Dungeons & Dragons Pinball Machine Announced

Stern Pinball has announced a new Dungeons & Dragons-themed pinball machine. The famed pinball company has announced plans to release Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye, a new $6,999 pinball machine. Details about the new machine are scarce, although a teaser for the game shows off what appears to be a mechanical red dragon. No release date has been announced for the pinball machine but more details will likely be announced next week at CES, an annual consumer electronics show held in Las Vegas. A teaser trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye can be seen below:


As D&D develops into more and more of a modern-day brand, it has crossed over into various kinds of media with varying degrees of success. A D&D LEGO set was well-received in 2024, which was followed by additional LEGO minifigures of characters like the Lady of Pain and Strahd. D&D will also appear at a new Universal Fan Fest Nights event this spring, with what appears to be a kind of haunted house/adventure room experience. A new "immersive experience" is also running in Canada this winter, featuring a truncated hour-long adventure in Waterdeep.

 

[aco175]

 

[MechaTarrasque]

I hope at least one of the multiball setting is a beholder one.

 

[Older Beholder]

I love me some pinball.
I haven't played much since the Covid lockdowns, but before that I was pretty regular.
Will be keeping an eye out for this one. Wish there was some pics of the playfield and cabinet.

 

[GMMichael]

Where's the D&D needlepoint already, WotC?

They canceled that with the movie plans. Apparently pinball is how they're gonna go full Star Wars.

 

[Chaltab]

WOTC wants all our quarters.

...You know if Video Games count this means Metroid got a pinball spin-off before D&D did.

 

[Mistwell]

If it can generate $20 a day, it will pay for itself in a year. A good investment for some game stores and retro cafes.

 

[MGibster]

If it can generate $20 a day, it will pay for itself in a year. A good investment for some game stores and retro cafes.

You got me kind of curious about how much one could expect an arcade game to generate. Pong was released in 1972 and did rather well generating an average of $40 per day which is about $300 in today's purchasing power. It'd hard finding specific figures for how much coin operated machines might generate. Good way to launder money I guess.

 

[JEB]

From what I understand, pinball never left. I guess I'm surprised that there wasn't already DnD pinball? It seems like every intellectual property has pinball and gambling machines.

There was an earlier D&D pinball machine, way back in the 1980s: https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/dungeons-and-dragons

Pinball game design has advanced a lot since then, of course.

 

[Mistwell]

Realistically most pinball machines make $300 a month for the first couple months that they're new to a location and then drop off over time to the point they're making $80 a month by the end of the first year, which is why they are rotated every other month.

 

[R_J_K75]

Ever since I was a young boy/
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton/
I must have played 'em all
But I ain't see nothing like him/
In any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid/
Sure plays a mean pinball --"Pinball Wizard" by The Who

Pete Townsend wrote that song last minute when he found out that the person reviewing "Tommy" was a huge pinball fan. Pretty clever. That chord strumming pattern after the intro is really hard to play, after 30 years I still screw it up