# Whirlwind Pinball (Williams 1990)

**Source:** Mystery Pinball Theater 3000  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2021-04-28  
**Duration:** 94m 35s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAoXUdbKKr0

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## Analysis

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 hosts a casual gameplay stream featuring Whirlwind (Williams 1990), with technical troubleshooting on the machine during gameplay. Hosts discuss the game's mechanics, skill shots, and rules while playing and comparing it to other System 11 titles like Funhouse and Black Knight 2000. The stream includes live maintenance work and guest appearances from other pinball enthusiasts.

### Key Claims

- [MEDIUM] Whirlwind is one of the best Harry Williams machines, comparable to Addams Family — _Alex discusses Whirlwind as 'one of my favorite Harry Williams machines, besides Addams Family'_
- [MEDIUM] The Big Lebowski pinball machine received a code update that added credit dots, animation, and scoring changes — _Alex mentions updating Big Lebowski to latest version: 'It changes some scoring too. It's spelled zero, it has some animation now'_
- [HIGH] Funhouse is WPC platform but uses alphanumeric display, not System 11 as initially assumed — _Chat clarification: 'Funhouse is a WPC, but it still used the alphanumeric'_
- [HIGH] Whirlwind skill shot awards 300,000 points for hitting all three drop targets, 200,000 for two — _Alex explains: 'If you hit all three of these drop targets, it's a 600,000 plus skill shot. If you hit two, it's 200. If you hit all three, it's 300'_
- [MEDIUM] Pat Lawlor designed Whirlwind, NASCAR, and Duncans (among other games) — _Host states: 'Probably one of my favorite Lawlers, besides NASCAR and Duncans'_
- [HIGH] Riff Theater 2.0 now tracks voting data to detect fraud and bias in audience voting — _Host explains: 'So we have... a program... We already know Becca exclusively votes for Jordan... We will know because Surreal has the data. No! And we will call you out.'_
- [HIGH] The stream will be delayed tomorrow (late start at 9:30-10:00 PM PT) due to host childcare responsibilities — _Host announces: 'my stream won't work... won't start until 9.30 or 10 o'clock Pacific time' because wife works and host is home with kids_

### Notable Quotes

> "Whirlwind is probably one of my favorite Harry Williams machines, besides Addams Family."
> — **Alex**, early gameplay discussion
> _Alex's expertise on classic Williams machines; positions Whirlwind highly in the canon_

> "This game is probably one of my favorite Harry Williams machines. Out of these three, I actually like Whirlwind the most. Because, because Funhouse can kind of kiss my butt."
> — **Host/Matt**, System 11 comparison discussion
> _Host's personal preference for Whirlwind over Funhouse in the System 11 lineup_

> "Tech streams are always the best streams."
> — **David (chat/venue staff)**, during maintenance segment
> _Commentary on the appeal of repair/maintenance content during streams_

> "You know you could have done that in 30 seconds, right?"
> — **Host/Matt**, after David fixes bracket issue
> _Lighthearted commentary on maintenance complexity during live stream_

> "So Surreal basically has a... So, Surreal runs a program after the Riff Theater is done that has statistics that I don't have."
> — **Host/Matt**, Riff Theater 2.0 announcement
> _Explaining the new data analytics capability for detecting voting patterns_

> "You can vote for whoever you want. You can do whatever you want. Just know that we know now. We will know because Surreal has the data. No! And we will call you out."
> — **Host/Matt**, Riff Theater rules discussion
> _Host's humorous warning about voting transparency in new system_

> "This was the first game that ever came to Free Go Watch. This is the game that really started my entire love and journey into pinball. Hands down, whirlwind. Ultimate favorite."
> — **Host/Matt**, personal reflection section
> _Host's personal history with Whirlwind as his first pinball experience_

> "I had to start it over because I couldn't even hit that freaking ramp!"
> — **Host/Matt**, gameplay frustration
> _Whirlwind's difficulty on ramp shots_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Whirlwind | game | Classic Williams pinball machine from 1990, designed by Pat Lawlor, featuring dual flippers, spinner mechanics, and storm/weather theme. Subject of this stream. |
| Pat Lawlor | person | Legendary pinball designer credited with designing Whirlwind, NASCAR, and other games. Mentioned as designer of multiple games discussed. |
| Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 | organization | Pinball streaming show/content channel hosting this Whirlwind gameplay stream |
| Alex Lambert | person | Guest player and pinball enthusiast with expertise on classic Williams machines; credited as 'Pinball VIP' during stream |
| Matt | person | Primary stream host, performs maintenance work on Whirlwind during stream, personal history with game |
| Jon Hey | person | Co-host or personality associated with the stream, mentioned in chat and stream discussions |
| David | person | Venue staff member who assists with on-stream maintenance and repair of Whirlwind machine |
| Surreal | person | Data analyst who created Riff Theater 2.0 statistics program for tracking voting patterns and patterns |
| The Big Lebowski | game | Dutch Pinball machine discussed as receiving code update with new features; mentioned in relation to venue gameplay |
| Funhouse | game | WPC-platform Williams pinball game with alphanumeric display; compared to Whirlwind as System 11 contemporary |
| Black Knight 2000 | game | System 11 Williams machine; compared to Whirlwind and Funhouse in lineup discussion |
| Alameda Pinball | organization | Pinball venue where host recently worked/helped out; mentioned in stream opening |
| Star Wars | game | Pinball game mentioned as Alex playing it during stream while others worked on Whirlwind |
| Riff Theater | product | Audience voting/engagement system for pinball streams; being upgraded to version 2.0 with data tracking |
| Pinball Network | organization | Network of pinball streamers mentioned in opening; appears to be streaming platform/community |
| Beetlejuice | game | Pinball game mentioned during gameplay discussion; used as reference for game mechanics |
| Addams Family | game | Classic pinball game used as comparison point for evaluating Whirlwind quality |
| Free Go Watch | organization | Venue or event where host first played Whirlwind and began pinball journey |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Whirlwind gameplay mechanics and rules, Classic Williams System 11 platform comparison, Pinball machine maintenance and troubleshooting
- **Secondary:** Pat Lawlor game design, Live stream content and production, Audience engagement and voting systems, Historical pinball game appreciation
- **Mentioned:** Pinball venue operations

