American Pinball Announces Development of New Board System; Bolsters Service Department
- Jason
- Jan 31, 2024
- 1 min read
This evening American Pinball (AP) launched its new Twitch channel with a stream of the Company's 2020 pinball machine Hot Wheels.
During the stream, American's Executive Vice-President David Fix made two new announcements. First that the company has hired two new techs to bolster its service department, Maurice and Lloyd.
The second announcement is that American has created its own new pinball board system that it will use in its games going forward. The new boards, produced by AP's parent company Aimtron, will replace the Multimorphic P-Roc board system that it had been using. The new boards are backwards compatible, so they can be used as replacements boards for all existing AP games.
The Company also reiterated during the stream that the rumors that Aimtron is looking for a buyer for the division are false and stated that it will conduct regular steams of its games on this channel in n Wednesdays going forward.
Where is the GTF new code and bug fix. Please fix this game asap! WTH!
The stream was fun. For APs first go at making this a regular thing it went pretty well. They mostly just need to interact with the chat more.
Steve Bowden put up a 2.2B point ball and it was an absolute masterclass performance to behold especially for those who understand how Hot Wheels scoring and sequencing is layered. Dude was calling his shots live in a full-speed flow and executing perfectly.
Viewers peaked at about 225 and hovered around 175 which is pretty good for a Wednesday night Twitch pinball stream.
A few other things not mentioned in the news piece:
any customers who need board repairs are already getting the new board! And thanks to backward compatibility with existing…
Well they had my attention and wasted it...
What a joke. Glad I didn’t waste my time watching them stream a 3 year old game that sucks and finding out they hires two people and making a new board.
I lasted like 2 minutes watching the stream. Fix needs to go. They should have just posted the news versus trying to do a steam like Spooky.