# Day 1 of AC/DC BATTLE!! Jan '15 - 2 / 2

**Source:** Dead Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2015-01-21  
**Duration:** 39m 57s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peulsABa-Bc

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## Analysis

Dead Flip gameplay footage from AC/DC pinball tournament on Day 1 (January 2015). The hosts play multiple games of AC/DC, discussing game rules, strategy, and mechanical quirks while attempting various modes and multiballs. Focus is on ramp-based gameplay, Album/Tour modes, multiball strategy, and playfield navigation.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] AC/DC Premium Edition features a physical bell mechanism that requires credit for certain shots — _Direct observation during gameplay: 'Because it's a Premium Edition, the physical bell was spinning or swinging or whatever that motion is. Nick didn't get credit for it.'_
- [HIGH] Back and Black mode is primarily geared towards target banks rather than ramps — _Rules explanation: 'Back and Shane Black is primarily geared towards this bike of targets flashing right here. Knocking those down gives you the most mate/man. But that still shouldn't change the way you play.'_
- [HIGH] The AC/DC machine had a mechanical issue that was previously fixed with scissors — _Maintenance reference: 'we had a problem with Stern AC/DC the first time we streamed it, uh, and we fixed it with a pair of scissors.'_
- [HIGH] Multiball strategy requires hitting major shots first to earn extra balls before spending VIP passes — _Strategy discussion during multiball: 'you want to hit your major shots first so that you don't have to spend a VIP pass to get your out of ball.'_

### Notable Quotes

> "This game confuses me more than any other game."
> — **Dead Flip host**, Early gameplay
> _Host expressing frustration with AC/DC's complexity and rule integration_

> "Putting on a clinic? Yeah, what does that mean? That means you opened your own hospital. The hospital of pinball. You opened your own pinball hospital."
> — **Dead Flip hosts (banter)**, Mid-gameplay
> _Comedic exchange defining pinball terminology for audience_

> "Always be multiball. Always be catching."
> — **Dead Flip host**, Strategy discussion
> _Core gameplay philosophy during multiball phases_

> "I opened my own clinic. I think is what I'm doing."
> — **Dead Flip host**, Mid-gameplay
> _Self-deprecating commentary on gameplay performance_

> "Back to the ramps. If we can get our hands on the ball."
> — **Dead Flip host**, Strategy segment
> _Core AC/DC strategy emphasis on ramp-based gameplay_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Dead Flip | organization | Pinball streaming/content creation group featuring gameplay commentary and tournament participation |
| AC/DC | game | Stern pinball machine being played in tournament format; Premium Edition version with physical bell mechanism |
| Stern Pinball | company | Manufacturer of AC/DC pinball machine |
| Zach Sharpe | person | Team member mentioned in Dead Flip group roster discussion |
| Nick | person | Dead Flip team member present during gameplay, provides commentary and observations |
| Chad | person | Former Dead Flip team member referenced in roster discussion |
| Brad | person | Former Dead Flip team member referenced in roster discussion |

### Topics

- **Primary:** AC/DC gameplay strategy, Multiball mechanics and rule integration, Ramp-based gameplay and shot sequencing, Album/Tour mode rules and strategies
- **Secondary:** Premium Edition mechanical features, Tournament play and competitive pinball, Machine maintenance and mechanical issues

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.72) — Hosts are engaged and enjoying the game despite frustrations with specific mechanics and occasional performance complaints. Tone is comedic and collaborative with good-natured banter. Some mild frustration expressed about game complexity and mechanical quirks, but overall enthusiasm for gameplay and teaching audience.

### Signals

- **[design_philosophy]** AC/DC game rules are confusing and overly complex relative to other machines; host states it confuses them more than any other game (confidence: medium) — 'This game confuses me more than any other game.' expressed during gameplay discussion of mode interactions
- **[product_concern]** AC/DC Premium Edition has a mechanical issue with the physical bell mechanism not registering credits properly on certain shots; previously required manual fix with scissors (confidence: high) — Direct observation: 'Nick didn't get credit for it' when bell mechanism activated; 'we had a problem with Stern AC/DC the first time we streamed it, uh, and we fixed it with a pair of scissors'
- **[technology_signal]** Playfield has mechanical interaction issues where cannon bottom interferes with ball trajectory during certain shots (confidence: high) — Multiple instances observed: 'I hit the bottom of the cannon with the ball' and 'See how it hit the bottom of the cannon? That's what happened to me earlier'

