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Avatar CE by Jersey Jack Pinball: Unboxed and uncensored. Streamed from Raccoon City Pinball.

DRI374·video·2h 13m·analyzed·Aug 31, 2025
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TL;DR

Detailed Avatar CE unboxing showcasing JJP premium packaging, design quality, and setup logistics.

Summary

Extended unboxing stream of a Jersey Jack Pinball Avatar Collector's Edition machine at Raccoon City Pinball. The streamer provides detailed commentary on packaging quality, physical specifications, design details, and comparative observations about Jersey Jack versus Stern manufacturing. Discussion includes UV lighting effects, custom artwork, speaker systems, LED underlighting, and setup challenges due to the machine's weight and size.

Key Claims

  • Avatar was built in April and has been sitting on the shelf for a while before delivery

    high confidence · Streamer directly observes the build date on the machine during unboxing

  • Jersey Jack machines use wood rails similar to Bally/Williams games, not plastic sliders like some competitors

    high confidence · Streamer explicitly states this discovery during playfield inspection

  • Avatar Collector's Edition includes LED strips underneath the cabinet as a standard feature

    high confidence · Streamer visually discovers and comments on LED wiring underneath cabinet during unboxing

  • The game weighs approximately 350-400 lbs on the pallet with packing material

    high confidence · Streamer directly references pallet weight information

  • Jersey Jack Avatar CE includes Bluetooth audio and headphone jack on the front panel as a collector's edition feature

    high confidence · Streamer observes these controls during cabinet inspection

  • Mark Seiden's wife is a fan of sea otters, and the artist hid sea otters in the artwork at his request

    medium confidence · Streamer relays this information as known industry gossip, noting one sea otter on the backglass and others supposedly hidden in playfield artwork

  • Secondary market pricing for pinball machines has stalled; cannot retain value for recent Stern titles after Godzilla

    medium confidence · Streamer's personal opinion based on experience buying/selling Stern LEs; describes shift from one-in-one-out strategy becoming ineffective

  • The machine's height exceeds typical arcade setup ceiling clearance in the streamer's space

    high confidence · Streamer directly observes Avatar is taller than existing arcade setup rig

Notable Quotes

  • “This is the highest definition pinball that you can think of.”

    Streamer @ Late in stream during cabinet inspection — Summarizes overall assessment of Avatar CE build quality and presentation relative to other manufacturers

  • “I cannot disclose any details. They basically don't want to be on the megaphone and I can't discuss any details how this game came into my possession, but it was a steal.”

    Streamer @ Early in stream — Indicates special acquisition/pricing arrangement with confidentiality clause; hints at secondary market acquisition advantage

  • “Once I get this game in my collection, the problem is going to be that this game is just going to stand out so much that all the other games will just fade and look very dull and boring.”

    Streamer @ During mid-unboxing — Expresses perception of Avatar's visual/build quality as significantly superior to other machines in collection

  • “I understand now why operators don't like these games all of a sudden because they need an army of people to set them up. This is no joke.”

    Streamer @ During cabinet positioning phase — Identifies operator concern about Avatar's weight and setup difficulty as practical business barrier

  • “Everything is protected. Nothing is from Temu. Nothing. Let's just put it that way.”

    Streamer @ During visual inspection of components — Emphasizes perception of premium materials and assembly quality as differentiator from lower-tier manufacturers

  • “Buying for keeps. That's a good strategy.”

    Chat user (responding to streamer's acquisition comment) @ Mid-stream — Community reinforcement of philosophy shift away from flipping machines for profit

  • “I wouldn't know if there's like 50 lbs of it, though. [regarding packing material]”

    Streamer @ During unboxing — Notes that substantial portion of declared weight is protective packaging material, not machine itself

Entities

Jersey Jack PinballcompanyAvatargameRaccoon City PinballorganizationMark SeidenpersonLeahpersonStern PinballcompanyBally/Williams gamesproduct_lineSpooky PinballcompanyWizard of Oz

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Operators actively avoiding Jersey Jack machines due to setup difficulty, weight, and logistical challenges; practical business concern overriding design quality

    medium · Streamer notes: 'I understand now why operators don't like these games all of a sudden because they need an army of people to set them up'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Jersey Jack Avatar positioned as visually/quality superior to all other machines in market; streamer anticipates it will overshadow other games in collection visually

    medium · Streamer: 'Once I get this game in my collection, the problem is going to be that this game is just going to stand out so much that all the other games will just fade'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Avatar design incorporates hidden Easter eggs (sea otters in artwork requested by designer Mark Seiden based on wife's preference); intentional subtle designer touches

    medium · Streamer references sea otters hidden in artwork per Mark Seiden's wife's interests; one visible on backglass, others in playfield artwork

  • $

    market_signal: Avatar's popularity mystery; streamer cannot understand why game is not more commercially successful despite apparent superior design and build quality

    medium · Streamer: 'I can't for one understand like why this game is not like why it's not more popular than it is. It's a complete mystery to me'

  • $

    market_signal: Secondary market for pinball machines has stalled; value retention strategy ('one in one out') stopped working after Godzilla; prices down, difficult to sell unwanted titles

Transcript

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0:02
All right, folks. Uh, we're getting there. We're soon going to get Avatar out of the box. Uh, I just, uh, need to do some postings here first. At least give people a chance to tune in if they want to do that. Uh, I'm going to monitor the chat and I'm going to kind of do some close-ups about different cam setup here, right? I can kind of show stuff and hopefully you will be able to see things a little bit better. Um, I can also lift that camera off if I need to. Uh, which is, uh, uh, which is handy. Uh, if we want to do a couple of close-up shots and stuff like that. And I'm thinking this is going to take me like two hours or something. Um, I have about three and a half hours on the tape. So, let's uh let's hope that's uh that's going to be enough to do this. And um thanks for folks on YouTube tuning in and um uh checking out the unboxing. Uh this is my first Jersey Jack Pinball unboxing. Uh this is the first game I own and the uh I did have a dialed in uh on rent from Lince Arcade during the pandemic. Um, that has been my favorite Jersey Jack game to date. Uh, I always see myself uh getting a dialed in one day. But somehow this deal came along with on the Avatar, a game that I've been looking at since it was announced. I was just completely mesmerized by this game. Uh, but I was not mesmerized by the price tag. I cannot disclose any details. They distally don't want to be uh on the on the on the megaphone and uh I can't discuss any details how this game came into my possession, but uh it was a steal. All right. So, uh let's um uh let's start by So, so this is the thing. Uh I haven't actually opened it on on the front of the box. Uh there is actually a uh thing that says something about that. Uh what does it say? Yeah, here it is. Attention consumer, open this package first, right? And uh that is basically what I'm doing now. Um, and there's like a very uh discrete envelope. And I'm just thinking there are some unboxing instructions or something like that. Yeah. Oh, wow. So, they actually makes like like printed material with a game logo on it. So this is uh okay. We need the scissors to cut cable ties, quarterinch nut driver or or a number two Phillips driver. So that that's that's very generous. So as long as you have something to stab with. Um okay. So there's a quite elab like 13 steps here. Oh,
3:26

“I wonder why this game is not more popular than it is. It's a complete mystery to me.”

