# happy saturday yo..where's the new pins? wonderful alice check..top/bottom 100 pinside check lets go

**Source:** Walt Wood Pinball  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2025-12-06  
**Duration:** 60m 33s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXRw2U4BAmc

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## Analysis

Walt Wood reviews recent pinball industry news, focusing on Wonderland Amusements' Alice Goes to Wonderland price increase due to tariffs and critiques the game's gameplay depth following its $630K Kickstarter. He expresses skepticism about fund allocation and game design, then explores Pinside's top/bottom 100 game rankings while criticizing community toxicity.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Wonderland Amusements raised over $630,000 on Kickstarter for Alice Goes to Wonderland — _Walt references the Kickstarter funding amount multiple times during discussion of the price increase_
- [HIGH] Alice Goes to Wonderland price increased from $799.99 to $1,199.99 due to tariffs — _Walt reads the price change announcement and blames Trump tariffs on overseas parts sourcing_
- [HIGH] Alice Goes to Wonderland has limited gameplay modes and lacks substantive game design depth — _Walt analyzes Vic BP's Pinball Expo 2025 gameplay footage and identifies missing modes, criticizing the ramp completion mechanic_
- [HIGH] Evil Dead ranks #4 on Pinside's all-time best games list — _Walt references the Pinside top 100 rankings and expresses surprise at Evil Dead's high placement_
- [MEDIUM] Predator pinball game features a mechanical design based on Whirlwind playfield layout — _Walt compares Predator's playfield to Whirlwind design, suggesting it's a derivative layout_

### Notable Quotes

> "They raised like over $630,000. It's wild... they could have contracted like Elwin and company, dude, for like a week for like 50k to put a [game] together... Where's all the money?"
> — **Walt Wood**, ~8:00-10:00
> _Expresses skepticism about how Kickstarter funds were allocated for game development_

> "I think there's like 500K in an account somewhere in Switzerland and this dude took like a hundred something thousand and he's putting it towards this. That's what I think."
> — **Walt Wood**, ~22:00
> _Speculates about potential misallocation of Kickstarter funds by the creator_

> "You're remaking all of our games. This Pedretti company and then they're all shitty... America, baby. Leave it to us."
> — **Walt Wood**, ~35:00
> _Criticizes European pinball manufacturers for copying American game designs poorly_

> "The game's horrible... I'd rather get a venerial disease from a gas station bathroom than put my money into a Rolling Stones pinball machine ever again."
> — **Pinside review (quoted by Walt)**, ~48:00
> _Extreme negative sentiment from community reviewer about Rolling Stones game quality_

> "You're telling me that Evil Dead and Harry Potter and Jaws is better than Twilight Zone. Dude, that's what you're telling me?"
> — **Walt Wood**, ~44:00
> _Questions validity of Pinside's top 100 rankings, skeptical of recent games ranking above classics_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Walt Wood | person | YouTube content creator covering pinball industry news and game analysis |
| Wonderland Amusements | company | Boutique pinball manufacturer behind Alice Goes to Wonderland Kickstarter project |
| Alice Goes to Wonderland | game | Home pinball machine (80% scale) from Wonderland Amusements; Kickstarter success raised $630K; 60-inch size; price increased to $1,199.99 |
| Pinball Expo 2025 | event | Industry event in Chicago where Alice gameplay footage was captured by Vic BP |
| Vic BP | person | Content creator who filmed Alice Goes to Wonderland gameplay at Pinball Expo 2025 |
| Pinside | organization | Pinball enthusiast forum and rating platform; Walt describes it as toxic; hosts top/bottom 100 game rankings |
| Chicago Gaming Company | company | Manufacturer producing Medieval Madness toppers (referenced as ongoing supply) |
| Predator | game | Pinball Brothers game based on Predator film; playfield design compared to Whirlwind; limited production |
| Spooky Pinball | company | Manufacturer; Walt references Evil Dead as highly rated on Pinside rankings |
| Evil Dead | game | Spooky Pinball game; ranks #4 on Pinside all-time best games list |
| Harry Potter | game | Stern Pinball game; ranks #2 on Pinside all-time best games list |
| Godzilla | game | Stern Pinball game; ranks #1 on Pinside all-time best games list |
| Jaws 50th Anniversary | game | Pinball game; ranks #5 on Pinside all-time best games list |
| Rolling Stones | game | Data East game; ranks #313 on Pinside all-time best games list; heavily criticized by community reviews |
| Twilight Zone | game | Williams classic; ranks #15 on Pinside all-time best games list; referenced as classic that newer games shouldn't outrank |
| Dungeons and Dragons | game | Williams/Bally classic; ranks #16 on Pinside all-time best games list; Walt questions its high ranking |
| Dune | game | Barrels of Fun game; ranks #17 on Pinside all-time best games list |
| Medieval Madness | game | Classic Williams game; Chicago Gaming remake with recent topper production; referenced as foundational design |
| Whirlwind | game | Pat Lawler classic; Walt claims Predator's playfield design mirrors this layout |
| Blues Brothers | game | HomePin game; Walt compares Alice negatively to this title; categorized similarly in terms of game quality concerns |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Wonderland Amusements Alice Goes to Wonderland price increase and tariffs, Alice Goes to Wonderland gameplay depth and code design criticism, Kickstarter fund allocation and project transparency concerns, Pinside community rankings and toxicity
- **Secondary:** European vs American pinball game remakes quality comparison, Predator pinball development and playfield design, Recent game releases ranked against classic titles
- **Mentioned:** Community sentiment on low-ranked games (Rolling Stones, TMNT)

### Sentiment

**Negative** (-0.72) — Walt expresses strong disappointment with Alice Goes to Wonderland's gameplay and code design despite high funding, combines this with skepticism about fund allocation. He criticizes European manufacturers and questions Pinside rankings credibility. Some frustration with community toxicity on the forum. Overall critical but not hostile tone.