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## Transcript

 If you're playing Ramps and Album, then you get both, right? I don't, I tend to just go for it. Yeah. Take it when it's lit. Oh boy. That was fun. Just cross. Back to hell? I don't want hell. I just gotta... Yo, welcome to hell. money money money it doesn't turn off right now you hear the crowd scream when you hit it now I got a stupid thing that's gonna shoot out Drain damn near I was doing Colty balls late. Take them as they come, folks. Now here's a chance we might be able to see the song jackpot. I probably shouldn't have taken that song jackpot because now I have a chance of getting it. Because Highway to Hell is only like the eighth, like third or something song. We had that key around here somewhere. Yeah, I think it got thrown away. Oh my gosh, I'm just hitting the crap out of it though. Ugh. Not a member of the county. No. Alright, we're fine. Yeah, you're getting some bell hits though. Uncle Carmy, this game confuses me more than any other game. It's a pretty weird game, so I lost that opportunity. I'm gonna see where I'm sitting with jackpots and all that. Five jackpots is the song bonus for Highway to Hell. So, four ramps. Now, jam does not give you that opportunity, and that's why you don't go for the AT&T Tire Kids. Um You got a nice ball there bud Oh thanks So whip pardon So so whip Fit And I think that stays through the game too right So if I get back into tour or I don't know if it If they switch between tour and album Are you freaking kidding me But I I think it stays, at least if you go back to album, you're on like the third jackpot. What's up with that? Dump or dilt, excuse me. I really don't want this mode anymore. Make your playbook. Put your thing on the board. It ain't fun. Put your thing on the board. I gave up. Yep. Alright, so you're saying there's a chance of me doing something. That was beautiful You should have seen that That was called a loop to drain pass Oh you did a loop drain pass Yep Aw Worked out pretty well Alright internet Um One more game? Yeah I don't know Might be an easy one for me today What sounds good? Um We could do Rosie which I guess we did that. We can do train. Now we do a lot of jam. Let's do Let There Be Rock which no one does. Actually it's not. I'm gonna do train because we're we naturally go for the ramps a lot. Let's see how high this gets. Just crisscross and see if we can get some if it's worth any mode points. That's, so far, I would say... Oh my god, I can't use you! Oh my god, I... Yo, we are just shooting at nothing. Alright. Oh! But that's it. That felt really nice, folks. I still haven't hit anything. Jeez, who's that? Bro, are you serious? Are you serious? How's your kids? How's your wife? Rock and roll train? Yeah. Burning down the track. Yo. There's that ding dong dream thing you were talking about. We are so good at this game. What did I do that for? Alright. Okay. Enough of the love focus. You got this, JD. Don't dream past like I do. Get it! That's right. So, this mode in its early coding stages, you could just backhand the ramp all day. But now to get the maximum amount of points out of it, you have to combo the ramps. We are sporting a full on house party right now. Who was in the movie House Party? Kid and Play? I think it was Kid and or Play or I would say maybe both. The former and the latter. What? There you go. What? There you go. Choose Rock and Roll Train, and all of a sudden you don't know where the ramp is. Typical. Great. Thanks. And because it's a premium, the physical bell was spinning or swinging or whatever that motion is. Nick didn't get credit for it. Go around. Living on the ecstasy. What a waste of aim. Sorry internet. We have to get a limiter to prevent the screaming. Here we go. Six million, we can do this. We can do this. You got this, buddy. I just want, like, a lot of money. You can get all the money. So we'll start. We'll start with that. It's a win! I'm starting this off. We're doing train again. And we're just going to complote it. Yo, let's complote it. Upload, explode. Upload and to-plode. Oh gosh. Love you. Oh god. Good shake out. It almost went back out. Alright, across the board. across the board is what I said across the board oh I can't I had no trouble making that shot and now my brain is just like gone what shot are you you trying to do the back back no I'm the fly to the right from the left oh okay rocky rollies rock and rollers Get that VIP. That was a nice little, uh, truck kick. Oh! Power outage. Power outage! If there's something called a suicide flip, I am all about that move. Suicide flip. Yo, let's make it. We can rename our team. Suicide flip? That's who we were before we were dead flip. Yo, let's make it. We can rename our team. Suicide Flip? That's who we were before we were Dead Flip. You son of a... Okay, we have control. You got... to be flarking and kidding me. So, we need two more people on our team. Why? Because we have to have