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Jay Adelson of Scorbit answers questions about Scorbit!

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 28m·analyzed·Jul 13, 2019
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TL;DR

Scorebit live-scores connectivity system demonstrated on Indiana Jones; public launch targeted early 2025.

Summary

Jay Adelson, chairman of Scorebit, demonstrates the Scorebit system—a hardware/software platform that retrofits connectivity into legacy pinball machines (from 1970s-present) to capture and broadcast scores in real-time to the internet. The system uses custom FPGA-based hardware to extract scores from diverse machine architectures and integrates with tournament software, leaderboards, and streamer tools. Scorebit is currently in beta testing; public availability is targeted for early 2025.

Key Claims

  • Scorebit hardware works with machines ranging from 1970s solid-state (Paragon, Evel Knievel, Centaur, Eight Ball Deluxe) through System 11, alphanumeric (Funhouse, Bride of Pinball), DMD (Indiana Jones), and modern Stern/Spike machines

    high confidence · Jay Adelson explaining Scorebit compatibility during gameplay demonstration

  • Scorebit took approximately four years of engineering with a team of 12 people to develop

    high confidence · Jay Adelson describing development timeline and team size

  • Scorebit uses custom hardware based on Xilinx FPGA with dual-core ARM processor running custom Linux, not Arduino-based

    high confidence · Jay Adelson responding to technical question about hardware architecture

  • Co-founders of Scorebit are Jay Adelson, Ron Richards, and Brian O'Neill, with Jay's son Ben also helping

    high confidence · Jay Adelson introducing team members during stream

  • Scorebit was featured in a recent Fast Company article by reporter Jared Newman

    high confidence · Jay Adelson mentioning article and directing viewers to search 'Fast Company Jay Adelson'

  • Scorebit will not be available at Pinburgh tournament but was deployed at California Extreme and InDesk events

    high confidence · Jay Adelson answering question about Pinburgh availability and past event presence

  • Scorebit pricing has not been announced yet due to fluctuating bill of materials costs during development

    high confidence · Jay Adelson declining to state cost, explaining hardware BOM changes justify waiting for final pricing

  • Scorebit integrates with tournament software like NeverDrains and Match Play, automatically feeding scores without requiring manual entry

    high confidence · Jay Adelson describing InDesk tournament integration where NeverDrains received automatic score feeds

  • Future Scorebit versions will support video streaming from DMD and Spike 2 displays for OBS integration

Notable Quotes

  • “It's sort of like the Xbox Live for all things pinball.”

    Jay Adelson@ 11:33 — Capsule description of Scorebit's competitive positioning as a unified platform for pinball connectivity and tournaments

  • “Years of engineering to get hardware that can speak the language of all of these different machines and convert it into Internet-friendly tech.”

    Jay Adelson@ 7:15 — Emphasizes the technical complexity of supporting machines with incompatible architectures built across 40+ years

  • “I love it when somebody says something's hard. Because that usually means it's worth doing.”

    Jay Adelson@ 29:13 — Explains entrepreneurial motivation behind founding Scorebit to solve a difficult technical problem in pinball

  • “We don't want to lose that cultural part of volunteering and being part of a tournament. The scorekeeper still submits the score even though we feed it automatically.”

    Jay Adelson@ 23:41 — Shows Scorebit design philosophy prioritizes human oversight and community participation over full automation

  • “Because we know that every machine plays differently, the leaderboard is based on a specific machine—not expecting Indiana Jones players everywhere to have the same experience.”

    Jay Adelson @ mid-stream — Clarifies Scorebit's leaderboard design: machine-specific rankings, not cross-location standardized scoring

  • “This machine had no idea what the Internet was. It was built in 1993 or something like that. That's the real hard thing.”

    Jay Adelson@ 6:22 — Emphasizes the core engineering challenge: retrofitting internet connectivity to machines with no network capability

Entities

Jay AdelsonpersonRon RichardspersonBrian O'NeillpersonBen AdelsonpersonScorebitproductIndiana Jones AdventuregameBride of PinballgameFuture Spa

Signals

  • ?

    business_signal: Scorebit pricing model undefined due to ongoing hardware BOM fluctuations; cost per unit affects scalability of deployment across large machine bases

    high · Jay Adelson: 'Bill of materials cost on building these things changes... we want to find out what our final costs are before announcing'; concern about getting pricing wrong

  • ?

    community_signal: Scorebit demonstrated at major pinball events (Golden State Pinball Festival, InDesk, California Extreme) with manufacturer and tournament organizer partnerships

    high · Jay Adelson describing demo machines at festivals; integration discussions with manufacturers; tournament software partnerships announced

  • ?

    community_signal: Scorebit design preserves human oversight in tournaments; scorekeepers still manually submit scores even though system captures automatically, maintaining volunteer culture

    high · Jay Adelson: 'We don't want scorekeepers to feel left out... cultural part of volunteering and being part of a tournament that's going on'

  • ?

    leak_detection: Scorebit operational capabilities expanding beyond announced features; system can manipulate machine menus and access RAM for remote configuration

    medium · Jay Adelson describing probe development for remote menu access and dynamic pricing; capability exists but implementation complexity varies by machine era

  • $

    market_signal: Scorebit public launch timeline shifted to early 2025; currently in beta with limited access for streamers and hardcore enthusiasts

    high · Jay Adelson: 'This year you can start using it [beta], but for buying and shipping, that's early next year'; emphasis on testing and connector verification before public release

Transcript

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0:00
Sorry, I did not know the mic was open the whole time. You had wonderful music and you had noise from Free Go Watch. Hello, welcome once again, MPT3K.
0:13
Back for some pinball. Some real live pinball. Today I have a special treat. Special treat for you guys. I'm going to be playing terrible games of Indiana Jones Pinball Adventure. But, here's what's exciting. We have Scorebit in this machine, the Scorebit system. The Scorebit system is currently being developed to basically connect your old machines, your old pinball machines, your old DMDs, your alphanumerics, your whatever, pinball, to the cloud. so you can see live scores, so you can get certain audits, so you can get... So these old damn machines can be actually connected to the Internet, finally, like they're supposed to be.
1:07
So let me make sure everything is working and running well. Yes, yes. It looks like I am running just fine.
1:25
Guys, I'm so excited to show you this. I'm like one of the first people to get this going. I actually have Jay Adelson here. And he will be, I'll bring him onto the stream eventually. I'm getting texts.
1:46

high confidence · Jay Adelson discussing upcoming features: 'in future versions of our product, we're going to be able to encode and stream the video from displays'

  • Scorebit can access machine menus remotely through a probe being developed, enabling operators to change settings like dynamic pricing from mobile apps

    medium confidence · Jay Adelson explaining remote menu access capabilities but cautioning about implementation complexity across different machine architectures

  • “We're not talking about cost yet because our hardware bill of materials cost changes as we develop it. If we announced wrong, that would be a disservice to everybody.”

