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You can get one of 800 Star Trek machines from pinball wizard Gary Stern

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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LAS VEGAS — The future of tech often highlights the International CES. But among all the latest tech toys is a revival of a pastime from the days before video games. And that’s a good thing for Gary Stern, an old-school pinball gamer who has been making pinball machines for 66 years.

Limited edition Star Trek pinball machine from Stern Pinball
Limited edition Star Trek pinball machine from Stern Pinball

His Stern Pinball, born in 1986, is still making pinball machines, including a new limited edition Star Trek version (reboot universe, not old-school, William Shatner Trek). The top 800 machines in the limited edition are available for $8,500.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.