### Signals

- **[business_signal]** Speculation that substantial portion of $630K Kickstarter funds may have been retained or misallocated given limited gameplay features delivered (confidence: medium) — Walt speculates: 'I think there's like 500K in an account somewhere in Switzerland and this dude took like a hundred something thousand and he's putting it towards this' and questions where $600K went relative to game quality
- **[sentiment_shift]** Pinside forum environment perceived as toxic; Walt experienced negative commentary and felt words were being put in his mouth during private chat participation (confidence: high) — Walt describes Pinside chat room: 'I just felt it right away. Just like toxic... people are just putting words in my mouth'
- **[competitive_signal]** Discussion of how recent manufacturers are attempting to capitalize on classic themes but struggling with execution quality and originality (confidence: medium) — Walt generalizes about European remake companies: 'All the remakes I play are shitty... You're [expletive] all of our [expletive] up, dude... America, baby. Leave it to us'
- **[design_philosophy]** Predator playfield design appears to mirror Whirlwind classic layout with roller coaster drop feature, suggesting derivative rather than original design (confidence: medium) — Walt critiques: 'This playfield is whirlwind with the roller coaster tycoon drop off over there, bro... You're remaking all of our games... the remakes I play are shitty'
- **[leak_detection]** Wonderland Amusements shared Kickstarter units walkround showing production stage with leprechaun head topper visible (confidence: medium) — Walt references video: 'Alice Kickstarter units walk walkound... Oh, before December 5th... you get the the leprechaun head. Oh, that thing's creepy looking, dude'
- **[market_signal]** Long gap between game announcements leaves market uncertain; Walt opens video noting 'Did a pinball machine drop? I don't know about it' (confidence: medium) — Walt: 'It seems like we just busted all our loads after Beetlejuice and now we don't know what to do. We don't know what to think'
- **[market_signal]** Wonderland Amusements raised price from $799.99 to $1,199.99 for Alice, attributed to tariffs on overseas parts (confidence: high) — Walt quotes: 'Trump's slapping them silly with tariffs right now' and 'they're probably using those cheap ass parts from like god knows where'
- **[product_concern]** Alice Goes to Wonderland gameplay footage reveals limited modes, missing mode consequences after ramp completion, audio ducking issues, and overall shallow game design (confidence: high) — Walt's detailed analysis of Vic BP's Pinball Expo gameplay: 'All you got to do is like have one shot... You complete the right orbit and then have the right the ramp strobing your world famous ramp that everybody's talking about... That's simple, right?'
- **[product_strategy]** Chicago Gaming Company continuing production support for Medieval Madness with topper availability updates (confidence: high) — Walt references news: 'Chicago Gaming company. Build more medieval Madness toppers, dude. Like, is this news? Really? We're still talking about this game?'
- **[sentiment_shift]** Community perception that recent games (Evil Dead, Harry Potter, Jaws, Elton John) are outranking classics (Twilight Zone, Medieval Madness) on Pinside top 100, suggesting potential recency bias or rating system issues (confidence: medium) — Walt expresses disbelief: 'You're telling me that Evil Dead and Harry Potter and Jaws is better than Twilight Zone... You're telling me that Dungeons and Dragons is right below Twilight Zone in the list of greatest games of all time. That's what you're here to tell me, dude?'