    Jay Adelson@ 25:28 — Explains why Scorebit has withheld pricing despite community interest; signals cost uncertainty during active development

    • game
    Pinbotgame
    California Extreme Pinball Expoevent
    Golden State Pinball Festivalevent
    InDeskevent
    Pinburghevent
    NeverDrainsproduct
    Match Playproduct
    Fast Companyorganization
    Jared Newmanperson
    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000organization
    Stern Pinballcompany
    Xilinxcompany
  • ?

    personnel_signal: Key Scorebit co-founders Ron Richards and Brian O'Neill relocated from San Francisco to East Coast, representing geographic shift in talent/company base

    high · Jay Adelson: 'San Francisco, formally San Francisco pinball people... they've moved to the East Coast, and I'm very sad about that'

  • ?

    announcement: Scorebit system officially demonstrated with live gameplay showing real-time score capture and cloud connectivity for pinball machines

    high · Jay Adelson live-streaming Scorebit on Indiana Jones Adventure, showing score synchronization between physical machine and web app

  • ?

    product_strategy: Scorebit planning future video stream integration for OBS and streamer tools; currently requires separate camera pointing at DMD

    high · Jay Adelson: 'In future versions we're going to be able to encode and stream the video from displays... without having to do all these cables'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Scorebit compatibility across diverse pinball architectures (1970s-present) requires different integration approaches; no universal solution due to machine heterogeneity

    high · Jay Adelson: 'There are certain machines like Sterns where they've made it easy to make changes... other machines... would be a lot easier to just do it the old-fashioned way'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Scorebit represents significant shift toward connected/networked legacy pinball machines, enabling tournament integration, remote operations, and streamer tools

    high · Scorebit described as 'Xbox Live for pinball'; integration with NeverDrains and Match Play; future video streaming capabilities from DMD/Spike 2