Streamer @ Mid-stream reflection — Expresses confusion about Avatar's market reception despite apparent design/quality excellence

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Tron LEgame
Hobbitgame
Lince Arcadeorganization

medium · Streamer states: 'One in one out. And that held true up to Godzilla. Then it was done' and discusses recession impact on new machine purchasing

  • ?

    community_signal: Streamer's long-term collection strategy evolving; considering replacing Twilight Zone with Dialed In, indicating JJP games gaining preference over older titles in collection

    medium · Streamer: 'I always see myself getting a Dialed In one day...I kind of see myself maybe in the future replacing Twilight Zone with the Dialed In'

  • $

    market_signal: Avatar acquired at significant discount ('steal' pricing) through undisclosed confidential arrangement; suggests secondary market opportunity or special deal

    medium · Streamer: 'it was a steal. All right...I cannot disclose any details...I can't discuss any details how this game came into my possession'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Avatar features integrated Bluetooth audio and headphone jack on front panel; streamer questions if this is exclusive to Collector's Edition or standard

    high · Streamer observes: 'The monitor is huge in these. I like that...Bluetooth and headphone jack and volume rocker on the front, but I guess that's a limit[ed edition] thing'

  • ?

    product_concern: Avatar CE lacks washers on leg bolts, which streamer anticipates will cause coating damage and shavings over time; minor but noted manufacturing detail issue

    high · Streamer explicitly observes missing washers during leg assembly and expresses concern about nut shaving paint coating

  • ?

    technology_signal: Avatar CE features LED underlighting on cabinet base as standard feature; perceived as premium/unique detail differentiating from standard models

    high · Streamer discovers LED strips underneath cabinet: 'There's LEDs underneath the cabinet here. I had no idea. First I saw these...'