six total. Is that a new rule or something? No, we always had six, but we had Chad and Brad. Oh, we had Chad and Brad and Zach. And Zach. Oh you almost had that I almost had him Peace That when baby flip the out lane Oh yeah see the side flip Boop Clink! You just lightly pooped the out lane. Okay, four more. Personally would have taken a million. For how we've been playing? Nice. Yeah, that's about the general consensus right there, that mega tug. To a multiple! Kill him, batter him. Oh, of course. And then it's gone. All information about ramps has been deleted from the experience. We're starting over internet. This is all two or three, what do we got? I don't know. I'm never going to flip. Okay, well if this was album... Oh, dead stop! Everybody out! It's the worst! Oh, even that drop catch looked cool! And then I bail it. Okay. That was awful! Oh! Oh, the U-target. God. Oh, no! I had it! Oh, no! I had it! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! I got it! What am I doing? Flipping is overrated. Ugh! I gotta stay on this stupid mode, don't I? Burning... If all you hit are ramps all day, I mean, it's really not a bad mode. Why? Why? Uh oh, slingshot health. Getting off. How many of those do you have? I don't know. I don't... I don't know. I'm assuming it's keeping count. You get lost, Cap. I think I have one left until multiple ball here. I might go for a T-Bow. Oh my gosh. Three target banks? I'm a silent flipper. I'm only silent because I'm not all juiced up. maintenant Oh, good recovery from the power of it. You're done. You're dead! You're dead! Bye-bye. Oh, ball three. Yeah, monger. Alright. We're gonna combo out. We're gonna combo out my life. Combo out, bro. I believe in you. I believe in a thing called code! I believe in a thing called good Just tell me to the rhythm of my club Good morning football Proud of you Ding dong That's where you start tugging I tried to find it. Give me that. I just need that right there. That. That's all I need. Nice add-on, buddy. Nice add-on. You can build it! No! Oh, Howard. Howard, Howard. Oh, that was a wet one. The clinch. The clinchy. Clinch it out, folks. Pardon me, brother. Excuse me, David. I'm proud of you. Good morning. Cross. Back. Good catch. Yes. The joint. The joint multiball. This multiball you only get for messing up. Do it! Love you. Oh, my life. Oh, my life. I've been for some ball like you. I hit the cannon. You what? It messed up my shot because I hit the cannon. I hit the bottom of the cannon with the ball. What? Yes. With your air balls, Todd? Yes. Hairball. Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Double J-Pot. Alright. Let's grab something here. Clean? Please? Shit Chips in the sea folks Oh you got Warby Parker Warby Parker Yeah man It's a two for one deal that's what that is Oh my man That was nice Runaway train Yeah dude Yo this game's a runaway train Oh, freaking fell, man. Well, at least now it's stopped. Ding dong. Can I get the ball, please? Any ball? There's that pretty fun little add-a-ball there. I'll take a third ball, thank you. Comboing rams Like a champ 11 millies Always be cat shit Always be cat Always be cat shit Hey There's children There's children in this world Donate to those direct children that are next to you that are listening to this. P.S. Just give them $10 and tell them to leave the room. Donate to kids. Just kidding. Oh, oh. Damn it. I got nervous. What was that? I thought the ball was going out, so I, like, just blew a VIP pass. Aw, that was cute. You got a lot of time to blow a VIP pass. Aw, man, you are. Full of joints. I'll take it. Yeah, crisscross, baby. Crisscross the dollars. Nope. Nope. That was good. Nope. That was good. Yep. Nope. Oh. That was weird. We got Robbie Ed Robertson. Robbie Ed Robertson. Good flip out. Those are really... Scary saves. Nice saves there, buddy. What do they say? You put on a clinic? Is that a thing? What does that mean? Putting on a clinic? Yeah, what does that mean? That means you opened your own hospital. The hospital of pinball. You opened your own pinball hospital. Folks, I opened my own clinic. I think is what I'm doing. Okay, that thing officially got in the way, by the way. This piece of metal. Did it? Yeah. Shit, okay. Whoa all three of them lit You got two of them And Jim leg Whew My man! Look at that cute little ball you got going here, buddy. Thanks, champ. Look at that ding dong. Oh, sh... Come on ya joint master! The cugs folks! Cuggington Bear! The deflection! Oh no. Oh, that's cute. Great. Woo! Great. Great ball. Woo! Boo-ah. Oh, my man. All right. Yo, that train ran out of wood. Yo, I got a little work to do. Oh, man, I sent that train out of the woods. Thank you, Gearson. It's all about putting the hood up. Okay. My man! Hold on, hold on. I think... My man! Oh, you got high score for it. Oh. Well, that's... You may have gotten... I thought this was just rock and roll training. You might get Rock and Roll Train as well. Rock and Roll Train? Yeah! Took