    • I'm getting texted. You can hear the very awesome, what do you call it, Monster Bash right next to me.
    2:03
    All right. Let's see. I'm going to go see how I look. How you doing, man? Montana! Let's switch it over. to the main screen.
    2:47
    Alright. So far, so good. Nice! I'm gonna fire up two players. Let's get some scores up. It has been a while since I've played Indie.
    3:41
    Here we go. Alright, now here's player two. Let's make sure... Yep, live scores are coming in. So if you guys watch the scorebit display above the DMD,
    4:03
    you'll see the scores are being updated in real time. Dude, it's working great. Is it working? Yeah, we're getting live scores. It's down here, actually. We're getting live scores. They're not live anymore. They are. They're live scores. Yep.
    5:01
    Yep. That's it. This is Jay, by the way. Oh, you're streaming? I am streaming right now. So you be playing first. Well, we don't have much people, but I upload it to YouTube later. Okay. So that everybody can watch it. Hey, everyone, look, I'm streaming.
    5:21
    Jay, you can talk a little bit about the score bit system while you play, actually. All right. We invented this kind of cool stuff.
    5:29
    Installs in a pinball machine. Doesn't improve your game. One bit. and we set it up so that it will pull the scores from a game, solid state DMD LCD whatever spooky and it will broadcast it to the internet in real time and then it partners with an app so you're like I'm player one and on the app it's updating live or on the website or whatever Or you can do things like have achievements and leaderboards and whatever you want. Like a whole platform that you can code apps against that do fun things with scores while you're playing.
    6:18
    Tournaments. Flamers. Just so you guys can understand the weight of this, this machine has no idea what the internet is. This machine was built in what, 1995 or something? 1995 or something like that, yeah. Let's see. It should say right there. Oh, they're in 93. So in 1993, I was actually already working for my first Internet company. But we won't get into that. Okay. So this machine did not know what the Internet was. So the real hard thing is it took years of engineering. We had a team of 12 people working on it. I co-founded it with Ron Richards and Brian O'Neill, both pinball aficionados and tech professionals.
    7:10
    And my son, who's helped me out a lot, Ben. Anyway, years of engineering to get hardware that can speak the language of all of these different machines and convert it into, you know, this sort of Internet-friendly, you know, tech. And it was just a lot of work.
    7:34
    And now we're sort of beta testing our software and getting everything ready. And then next year, it's going to be in a machine near you. Next year? Yeah, if you're like a video streamer or you're like hardcore, you can get in our beta. And this year, you can start using it. but I think for like going to our website and buying it and like having one shipped to you kind of thing, that's a next year thing. That's early next year. Why are you disappointed?
    8:05
    I'll wait. I mean, I already kind of have a little bit of a preview right now. Yeah. You know, if we go watch happens to be our test bed.
    8:16
    And so by the way, I'm exploiting a, look at that. The ball is stuck right up there. Where's it stuck? It's stuck by the captive ball. Oh! So I'm kind of cheating right now.
    8:29
    If I were in a tournament, they wouldn't allow this. You see it? No, I didn't. Yeah, I see it. That's weird. How did it get stuck there? Uh, because I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, you're good. You laid it up perfectly. I still can't make this ramp shot, though.
    8:44
    Oh, it came back down. Alright, so this is the problem with me doing this pinball tech company, is that all my friends are like people like Manu who are like amazing players. Brian O'Neill, our co-founder, is like ranked, I don't know, like really high. Really high, yeah. Come on in. It's not fair. You might want to bring the volume down on this a little bit. All right, okay. I'll bring the volume down a little bit. Should I talk in my full talk voice? No, you talk loud. Okay. And we'll just bring the volume down a little bit. I just tend to talk loud when I'm near microphones.
    9:20
    How's it working? Woo! Alright, see? I captured the ball. What up, A-Reno? A-Reno, just so you know what we're doing, we are playing with Jay Adelson, who is one of the developers of the Scorebit system.
    9:43
    Scorebit, coming to the machine near you. I want to lower the volume. You know, I could just steal his ball.
    9:55
    Hey, you just got points for me doing that. Look, did you see that? How come he gives you points? There's a bad switch in this Indiana Jones where if you just flip, you get points.
    10:12
    We're going to lower the volume. Yeah. How's that? More? Maybe 14. Okay. That's good. There you go. Now it's you. All right.
    10:27
    Love the score a bit. Got to play the Star Trek with it at TPF. Oh, really? So you guys had this installed at TPF? Yeah, at the Golden State Pinball Festival we did it. We had a couple machines that I restored with my son, Ben. We brought in Future Spa, classic 79 Valley. Oh, my God. They did a Future Spa. We did a Future Spa that my son and I restored. It is beautiful that way. Oh, yeah? It's a beautiful machine. How are you letting your son look at a back glass that's like Future Spa? Yeah. Well, my son, first of all, is 19, just throwing that out there. But he did first start looking at back glasses when he was much younger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't even notice anymore because they're almost so terrible. Exactly. Welcome to pinball. Okay. Yeah, so we did that one and brought a pinbot. And we brought them in and showed everybody and got a bunch of folks going and manufacturers integrating with us and partners. I mean, the bottom line of this whole thing is it's sort of like the Xbox Live. for all things pinball. Yeah. And so, getting in while the getting's good, right?
    11:44
    So what? We were just in Fast Company. Great article. Right, right, right. And my son and I with a photograph of me from when I was like 35.
    11:57
    That is like on Wikipedia. A little less gray, huh? It's so ridiculous. I like send people the pictures of me now. Uh-huh. And they go online and download the younger one.
    12:09
    It's weird, right? Just take my headshot now. Well, I tried. I don't want them taking my headshot. So just so you guys can see how cool this is, there's a score bit system installed in the back glass. It's really simple to install. And now... As the score changes. As the score changes, you'll see I did it so the DMD is showing and then the score bit is showing. That's right. There's a little lag because it goes up through the Wi-Fi onto the Internet. It's going to space, people. It's going to space and then coming back down to your browser or your app or whatever it is that you're running. Or your tournament software, as the case may be. You integrate with Match Play and Never Drains and whatever else. You know, this is telling the whole world how terrible I am at this game. Look at this. I have six million. Yeah. I'm doing this on purpose. I'm totally, like, I'm showing up to friggin' CEO. Are you CEO or CTO? I'm chairman. Chairman. Of Scorbit.
    13:18
    Trust me, Jay, this is not how I usually play. If my viewers know, this is not how I usually play. And you're saying that you're playing extremely well? I'm playing okay. Okay. I say an okay score. I don't know what good is. An okay indie score is like 300. Yeah. That's a score that might get you. I'll tell you what. When you stream on Theater of Magic, make sure to bring me on and I'll kick her out. Oh, do you have a theater? I have a Tom at home. So you can show me.
    13:48
    Well, you can't. It never plays the same. Like you think you're good at something and then you go to the arcade and you're playing. And then suddenly you're not. Are you multi-balling? All right, second time. Yeah. Second time. Yeah, no problem. Use a kick.
    14:04
    This ought to be interesting. Let's see if the scores are going. Oh, everybody out of the pool. Did you just lose everything all at once? I got one jackpot. Hey.
    14:21
    Uh-oh. Are we stuck somewhere? Did you lose the ball? This is why we didn't have this game in City Champ. Where is that ball? I don't know. Did anybody on Twitch see it? Send me a clip. It might be in like a...
    14:41
    Oh, that's too bad. It's such a good game. Hold on. Don't give up yet. Oh wait, that's it. There it is. Oh, it was in the carousel. It's about to come. Oh, it's probably magnetized. Look, it's magnetized. in here. It's alright when it comes back around you can just like knock it will come down. So what are the different types of machines that SCORBET works on currently? Thank you for the follow Johnny Demonic. Thank you so much. So let's see. Super old. What's super old at work? So let's say like you can put it in a Paragon, an Evel Knievel, a Centaur, an Eightball Deluxe. It will go in System 11 games. It will go in Diner. It will go in, you know, alphanumeric games like Funhaus and Bride of Pinba and DMD games like this one and Modern Stearns as well. You know, you can put it in your Kiss, your Spike games, Spike 2 games, your whatever. And we'll just pull those scores. We do it a bunch of different ways. We do it with CPU, we do it with display, we do it with memory.
    15:59
    You know, we do it with supernatural powers. Yeah, there's a secret sauce to... What's up, Pez Johnson?
    16:11
    Oh, Playfield cam is frozen? What does that mean? All right, I've got to fix it. Sometimes my Playfield goes... Okay, I don't know what this all means, but I'm feeling lucky. Oh, there we go.
    16:42