    • topper remove. Okay, so there's only if you need to re Oh, wait. This is Oh, [ __ ] So, this is actually topper removal for low clear low ceiling clearance. Well, we're not going to remove any topper here, are we? So, okay. So, I kind of misunderstood that. I just I saw 13step guide. Uh so they got some side protectors here. I' I've seen people use these and I didn't realize that the game actually came with those. So that's interesting.
    4:07
    Uh I wonder if they fit Stern games. Probably not. Uh okay, let's build a base here. Okay. So, there's a setting up Wi-Fi to upload to download game updates.
    4:21
    Uh, I'm assuming there's at least one update perhaps. This game was built in April, so um it's been sitting on the shelf for a while, so maybe I have no idea what the different revisions of the code here is. So, Bluetooth audio, we're not going to touch that. Um there's some uh letter from Jersey Jack telling them telling us that um what we can expect here. So oh this is interesting. Your Jersey Jack pinball machine has machine was hand assembled at our factory in Elro. Jersey Jack Pinball has inspected each game element to ensure that it meets our quality standards. All right, but here's the caveats. Now, there's a couple of caveats here. Uh, each pinball machine has unique characteristics that make it one of a kind for sure. Uh each playfield and cabinet will have slight variations in appearance resulting from unique characteristics that in that machines individually wooden parts cabinet big backbox decals backbox panels playfield top bottom surface and playfield back panel distinct printed artwork and metal plastic assemblies. So yeah I mean that is abundantly clear because this is a physical machine. So uh but it's funny that they pointed out no playfield is perfectly flat. That is uh uh yeah so you might I might have a propeller sitting in mine. Who knows? Uh they will vary from season to season and the specific batch of plywood used to manufacture them. All right. Gameplay will result in playfield dimpling. Oh dimple gate. A hardened steel ball impacting softer pliable wood and coatings will inevitably cause them. Yeah, no [ __ ] show. Over time, many games play the dimples will blend into one another making them less noticeable. What's this plastic insert crazing? Tiny stress stress cracks and ghosting. Small cloudy areas near the edges are typically seen in pinball playfields. Are they? They are a common side effect of the playable manufacturing process caused by a combination of plastic mold stress forcing inserts into intentionally undersized holes and heating smoothing of the insert surface as a playfield is sanded flat. All right. Yeah, I I sort of agree with that. Uh, I've sometimes I've gotten like really shitty inserts like in in some of my games uh when there have been um new in box so to speak, right? And uh it it's not it's not fun, but it's not nothing you really can complain about. Uh so, okay. So, here's the act. Okay, so here's the unpacking the actual unpacking sheet uh on how to set this up. So, um, it's fairly straightforward. Cut the straps. Remove There's a cap on top there. Remove legs inside. Four cardboard stiffeners. Do not cut the strutters around the game at this time. I wonder Yeah, I wonder what the results of that will be once you do that one. And then it's a Yeah, it's fairly straightforward here. I mean, this is nothing.
    8:01
    Uh, slide the entire box up and off the game. Yeah, I can't do that in here. But, uh,
    8:15
    so this is the invisig glass cleaning suggestions. Uh, these are actually spot on here.
    8:32
    Yeah. So, they recommend using sparkle. That's the one I use. And yeah, and they also recommend the um the two fiber cloth kind of cleaning process as well. It's uh very Yeah, it's very easy to get streaks otherwise. Yeah. But uh never mind. Uh, let's uh get this uh
    8:58
    get this on the uh on the floor. I also did a a little short video about the uh the game, how it was packed, right? And this is Wow, these are pretty stiff. Uh, and it's really, really, really well thought of. It has a tip and tell. It has a a shock watch, right? And all those things. It's just like it's not so much to kind of Yeah. How do I say it? It's it's to scare the shipper, right? Because everyone kind of sees that box, see all those labels, all that evidence that that is kind of put on the box. That means that somebody will get in deep [ __ ] in in their neck of the woods if uh something kind of goes sideways, right? So, you will see that they will take care of your game, right? And uh the guy who kind of walked up to my driveway while I was inspecting these things, right? He he was just like, uh it's not tip tipped over. like he he immediately knew the condition of the box because he has he's probably driven it from um uh from wherever he picked it up.
    10:23
    So what does it say here? Oh, see yeah. Okay. It's like Avery C and it was just like so it's basically the the AC the shortening a AVTR CE number 516
    10:41
    uh individual game number plate in this envelope. All right. So that's interesting. So you So I can basically go by uh the um uh 374 if I want to is Yeah, I should have thought about that and I was just dumb. Yeah, I kind of gave up on the unique numbering plates since Stern did the the thing they did. Oh man, look at this. Oh, it's not a game unique plaque. That's hilarious. So it it doesn't say the game title. It's It's just a generic plate with a number on it. That's funny. Does it come with hardware? No. All right, that needs to go on. Um, there's some activity in chat here. I'm just going to see what it says.
    11:38
    Yeah, it's unboxing day. Yeah, I I Yeah, there. So, there's a bunch of things in the play, I would guess. So, there's a lot of moving parts here. Um,
    11:51
    I just need to get all the packaging material out of the way because I don't have a lot of room to navigate here.
    12:03
    Okay, so they stick the legs on top here. That was a That's a pretty hard Okay, attention installation hardware inside. Yeah. Let me see if I can just show you this whole
    12:19
    uh what's going on here. So, this is sort of like how they stack the legs. And we can also have a little look at the legs here. Look at that. Look at that wavy wavy water. Um, and I learned from uh Leah, the designer, that she did not design the the trim. She did not do the artwork for that. So, I wonder who actually made the um the avatar because it's supposed to look uh like their skin, right? The the wavy things.
    12:59
    Yeah. Uncertain what the next steps are here. So these are sort of like Okay. So these can pull out it looks like. No.
    13:12
    Yeah. Let me check. I need to check the manual here so I don't pull out things in the in the wrong order.
    13:23
    You're supposed to remove the cap on top of the box. Inside the box, remove the top tray containing the legs for the game, the leg levelers, and the game number plate envelope.
    13:39
    Remove the legs. Leg level bag name plate number. Envelope tray. Place in a safe location. [Music] Yeah, this is well packaged. Let let me just Say that out loud. Okay, here's one leg.
    14:10
    Okay, you can kind of just flick one of them open there. That makes sense. It's a really nice kind of color inside the legs. I didn't realize that. It's just Yeah. Look at this.
    14:37
    Yeah, this is so odd. Yeah, this is Look at Look how cool to then it has this like really nice kind of ocean blueish tone.
    14:52
    Very nice. I must say [Applause] Okay, so this is odd. There's like a What is this? A bag of hardware here.
    15:27
    levelers and they don't use washers. You're going to ruin the paint job on the legs.
    15:46
    Okay, so now I can probably things. Damn, this is Ah, that's the shooter rod that was kind of poking up there. That makes sense now. Yeah, that's right. I need to get a new shooter. I forgot about that. It's just that weird kind of um it's like a what do you call that? End of an arrow that you kind of pull on the the feather there. Like I just have a I have a beef with the custom shooter rods like this one here. Like I mean ballshaped ones are fine, right? Like the Mando shooter rod perfect integrates with the theme. The the Godzilla one is fine as well, right? But it's not really that fun, right? It's just like a Mothra egg or something. And uh Jurassic Park one is just that that is like one of the best shooter rods there are. Okay. Jesus. The topper is just bonkers. It It sits like flush uh with the with the cab. I thought you were supposed to be able to pull these out. You know what? I'm just going to cut the front here. get a
    17:17
    get this thing out because I won't be able to pull the box up over it anyway. So,
    17:38
    it helps if you have a sharp knife. Yeah, look at that. They have a there's another warning label there that don't cut the strap. That makes a lot of sense.
    17:58
    Yeah. I mean, somebody must have done it at one point, right? Um,
    18:13
    chucking things out here now. It's starting to grow already. There's some really good packing material here. I'm going to reuse some of this.
    18:33
    How's everyone doing in chat today? Anyway, it's Friday. Oh, we got uh Amigga camming in chat. Now there's two streamers with Avatar.
    19:09
    Yeah, I I can't for one understand like why this game is not like why it's not more popular than it is. It's a complete mystery to me.
    19:31
    Uh the only what what I so my my my hot take here is that uh we're sort of like in this kind of recession in a way, right? And buying like a 15 grand pinball machine.
    19:51
    when you when you and and you don't know if you're going to have your job tomorrow. Uh, that is something I wouldn't recommend because you're going to lose a lot of money real quick
    20:09
    and prices of the machines have gone up and uh the secondary market is just like it's not I wouldn't say it's crashing but um you cannot sit with titles that people don't want to buy because then you're going to lose a lot of money load. load of money.
    20:30
    And there was a time when I kind of got into this hobby kind of in the in the in in the sense I got into the hobby of buying new inbox stern games. Uh I bought the less just because oh they retain their value. It is fine. One in one out.
    20:55
    And that held true up to Godzilla. Then it was done. Yeah. I'm going to do a little fly by here.
    21:23
    This is crazy. They got protective plastic on everything. Jesus. Getting tired walking back and forth here.
    21:43