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## Transcript

Hey everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Rock your body. Hey. Yeah. Everybody Walter's back. All right. And he's gonna bring you some of his insight. What is up, dude? How are you doing, folks? Good to see you all. Well, I can only see the little black hole. That's the camera, but you know, I hope you all are doing well. Happy post Thanksgiving. Hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving, man. Spend some time with your family, some friends. Gobble up some turkey if that's the I get that that's the way you eat turkey. Yeah, man. Hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving. I'm getting into it. Getting into the swing of things. Getting my friend loaded here. What is going on, man? Not much. I mean, unless I'm missing something, dude. Am I missing something? Did I not get the memo? Did a pinball machine drop? I don't know about I don't know. It seems like we just busted all We all just busted our loads after Beetlejuice and now we don't know what to do. We don't know what to think. We don't know what to say. We don't know how to be. Let's go on that and see what's going on. I have an idea. Like I have a couple of things I want to do in this video because I'm I was thinking about like, you know, I love you guys, man. I I don't want to try to be like, you know, you guys want me to keep going. We'll keep talking about it. I'll I'll find something to talk about. You know what? I got something to talk about. You want to hear it? I'm curious what people think are the best games ever. That's I was thinking. So, we'll go through the news here a little bit. See if we can find any. And um after that I want to go to Pinside and see what people think are like the best games ever, you know, and why and like the worst games ever and why. You know what I'm saying? Like so let's let's do that. That sounds like something that might be fun. If it sounds fun to you, let's come aboard. Let's roll. If not, I don't know what to tell you, man. Because that's probably what I'm doing. drop it in the suggestion box. Yeah, bro. Honestly, fire me a suggestion. I'm always open to suggestions, dude. If you guys want me to talk about something, I'm I'm very open. I'm just like don't have my finger on the pulse of everything. Let's see what's going on with this Chicago Gaming company. Build more medieval Madness toppers, dude. Like, is this news? Really? We're still talking about this [ __ ] game? Damn, bro. Oh my god. All right, I guess that's cool. Yo, you know what? If you're if you if you bought the game and you don't have your topper yet, this is great news to you. If you're thirsty for new pinball, then this does, you know, who cares. All right, dude. We've seen the topper. I've seen it already. Okay, here's something else. It says this afternoon, Wonderland Amusements, the company that recently successfully kickstarted funding for the Alice Goes to Wonderland. Yeah, man. They made they raised like over $630,000. It's wild. So, the funding for that pinball machine announced it is raising its price for the game. Originally priced at $799 plus 50 shipping and recently 999.99. Now it's increasing the game's MSRP to $1199.99. I don't know how to read numbers apparently, but it was $9.99 as a result of increased expenses from tariffs. It's all Trump. Trump, what are you doing to MY BUCKET OF BOLTS? NOW MY BUCKET of bolts is worth Oh yeah, that's what it is, man. That's all the parts they're using. They're probably using those cheap ass parts from like [ __ ] god knows where. And Trump's slapping them [ __ ] silly with tariffs right now. dude. He's really doing like honestly I'm not going to get political on you, but yo, these mother these countries have been taking advantage of us for a long time. He's really doing what all other presidents should have been doing, standing up for us. But, you know, like I said, I'm not going to get political on you, but I'm just saying. So, but here's the thing. They could they could say whatever they want though and just blame tariffs. So, how much do we really know? But I would say a company like that like they're probably getting all their [ __ ] from overseas. Let's see what they got. Oh, here's a Alice Kickstarter units walk walkound. Where's a remote? Let's see what we got here. Is this just this just all the box box games? Like, bro, how do you know there's actually games in there? There could be just boxes. All right. Well, does that give you hope? I don't know. There's a uh Oh, yeah. Here you go. 11. Wait. So, that's Oh, before December 5th. Oh, so now it's probably back up to whatever. And you get the the leprechaun head. Oh, that thing's creepy looking, dude. I don't know. Hopefully the ball doesn't hit that. It doesn't look like you're going to break that dude's schnoz off. The ball's smacking into it. Uh oh. Predator. They're still talking about Predator. Okay. Well, hold on. Let's Before we talk about Predator, let's let's I'll go into that Predator video. Let's see. Um, let's see some gameplay of this Alice goes to Wonderland. Let's see what all the fuss is about. I don't think I've really seen it before. Here's this guy Vic BP. This dude's awesome. He reminds me of uh like I grew up in the East Coast. He reminds me of one one of my people I grew up with on the East Coast. On guys, Big VP here on this one. Today, we're going to look at a gameplay footage that I captured live at Pinball Expo 2025 in Chicago of Wonderland Amusements Alice Goes to Wonderland. Take a look.
Okay. Yeah. I need some [ __ ] like that on this channel, man. Like you turn it on, it's like all your dreams will be made soon the minute you hit play. Don't delay Derky Dy or some stupid [ __ ] like that. And then you immediately will be like, "Fuck that, dude. That was the dumbest [ __ ] song I ever met. What the hell would he have to say?" And then you click off. All right, let's see what this guy has to say about it. All right, you know the drill. All these gameplay videos I do start with my social media. Be sure to follow me, vic_vp.
Oh, he's got he's got to plug. He's got to plug it. Let me see where is uh Oh, here we go. I'm going to skip this plug. Sorry, buddy.
You know who I want to be?
It's right there. There's the guy. If you like this video, follow him. Follow this man. Follow that man.
All right, let's see what we got. Let's watch a little of this. Can John Youssi the game play?
I know my TV's
shitty.
This one right there.
Let's see what we got. I don't understand the lights at all. Okay.
Okay. So, maybe he's got to hit that one more time and then this two more times. Is that what's going on here?
Okay.
Why does the score just keep going up? His [ __ ] score just keeps going up.
Or was I just like imagining that?
We uploaded the new code. Uh
oh.
He said he put new code in there.
Well, you you heard him. Now turn it up.
You didn't get your [ __ ]
