Stern Electronics

Stern Electronics was founded by father-and-son pinball industry veterans Sam and Gary Stern in 1977 by purchasing the assets of the defunct Chicago Coin. Stern started out designing pinball tables and entered the arcade game market in 1980. The production of pinball tables was suspended in 1982 as the pinball market suffered a downturn in the early 1980s. Stern's first arcade game was the intern...