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SDTM: Chuckwurt and Genie Pinball! Tutorial

Straight Down the Middle·video·1h 50m·analyzed·Feb 2, 2018
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TL;DR

Genie pinball tutorial with gameplay, rules explanation, and machine troubleshooting.

Summary

Jon Hey provides an extended tutorial and gameplay walkthrough of a 1979 Genie pinball machine, explaining core rules including bonus collection via yellow drop targets, lane completion sequences (ABCD), extra ball targets, and a bonus multiplier system. The machine has non-functional tilt due to previous owner disconnect, an aftermarket MPU board adding skill shot features, and ongoing electrical gremlins (tilt warnings, sound dropouts). The session involves attempting to beat a house high score of 564,000 while discussing pinball machine maintenance, playfield design philosophy, and comparisons to digital platforms like Pinball Arcade.

Key Claims

  • Genie is a 1979 pinball machine with a broken tilt mechanism due to previous owner disconnecting wiring

    high confidence · Jon Hey states: 'this is a, I think, 1979 Genie lead... the last owner, um, cut slash disconnected all the tilt ramp or mode name wiring'

  • The game has an aftermarket MPU board that adds skill shot functionality

    high confidence · Jon Hey: 'This game has an aftermarket MPU board in it, which adds some features to the game, including a skill shot'

  • Yellow drop targets are the primary bonus-building mechanic, advancing bonus multiplier when a light cycles on

    high confidence · Jon Hey explains: 'mainly these yellow drop targets or what you want to be aiming for. They'll advance your bonus one time each time you hit them'

  • The bonus multiplier light cycles on/off with bumper and star rollover hits

    high confidence · Jon Hey: 'every time you hit one of the bumpers or one of these star rollovers on the upper play field, it will turn that light on and off'

  • Maximum bonus on this Genie is 5X multiplier × 29 base bonus points

    high confidence · Chat discussion reveals: 'Max bonus is five times twenty-nine' after Jon reaches 5X multiplier

  • Upper playfield design in Genie avoids two-level construction, creating a walled-off upper area

    high confidence · Jon Hey: 'This is a great example of a game that has an upper playfield without making two levels on the game... It's just a walled off part of a one level playfield'

  • Genie is available on Pinball Arcade digital platform

    high confidence · Jon Hey: 'I played this on Pinball Arcade after getting this one, just to see how those upper flippers do on that one'

  • A working 1979 Genie is obtainable for approximately $800

    medium confidence · Jon Hey: 'I feel like 800 bucks for a working one that might not be the prettiest thing in the world is more than doable'

Notable Quotes

  • “This game has an aftermarket MPU board in it, which adds some features to the game, including a skill shot.”

    Jon Hey@ 6:35 — Explains a key hardware upgrade that distinguishes this particular Genie from original specifications

  • “mainly these yellow drop targets or what you want to be aiming for. They'll advance your bonus one time each time you hit them.”

    Jon Hey@ 4:51 — Core mechanic explanation—yellow targets are the primary strategic objective

  • “This is a great example of a game that has an upper playfield without making two levels on the game. It's just a walled off part of a one level playfield, which I like a lot.”

    Jon Hey@ 23:31 — Design philosophy appreciation—demonstrates how upper playfields can be implemented without complex ramp architecture

  • “I would love nothing more than for this tilt to work on this thing. Because if you put a tilt in this beat, ooh baby, it'll be brutal.”

    Jon Hey@ 12:50 — Acknowledges tilt mechanism importance and how its absence changes game difficulty and strategic depth

  • “Ramps are overrated... just good old fashioned fun. Don't mean they're ramps, don't mean they're crazy, seizure light shows, just good old fashioned fun.”

    Jon Hey@ 25:03 — Design philosophy statement preferring mechanical simplicity and fun factor over complex ramp shots

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    community_signal: Jon Hey streaming extended gameplay session with real-time chat interaction; viewers providing tips, donations (bits), and banter; demonstrates active community building around content

    high · Multiple chat participants (Brady, Evan, James, JFRE, Gun Nut, etc.) contributing comments, questions, and financial support throughout stream

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Local Pittsburgh-area pinball community shows active tournament participation; specific players (Roy, Mark Kim) demonstrating skill progression; Jon Hey managing NKY Pinball Presents events

    medium · Multiple references to local tournaments, player rankings (Roy 'thoroughly dismantled all of us'), and Jon Hey organizing Tuesday NKY events

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Jon Hey expresses preference for bonus-heavy, mechanically simple games (TNA, Genie) over modern ramp-focused designs; values elegant upper playfield architecture without multi-level complexity

    high · Jon Hey: 'Ramps are overrated... just good old fashioned fun. Don't mean they're ramps, don't mean they're crazy, seizure light shows, just good old fashioned fun.' and 'This is a great example of a game that has an upper playfield without making two levels'

  • $

    market_signal: Vintage early-solid-state pinball machines (1979-1980 era) positioned as affordable entry point for collectors; $800 price point mentioned for working Genie

    medium · Jon Hey: 'I feel like 800 bucks for a working one that might not be the prettiest thing in the world is more than doable' and discussion of trading up gradually rather than expensive new games

  • ?