    This feels important by the music. I think that's good. So what's nice, though, is that even though the play field was frozen, we were still getting scores, right? Yeah. Because his system has nothing to do with my crappy system. Yeah, so my scores are on a little device that gets installed inside the pinball machine. And it's basically a smart computer that's broadcasting the scores in real time to the Internet. And so what's nice about it is in between like when it's your balls, if I look at the app, I see my score, you know? Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. So there's a whole app that goes along with this, guys. Yeah, see? Here's the app. It shows how terrible I am.
    17:39
    I'm not going to show everybody like up close because it's kind of crappy. Pez wants to see me killing it like I'm doing. So, Arduino. Scribble 3 is asking if it's Arduino-based. It's actually, good question. It's not. It's a custom hardware, FPGA, based on a Xilinx FPGA. It's running a dual-core ARM processor with a custom version of Linux, basically. It's a computer. Right. It had to be that powerful because we were processing all sorts of stuff at the same time. And in future versions of our product, we're going to be able to encode and stream the video from displays like this or the Spike 2s. Video. Right, so you'll be able to take it as a stream and just add it to your OBS, if you want, without having to do all these cables.
    18:34
    Instead, I have a camera pointed at the DMD. Somebody call Jack Danger right now. Oh, we're already. Okay.
    18:42
    Yes. We're like, the only reason that streamers aren't seeing this already is because we're just like, just, you know, we want it to be easy to install and onboard. You're still working on a little bit of stuff. And like the connectors for different machines have to be right. And, you know, we want to make sure that the power, the way we get power is universally happy. And these machines, particularly the old ones, I mean, when they're reconditioned, they're great. But a lot of times, the power is super marginal, and we can't be blowing fuses. So we're, like, testing everything and testing and testing.
    19:20
    See, look at my – I kicked his ass. Wait, you still have a ball. Averino WebDev says, I've read it's a $25 deposit. I do not have a ball. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good? Okay, let's do it again. You go first. Now, score a bit went blank because it's probably higher up. Oh, because the final scores. Yeah. Yeah, we have a high score list that pops up now on that scoreboard.
    19:50
    There you go. It'll come back. There you go. We did nothing. I'm other person, by the way. Jay is other person. I'm other person. Will you be?
    20:01
    Yeah, go ahead. Well, script three is saying... All right, I got this. Will you be on the final bank for Pember? Oh, you know what? I don't think so. We'll be there.
    20:14
    And we've been talking to a lot of folks there, but I feel like we need more time. We'll be out there, and we can show people if they want to see it working, but I don't think that we want to be in that... Yeah, not in Pember. Not in Pember. Not yet. Yeah, soon, soon. Like, we were at InDesk, and it was great. But, you know, I think that probably by next year at this time, automated scoring at tournaments, everyone will feel really comfortable.
    20:44
    But I'd rather, like, take my time with it. Yeah, it's kind of like how long it took for people to become comfortable with these kind of rigs. Yeah. Right? Like, when we just did City Champ, no one had a problem with a rig just showing up and then them playing still at a high level. The score bit is way less visible. You don't even know it's there. I did lock a ball. I don't know. I see a ball right there. It's magnetized in there. See the two that are locked in there? So over time they get magnetized? I think that's generally one of the problems. Right, right. Let's see, we've got, who did I miss? Okay. So how awesome would it be to be at a tournament though, right? And you just bring up your Scorebit app and you can literally leave the room but still see how someone else is kicking your ass? Well, we don't want scorekeepers to feel like left out. Right. There's like a cultural part of this whole thing that I think, did I tilt? I don't know, did it just give up? Oh, no, no, well, that's weird. Wow, that was really weird. Right? This just ended I lost track of the cup now Yeah I wasn paying attention Well I know Oh they don let you use them Did I get it? I just guessed. There's no way you chose wisely. I just... That is what just happened. I just want to point out. I'm very wise. Am I kicking your ass yet? Are you kicking your ass yet? Yeah, you are. I haven't had a chance to go yet. Now that, did you see that? I'm still at zero. Yeah, that's, you cheat, you almost cheat, Dr. Jones. Oh, no, it'll happen, it'll happen. It'll search. Oh, Pop Jones. All right. Man, this game, this is why we didn't use it in City Champ. Will those stand-up targets go down? They're going to go down and come back up after it does like the third search. A million times. Yeah. Scorebit scores are still good. All right. The reason it's saying waiting, guys, is because it's waiting for the next score to come in, player two. Just so you know, the scoreboard that everyone sees right now is just a demonstration thing we wrote in React real quick, just so that people could see what we're up to and see it work. I mean, obviously, that's not the app that's on your phone. Okay, yeah, yeah. And it's not designed for streaming. We're going to create a view for this that's actually designed for streamers. I guess they don't drop. Okay. That's a little weird.
    23:21
    All right, now you can get it, man. All right. Well, that's not fair. That's fair. Pinball's entropy.
    23:30
    It's not an exact science. Stuff like that happens in school. So you were saying you don't want to leave scorekeepers out. What do you mean? Well, if you go to a tournament, I think that there's this sort of wonderful thing about volunteering and being part of a tournament that's going on. And I feel like we don't want to lose that, right? So that's part of it. And the other thing is, if I'm a high-end tournament player, I'm going to want to look to see that the number that the system has matches. Right, right. So at InDesk, what they were doing is we were automatically feeding the NeverDream software.
    24:12
    So it would say, here's your score automatically, so you wouldn't have to type it in, but you'd still hit submit. So the player could still look at it. And I know people ask this all the time, but the intent of this thing is, yeah, there are leaderboards, but it's a leaderboard based on a specific machine because we know that every machine plays differently. So it's not like our Sky leaderboard is going to be expecting people who play Indiana Jones or Free Gold Watch to necessarily have the same experience as people playing Indiana Jones somewhere else, which I think is just a matter of people understanding that discrepancy. What's the best place for your computer? Okay, I'm gonna take care of it. Somebody can close it and take it off. That's Walter, but you guys know him. I'm gonna go for the cheap jackpot, the cheap, um, yeah, the cheap multiball again. Because I'm cheap like that. I just go multiball. Uh, so far, no more questions. Yeah, I've read it's $25 deposit to pre-order. Is there any word on the cost yet?
    25:22
    Oh, cost. No, it's obviously our number one question. You know, part of the reason we're not talking about cost yet is because our hardware, as we've been developing it and as we change features on it, the bill of materials cost on building these things, Yeah, change is pretty, pretty wide. So if we like announced the cost, whether it's up or down, and we were like way off, I think that would be a disservice to everybody.
    25:56
    And so, you know, in the end, we want to find out what our final costs are. We know it's going to cost us, you know, enough per unit that we got to re-tube it. You know, but it's not, I mean, this is not going to be an expensive device. Otherwise, how could you install it in 100 machines? Look to the mic. Are you impressed with your incredible pinball skills right now? Is that you're like having to point and say, hey, Jay, look at my score. You don't think I'm standing right here in front of the machine watching my ass get completely destroyed? Wait a minute. Oh, yeah. I'm going to hold a conversation with you. Let's all just calm down for a minute, all right?
    26:38
    That was called a mercy drain. That was a mercy drain. Ah, let's see. What boat have I not gotten yet? Let's have some fun.
    26:52
    Dr. Jones. My wife and I just watched the last movie. The last movie. The Last Crusade. Yeah, the negative one movie of Indiana Jones.
    27:05
    That's really a little tech that you come up with. I read an article about it. Oh, yeah. that's absolutely right he's talking about the fact that we came up with the idea of a restoring machine and to give credit where credit is due the article talks about this is in Fast Company if you google Fast Company Jay Adelson you'll see this article that came out last week about Scorabit and my son Ben and I think it was I guess about five years ago the two of us were getting into pinball and we decided to restore a machine together. And we started with Bride of Pinball, by the way. Bride of Pinball. And our Bride of Pinball is the best-looking Bride of Pinball you have ever seen. Jay invited me to his house twice tonight. Yeah, that's right. By saying things like that. No, no, you've got to see it.
    27:54