Hey, bro. Come on, man. I language. I got kids. Okay. Okay. So, he hit the Wait, wait. He hit the ramp and all the [ __ ] lights are solid. So, isn't that supposed to do some [ __ ] after that? Or am I just, you know, it's my first day on the job. He got the ramp solid. See, now he should have a mode. Like, here, look. I'm going to help these [ __ ] dude. Yo, I'm just saying, bro. Like people gave you guys like over $630,000, dude. It's been a while and this is what you got to show for yourself. Like really, bro? You could have contracted like Elwin and company, dude, for like a week for like 50k to put a [ __ ] game together. I'm sure, dude. Like this is what you got. Like where's all the money? Like this is what you have to show. Where's all the money at? I was saying this in the beginning, dude. This guy I don't know, man. This is the product you got. I don't know, dude. This is what we're get so far. [ __ ] buddy. I don't I don't know how I feel about all this right right now. Let's uh uh keep going, right? I guess. But dude, yeah, that should start a mode once you get all those lights lit on the ramp. There's, you know, you start a mode. Now, by the way, sorry if I'm a little seem a little slow. I have this weird habit of like staying up all night lately and then choosing to make a video. Like, I don't know like what my problem is, but that's the kind of Walter you're getting today. But hey, we're going to make it work. But hey, I think my wide awake self would see that, too. Like, yo. Okay, all the lights are solid. Something should happen now, right?
What the [ __ ] is going on now?
It drained and it doesn't know.
Oh, bro, you got to cut this [ __ ] out of the video if you want to move games. Dude, what the [ __ ] As much editing as this guy does, I'm surprised he didn't trim this part out of the video.
I I saw the ball go down the trough and now the game doesn't know where happened where it is.
And now they're just moving it.
Bro, just open up
open up the game and move and find where the ball is. It's in there. the ball this time. Game over.
There you go.
All right, just skip ahead while they
they figure this [ __ ] thing out. Okay. Oh, wait. They're still going.
They got it. They got it. They got it. They got it. Oh, but now we can't see the flippers as well.
That's okay. Dude, is there any modes? Like, I'm not seeing any modes.
Okay, here we go. Is this a mode?
Is there anybody else?
Do not [ __ ] tell me that's all that happens. Dude, if you're going to sit here, bro, are you really going to make me sit here and accept the fact that I live in a goddamn world where you complete all those [ __ ] lights? It says level one complete. And then let me guess, it's going to [ __ ] reset all the lights. Can I take a wild stab in the dark? Regis, I'm going to save my lifelines on this one. All right. It's going to [ __ ] light them all again at one state at the like every light will be flashing. Watch. I'm going to guess. I'm going to bet with Vegas on it.
See, I was right. And no mode happened. Nothing happened. Dude, why can't you put a mode right there? Dude, all you got to do is like have one shot like, okay, so you complete one lane, right? Just think of like Cactus Canyon, right? You complete one of the three shots and then it like lights another shot and it's like strobing. You could do that here. So like let's say you complete the right orbit and then have the right the ramp strobing your world famous ramp that everybody's talking about. You have that strobing and then that the mode complete. Like that's simple, right? There's a lot you could do here. Like I don't want to brainstorm it on too much because I don't [ __ ] like I don't know. I'm going to go ball deep on this game and then all those modes are going to end up in the game. Oh, went back in the shooter lane.
Oh, there it goes.
Okay. Here. Here we go. Here's a game mode. We're in a mode. He completed that [ __ ] uh horseshoe or the clo. What is it? It looks like a [ __ ] uh Yeah, it looks like a horseshoe. And now it started. Look, now it's counting down a game mode. Okay.
Whoa. All right. So, we The only thing lit on the whole playfield is the horseshoe again.
So, you got to hit that three times. Oh, he hit the guy and it gave him a minute.
Okay.
I don't like how the audio ducks. Like every time there's a call out, the audio ducks. So like the audio like the game music stops and then it's like, John Youssi what I'm saying? Like, it should be like play the music and then the little leprechauns like talking talk talking about how you nailed him in his his his nuts, you know, or whatever. But they should play at the same time. Like the all the right now it's like it might be all on one channel. Like, see, I don't know enough about game audio. I need like some somebody take me under their wing and teach me all they need, all they all they know, cuz like I'm trying to figure out piece by piece. But that's what I think is happening, dude. It's like they got them all on one channel so that it has to stop the game music to play the sound effect to play the call out. I think that's what's going on right here. That's what it seems like to me. I don't know. I can't be certain. Well, at least we're in a game mode.
Oh, it's going to do it again.
Why did it go twice?
I know.
What the [ __ ] was Wait, wait. Oh, he hit a I'm like, why did it play that horrible sound twice and then now I'm replaying it over and over. Oh, he hit a target. So, it gave him four more seconds.
When they speed up that ending, it's just like
the second that it's uh shuts everything off and
it's like chalk. nails on my [ __ ] uh dick hole.
So, it's a little more easy to
figure out what's going on.
Oh, here's a mode.
How did he start that?
Oh, he hit the ramp. Here we go. Okay. Oh my.
What is that? Oh man, this game is kind of boring, huh? So instead of a mode there, there's a dumb [ __ ] worm that comes out and just reminds you that you're doing a good job.
How about a mode? Why don't you put a game mode there, dude? Something that's fun to do instead of a dumbass worm.
Like, bro, I'm not trying to hate on this game too much and [ __ ] but yo, come on, bro. Like you guys raised 600 grand and this is what you're giving people.
I'm like I can't play,
bro. Give me six grand. I'll fly out to wherever the [ __ ] you are and we'll we'll put five bumping modes in there and one wizard mode in tonight. We'll figure it out tonight.
with her head.
Is that the match game over?
Darn.
Give me one more before I go.
Bro, I don't think I want to watch one more to be honest with you. Tom,