Transcript

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0:00
Thank you. All right. What's crappin' in there, everybody? Playing some Genie Pinball tonight.
2:23
So, yeah, this is a, I think, 1979. got lead, um, so, rules for this game, nothing too crazy, um, you can see there's, with my extra, yep, yellow drop targets over and over, Evan, we'll get to that, uh, yeah, there's a tilt bob in there, but I realized the last owner, um, cut slash disconnected all the tilt rock wiring so like the not just the slam tilts the regular tilt it's all cut up so i didn't really have the patience or the the wherewithal to look through the schematics and reconnect all that but i put some um put some rubber feet on it so you can't slide it around as much but it still won't tilt no matter what but um so you got abcd lanes up top you got abcd lanes over here to the bottom left they both do the same thing so if you put out the a up there i'll put it out down here and so on, completing A, B, C, and D will light one of the extra ball targets.
3:36
It lights the left extra ball target, so then that target up in the upper play field will light, so you can get an extra ball that way. The other extra ball is from hitting down the drop targets up here.
3:48
I believe just the white or the red ones. White drop targets. so if you hit the white drop targets down it will light the extra ball that's over here the cool thing about those drop targets up there you can see they alternate red, white, red, the white ones down and so on if you hit the white ones down all of them it'll light the extra ball and then they reset so if you're trying to hit down the white targets and you hit down all the red ones on accident that's a different award if you hit down all the red ones they're like the special target. I'm not sure what that's worth, but then they all reset. So if you're going after whites and you accidentally hit down all the reds, they reset, so now you've got to start over. So that's kind of a cool little feature there. Another key feature of the game is the bonus, essentially. You know, games of this age, they always have big bonus. So various targets scattered all over the play field add bonus, like this little guy here, these two over here, the end lanes add bonus, but mainly these yellow drop targets or what you want to be aiming for. They'll advance your bonus one time each time you hit them.
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product_concern: Aftermarket MPU board upgrade on Genie adds features (skill shot, bonus tracking) but introduces electrical gremlins; raises questions about upgrade quality and compatibility

medium · Jon Hey notes: 'Maybe I have a diode issue. Because this game did hit some diode problems when I replaced it for some other switches'

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Jon Hey's appreciation for Genie grows through session as he discovers mechanical elegance and strategic depth despite initial frustration with tilt non-functionality and electrical gremlins

    medium · Early frustration with tilt issues ('I just haven't been able to get it to actually work') transitions to mechanical appreciation ('There's an upper playfield that doesn't suck')

  • ?

    technology_signal: Non-functional tilt mechanism and intermittent electrical issues (tilt warnings, sound dropouts) affecting gameplay experience despite aftermarket board upgrade

    high · Jon Hey: 'the last owner, um, cut slash disconnected all the tilt ramp or mode name wiring... Maybe it's a flaky diode that isn't getting a really good connection... tilt warnings every so often. But when we do get them, the sound goes out'

