The Pinball Hype Index has gone through its monthly update cycle! We have now reviewed 42,778 (+962) pieces of content. There are a total of 1,651 (+13) unique pinball IPs tracked in our system (we only include the top 200 or so in our public index).
Not a ton of movement in this month's index following the massive new game release month. Folks seem to have quieted down on the pinball theme speculation front as they digest the new titles.
Miss last month's updates? We gotchu.
February 2023 Hype Index Updates
Top 10 Most Wanted Pinball Themes for April 2023:
- Back to the Future
- Jaws
- Venom
- Evil Dead
- Harry Potter
- Beetlejuice
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
- The Goonies
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Black Sabbath
Biggest Jumps (top 200):
- Adventure Time (+52)
- Elton John (+34)
- Rocky (+32)
- The Return of the Living Dead (+32)
- Metroid (+29)
- Get Smart (+29)
- The Ramones (+20)
- Castlevania (+19)
- Dungeons & Dragons (+18)
Biggest Jumps (whole index):
- UHF (+714)
- Flight of the Navigator (+510)
- Kung Fu Panda (+457)
- Huey Lewis and the News (+354)
- Short Circuit (+310)
- Cocaine Bear (+283)
- Clerks (+282)
- The Last of Us (+252)
- Pink Flamingos (+247)
- Pantera (+242)
Biggest Drops (top 200):
- Dragonball Z (-3)
- Fortnite (-3)
- Ready Player One (-2)
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 (-2)
- The Lost Boys (-2)
- Dracula (-2)
- Halo (-2)
- Grateful Dead (-2)
- Home Alone (-2)
- U2 (-2)
Biggest Drops (whole index):
- Drag Me to Hell (-21)
- The Rock (-21)
- Manhattan Project (-21)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs (-21)
- Converse (-21)
- Magic Girl (-21)
- Brain Damage (-21)
- Five Finger Death Punch (-21)
- Bat Girl (-19)
- Music Jukebox (-19)
Pinball Themes New to the Index:
- American Psycho
- New York Dolls
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- This is the End
- Trashland
- Modern Talking
- Iron Man
- 311
- Simple Plan
- Jamiroquai
- X-Men: Age of Apocalypse
- Vans Warped Tour
- Jersey Shore
Colin is the chief pixel pusher at Kineticist. He's a lifetime gamer who became enamored with pinball after taking in a family copy of the 1979 classic Joker Poker (the EM version). Since then he's bought, sold and repaired many machines, competed in all kinds of tournaments, and contributes to This Week in Pinball, the New England Pinball League, and Pin-Masters of New England. Previously, Colin spent over a decade working in marketing for agencies and tech startups. He also started and ran a music blog, happy hour website, and wrote a regular craft beer review column for Central Track in Dallas. Once aspired to be an artsy film director.
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