Steve Ritchie

"If we think about the Steve Ritchie game, what was so disappointing about that game? He put in what is probably one of the most trivial things in all of the Star Wars storyline. The Hyperdrive is the main feature in the game. Then we had a TIE Fighter on a spring and then we had a Death Star that opened up. That was a really difficult shot and that was kind of it. There was no lightsaber, there was no adat, there was no X-wing, there was no real Millennium Falcon."

Steve Ritchie's Star Wars game was disappointing and failed to capture the magic of the movies

"when Steve Ritchie's next game is revealed, I am getting one. It is something I grew up loving. It is a theme that is iconic. And I think they're going to handle it the right way"

Steve Ritchie's upcoming game will be nostalgic and worth buying

"I'm 100% getting one. I know I say this every once in a while, but I guarantee you, when Steve Ritchie's next game is revealed, I am getting one. It is something I grew up loving. It is a theme that is iconic."

Prediction: He will definitely get Steve Ritchie's next game when it's revealed because it's a theme he grew up loving and is iconic.

"the layout of this game is the greatest Steve Ritchie layout of all time and that it might in fact be the greatest layout and the most fun pin to shoot of all time"

Steve Ritchie's next Jersey Jack game has the greatest layout of all time and perfect theme for pinball

"I think Eric Meunier really listened to Steve Ritchie when it comes to shot geometry... nobody knows that more than Steve Ritchie"

Steve Ritchie's influence on Harry Potter's shot geometry will be beneficial

"Steve Ritchie is the king of flow and speed so I think it's a perfect marriage."

Steve Ritchie doing Sonic the Hedgehog would be perfect

"I hate to say it, but Steve Ritchie, this has to be it. Like I think he just needs to retire now. I think this needs to be his final game."

Steve Ritchie should retire after Elton John - he's out of ideas and just recycling old designs

"I think Steve Ritchie, I think he left Stern Pinball and he wasn't happy... And he left. And he's angry. And he's mad. And he wants to prove himself again... what we are about to see today should be something that is magnanimous, that is creative, that is over the top."

Steve Ritchie will redeem himself with Elton John after leaving Stern

"It is his turn to put up or shut up. It really is that dramatic. It really is. Like he's either going to come out with an epic game which Jersey Jack is calling this an epic game that is going to be one of their best selling games ever."

Steve Ritchie is at crossroads - must put up or shut up with Elton John

"I think Steve Ritchie doesn't really care. I think Steve Ritchie wants to put his name on the map. And Jersey Jack pinball as a company, they need something special from Steve Ritchie."

Steve Ritchie doesn't care about JJP's current games and is only there for his own reputation

"Do we really think Steve Ritchie has one more home run in the bag? Because his last three games or so with Stern Pinball, they were so lacking in creativity. And you can't argue that it was just the bomb because the bomb on Godzilla was only $100 more than the bomb on freaking Led Zeppelin. So it's not the bomb that's been holding Steve Ritchie back. It's his own imagination."

Steve Ritchie's recent games lack creativity and imagination

"Look, I think this is Steve Ritchie's final moment. I mean, he moved over from Stern. He moved over to Jersey Jack Pinball. There was a promise that his bomb was going to be increased. He was going to be able to make the game that he wanted to make."

This could be Steve Ritchie's final moment to prove himself

"He knows he needs to prove himself again. He does. He hasn't had a hit game in a really long time. He hasn't had a hit game since like AC/DC and Star Trek."

Steve Ritchie needs to prove himself again after string of disappointments

"So let me give you my prediction on what I think Steve Ritchie is working on and when I think we're going to see it. I actually do think they're going to reveal Steve Ritchie's next game by the end of next year. I do think it's going to be Elton John."

Prediction: Steve Ritchie's next game will be revealed by the end of next year and it will be Elton John themed.

"How about make the original three, but actually make it a good game this time? Not what Steve Ritchie put out there. Because are you telling me you're not allowed to go back and remake a game again? They've made multiple Star Wars video games. Why can't we remake Star Wars in pinball?"