    There is a TX sector here. Yeah, it's actually going to sit right next I'm going to slide it in here. The TX sector and alien. The thing is I kind of wanted it in a dark spot, right? So, uh, and it's kind of when I put the lights out, this is sort of like the darkest little corner because I want to be able to see the UV effects and things like that.
    22:16
    Yeah. Buying for keeps. That's a That's a That's a good strategy. What the actual There's LEDs underneath the cabinet.
    22:30
    I had no idea. Oh, this is hilarious. Oh, wow. Look at this overkill right here. So, yeah, let's uh let's let's do a little walk around here. This is this is this is high definition pinball right here, my dear folks. So, yeah. So, look at the there's LED strips underneath the cabinet here. I had no idea. First, I saw these. I saw these wires coming out there. It's just like, what the hell is that? There's like there's LEDs underneath the cabinet. This is just bonkers. Yeah. And look at that beefy bass speaker there. Well, look at this. Look at this. So, we got felt and we got proper like metal brackets, right? You know, stern, right? Yeah. I got King Kong here. Right here. Right here. Right. We have these little little plastic uh cheap bits, right? Um amazing. And And look at the So, so look here. Like everything is protected. Like every like they got the uh pro protective plastic on and everything here. And there's another piece of plastic right here.
    23:42
    Look at this artwork. It's just maze balls. Yeah, it's too bad that uh you barely see the side art, but uh I I I think
    24:02
    this kind of piece of work kind of warrants me rearranging things here. Perhaps uh my Twilight Zone is the only Wow, this there's that weird like whale creature. It's really cool.
    24:21
    That hopper. That hopper. All right. All right. All right. Let's
    24:34
    Yeah. Ever since they launched this game, I've just like been completely mesmerized by it. And the thing is I been kind of looking out for it and always wanted one and just didn't know how to get one without paying through my nose.
    24:58
    Good things come through those who wait. Oh wow, look at this. This is another completely bonkers thing here. Wow. Yeah, I need to show this. Yeah, I've been praising the the the packaging and the and the shipping on this thing, right? But like this this this is this is just this is bonkers. Look at this. So, here's where is that like a 3/4 inch thick plywood and then it has this u like impact cushion that the game is sitting on.
    25:35
    That's unbelievable. It's like a grand worth of shipping material. Not a grand, but you know,
    25:47
    it's not just a paper box with some uh ill molded styrofoam. So, let me see how I can Okay, so that is that.
    26:00
    Yeah, I just need to get under here with my escala somehow.
    26:09
    Oh, look at this. It's not bad. I mean, okay, it got a little bit crinkly here, but you you get the flyer with it as well. Isn't that fun? And I I don't know. Did like I I wonder, you know, the flyers for the for the Ballet Williams games were did they come with the games back then? Because I have a bunch of flyers from old games, right? And these days you barely see them unless you're visiting a distributor or something. That's fun. They could have put that in the envelope so it kind of kept itself um nice and flat, but I don't care.
    27:08
    Just need to be careful. There's a bunch of cables here. Let's see here. Can just don't want to ding and d things here.
    27:53
    I wonder if something is in the way there. It's not It's not drifting.
    28:12
    Oh, okay. I see. I see. Yeah, it's the it's the wood rails that is tricking me. So, the the Jersey Jacks I kind of just learned that they have the same trai the same wood rails. [ __ ] uh the same wood rails that you would find in a B Williams game, not just those little plastic sliders. So, it just needs to come up a little bit more.
    29:14
    There we go. There we go. All right. Got it. Nearly.
    30:01
    And the funny thing is that this game weighed on the pallet 400 400 lb. And um
    30:25
    uh 350. So, this shall be exciting to see if it can lift it. There's a lot of packing material, though. But I I wouldn't Yeah, I wouldn't know if there's like 50 lbs of it, though.
    30:42
    Damn, there's a lot of [ __ ] here. Yeah, I just need to get some material back in here.
    31:07
    I don't want to ding and dent things. I don't have to. Okay, that went in a little bit wobbly. See that?
    31:30
    High gloss flyers in the barrels of fun. Yeah, it's all the new the new guys, you know, they need to kind of stick out a little bit. I'm rooting for every single one of them.
    31:46
    And this Dune game is kind of panning out pretty cool, isn't it? So
    32:42
    Oh [ __ ] This is a joke. He's so heavy. Absolute joke. Yeah. Look at this piece. This is like solid plywood. Yeah. Here's 20 lbs right there. So, I think we're good.
    33:06
    Oh my lord. Yeah. Let me straighten this thing up a little bit. Damn, it's heavy. Holy moly, it's heavy.
    33:19
    This is a joke. This is an absolute joke how heavy it is. Oh my god.
    33:30
    So, Stargate is my heaviest game. Oh, look at this. You Wow. You get that cool uh shot thing. All right. I'll need to. All right, let's see if it lifts.
    33:45
    Oh my god. Can you hear that? It's whining. This is no joke how heavy this thing is. It is no joke. Oh my lord.
    34:34
    I don't think I would I Yeah. Let me see if this is high enough. Yeah. I don't know if I would be able to, you know, do do this manually by myself. You know, you do the whole kind of resting the game on your leg and all that business, right? I would have to nick call for help. Yeah. Speaking of, I remember that when I helped a friend set up his hobbit and I think I I think I permanently damaged my back doing that.
    35:20
    I think we were three three people setting up the Hobbit. Yikes.
    35:34
    All right. What's up, chat? I I need to kind of give it a rest here a little bit. I'm just completely sweaty.
    35:48
    All right. So, we got um CDC including high gloss multi-page flyer for the Cactus Canyon Limement upgrade kit. That's cool.
    35:59
    So you're excited to see which Iran choose you. So is that the the banshees that or Iran? Is that the whale? We got whales here. Are these are these thers?
    36:15
    I need to learn I need to learn avatar-ish. Oh, it is the banshee. Okay. Yeah. I I the thing is I haven't played this game a lot, right? because it's always it's always been at a show uh or similar, you know, when there's other things going on, right? And I haven't been, you know, immersed in in the rules and the the gameplay, what to do, how do you blow it up, yada yada, like all those things. I'm just
    36:49
    uh just kind of um yeah, basically just scratching the the um the surface of what you can do.
    37:00
    Each machine has a unique run. All right, that's cool. They choose the rider. What an adventure this sounds like. Oh, wow. Look at this. This is crazy. Oh, wow. Yeah, that makes sense. So, they got like a This is like a We got a steel bracket like a like a sh like a shipping or is that supposed to be permanent? No. No. It says to remove it. Shipping bracket cap. Yeah. So, they basically have a metal bracket custom made for the game for shipping. Oh, another set of LEDs. There's LEDs on the back of it as well. Jesus. Holy crap. This game. Yeah. The thing is what I told somebody about this is just like once I cannot get this game in in my collection, right? Um the the problem the the main problem is going to be that this game is just going to stand out so much, right? that like all the other games will just fade, right? Uh and just look very dull and boring, right? So,
    38:21
    like these straps are not to play with either, right? It's not like they it's just like deluxe exclusive material on basically everything in the uh like Yeah, exactly everything. It's just like nothing is from Teimu. Nothing. Let's just put it that way. I'm going to put it Yeah, I'm actually So, I'm going to do like the whole um the whole direct capture thing that I'm going to do with this game. Uh I'm not going to set up today. Uh I have a bunch of HDMI splitters and uh and line out cabling. I kind of want to kick the tires on and test first before I kind of uh start uh start that kind of project. Uh so I'm just going to set it up here uh so I can work on it uh tomorrow. And hopefully there will be like a proper kind of you know gameplay stream tomorrow uh or maybe Sunday. I've been feeling a little bit under the weather lately. So see what uh what I have energy to do. But the thing is I needed to just needed to set it up today.
    39:54
    Yeah, this is insane. This is just insane. Like I mean it's just so pretty. It is so pretty. It's just unbelievable. Yeah. Let me just get the legs on it first here because I'm getting nervous that something is going to just smash to the ground here soon. Let's see here. I thought I had
    40:20
    uh not casters but the feet for this thing. Where did I put it? Yeah, I got everything here. Oh,
    40:36
    Um, I am going to figure out a blue drink. that we should uh make some uh blue cocktail.
    41:22
    Oh, the legs need some work here as well. Yeah. Yeah, there's no uh I don't like it. There's no washers, you know. Um so there's no washer for the for the leg here, right? uh that I don't like that because what happens is um this the the nut here will basically ruin the coating here and it will kind of shave off. But uh I and I know I know like 100% I don't have any washers. Uh so I'm just going to have to live with this. It's not the end of the day, you know, but uh you will find like shavings around the legs eventually
    42:21
    and you're not looking at the game from underneath. So, Like, I mean, do you actually need these like felt? I just just looks like doesn't look very good. Yeah, I'm going to skip him.
    43:12
    Yeah, jersey jack for the door. Yeah, the thing is um these are int the logos I got from my garage door, they were sort of like intentionally uh old 80s and 90s logos. Uh, and what I was thinking to do in the kind of extension of it, do the do the new logos uh on the um on the the upper panels there.
    43:44
    Yeah, I bet the uh the legs scratch easily. Uh I'm totally aware of that. that um yeah, like you said, it kind of looks like it's some to me it almost looks like it's vinyl, right? Um but I think they've used that method where you kind of um you submerge them sort of like in a in a in a textured kind of surface kind of thing. I don't know what that sublimination or something like that I think the process is called. It's like a really thin film that kind of uh becomes one with the surface. It's kind of like how you design shoes with the uh very particular pattern patterns on them. Yeah, it's a dip. Is that Yeah, a dip. Yeah.
