Looney Tunes Pinball Tutorial (Flip N Out Pinball, 2024)

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Analysis

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TL;DR

Joel Engelberth explains Looney Tunes Pinball's complex four-flipper layout, modes, and rule set.

Summary

Joel Engelberth from Flip n Out Pinball provides a comprehensive tutorial of Looney Tunes Pinball, covering the game's unique four-flipper, four-ramp layout, shot mechanics, and code depth. The video demonstrates various modes including film episodes (modes), Marvin the Martian spinner-based challenges, multiball sequences, and the TASmania mechanic, highlighting the game's substantial rule complexity and entertainment value. Joel credits Bug from Spooky Pinball for helping explain the game during a stream and thanks Zach and Nicole for access to their personal machine.

Key Claims

Looney Tunes Pinball has a four-flipper, four-ramp layout where every ramp feeds a specific flipper, enabling complex shot combos
high confidence · Direct gameplay demonstration and mechanical explanation throughout tutorial
Bug from Spooky Pinball appeared on the Flip n Out stream to help explain the game's mechanics
high confidence · Joel states: 'Just earlier this week we actually had Bug from Spooky Pinball on the stream with us and he helped explain the game a little further'
The left ramp's wire form is designed to hit the glass on each shot, creating a distinctive mechanical effect that varies by machine and can be adjusted
high confidence · Joel demonstrates and explains: 'the ball will actually hit the glass, which is really cool... some games it does that, some games it doesn't. If yours is hitting the glass and you don't like it, just bend the wire form down a little bit.'
Looney Tunes Pinball and Texas Chainsaw Massacre share the same playfield layout but have completely different code
high confidence · Joel states: 'if you ever see Texas Chainsaw Massacre you'll see that the layout is the exact same but the game code is completely different'
The game features five main progression items (Alien Technology, Anvils, Crates, Extendo Punch, Rockets) leading to a wizard mode
high confidence · Joel explains the item progression system and notes 'Extendo Punch is not really in the game yet' and explains how these lead to final wizard mode
Spooky Pinball recently announced Evil Dead pinball
high confidence · Joel states: 'Evil Dead was just announced, so hopefully you have a chance to play that as well'

Notable Quotes

“Just earlier this week we actually had Bug from Spooky Pinball on the stream with us and he helped explain the game a little further”
Joel Engelberth@ 0:19 — Indicates direct collaboration between content creators and manufacturers for community education
“every ramp feeds a flipper so if you just keep hitting ramps, you can combo some crazy, crazy shot paths together”
Joel Engelberth@ 4:23 — Explains core mechanical philosophy of Looney Tunes layout design
“the ball will actually hit the glass, which is really cool... some games it does that, some games it doesn't. If yours is hitting the glass and you don't like it, just bend the wire form down a little bit”
Joel Engelberth@ 2:16 — Documents a specific mechanical variance and provides troubleshooting advice for owners
“This is a game that really surprised me with how fun it is”
Joel Engelberth@ 21:13 — Positive sentiment about game quality and entertainment value
“There's so much to do. There's so many modes. There's just a lot to do in this game, and I love the audio package. I love the call outs and I loved the code that was in the game.”
Joel Engelberth@ 20:43 — Summarizes appreciation for game's depth, audio design, and code quality

Entities

Joel EngelberthpersonBugpersonSpooky PinballcompanyLooney Tunes PinballgameFlip n Out PinballorganizationZach and NicolepersonEvil Dead PinballgameTexas Chainsaw Massacre Pinballgame

Signals

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community_signal: Spooky Pinball personnel (Bug) actively participating in content creator streams to educate community about new games
high · Joel states Bug appeared on their stream to help explain Looney Tunes mechanics; demonstrates manufacturer investment in community understanding
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announcement: Spooky Pinball announces Evil Dead pinball as upcoming release
high · Joel mentions: 'Evil Dead was just announced, so hopefully you have a chance to play that as well'
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technology_signal: Looney Tunes/Texas Chainsaw Massacre demonstrate platform sharing with distinct code implementations enabling theme variations
high · Joel explains that two games share identical layout but 'the game code is completely different', indicating software-driven design flexibility