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Stream is lighthearted and enthusiastic despite technical issues. Hosts and guests express genuine appreciation for Whirlwind and pinball gameplay. Some frustration with machine reliability and shot difficulty, but maintained with humor. Community engagement appears positive and supportive.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** Riff Theater 2.0 implementation with data tracking represents engagement platform upgrade for audience participation and fraud detection (confidence: high) — Host announces new voting analytics program: 'So Surreal runs a program after the Riff Theater is done that has statistics that I don't have' with ability to track individual voting patterns
- **[event_signal]** Alameda Pinball venue event where host assisted with machine testing and operations (confidence: medium) — Host mentions: 'I was lucky enough to help out a little bit at the Alameda Pinball yesterday' and 'I had to do work too. I had to kind of list problems and stuff'
- **[design_philosophy]** Stream discussion of Whirlwind's design emphasizes skill shot mechanics, ramp difficulty, and spinner systems as defining features of Pat Lawlor's design (confidence: medium) — Multiple discussions of shot geometry, spinner mechanics, multiball sequences, and ramp lighting strategies throughout gameplay
- **[product_strategy]** Big Lebowski pinball received code update with new features including credit dots, animation, and scoring adjustments (confidence: medium) — Alex mentions: 'It changes some scoring too. It's spelled zero, it has some animation now. So it's now running the latest version of code'