I think I've seen all I need to see, bro. Like, honestly, I don't think I need to see anymore. I don't want to rake this game over to Coohl's too much, man. It's just, you know, it is what it is. But, um, yeah, bro. I'm good on that [ __ ] [ __ ] dude. Who gives a [ __ ] Does really anybody give a damn? I mean, dude, I don't know about that [ __ ] bro. That's like in the same category for me as like that Blues Brothers game. This thing. Like, what's worse, the Blues Brothers or this game? I don't know. I honestly have no idea. And like I said, I know like they're just trying kickstarting, dude. Trying to get their [ __ ] off the ground. But yo, bro, you guys got some money in there. Some ser It's not like they raised like 10 grand, dude. And that's like, dude, if they got like 10 grand from their Kickstarter and that's the game that we got, I'd be like I'd be like, "All right, well, you know, they did only raise $10,000, so it makes sense that this is the design that we are presented with." But dude, they raised over $600,000 and that's the [ __ ] game that they're rolling out with. It's just I don't know, man. And something's not adding up to me. I don't know. I think there's like 500K in an account somewhere in Switzerland and this dude took like a hundred something thousand and he's putting it towards this. That's what I think. I think he took a big chunk of that Kickstarter and he's stocking it somewhere. That's what I think. I know people, bro. You can't give people that much money at the junk. That dude's not you probably not used. I don't know that guy, but he's probably not used to getting that much money in a lump like that. So, he's probably like, "Yo, I'm definitely in a cut. Put that aside." And I don't know if this is true, bro. I'm just speculating because this is my channel, man. That's what I get to do on my channel. I get to talk [ __ ] and speculate and have pipe dreams and like I mean, this isn't a pipe dream. I hope he's not [ __ ] doing that. Godamn. But, you know, that's I think it's going on because dude, that's not like Where's the $600,000 and that's what we got? He hit the standup target and it was like a loose tooth. It was like Yeah. gross. You should have seen the standup target though, you know? I don't know, man. Something seems fishy. Something seems fishy to me with the whole [ __ ] thing with that Alice game, dude. I'm telling you right now, bro. I I can't put my finger on it, but something seems something don't seem right. Like, I don't I don't know, man. I I can't put Like I said, I can't put my finger on it. I just Beware, man. I'm just telling you, beware. And now they're showing you all the boxes. Like, why are they just showing you all the just boxes? How come they didn't show any of like the game going into the boxes? They just showed me a bunch of brown boxes and what? I'm just I'm supposed to assume, oh, there's they're all filled with games. It's like my cousin Vinnie, dude. He rolls up with with a wad with a 20 covering it. How do I know that's not a 20 with a whole bunch of ones? You know, that's how I feel right here. I don't know, man. We gotta get the lab results back on that [ __ ] I'm not telling you right now. I think something's fishy in the mixture there. I don't know. But hey, the game play is boring as [ __ ] bro. You got to put some modes in there. What else is going on? Predator. Dude, are people still trying to make Predator a thing? Dude, this game is not really isn't happening, man.
I'm afraid we all have our orders. Major,
what do we got? We got anything for Predator?
Yeah, I have no idea what these items are for.
Oh, it's not loading it. I'm trying to skip around, man.
The chopper is ready for a special mission. The chopper is ready for a special mission. Where's the Arnold guy? Oh, is it? It might be when he gets to a multiball. Where's he get? Wow.
Is this it?
Oh, ball one. I think it's when he gets to a multiball. Maybe it's Oh, there it is. Here we go. Need to pull my hands up to get this done.
Get to the top.
I love how they like they have his face like so cleverly out of frame. Need to pull my pants up.
You just have to believe.
Got quotes everywhere.
Can't do that. Oh man. Dude. Oh god. Bro, I love it so much, dude. you couldn't get him, so you just like use his face and [ __ ] like he cut his like it's like, "Hey, we don't have the likeness to use Walter in this video." Hi, welcome to the channel. Uh, and then you just The only time you use me is I'm falling out that [ __ ] is hilarious, dude. They couldn't have written a letter to Arnold, dude. Just write a passionate letter to Arnold. He's been in so many pinball machines, man. I'm sure he'd want to help you out, dude. Send the guy a passionate letter. Tell him where. Tell him your story. Hey guys, I'm just trying. We're just We don't have a lot of money, but we're just trying to Hey, we're a small company. You know, we're trying to bring pinball back to people. You know, it would be awesome. We know that Arnold, you you send a letter to his people. We know that Arnold's been in, you know, pinball machines in the early 90s and we know that Arnold has, you know, been in a few of them. We're just wondering, we know his price is high. We're just wondering, hey, is there any way, you know, you send him a letter like that, dude? I guarantee like, you know, like a a strong a like a or like a video message or something, dude, where like he could tell you speak? I don't know, man. The dude's like 80 years old, bro. You really think he's trying to like get the top price for his [ __ ] like this? I'm sure he doesn't give a [ __ ] at that point. I'm sure he doesn't care. It's his people around him that give that care. That's why if you could get to Arnold himself if they could. It's too late now. They [ __ ] it up cuz everybody's on to you, dude. What they're doing with the [ __ ] game. And by the way, the game is just whirlwind, dude. This playfield is whirlwind with the roller coaster tycoon [ __ ] drop off over there, bro. What's up with these European companies like stealing our American ideas, man? Um, yo, there needs we need like a civil war. A civil pin a pinball war, man. Come on. Knock it off. You're remaking all of our games. This Pedretti company and then they're all shitty. All the remakes I play are shitty. I hit the [ __ ] standup target. It's like dunk. It's like somebody smack me in the head with a can of [ __ ] raid. Dunk. Bro, it's a it's horrible, dude. You're you're [ __ ] all of our [ __ ] up, dude. Just knock it off. Knock it off. Stick to ABBA. Aba was good. You can keep ABBA, dude. Do that [ __ ] But all these other ones, man, you're [ __ ] our [ __ ] up, dude. Knock it off. America, baby. Leave it to us. If we're going to remake them, let us remake them, dude. You guys don't have it. You guys don't have it on lock. Whatever the [ __ ] you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's all I got to say. I'm not trying to drag these [ __ ] in the mud. I'm just being honest remake sucks. I hate it. But this [ __ ] reminds me of [ __ ] whirlwind, dude. You can't [ __ ] tell me was Same with that Saw game. It It was It was literally whirlwind. Like, what are we doing with Whirlwind, dude? You guys are trying to jack off [ __ ] Pat Lawler. Just get it over with already. What are you doing to the poor guy? Leave him be. You know what? If you're going to rethe the whole game, just do a mirror. Do a mirror of it cuz that way it'll take me like four months to figure out that like, oh [ __ ] this is just the same design as whirlwind