    • 4:56
    Now you'll see also, well you can't really read it, there's a light in front of the yellow drop targets. When that's lit, if you hit the yellow drop targets, it advances your bonus X, which is down here, which multiplies your bonus by however many X you've earned when you lose your ball. That light is cycled. So every time you hit one of the pop bumpers or one of these star rollovers in the upper play field, it will turn that light on and off so if you hit the pop bumpers once it'll come on hit them again it'll come off so you have to kind of get a little bit of luck there to get that lit up so then when you hit the drop targets it advances your bonus vest you'll see that outside of that the one thing that I'm not entirely sure how to light is up here in the top right corner there's a saucer it says score bonus when lit I'm just not sure what lights that up but again if that's lit and you hit it in there, you get awarded all your bonus you've collected. I can't remember if your bonus resets after that, but it may. So yeah, that's pretty much it. And we'll talk through more as I'm playing it, but some other key features of the game. There's two little tiny inlays down here. You can see these star rollovers. What these do is they add to bonus, score you a little bit of points, but then what they also do is they light the spinner for advanced bonus. Meaning, if you can one-time it into that spinner after getting these in-lanes, each tick of the spin will advance your bonus. And you get one shot at it. Like, if you miss and hit one of the drop targets of this other target here, the light goes out. So you got a one try at it. So it's pretty cool. This game has an aftermarket MPU board in it, which adds some features to the game, including a skill shot. You can see up top the letter D as in dog is blinking. If I can skillfully plunge to that rollover before I hit anything else, I'll get 10,000 points.
    6:52
    Alright. So that's pretty much it. Alright, you can see I hit one pop bumper, so my bonus X is lit at the drop target. So I want to get a hold of it.
    7:05
    And there we go. So we'll have a lot of those tonight. This game can be a little brutal. So I hit one pop bumper, came on, a little beast layer type area over there like Paragon. It's really tough to get the ball to bounce into the in lane instead of the out lane. Getting that D. Man, this is going to be a rough game if I can't get this to stay. There we go. So one time it ended up safe, how it lit the spinner.
    7:45
    Oh, there's another way to get it. I actually never thought about that. If you can get your alley passes down good, you might be able to shoot up this end lane here and get that star roll over to light your spinner and rip that for more bonus. I turned the game up a little bit because I thought it was a little too low, but if it's too loud, let me know. I'll turn it down. Or if I'm not loud enough, you know, you know the drill.
    8:15
    All right, so our goal tonight is, somebody put a high score on this of like 520,000 or so. We're going to see if we can't beat that tonight.
    8:30
    So we got the drops when the bonus X was lit. So the 2X light is out. But we have earned that so far.
    8:43
    Get a rollover. There we go. So we went over one of the rollovers. That's what lit up the advanced X. So see, now we're on 3X. Which is to the left of all the bonus lights.
    9:00
    Now it's lit again because we hit the pop bumper down here. Now we only have... Oh, it went out. So you always want to keep an eye on that bonus X. But if you only have one drop target left, it makes it harder to... There we go. So now we're at 4X. Ooh, we've got to let back up. No!
    9:22
    So yeah, we had the 4X lit, so we're getting four times our bonus value there. And that's essentially your goal for the game, outside of trying to get extra balls and stuff like that. and somehow get that score bonus saucer lit up by the top right top bumper.
    9:41
    Again, not entirely sure how to do that, so if anybody knows, let me know. We'll try to get that done.
    9:47
    There's the bonus. Oh, yeah, stay there. Oh, no. Oh, that was a ricochet. Alright, stay with me. God. Whoa.
    10:21
    Hey, I think I just... I said, whoa, Bubba. I think that was a tilt warning. I don't know how that happened, because I swear everything is disconnected down there.
    10:33
    Maybe it's, uh... Oh, now I got no sound. Now he's acting really wonky. I guess no sound is what we needed there. I'm doing much better now.
    11:01
    Get up there. I did have a couple games last night practicing where my game just decided to end in the mid-ball. So maybe I got something similar to that going on. You can see I missed my spinner and it went out immediately.
    11:30
    Oh, yeah. Ah! That's weird. Tom came back. Yeah. Dude, I'm going to look in there real quick. Whoa, Bubba.
    11:46
    Now, see, and maybe it's just the slam tilt. I'm going to start again, because, I mean, I got tilt bobs in there. Let's see what happens here.
    11:58
    Yeah, I mean, I'm, it's going, rattle crazy in here. Maybe I got a diode issue. Because this game did hit some diode problems when I got it for some other switches on the playfield. Maybe whatever diode is running the tilt switch isn't working. So I took another look at it.
    12:23
    The slam tilts are definitely chopped up. maybe just a flaky diode that isn't getting a really good connection is my, uh, my issue there, so I will, take a look at that, come on, man, how did I do that, but I assume that's a tilt warning, that's pretty funny, that does it, whoa, But I would love nothing more than for this tilt to work on this thing. Because if you put a tilt in this beat, ooh baby, it'll be brutal.
    13:21
    Oh boy. Hit it. Oh, that was real sick. Little tickle. Wow, that was terrible. Oh, boy. I'm going to go through this spinner and see if I can get the... Stay lit. Oh, nice.
    14:24
    So, although at first, lighting that advanced bonus light kind of made me mad. It seemed random to me. I mean, I knew it wasn't random, but it just seemed like random luck to get it. But right there, I mean, you saw I could hit it through the spinner, hit the pop-up or one, and then I guess luck comes into play after that where you kind of have to hope that it gets back down to your flipper without hitting another pop-up or...
    15:06
    Oh, stay with me. I'm getting there. I'll take that. Stay with me. Oh, baby. Back on. We're back on. 4X. Stay with me. Oh, yeah. 5X. Now it's just about racking that bonus up. Trying to get extra balls.
    15:45
    Oh yeah. Oh, I missed it. I almost have ABCD lit, so I don't light one of our extra balls. Oh, goodness me.
    16:18
    Damn it. Oh, look at that. Did a little star roll over stall up there. That was a good one. That was ball three there? Damn it. I'm basically going to have like, do that a couple times in a game to get this high score. We can do that. So that's where your points are at boys and girls. 564 is what we're looking at. Get in that egg. Get in that, uh, canister. Oh, man.
    17:34
    Get up there. I don't want that. Hit that. I love that shot straight up through the upper playfield, but then it's tough to keep it up there. Terry, what's going on man? Terry, what's going on, man? And these slippers are nothing you ever play, Caleb. are set so flat, like it's really tough to hit the drop targets that are in the middle of that upper playfield.
    18:48
    And I played this on the pinball arcade after getting this one, just to see how those upper flippers do on that one. It's pretty much the same thing. So, interesting.
    19:07
