After two plus years Nucore has finally shipped. The response so far has been very good. We are finishing our custom Nucore Case. Once it’s finished the Nucore Complete kits will be available. We estimate about another 30 days. We will also be doing another seminar at the 25th Annual Pinball Expo in Chicago. Please make sure to stop by and see the latest.

If you haven’t been following the progress in the forums here’s what happened since the last update. Nucore has been officially licensed by Illinois Pinball and The Pinball Factory. With the support of these two organizations the future looks bright. We also announced pricing today; please see our forums for more information. The Nucore pre-order will begin very soon and Pinball Life will handle all sales for us. We’re preparing for this year’s Pinball at the Zoo here in Kalamazoo, MI. If you are in the neighborhood please stop by and see the latest. Pinball News also did another great article on Nucore and details what we’ve been up to since Expo.

Expo was a huge success. We would like to thank Larry DeMar, Cameron Silver, and Duncan Brown for their support and enthusiasm for Nucore. Since Expo we have completed the Alpha build of the code. Our Alpha testers have assembled their systems, successfully run the Nucore test application, and are ready to go. They will receive their code next week after we are done testing. Our target launch date is early 2009. We feel that we can ship a solid product in this time frame. For frequent updates please make sure you visit our forums.

We’ve been very busy the last few months. We have indentified the cause of the last major bug. Fixing it required a major re-write of one of the subsystems and we are almost done. Our plans for the 2008 Pinball Expo have been finalized. Chuck and Don will be hosting the Fireside Chat this year which will feature Nucore. We look forward to seeing everyone there. There has also been a lot of behind the scenes work that we hope to announce soon. Good things always do take time.

There’s a great article in this month’s PinGame Journal about Nucore and some of our history. We also were interviewed by pinballnews.com and that will be live today. We shot a new video for Pinball News showing Star Wars Episode One so make sure to check it out. In a week or so we will add the video to our media page

We upgraded our forum software. You no longer need to register to read the forums. We have added a lot of new features to Nucore and will be creating a new video showing them using Star Wars Episode One. We are also working on very important things behind the scenes and hopefully will be able to share the results soon.

PATZ is over and couldn’t have gone any better. It was great to see everyone’s reaction to the system. The jukebox mode was a real hit. Most people fell in love with the 22” widescreen LCD monitor. There were other exciting things that were discussed but more on that later. Here are a few pictures I shot with my camera phone.

We added a page in the Nucore section that links to all of our videos. The latest video we added shows Chuck's Revenge from Mars machine with a 22" Dell widescreen LCD monitor installed. The picture quality is pretty amazing. This weekend he's going to install an Alpine 4 channel car amp in the machine. This is the machine he will be taking to PATZ. Hope to see you there.

We will be showing an early version of the NUCORE system at PATZ on April 18th and 19th. We will have a Revenge From Mars machine and would welcome people to experience the system for themselves.

The new site is live and we would like to welcome everyone. If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to contact us.