it. Woo! Shark. Oh, Shark Tank. Wild 719. Thanks for the follow, buddy. I'm in for one more. All right, we'll do one more. Sorry. The quench is real. Man, I'm telling you. Go watch someone play pinball, and when that ball matters, You can crush a diamond. I mean, like, the clench is so real. What should we play? Should we play something new? Back in Black. I want to hear that song. All right. Back in Black it is, folks. Last game for me tonight. Yeah, I think this will be the last for the strong. Be-do, be-do, be-do, be-do. Oh. Oh, I'm killing that. Okay. Ooh. Back in Black. I hit the side. Oh, man, I am doinking heavily. I'm seeing something else come into this chair. Where is it? This thing? No, when you hit this lightning bolt, it's about to fall into the place. I think the ball's going to get stuck on this wire, too, if I go up the ramp. Right. Oh, no. Oh, we'll get to see later. Yeah, man, thanks. Thanks for coming. Oh, boy. Oh, and he knocks him down. And he gets robbed on the bell. Robbed on the bell. I got the ill-communication. Come on. Nick Campbell, everybody. Oh. Oh. Uh-oh. Oh gosh, what am I doing? Wow, this is awful! Slap the secret light. Oh my god. The ball will not settle. Oh gosh, it... Dude, now he's in slingshot hell. Wow! Right when the album lights up. Ah, that was the sloppiest. Oh, bars. bar. Swips. Oh, man. Oh, what are we playing? Back and Blacka. Bicka Blicka. All right. Bicka Blicka. So for those of you that don't know, Back and Black is primarily geared towards this bike of targets flashing right here. Knocking those down gives you the most money. But that still shouldn't change the way you play. The best approach, like we mentioned, is to just ramp out as hard as you can, to get jam lit, shoot your right ramp to start the multiball, and then focus on the mode once you're in that multiball. Let's see if we can get a clean feed here out of the pop bumpers. I feel like I'm going to have to shake the life out of this game. All right, cool. Oh, that was beautiful. You guys see this Thunderbolt? it's like shaking loose. I'm probably going to have to get in there and fix that. Alright, now backhand all day. Backhand it. Oh, the clinch. Holy crap. So that piece of metal, there's a piece of metal hanging down that sort of threw my momentum off there a little bit. Alright, jam's lit, so go for the right ramp. Just like that. And you're right in the multiball. I just started playing. I'm ready to go multiple already. Use your cannon to hit your bell Because that's one hit closer to getting your 2x playfield and then just start blowing up everything You want at least one of every major hit so our major shot so that you can Get your out of ball without wasting a VIP pass Not good not good Alright, cool. So there's our 2x and the only shot we're missing is our far right loop. But we're just going to play out a little bit here. Keep that bell going. And there's our adder ball. And we didn't have to use a single VIP pass. So now we want to focus on ramps for jam because it's a ramp-based multiball. But also you want to hit your back and black targets whenever you can because that is the mode that you're playing. But as you can see, it's easy for the ball to just like wildly flap over there. Collect the jackpot. Alright, we're in good place, so let's keep it up. Whew! Yeah, right, we, uh, Jaded will remember, we had a problem with ACDC the first time we streamed it, uh, and we fixed it with a pair of scissors. Not the pro way of doing things. Alright, that was a crappy shot on my part. This is not good. Oh, that's a free little loop there. Clean feed, hopefully. That was a little dirty. All right, here we go. Back to the ramps. If we can get our hands on the ball. That was called an in-lane pass or shatzing the ball. I did it completely on accident, but it's an in-lane pass nonetheless. So oh wow, beautiful little save there. Now we're into elbow multiball, which is completely geared around targets, and which is better for us because back in black is target. But just like any multiball you want to hit your major shots first so that you don't have to spend a VIP pass to get your out of ball. I got ripped off there. Alright, there's our adder ball. So now we just want to beat the crap out of all the targets. Maybe get a bell hit, there you go. So now all of our shots are 2x. And if we can start hitting some black and black stuff We are just losing all the balls here kids I should have cradled some But I was playing it fast and loose Which can be fun sometimes but then you can end up doing stuff like that. So what's this worth? 