    Stay with me. Hit it. There we go. 2X. Remember, our 2X lights out, so they keep exploring home. Man, hit that. Oh, I'll take it. Now let's get that bonus X for her.
    19:45
    Oh, baby. Going around the world, doing nothing. There we go. Hit one of those. Oh, it's still in? No, it's not. All right.
    20:48
    Two games in a row where we got halfway there. 564. I will stay with him. That pump has screwed up all our plans.
    21:22
    Oh, I had it and I nudged it up. That's real tough down there. It's tough to trust it. It's crowded with a lot of bumpiness over there. Just by design. Just by design.
    21:47
    Oh! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Just a couple quick bonus actions. Stay with me. Oh hit that F. Don't hit that. Oh that D didn't register. That's mean. Oh my. Hit it. Oh that's terrible. Oh! Lazarus baby. hit that target.
    22:36
    Hit the pop bumper. It's almost like you have to, like, play, like, air hockey up top. Oh, whoa, Bubba.
    22:59
    Whoa, Bubba. I need to figure out how to get that thread through time. Oh, there goes our sound again.
    23:12
    So, what do we know? The tilt might not be completely broken like we thought. as we're getting warnings every so often. But when we do get them, the sound goes out until the game's over. Or at least until the ball's over. We've done them ball three every time. This is a great example of a game that has an upper playfield without making two levels on the game. There's a complete upper playfield up here where there's no ramp to get to it, no nothing. It's just a walled off part of a one level playfield, which I like a lot. Medusa is another game that does an awesome job of that. That game's sweet. I have a vector sitting right next to this game. And just from the sheer fact that they, I feel like, just decided to cram a second tier play field in that. It just doesn't work.
    24:29
    There's little short ramps and all these flippers that are so close to them. The game's too crowded. There's too much going on.
    24:39
    I mean, maybe if it was one of those super wide bodies, it wouldn't be so bad, but it's not. It's just a regular play field.
    24:48
    Ramps are overrated. I mean, look at TNA. that game is amazing. I mean you give me something that's fun, fast, got great music, good rules, great to play against other people, that's all I need. Don't mean they're ramps, don't mean they're crazy, seizure light shows, just good old fashioned fun.
    25:21
    Get it! Stay in there. Oh, extra balls left! I guess I got all those correct drop targets for it up there. God damn.
    25:54
    Yep, an upper playfield that doesn't suck. Just give me one of those. And actually, TNA does, like, that same tactic, you know, where it kind of has an upper playfield, that reactor, but it's not a different level. Doesn't need to be. Come back down to me. Come on. Nope. Oh, stay with me.
    26:22
    No, no, no. Nope. The left out lane is beyond killer, man. I mean, that's one of the reasons why I don't mind so much that the tilt doesn't really work on this. because I mean, you can see, there's no tilt in this and when the ball goes over there,
    26:43
    it's tough to get it to come back in. But, there definitely should be a tilt in that. Like I said, I just haven't been able to get it to actually work. 4x what did I tell you stay with me it's all high as a heck now let's get some extra balls now stay with me get out of there yeah one thing I really like about this game too is right by that bottom right flipper. Get him. Something I don't need. Or something I do need.
    27:37
    There we go It deregistered that time Damn man Don hit anything I love hitting that spinner when it's knit.
    27:53
    Damn. That's a good one. Fall 2. All right, we still got a chance. Thank you, sir. Okay, so we just need to do that again, I guess, pretty much. And we'll be close to that high score.
    28:21
    Easier said than done. Or get some drop targets down up here. There's two X. Oh, stay with me. Oh, couldn't decide what I wanted to do there. Ah, okay, don't hit this one. Oh yeah, there's three. God you stink! I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go up the playfield or try and sneak it through if we're going to get that pop-up bit.
    29:05
    Alright, I feel like we're going to get this. We're getting over three almost every time. Hey! Gun nut, thanks for the bit.
    29:14
    So I wonder what max bonus is. So, I got to 20, and I saw it counting up again. Will it get to 10 again, and then fill up all the way back up to 9? So it's 39, your max base for your bonus?
    29:31
    It's definitely not hard to tilt this thing, especially with the rubber feet I have on it. It's just the tilt doesn't work.
    29:43
    5 times 29. Okay. Well, that's what I was wondering, and we'll find out there. There, Chad. There she blows.
    29:58
    We're due for a house. Give me a seat twice. All the way. The coolest... There's a... There's actually a rubber right here by this right flipper. So you get these really crazy bounces when you think it's just going to be a lane guide. It's pretty cool.
    30:20
    Stay with me. No, don't hit that. Ha ha. Alright, new beer. I have a feeling we're going to go through plenty of beer tonight. Alright. All right.
    31:10
    Like that right there, you're dead. No way should you ever be able to do that. But, hey, I'm playing the same game that whoever got 520 or 564 on this. Oh, there's only one drop target left? Nice! That was pretty lucky. Take it! Oh yeah.
    32:12
    Give me a... Oh! Get up there. Oh, I got the middle turn. Oh! Get one. Damn it, Eric. What are you doing?
    32:50
    There we go. Okay. God. Data caps and Twitch don't go well together. What is data caps? Oh, yeah. Gun nut. Using your data again? Man, you got to get some upgraded hillbilly internet down there.
    33:30
    Yeah, man, you got to take that scammer down. That's pretty funny that you just got a game and then you saw someone listing your game for sale.
    33:42
    Did somebody just randomly show up at your house and was just like, Hey, I'm here to buy the pinball machine I saw.
    34:00
    Uh... Stay with me. I don't know why we dumb-dumb. One more white target. Of course I hit into one spot I already got. Oh! Stay with me.
    34:54
    3x. Get the white! My dirty undies, dude. Get the white! Get the fucking... Oh, no! Special's lit. Nobody cares about specials. It's probably worth nothing.
    35:20
    I think I just... I think I just twisted my elbow. Ow! Wasted a good drop catch there. Oh. Oh, Lazarus. Looks like we're 29 to max there, Chib.
    36:08
    Get that. Now we really got to get that bonus X up. Yeah. Max bonus. Now let's get extra balls. Stay with me. No!
    36:32
    That's a good ball one. Ooh, thanks for the bits, Bentley. Thanks for the bits. And you can take a nap during that bonus countdown.
    36:57
    Alright. Alright, we just do that two more times, we got it. Who the hell got 564 on this, was that you Evan?
    37:18
    God, I can never tell what it's gonna do. Oh, the bonus software was lit on my last ball? I wonder... Man, I wasn't paying attention to what lights that, because it doesn't say it on the rules card what lights that venison.
    37:41
    Well, damn it. Yell at me next time, J-F-R-E. Type in, like... God damn it! Type in, like, 200 font next time you see that saucer lift. Well, that's all. Well, we got one mystery out of the way. Max bonus is five times twenty-nine. Just one flipper and we would have had it.
    38:28
    Come on. Say it again. Yeah. Oh, that was real bad. This is more like a game I would have in a tournament right here.
    38:58
    Get up there. Budge. That was cool. Backhand through the bottom of the D rollover. Ah. Okay, so you can get out of that left out lane easy. Okay, so maybe when you get to Max Bonus, that's what life is.