but flipped around. That's my biggest piece of advice to all these [ __ ] that just want to like rethe games and like put their name on it and [ __ ] Do a mirror of it and then it'll take us some like instead of having to go over there, have the launcher over there and [ __ ] it, dude. Who gives a [ __ ] And then that way it'll take us like a while a while longer to realize, yo, this is whirlwind but just flipped around. That's kind of cool. Like that would literally come with my mind. That's kind of cool. You know what else we got? We got any more news? I don't think we have any more news really. I think that's it. I'm curious. This is what I was talking about in the beginning. Pinside, right? Everybody pinside is like everybody tells me it's like toxic, right? It's like the most toxic thing. I don't go on pin side because I gotta set up an account and I'm not like big on like typing all the time and you know like like there I had a situation where there was um recently there was a group of people that wanted me to go in and uh to this one chat room and I did you know just because they had paid for the subscription that's the only reason I went man, cuz I I thought it was just such a such a generous thing that all these people I didn't even know cuz the only the only would would pay all these people I didn't even know would pay to get me in the room because the only way I can get in that room was if you pay. You can't just walk into the room and start chatting away. So I thought, wow, if people are willing to extend that gesture, man, like I should, you know, I should jump in there. So I did, you know, and um just for a little bit because I just thought that gesture was just it was wild. But I definitely the w the more I spent time in there, I started to feel the toxicity. Very toxic environment in the chat room I was in. And uh you know, it's cool. I don't want to like drag him in the mud or whoever the chat room was, you know, but like I just felt it right away. Just like toxic. Yeah. Hey, John Youssi Walt thinks this and Walt's already saying that and a lot of these people are just putting words in my mouth. I didn't even say like I didn't even say I kind of felt like man this is kind of oh jeez a little toxic you know and um this is kind of what I've heard about this pinid site I'm not into the whole like drama and toxic [ __ ] I'll look at it from afar and just kind of look in you know so [ __ ] I'm just curious what people think. What are the best games ever? What do people think are the best games? What do people think are the worst games? Let's go through some of the top hundred of the penside, the solid state, and the electromechanical. Let's see what we got. So, top 100, number one, Godzilla, of course. Number two is Harry Potter. What the [ __ ] dude? Already? Really? Number four is Evil Dead. I mean, Evil Dead's fun, dude, but I wouldn't put it as number four of all time. Damn, dude. Jaws is number five. Elton John is number eight. to Twilight Zones 15. So, you're telling me that Evil Dead and Harry Potter and [ __ ] uh Elton John and Jaws is better than Twilight Zone. Dude, that's what you're telling me? You're telling me that Dungeons and Dragons is right below Twilight Zone in the list of greatest games of all time. That's what you're here to tell me, dude. Come on. What is What the [ __ ] is wrong with you people? Why is Dungeon and Dragons so high, dude? Every time I'm at the arcade, no one's playing it. Nobody. Are you guys all grinding on it in your houses? What are you doing? I don't get it, dude. What are you guys seeing that I'm not seeing? Or do I just not know how to have fun? Maybe I just don't have to [ __ ] fun anymore and I should just quit like everything. I don't even [ __ ] know, bro. What are you guys seeing? I don't get it. How is that there? Dune. Okay, bro. Dune. Dunes right under Dungeons and Dragons 17th greatest games of all time. Come on, dude. Okay, bro. I don't know what's the low. Let's go to the bottom. What's the lowest? Is this the low? Oh, number four. Let's see. Number the the bottom one is Thunderbirds. Hercules. Bugs Bunny's birthday ball. Raven, Spy Hunter, Rolling Stones. What do people Oh, Rolling Stones is 313. What do people hate about Rolling Stones? I'm curious. What do What What do people say about Rolling Stones? Uh, ratings. Here we go. Here, let's start by the lowest. We'll get We'll start by the lowest ratings. Here we go. Rating low to high. Perfect. By far one of the worst games I've played. Nothing good about it. Mick in the Middle is one of the silliest things I've seen. Stay away, please. Oh, come on, brother. You got to give us more than that. Absolute waste of time. Never should have been made. Well, we need one that like gives us more things. You got to give us more than that. Here we go. What a steaming pile of pinball. Mick on a stick sucks a whole lot of dick if I'm being honest. And they censored themselves. They couldn't say dick, I guess. Can you not say dick on benai? Is that like forbidden? Once he single-handedly sent balls one, two, three rocketing down both outlanes and SDTM on a single playth through. I've since stopped feeding quarters into this clunker of a pinball. Everybody has this voice when I'm reading reviews. I don't know why, but they get it. I don't know why, dude. Honestly, I have no idea. If you got to choose a song like an AC/DC or Kiss, then that'd be a different story. But you don't. And to make matters worse, the sound quality is poor. Uninspired R package and cheap wide passive ramps are a bummer. Scoring objectives not terribly clear either. dreadfully build quality for something man 2011. I'd rather get a veneerial disease from a gas station. Oh, dude. He ends the he ends his rant with I'd rather get a veneerial disease from a gas station bathroom than put my money into a Rolling Stones pinball machine ever again. This guy would rather get a venerial disease from a gas station than play a pinball machine. Are you [ __ ] serious, bro? What is wrong with you, bro? You'd rather get a VD than have fun. Like, it played the [ __ ] game. It's not that bad. It's not as bad as this guy's letting on, dude. There's a few multiballs in there. There's some [ __ ] to do. It's not that bad. Jesus Christ. This guy would rather get a vidarial disease. Good lord. All right, we get it. The game's horrible. Okay, I don't want to put it that low. Good damn. Good. Good lord. What else is low down here? That's like why a Teenage Mut Ninja Turtles. The Day to East one. You guys don't like that one? I used to love that game, man. I can see why people don't like it. What do What do people say about it? Of course, we're going to start with the lowest first. This guy took a picture with a pizza slice on top of it. That's gross. Yeah, bro. Dude, now I got to clean the grease spot off your [ __ ] pinball machine before I play it, dude. Come on. Look at this. You put a pizza on it. So now I got to [ __ ] get Oh, dude. That's like OCD for me, dude. I got to get all the spots