The Foo Fighters Pinball Game

By David Hatcher Childress

The new Foo Fighters Pinball game is a great pinball game. More than two years in the making and with creative input from the band’s own Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee, and the late, great Taylor Hawkins, Stern’s Foo Fighters is a top-shelf pinball machine. It is best to get the Premium or LE game as only these games have the upper playfield that has a fourth flipper and allows the player to search Area 51.

An entire new universe has been developed with jaw-dropping hand-drawn artwork and custom animations including “Foo Fighters Saturday Morning Action Time!”—a fictional TV series chronicling the band’s quest to save rock and roll… AND THE WORLD!  Join Foo Fighters on this rescue mission to thwart the evil, mysterious alien Overlord and his army of bots.  Search the Area 51 upper playfield to break into and unleash pinball chaos.  Jump in the van for a righteous tour of duty to save humanity from extinction and let rock rule!

Foo Fighters first stepped onto the world stage in 1995 with their classic self-titled debut album.  Over the course of their career, the band has released 10 studio albums, amassed over 32 million records sold worldwide, won 15 Grammy Awards, were recipients of the first-ever MTV “Global Icon” award, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.   

Stern’s Foo Fighters machines bring the Foo Fighters concert experience home as players are immersed in an epic pinball adventure featuring 15 iconic songs spanning the band’s expansive catalog, including All My Life, Best of You, Breakout, Everlong, Holding Poison, I’ll Stick Around, Learn to Fly, Monkey Wrench, My Hero, Run, Something from Nothing, The Pretender, This is a Call, Times Like These, and Walk.

With the Foo Fighters special van you travel around the country to such cities like New York, Chicago and Seattle (where the Foo Fighters meet Bigfoot) to places like Roswell, Los Angeles and New Orleans. There are flying saucers, mechanical spiders, robots and plenty of pinball action. The goal is to send the Overlord back to Area 51. One can also assemble the Foobot, which is an imaginary toy featured in the fictional 80s TV series.

It is great fun, and you don’t have to be a big fan of the Foo Fighters to enjoy this fast-paced game. There are several multi-balls and the Area 51 multi-ball is a gas! Stop by the Adventures Unlimited bookstore and play the game today!