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## Transcript

 Story Tournament Ciao around the world Superamy I am so not ready for streaming. Hang on. What's up, everybody? Here, let's do this real quick. Pinbot, go to commercial. Pinbot, go to commercial. Mystery Pinball Theater will return in just a moment. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Mr. Scoop Pinball. It's gonna get weird. All right, guys. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Don't forget all the amazing pinball streamers on the pinball network. Oh, my God. What's up, Little Bubblegum? Oh, my God. Talk about a guy who's not ready to stream today Hey everybody I know I'm bald Don't tell me that Oh my god. Alright, we got uh, we got whirlwind. We got whirlwind. Let's see what I missed. What's up Terry? Coming hot off the press. Hang on he says. Arnabodyhunter. This dude is definitely feeling it. Yeah, oh that was, what's his name? What's up David? David buddy! Marco ended wanting to raise you. Ah, they seldom, seldom gave up. What's up, Solid Snake? What's up, Ice Cadou? David, buddy, how you doing? So, guys, I was lucky enough to help out a little bit at the Alameda Pinball yesterday. I don't know if you saw my Instagram, but that was super fun. Dave, David is, David knows everything about pinball. Okay, period. And I really, I really appreciate the offer to let me come over there and help and play pinball. The offer to let me come over there and help and play pinball all friggin' day. But I had to do work too. I had to kind of list problems and stuff. So that was, that was bad. Dude, you're black so just heads up. Oh yeah, that's right. All right, well, that's Alex right there. Alex knows a lot about pinball, and I'm calling him out right now. Howdy, everybody. We just met like five minutes ago. Yep. But any friend of Matt Henry is a friend of mine. Yep. How's it going? How you doing, man? I'm good, I'm good. So you came down to Fitzlebowski? I came down to update it. It was about a couple of code dates off and I told Matt about it I'm like wow, you know Lebowski is such a fun game and it changes a couple of things too I think like it really adds like some credit dots, you know Like on the Williams games if there's like a bad switch or switch stuck closed Or a switch haven't been hit like 20 games or something. It'll report it on that Okay, which is pretty neat. I mean that should stream it again. It changes some scoring too It's spelled zero, it has some animation now. So it's now running the latest version of code, which is kind of a big pet peeve of mine, you know, when something's not running the current version. But, I mean, if it's not, I don't really care. If I can try and update it, I absolutely will try to do that. That's awesome. I like to help out in any way I can. That means I can stream it again then? Lebowski, absolutely, yeah. See what the changes are. Absolutely, yeah. Alex, what do you know about Whirlwind? Okay, so Whirlwind. This game is probably one of my favorite Lawler games, besides Adam's Family. I should just let you... You want me to play a game? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. So first thing I like to do on Whirlwind is try and light plunge and get these three drop targets. If you hit all three of these drop targets, it's a... It's a skill set? Yes, it's a 600,000 plus skill shot. If you hit two, it's 200. If you hit all three, it's 300. The chat wants to know, what do you know about Bitcoin? Do not know anything about Bitcoin, unfortunately. I've heard of it though alright so I got one of the awards this is one of the awards you can get by lighting the uh oh come on yeah this isn't my game right off the bat it got stuck in the cellar yeah yeah it's stuck in the cellar oh no oh here goes Here goes my stream. Oh, I know. You worked so hard on it, too. I know. Just because you do a lot of work doesn't mean... Right, yeah, it's all good. But, yeah. He's talking to somebody. Yeah, you may want to... All right, so let's say you hit it in the cellar and it sent it back out. Yeah, it's normally supposed to... Yeah. Yeah. Nope. Yeah, this thing can be stubborn sometimes. Am I dropping frames? No, I'm not dropping frames. No, no. Earlier in the week, I heard the claim that every single game was working. It does. That was earlier in the week. Oh, man. I actually got a funny thing. I got some weird email saying I owed this guy a bunch of money because he was upset with some porn I sent him. And so he told me I had to pay him $5,241 via Bitcoin. Oh, okay, Bitcoin. No, it was a fake spam email. But that's where I heard about Bitcoin from. What do you think? If we power cycle it, will it work? Yeah, I could try and do that. That's a drag. Yeah, it's... That's no good. I could pretty much end my stream right there. Yeah. Or turn the stream into Funhaus in about 10 minutes. Funhaus works great. I played that Tuesday. That's working great. Oops. Oh, white water. Okay, David, I got you. Doesn't seem to have the power to push it all the way up. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and power it because I don't want that coil to overheat That's how that coil is gonna get real bad We're No It's not kicking the ball out of the cellar door well I can entertain for a little bit. Pull the glass off. Pull the glass off real quick. Just take what's happened from the other day. I got the ball out and it's probably looking just fine. Oh man, everybody's bummed out. I know, right? Grab the magnet. Surgery. What do you think that's all about? I wonder if it's going to continue to do this. I don't know. That's Sammy's game, right? Yeah, this is Sammy's game, not mine. That would be a ball missing. Come on. At least not grab me the ball. Wow. Alex made a perfect shot to that scoop by the way. I bet he did. Unlike me, not making perfect shots at scoops. Yeah. I just go all the way around there. It did this once the other day, but then it played a bunch of perfect games after that. So what's your YouTube thing called, Daniel? Mr. McDonald's. Okay, gotcha. Nice. Let's watch Matt take 20 minutes to get it into a scoop. Yeah, exactly, yeah. See how long it takes for that. Oh, thank you for cleaning the glass. Oh, wow. That thing plays like butter. Oh. Damn. All right, it's going to... It's like they're cleaning it for you. Hey, you get the noise going on for that fan? Oh, yeah. We don't get the fan noise, I don't think. Okay, come on, guys. Oh, wow. I like that breeze. Yeah, it's nice. I like that San Francisco breeze right there. It's a good game for Free Gold Box. Oh. Boo. No. I know, right? No. Ah. Okay. Hey, Dave. It's like he's going to need to adjust that kick out. Yeah. Dave Olanski is in the chat. He can fix it. Oh, Dave's in there? Oh, David, what do you recommend? Hang on. I think what we can do is if we can get the play field up, I can quickly replace that sleeve and or coil stop. Yeah. Let me see if I can clear some of your space. Everybody wants to do the exciting. Yeah, the exciting pinball. I don't know how high the playfield can go up. Especially with my screen there. It won't be that far. I think we're clear up to a certain height. Sorry, chat. Sorry, chat. Okay. I think... I can hold it. No, it's not the cool... Need it higher? Okay. Hang on, hang on. Yeah. Here, let me go get the stuff real quick. Okay. And then you can let it down. Okay. Okay. Whirlwind! Welcome to Whirlwind! I'm gonna move some stuff out of the way so Matt can work. Oh, there we go. Alright. Welcome to the stream, everyone! Welcome to the stream, everyone! I love this part. Where is this supposed to go anyway? That's Jonathan. Tech streams are always the best streams. Yeah, if you left