    39:31
    Ooh, thanks for the bits, Chad. Max Bonus bits. Is there anything better than normal bits or Max Bonus bits?
    39:42
    Yeah, Budweiser. This is not your average size steel pinball game. I feel like it has like five separate mini games going on with the inside of it. Ha! No, man, but, no, I knew you meant the pinball arcade. I, um... I used to play that a ton.
    40:17
    And Genie was one of the games I played a lot on. Actually, of the older games, I probably played Genie and that, uh, what's his, Hot Shot?
    40:27
    Oh, boy. I got a little extra love in there, it looks like. Yeah, the Gottlieb's drop target game, where there's just drop targets on either side of the game, that game was fun. I played that all the time.
    40:48
    God damn! There's one. Get up there. It's so funny doing, like, slap saves on that little playfield up there. Damn, see, you're screwing me too? Yeah, I did it.
    41:38
    This game does not care that there's no tilt in it. It does not care. Damn. It's funny, almost every drop target hit I get up to that upper playfield is from ricochets. Play with me.
    42:20
    Oh boy. Don't kill me. Oh no way! Oh I thought I had that. Definitely cannot hit that drop target from that flipper.
    42:53
    Oh come on! I'm going to turn it off. Yeah. Get up there. Get out of the beast layer. Yes. Oh. B! Dang.
    43:32
    I can just hear that damn kill pop just rattling around in there. Oh, that was safe. Bye there. Dang. The team does not want to let me get in the B and the C.
    43:49
    Oh, yeah. Ah! Get in the biggie. There we go. Just need the seat. Just need the seat. No big deal. Seat! Seat! Yeah!
    44:26
    I know, that one drop target. And it's like, it could be the one you're most confident in hitting. And if it's just that one left, you're going to miss it the whole time.
    44:44
    Yep, more cushion for the tilt pushing. That sure is right. So I need to do the regime. No way. That's a fantastic idea for this game. Powerball and the genie. yeah that's a good idea put a really tight tilt in this and just put a power ball in it oh look at that skill chat pure skill stay with me get up there playing with fire get away man that's a solid score 564 yeah that's a great call and i've been starting to do that too so if you only have one drop target left even if the uh the bonus multiplier advance is not lit go ahead and hit it down and get all your targets back up for the next time that it is lit. That's a great call. A. And I took that lane out up top, so it makes things a little more interesting too. So it doesn't always feed A, B, Cs. You've got to get it to rattle around up there. That's what makes Yeah, like that.
    46:10
    Jesus! Again! Ooh, making quick work of ABCD! Alright, let's get an extra ball. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was a sick bounce pass up there.
    46:48
    God, and then it just immediately drains me. You can't drain me after a shot like that. Look at that! It's going right back to ABCD. Crazy. Where was this on the games where I was actually close to the high score? I guess keep getting extra balls and... O.D. There we go.
    47:33
    What did I just do? Oh, yeah, that's cool. Reset him. Now let's get lit again. Where's the low bubble?
    47:59
    Hit the D. Yes! Oh, that would have been crazy if I went through the underside of the D up to the upper play field one time into the extra ball.
    48:23
    I'm going to hurt my hand. Out of here, gun nut. Damn. Take it easy, man. Save up that data for next week.
    48:41
    It's only $300,000 on this ball. We can do it. We can do it. God! Come on, little bitch. Oh, I'm sure, man. And once I get that tilt fixed, I'm going to be so used to throwing this thing around that I'm sure I'm going to tilt out all kinds of bonus on this thing.
    49:17
    But no, I like that. So I have another bonus heavy game here. It's a big game from Stern in 1980. So I had to tilt very, very tight in that because that's one of those games where if you get a really big bonus built up on ball one, it carries over ball to ball. So that can be a huge point. So I keep that tilt very tight so that it will make you pay for it if you do tilt it.
    49:57
    Weird too, I think this is the only game I've ever seen that only has one slingshot. Oh Whip. See? Get out of that lair.
    51:09
    Man. Ah. Another beer, another beer, another beer. Yeah, it's very common there, JFRE. I'm just going to call you Jeff. Yeah, so that seemed to be the thing in the early solid state days was heavy, heavy bonus. That and lit spinners being extremely valuable. So it was like, find how to multiply your bonus and find out how to light whatever spinner I don't know what the game had on it. It probably had one.
    52:53
    Don't kill me. Hit it! No! Get out of the beast layer. Yes. Oh, I knew it was too close to the end. The bounce couldn't have...
    53:18
    That's funny. Alright, well, since I know your real name, I'll be calling you James. I'm not a big... I know most of the people that will come in these chats by their actual names, so I'll go ahead and fire those away because it's hard for me to remember all these screen names.
    53:35
    Hopefully none of those people mind. Hi, James. So you obviously got some pretty awesome scores on this on the pinball arcade. What other games on the pinball arcade have you played a ton of and gotten big scores on? I used to play that game a ton before I started having real pinball machines pop up a lot more around me and being able to play tournaments locally and get into leagues around here and everything. So that was pretty much all the pinball I got to play, and then obviously until I started buying games.
    54:16
    So I played a lot. And that's honestly how I learned a lot of these rule sets, was just playing that at the time.
    54:28
    But one that I played at the time that I didn't really like so much in real life was Junkyard. Junkyard was one of my favorite games on there. When I played it in real life, I was like, ugh, I do not like this game. Junkyard and then the opposite effect I hated Whitewater on Pinball Arcade and I really liked that in real life it gets a little monotonous sometimes when you're playing it in tournament but I just love that game all the way around
    55:03
    there we go come on Okay Yeah Yeah Chad you felt the same way That funny I don know what it was on TPA but I hated it
    55:32
    I don't think I had any other ones like that on TPA, where I hated it on there and liked it in real life. Most of the other ones, I enjoyed them pretty good, both on TPA and real life. I mean, certain games grew on me in real life after a while, like, um, I didn't like Twilight Zone or Creature at first, but they definitely grew on me.
    56:12
    Oh, yeah. If you got a weak flipper on a game with an important shot like that, it ruins it. Like, I don't care how nice it looks. That's what's kind of disappointed me about some of these really amazingly restored games that I'll run into at these pinball shows sometimes. It's like, and I get it. I mean, if your expertise is in that, you might not be the greatest player in the world, But, I mean, you'll play them and they just play crummy. Like, the flippers are soggy or they're not aligned right or they're chattering. You know, it's disappointing. But I have played some that were amazing all the way around, and that was a treat.
    57:05
    Yeah, I mean, it's going to be tough for TPA to get those physics exactly right. I mean the thing that still cracks me up is how you'll hit a you'll hit a ramp and as long as it goes up About a quarter of the way. It's just kind of like the physics just kind of suck it up there and give you the shot
