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Story dated 13th February 2002. In the latest press release, Stern Pinball Inc. unveil their latest game - Playboy. Not much of a surprise for Pinball News readers of course, since we brought you the world's first full review 3 weeks ago. But this is Stern's public admission of their next game. Playboy in now in production and should last for about 4 months if things go according to plan. There isn't any information on the Stern web site yet beyond a simple splash screen with the backglass image but Stern did send us two images of the game. Interestingly, these pictures show the same lockdown bar as we saw at the ATEI show. This one had a plastic insert part way along it leading us to assume it was a prototype model using a patched Austin Powers part. These models also show it, though hopefully it won't be there in the production version. We shall see. There don't appear to be any visible differences between the game shown in Stern's pictures and the games we reviewed. However, we've shown them below anyway. If you can see any changes please let us know. Award for the cheesiest quote of the year so far must go to George Gomez for this classic:"The game recreates the excitement and glamour of the magazine within the fiction of the game." Err, right George. Here's the press release:
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