You know, the whole thing is covered in that armor, obviously. You got the lock bar, the legs, the side, you know, everything, the hinges. So I do now this is where it gets kind of cool because this this is a benefit to all JAWS owners is that they finally got to version 1.0 of the software. So, hey, if you see nothing of nothing of this announcement other than your if you don't even care and you don't want to buy this, there's still value to you because they decided to update the code for this. So you're going to have a co-op play. You're going to have two versus two, three versus one, which is really cool. Now, I don't have any friends, so I'm never going to be able to play that. But if I did have friends, how awesome would that be? Maybe I need to make some friends. I'll go to Electric Bat next Tuesday. I'll be like, hey, I know this is weird, but do you want to come to my house to play Jaws? We can play co-op. It's going to be awesome. Now, they're either going to look at me really funny and be like, no, or they'll be like, yeah, hey, this is so fun. Let's play together. So I don't know. But that is cool because it benefits everybody that already has a Jaws. And speaking of already having a Jaws, if you already have one, you don't have to sell it, you don't have to get rid of it, you could just be excited for someone else that might end up getting this version that has never had it before. That's kind of my take on it. It is interesting but if you don like the color scheme here what awesome The Pro and the Premium are still available so it not like you you have to buy this one or you know whatever or this is the only one that available to you this is just hey if you're a super fan you really love the movie i think this this you know it screams the movie on the artwork so that's pretty cool so the other thing too is there's a new wizard mode i think they're i don't know that they ever had a final wizard mode coded into Jaws, but I think you're going to have two. So there's going to be, um, two new wizard modes, including the final wizard mode, which is really cool, which I think, um, I think it's going to be you son of a bitch wizard, wizard mode or something like that. So, Hey, there it is. Actually, the funny thing is this last shot makes it look the best. I think the light is a little subdued in this one. So I like it the most in this shot. I feel like sometimes when you put too much light on things like when they do these kinds of trailers they put a lot of light on the stuff they put a lot of light on the play field and it always looks a bit different and i do remember when the godzilla 70th came out people were there was a mixed reaction to that too and uh it it made its debut at southern fried gaming expo even though that wasn't like the official debut of the godzilla 70th i fell in love with it i was like i have to have this so i don't have that same reaction to this version i'm not like oh my god i need to trade in my jaws like so so if i know everyone here thinks i'm a psycho and i'm gonna buy everything but i'm not i'm not getting this but i do think i'm happy for someone that's a jaws fan that is looking for something looking for a jaws machine now you can get one that's kind of cool and unique and here's the thing stern's only going to make this between now and the end of the year that's what they've said so you kind of got like six months of it being available so i don't know in six months how many of these are they going to make maybe it's probably going to be under a thousand i would think maybe they're not giving a number but they stopped making godzilla 70th so those they didn't make for very long either so if you have a godzilla 70th there is and i don't see those go up for sale very often too by the way so it's kind of interesting i don't know i that's interesting actually i gotta ask josh over at loser kid because he's always following prices although i'm not actively looking at used games that often i wonder what a godzilla 70th goes for because this might fall into that category too if they don't make that many of them it might hold its value so i don't know kind of cool but overall i i don't dislike it it's just not something what makes me want to sell the one i have but hey maybe stern's not looking to do that maybe this is more of a hey we know people love jaws they're super fans of jaws everywhere we can get some of that audience that wants that game that just screams the movie and i think this probably does it's very bold it's probably a little too bold for me personally but i do like it i think it's cool i gotta see that glittered artwork a little bit closer or the glitter in the artwork because the way jjp did it with with um harry potter ce looks really good not that this podcast is about harry potter but i've been playing a lot of harry potter i have a live stream of it on the channel i have the featurette that i did for jersey jack which i'm very proud of by the way if you've never seen it please go check it out i'd appreciate it and uh i have a new appreciation for jersey jack because i really didn't buy many of their games i actually didn't buy any of their games until more recently and um i just gotta say that i i definitely it's different jersey jack makes games different they focus their time and effort on different things and uh and so a lot of times people are like this versus that but i feel like they kind of have sort of tried to carve out their own niche or whatever whatever however you want to say that word uh they have kind of carved out their own section of the market where it's like we're a premium brand we don't cut corners on things there's lots of sculpts less flat plastics you know they focus on very large ips that are expensive and uh and i'm really loving harry potter like they've done a lot to it and the code is only on dot seven five or seven six right now and they just did a code update they just did several code updates since it dropped they did like two there's actually a third one but i think it was buggy and they just sort of skipped over that version and they never really advertised it on their site so at this point i think it's seven six p at the time of filming this which is