    It's like people at Golden State Pinball Festival were like, this isn't real. I'm like, no. Yeah, we're stupid. We both have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so the machines were amazing. But anyway, so we're restoring it. And at the same time, my friends Brian O'Neill and Ron Richards, who are, you know, San Francisco, formally San Francisco pinball people, still they've moved to the East Coast, and I'm very sad about that. But they did this with me, and we were looking, you know, because they play tournaments a lot, and I suck, obviously, so I don't play tournaments a lot. But I was with them at the California Extreme Expo, California extreme, baby. And we were walking around and we were watching the tournament process of people writing things down on paper. And I said, well, why aren't, you know, we're all like tech entrepreneurs. Right. So I'm like, why aren't people doing this? And they're like, well, because it's really, really hard.
    28:50
    It's not easy to do. No, the technology behind what we did was like a convergence of like old school embedded systems programming. Right. Modern hardware sensibilities, network engineering, a bunch of stuff. It was really hard. And so they were like, yeah, it's just hard. And I'm like, oh, I've started a tech company. So I was like, oh, I love it when somebody says something's hard. Because that usually means it's worth doing. But then I was thinking, well, I don't have a way to solve the problem. And my son and I were at home restoring this machine. and I'm looking at it and I'm like, how different is this, these components, the CPU, the display, everything from other machines? And you realize there are some unique similarities, not unique, there are some similarities between machines that if you build technology that's smart enough to understand those things, you can get around it. So I proposed it to Ron and Brian and it became this like,
    29:55
    this sort of like we went down this rabbit hole. And you know, then next thing you know, it was like we were hit in the back of the head with a bottle, knocked unconscious. And then we woke up four years later. Do you need to go and come back? I'm going to go and come back. I'm going to pick up my kid. My kid is in camp across the street, so it's kind of cool. So I'm going to keep this one ball going. I have seven minutes. Hold your thought on that story because we got a question from Johnny. Can you check stuff like menu slash audit? Audit, change settings. Yes, in fact, so the simple way to answer that is we know what's on the display at any time. We know we can read what's in RAM.
    30:39
    But I think more importantly, we can, with a probe we're developing, we can manipulate the menu. So like it's as if you opened up the door. Oh you can oh wow So imagine you're an operator and you open up the app right and then you connect your machine Wherever you are and let's say you have 20 machines in raft like you can open up the machine You can access the menu and like navigate the menu from from your home from your home Or you are you wouldn't want to do that though because once you access the menu Is it actually access the menu? Let's just access. No. No. No. Well see that's the question Like, I'm playing a game and all of a sudden the volume shows up. So I would prefer to go via the route of the front door rather than go into the back and mess with things that are different. And part of the reason for that is, you know, things like dynamic pricing. Like, we want to do dynamic pricing for people. Right. Where it's like at a certain time of day, maybe happy hour, you change the price, right? Right. Which is pretty cool. Right, right. Well, if you're doing all those things and it's like, well, I kind of want to wait until the machine is idle. Yeah. And then, yeah, go into the menu and mess with it. Now, could I go faster? Well, there are certain machines like Sterns where they've really kind of made it easy to make changes like that. But there's other machines, you know, like all the 90s Williams that use the same processor memory where I can automatically figure stuff out where those things are. But then there's a whole bunch of machines where it would be a lot easier to just do it the old-fashioned way and go in the front door. But the answer is yes to all of the above. Sounds like somebody nice enough to post the link to the article. All right. Oh, my God, the Fast Company article. Are you going to play your last ball? Yeah, I'll play it.
    32:27
    Yeah, that's very great. The reporter, Jared Newman. Troll the player from your app. Can I be playing and then you just pop a message up that says no bunny loves you? Yeah. In fact, we can change what's on the display. You can change what's on the display through the app? Well, that's interesting. No, no, no. That's interesting. Let's not make stuff up, guys. I want to be able to troll people.
    32:54
    No, I was thinking like you walk up to the game and it says, Manu, your last score was 6 million. Right, right, right, right. Now your score is 7 million. Oh, you got an extra ball there, huh? Ball save. So, you know, and it's not about who has the highest score on a machine. It's about sort of what your last personal best was and what, you know, maybe you get a push notification on your phone that says, you know, Manu just beat your score, something like that. Oh, that would be sick. Hold on one second. Don't say don't drain. You never tell a person don't drain.
    33:38
    Yeah, play better. Or something like, hey, John, your mama's calling. Or something. There we go. What did I get?
    34:01
    How did that happen? Why did I just get that, guys? I had a ball save? Man in the desk here a little bit.
    34:16
    Anyway, so yeah, you know, we want to like have fun with it. I'm going to get to that. DMD, play better. Hey, hey, what's up? There's an extra ball up there. All right.
    34:44
    Take over. All right, I'm streaming now, and I'm not sure I'm worthy of the stream. Jay's streaming. I've got to go pick up my kid, but he's right across the street, and I'll be back in five minutes. All right. Let's see.
    34:57
    We are talking about the Scorbit system. We're not the greatest pinball players in the world, but he's... That was the machine.
    35:08
    Grand champion. Jay Adelson is here, who's one of the creators of the Scorbit system that we have installed right now. Welcome to the stream, MT3K right here. It was a ball save. Thank you, Paz. I didn't expect the ball to come back. When you say don't drain to someone and walk away, that's the meanest thing you could possibly do. What do I know? I'm not like, you know, like I don't have the magic quite the way, like my friend Brian O'Neill, who like literally stands near a game and always beats me. Yeah, Brian is amazing. He makes me so excited. If you have any questions about Scorbit that Jay can answer without breaking NDAs, please feel free to throw them in the chat. There you go, yeah, feel free. I can talk about it. Well, I can talk about certain things. And then I'll get like a little text message from my co-founders saying, what have you done? All right. I'm going to play now, though, because I like to punish myself.
    36:07
    This is a great game. And I will tell you the truth is that I would love to have one of these things in my home. I love wide bodies, twilight zones, great. I told you guys that I have a future spot, which is a weird game to have. but it's a wide body as well. No, come on. I just started.
    36:28
    Alright. My goal is to break 10 million, everyone. I'm going to break 10 million on this game. So obviously you can like pinball without being good at it.
    36:39
    Alright. Now, I'm also a major Indiana Jones fan. I actually worked as an intern making the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which, for those of you Indiana Jones fans, may not know was a television show in the 1980s.
    37:00
    Working for the Sound, Skywalker Sound. See, I just don't have that gift. But in any case, Totally love the team. And can't wait for Indiana Jones 4 to come out.
    37:26
    Obviously. I'm one of those people who like, kind of like the second movie. Enough that I'll watch it if it's on television.
    37:41
    See that? That was almost skillful. Okay. Steal the stones, Dr. Jones. Face camera is not matching the sound. Now that's just me being a ventriloquist. I'm very, very good at making it look like my mouth is moving in a different... I don't know. That's all Manu. He's going to come back in a few minutes and he's going to fix that for us. All right?
    38:11
    Okay. There we go. So, yeah, the score bit is definitely a labor of love. I think. Let's see. So we will fix all the streaming goodness soon.
    38:35
    There we go. This is my favorite pin of all time. Yeah, you know, it's hard not to be a big Indiana Jones fan because it's the most awesome movie. By the way, to me, it's still Raiders of the Lost Ark.
    38:48
    Sort of like Star Wars Episode IV is still just Star Wars to me because, yes, I am that old. My son's like, I like The Phantom Menace. So I'm like, come on.
    39:02
    All right. But, yeah, always a big Indiana Jones fan. Harrison Ford is awesome. And I just drained. Okay, I'll be right back. I'm going to go get the quarter.
    39:23
    That was just one game. One really bad game. I can't help it. I'm not very good. Say hi to your chick buddies. Hi. Come on right over here and say hi. Hi. Is Wolfman on? No, it's on. You can see it down here.
    39:44
    There you go. Okay. There we go. Back. All right, pinball streaming. All right. I still like calling it Raiders. Yeah, it's fantastic.
    40:17
    All right, now I'm going to play for real. I'm going to get really serious here. You know, if I was Brian O'Neill, I'd probably have, like, you know, like that white powder you put on your hands. No, I don't think he's there, but I was just saying, like, if I was, like, a tournament player like him, I'd probably have, like, powder, like gymnast shoes. No, you've got to go like this. You've got to take your shirt off. You've got to do this, you know. Wipe off the thing. You know, and then I've seen him do this. I see one guy he plays and he puts one foot up like this my place. Oh god. That's gross at City Champ One of your city champ guys is doing this while I played And one of my cities have you guys your city champ guys? All right, I'm playing. Oh, is he playing?