Star Wars pinball should be remade since multiple video game versions exist

"Like the fact that Steve Ritchie put a screen on the playfield on Star Wars is reason enough to just shake your head and realize what a horrible creative decision that was... It's lazy."

Steve Ritchie putting a screen on the Star Wars playfield was a horrible and lazy creative decision

"Steve Ritchie's Star Wars game to this day is such an abomination considering the source material of Star Wars"

Steve Ritchie's Star Wars pinball game is an abomination considering the source material

"he kept saying with his past employer, he wasn't allowed to do what he wanted to do... Now shots have been fired. Now he has to make a game that backs up all of his vitriol."

Steve Ritchie throwing shade at Stern and promising better games at Jersey Jack

"I don't have as much faith in Steve Ritchie as I do in Mark to bring exciting new pinball designs and worlds under glass to life. I just don't. I've seen Steve's recent games and I hope he does it"

Mark Seiden has more potential than Steve Ritchie to bring fresh ideas to JJP

"I am challenging Steve Ritchie to show us what you got. Show us you can still do it, Steve. Reclaim your throne. Reclaim your crown."

Direct challenge to Steve Ritchie to prove he can still design great games

"we all have seen Steve Ritchie's latest efforts at stern pinball and they were not good they were not sought after they were not celebrated... it's like Steve didn't put in the effort to push his designs forward the same way Keith L Wind did and John Borg has and other people at stern pinball"

Steve Ritchie's recent designs at Stern were not good and he didn't put in enough effort compared to other designers

"Steve Ritchie games would come out and they would underwhelm. And they have underwhelmed for many, many years."

Steve Ritchie hasn't done anything memorable in years and his recent games have underwhelmed

"Steve is a designer that's all about speed and flow. And Jersey Jack pinball is a company that doesn't make games that are fast or games that have great flow. So if you add those two things up, they don't add up."

Steve Ritchie's style doesn't match Jersey Jack's approach - he's about speed and flow, they make slow games without great flow

"Steve Ritchie is a great designer don't get me wrong and I think the king has been hamstrung over at stern for a very long time they've been handing him their best IP but they've handed him the best IP with a very low bomb"

Steve Ritchie has been hamstrung at Stern with low budgets despite good IP

"I still think Steve Ritchie needs to become a mentor and not be designing these games from the ground up. And that's just my opinion."

Steve Ritchie should mentor rather than design games from scratch

"To me that's what Steve Ritchie does with Pinball. He makes a game. He designs it to have shots that he likes and then he just pulls the theme over the game itself and I feel like they just pulled the Led Zeppelin artwork over his design."

Steve Ritchie designs games first then pulls themes over them like fondant on cake

"here we go. What did we say? The one thing that Steve Ritchie Pinball machines always suffer from. Art. It's like the art is always the last thing they do on a Steve Ritchie Pin"

Steve Ritchie pinball machines always suffer from poor art

"will this be Steve Ritchie's redemption or will this be Steve Ritchie's retirement moment... Star Wars was a miss Game Throne was a miss he hasn't had a hit recently so I think a lot of people are hoping that this becomes the game that Steve Ritchie reclaims his throne because other people are occupying that throne right now"

Steve Ritchie needs redemption - his recent games (Star Wars, Game of Thrones) were misses and he needs to reclaim his throne from newer designers

"somewhere over at Stern pinball Steve Ritchie is looking down at his Led Zeppelin creation and being like shit I can't I can't come out with this now I can't drop this music pin out in the world after that"

Steve Ritchie can't release Led Zeppelin now after Guns N' Roses

"That's actually not true, Mr. Steve Ritchie, because I'll tell you a game that has no dimples on it after hundreds of plays and that spooky pinball's Rick and Morty... I think Steve Ritchie is sort of misleading us when he said that in 2017"

Dismissive response to Steve Ritchie's defense of dimpling as normal

"I think Steve Ritchie might have one more game in him. I think it might be Led Zeppelin. But there comes a point"

Stern needs to find younger designers and some veterans should retire

"I don't think that was something to give to Steve. Steve's a great designer, but he doesn't concern himself with as much, from what I see, you know, it's not an insult. I'm just saying, he doesn't seem to concern himself with the aesthetics as much as he does the, the gameplay"

Star Wars pinball was a mismatch for Steve Ritchie's design style

"The Steve Ritchie thing is that thing is ironclad, solid information. You're gonna see it at Midwest Gaming Classic. That's gonna happen in mid-April."