Transcript

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Hey everybody, my name is Joel Engelberth and this is the Flippin' Out YouTube channel. My brother and I, we stream every Wednesday night from 10 to midnight Eastern Standard Time and recently we've been streaming Looney Tunes. This is Zach and Nicole's personal game and they let us borrow that and we've been having a ton of fun with it. Just earlier this week we actually had Bug from Spooky Pinball on the stream with us and he helped explain the game a little further so we can continue to learn more and more about the game. but um honestly the game's a lot of fun uh the layout is nuts and i'm going to do the best i can to explain not only how the shots work but also the code that's in the game and how to really just enjoy this game um so yeah here we go uh shots and layout very unique layout there are four ramps there are four flippers every ramp feeds a flipper so we're going to start on the left there is an in lane out lane nothing crazy there uh you can light your out lane ball save that's one of the crate awards or there is these little carrot targets apparently if you hit a bunch of those you will eventually light your out lane ball saves um normal in lane in lane's actually how you start your uh shot multiplier you can see there's x's on those so depending on you can switch back and forth when you have it lit that's how you start your shot multiplier there's a scoop underneath this rocket right here that's how you um mostly it's just to uh eject things but that's how you can advance items or get your extra ball or special is there in the um in the scoop then you have a left orbit it goes all the way around and the left orbit actually has a spinner the left orbit is very important and that spinner is very important for all the martian modes um now there is an eject right here so you can actually shoot under the flipper and you can shoot into, there's a drop target right here and there's an eject here and that'll actually eject the ball up that way, which is kind of crazy. So that is kind of hidden under the ramp. Then you have the left ramp. The left ramp goes up, turns around and comes back. I will tell you right here, at least on this game, the way that the wire form is kind of bent, the ball will actually hit the glass, which is really cool. It's a little like knock every single time. We asked bug about that. He says some games it does that, some games it doesn't. If yours is hitting the glass and you don't like it, just bend the wire form down a little bit. Just push this down. If you don't like it or you want that, you can push a little bit up. I really like it. I will warn you though, I'll be throwing the ball around for this tutorial. If the ball flies off the wire form, it's because the glass isn't installed. The glass, it's never happened when I'm actually playing the game with the glass. But I think that's actually a really cool wire form. There's also a diverter right here so depending on certain modes you can lock a ball here within the rocket so you'll see that happen we already talked about this drop target there's actually a stand up here and a stand up there that's to light locks later on in the game to start the film modes there's a flipper right here you can shoot under the flipper that's how you do your shot multiplier but with that flipper you can shoot multiple shots in this direction which is really neat there's an upper orbit, which you do with that flipper. It'll fly around. Actually, what it does is it flies around this and then basically goes into that. There's an upper left ramp. The upper left ramp actually feeds the upper right flipper. So this is a combo that's pretty crazy. So you can actually, with this upper right flipper, you can hit this shot. So you can essentially just combo this over and over again if you get the timing just right. There is the main crate shot in a magnet right here. This is how you open crates. That's how you start your episode. That's typically how you end your episode. Really neat shot right up the middle with a cool magnetic effect. This upper right ramp is what feeds all the way down here to the lower right flipper. So you can hit that. You can actually backhand that from the right flipper, and you can hit it from the left flipper. There's an inner loop this way, which you can combo over and over again, which is pretty nuts. Then you have the captive ball. The captive ball right here is what you do to light your multi ball. You can see the inserts there. One, two, three, four, light lock. So that's captive ball. You also hit that a few different modes. Then this right lower ramp. What that does is it actually feeds the upper left flipper. So you can see here every ramp feeds a flipper. So if you just keep hitting ramps, you can combo some crazy, crazy shot paths together. And then the right orbit either goes all the way around or this is where the multi-ball locks are. And it actually, this whole section back here pops up and will lock the ball up here in this mech. And you can kind of see in the camera up there in the upper right, I'm trying to show that mech off. There's a right flipper here. You can shoot under the flipper. You want to shoot under the flipper after you spell TNA. So there's TNT. There's three stand-up targets there. Once you do that and then shoot under the flipper, it's actually a TNT at a ball. And then this is the actual shooter. So there's, it's pretty crazy. It's a pretty crazy layout. Hopefully you see as I start working through the modes, explaining it a little bit, but it's a lot of fun. Other items, there is an action button on the lockdown bar here. That's what you're gonna do to select your mode or activate any of the items that you get out of the crates. And then on the right side of the cabinet, there's actually two flipper buttons. And the other flipper button is what you'll do if you collect multiple items you can scroll through the items with that other flipper button But yeah let go ahead and start a game and uh talk through some of the code it looney tunes you gonna love the music you gonna love all the different um episodes and and well they call them film clips that are in the game uh if you look here in the bottom there's kind of five different items you could work through to get to the final wizard mode um it's not in the game yet but the five main items alien technology that's all deals with the marvin martian modes over here the anvils that deals with some of the modes right here uh on the left the anvil modes on the left ramp the crates are all the film episodes right up the middle and you can see your progress towards the film episodes there on those inserts the extendo punch is not really in the game yet that's all lock that's all on that right flipper you can see inserts jab hook uppercut and then right over here rockets that's getting through the different multi-ball modes over on the right so the inserts actually make a lot of sense um and there's there's plenty of depth in this game uh skill shot there's two that i know of one you can see the scrolling arrows right here so if you time it just right you can um just try to hit the scrolling arrow so let's see if i can do that there we go so skill shot nothing crazy skill shot number two skill shot number two basically you can see skill shot number one the scrolling arrows here in the middle is still happening if you want to change the skill shot hit the action button and you'll see the drop target actually came up and now i have a yellow arrow there so how this works actually the drop target went down when you plunge the ball goes straight into that it's going to shoot up and it gives you one shot here with the upper flipper to try to hit that yellow so maybe i have time maybe our time there we go so it works to be cheap but yeah it's that's actually a very fun shot to go for um that's actually my preferred skill shot so definitely wanted to show that off and now you're going to see a bunch of white arrows basically you have to hit three main shots and that's how you're going to end up uh qualifying um a film mode so there's one let's go over here that would be two and then let's just do one more that would be three and Now what you're going to see is right up the middle, start episode is lit, so we're going to try to do that. There we go, and now we're in a mode. You can change your mode by hitting the action button and then switching through. There's some incredible modes here. They're all very different. So let's do Rabbit Transit.