    44:50
    because it definitely looks like there's been a printing process involved, right? But everybody knows that there's no printer that can print on this, right? So, it's probably just like you say, it's just a dip like that and
    45:09
    might be some coating on top of it. I don't know. Looks good. Anyway, so that's all I care about. But the uh yeah the interesting bit here I guess is how the wear and tear on the lock down bar will u will kind of survive this because
    45:29
    that that is just one of those challenges with the with the cheap skates. you know, uh if you own a like a spooky game, uh their clear coat will wear off like in an instant. And also very early uh stern LE that had custom clear coat that wore off as well. So like if you see I mean if you see a Tron Ellie on location you you will see that the that the chrome is kind of like just eaten through.
    46:17
    Oh really? Oh really? What? Oh really? the uh Yeah. No, this is my this is my absolute first year Jack game. Um it's uh I did rent a dialed in uh during COVID. Um and dialed in has always been my favorite Jersey Jack game. And I sort of I kind of see myself maybe in the future uh replacing Twilight Zone uh with the with dialed in like that. That's how good I think dialed in is uh that it would be able to replace Twilight Zone and I would also then uh replace a Lawler game with a L lawer game. That's kind of the idea. But I have not really come to terms with that just yet. But uh that might happen in the future.
    47:24
    [Applause] All right, the jersey jack owners, how how far in does the uh does the bolt go on the back legs? I'm going to do about half to start here and see how that goes. [Applause]
    47:47
    Yeah, this has been a a premium experience with Jersey Jack so far. I can tell you that. Uh this is uh absolutely the highest definition pinball that um you can think of.
    48:15
    I wonder if I had gotten the one with the with a whale on the side, I might have been able to put it in put it in the house cuz my wife loves whales.
    48:31
    And I know another kind of interesting piece of information on this game and that is that Mark Seiden's wife is a big fan of sea otterters. Um so Mark act asked the artist uh to hide sea otterters in the artwork. I don't know if you've spotted that. I I've seen one one is on one is on the back glass on the collectors I think
    49:06
    but there are supposed to be a couple of sea otterters in u the playfield artwork.
    49:20
    I hate when they do these um leg lock log lock nuts and not the same size as the the leg bolts. It's a little bit annoying, but
    49:39
    there's always there's two schools to everything. So, the backpocks have that old school Sega kind of uh lock where you can twist
    50:11
    the yellow twist lock in the back. All right, we got the legs on. I'm so hot. Jesus, it's so warm in here. Did I tighten everything here now?
    50:31
    Yeah, I think so. It's on. It's not going anywhere like we say.
    50:43
    Oh, the drink holder. Of course, the cup holder. Didn't forget the cup holder.
    51:03
    dialed in. I I don't even know what additions they made.
    51:22
    Can't remember seeing a purple trim. That must be really rare. What did they do? Like a collectors and a limited or collectors limited and super collector or something like that.
    52:34
    Hopefully my escala won't die. Yeah, this game is heavy. Jesus, it was really complaining and winging. And the thing is this. I think it's heavier. I think it's heavier than the Stargate for that fact that I cannot remember it wincing as bad while I've been wheeling Stargate around.
    53:16
    [Music] It's on the floor. Here's another kind of they got like Bluetooth and headphone jack and volume volume volume rocker on the on the front, but I I guess that's a limit uh collector's edition thing. I wouldn't think they would put that on any every edition, do they?
    53:50
    Yeah, the monitor is huge in these. I like that. Um, it's just very unfortunate that that hasn't become the standard. Um, like the especially like Alien, like the the the Hayway Alien, right? That was just this just brutal. I don't like that cabin in any other regard, but the display that was just like this is just a benchmark, right? This is what it's supposed to look like. And uh and I don't know what came first. No, Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz came before
    54:38
    uh before Hayway's first game. What was it called? Uh not the pig former game which was the first kind of thing he announced. What is it called? High speed. Not high speed. Full throttle. Full throttle.
    54:58
    But it didn't really like that big display on that game wasn't really that much of a it wasn't anything to write home about, you know. But with alien and how well that kind of integrated with the
    55:12
    Am I supposed to be able to lift this thing? Jesus. So, is this the shipping bracket hole? They even put like hole caps for the screw holes for the shipping bracket. This is like, think about everything. I just wonder which side I want to kind of lift this thing on.
    55:48
    I just get my hand in here somewhere so I can feel the thing. Oh my [ __ ] This is no joke. This is no joke. Oh my god.
    56:09
    Okay, I understand now why operators don't like these games all of a sudden because they need an army to of people to set them up. This is no joke. Oh my god. Look how tall that is. Can you like I mean seriously I won't be able to like it's it's taller than my rig is because here's my kind of garage thing, right? Holy mother.
    56:46
    Wow. Look at this. What's this? So you get like a blank like What is this? What are you supposed to do with this? This is awesome. It's like an extra translite.
    57:10
    That's fun. But it had this thing, this coated like item, right? This is like the mode uh those posters they make. They you can download this as a PDF, whatever. Uh, but I had no idea that you got one like in this glossy print. Yeah, I'm going to put this on my garage while I'm playing this game, figuring out. Jesus Christ, there's so much stuff here.
    57:43
    My lord. Okay. Okay. cabin corners. Oh, yeah. I'll I'll check inside the cab.
    58:32
    All right. So, we kind of got some work to do here before we can power this thing up.
    58:40
    I probably should have removed the plastic up here before erecting, but uh I'm just going to have to I mean there must be a grand worth of packing material for this thing. Absolutely mental
    59:16
    I mean, they even like the backbox decal goes up on the side here, right? When I looked at the pictures, it sort of just looked like it was a um just looked like it was a black, you know, plastic whatever, right? Didn't look like you actually put decals on it, but here we are. Oh, I should have removed this before. It's going to be like little plastic [ __ ] things here now. Ooh, look at that. Oh, it's actually nipping in the artwork there. So, that's probably why you're supposed to have those felts there. That's really odd. So the legs are shaped differently than traditional legs because they they are biting in the cabinet.
    60:08
    Definitely biting in the cabinet. All right. So that's that's understandable. So we need to put put those felt in between there. Such hard work. Yeah. It's really funny. Yeah. No, it bites all the way around. All right. So, that explains why they shipped those felts with the game. Unless you want your rad cows. I'm guessing these are rad cows that they put on the sides here.
    60:56
    Shipping to Tasmania. That sounds like doesn't sound real. Okay. So, that shipping bracket kind of needs to come off.
    61:52
    Yeah, the way they kind of built that. Um, yeah, I need to fix the legs while I'm got this thing out and just going to have to bear me with me.
    62:19
    The way they kind of designed the the the topper, it's pretty fantastic because it's uh there's a like a proper like, you know, photorealistic image in the back, right, of Earth or Pandora. It must be Pandora. Of course, there's a planet, whatever, right? And then they have like a there's like black kind of plastic cutouts to kind of create a depth effect of a hood, right? And then you have that kind of, you know, the the pinball 2000 glass where you project uh the the the digital image, right? So, it's just three different kind of ways of expressing the depth. But one of the problems I've I've seen a lot of people kind of complain about it is that it should have been tilted further forward and I saw somebody selling uh where did my beard go? I saw somebody selling kind of wedges for it. Uh, I will most likely uh put wedges on mine so it kind of like, you know, tilts in a little bit so you can see it in its all all its glory.
    63:49
    All right, I need to do the legs again. Um, where's the wrench here?
    63:58
    This is has come on and off now for the third time. Second time. Now this is the third time.
    64:35
    Yeah, that's really strange, right? Because those metal brackets, like if you put them on any other game from any other manufacturer or era, uh they will stand off the leg to not uh nip the the cab at all. It doesn't touch the cab, right? So, uh I don't know if the the company that makes the legs for Jersey Jack is sort of got a different machine or something. uh because it's not how it's supposed to be.
    65:13
    And I'm also worried like since these felts they kind of they make the game like bit wobbly
    65:33
    and it kind of looks like a leg beard as well. Not a big fan to be honest.
    65:52
    But I guess it's better than having the um the leg cutting a hole in your cab. So I give him that.
    66:17
    Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, you don't pay attention to it. I don't think it's just if you know it's there, you know what? You annoy yourself.
    66:28
    Yeah. And they could Yeah, you can definitely trim them down and cut them a little bit because that's the other thing. They they don't look like the shape of the leg, right? Kind of could kind of trim them a little bit. But yeah, don't want to deal with that now.
    66:49
    But I guess we can do a good tuck here before you kind of tighten them maybe. Yeah. I don't know.
    67:30
    Yeah, I got a nice little beard. That's fine. I didn't realize it would be this hot today. I would have waited.
    68:03
    there are times like these where I Oh, I should have put in that air con unit.
    68:13