    40:56
    Okay All right, I gotta get in the stance I Got the stance now See? Now Allison O'Neill, I see when she plays, she uses the body, like swings behind her and it helps. And like Ryan does too. My bag is back there. Find my bag.
    41:37
    I'm a Twitch streamer and a dad. Let's see. I'm a Twitch streamer and a dad. Yeah, that's right. Actually, your kid is... I have three of them. You have three kids? I have three. I have a 21-year-old named Rowan. She goes to UC Santa Cruz and lives there now. All your kids are super smart. And my son, Benjamin, and my daughter, Lisa, she is 16, going to be 17.
    42:05
    And they're all pinballers. I call them pinballers, by the way. I did not call them pinheads. Did you tell your kids that the family's going to be rich after you sell a million score bits? You know, I've told my family many times that we're going to be rich after I sell a million of something. I haven't done it yet. Oh.
    42:29
    I remember when Dig was at like 50 million users and back in the late 2000s, that was like really cool. 50 million? And I went home and I'm like, hey, honey, you know, we're at 50 million users. She goes, well, are we rich yet? I'm like, well, we don't make any money from the users.
    42:48
    If you only had a penny per user. If I had a penny per user, man, at this point, there's a delay. You're telling me it's a delay. I could restart the stream because I'm streaming off of my poor little laptop right now. It's actually doing pretty good. It's doing all right. It's not destroying. I need a new laptop. so if you guys want to subscribe so I can get some new equipment what's the name of that service where people can like donate Patreon I should start a Patreon guys let me know if I should start a Patreon so I can buy new equipment so I can keep screaming cool things like Jay from Scorbit and or did I mention by the way that Scorbit is going to handle payments too I was going to ask Scorbit pay range well it will it won't it's not mutually exclusive You can use PayRange or Mbed if you want, and you can also use us. The nice thing about us is we're already connected to the internet, so it'll be really, really fast and really reliable. Right, there's no separate things, everything. Yeah, it'll just work. All right. Scorbit's going to take over the world, by the way. So, sorry about the delay, if there's a delay between the voices and us. It's pretty good. We bop bop bop Yeah there a little bit of a delay But I I try and work on it guys Alright Yeah that machine is cooking It is it really hot
    44:11
    See, I got 13 million. My goal today was to get over 10. So I think that I'm... How's the score bit part working? Is it working? The score bit's still working fine. 13 to 0? 13 to waiting. To waiting, okay. So now you're other person. I'm you. Jay got 13 y'all. Yeah, he owns two more machines though. That's why he gets us
    44:41
    I know a lot of operators who say that they like fixing it more than they like So my son got really into the maker stuff at school. Yeah
    44:56
    And, you know, this is what happens. Whoa! I think he's taking a welding class. Is he really? In September, yeah. And this is like an adult welding class. His kid, Ben, is super smart. He was here a couple weeks ago, and his dad was giving him compliments on his cable management skills.
    45:21
    Wow, your wrapping of cables is awesome. I was like, hey, dude, don't pull that too tight. That cable tie you pull that tight is going to create an attenuation point. You move them like that.
    45:32
    I learned that first in audio, and then I learned it again in network engineering. Attenuation point? Attenuation. Attenuation just basically meaning lowering the sound? It's basically a point of increased resistance on the wire.
    45:49
    Oh, wow, this is a game. We got a game here. We got a scorebit game. And if you had a score bit system too, you could sit and watch scores like us. Yeah, we are. The reservation thing, by the way, is because we demoed this stuff at InDisc.
    46:08
    And so many people were asking us to have the first units. We had mall people coming to us and saying, my arcade. We have this one guy. And by the way, this is a really good idea. And I want to totally do this wherever I have the chance to do this. He's putting cameras up, like yours, facing down on each play field of his arcade, right? Okay. And then he puts coffee tables in the bar that have a full LED screen, 4K screen, as the tabletop. So you watch people play the games while putting your drink down. That's awesome. Isn't that amazing? I want that in my house. So one of the features of Scorebit will have to be to enable coffee table pinball. That's a good idea. Isn't that a good idea? You can watch people play.
    47:03
    Yeah, baby. No, no, no, no! I'm watching Jake do a pretty good job right now. Pretty good job. All I needed was one hit to get multiball? Yeah, so that's the captain ball up there. Captain ball multiball? Yeah. I don't think you could. You could? No. I wasn't until just like five seconds ago. Look, you got six viewers here. Yeah. It fluctuates. This display actually is late. It's late? So it's always going to... So it's probably four. People were afraid that you weren't going to be playing anymore, so they bailed, right? It's six. Hey, I'm not Jack Danger, but I take what I can get. You know, I used to stream.
    47:51
    You invented streaming, didn't you? I used to stream. I had my own streaming show. Was it on YouTube? It was on Revision 3. That was my network. I was the founder of Revision 3. I thought we were going to talk about that. No, but I'm going to tell you about my show.
    48:09
    It's still up. You can still see it, guys. You can still see it. I have a show. It's not about pinball. And it's very boring. What's funny is that I've known Jay for maybe six months. Not too long. Something like that. Oh! Got him. You get like a free... You can pull the trigger during that mode. To finish that mode. But you only get two million. Did you know that that scene was improvised? Yeah, I think Harrison Ford was sick on that day. that day and he didn't feel like doing a long fight scene. Hey Micah. Yep.
    48:54
    Come on. So once again we are here at Free Go Watch. This is MBT3K, we're playing Indiana Jones Pinball Adventure.
    49:03
    With Scorbit installed. With Scorbit and one of the creators of Scorbit right here, Jay Edelson, is playing and kicking my butt right now. Well I was.
    49:13
    He was. Oh. It's a walk-off. Wait, wait. There's a bonus. It's going to float. Johnny Demonic wants to know, how do we know each other? So like I was saying. Yeah, like we met here at Free Gold Watch. We met here at Free Gold Watch. He was working on Scorbit in one of the machines. And actually Matt Henry, who's the owner of this fine place, was like, hey. You guys should meet. You guys should meet because I know you're both nerds. And we are. And I knew him for like four months or whatever until I... And I never knew who he was.
    49:48
    But he's a nice guy. He's a regular Jay. There's nothing regular about Jay. You should like... No, you gotta... Oh, okay, okay, okay. Is this like in tournament you would just rain? This was... Well, yeah, there's... It's like... You know, if the... It's basically that. What the hell? Why did that come out so quick?
    50:13
    Oh, I got this one! I love this one! Yeah, so by the way, Scorpid is installed right now in, I think it's seven machines, a free gold watch.
    50:25
    What do you have it installed in, do you know? Well, should I tell people or not? I mean, you want to give them a variety of what machines they're on, right? It's in 8-Ball Deluxe. It's in Indiana Jones and it's in Funhouse. What else? Funhouse. Adam's Family, Fist Pills.
    50:46
    I don't know. What else? In Stuff, In Stuff. Yeah, and the thing is that we're testing stuff on it. So it's a perfect place to really get people coming in. Because it's not going to be like a hermetically sealed home environment that these things are going to be in all the time. Although, when our visualizations are ready for the home, it's going to blow some minds.
    51:18
    It'll be so cool. Imagine having a screen on your wall that has you and your friends leaderboard and animated and moving automatically all the stuff around you. Wow, you are going way down that path, man. I'm a totally. I love it, but if you don't have a vision like that. You've got to think big. Think big or go home? I don't remember what it is.
    51:41
    I didn't want that. I wanted extra ball. Darn. Questions? Yes, questions. Do we have any? Nope. Yeah, you've got to make one. Is it going to be open source?
    51:54
    I have really good news for the people who are developers. is our API will be open to develop against and we'll be setting it up eventually so that you can have an API key and we'll publish the API for people to write all sorts of cool visualizations against.
    52:15
    As far as the open source component, a lot of our stuff is embedded. It doesn't really make a lot of sense for us to really do it that way. but if you tell us the kinds of things that you want to be able to code you know maybe we could come up with a way where you can write your own apps that runs on the platform but that's not going to be our first priority i think everybody's first priority should be make it bulletproof so that in that dingy bar in the back alley it just went like somebody's kicking it and kicking it it's 100 degrees it just keeps working and then you know the software part We're all internet guys, so we want it to be an open platform. Right, right, right. You know, and that's our intent. We're good.
    53:04
    Steal the stones. Indiana Jones. Do you feel like Indiana Jones right now? Or are you more short round? I feel like short round. You're more short round? I feel like an old man right now because I can't hit a ramp to save my life. I need to seal the stones, but I can't even get... I want to be going forward.