8:03

Rabbit Transit is essentially the tortoise versus the hare. What you're going to see here is at the very beginning of the mode, there's going to be a bunch of green shots and a bunch of orange shots, and it's totally random. So I really like these lower ramp modes. So I actually want to pick the hair because those are the shots that are currently orange. So what that means to beat this mode, I need to be hitting orange shots, not green shots. So there's one and you're going to see up on that. So here would be two. Let's do another one. So if I hit a green shot though, you'll see the tortoise catches up. One thing I want to show here is hurry up is lit. So if I hit left ramp you're gonna see hurry up up up at the crate shot is lit that's how you light your hurry up and then now if I hit the left ramp it's actually gonna lock a ball so it's locking a ball so that's a progress you can get to to get to anvil frenzy which is actually one of the multi balls in the game so let's hit another orange shot there we go so I actually beat that mode so now that the mode is over I need to hit the vault the encore bonus is I basically you want to hit in there so you're going to do that with the upright right flipper so that's one mode done and being that i beat it it's green you can see it's green right here so when it comes to modes it's now you're at the same spot where you're going to be wanting to hit white shots to light the the shot up the middle to start a mode you can also see open crate is lit open crate means there's an item right now that i would collect so let's actually go ahead and hit up in there let me actually hit up in there. There we go. So I just got the radar gun. The radar gun deals with the wow Wiley Cody and the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner speed so that deals with points but there are different items in the game and you can actually cycle through the items that you want. You can see the item right above me. So the next one is that purple tube. That's actually a valuable item. So the way that you get items is you hit a bunch of shots and then when you see open crate there up the middle, that's where you'll want to hit it and you can collect that item. There's something called TAS Mania, and that deals with where you hit the middle shot when you're not in a mode. So let's try to hit that. And then it will light a shot red. So you can see this shot right here is red. And if you hit that within the right amount of time, if you look on the back box, so you can see it right above me in the far left side, there's a red meter. So if I keep doing that process of hitting the crate there we go and then hitting the red shot so now it's over here on the left you're gonna see that taz meter is filling up on the right it's a long process now i see open crate is lit here so this is how i will collect that purple tube if i can just i think honestly i think i can hit the crate better than throwing the ball at the crate there we go so the purple The double tube is how we light our outlines So to actually use the item you see I have two items now right here If I hit the right flipper sorry the right button over here I can toggle between the two items So I going to select that one activate it and now my outline ball sticks are lit So, let's talk Tasmania, you basically just hit that and then that's a pretty cool mode. Let's talk about this multi-ball. So, I'm going to just hit the cap the ball a few times and you're going to see these numbers slowly progress. So that's three, that's four, and now if I hit that one more time, boom, light lock is lit. You can see my values or the lights over there are freaking out. To actually lock the ball, you want to hit this right orbit. You're going to watch the mech up there. It's going to throw the ball up. It's going to lock the first one. So all I have to do is hit that right orbit two more times, and I will start a multiball.