july 2nd wednesday july 2nd at 752 pacific standard time but they've they're they are listening to the audience because uh there is something that uh we're gonna probably try to stream it tomorrow so that'd be thursday july 3rd we're gonna try to stream it tomorrow because i want to stream it with the new code they've done some leveling of the audio with some with with through the whole throughout the whole game there's still some issues but there's some things they did where they raise the audio of the movie clips because the movie clips weren't muted they were just i mean there are times where they do show muted clips but a lot of the clips the audio is there. It's just that the audio is lowered. And they raised the audio on some of the key moments, movie moments, which I think has really changed. And this is only just preliminary. They just did a little bit of this. But I feel like it changed the overall vibe of the game, which is pretty cool. So anyways, getting back to Jaws and pivoting back to that, because I don't want this to be a super long podcast today. I think here's my final thoughts on it. Jaws is an amazing game. it's a great great game anybody that plays it usually loves it it has amazing flow the shots and layout is great it's very approachable for someone that's new or someone that's seasoned the code is great there's a lot to chew on in the code and now they just went to 1.0 so now they made even more enhancements there's more achievements in the game which i'm kind of happy about because i think i got most of the achievements uh but still i still have not gotten as far through the game as I thought I would but now there's a final wizard mode to look forward to and there's some cooperative play new stuff not only that you have the shark is broken you have um jaws the revenge you have the fourth of july celebration like there's a bunch of other things that this game does so overall value in pinball like this is a good value because there's a lot of software there to chew on and the game is fun and it's definitely got that one more game feel to it And I don't think in the last five years or so there's a better movie theme integrated game than this one. I don't know when Hobbit came out, but maybe Hobbit would be the other one I would think of where I'm like, oh, my gosh, the movie integration is great. Now, one that gets beat up all the time that I think also has great movie integration, it's just they need to work on the code, is John Wick. I know John Wick was trying to – I think with Stern, when they made that game, they were trying to connect with a different audience. I love the John Wick movies, so I was very excited to hear that John Wick was coming out. There were others that were not as excited, right? Because they're looking for themes like Predator, themes like, you know, Harry Potter. Like, they're looking for these other, maybe not even Harry Potter, but, you know, 80s themes. Things like Goonies or G.I. Joe and things like that. So I do think that John Wick would be an outlier to that, right? Because it's very modern. but the thing is i kind of feel bad because that game that game is a hard game that's for sure it's a brutal game you the shots are tight you got to be accurate with your shots but the code really was holding it back i think it doesn't it's not going to stop the fact that the game is a hard game right the shots are kind of tight it's a little bit harder it does take some practice to get good at it but now that um mike vinicore is on the code i do think they're going to really turn that game around but that game if you are a fan of the movie play try it like play the game the theme holy crap the call outs in that game are awesome the call outs are great they integrated the movie clips for like battle sequences and stuff i think they did a great job and i bet they're going to add even more more of that in because when they first launched that game there was a lot of content that that was that they said they had they had like all the 4k movie content And I think they had it all with the audio separated so they could basically pair the soundtrack audio not the soundtrack but the audio of the actors with with everything with all those clips that they have So they all audio synced clips The reason why that important is because I don't think they got the rights to all the music, hence why it has its own soundtrack. Can't remember who did the soundtrack on it, but that soundtrack totally nailed, and Stern doesn't always nail the soundtrack, but it totally nailed the John Wick vibe. So anyways, I kind of hope that, I like seeing games get a rebirth. Like we have the new code updates for Uncanny X-Men. We have the new code updates for John Wick. And it looks like they are serious about building up these games and making them something great. You know, because Uncanny X-Men especially was like a tragedy to me because the game layout was so good. It was such a neat and unique. It was very risky, in my opinion, to make something like that. And I think initially when it launched at Expo, everyone was really excited now they didn't because it's it's new right it was new so the excitement was there it was x-men it was beautiful the the artwork on the ce of x-men is absolutely stunning i'm bummed i sold it actually because i do have faith that they are going to make that game great with code because it doesn't need it it's great layout like the layout is awesome but i really do think that they're going to make that game a game that's deserving right that game deserve to have great code jack danger is a great designer and so i i do feel good so that's also some great news like stern is going back and investing in some of these games everyone was beating up jaws it's not at 1.0 boom it's at it's at 1.0 now boom i just broke my desk a piece of my desk just came off but seriously they're kind of dropping the mic when it comes to going back and now there's other schools of thought some people will be like hey i want the game to be more Jersey Jack, right? I want them to have the code at a further point when the game releases. I can't really refute that. I wish they would do that too. The state of the state right now is