off of it. I'm overthinking the [ __ ] out of this. All right, [ __ ] it. Let me go back now. And uh what was it? Ratings. I'm not on this site a lot, so I'm trying to figure out like how to navigate. Uh thanks for rolling with me on this journey. We're slow. We don't have much to talk about, man. There's not much going on. So, you know, I just [ __ ] I'm curious. I've always been kind of curious about this [ __ ] All right, so let's see. Um, what do people say? Let's go uh rating. I like to go ratings like low to high cuz I like to see the people that start off like, "Fuck this game. I swear to [ __ ] God, I [ __ ] I locked my kids in the closet for three weeks because of this [ __ ] game." You know, that kind of [ __ ] I love it, dude. I live for it. No, no, no, no, no. I eat it. Let's see what we got. Here we go. Is that Did that apply? Oh, I got to hit apply. Here we go. This guy gave it a four. Here we go. Out of 10. He says, "I love teams. Not this game. One of the worst layouts ever. Left ramp. Left ramp. Left ramp. It's all you do. The sewer kick out. It's not unique. It doesn't work all that well. Spinner makes the left ramp slightly harder, but not really adding to anything. Great side. I'll play for Okay. Yeah. But cons rules are fully thought out decent. It's not that bad. The ramp's kind of fun cuz it's got like dual ramps, you know. This guy says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ah, rule says non-existent. Yeah, Dave East was was kind of like that, too. Um, okay. People hate it. Seems like people hate it. All right, whatever, dude. Moving on. Let's see what else what else we got here. Um, I'm curious what they think the worst games are. You know, these are all new games, by the way. Checkpoint, Star Trek. Oh, Back to the Future, dude. Oh, man. Man, I love that game. Damn you. Damn you people. You put it 296 out of 300. Whatever. You [ __ ] How could you? I'll never forgive you people. What's so bad about this? What do you don't like about it? It's got amazing music. I want to know. What do you not like about it? Tell me. Tell me what the worst thing about it is. Go tell me the game is terrible. One of the worst I ever played. Our work is plain awful. Doesn't honor theme at all. The game feels clunky rules of poor. The music call outs could have been so much better, too. I can't wait till the moment someone made it back to future to pop away. Dude, the music call outs are great, man. Come on, dude. The music changes every time you lock a ball. Ah. Hey, this guy says pros really good sound. There you go. Yeah. Where's the flying Delorean or the clock tower or the hoverboards or any other of the amazing things that could have been in inter integrated into this? Bro, you want a flying Delorean and a hoverboard in a game a data east from 1990? What are you doing? Do you know where you are, bro? Like come on, dude. Like what are you talking about? The technology was not there then to make that kind of [ __ ] and put it in the game. You could probably do that nowadays with magnets and [ __ ] but the thing is they lost it. Like what are you trying to do? Like get it on the 40th anniversary? Like they didn't go back to 2025. They went back to 2015 or they went to the future. Doc Brown and Marty. Marty went to 2015. They didn't go to 2025, dude. They went to 2015. We missed it. We [ __ ] missed it. Stern had a chance to do it. They didn't do it. They're just feeding your nostalgia, man. Trust me. This was my dream theme, man. Back to the Future. And they they already made it. And it's not bad, dude. It's It's not a bad game. All right, let's see what else. Let's see. Um, let's see what the top em games are. Number one game, Heatwave. Oh, really? Why Heatwave? What's so good about it? People creaming their pants over Heatwave. They love it. Can I see a picture of it? Who the [ __ ] is that guy? Is that the original owner? Who the [ __ ] is that guy? Yeah, let me see. Okay, here it is. Uh, okay. You plunging balls, some roll five pops. Okay, that's kind of cool how it's got the thing in the middle. I like that. Ah, bro, this is the best game. This is the top EM of all time. I don't know about that, dude. Uh yeah, I don't know about that. I mean, this is this is subjective, of course, but you know, uh surfers. What's going on with surfers? I feel like I've played surfers before. Let me see. Yeah. Yeah, I played this game, dude. Let me see a picture of it. It's uh Yeah, here we go. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen that. Man, it's big. Oh, you got to punch for the saucer. The pops up there. See, all these games with all the pops in the middle though are kind of [ __ ] boring cuz you're just like shooting it in the pops and you're like ding ding. You're like that crowd from Happy Gilmore. Remember like when they hit the ball and it bounces off all the [ __ ] and the whole crowd's like ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. That's what this [ __ ] game is like. Games like this, like you shoot it into that bump popper nest and you're just like [ __ ] god, let me go have a coke and a smile and just wait. Ding ding ding ding. You know, just kind of boring, bro. And then sometimes like the pot will just fire back at you right in the middle and you can't do [ __ ] about it or fire towards one of the outlanes. You can't do [ __ ] about it. It's just like luck. It's really these games like this are just kind of like luck. This saucer is cool though. I remembered a saucer. That's That's pretty cool. What else is going on with this thing? Anything? It might be a It might be a [ __ ] uh zipper flipper thing. So it might come in and out. Like these flippers might come in the diamond. So they might like come in like this kind of like that, you know? Yeah. Okay. What else is there? That game is pretty cool. I put that game up there. Not like number two though. Damn, dude. Who's making this [ __ ] list, bro? I don't know about this list. I swear to God. Let me see here. Beat the clock. I remember that game. That's a fun game. Yeah, this game's pretty cool. Look at these. Look at this uh playfield, dude. So, you got Oh, here's a good picture. So, you're trying to plunge for that to advance and but then it's again it's got the the uh bump popper nest, you know, that's what I'm calling it. I haven't called it anything. I haven't called that until this day, this moment. It's a bump popper nest is what it is. A star hole, you know. But the cool thing is the flippers because it's got these and the peg. That's the cool part. Other than that, bro, it's kind of played, you know, because the pop bumpers are going to send it any kind of way. I guess people like that [ __ ] dude. They like firing it up into bumpers and just standing there like this. Ding ding ding ding ding ding. What is happening with my life? Ding ding. I don't know. There's a bunch of games. Like, I'm sure there's one of these games on here that's a banger. This one's not really a banger. It's like it's a good game. It's not a banger, though. Like, let's