13:44

Yeah, that's a cool mode. There we go. So now we're down to one ball. So that explains Giant Rocket Multi-Ball. To get to Rocket Skates Multi-Ball, you basically do it again. You're basically just going to be hitting half the ball, light locks, so on and so on. Let's talk about the Marvin the Martian modes. That's all about spinner hits over here on the left. Once you've hit enough of those, you're going to see this is lit right here. Area 51 and 3 quarters. If I hit the left ramp, I'm going to start that mode. The three modes are over here on the left. And depending on if you don't like the particular mode, there's Planet X, Instant Martians, and Space Modulator. So if I want to start Planet X, I'm going to go ahead and hit the left ramp. Otherwise, if I don't want Planet X, I can change that mode by just hitting the center again. So these are unique modes to the Marvin the Martian modes. I think this one is all about the animations. You can flip through them by hitting both buttons. But I like watching the clips too much. they're too good all right what's going to happen in this one is he's going to try to claim shots with red so right now all the shots are purple if i hit a purple shot it turns blue that now means it's my shot so in a perfect world you want to change every shot to blue so now let's wait for him to try to uh there now we have a red shot right here so to get that back from them we have to hit the shot and now it's blue let's see if i can hit that one there we go and then technically there's only one more shot here on the left and there we go i think i have technically beat the mode and you can see all the points right there um so yeah there's marvin the martian modes my 3x is lit um and i think i actually yeah because i've rolled over it it's actually activated right now that's why there's so many points um but yeah that's basically marvin the martial modes it's going to be the same thing rip spinner a bunch until the area 51 is lit um items you can advance item if you don't like the item like the the um dynamite would be the item i'd collect if you don't want that item and you want a different one you can hit the scoop and it will scroll past it um otherwise you're just going to want to keep going through film modes so let's see if we can show one more film mode off so i'm hitting all the hitting all the white shots and then once I've done that you can actually start a mode by either going up the middle or under there so let's do uh Robin Hood why not okay so the way that this mode works is you're gonna see a whole bunch of yellow shots so that's the gold that's sitting out there oh pink pink that's right so they start pink once you hit a shot it turns yellow And so that me me changing the shot to a gold shot Well if you want points you want to keep hitting pink shots So basically hit as many pink shots as you can before you hit a yellow shot and then once you actually hit a yellow shot that how you distribute it So to beat the mode really quickly you could just sit here and loop the same shot over and over and over again. So that would be me collecting it again and I think you have to collect I don't know three four or five times. So that would be three collected this is another gold there's four collected and let's see if it's five there's five yep five collected yep the episode's over you're gonna see an encore bonus pop up and remember the encore bonus is you want to hit in there as quickly as possible and that's how you get the most points so yeah i think that's i mean that's two modes beat there's a ton of modes in the game they're all incredibly unique um i can't show them all there's the multi balls over here on the right by just bashing the captive ball there's this taz mania let's see if we can actually hit that so my red shot's lit because i went up the middle there we go where are we at with taz we're filling up that meter let's see if we can hit them again there we go red shots right there if i can throw it there we go there's another taz shot um and then let's go up the middle one more time there we go and the red shot here on the left oh we're filling up you can see the meter way up there come on come on come on hit the crate there we go there we go where are we at with that my outline ball save is gonna work i think i have like one more shot one more i mean you can see This Taz thing is something that you would really have to chip away at throughout the game. Because you can't be in a mode.