Jersey Jack Pinball

"The silliest move was Jersey Jack, like they literally like overnight, just priced themselves out of the market completely. Absolutely completely."

Jersey Jack Pinball has priced themselves out of the market completely with their post-Guns N' Roses pricing

"If the Addams Family were not involved with Jersey Jack, Jersey Jack would be out of business right now again. After these last two games, that company is not going to be in business after the Toy Story flop and the freaking Godfather flop and now the Elton John flop."

Jersey Jack Pinball would be out of business without the Addams Family bankrolling them

"I think everybody's sort of, if they could go back in time, they would have just let Jaws come out because the Jaws response, even though we all thought it was gonna be the Keith Elwin masterpiece and nobody was gonna buy another game after seeing Jaws, that's not the case."

Jersey Jack should have revealed Elton John after Jaws for better reception

"I think Jersey Jack pinball needs to take a page here. Don't fill a screen with way too much stuff."

Jersey Jack Pinball overcomplicates LCD screens and should learn from Stern's simpler approach

"I mean, if I was Jersey Jack, there would be no better time to announce your remaking Pirates of the Caribbean. Then right now, like you think that's a boat? This is a boat. We're happy to announce everybody that we're bringing Pirates of the Caribbean back for a limited run and get your orders in today."

Jersey Jack should announce Pirates of the Caribbean remake to compete with Jaws

"if you don't engage your community the right way and you're banning people on Facebook who are asking, where's the code? That's not how you do it"

Jersey Jack Pinball bans people on Facebook for asking about code updates

"I think this is either going to be a year in which JJP reestablishes its legacy within the pinball space or like American pinball and other companies out there, it's going to start to slide a little bit into a relevance"

Jersey Jack Pinball having a legacy-defining year with Elton John failing

"JJP would put its own employees into the modes of the Godfather pinball machine... Why is Christopher Franchi inside an iconic movies pinball machine? Why is Eric Meunier inside this game? Why does this game feature employees from Jersey Jack Pinball trying to pretend to be mobsters?"

Jersey Jack Pinball putting their own employees in Godfather pinball modes pretending to be mobsters

"But unfortunately for Jersey Jack, they're just way overpriced. Like, everything about them right now is overpriced. Nobody's buying Elton John at this much money. Everyone's lost money on Godfather and Toy Story 4."

Jersey Jack Pinball is overpriced across their lineup

"I mean, there are cooler mechanisms in freaking Spooky Pinball's games than are in Jersey Jack Pinball machines. I mean, think about that for a minute. The fact that Spooky Pinball is even in the same conversation as magical mechanisms as Jersey Jack Pinball just goes to show you the state of current pinball manufacturing"

Spooky Pinball now has more magical mechanisms than Jersey Jack Pinball machines

"They're basically a company where their themes need to catch up with their pricing. And that's not a good thing, right?"

Jersey Jack pricing doesn't match theme quality

"I think you do put more and your games make Stern pinball machines look outdated"

Jersey Jack games make Stern machines look outdated

"So is this praise for Elton John or is it just more of an indictment that every other Jersey Jack game that's come out over the last 10 years hasn't shot very well? I mean, that's really what's happening here. This is not like a radical imaginative and creative Steve Ritchie design. It's just finally we get a game that shoots as good as a Black Knight Pro."

Elton John praise is actually an indictment of Jersey Jack's poor shooting quality on previous games

"And that's the problem JJP has. It's not about whether or not we want the game. It's whether or not you want to lose $3,000 to $5,000 because they overpriced all these B-themed games."

JJP games lose too much value due to overpricing B-tier themes

"The problem with Jersey Jack code, it simply lacks humanity and personality and urgency and excitement. Like they don't know how to code into their machines like stuff that just gets you going, stuff that's just memorable, stuff that feels like I got to make these shots and there's this sense of urgency"

Jersey Jack code lacks humanity, personality, urgency and excitement

"And then we all have seen what happened to Godfather LE's and Toy Story LE's. Within a few months, they're gonna be trading for $10,000 or less."

Jersey Jack's Elton John LE will drop to $10,000 or less within months, just like Godfather and Toy Story

"Would you rather have a code update that features an advertisement for the company you've supported that you can turn off in 30 seconds or would you rather have a Jersey Jack game and never get a code update in years?"

