This Premium/LE build of Stern’s Stranger Things delivers the deluxe vision of Brian Eddy’s 2019 design — the celebrated return of the Attack From Mars and Medieval Madness maestro, here summoning the eerie world of Hawkins. Like the Premium, it features the standout under-apron projector that throws images and animations onto otherwise-blank white ramps and targets, along with a magnetic ball lock that suspends balls unnervingly above the playfield — effects tailor-made for a story about a rift between worlds.

The gameplay underneath is Eddy at his sharpest. Completing three hits on each major shot starts a mode, and qualifying all four trios unlocks the Total Isolation mini-wizard mode, while the standups flanking the left ramp light multiball locks and the unpredictable “Upside Down” turns the drop-target bank into a big-score opportunity. Looping the left inner loop ten times to arm 2X scoring, then collecting at the scoop, is the high-scorer’s move.

And the defining trick endures: a once-per-game action button that vanquishes the Demogorgon, valuable only if you fire it before the ball is counted as drained — turning a last-second save into a potential jackpot. Tense, gorgeous, and richly themed, this top-tier Stranger Things pairs a brilliant first-Stern design with the kind of presentation that makes a dark room feel genuinely haunted.