer space to save the galaxy's ice cream? What about this theme is going to appeal to our target audience of men 40 to 60 years old? Absolutely nothing."

Galactic Tank Force makes zero marketing sense and appeals to no one in target demographic

"Why did you record all of this full motion video if no one's gonna get a chance to see most of it because they're gonna walk up to this game and they're just gonna get brutalized by the design of the game."

Game is too difficult and brutal, preventing players from experiencing content

"There's no reason why this game feels so unfinished. It feels unpolished and it feels just like a mess."

Galactic Tank Force is unfinished and unpolished after 2-3 years of development

"Why did they block the entire center of the playfield with this freaking tank that everyone's trying to avoid because it's such a risky shot."

The center tank blocks the playfield and creates poor gameplay flow

"after all of the hype, after all of the wait for this Dennis Nordman game and American Pinball's packed machine Galactic Tank Force, after all of the rollout of this game, I mean, I just want to say I am severely disappointed in how this game rolled out. I'm also disappointed in the lack of toys or creativity in this game."

Negative review of Galactic Tank Force - disappointed with game's execution and lack of creativity

"after two years, two and a half years in the making, American Pinball launches a game in a way that just feels like they tripped out of the gate"

American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force launch was poorly executed, stumbled out of the gate with inadequate marketing and no gameplay shown

"This is one of the worst launch videos I've ever seen in pinball. They have nobody to blame but themselves."

This is one of the worst launch videos ever seen in pinball

"What I don't like about this trailer, I'm not even gonna talk about the video clips that much. I don't like that this video showed us so little pinball. It is a pinball machine you are selling. You are not selling us on video assets."

Galactic Tank Force launch video was terrible - showed too little pinball gameplay and bad video assets

"The only reason they're making it is to get people to buy the 500 LEs of the game. They want to make you feel like that $11,000 tank version is a bargain."

The signature edition is a Trojan horse pricing strategy to make the LE seem like a bargain

"People thinking they're going to get this tank for less than $10,000. I think you're crazy. I think this tank is going to cost like $12,000 to $13,000."

Galactic Tank Force will be expensive due to complex cabinet design

"Sell your entire collection people. Get the freaking tank. This thing looks like nothing else out there. And I just felt like a little kid looking at it. Like I'm all in on Galactic Tank Force. I'm 100% in on this game."

Sell your entire collection and get Galactic Tank Force

"I'm gonna tell you right now I'm digging it. I'm digging what I'm seeing I actually like this thing. I think this is Freakin cool"

American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force tank cabinet design is impressive and innovative

"But man, what family in 2023 is into any of this stuff? It makes no sense. If you want to make a game for the whole family in 2023, Scooby-Doo is better. Freakin' Pokemon. Make Mickey Mouse. Make Super Mario Brothers."

Galactic Tank Force theme won't resonate with modern families

"All of a sudden, my excitement for Galactic Tank Force is just declining every single day"

Galactic Tank Force concerns - mediocre animations and questionable gameplay

"And could this be the American pinball game we've been waiting for? Could this be that beautiful game that shoots like butter, that has fun toys, that is super sexy and doesn't stand out like a sore thumb when you look at the cabinet in a lineup, right?"

American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force could be breakthrough game with right approach

"American Pinball had three years, three freaking years to make Galactic Tank Force amazing. Are you telling me if you go into a Pinball workshop or a Pinball factory and you're sitting in a room with talented designers like Dennis Nordman and Zofia Ryan and the coders and the artists, you can't come up with better stuff to screw to that wood than just a button that changes a diverter, a tank mechanism that's way too close to the freaking flippers and a cow hanging from a wire."

American Pinball wasted three years on Galactic Tank Force with minimal creativity