Stern releases a game and the code is usually not quite there and you got to wait, right? King Kong is at that point right now. It's very fun to shoot, but the code is kind of like in flux, right? There isn't a lot of the animations in there that would make it, you know, a little, feel a little more full. I mean, if you go and play King Kong and then you play Godzilla, you're like, oh my gosh, there was so much ancillary content with Godzilla to really tie you in. I'm a sucker for Blue Oyster Cult. So when that building goes down, dude, that's like, that's still a moment that I love no matter how many times it happens. I don't feel like right now, and maybe I haven't, I haven't like progressed through King Kong as much, right? I don't, so maybe there's a moment, but I haven't seen that moment in King Kong where you're like, dude, this is sick i haven't seen that yet but the shots are super fun so we'll see i'm not gonna be knee jerk and get rid of king kong i really like it i just think it needs a little bit of love on the code and but it's early and that's what i'm trying to say is that a lot of times you you're an early adopter to one of these stern games i see people often sell and i've done this before too they sell it off before it evolves that's just something to know if you get into it now i hope that stern starts to change that i would love it personally if stern released less games per year like maybe two like two in a remaster because then you know they could make them more code complete at launch i don't think they need to make four i i get concerned about four because you have stern making four jersey jack making one spooky making one barrels of fun making one pinball brothers making one you know like that starts to add up you're like okay american pinball i don't know where they're at anymore. It seems like they're out of the game. I highly, highly doubt Cuphead's coming out, but hey, maybe they're contractually obligated to get that game out. I don't know. But I just feel like Stern is pumping out so many that maybe it would be a better move for them to pump out less and make them more code complete. I don't know. I don't know. What do you guys think? Would you prefer it? I mean, I get hyped because there's four games a year, but I think it would be more consumable for the overall demographic and the pinball community to be only two. I have to interrupt my own podcast because I don't know how I forgot this game. I just wasn't thinking about it at the time, but movie theme integrated games in the last five years, there's two that I would say completely blow it out of the water, and it'd be Jaws and Evil Dead. I'm sorry, Spooky Pinball. I don't know how I forgot that because that game is a game that I actually right now still in 2025 is my favorite game harry harry potter's close but man you guys just nailed that game you nailed the theme integration it is so so good great conversation i think fun to talk about but by the way i am upset with all you guys about something i have not got a voicemail in in weeks weeks i want the next show please prove to me that number one you actually watch and listen to the show and hit the link in the video description. It's super easy to leave me a voicemail, ask me questions, do whatever. The other thing I wanted to ask you really quick is I used to do a ton of live streaming on this channel on retro Ralph. I used to live stream all the time. I enjoy live streaming pinball. I haven't having a good time with that. I just don't have as much time to do it as often, but to do a live stream like this, like where I'm just talking head is pretty easy to do and i would love to do more of them if you're interested in me doing live streams it could just be like hangouts or we discuss a topic you know what i mean i think it'd be kind of fun so just let me know what you think about that but please leave a voicemail guys like don't be shy ask me questions even if it's just something about something about the collection i have something about anything whatever whatever it might be um try to keep it clean but uh because i oftentimes don't now now i'm gonna set myself up but i don't screen them usually so try to keep them clean uh i do try to make sure i keep it pretty friendly family friendly for the most part i cuss every now and then but i try to keep it as pg pg 13 as possible but anyways guys that is all i wanted to talk about i hope you all enjoyed this this is just my i mean i feel like i'm shot out of a can and i'm sorry about the beginning i was just i was excited i get excited about all new pinball the fact that they even make pinball anymore is awesome right so uh So I don't think this is anything to get upset about. I see some people getting upset about it, and it's like, what did you expect? Like, this is an anniversary edition of a game they already made. They're not going to change the game. They're not going to create another game. But it's just, hey, let's change the aesthetics. Let's celebrate the 50th. And if you don't like it, then what's cool is the pro and premium standard versions of these games with that artwork are still available. So blah, blah, blah. You know what I mean? Do you guys get what I'm saying? All right. I hope everyone has a great 4th of July. If you're going to listen to this, it's probably going to be on July 3rd. And if I play my cards right, you're going to get another live stream of Harry Potter. We're going to come with the costumes. We're going to come with the thunder. Boom. I'm going to actually, the last live stream, I was excited. I was slapping. I was flailing the flippers. I don't know what was going on. I was playing very aggressively. I'm gonna tone it down I'm gonna play chill You're gonna see a different Ralph And I'm gonna school Rudy's ass His Rudy Pooh candy ass You're going down Rudy You're going down Alright guys that's it We've done it all We've said it all I love you And I hope that you enjoyed this And if you did subscribe Put a comment below And that's it for now guys we will see you on the flip side that's how dad did it that's how America does it and it's worked out pretty well so far aww look at this damn you Arizona pretty good though see you guys