    53:30
    Any more Scorpit questions? Just throw them in. Yes. Or not. Oh, is it connected to the cloud, or can you just use it from local Wi-Fi? Cloud. It's connected to cloud. And a question has come up a couple times of whether or not... Because our device is super real time, and when you throw things up in the cloud and it comes back down, it could be a little bit, there's some latency, as you're seeing with your user experiencing it. A little latency from the DMV to the scores. That's right. And so the answer is it goes up to the cloud. We have all sorts of advantages being able to do that. Like, for example, your app also talks to the cloud from your phone. but you know and we think that's good enough because we're pretty fast but for certain things where there might be some kind of application where having super low latency was needed I could see a situation where maybe we would want to have like some kind of local repeater or something but that's not in the cards right now right I hope that answered your question Johnny. Yeah, it's in the cloud. It's in the cloud. Well, it's in the cloud and it's on local Wi-Fi. Right. That's really the answer.
    54:53
    It's in the Googles. It's in the inner tubes. Well, and the reason why that's important is because let's say you're a streamer. And you want to take some data input from this thing. For the streamers, you really want it to be local. We can do that. We have USB-C ports on our device and we can set it up so you can plug a camera into it or other kinds of sources, and you'd want all your local latencies to be relevant before you put it on your, what do you call your server, your OBS thing? Yeah, OBS. That's what I'm using. I know you're just going to hardwire it anyway, even when we're in our lives, because you're like a quality guy. Well, if I'm at home, I'm streaming it from wire, yeah, definitely.
    55:36
    How will you monetize it? Well, there's three ways. They're going to sell it, right? Well, yeah, we're going to sell the hardware, but, you know, I think that many operators have asked us if it would be possible to have, like, lower costs for the hardware in return for a subscription where you're paying, like, a, you know, sometimes subscription where there were services like analytics and, you know, whatever. Or maybe, and the other thing that we've talked about is payments. If we're doing payments where you can use your phone to put quarters in the machine, we can make money that way too.
    56:21
    So it's not in stone yet. It's not in stone. And we're talking to people all the time. That's what this beta period is for, to find out where the sensitivities are. I mean, right now I'd say the majority of people we talk to would prefer subscription. but home users definitely have expressed interest in sort of like they like they buy their color dmd they're interested in buying up you know our product but it just depends on the user all right can i make a vote yeah what's your vote i'm gonna vote for a subscription okay which might not be best for me but well the nice thing about subscription is also you're you know theoretically it's you know we're not just we're not just hardware or service yeah you're running a service that's why I know you're kind of needing to support all of the infrastructure and you know when the person calls you you know from another country wanting to install the product yeah and they need help I mean you need to pay for that yeah all your servers in the cloud it feels like everyone's going subscription either way it doesn't mean that everybody every customer type it makes sense for them to have a subscription. And there might be bundle pricing. Like what if you're an arcade that has a flat rate? Right? Right, like Alameda Pinball or Modern Pinball in New York. Yeah, we wanna just make, and if you have a machine that is part of your arcade that people play a lot, but maybe isn't your highest earner,
    57:48
    I still want the owner to put it in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm being texted. All right. Let's see.
    58:01
    So we're here. Once again, we're here at Free Go Watch. This is MBT3K. We're playing Indiana Jones with Scorebit installed. So that little screen you see above the DMD, that is the Scorebit system. So this machine here is sending the scores magically to the cloud and then back to that little screen. That's right. We've got a question from Mills Game Dev. Okay. Do you collect data on drop targets, bonuses, et cetera? for more real-time display? Oh, no, that's a good question.
    58:30
    It depends on the data source. So when we look at a CPU, we do have access to a lot of that data. I guess similar to what a Penduino could tell you as well, really, because you're, you know... But the way we're doing this right here, it's just the score, ball, player number,
    58:52
    mode you're in, that kind of stuff, active, inactive, and that kind of thing. One of the questions that we've been asked is, can we trigger mods? And that sounds like a great feature request for a future version. Trigger mods? What do you mean? Well, let's say you hit a certain drop target or you start a multiball mode. It would be cool, or maybe only under certain conditions or certain rules that you, the owner of the machine, create, trigger different kinds of lighting effects and modifications to your machine. Oh, that's cool. Right? And so that would be like another probe. So our architecture allows us to create different probes. Wow, look at them concentrate.
    59:38
    Wow, I'm impressed. No, it gave it to you too, and you guessed. Yeah, but I have 5.9 million, and you have 39 million.
    59:48
    I got it. Stern is supposedly taking their games online. Do you think they'll be doing the same thing? I don't actually think they're going to be doing the same thing. I don't know, though. Why did you have to go and bring up Stern? I love Stern.
    60:03
    You know, I wouldn't necessarily bring her home to meet my mama, but... No, I'm just kidding. I love Stern. And I own a Stern. I have a Batman 66. Batman 66 rules. It is one of my favorite games of all time. credit to Lyman Sheets who did probably the best rule set I've ever seen on a game. I love that game. Yeah, Lyman Sheets is a god. Yeah, he is amazing. And I love George and what everybody's doing there at Stern for the hobby, great products. I'm even, I'm going to get tons of hate mail for this, I even like the Beatles. No, I love the Beatles. No, no, here's the thing about the Beatles. No one likes the price of the Beatles. Oh, yeah, I didn't say I own one. But I've heard everyone likes the game. I'm a big Beatles fan. Oh, wait, you got an extra ball. Oh, I got an extra ball. Hey, it's Matt Henry. And he's gone. He's gone. All right.
    61:00
    Subscription is the answer investors want to hear. You know, it's funny. Subscription is the answer investors want to hear. So Wormer, I'm just going to address that for a second. Let me address that.
    61:13
    Yes, that's true. So I was a venture capitalist for a while. so I totally understand what you're saying. It's true, recurring revenue is always great but this particular product has other potential sources of recurring revenue like payments.
    61:29
    But yeah, it's true and the reason to why investors want to hear that is partially due to the fact that hardware is a really tough business model. It's hard to make money. If you build a really great product and you want to put lots of features on it your margins get thinner and thinner and thinner, and it becomes harder to support a larger expense and team. I would like to have app developers and really cool, innovative people working for my company, and I can't afford to do that if I'm just making money on margins. Well, maybe. We don't know. That's part of the modeling that we're doing.
    62:07
    I like that comment, though. That was what? That was really good. Wormer? That was Wormer. also said, how much machine-specific work do you have to do to hook up a new machine? By and large, not much, to be honest.
    62:20
    Do you have a score bit in the back? What do you mean? Do you have a score bit in the back? You want to see one? Want to go get one?
    62:29
    I'll go get one. He's going to go get... Why don't you play J's ball? Are you guys doing live questions about... Scorbit, yeah. The Scorbit? This is Matt Henry, by the way. He's the reason why we can do anything here. Barely, barely. Free goal watch. Come down. Come on down. Oh, look at that. Three points. Yeah. We'll fix it. Can I just tap away here? Every once in a while it gives you three points. Let me get that in. So Jay went to go get a Scorbit. Yeah, we got a bunch of people in there asking about the Scorbit system.
    63:05
    He's going to get one to look at? Like actually show on the live, on the screen? There's some really good questions that people need to... Oh, like better than that ball? Right, why don't you finish it up? Here, I'll give you mine. Okay. I take 100% full credit for any good playing that match. Oh, Matt. I didn't... What? I know, I... That guy owns a pinball arcade. I know, I gotta play this consolation ball. But this isn't your machine or anything, is it? No, but I should be better at it than that. This game actually usually gives me trouble. Oh look at how the Avengers gonna get took an advantage. Yes
    63:51
    Matt here Matt Henry owner operator operator floor sweeper Ran You can read Goldwatch. You can blame him for Walter. Coin Stuck Unjammer. See, that does the same thing I do. It goes for the multiball, man. And we're going to go for modes now because those were brick-in. Okay, some help here.
    64:19