    When I replace my heater, at least I put a put in the unit so you can connect uh a cold air. But um
    68:55
    Perfect. One more. Oh, and some beverage. Also, barrels are fun. Did they skimp? Yeah. Funny thing is my Kong that I that I swapped my cabinet with, it came with seven washers for the leg bolts. How weird is that?
    69:30
    Yeah. Yeah. And I saw a comment in chat there about the Kong didn't last long. And uh the thing is it's on my rotating kind of stern spot, right? So um um there will always there will be a new stern there every 3 4 months, whatever. So I'm going to order the new Star Wars game when that uh when you can actually order it. But uh I know that uh they are announcing it on uh so media day is September 10th, right? So and I think that was that Wednesday. So and uh they will have the game fully revealed before then, right? Or the So we will probably see full reveal that week, right? So the 8th of September. No. Yeah. Not this Monday, but the Monday before that. After that, I mean,
    70:46
    there might and I'm sort of like waiting to see uh I might depending on how much they've skimped on the the pro, right? Uh, with Kong, it was just such a no-brainer to get the to get the pro because the game is exactly the same. Uh, and uh,
    71:12
    even if I I love the gong, but the gong actually plays better on the pro. It's just or the way how the way the way you kind of interact with the game, which is quite hilarious. Um, so there there are those subtle differences, right? And and it's funny that some some of the Stern games like Pro Premium, it's not like a simple kind of bolt-on thing anymore. They kind of like change the gameplay and the rules and and all that. Like like John Wick is another kind of great example where they have a completely different car in the Pro versus the Premium LE plays differently. and the physical version versus the virtual lock behaves differently and a lot of subtle things like that. So, we'll see what they cook up for Star Wars, but um
    72:12
    most likely getting a pro But it might be one of those situation and it's just like, "Oh, oh [ __ ] this is this is the best pinball machine I ever seen in my life." And uh and it will be one of those situations where you're really weak and just like, "Oh, I'm going to buy the LE
    72:45
    instead." Right? So, we'll see. You only live once. But I'm a little bit like, you know, Borg had already like he designed this like 1992 kind of um data east Star Wars and was sort of reminiscing about it with Jack on stream, right? And it's just like I just wonder like if is is this was just one of those like celebration games, right? See, we we get the data east kind of Star Wars with flaunting a few new things, right? Um but you don't know until you know. Uh that's the that's the thing. But um really excited to see it. I'm also really excited to see what they kind of do with the with the franchise in a way, right? because uh the um um
    73:43
    because they're kind of like making own up their own little story, right? Will will Luke Skywalker will be in it? Will Han Solo be in it? Whatever. Or or are they just going to make up their own little kind of band of pirates or or rebels? It's obviously about rebels. Uh, we're not going to be playing as villains as much as we want. Wow, this this is a heavy goodie box here. Probably got like 10 balls in it, though. Yeah. Let's see what we got here. Okay, we got kind of like a usual. Okay, we got a power cable. That's good. Um,
    74:23
    [Applause] all right. So, this is a neat take on it. You kind of get like a little a little strip of things here. You got your balls in the bottom there. Oh, look at that. You got you get some extra rubbers. That's uh that's that's nice of him. Uh got some decals. You got some plastics.
    74:48
    And uh I don't quite know where. Oh, is that the mini ball for the mini play field in there? Yeah, it probably is.
    75:06
    Okay, so I need to show you a few things here. Uh just um so here's the artwork protectors. They're kind of laying in the game, right? So I need to pull those out. There's a bunch of straps and foam here. Run the UV lights. And
    75:29
    there's a piece of paper chucked in there. And I think that's kind of like the in installation instructions or or kind of the un the continuation of the unpacking instructions. What does it say here? Mark and Jack signatures.
    75:52
    Look at this. Look at this artwork. This absolutely bonkers. And uh yes, and they said they Yeah, since it's the CE, it's supposed to have a bunch of UV things, right? Uh so I'm just going to I think I have a UV light here somewhere. No, that's not UV. This one is UV. Let's see. Let's see if we can actually see something.
    76:25
    Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Let's Let's Let's turn the lights out and see what we can find out here.
    76:39
    Let's see if we can get a good hint here. I'm going to turn the regular light off here and uh see if we can Ooh. Oh, look at this.
    76:55
    The rubbers are obviously very UV sensitive. Uh, and there you can see some of the greens, right? Oh, there's some red there as well. Wow, look at that. Yeah, you can't see it as much on the camera. It looked much more kind of vivid in uh in real life. here. And you got the whales there. And you got the blue stripe here. Wow. Look at that. This is crazy. Look at this kind of blue water stripe going here. It's crazy. And all the plastics up here have some greens in there, some blues there. And there you see the the red one there along the uh the walker there. Yeah. Let's see if I can just zoom in here a little bit and see what you can actually. Yeah, there you can see it. It looks so much brighter in person. I'm telling you. And then you had the red. Let me see here. No, it's too difficult to see.
    78:10
    Yeah, the camera is kind of struggling because it's so dark, but there's definitely there's a lot of UV stuff here now. My hands are starting to shake. Can see some of the red stuff there. No.
    78:30
    Anyhow, yeah, I'm going to turn the lights back on here. Yes. Yes. So, I guess you need to have a very particular environment to uh kind of enjoy all those uh all those elements of the game, I guess.
    78:59
    Does it have a coin mech? Yes, it does have a coin mech. US quarter. Yeah, I got two quarter mechs. We got room for our dollar bill validator. I don't Yeah, I think it has both power. No, I don't think it has power, but uh
    79:31
    so the white rubber is tearing off. Yeah. I wonder I wonder what rubber it is. if it is Titan or something else.
    79:41
    Oh, that's fun. There is already a ball in the mini play field there. So, I wonder uh why you would uh Yeah, I guess that's a spare one. Little tiny the one you had you had in your extra goodie bag. I wonder if that's the same size ball assh you have in rapid fire and hyper ball. It should be right. Simple enough. Well, they have a bracket back here for the power cable. That's professional. Like the good old days.
    80:27
    Oh, this is It says the born on date is 625. That's weird because the box had a completely different number on it or date on it. I think it said like April.
    80:41
    So, all right. Yeah, I need to do some uh work on the back of the game there to remove the the bracket
    80:54
    and uh remove the the power cord bracket. I'm one of those people that just throw these away because I'm never going to put these on a location anywhere anyway.
    81:14
    And somehow like if I was a pinball cabinet designer, oops. Yeah, now I dented my floor. I would design that bracket so you can put it in in two different ways, right? One way you have it for home use and the other way you kind of lock the cable in place, right? And that way the bracket never gets lost or the bracket doesn't I mean it's always on the game and and you can kind of do your preferred kind of configuration of the bracket either locked or open, right? Simple. Be pragmatic about things. That's how I see things in the world.
    82:10
    uh I'm not like everybody else. Maybe that's what I wanted to say.
    82:25
    So, in the back here, it's just like the the the back box is an absolute unit, right? Because the um I can see the monitor R is basically mounted on a bracket that you can kind of see on the back there. Um,
    82:47
    there's a big kind of fan and like a it's almost like a house vent, you know, and I need to figure out where to pull my cables out of this cab. That's not going to be easy.
    83:08
    Uh, because I need to do the capture thing. need to capture the display. And I also I'm a also a bit curious if they actually upgraded their display since dialed in because dialed in was a DVI display did not have any uh uh was it HDMI? Some there was some DVI something. I know that because I used the DVI to HDMI
    83:46
    converter. Absolute unit of a game. This is This is bonkers. This is absolutely like
    83:57
    incredible. All right, I'm done with I don't think I need this anymore.
    84:13
    I'm going to lift the playfield up because I I want to see I want to see this thing. [Applause] Yeah, I can see that there was something holding the little mini ball there for sure. Yeah, there's like two little pegs there,
    84:51
    you know, invisy glass. I was just like I was reaching with my fingers in there. That's how you know you got invisig glass and not some other [ __ ] glass. Oh, it's hilarious. So dumb.
    85:06
    Yeah, it's in this the glass. All right. Oh, there's no rattle tape on the glass. H I wonder if that's needed or not.
    85:29
    used when racing playfield. I wonder like do people just put them in like keep them in the cab or what do you what do you folks do?
    85:53
    I love those Banshee sculpts. They're amaze balls. I saw you could buy similar ones of Amazon. It's like Seth Mc Fair Lane. Is that his name? I'm probably butchering in right now, but
    86:15
    if I had a stern avatar, I would definitely look into [Applause] uh getting some of these banshees in that game because these look amazing.
    86:31
    Okay, let's see what it says here. So, this is the Avatar kind of specific things here.
    86:42
    They are Mac four lane. Yeah, that's what I That's what I thought. All right. So, there's some instructions here. And uh as you said there, there's the there's a little fork that holds the mini pinball in place. Pull out the lift the playfield service position. Lower.
    87:17
    96. Okay. The game was designed to be played between 6.5 and 7 degree pitch
    87:28
    and the upper edge of the B bubble is touching the second line the level.
    87:38