Marco Pinball for this, you're not getting as good content. I suggest get games tested before selecting a stream. Yeah, I did, David. So I can clear these cables for you. All we need to do is just get to the, put this guy up. Right here. Right. Oh shit, there goes the light. There we are. Woo! there Little bubblegum says Matt is amazing. Well little bubblegum let's not get ahead of ourselves yet We've yet to fix anything But i'm noticing that this whole bracket is super loose That's what we have to find If we just find the stool, I think we're going to be good That's why I just missed a line. That is not amazing. She changed it. She changed it? Oh wow. Lady Bubblegum is still amazing in my eyes. Okay. I think this is going to do it. Did you guys see that? That's a good reminder for me to always break the game so it's clear. Look at this kid. All right. All right. All right. Look at this guy. I did it for Baby Bubblegum. That's all. Always for Baby Bubblegum. You intentionally screw the name up, don't you? Make sure that screw isn't too long. David said... Oh, he just left, David. Oh, crap. Oh, jeez, Morty. Oh, jeez. Oh, jeez, Rick. Yeah, but David, you know you could have done that in 30 seconds, right? He fixed it. He fixed it? He fixed it for now, for at least the next hour. Okay, Matt, you're back to truly amazing again. Really? You're back to truly amazing. Little Bubble Gum is very fickle. He's hefty, isn't he? You do not mess with Baby Trident. hang on hang on hang on let me just click this table here so at 3, 3.30 I gotta go down to 47 Hills meet Greg and then I'll be back here no worries you wanna grab a beer later? perhaps yeah would you be down? ok barrios? I don't know where some kind of beer drinking location? I don't know yeah somewhere close by I had no idea I was gonna meet Greg today those are up right? yeah he just was like yo I'm busy today and then he texted me back he's like hey I'm gonna meet you at 47 Hills I got it done early you know Oh wow, okay Don't talk too much shit, you're live on the stream Oh yeah, I was about to say We're back You don't want to talk too much shit on the stream Who's that in front of the camera? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy Hey guys I didn't realize that was not already following you Oh no, no worries, thank you for the follow Oh, let me get all this stuff back in order. Thank you. Thank you, Little Bubblegum. All right. No worries, guys. No problem. I live for this stuff, you know? and that is amazing to me. I'm going to pull that off so quickly. You guys got to give it up for Matt, right? That was pretty baller. That was pretty baller. I just realized I hate this mask for streaming. This mask is not good for streaming. This mask is better for just being awesome normally. Alright, I guess we're back. Let me move this guy. Give up what from that? My 401k? It's a nice looking pin. Alright, I'll get Alex back over here later. Looks like rain. Looks like rain. How is everybody today? Looks like a mask that Kitana or Mileena would wear in Mortal Kombat Yes 9 hours and 34 minutes until Mortal Kombat releases But who's waiting? What's up Moody Mystery? That's a tough skill shot. Alright, looks like rain. Looks like rain. Alright, northwest. Into the cellar. Oh, nice breeze. I was trying to get the I was trying to get the wind cam working. Oh my god, this mask is terrible. So I'm going to mask up when somebody comes over. Because I can't even hear myself talk. Oh, Fliptronic, that was awesome. It was hard to watch and take care of the kids at the same time, but I watched as much as I possibly could. So I didn't realize that that was an old mock. Oh, crap. I didn't realize that was an old map box that um oh my god really oh we had a whirlwind my favorite pin bar in Seattle a while back I exclusively played it during the summer for the fantastic for the fan slash AC yeah that was great that was great for trying it you know what it made it made me think It made me think about how to Things that we could add to the To the rip theater I like the fact that they Augment the movie sometimes with Music They'll play a funny song or something like that I'm wondering if there's some stuff Is the wind cam aimed at my butt? No, it's aimed at my face It's not aimed at my butt, no I wish it was now. That was your first win. I still got the skill shot. Did you guys see how I cheated and got the skill shot? Aw, crap. Alright, we'll see how this goes. Got a bilge fan on the top of my cap just for whirlwind? What's a bilge fan? Or did you mistype something? Alright. Super skill. Oh! I can still get it, though. I can still get super skill. Watch this. Watch this. Crap. Alright, never mind. Alright. Alright. custom cuts would be great. Yeah. I'm wondering how to, I'm wondering if there's a way to, I don't want to make things too complicated, but if there's a way to, like, have sounds ready to be queued up, you know, once the dust settles and all the bugs are worked out, oh my god, I could work on doing extra stuff like that. Oh, just a 12 volt Atwood fan. Oh, cool. I'm going to go full plunge this time. Oh my god, okay. I can still get the super. Ah crap There it goes I didn have a chance to like check up on how to play this game so I gonna have to let Matt teach me how to play it But as far as I know I just have to hit the arrows, right? Ooh that fan feels nice! Oh my god that fan feels amazing. amazing. Because it's hot in here. This is a t-shirt joint, in case you guys didn't know. And they're making t-shirts, and there's a hot, there's a hot-ass heater over there. All right, where is that, where is that, where is that lock shot? God. Come on. It's a joint. Stand up light... Oh, lit stand up light lock. Okay. I'll take off one piece of clothing every ten minutes. Just for you. Boom! That didn't do it. I can't... Oh my God. Guys, I was... I was... I was testing EMs all day yesterday, so my flipper skills are tuned down right now. Okay, alright, I got you. When will we see Quadro next? I don't know, maybe next Thursday. Maybe we'll have Quadro coming next Thursday. Little Bubblegum, I got a private DJ lesson from Kwajo last weekend. Like two and a half hours. Me and Kwajo, he's on Zoom in front of his console, I'm on Zoom in front of my console. And he's like showing things to me and I'm like, it's blowing my mind the stuff that that kid can do. Do you think this is the best System 11? And if not, which? I don't know. That guy back there is a good person to ask. System 11. So we have three System 11s lined up right here. We have Funhaus, and correct me if they're not System 11s. Funhaus, Whirlwind, Black Knight 2000. 1, 2, 3. So this is our System 11 row. If I am incorrect, please tell me. But, I think that's correct. Out of these three, I actually like Whirlwind the most. Because, because Funhaus can kind of kiss my butt. Like, Funhaus is a little brutal. Have your own personal take. Funhaus is WPC. Yeah, they... I don't know what that means. They all say Williams on the front. Okay. Oh, that's right. Funhouse is a WPC, but it still used the alphanumeric. Is that what you're saying? Or am I correct in assuming that? Yeah, okay. That's interesting. Was it the last... Oh! Oh, I thought I had a lock. No, I gotta hit the other standout. So apparently this game is all about hitting dangerous freaking targets. Oh, it's playing just fine now. It's wonderful. I can't keep the ball on the damn table. All my friends abandoned me. Look, Alex is there playing Star Wars. Matt went back to work. Same as Bride. Bride slash Funhouse are alphanumeric WPC. Party monsters I hear people bring up a lot. Party monsters I hear people bring up a lot for System 11. Party monsters. Oh, Elvira. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Elvira. That was fun. It was fun. It's okay. It's okay. That was trust. Wow, deceptively difficult to hit this right here. Oh, then I gotta hit that. No, I gotta hit that. Ooh, I'm spinning that 3,000 spinner, baby. That 3K spinner, yes. Can I backhand this? No, no, no. That wasn't even a backhand, man. Taxi. Taxi's a good one. Taxi's a good one. Taxi I like because it's simple. Love me a good spinner rip. Haven't played Transporter. Will like the Transporter. That sounds familiar. Is that a fair ball for this game? and then it blows me so it drains me and blows me I just got blown and drained like immediately yeah it's playing great oh my god it's draining me and blowing me I don't even know what I'm saying until the words come out of my mouth. All right. What's up, Flipstream? All right. We're going to get some serious competition going soon. Thank you for the follow, Moody Mystery. Thank you so much for that follow. I got one more practice game, then I'm going to bring in the ringers, and they're going to show me how to do this. Because I know Alex is good at this. That wasn't worth anything. Okay. Oh, shit. Got it. Smacked the side of that damn target. All right. Hyper sujets are all at maximum. I love that sound, though. Get to the shelter. Get to the chopper. Run. Get to the chopper! Super skill shot! Super skill shot! Got it! Oh crap. Ah! Hey Audrey, did I tell you that Karen made this mask? Isn't it nice? I know, those outlanes are just like freaking Dracula right now. You didn't, and I can tell she made it. It's super nice. Looks like your purple one, but with fancy Duke fabric. Alright, okay, Matt's almost done. That means I have another game that I can try to get something. I think it's more the spin that gets put on the ball that makes them extra mean. Yes! Not nice, Listerine. I know that was you. So... so if you're a regular i'm just going to mention something let's talk about tomorrow tomorrow may be a late start for the stream and i just found out today that my wife is uh my wife she's uh she's got to work tomorrow at the hospital so i'm home with the kids alone which means i have to put skylar to bed and then i can stream that may mean my stream won't work It won't start until 9.30 or 10 o'clock Pacific time. So I'm thinking of saving... Now I'm really pissed off. So I'm thinking of doing the following. I want to have Surreal on with me. So I fixed my Zoom, so Zoom is working again. I want to have Surreal on the Zoom because Surreal has some insane... So Surreal basically has a... So, Surreal runs a program after the Riff Theater is done that has statistics that I don't have. And I thought it would be nice if Surreal was on with me and we can do a Riff Theater. And then I can show you the basic stats, right? Basic stats like riffs per minute and stuff like that. And what your biggest riff was, whatever. But Surreal can then take the data and run it through his program. Oh, no. Oh. Oh. Oh. And then just give us some fun. Oh, that breeze is so nice. Give us some fun data. Will there be pie charts? I don't think there will be pie charts. I don't think he has any pie charts. No. No. but I'll let you guys know if you're here right now I'll let you know that we know now if there's any chicanery okay we know if people are chicaning that was an interesting backhand for instance we know if one person is exclusively voting for one person Has underground and data management slash data analytics. That's, yeah, oh, Flipstream, yeah, of course. Except you didn't write the program, though, not yet. Use chicanery in a sentence. So Surreal wrote this really cool, so here's how it works. I'll give you a back end deep dive on the new Rift Theater. It may seem like it's broken, but it's not broken. It was just, we had to experience bugs before we got it to, it's at 2.01 now. I can't hit that friggin' lock. So what it does is it actually keeps a log of, why is that so hard for me? it keeps a lot of the riff session so it's possible for one day for us to have a program that ramp is so hard to hit We already know Becca exclusively votes for Jordan, so that's no surprise. That's a lie, Little Bubblegum. She totally votes against me. A lot. LOL. I could be spinning this in the middle of the play field, taking the momentum out of your shot. Just saying. Thanks, Pat Lawler. The left ramp is even tougher. Oh my god, there is a left ramp. Holy smokes. Yeah, but I just suck, guys. You can't blame it on... Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Don't blame it on the good times. Blame it on the boogie. Remember, sunshine, moonlight, good times, boogie. That rap was brutal. The pause of horror, making sure the game fairly gives you a ball back. Oh, well. You can't suck on whirlwind, only blow. What's up, Jeff Teolas? Jeff, you've got to join us tomorrow. It's going to be a late stream, though. It'll probably be a late stream, but you've got to join us tomorrow in the Riff Theater, because we're running Riff Theater 2.0. And I was telling people how they can't... You know, you can do whatever you want in the Riff Theater, guys. You can vote for whoever you want. You can do whatever you want. Just know that we know now. We will know because Surreal has the data. No! And we will call you out. I got smoked last time in the theater. Oh, but Jeff... So we have three different rule sets now three different rule sets we have chaos total chaos and fair play And I got a replay guys I got to both on Whoo that breeze is so nice. I wish I had my my wind cam I've got well, I've got the ability to use six cameras on this this this streaming machine now, and I don't have enough cameras I don't have enough cameras and enough cables do it I just don't have enough cameras. I have three CX-450s, 405s, one ZV-1, and a Partridge in a Pear tree. Or screen real estate, yeah. Well, I have my... Oh! What do I shoot? Matt, what do I shoot? I'm in multiball. You've got to get to the upper, you've got to take it, and then get to the upper flipper, and hibbit it around. There you go. And hit it. And boom. I've got to look up there? You gotta make it say, field, tower, wind. What the? Can I do it with two? Yeah. And if you don't get it, you're gonna get a chance to restart it. Okay, now you're gonna have to get in the cellar. Either one. Boom. Okay. Now you're getting the plunge. So now a little soft plunge. Let it drip down and then try to loop it. Soft plunge it to the upper flipper and try to hit it up and around the loop to get a jackpot. How do I soft plunge it to the upper flipper? You know this upper flipper up there? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, make it actually loop it hard. Sorry, I was looking at it. I know everything about this game. And, boom. There it is. No, I missed it. I missed it. You still saved it. Damn it. Give it to me! No! We're about to feel. We are going to feel the power of it. Oh, geez. That's fun, though. That's fun. Look at me. Look at me. Here we go. Look at that. five boys moody moody what's your initials moody you just gave a follow what's your initials moody where's david on there what's david's name jdm i'm going the wrong way all right buddy we're gonna let matt in here and he's gonna tear this up Why don't you fire one up solo so you can get ready. A solo? Yeah. Let's go solo, man. I'm freaking out. So this was the first game that ever came to Free Go Watch. This is the game that really started my entire love and journey into pinball. Hands down, whirlwind. ultimate favorite I loved it so damn much when Chris Koontz was gonna pull this game out I actually just bought it off of it I never wanted to it's a leave we're just gonna take a slow game we're gonna get some super score doors oh yeah if I get in there hi yeah and a lot of Skyway tolls What is a whirlwind? A whirlwind is like something you see out in the country. Like a, I think we would say out here, we call them like a dust devil. At least for me growing up in the country of the Central Valley. I guess like a tornado out there, but I don't know. We would kind of refer to them, whirlwinds, kind of like a dust devil. Like a small little dirt tornado. Like a small little one out in the field. All right, that was the shit game. We're going to run this right back. Looks like rain, all right. Let's go. I had to start it over because... Wow, you're still on ball one? You're amazing. Yeah, ball one, dude. Wow. I've just been talking to everybody, getting everybody's... Getting the answers to things. Oh, my gosh. Okay, hang on, hang on. All right, guys. Excuse my synthetic flame here while I warm up. Nice. The storm is coming. I couldn't even hit that freaking ramp! This is a loop show. Oh. And if you do it enough times, you'll light up the extra ball and you'll light up the quick multiball. This is always good. Gosh darn it, I couldn't hit that freaking ramp once. Extra ball is still lit, looking for a direct hit. Alright. Get in there, up and around. up and around there's a cool noise that we can do it we can go through the pops in the inner loop and then the then the uh the three-way combo shot it's really pretty cool makes a great noise but very tricky to do i usually do it by accident um but i'm just gonna let this one go because You guys feel like I've warmed it up so we can get it going now. Oh, yeah? Yeah, let's do a real game. Alex, straight up warm up. Are we playing, Alex? Yeah, let's do it. Everybody meet Alex Lambert over here. Pinball VIP over here. Woo! That's every time I say we're playing Moon Patrol at Out of Order Arcade, this arcade over by my house. My friend would jump, and every time I'd jump, he'd be like, Woo! You know, make the noise. It's pretty funny. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, I liked it. I digged it. Alex, would you like to go first or last? I will go last. You'll go last, okay. My News is your hosting. My News Stream. Let's be hostess. Jesus, this game is hard. This game is fun. Probably one of my favorite Lawlers, besides NASCAR and Duncans. You didn't have NASCAR. I did NASCAR. I don't know. I didn't know Lawler did NASCAR. Yeah, Lawler did NASCAR. The reason why I like it is because it's half-speed, It's out of the racing and it's out of the catalog. That's tricky. Yeah, yeah. I almost did it, guys. Oh. Million is lit. Go, man. Got it, go second. Yep, go second. Dammit. Pretty mean. That was a long call for me. Yeah. I don't know. Get it, Alex. Somebody get it? Yeah, get it. See if they want. Oh. All right. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm just going for super store door. Super seller door values all day. That's for me. Did you guys notice that I'm winning? Okay, Mr. Alex. I'll be right back. We're going to do the phones. I bring a watch. Hey Pat, it's for you. It's for me. There can be only one. Yep, that'll put me to work. Another good way to get the skill shot too, but I missed, is to try and miss it on purpose and then try and sweep it through with the right flipper if you're lucky to do that. I do that by mistake like the first game. It's always fun when you do that. That's another, just another thing for the viewers to notice about. Ooh, that looks so good. Something I like to do is try and shoot it up here, because if I shoot the scoop again, the ramp flap will lower down. And also, it'll temporarily light the scoop if you hit the right end light. Oh, okay. So it'll stay lit for, yeah, another thing for the viewers. That's why it was flashing every once in a while. Correct yes So just going like that and temporarily lighting it is another way to do it One thing that always fun I like to do kind of like Earthshaker is try and max the toll values out on this at 99. Uh-oh. Oh! Damn! I'll take it. Ah, seems to be a little efficient, huh? Not too bad. Okay, but yeah, there you go, 1.2. Yeah, you got it right. I'll take all the advice I can get right now. Let's see, FYI, is that good? It's just autofocus. Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah. Right, yup. Also the spinner will win the WIT award on the Superdome. Yup. Yeah. Some of those Superdome door values are plumbers. Yeah. Like, you know, um, upper depth on. Upper depth kind of don't really do anything. Two bay, 100,000 pounds. Lower depth on. I like Superbomb though, that's a good feature in all of our games. All of our games have it. They got that truth to why we work with Dino Manatees. I like how they're all next to light. I like how they're all right next to light. Three-way combo! I know! Yes! Three-way combo right there, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, three-way combo. You did it on purpose, obviously. I did it because you told me to do it, but... Nice, okay, cello doors. Not lose it immediately. We have been every other ball. I said you're walking on the back. On the. No, cuz your phone is red. Yeah, it's important. Backhand that, get the lower jets on. I'm always trying to get those lower jets on. First priority of the game, get lower jets on. Alright, you gotta get the floor test. Damn it! Alright, see if I can get the skill shot. There we go. I never had a, wow, nice. I never had a chance to even practice this game. It says FYI, your back glass pan is set to auto-cook it. Yeah, I turned it on. Uh-oh. Oh, shoot. There we go. Get that first lock in. God, that fan noise is pretty annoying. I love that fan. No, the fan. I know, yeah. I do love the fan on this game. It keeps me nice and cool. And that's one of my favorite shots on this game, the upper flipper shot. Oh, no. There we go. Wow, nice. Thank you. Oh, no. Kind of got to get control and nudge the machine a little bit on this so you can get nice control on it. Oh, nice! Oh! Woo! Wow, this thing plays super... I've never played this before. This is my first time actually playing this whirlwind, so... I think I already know what it plays like right now. There we go. Oh! That was terrible. And I lose my million. Oh, that was terrible. And I lose my million. Yeah. I just have two more features left to get the Super Dwarf cell value, though. To get the Super Dwarf cell value. All right, well, let's see. It's always interesting when I come here and I play people who are good. I like the way it's lined back up. That's my first time playing that. Same as the other one. That's definitely great. I would like to get two more of the 11-yard game. Earthshaker? Earthshaker would be great. Go-Kers? Go-Kers is great. I like Go-Kers. One game I know we got in front of all the stores. That is a famous play. Yes. Jokers is a good game. Yeah. Yeah. You're getting them there. All right, well, let me try to actually get a ball in this game. I got to go feed him with my dragon and I'll be right back. You going to forego your last ball? Yeah, I'm seeing Greg preach at 47 minutes. I have his dead pool in my garage. Oh, nice. Can I grab his dead pool? Yeah. My kid is the only one who's got to play it so far, though. I'm sure he's got it. Yikes, yikes, yikes. Oh, he put a 471 million. Oh, my gravy sauce. That game is white. I just was playing Deadpool yesterday at a... Yeah, sure. I was just playing Deadpool yesterday at Scandia in Roaner Park. Oh, nice. Is Scandia open? Scandia's arcade in Roaner Park is open, by the way, at like 40 to 50% capacity. All the pinballs are on. Camera guy. Oh, okay. That's okay. I've never streamed