    57:20
    Definitely does not work it like that in real life. That ball will come right back down and drain down the middle
    57:34
    Yeah, man when I first started getting into all this I since I didn't mind playing those, like, electronic versions of all the games, I seriously thought about just getting one of those, you know, spending a few grand and getting one of those virtual pinball machines and just, you know, being able to have just all that stuff at my disposal at once. But as I played the real stuff more and more and realizing, you know, as long as you don't feel like you have to have all the latest and greatest super expensive games, You can get a pretty nice collection for not, you know, a ton of money. You know, just save, you know, 800 bucks or so and get yourself a nice EM or early solid state game and just keep doing that over and over again.
    58:26
    You know, I mean, you might get lucky in a trade or two to be able to trade up a little bit and have a little more money in every equation. And before you know it, you've got a basically full game.
    58:36
    god you dummy making a drain what up oh yeah there's there's a a few things that make tpa just not legit i mean I mean the nudging, for instance, it's extremely consistent. Like it does the same thing every single time. The ball rolls the exact same way every time. Like, hell, in real life, I'll come down and play one of my games, and I'll come down the next day, it doesn't even play the same the next day. You move it six inches to the left or the right in your basement or at the bar or whatever, and it plays completely different.
    59:32
    Oh, really, Chad? You think even if you had a base of four games, you'd still play TPA a lot? That did not happen for me.
    59:43
    I played so much... I started playing so much pinball that I sold all my video games. And even though TPA, it was pinball, still didn't play.
    59:59
    So now the only time I play TPA is when I'm on an airplane. See, I need to see Oh, way too far right
    60:30
    Upper place Yeah, I used to hit the upper playfields with that upper flipper. Easy peasy. I'm gonna hit the shit.
    60:50
    Stay with me. I'm navigating those upper playfield rollovers like a champ, and then I still lose it. Nudging this game kind of feels like what it's like to nudge an alien if anybody's ever played that. Holy hell, that game's a beast.
    61:20
    It's a workout trying to nudge that game. Come on, man. Damn it. Brazy. Yeah, Brady. If your basement can hold this many games, then you could take this genie back to your house, because it belongs to you.
    61:57
    Oh yeah, making it drained, chasing gremlins, that's, that can be frustrating at times, especially on EMs for me. I don't, it's really hard for me to diagnose an EM issue. I love how easy they are to fix once you do diagnose it, but it's really tough finding that issue.
    62:27
    But hey man, chasing those gremlins, you know, when you find them and kill them. Best feeling in the world.
    62:47
    The local arcade that just opened up a couple months ago where I'm running tournaments at, it's a group of older solid state games and just one D&D game, like Super Mario Brothers. Yeah, I mean, I'm going there at least once a month to help fix issues and stuff like that. It's just nice to keep those games in as good a shape as I can.
    63:19
    Brady's speaking of that. Are you coming up on Tuesday? We need more NKY pinball presents. And Chad, you weren't at the last one either. Are you coming Tuesday? Yeah.
    63:39
    I'm going to need Tommy John surgery after this. yeah dude genie's i don't know what brady paid for this and if he doesn't mind commenting in the chat but i feel like 800 bucks for a working one that might not be the prettiest thing in the world is more than doable Thank you. Stay with me.
    64:42
    Hit it! Oh! Oh, yeah? Good luck rolling that Mata Hari now that I've been... Now that I've had my hands in it for this past weekend.
    65:04
    made some adjustments. We'll just say that. Oh, and good luck beating Roy on that. Roy just thoroughly dismantled all of us that first tournament.
    65:26
    So, Kim and Roy, don't you have anything better to do than practice all these games all day? Oh, you dumb dumb!
    66:04
    Get the beat. Yeah. Stay with me. Damn. oh yeah new board yeah good call on that Brady because I mean that alleviates tons of headaches uh no it's not normal James the reason why there's a there's a top lane flashing is because when Brady bought this game they had a new aftermarket board in it and so the motherboard, if you buy one of the aftermarket ones, they have extra software in them to add some features. Like, this game has tilt warnings in it, where I think the original game, if the tilt bob hit, you were done. It just tilted. It didn't warn you twice before you tilted. So it's got a skill shot, and then it might have some other extra settings that they added into the code. But yeah, so if I plunge the letter B right now, I'll get 10,000 points.
    67:26
    Chad, for your extra ball question at Newport, I believe Funhaus is awarding them, but we're plunging them.
    67:36
    So, yeah, I mean, if the extra balls are on, I know they're not on on Matahari. I believe it's on on Firepower.
    67:42
    But, yeah, if you get them, just plunge them. That's how we're playing it. Stay. Ah! Yeah, yeah, basically that's what it is. It's a skill shot added into the code by the people that made the aftermarket motherboard for it. So I guess... I think the game's code is on, like, little computer chips. And I'm sure they just got in there and...
    68:26
    rewrote some of the code and there you have it. I'm not a computer programmer by any means, but this is basically how I understand it.
    68:45
    Right. On Creature, it has a different paid letter of those tickets up top flashing. If he plunge out one, it gives you that film letter right away.
    69:03
    Yep. So, Chad, the format at Newport will always be this. From 7 to 9.30, we're doing timed match play. We started at 7.30 last time, and we got in eight games between 7.30 and 9.30. So I'm thinking we can get in 10 games of qualifying before 9.30 and then have a three-game final with the Final Four.
    69:32
    Brady, it always starts at 7. Always 7 on the first and third Wednesday of every month. Now, for February, it's the first and third Tuesday. But starting in March, from there on out, it's the first and third Wednesday. I think the only other Tuesday we play for the entire year is in July, because the first Tuesday is July 3rd, and the Wednesday is obviously the 4th, and I figure most people will be doing July 4th stuff, so I left that one as a Tuesday.
    70:06
    But a lot of local people and the Louisville players said that Wednesdays work better for them, So hopefully our attendance will grow now that we change it to Wednesday.
    70:19
    Yeah, I mean, dude, if we get to play 10 games in qualifying, we get 100% TGP. But with those older games, the games go quick, man. I played a four-player game of Firepower that maybe took five minutes one time. Yeah. So having an all-classics, basically, location like that is great.
    70:47
    Oh, and if you're used to playing Mario all day, that's definitely going to have an extremely tight tilt in it the next time I go in there.
    70:57
    It's the only game that actually doesn't have a tilt bob in it. but I will be remedying that as soon as possible.
    71:15
    Damn. What? That's what I was talking about. I did that to me last night. Mid-playing. It ended my game.
    71:37