    Yeah, it definitely needs to come up more. It's at six now. Okay, so that needs to be adjusted. Shooter lane adjustment. Oh,
    87:58
    so what's this here? A full plunge should send a ball across the playfield and up to the left orbit around the upper right flipper.
    88:14
    Oh, look at that. How clever. So they got a little hole in the plastic there, right? So you can kind of put it where it's supposed to go because that will move, right? That that will move, right? And you need to, you know, keep up with that for sure. So So that we need to dial in. And then we have Playfield Windows.
    88:45
    So that's fun. So you can actually remove these for service. I don't want to do that. I never want to do that. But
    88:58
    there's also some other adjustments here to the to that kind of like tilting kind of mech that kind of controls the ball in like 50 different ways. Um, see if I can get the camera to
    89:21
    focus on that. Like it's a bunch of different things here. [Applause]
    89:36
    And you can also adjust the height of it. And there's also some leveling you can do or adjustments you can do on the orbits to have them ball travel not straight down the middle.
    90:04
    Uh, but I don't think I need to do anything else besides pulling the pulling that fork out.
    90:25
    Oh, is this now when you're supposed to have your artwork protectors in here? Let me see. Let's see how this works.
    90:42
    put them down like this. And okay, so these needs to be folded a little bit here.
    91:34
    Oh my god, that playfield weighs a ton, too. I'm not surprised.
    91:46
    Oh, I don't like this. So, you're basically leaning it. How is it lean? Oh, okay. So, it is actually
    91:55
    Yeah. So, it's not denting the plastic. It's kind of leaning towards the Oops. [ __ ] Did I pull something else here? No. No. I still You still hear me? Yeah. I'm so full of wires.
    92:18
    Okay. So, the tilt bulb was sort of disengaged here. That needs fixing.
    92:26
    Wow, this tilt bob, it weighs differently than the stern one. It's not a graphite one. It's just like a big
    92:38
    um it's made of like steel. Crazy. Comes with a shaky motor. The the base looks pretty solid. I will probably put a Boom Boom 3000 in here just because because I'm such a huge fan of Boom Boom 3000. I also need to put a duck in it. Uh I need to figure that out tomorrow.
    93:04
    A Mord. And I need to give the Malord a name. Yeah. Okay. So, like this playfield is just it's just bonkers. Let's let's just let's just have a look at this, right? You can you can Yeah, you can see some wood, right? Uh but if the if the subways would have been like black or anything else like you would not have seen any wood, right? This is this is just crazy with the too many play fields and
    94:01
    this is just absolutely bonkers. Absolutely bonkers. Oh, that USB cable can look had some very thin. Yeah, I was talking to a friend about this. He had an Elton John location, right? And like these USB cables here, they they're not as they're not very reliable. Like it wasn't specific for Avatar. Uh
    94:55
    this was a uh Elton John, right? Yeah. Look at this. This is like USB cables everywhere.
    95:05
    Because you know I mean a game on location that is really funny. Yeah. I mean I don't know like
    95:16
    Yeah. So I mean Stern kind of made the right choice. Just use cat five cables with a with a physical lock right at the end of the day. Right. But this is just this is just USB galore here. Look at all these little brittle USB connectors. They're everywhere. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. So,
    95:40
    this explain explains a lot, but in uh yeah, I guess in a home environment, this this will just be fine. This will be fine. All right. I need to figure out how to get the u uh get the little fork out of the mini playfield.
    96:24
    that's it. You just pull it out like that. Yeah, I guess you didn't have to lift the playfield. But I got the tilt bulb out and I we get to do an underplay field inspection. So, I guess that's worth something. There wasn't anything else in the goodie bag I need to concern myself with besides the balls, right?
    96:50
    [Applause] I like this. They come they come with their own little, you know, the the little kind of toothpickish kind of plastic piece, you know, to where you use that you use as a spacer for um um when you're aligning the flippers. [Applause]
    97:38
    Okay. I don't want to lift this plate wheel any more than I want to.
    97:56
    Let's see here. Did I ruin my artwork already? No, it is not a single scratch. Made it. Made it through. [Applause]
    98:15
    Yeah. A a dab of glue. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, do you know the uh my TNA,
    98:26
    it has uh the hot glue, right, on every single connector, right? And I don't think that's a bad idea because it's kind of it kind of looks a little bit amateurish maybe, but uh it keeps keeps the um connectors in place. Uh also use the um the hot glue for the you know when you put um uh lights in like um in spotlights and things like that. or in other kind of high velocity sort of areas I'd say you know where I don't know if you remember when they had the launch stream for Mandalorian and one of the the yeah one of the one of the spotlights I think there was a spotlight for Grou or something like that it it just came out on the plunge right so they took the glass off and started fishing for the light the first
    99:33
    And uh yeah, it's not very good advertisement. So, and it's such an easy fix, right? And I I mean, all my games that have spotlights of any kind have hot glue in them.
    99:56
    Yeah. The thing is, I just wonder like do do people wax these play fields? Um because I sort of feel um it needs some wax, but given how many uh little crevices the wax can kind of get stuck in, you have the infinity mirror here. You have the um little windows there. because getting wax having wax on the playfield just reduces the friction so much and just makes it last so much longer.
    100:35
    And another thing I've sort of been wondering to myself is if there has been any protectors made for it because I know the scoop there doesn't come with a protector, right? then it's very very very vulnerable.
    100:55
    And I've seen some uh eaten up wood on some location games, right? And that was basically one of the first things I kind of called out on it when I was kind of when they announced it. And there's also some Yeah, there's also this exposed edge there just below the uh upper right flipper. Uh, I'm I'm not very happy about that one either, but um,
    101:26
    and I think on a bad day, a ball can get stuck there. I need to level the game as well. Yeah, I need to kind of pack up the stream here pretty soon as well. Um,
    101:48
    but at least I'm I'm going to do kind of one sort of game or something like that. And um,
    102:02
    and hopefully I will get a higher definition stream tomorrow. uh when I hooked up the u the capture card and going to figure out how to get line out from it as well. Um
    102:20
    so we got high def sound, high depth picture. Hopefully my multiviewer don't won't have any issues with the display signal. So far uh anything I've thrown at it has kind of work just worked. So, um hopefully hopefully this will be fine.
    102:48
    Okay, we got balls in the game. Can't see any other kind of
    103:08
    So, how is this going to work? This switch is stuck. Oh, look at that. There's a stuck switch here. That's not supposed to be like that.
    103:44
    Yeah. Let me see if I can loosen that up a little bit. Yeah, I know on the micro switches on kind of on top there's um it kind of clamps to the plastic, you know, and sometimes that clamp is just too tight for the switch to kind of
    104:06
    move freely. And that's what we have here. Yeah, because the ball is supposed to go up there, down there, right? Yeah. This switch is not going to do its job, that's for sure.
    104:45
    Yeah, it's probably difficult to see here, but it kind of come off. Came off now, but this is like way too irregular and
    105:01
    all skewed. So, just make some little a little bit of an adjustment and snap it back on and it will work just fine. It's pinball after all.
    105:39
    Yeah, I wonder about this. I think I think there's a spacer missing because it kind of gets pinched between the sheet metal.
    105:58
    the sheet metal and the um the plastic. So, it kind of pinses the whole thing.
    106:21
    Can't quite see. It's just so tiny. Luckily, we got phones Nah, it's not going anywhere. So shitty. Always something.
    107:24
    Just one of those things. I didn't think I would have to deal with today.
    107:32
    I guess it's not the end of the day, end of the world if that switch is not registering, but
    108:23
    All right. Like new. Perfect. Any other switches that needs some adjusting? No. All right. I'm going to put a glass in. Going to level the game. Going to fire it up.
    108:41
    And uh I'm going to play a game with shits and giggles. But there won't be any gameplay stream officially until I've got everything kind of dialed in with the direct capture and stuff like that. So, okay, I need a 916
    109:12
    to adjust the leg levelers. Don't even know if I have one. It's 9:16. It's hot.
    110:08
    Yeah. So, the issue was that the one of the I I just saw that one one of the switches were stuck, right? It was just completely jammed and there's the exit switch for the I can kind of like the dive thing, you know, the jump ramp there, whatever. You know, there's an exit switch on that ramp there and that was just jammed shut.
    110:47
    And uh well it just took some bending and uh we're there. I need I need a bubble a bubble level.
    110:59
    And now that has been run up as well. Yeah, it's just too too much going on right now. All right. So, we're sort of fairly flat here.
    111:32
    Getting old. Oh, getting old. [ __ ] Fairly fairly straight.
    111:55
    And now the bubbles in between. It should be resting on the second one. Needs to come up a little bit more.
    112:58
    resting perfectly on the second Love it. Yeah, the game is not going to be here forever, but I might as well just tighten it up.
    113:16
    Yeah, the thing with my garage is that like with every garage in the US, it leans uh because of the flooding. When when it floods and the water is supposed to come out,
    113:41
    let's see some power here. What do we think? Do do we think the game will just work on first punch? You never know about the those things. Never know.
    114:01