around this before. I apologize. I know. I've got 20,000 cameras. I know. That's like, whoa, sweet. I mean, I've done a Twitch stream, but nothing like this. I'm like, wow, this is the real deal. You are destroying it. Thank you. There we go. So now I just need to get one for a multiball. Yeah, mini golf candy up in the tube, yep. The one in Santa Rosa, not in Fairfield. The one over off of Roanoke Park Expressway. I got a multiball going as you can see Uh oh No That was pretty Uh oh let's try it again Gotta get control Oh shoot The timer is pretty Uh oh no I'm not gonna get it Nope too bad Ouch Yep Yep You almost got the replay too Yeah Oh well I'll take it For a first time game on this Give it up to Alex First time game on it Showing up and just wrecking the house Alright So you think you're going to run and you'll be back? Yeah I'm going to run and I'll be back Alright I'm heading to 37 Mills Oh my god What did I miss guys? Excellent work. Well, that was embarrassing, wasn't it, Matt? Yeah, it was very embarrassing. See if we can actually get a game going here. Well, at least me. All right. Looks like rain. Thanks for bringing your friends over. I know. Alex, the kid over here. All right. Slow it down. Speed it up. I feel like anything you can do on this game, or anything you can do, like a triple loop or whatever, is worth a zillion points. This game feels like it's a stretch to get points. It's not a stretch. Once you get in multi balls you just start I can not get in that thing once you get in there And start getting the jackpot they increase by a million every time you hit one So if you're if you're good at staging the ball And just and just hitting that shot you could you could really light this game up There's a thing this guy gets in low jets on this game is shallow Usually usually crank the game to like yeah it's a little lower than black night look that's tame it's fun how that makes it harder to stay yeah it doesn't stick in there it doesn't stick in there so these slippers are like flat i'm gonna beat matt again what's up yeah man Wow. Almost lost that one. Oh my gosh, I cannot get a roll. You gave me a chance. He's giving me a chance. Uh-oh. Ah, look at this. You're still in play. Oh, he's trying to save it. Oh, man. What's up, Matt? Howdy, Matt. Yeah, we got a whirlwind here. Oh! Mr. Yaman, thank you for the support of the original. Thank you, Yaman. Thank you. Did you know Matt changed his name on here? Did Matt change his name? Changed his name? Yeah. To what? To Onyx Yax. Matt, when are you getting down here to play, man? points yeah points yeah okay dude I want to see you down here sometime dude you got to get down here play with me sometimes stop working stop working so much at switch and be on switch which makes you work too hard Matt are you there you're here for ping pong are you playing with them you're playing with Victoria in them right yeah So Matt's playing too, I guess. He plays here too. Oh is that Matt W? Yeah. Oh, Olynykjaks is Matt W? Yeah. Sup, Maddox? Your package is here. My gosh, now I gotta play good. Matt's watching. Okay, let's get a lock. Backhand that sucker. One ball lock. Oh my gosh, wow. We got a lot in here, bro. Go away. I think that always spots you a direction too when you go around. Yeah. Yikes. Return home. On the first multiball, all you got to do is you can go, I think, just up under and it'll start. The second multiball, you actually have to hit the loop. Oh, man, I wanted that loop. Are you going to take the second one? First Not panicking Nice Hit in the hole The powers of the wind The feel of power I lost one of them Extra ball! I'm dribbling out. Oh man! So I don't get a chance to restart because I got one jackpot. So now, I'm just going to try a quick multiball. No! Yep, got to get that compass point, you can hide the cellar for the tornado of course. Right about that. Dang it, it doesn't want to go around the loop there on the plunge. What's up Becca? So Matt are you trying to... are you saying you like original IPs vs licensed games? Mr. Guardians of the Galaxy 10 billion? Yeah I wish those doors were lit. This game really blows, Becca. No, it literally blows. Three-way combo. We're being blown right now. Good for you, man. Gotta love that sound. Fly quick, multiball. There we go. Get that in there. Get another one. Oh, it would have been nice. Whoa, yay, man. Thank you for the bitties. Holy smokes. Matt, you just made me 1,000 bits. How much is that? Is that 9 bucks? Is that a Dogecoin? No? It's like nine months. It's significant on Twitch. Let's put it that way. Whoa, another million. We got millions, not unlimited millions, because this is just a quick multiball, but we'll take it. Hey, Matt, I promise you, you are not going to see a dime of that money. What? I didn't get my bits. Dang it. I got to put my kids through school. Let's lock it up. Come on. Get in the holes. I'm trying to owe him 75 bucks for the tech support service call earlier. Ice Kadoo, come on man. Ah! That was scary. Get in the hole. Thank you for the biddies, Matt. I promise, Matt Henry won't see any of that money. I guarantee. I guarantee. I already owe Matt like $476,000, so let's not even talk. You can double or nothing. Ah! Damn, bro. All right. That was just getting started over here. I didn't get my cellar door value. I had a lot more action to go. Oh, it's very good. I was two locks away from... You've been that out a little bit. Two locks away. Found the post office. Good job, Patsky. Oh, man. I got to deal with this score? Holy smokes. Hey, Santa. That's Patsky. He plays Santa during the year. He plays Santa all the time. Oh, my God. Thank you for the support, guys. Thank you for the bits. I might have a chance. I'll take that. I need the extra ball, though. Okay. Okay. Okay. Holy Sxux!! Wipe that out?! Why does that shot... Okay, guys. I'm hitting it late every time. Son of a gun. Got it. Woo! Woo! Mmm! That could have been it right there. That could have been it. Alright, let's go back to the cellar. Go back to the cellar. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, oh, oh. Okay. Okay. That was it. Oh my gosh. I'm gonna do this one for the mat. Oh, that's for the mat. Hey, where's the knocker at? Ooh, no knocker. Okay. Can I go first? Yes. No, that's good. You're rocking it. I did okay. So you've got to look here. You've got quick multiball lit. So by going in there right off the bat, because the spinner changes it. Okay. Okay? You go in there right now, that'll light up a quick multiball. And it's the same thing, right? Same thing. All jackpots are scored by getting into the upper slipper and going around the loop. That's your jackpot shot. Thanks, because I never score in a world where I'm very good at losing completely. Just hit it right, Manu. Oh, yeah, I like that, huh? I like that, too. I got one. I got one. I think I got one. Did I get one? Oh, that was weird. Yeah, I got one. Alright. I'm kind of getting the hang of this game. Except I still can't get that ramp. Come on. Come on. Come on. Don't get into this situation. This is bad. Woo! Go Pops go! Go Pops go! Go Pops go! Go Pops go! Go Sleens go! Got it! Oh I found it! You can back the round. Oh really? You think so? Don 890 where are you This place looks amazing It Free Gold Watch in San Francisco Free Gold Watch baby I don't feel like I could backhand that ramp but I could try. Most of them you can. Okay, yeah I think you're right actually. Manu off to a nice little lead off here at the top of the first. Oh my god. Man, look at that. I think I scored zero points. That sucks. Alright, vault two. Boy, that looks like a steep ramp to try and backhand though, but I trust you. Thank you. Ugh! