![]() ![]() īy 1999, the pinball industry was virtually dead and Williams stopped manufacturing pinball machines and focused on gambling devices as WMS Gaming. On March 16, 2023, Atari announced that it had acquired the intellectual property rights to 12 Stern Electronics titles, including Berzerk and Frenzy. Gary Stern was the president of Stern Electronics, Inc, Pinstar Inc, and Data East pinball. Personnel from Stern Electronics formed a short-lived venture known as Pinstar, producing conversion kits for old Bally and Stern machines. In 1985, Stern Electronics left the amusement industry. In 1983, Stern became one of many victims of the amusement industry economic shakeout that occurred. When arcade video games became popular in 1980, Stern Electronics produced Berzerk. Coincidentally, Seeburg also owned Williams in the 1960s, when Sam Stern was its president. In 1979, Stern acquired the jukebox production assets of the bankrupt Seeburg Corporation, and the company became known as Stern / Seeburg. By 1978, they had switched over to fully solid-state electronics for their games. After a weak start, Stern Electronics' sales started picking up by the end of 1977. The first two games made by Stern were Stampede and Rawhide, both originally made by Chicago Coin, which only had changes made to their branding and logos. however, as a separate company, they did not assume any of the debt Chicago Coin had amassed. Chicago Coin's assets were purchased at bankruptcy sales forming the core inventory of Stern Electronics, Inc. Stern Electronics was formed when the Stern family bought the financially troubled Chicago Coin in 1977.
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