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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netizen" data-source="post: 122156">Stern up until ~'84 were <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=302&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced" target="_blank">mostly original</a>. Then they went broke and became <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=98&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced" target="_blank">Data East</a>, and then <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=280&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced" target="_blank">Sega</a> which is where the layout and licensing mad procedures of <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=303&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced" target="_blank">modern day Stern</a> were perfected.The [Data East] pinball division was created in 1985 by purchasing the pinball division of Stern Electronics and its factory and assets. Amidst plummeting sales across the entire pinball market, Data East chose to exit the pinball business and sold the factory to Sega in 1994. By the end of the 1990s, the company's American division, Data East USA, had been liquidated and Data East had ceased to exist outside of Japan.By 1999 Sega left the pinball industry and sold its pinball division, previously purchased from Data East in 1994, to Gary Stern, the son of Sam Stern. Gary Stern, who had been running Data East/Sega pinball since 1986, founded Stern Pinball, Inc. that same year.</blockquote>

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