Would rather have Stern code updates with ads you can turn off than Jersey Jack games with no code updates for years

"After hearing Jack's recent interview, I'm just feeling like this company is arrogant, they are smug, and they're not treating their customers the right way"

Jersey Jack Pinball treats loyal customers poorly

"Jersey Jack Pinball. I don't even know how to discuss Jersey Jack Pinball because they'd be out of business if it wasn't for the Addams Family. Nobody's buying Elton John"

Jersey Jack Pinball would be out of business without Addams Family funding - Elton John sales have flatlined

"I think Jersey Jack pinball should walk into a conference room and say, hey, look, we need to do something. We're going to do something crazy that nobody would expect."

Jersey Jack needs to make bold strategic moves including addressing Guns N' Roses code issues and potentially moving Matrix ahead of Elton John

"I'm here to tell you that Jersey Jack Pinball 100% has the license for the Matrix. The Matrix from JJP is coming. We know they have Harry Potter. They potentially have a Top Gun license that will not feature Tom Cruise."

Jersey Jack has Matrix license and other AAA themes coming

"I think you're looking at something like 2,500 total games moving forward. We want all of these games to always be sought after collectibles."

Jersey Jack should limit production to 2,500 total games and focus on home collectors

"The call-outs are horrendous. The slot machine sounds are horrendous. When you're listening to a song, you've got this iconic song playing and then this woman's voice interrupts with the worst call-outs maybe this year in all of pinball."

Jersey Jack's call-outs and slot machine sounds are horrendous and ruin the experience

"Jersey Jack's new pinball strategy they are just gonna blind us with lights and beautiful artwork and they are not gonna put nearly as much mechanical stuff into their games"

Jersey Jack's new strategy is to blind us with lights instead of mechanical innovation

"Jersey Jack is at the lowest it's ever been. I mean this. This is the lowest the company has ever been. They have absolutely no mojo going into this release."

Jersey Jack Pinball is at its lowest point ever with terrible recent releases

"But Jersey Jack Pinball, they're like the definition of insanity. They do the same thing over and over again, and they expect different results."

Jersey Jack Pinball repeatedly makes the same marketing mistakes and it's like the definition of insanity

"if there wasn't a billionaire backing this company, if there was not, if Jack's decisions were actually held accountable by their own merit, this company would be under. They would be under after Toy Story 4 alone, let alone Godfather, two flops in a row, this company would be under."

Jersey Jack Pinball would be out of business without billionaire backing

"I think Jersey Jack Pinball needs a price cut. I think they need to charge 13.5 for CEs. And I think they need to charge $11,000 for the LE. I also think they need to learn one major lesson. Do not say you're going to make 5,000 LEs."

Jersey Jack needs to lower prices and production numbers

"there's just something about Richie and Jack. I think they're stuck in the past a little bit. I don't think they really know what a modern pinball consumer wants. And I think Jersey Jack has lost its mojo"

Jersey Jack has lost its mojo and doesn't understand modern pinball consumers

"Jersey Jack Pinball is in full panic mode. And we all know why. They didn't sell the last two titles. And will this third strike put Jersey Jack Pinball in a terrible situation?"

Jersey Jack revealing Elton John at Expo is a desperate panic move because they didn't sell their last two titles

"Jersey Jack Pinball, you know, the company that's released two flops in a row is 10 years into the company's history and is seemingly making the most barren games they've ever made."

Jersey Jack Pinball has released two consecutive flops and makes barren games

"Steve Ritchie has not shown he has a hit game in a long time. And as much as Jack says, well, Steve's going to be back when people see these games. Well, show it. Show it. It's time to put up or shut up for Jersey Jack pinball. They've lost their mojo. They've lost their way."

Jersey Jack Pinball has lost their way with three bad theme choices and needs to drastically lower prices

"it continues to baffle me that Jersey Jack pinball just releases a game that is so popular and then they just cut bait on the code updates of this game... They've applied their resources in all the wrong areas"

Jersey Jack Pinball abandons code support after initial release, focusing resources on failed games instead of polishing successful ones like Guns N' Roses

"I saw today that the Jersey Jack Pinball Collector's Edition ornaments that go on the legs of the Godfather, just two cheap plastic things that stick to the legs of the machine. If you want to buy those two ornaments for your game, $500 for just static sculpted plastic, how much money do you think it costs Jersey Jack Pinball to press two of those ornaments? What, $100 at most? How are those two things $500?"

Jersey Jack Pinball CE ornaments at $500 exemplify industry greed

"we know that Jersey Jack Pinball does not go and get all of the assets and put them into the game. They made Willy Wonka, ladies and gentlemen, a movie that is a musical, and it has none of the musical elements from the movie in the game. None of the clips from the movie of the character singing the iconic songs. How do you fumble that?"