    So, not sure what's going on there. It might be related to the tilt not functioning properly. It was a ghost drain. I'm not even sure if I was on ball three making it drain.
    72:01
    But it definitely seemed like a ghost drain. Again, I can't remember if it was ball three, but if it was, then yeah. It totally just drained on me. It didn't even give me a bonus count up, so I'm not sure what the deal was. It just went to game over, basically.
    72:17
    As far as I know, this game cannot tilt in its current state. There's some switches that are not working properly.
    72:31
    Say it again! That was on ball two. So, I'm not sure what's going on there. We'll keep playing it and see what the deal is here.
    72:51
    Yeah, it does have a slant tilt feature, but I've gone through the whole game. and some guy hated slam chills because he disconnected all of them.
    73:17
    Let's see what the... Oopsie. I'm not really sure what's causing our issue there, but... I don't think Brady gains a big gigantic fat lemon. Well that works.
    74:13
    I don't know. Oh! Stay with me. Oh, nice. Good ricochet. Give me something good. Or nothing.
    75:10
    I guess in that situation, getting nothing was good, I think it's probably back to my clippers down here.
    75:17
    Oh, no. Give me a pop number hit. Yeah! Jeez, the head now. Yeah. There's some balls in this game where it's like, man, I don't know why I drain so easy on other balls because I couldn't drain if I tried to right now.
    75:58
    But then I forget, oh yeah, it's my one millionth ball of that session. And I finally had a good one. That's not good odds right there.
    76:12
    Now there are four balls in play. I wonder if it even kept the highest score. Maybe it did a factory reset on us. Yeah, it did a factory reset. Crazy. Setup.
    77:29
    Third fresh. Ball save. No ball save. Enable four high score. enable million wait that really sucks not sure that means total tilt
    78:01
    that's the tilt warnings I think Idle and... No. That tune stinks. Fast bonus? Let's do that. Skill shot, yes. That's why the skill shot wasn't going before. Setup done.
    78:33
    Shoot match credit limit, coin sounds. Extra ball limit three. Option done. Done. Okay. Now we're back to where we were before. There's a couple different changes here.
    79:12
    Kill shots back. Yeah. This game's definitely got to grumble in some way. And for how much real estate this game has to work with, if you lift this playfield, there is nothing underneath there. I mean, yeah, you got these big drop target banks, but like the ones in the way back, So it's like the stuff that screwed into the bottom of this place is a whole bunch of nothing.
    80:03
    Oh yeah, give me some more drops. Oh I love that fast bonus countdown. All right. Since we've got a good crowd in chat, so starting next week, I'm getting a little too busy at work to keep doing these Wednesdays, and then plus our tournaments are going to be on Wednesday, so I have to change it anyway. So I'm going to start doing Sundays, probably like afternoons. But anyway, so not this Sunday, next Sunday. I'll start doing Sundays every week.
    80:53
    But that'll only be for a few months. So starting back in like April, I'll go back to the mid-week stuff.
    80:59
    But anyway, I've got to think of what game I'm going to stream. And I'll give the chat options, and I'll let you guys decide right here and now.
    81:11
    Flight 2000, Xenon, Harlem Globetrotters, World Cup Soccer, Big Game. Lethal Weapon 3, Game of Thrones, Fire,
    81:21
    Odds and Evens, and Jungle Queen. I have a couple other games, but they ain't working properly. And I'm taking Hurricane off the list because we did that last week.
    81:34
    And I'm sure most people are sick of me playing Game of Thrones, so I did that massive tutorial. Fire away, Chad. I'll let people chime in for the rest of the night. If people vote for a game more than once, and I'll obviously take that one over or something else.
    81:56
    Oh, yeah. James, you're absolutely right. But however, if I didn't have YouTube, Pinside, the rest of the internet to help me, man, I remember when I was terrified to change a light bulb. I had baby Pac-Man, or hell, maybe I can stream baby Pac-Man. You guys want to do that? That might be something really cool and different to do. I have Baby Pac-Man, I can totally stream that. I got plenty of cameras. I got the proper setup to pull that off. Um, but yeah, the only game I had for the longest time was Baby Pac-Man. I remember the first time I opened that up trying to change light bulbs, I was terrified. And now, from all the help I've had from friends and the internet and Pinside, I still can't do much board work. I can diagnose some problems and know that my issue is on one of the boards but I can do the proper board work to fix the issue Um but pretty much any any mechanism that attached to the game if it needs to be rebuilt I can do all that No problem
    83:13
    So my soldering skills are beneath the play field limited only. You're not going to see me, I have replaced a transistor on one of my older games, boards, and it seriously took me all day. I tried like at least ten different times, I messed up like five different transistors, and when I finally got it to work, it was like the sloppiest job ever, but it worked.
    83:45
    Yeah! Yes! got some chat rolling in let's see what we got world cup soccer 94 globetrotters what's up darren hurdo haven't seen you guys all night what's up baby pack scream i remember baby pack the instant player was there Baby Pack I think is the only game here that between our tournaments and all that other shit that we've done down here we have never streamed so I do need to get a Globetrotter stream set up I haven't had that game for too long. I haven't done a, uh, one of my weekly streams on that yet. So, that's definitely a good call. But I'm, I'm thinking Baby Pack might be the winner. Might be a good kickoff to my, my Sunday streams.
    85:03
    To maybe finally convince people that that game's pretty darn good. Yeah, cause, There's people out there that need to get a new love for baby pack, man. It's got some sweet rules. It's just really hard.
    85:24
    A lot of people get turned off by how difficult it is. Let's see. Damn. Ooh, that fast bonus is awesome.
    85:42
    Yeah, Fast Furnace is the way to go. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Baby Pack is brutal. Brutal. because the Pac-Man crowd hate it because of how random the ghosts are. The pinball crowd hate it because it's a little tiny pinball game that there's not much to it, and they suck at Pac-Man. So, yeah.
    86:29
    It's not popular with either crowd. Stay with me. Yeah. Oh, that was sick. Simultaneous, hit off the pop bumper, upper right flipper to the furthest right drop target for the bonus X.
    87:23
    Hit his feet. Stay with me. Yeah. Gee, Louise. Oh, yeah! Get the seed! Oh baby! I want white. I want white.
    88:10
    No red, we want white Oh there's Yeah, thanks, dude. All caps. I see the bonus. Look, Harry, you're already on it. Nice work.
    88:55
    So I bet your bonus resets when you get it. Because that doesn't light until you have max bonus. No. No! God. Alright, that's good ball one.
    89:21
    Alright. Okay. Now what? 281, ball one. That's how this game works? None of that stuff rolls over. So what can be an amazing ball one can turn into a mediocre game.
    89:47
    Alright, we got this. We got this. It's a good start. Get a couple of letters. Oh no. get that did not feel good
    90:24
    ah eric alright 240 240 240 thousand on this piece that was not good God, you dum-dums. What? We didn't even get a hundred thousand more after that first ball? Jesus.