20? We'll take it. Always be caching. Always be catching. Okay. All right. So we're going to want to get right back into the ramps. All right. I cannot find that on the fly, so we're going to try to catch this. Nope. Clean? Beautiful. Whew! Alright, we're going to go up the right ramp since that's part of the whole jackpot nonsense here. Oh, I screwed that up bad. Alright, we'll just start backhanding to get back into jam. And there's jam. and I missed it, but hopefully we can recover here. Not with these slingshots. Holy crap. See how it hit the bottom of the cannon? That's what happened to me earlier. All right. Good ball, buddy. Thanks, brother. So it keeps shooting the bell. And see, there it was. I just hit the bottom of the freaking cannon. So now we're going to start hitting our major shots again to get our out of bottle. Extra Ball's lit, so that's two and a half million if you can nail that. I got deflected there. We are not hitting anything. Oh, there we go. And there's our Adaball too. Adaball, Extra Ball. The old Adaball, Extra Ball. Take penny, leave penny. Take two pennies, get a job. What's it like, take a penny, need a penny, take a penny, need two pennies, get a job, or something like that. I'm just cashing out all my jackpots, folks. I'm not saving anything here, which perhaps is not the best idea since I've been playing for so long. I could, oh no, I got my add-a-ball already, so that's not going to do anything. That's gone. Uh, wha- Whoa! That was ball one, huh? Holy ball one, buddy. Whoo! Uh, still on- Oh, I missed my, uh, VIP pass. That's- Oh, shoot. Ah, that was all my fault, folks. Draaaano. Alright, we're gonna stay with Back in Black so we can put our name on this. I'll drop the catch there and then right into the bell. I hit the sack. So there's a 2X. And there's... Good catch. That was very easy. Two clean... Oh! Oh, all the way out. Hold on. That was sexy. Oh, wait. No time to... No time. Yeah! Wow. Creeper. Creeper. Creepy beeper. Alright, what's this worth? Not a lot, so I'm, uh, 12 mil. Why not? Who cares? 12 mil is 12 mil. You're beefing me. You're beefing me. Oh, man. I faith. I faith you. Well, I belief. Swip. Alright, we're going back for jam, folks. I know this is a little stupid to watch sometimes. all day making the same shot but Nick just jinxed me I mean oh there you go whoo flip away okay I was gonna say I heard I heard metal I heard metal on metal you better give it to me yeah we might have another album on our hands soon thought is doing it with all this going in what's that now one more for jam we're just gonna go for the belt again so we need one more ramp and then send it to the right rank. My man. So back to the bell. That should be 2x and just start collecting jackpots. There we go. Keep the bell alive. Bell of the ball. I'm not sure what shot I need for my add a ball but we do have all of our VIP passes still. Alright I had to use that one but that's okay. We get another ball for that. 2x is running. Alright, let's just hang on to one of these here and just start killing. Don't! Oh, you son of a gun! I got robbed from the no love, man. Alright Nick. Holy farts. Thanks. Two milli. You're on the board with that one. Two hundred milli I mean. I gotta catch them up. Crackin' black. Here we go internet. I think it definitely took back in black with that. Oh, a little bit of a play? I got my album! Not like that, folks. You got a ball save. That was strategic, I'm sure. Yeah, I meant to do all of these. Strategy! All of it. I'm trying to get some bell, there we go, some 2X. Jesus, I'm rolling with you. Hold up, Emmerdrain, come on, make him play. Not gonna happen. Not today, Internet. Let's see what we can do with this. Let's blow it up. Thanks, Brad. Sorry, I didn't... I didn't do it right today. We're just looking for a clean feed here, kids. Clean feed. Clean feed and we can play. That's about the dirtiest feed you could ask for. That's a nasty feed. Yo, that's stanky. That was a stanky, stanky feed. It's like your feet. Stanky feet. Alright. Oh, crap. One? I'll take it. That was great. God, what do I need, like 300 ramps now? Do you want to know? Not with 2x rolling. All right, it's over. Yeah, we're going to look to see how many ramps I need. I'm sure it's like 20. Oh, it's eight? Yeah. Ugh. Eight ramps. All right. Well, eight ramps isn't impossible, folks. It is if you screw up like that Nice What? No, Alvin was right No, the points I'll still, I think you're on the board I'm pretty sure you're on the board For the back of black as well Yeah! Nice work, bro. Holy crap. Who the hell is Steve? Oh, yeah. Steve. Yo, Chet Baudry. Dissolve. Folks, thanks again for coming out. I hope you learned something. Yeah, we're going to be playing it all week, and I'm sure you'll learn some tips and tricks and stuff on how to blow it up. I hope so. Yeah. I hope we both learn something. Yeah, you teach us something. That'd be great. Like, you know, don't drain. Yeah, like try not to drain. Don't be terrible. Don't swear in front of kids. You know, all that fun stuff. Well, folks, we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks again for coming. Have a wonderful night. Goodbye. Thanks, Nick. I'm Jack Danger. We're out of here. See you tomorrow, Internet. Swip, blip, blip, blip. Happy Monday. Can you get sweet?

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