get a banger. Teachers, man. Eightball. Eightball is a banger. This game's a banger. Here we go. The first banger. Yeah, this one's like It's like Spanishized but just a little like Let's see if they got a whole playfield back here. Yeah. Here we go. Here's a good picture. Oh god, the flipper's all [ __ ] up, but don't worry about that. So, we'll plunge it. Yeah, it's almost like Spanishized, but I think it's two player. I think it's the only There's a couple little differences, too. You plunge it up here. You're trying to plunge for there, and it's got three bumpers, but they're not grouped together. They're in a line, so it's not as bad. And then you could use the bumper to get it out, you know. And you want to like shoot for the horseshoe right here. Just like that. And if it goes under there, you can fish it out. You can pop it up. This game's awesome, man. This is a good one. That's the first game I see on the list I I'll get down with. What else you got on that list? A lot of these games I don't recognize, man. I just kind of, you know, every time I'm pl I'm not like in a tournament and I start playing like old games, dude, I just like I can last for a while and then I just start getting [ __ ] pissed off. Like, God, what am I doing with my [ __ ] life? Like, you wait like 30 minutes to queue up. You get up there, you plunge a ball, it's like I'm working on it, man. Every time I go to a tournament, it's like a classics tournament. It's like I come out learning something like, yo, how to be more patient. More patient really is the only thing I'm trying to is I learn how to be more patient than the last time. That's all I got, man. I really don't have much to talk about. I hope all you guys are well. Um, but thanks for all your support, man. You guys are great. I love you all. I love you all. Please uh reach out to me. Send me uh some ideas you guys want me to talk about. I don't see any new pinball stuff coming up, man. So, I'm just like not too sure what to like go about. Like, I had a couple ideas, but I'm I don't know, man, really. So, I'm just like, you know, if you guys hear something, let me know. But myself, I just been chilling, man, to be honest with you. just writing music. I I I recorded a track I was going to put up on my page, but I played it back and I was like, "Damn it, dude." Like, it's bro, I don't want somebody jacking it. That's the thing. I don't have any of this music copyrighted. I played it back. I was like, "Dude, this one's it just has this transition and this one part, man, it's just it's crispy. I love it, man. It's It's It sounds It sounded pretty good. I just need to find out a way how to get it like I I never posted music like online for people like that I've written. So, I'm trying to figure out how to do that in a way where it's like not getting jacked left and right because I I don't write like normal chord progressions and [ __ ] I'm kind of writing different [ __ ] So, I don't know. We'll figure it out. But that's kind of where I'm at. Much love everybody. I hope you guys are doing well. That's kind of it for me, man. I really don't have much going on. I'm just taking a break from tournaments, man. Really, cuz it just seems like I walk in the door and people are just like, I think I've gotten to that point here in Colorado, dude. I just come in the door now and people are just like, "Fuck." I don't even think that way, but people get it in their heads. like they they've worked themselves up like they've heard of me or something, dude. And it's like I don't know. Like they they just don't play as well just cuz they have to play me, dude. And I'm just like I try to talk to people all the time about those. I'm like, "Yo, you just got to get that out of your head, man. Like I could have a shitty game right here, right now. My reputation doesn't mean shit." Like I mean that every time I tell people that, dude. Like, yo, it doesn't mean you get it in your own head cuz you think, "Oh my god, I got to play Walt or whatever the [ __ ] it is." Or like, "I could do that, too, when I travel. Oh my god, I got to play Usher. I got to play Keith Owen. I got to play." If I did that at these tournaments, bro, I'd be running around in circles like sucking my thumb and [ __ ] because everybody out there is murderers. You know, there's too many names to list. And even if you you'll come across somebody that you haven't heard and you'll be like, "Oh, good. I haven't heard of that person. And then that kid will kick your ass, too. It's just like, oh [ __ ] you know? So, I don't rule out anybody. And like, man, it's just the best advice I could give, man, is just don't worry about your opponent so much. And just play your game, dude. You know, like it's not going to change. You're not going to play any worse just because you're playing a better player? Like, just because you're playing like just think about that for a sec. Why would you play any differently whether now like you thought uh you were going to play somebody who was at your skill level or worse hopefully wor you're hoping worse but now you've realized you got to play somebody who you consider at the S tier the top of the pack. Okay. So why does that make you play any different? Like why does that mean you're going to hit the buttons any differently? Do John Youssi what I'm saying? And this goes out to everybody across the world, man. You guys get into tournaments everywhere you go. You you're going to find somebody like me who's just a murderer, you know? And like it's just the way it is. You're going to have to learn how to beat that person. I can be beat. Trust me. I get beat all the time, dude. I beat myself a lot too, you know, because I don't remember rules. But a lot of people just defeat themselves like, "Oh, I'm playing you, Walt, so now I'm going to lose." And I'm here to tell you nothing could be further than the truth, man. I'm just get that out of your mind. Even if wherever you live, you live across the world. And trust me, I love you guys across the pond, man. Reaching out to me and you guys are all the way out there. And let's say like in your neighborhood there's somebody like that like me out there and you're just like study them. Find out their weaknesses, their [ __ ] exploit their take your time, build your game, work on your patience. There's no time limit in pinball. It's one of the beautiful things about pinball. You take your time, hold the ball, work on your shots, work on your control. It's Pinball is much like chess, man. You can wait. You take your time. You know, that's my best advice, man. So, I'm I'm like kind of retiring from the local tournaments. So, much love to all of you. God bless. And uh yeah, man. I I'll be back on soon. I just wanted to make something, man, because I haven't made a video in a while. So, peace everybody. God bless. And uh I'm gonna get some sleep, man, because I'm getting tired. Peace everybody. God bless. And uh I'll talk to you all soon.

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