Steve Ritchie's new Stern game is ironclad solid information for 2019

"he's a little condescending and I don't think Steve getting up there and being like all these pinball newbies don't know what they're talking about you know man like you can talk about this stuff Steve without being like you're you know so much because you've been doing it for so long"

Steve Ritchie was condescending in his dimpling video response

"I think he has ideas that he's been recycling for a long time. And I think it's time Stern found new blood to approach engineering these games because there was just nothing truly original or magical about Star Wars Pinball."

Steve Ritchie has been recycling ideas for too long and Stern needs new blood

"Steve Ritchie just needs to retire. He's done. That is the worst theme integration I've ever seen with a major license."

Steve Ritchie needs to retire after the poor Star Wars theme integration

"that's the other reason why Steve Ritchie just needs to retire"

Steve Ritchie should retire from pinball design

"I think Steve Ritchie needs to retire at expo I think he needs to he's done and he's done he's done get get you gave him the biggest theme in the history of of themes and this is what he made he's done time to retire"

Steve Ritchie should retire after failing to deliver on the biggest theme in pinball history

"I think we all felt that Steve Ritchie's comments were ill, conceived. I'm not quite sure what he meant by his comments, but he definitely didn't say something that made much sense considering all that went down."

Steve Ritchie's comments about John Trudeau situation were ill-conceived and didn't make sense

"Steve Ritchie's designs leave a lot to be inspired. He is not the best designer stern has and And stern needs to stop handing Steve Ritchie their top tier titles"

Steve Ritchie should not get top-tier licensed themes

"it just again it makes me so curious is the why they gave them the most incredible world ever created the biggest movie franchise of all time gets handed off to someone who clearly is not about bringing the world... no one struggles more with that than Steve Ritchie"

Steve Ritchie was wrong choice for Star Wars theme - doesn't bring worlds to life

"I do think that Steve Ritchie designs games to be Steve Ritchie games with his flow, right? And his sort of style. And then the theme is sort of plastered on top of his layout versus looking at the Star Wars universe and saying, how do we get an eight, you know, and is it an ATAT?"

Steve Ritchie designs games to be Steve Ritchie games first, then themes are plastered on top

"I think he kind of designs games to have incredible flow. And almost like designs the game before the theme and drops the theme onto it."

Steve Ritchie designs games for flow first, then drops themes onto existing designs rather than building around the theme

"I think I he's the designer. You know, we hear this a lot on the forums lately. It's like, who do you blame if a game comes out? It's not like one person of blame, but at the end of the day, the designer needs to take responsibility because it's his game... I just don't think he looks at Game of Thrones and says, we can't release this. We've got to go back."

Steve Ritchie prioritizes flow over theme integration and visual elements

"Steve Ritchie posted this comment on Facebook before he deleted it... 'it was a bad day for pinball if we stop talking about it it might go away don't post' okay what the fuck does he mean by that... Steve Ritchie you're common you need to clarify it"

Demanding Steve Ritchie clarify his deleted Facebook comment about the John Trudeau situation

"Do we really think Steve Ritchie has one more home run in the bag because his last three games are so with stern pinball, they were so lacking in creativity and you can't argue that it was just the bomb because the bomb on Godzilla was only a hundred dollars more than the bomb on freaking Led Zeppelin. So it's not the bomb that's been holding Steve Ritchie back. It's his own imagination."

Steve Ritchie's last three Stern games lacked creativity, not limited by budget

"It's like Steve Ritchie gets the short end of the stick with these mega license. Like he gets the best licenses that are there, but then he has to work with the license in terms of what he can do with the artwork."

Steve Ritchie consistently gets handicapped by restrictive licensing on major properties