    91:24
    Yeah. That did look like one. Ah. this beast this son of a bitch alright we're gonna do a few more and we'll call it a mid-night but I think um I think next Sunday doing baby pack is gonna be cool I'm pretty much gonna call it right now we're doing baby pack next Sunday
    92:02
    So tune in now this Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, but the following Sunday, get some baby Pac-Man streams on. I've never ever seen that streamed anywhere, so first exclusive stream of a game nobody likes.
    92:23
    Damn. Dude Hobbs if you're still watching, did you see how those guys on Tilt Forums were dogging your Rocky and Bullwinkle for being a tournament game? I was expecting you to chime in and explain to them that the double your score is not random. But that's everyone's beef with it. They don't want that double your score in there. That's stupid.
    93:02
    I don't doubt it, huh? Eyes filled with rage blood over the comments. I get it, man. Yeah, there's something right on there where a guy wants to get a list together of, like, tournament banned games. So even though, like, no game is banned from a tournament, it's just there's a lot of games out there that people recommend you don't use in a tournament for a variety of reasons.
    93:58
    And that was definitely brought up. Damn. Yeah, there's a guy actually that's on Tilt Forums that made a bunch of modded ROMs for some popular games that fixed some of their issues for tournaments, you know. not necessarily unbalanced scoring, but like exploitable features.
    94:39
    I can't remember all the games he did, but like one of the examples was... God, now I can't think of any of them. He did some stuff to Getaway, Demoman, Terminator 2, I think.
    94:53
    Theater of Magic. So he did a bunch of stuff that helped set him up better for tournaments. and then basically another point in the thread that I was talking about those not good tournament games some good points were made where it's like those games that aren't great for tournaments really aren't great for tournaments that have the best players in the world in them the ones that can just abuse certain features for the most part those games are just fine for your average tournament.
    95:48
    All stay. Yeah. C. Give it a C. Oh yeah, lucky. 5X. Collect bonus. We need it. No, I had that! God. Bonus flip. Thanks again, man. Yeah, it's all just on. And since I, you know, what, you might have a chance to go for that once every ten games. I need to get that shot down for when it's absolutely necessary. Alright, we'll do a couple more.
    97:36
    Thanks, Hobbs. Thanks for the bits. I don't know if my cup's working right. I think my little bits bar is working right, but... I don't know if anybody's seen any bits drop in that cup. I'm still not an expert on that stuff.
    98:01
    I must concentrate. I'm going to be so focused this game. Laser focused. I was so focused that I knew that I had no chance of saving that.
    98:18
    There it is. I didn't get my max bonus from last game in there. Does anybody know if the score bonus hole gives you your full bonus with multipliers? Or just your base points? I assume it gives you everything, but... It better give me everything, at least.
    98:43
    Worked so hard to get there. Just to get 29,000 points. No way. Damn it. Stay with me. So Hobbs, how many challenge matches did you and Stu play last night and what was the final tower?
    99:35
    And how do you submit them to the IFPA? Do you, if you play them in match play, do they just automatically get sent to the IFPA or what?
    99:48
    And did you, and finally, did you guys play for any money? Trust the dead bounce, young paddy one. Get around.
    100:09
    Oh, God. Hey! Stay. Don't kill me. Stay out here. I need max bonus. Almost there. It wasn't lit yet. I'm just practicing.
    100:45
    Goals! Yeah. So now, when you hit the score bonus hole, does it stay lit? Can you just keep hitting it and collecting your bonus over and over and over again?
    101:09
    Yeah, that de-insert bulb was going out. Yeah. But if you submit it in match play, it might automatically go to the ISP. You'll have to read the rules on it. I'm not totally sure.
    101:31
    All right, guys. This is going to be the last one. I appreciate all the viewers tonight. We had a really good batch of viewers tonight. I appreciate it, guys.
    101:44
    So, yeah. Let's make this a good one. If it's quick, we'll do one more. but thanks again everybody for watching remember not this Sunday but next Sunday start tuning in I'll do them in the afternoons I haven't decided on a time yet it'll probably be in like the two to three in the afternoon kind of deal so hopefully we'll be able to spend your spend a few Sundays with your pal Chuck Word on straight down the middle pinball
    102:20
    that's what I want that's what I want yeah yeah yeah oh that's not what I wanted okay it'll go off hit the light again so it does collect your bonus like completely so your bonus goes back to zero after that and you have to build it back up. Is that what you're saying?
    102:57
    No! Thanks, Berto. Thanks for watching again, man. Alright, we're going to do one more. That was too quick. One more, one more.
    103:42
    Okay. Because there are some games where it has a collect bonus feature that it leaves the bonus out there for you to again receive when you lose your ball.
    103:54
    Or maybe it collects your bonus and then takes away your multipliers. Stuff like that. Get up there.
    104:30
    Man. Just when you think you have a shot to figure it out, it leaves you. Yeah, get that D. Oh, that was a nice... I was counting my chickens before they were hatched. I thought I had that letter, that final letter nailed.
    105:01
    D. Get that fading D. Thanks. Yeah. Man, it is so rewarding to get to go into that left end lane. I'm leaving it all on the table, this final game.
    105:31
    Leaving it all on the table. I hit the drop target like halfway down. God damn it. Thanks, James. Thanks, James.
    105:56
    Also, thanks for trying to get some of the rules nailed down for me. You can let us know how your research went. next stream if you're able to tune in.
    106:35
    man that's two we're down to our final ball ladies and gents oh no fears of bitch man no fears what kept me out of the finals of D division in Pinnberg after the second day I was in an eight way tie for the final 40th spot in the finals of D division. And I had to be in the top two scores out of those eight people. And I just completely shit the bed on no fear. I mean, I'm not very good at that game. I mean, I know it. I'm just not that good at it. All the shots that are important are really uncomfortable for me. So that game is fun. It's one of those ones that definitely grew on me. I did not like it at all at first, but it's definitely fun.
    107:34
    Oh, yeah. We need the white. Our dirty undies, dude. The white. Man, it is tough. Oh, I got awarded for the reds there, I think.
    107:50
    Even though I didn't hit them down. One take of the pop bumper. Yeah. Give me one more pop bumper. B. Nice. B. The bonus is lit.
    108:58
    Oh, too late. So you just need to get the max base bonus. Okay. All right, all right. But I want to wait until I have 5F done.
    109:29
    Nothing funny. Give him the B. damn ah I didn't know it was the highest score of the night though yeah dude I saw it I was trying to get on the left to have a good nice measured shot at it but I blew it oh well say the best for last oh well thanks for watching everybody ladies and gents everybody watching we'll see you not this Sunday but next Sunday alright thanks again guys PEACE