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Rude you, Ice Kadoo! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! All right. All right. Hi, Becca! Hi, Becca! Yeah, I cannot get on that shot. Yeah, I cannot get on that shot. Oh my gosh. No, I knew it was trouble on the slings. Uh-oh, uh-oh. It's just being nasty. It's just being nasty. I did say practice. Thank you for the follow, Random Pinball. I didn't hear anything about practice You said it would just happen You said if I wished it It would come true Gosh darn it I'm going to show everybody here the bane of my existence, Canadian Quarters, do not belong in arcades. These things jam up the mechs every single time. I'm going to go all supercellar doors in a row. I'm going to go all supercellar doors in a row. Pretty bouncy slings there. I walked a plank on my last shot. Oh shit, wasn't ready for that. I thought the ball was gonna be plungeable. Gotta get those lower jets on. I mean, that's the first focus. You wanna get those lower jets immediate. Or do that. Oh my gosh. Embarrassing, embarrassing. Alright, start it up, start it up. Okay. Looks like rain. Looks like rain. Looks like rain. Looks like rain! You gotta redo that. Put that one in uh, a little more. Look at my face, Jesus. I gotta do it. Alright, he plunges, there he goes. This is amazing that he's going to... Oh! Now I'm going to get screwed because I'm laughing at someone else. Thank you. All right, let's slow down, refocus, let's go for the actual skill shot. Nope. Then you just have to lift. Oh, million. oh whenever you hear that ding ding that's extra ball lit as master lee used to say ball extra ball lit looking for a direct hit man pick multiball is tempting here yep Yep. The extra ball while we're at it. The extra ball. Oh, woo! God. Just lock it up and get the... Oh man. Damn, bro. Well, I didn't get my... Quick multiball, but it's okay. Oh, I did get it. Okay. Oh, shit. What am I doing? What am I doing? Oh, God. It's flailing. Let's just lock it up. Back to basics. Extra ball on. Flailing Jennings. Flailing Jennings. That was a good one. I'm not going to panic. What was your thoughts? Oh, alright. Let's get back to the staging. It's so hard to stage. Oh! Okay, well. Alright. Now this one, if you can give yourself a nice whip around, you can give yourself a free shot of this before that one comes out. Like that! Aw man! Just couldn't pull it off. Risky business. It will not cut, it looks like a derby jack. It's like trying to travel for Wonka. Oh my gosh. My gravy. Mmm. Ooh, a little bit of flick. Dang it. All right. Oh, okay. Well, that's that. Back to the cellar doors. Wow. Watch, now it'll go around. Oh, okay. Nice. Oh, boy. Oh, I knew the English was spinning on that. All right, hit again. Yeah, that was... Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. That was some smaller Joshua Clay, man. You wanna see your flail? Was there a flail on it? You had that, uh... You had that small flail. Yeah, I like that. Nice. Oh, that one's hard. Six pop bumpers on this game. Six. That's a lot. Oh, yeah. Three and three. They say never trust a game without pop bumpers. There's a few out there. Junkyard. Pop bumpers equals chaos. I don't trust a game with them. Fourth of theory. No pop. How many people like Junkyard? Not this guy. That was some extra baller play. I'll take whatever I can get. I'm really good at not hitting that shot. Monopoly has six Monopoly has six flippers Clitronic says that they love Junkyard gotta go put on my favorite TLC song oh really? one of them almost let's just go to the loop show So it's a lot earlier than I'm hitting every time. Every time I'm hitting that late. So you're able to crank up 5 million like every game pretty much. Pretty much. I mean just hitting a couple jackpots is huge. Oh there you go, that's a big skill shot. That's whirlwind. Gotta love games with those ball standers man, they were just like, you know what, get out. And that's all folks. That's all folks. Last one? Uh, let's put in Little Bubblegum, it's Little Bubblegum right? That's what you guys like? Let's go LBT. Little Bubblegum. Alright last one? Yeah last one You go first Either way, let's flip for it, heads or tails? Heads, whatever Oh tails Like that I knew those damn imaginary coins would be trouble Those god damn imaginary coins Yeah those are called Bitcoins or whatever you call them Those Bitcoins, dammit Dangit You don't need a ball saver, they gave you a middle post. That's what ISKU says. You don't need a ball saver when you get a middle post. I'm always going to take that super skill shot. Unfortunately, I can't find this ramp. Nice. Mmm, mmm, mmm. Jeez! Slow the frack down, man. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. There it is. Basketball's lit. Basketball's lit. Looking for it. Hit. Wow, that's fast! Woo hoo! Jump, Mo! Woo hoo! Woo, it's rejected! It's not good! You've got the hat, do the glass. All right, I'm winning. I know I'm winning right now. This is it, I'm winning. I'm just going to all sell a door. I'm just saying that this whole game, I haven't even got halfway through. Yay! That is a terrible sport, right? You don't yell yay when your opponent drains. Unless your opponent is Matt Henry and he owns a video game arcade. Then you can say yay all you want. We'll walk all the way back to where you said. Oh, look at that. Is the moonwalk over there? No, I didn't start yet. I didn't start yet. Oh. That was for the chat. Oh, okay. That's pretty good. You can't move on that ball. It's that bad. Oh, you didn't hit anything. Oh, you're lucky. Oh. Damn, I hate doing that. Oh, no. They're so loose! You gotta put something on those lanes, man. They're just gripping right out. Man. Bring a swing, pal. Okay, last ball, last game. Dang it. Ooh. I like the million shot. I would have liked extra ball a little bit better, but... Yikes. It comes in low pressure jets. I'm just going to make a collection of incredible max saves. I have enough of them now. I need that direct hit. My boy Lee. Come on, get in there. That's it, my boy Lee. Come on, get in there, man. Who pulled that ball out of the cellar? Woo! What's up, Mr. Scoot? Oh no! I panicked, I panicked. Oh no! I panicked. I remember when the low-pressure jets won the Super Bowl in 69. I like that, low-pressure jets. All right, this is my 2.9 out of 1.7. I need like a jackpot and a little more to win. So here we go. How you doing, Scoop? Oh no, I blew it. No, I didn't. Yes, I did. Thank you. It's going to be close. All right. Hey, good, good, good. I'm doing alright, I'm doing alright. Thank you, Matt. You got the sound? Oh, we're almost finished. No, no, the sound, the sound. Oh, no, we can't get the sound too much. A little bit from this microphone here. Nah, that's too loud. That's Master Lee right there. He's a t-shirt god. He's the best. The best Marc Silk screener in San Francisco right there. He just walked back there. He is. He really is. What's up, haters? Shaq. And Inu Smash. Haven't seen you in a while. What's up, bud? All right, guys. That's it. Whirlwind. Absolutely fun game. It's a little stressful, especially when it decides to break right at the beginning of the stream. But Matt came in, fixed it. You guys got to watch. And we learned something on the way, didn't we? Hey, hey, hey! I'm an idiot. I'll see you guys later. Thank you. Just so you guys know, if you want to stick around, we're going to rate Small Town Pinball. We're going to go over there and say hi. Thanks. I'll see you guys on Friday for a later stream. It might end up being around a half an hour to an hour late. Sorry. See you later. Thank you.

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