Jersey Jack Pinball consistently fails to secure proper movie assets for their licensed games

"At $12,000 to $15,000, you are no longer a freaking operator machine. Wake up, guys. Stop thinking you're making your games for operators. At this much money, the only people buying these machines are OCD home collectors."

Jersey Jack machines are not operator-friendly due to high prices

"I think that's the biggest issue I've always had with Jersey Jack. They just will never embrace the company. They should be. They keep trying to compete against Stern and they'll never be able to do it. As long as Stern's got a Stern pro for like 6500 bucks, how are you going to compete when your entry level is $12,000?"

Jersey Jack should embrace being a premium home collector company instead of trying to compete with Stern

"Jack, you got bailed out by a banker. The president of your company is the son of the banker. What did he know about pinball? The president of Jersey Jack pinball is no longer Jersey Jack. It is Brett Abbas. They absolutely took outside money, outside knowledge and outside people to fix this company. Who knew nothing about pinball?"

Jersey Jack Pinball takes outside money and hires people with no pinball experience despite claiming they only hire industry veterans

"Jack, there's a reason why most operators don't operate Jersey Jack machines because they're much more problematic. And that's okay. Like you make a much more complex device and with the prices of your machines and with the depth of the code, you're not making machines for operators. You're making machines for the home collector."

Most operators avoid Jersey Jack machines because they are more problematic than other manufacturers

"I feel like everybody wants Jersey Jack Pinball to make a game as interesting as the Big Lebowski. But with that big 27 inch screen and Keith Johnson doing really deep code. Can you imagine if we have the deep code of Jersey Jack Pinball and a game like the Big Lebowski?"

Jersey Jack should make TV/movie themes like Big Lebowski with deep code

"I put up a poll on Patreon about whether or not we think Elton John can save Jersey Jack Pinball. And every time I ask this question about Elton John, it is so underwhelming the response you get back. I think 75% of people said they do not believe that Elton John by Jersey Jack Pinball is going to be a hit game."

75% don't think Elton John will save Jersey Jack - wrong theme choice

"this new accessory package for freaking the Godfather LE. You can only buy it in the bundle. You have to buy everything together for $1,500. They won't sell you the pieces separately. Every move they make, it just reeks of desperation and it's not done right."

Jersey Jack's forced bundle pricing for Godfather accessories is wrong

"When you lift the hood on Toy Story, when you lift the hood on the Godfather, it's nowhere near as much in those games as games like The Wizard of Oz or Dialed In or The Hobbit. And then you lift the hood on these games which they designed them to a cost and then look at the result. You're not getting the sales."

Jersey Jack Pinball designed Toy Story and Godfather to cost, resulting in poor sales

"At least Jersey Jack gives you everything. You don't have to add on the accessories. At least they give you like the topper and they go the extra mile."

Jersey Jack gives better value than Stern - includes everything vs charging extra for accessories

"Jersey jack pinball needs a home run. They are down. It is the bottom of the ninth. This company's mojo is gone."

Jersey Jack Pinball has lost their mojo and needs a home run

"For some reason, when you make the powder coating on a pinball machine, a gold color, the oils from your hands will discolor that lockdown bar. The early recipients of Godfather Collector's Edition are showing this happening to the game and it's a permanent stain."

Jersey Jack has quality control issues with gold powder coating discoloring from hand oils

"Jersey Jack quality has been spotty. You don't really get the quality you want for the price you're paying... These are $15,000 items and details matter."

Jersey Jack quality is spotty for the price point with Godfather having issues

"Both of these companies are financed by Anceleri Revenue. Both of them are a little bit of nepotism where someone else in the family who had a lot of money handed the pinball operation to people within the family to give them something to do... What's the issue then, right? You got the money. Who is picking these terrible themes"

Jersey Jack Pinball and American Pinball are nepotism operations with poor theme selection

"I think if they did another run in a differently arranged art package with different armor, I think they could do another run of the Wizard of Oz. I mean, that is the game I would remake again if I was Jersey Jack. I know right now you're canceling your subscription. You're saying you're crazy, but I'm just being honest with you people."

Jersey Jack should remake Wizard of Oz instead of Pirates of the Caribbean

"I think everyone would agree that Jersey Jack has never really lived up to the expectations we had after seeing The Wizard of Oz, after feeling like this company was going to do it all and like blow Stern away. And now they're seemingly going in the wrong direction with high prices and barren games."

Jersey Jack has never lived up to expectations after Wizard of Oz