    So, these games have the power. Oh, they have a power switch underneath.
    114:09
    All right. Is it powering up? There's a 100 watt surge. Oh, look at that. There's lights.
    114:19
    Did it say Did it say HDMI? I think it did. It's a bunch of Linux messages on the screen there.
    114:43
    Wow. Detected display size. It's It is actually I didn't think it was full HD. I thought it was 1280.
    114:54
    Oh my god, this looks crazy. So, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to put up the camera sort of just next to the game here. Uh, I don't I don't I cannot move the rig today. Well, I can, but you know, you know how it is. It's just too much stuff going on right now. Oh, I think I have a polarizing filter on this camera. Do I?
    115:20
    Looks very dark. Let me just put the light out. There's so much [ __ ] there. I'm just going to move you over here.
    115:42
    That's hilarious. You can't see the You can't see the screen. Why is that? It has to be a polar filter in this camera. Why does it look like that? Oh, there we go.
    116:10
    It's a It's a polarized filter. I I use it to remove reflections and stuff. Uh because this is sort of like my B camera that I use for a lot of things. So um when you when I do like location streams, stuff like that, it's sort of it's always like you have to always deal with like sun sun and reflections and stuff like that everywhere. And you have a polarized filter, you can just remove it. You just kind of twist that um that ring that I twisted now to kind of just get it into uh get it into place. Look at that.
    116:58
    So, I guess uh game one shouldn't be hard for you. shouldn't be hard for you. Initiate link. Initiate link. All right, I'm going to just do All right, I'm going to just do something about the sound boost for steel shot.
    117:13
    because my my gate is kind of struggling. So, I'll just leave it open.
    117:27
    [Music] Yeah, I think the flipper buttons are not staging optimal here. I guess that's something I need to look at.
    117:40
    The left the left one is too late and the right one is way too tight.
    117:47
    [Music] So you can adjust the volume from Oh, look at that. It's crazy. Yeah, this feather on the plunger is just [Music]
    118:21
    So, I kind of forgot to put the most important kind of bit in the shoot for skill shot.
    118:33
    That crazy topper. Like, just look at it. I will figure out a way to get in the stream. I am Electron. I am one of you.
    118:52
    [Music] Use the flipper. Yeah, it's not liking that. Oops. [Music] Yeah, I got a really bad reject on the view I shot up there. I am a guard. I Yeah, getting that skill shot up on the Yeah, getting that skill shot up on the uh you warning danger. you warning danger. Oh, that was a
    119:44
    That's That was bad. What a shitty first game. What a shitty This is unbelievable. [Music] Up ahead. So doing that like up to the Up ahead. So doing that like up to the but I never figured I'd be going
    120:20
    a [Music] Song. What does that do? Wolf. Wolf. [Music] I don't have a goddamn night.
    120:44
    Hit action button to retrieve arrows. Use the flipper. Multiplier decreased. [Music]
    120:59
    Land award added. [Music] Mystery is complete. Arrows depleted. Mystery is complete. Arrows depleted. [Music] Getting so many rejects on that scoop up Getting so many rejects on that scoop up there. This is like the fifth time now. I just wonder
    121:33
    You've got it. Altitude warning. I got a tilt warning.
    121:47
    [Applause] Yeah. I have no idea what what I'm shooting for you.
    121:56
    Yeah. So, the code needs updating. Is is that what what you're is that what you're saying? Yeah. Shoots for Shoots for I guess the flippers I need to uh I guess the flippers I need to uh install a new code and
    122:14
    I think I need to fix the the flippers need to be dialed in as well because need to be dialed in as well because B one lock.
    122:28
    Shoot the purple for super skill shot. Skill shot. Skill shot. Arrow added. Arrow added. Song mode is ready.
    122:39
    There it went in. But the right flipper is way too strong. the right flipper is way too strong. Use the flipper.
    123:14
    So now I should be able to do a skill shot into the Battle of the Hallelujah Mountains. Multiple [Music] hit the button. Where is it? Where is it? Arrows depleted. There is
    123:58
    included. [Laughter] Oh, interesting. The ball got stuck up here. There's two balls sitting there.
    124:45
    Interesting. There's like two balls sitting in the Is the game a little bit loud? Yeah, the game. Yeah. So, look at this. This looks pretty dumb.
    125:06
    [Music] Just want to show you this. So, there's like two two balls sitting on the rail here, [Music] right? So there's one right there. And then the other one is sitting right there. [Applause] [Music]
    125:38
    Yeah. I just think that that uh that wire form is just uh it's pins there in a way. Yeah. You can see Wow. you can see it really clearly. Um, yeah, it's an easy fix. Um, yeah, I'll just put the light up. Yeah, these are the things like new games, you just it's always something. Not blaming anyone in particular here, right? But I just want to kind of show the the issue here, right? You see the ball there, right? And then like I don't know if you can see like how the wire form is just like it's bent inwards here, right? And that pinses the ball there. And I don't know why that ball is resting there, but that's not supposed to happen because the ball is supposed to be fed down there. Uh but it looks like it's also pinced a little bit on one of the wire forms there. Yeah, that that kind of freed that one up, but uh that needs kind of some bending as well to perfect.
    126:52
    But yeah, uh so far uh collected, those are the things that needs fixing those are the things that needs fixing uh among things I need to do. I go through the switch matrix and and all that good stuff as well. But uh here you have it. The Jersey Jack uh pinball avatar collector's edition is out of the box. I will uh
    127:20
    get some. I thought I just could plunge that, but I thought I just could plunge that, but I'll do that. Yeah, the game is so confused now where all the balls are. So,
    127:33
    high score number one is at 20 million. So, I might actually get my name in here. liter.
    127:43
    [Music] Yeah, that is so bent. I mean, it's just Yeah, that is so bent. I mean, it's just like it's a couple of millimeters kind of difference. And I think that in turn has led to I think the whole kind of mech is kind of like bent wrong and that in turn creates a a groove for the uh for the ball further down to be kind of stuck in to place as well. And I think the game could have a little bit too high pitch. No, it doesn't. Oh, I did get my initials here.
    128:40
    the sky people never stood a chance? All right. Uh anyhow, uh thank you so All right. Uh anyhow, uh thank you so much for
    128:50
    uh hanging out and uh yeah, QA at Jersey Jack. The thing the thing is this that I always like I look at the playfields when when always when and I unbox unbox a game, right? And if I don't see a single dimple on the playfield, I'm just like, "Oh, this game is going to have issues." And this playfield is absolutely immaculate. does not have a single dimple on it. So I don't think a single ball has traveled through this game to be honest. Right. Uh Elton chip without apron. Yeah. I mean the thing is like I mean all the pinball manufacturers they they they just work differently, right? And like anyone who could Yeah. I mean the ball can't travel through there, right? If you were just like Yeah. Is it It has not been play tested. that that is that and that's it. Let's just put it that way. Uh and uh it's the same thing like Pinball Brothers. There's no one playing those games either. They they ship immaculate and you can't make a single shot on them, right? And you need to like every little thing you need to kind of adjust. Um uh so the I know Stern play there's somebody playing the games there for sure because the the games are delivered with dimples and you can see ball trails on some of the habit rails and things like that. Right. So that's just how it is. Um but um hopefully I'll get all these issues kind of ironed out. I get the display into the stream. Um, don't know what to do with the topper yet. If I'm going to put the topper in the stream, I don't know how much like good it will do. Uh, there's a lot of information there which is sort of Yeah. Yeah. I Yeah, I'm It might not even be on HDMI. Who knows? I'll I'll figure something out. It should be fun to figure out anyway. Yeah, you can capture it. Yeah, I I I bet you can. It's just It's just the format of it. is like really weird. It's like this uh I mean it's not even like 32 by9. It's like it's even wider. I don't know what what kind of kind of widescreen that is, but uh at the end of the day they're probably just using a standard HD um kind of signal that that is being cropped, right? So because if it has those some super weird resolution uh then then my my capture card is going to struggle with it because it can only do TV signals but it kind of it struggles with computer resolutions like it can't do 40 uh 1440p and you know any of the kind of uh uh high- res uh wide screens weird formats it can do yeah TV resolution solutions pretty much. Uh but uh I might put it on I mean I have a um I have other capture cards that are better at capturing PCs. I have a whole line of Elgato cards. Uh I have um yeah I have a bunch of others that that deals better with PC capture, right? And they should be able to to handle it. So uh we'll see. Uh, it is a pretty fantastic topper. So, it would be sort of a waste not putting it in the stream. I'd say in some shape or form. It would be really cool to kind of green screen and have that in the background of the player. I think I think that would be a good fit. You kind of put it as a bar on top of the uh off top on top of the normal kind of display and you have it like up sitting up here and that will kind of take up the other two/irds of the state of the stream. Oh yeah. Yeah. I I need to get uh get started with dinner and start working on some of these things and uh tidy up here a little bit. But this been super fun. Get your payload ready. Get your payload ready. I should take a break. That's uh that's what it said. So, but thank you for hanging out. I'll put it this on YouTube. And if you watch this on YouTube, thank you so much. And give some comments in chat. Comments below. It's not in chat. So, all right. Cheers. Let's see if we can raid somebody here. Um loud music incoming.