    Renee is there. By the way, have you ever heard pin sound in the product pin sound inside of one of these Indiana Jones with the... with the totally restored soundtrack. No. It has like stereo perfect sound. No. It's like high quality audio. I don't know if I've ever actually got to hear any of the pin sounds. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. I think the French developers made it. It's a good one. I've heard some Fidelity speakers, they sound great, but I don't know the pin sounds. No, this changes all of the original source audio for the game to be high fidelity. That's amazing. Yeah, it's really cool. That's actually really cool. I like that. I like that you didn't have to use a pin as the first three letters in the name of the car. Scorbitron.
    65:07
    You like the SEO? Yeah, well, it doesn't start with pin. Scorbitron. Hope you guys like my awesome plane there, my Amy Jones. Yeah, well, it was great.
    65:21
    Here we go. Scorbitron. Everyone. All right, that's upside down. There you go. This is an early revision, just so everyone knows. You can go to our website at scorebit.io. Scorebit.io. What's next, 5.1 surround pinball? I think that Pinsound might actually already support it. 5.1. Doesn't Pinsound already do that? I think it does. Let's see. What are we asking here? I like how the developer amazing score recording technology. Yeah.
    65:54
    It doesn't quite know. It's true. Pez Pez is awesome All right what next Okay how do you have to install it Does it connect directly to the boards So basically what you do is you put a plate in your back box that we provide, you hook this onto it. This usually has an antenna. Well, it depends if you don't necessarily need the antenna. And then you have these probe ports or USB-C ports where you can connect a game-specific probe. And by game-specific, I mean depending on the electronics you're monitoring. And then that connects to this via USB-C cable. And then the power, we have multiple ways to power it. You can take power from the machine itself, or you can use an external power pack.
    66:44
    And that just depends on the machine. And we have different adapters for different machines. And we think it should take five minutes to install. It should install faster than Penn Stadium. Although Penn Stadiums are great. I still want to pin stadium. Why did I just say that?
    67:01
    Can you share any of the technical details of what's inside that box without giving away any of your secrets? What do you think? Thanks for joining us here at NBC3K. This is Jay. I'm Manu. Well, what you can't see is there's a power bulge here.
    67:19
    See the power bulge? Like in Detroit where I grew up, there were kids who had been destroying their cars. and you could buy an aftermarket bulb for your hood that had nothing underneath it at all. And it was just literally to look like you had a bigger engine. So there's nothing under there, of course. What's in the box? Yeah. Let's just say we are custom hardware. We are custom hardware, FPGA-based.
    67:54
    That's all you're going to know. You know, we got some great people. Yeah, Hood Scoop. Thank you. That's what it's called, the Hood Scoop. And we have some incredible people working on this product that I should mention. I already mentioned Ron Richards and Brian O'Neill, but I should mention. I think he's answering right now. Yes. I'll make him a development team. We have about 12 people working on this project right now.
    68:19
    I should say company. We have 12 people working on this company. I always called it project for years, but it's now a company. Now it's a company. It's official.
    68:28
    Like Olivier Galliez, who is one of our senior guys. Not senior, like old. Hello, guys. I'm working on this project. No, but he's one of our senior developers. He's based in France, and he's also the creator of Pinball Browser. Are you familiar with Pinball Browser? Yes, yes. So he's working on our system. I used to think Pinball Browser was free, but it's not. Dilshad Malkapath, who wrote a lot of our machine learning-ish stuff and other kinds of stuff going on.
    68:59
    We have Adam Wright, who did a lot of our user interface and UX flow. We have so many people working on this project. Dwayne, who, you know, the funny thing about Dwayne is that he's probably watching this stream right now. so I gotta be careful what I say about him because he did he's the one who helped us with the scoreboard stuff Dwayne Anderson hi Dwayne oh by the way Toto what's his name Toto Bean I don't have my glasses on Toto Bean 74 thanks for the follow woohoo let's see so you got like 12 people yeah we got about 12 people we have hardware people too this feels nice more prototype Ryan Cousins Damiel Weatherby a bunch of folks Yeah, it's pretty cool, right? And those are not Ethernet ports, everyone. These are RJ45s. They are RJ45s. But they're not Ethernet ports. Don't plug a... What could they be? Don't plug anything in. Put it in your back pocket or something. I do put it in my back pocket sometimes because it's so small. How do you get down this project? Let me put a vote in for a proper graphic API to talk... Oh, I see what he's saying. As you get down this project, let me put a vote in for a proper graphical API to talk to. All right. Your vote has been not only received but appreciated.
    70:28
    You know, the thing about APIs. So I think that anything we do that gets more people developing on it. Back in my day when we had the first APIs. It's working like a champ. It's working like a champ? Yeah. Good. Yeah, so I'm a big fan of having APIs that are easy to use and using standards and, yeah, make it easy to develop stuff.
    71:00
    I've got to teach you how to nudge, man. Yeah, I know how to nudge, but I'm afraid of hitting your cameras. No, the cameras don't. That's the whole thing. Cameras don't touch the machine. If Brian was here, he would totally touch that stuff. Well, Brian will drag the machine across the floor if that's what it takes not to drain. But Brian is also my coach. He's good. He's one of my coaches. He's on our team until he moves. He's on the Outer Orbit Otters. Outer Orbit, another great location here in San Francisco. Go to Outer Orbit. I really want to stream from Outer Orbit, but they have terrible Wi-Fi. Oh, so if I want someone to see this stream right now... Go to Twitch. MPT3K is the channel. Just search for MPT3K or search for pinball and you'll see. MPT... Mystery Pinball Theater 3000. MPT3K, baby.
    71:53
    We're probably only going to stream for another... 20 minutes and we'll finish out this right here. Holy smokes, that was garbage.
    72:04
    MPT3K. Once again, thanks everybody for tuning in. I have Jay Ellison here, who is one of the creators and co-founders of Scorbit. We have a Scorbit system.
    72:15
    That's this thing. We have a Scorbitron. That is called the Scorbitron. And the company is called Scorbit.
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    And our website is scorbit.io. Thank you, Dwayne, for the website. And thanks to everybody who's helped us over the years and supported us. You know, a big shout out to Carl and the Neverdrains folks who've just been incredible, and Andreas with Match Play, and everybody who's just been, you know, supporting our... And they still respect me despite my lack of pinball skills. I don't respect you anymore. After seeing this, there's zero respect here. You saw me when I was five, but when I tried... Power stance. See, the thing is... I have my power stance like this. See, I do that thing with my leg. I stand up, you know. You're going to see it next time. You're going to be like, oh, my God. I didn't see a dude standing like that. No, no. That's one of your guys. One of my guys. Hi, Dwayne. I see you, too.
    73:21
    Dwayne is on the screen. Dwayne not only is helping us with our scoreboards and our website. But I've known Dwayne a while. He worked for two of my previous startups.
    73:39
    Oh, really? Yeah, so he knows all my secrets. Oh, uh-oh. Okay, guess what? So I'm player two now, right? And this is like one of the last games. So this is where I shark him. What up, Pink Ninja Man? I just blow him out of the water. He explodes. Come on, let's see you explode all over the place. See that? See what just happened? Bonus 2X.
    74:01
    Make sure guys let me know if the stream still looks good If the camera cuts out or whatever Once again I'm streaming off of my poor little laptop But if you want to subscribe and give me money So I can keep doing this I appreciate it That was a terrible thing to say but you know what I got miles to feed and so does Jay I have no idea what you just said because I'm concentrating Jay's got a better chance at beating me now 30, nah-ah. And you got a million to go. Wait, why did it give you narrow escape? You didn't escape.
    74:35
    So did I win? That was garbage. No, but I came back a little. And we both hit 20. Pink Ninja Man, what's up?
    74:45
    Do you have plans? I would say to Pink Ninja Man, the simplest, since you're late, I'll just explain. It's a device that you install in the machine that reads all the score and game data in real time and transmits it to the internet. so an app can talk to it, a website can talk to it, a leaderboard can talk to it, all sorts of great things you do when you're gathering this data in real time. And autofocus kicks in on the player cam every so often. Oh, crap. You missed the second rollover on that out lane, you get the narrow escape. And the window sides seem good. Yeah, see, Pink Ninja Man likes Dwayne's work. Thanks, everybody, on that.
    75:28
    Williams. That's my day. You want to fire up one more? I have to. One more. I'm going first. This time I'm going to concentrate. Let me get rid of the menu. Okay.
    75:48
    Do you have any plans to give the score a yes? Okay. What's the question? Well, I'll let you choose wisely. and you just missed it, didn't you? I just missed it. All right. I know which one it is, though. Yeah. Do you have any plans to give score breakdowns after a game, for example? It's funny you ask.
    76:09
    That's... Ah! Actually... What's the question? Pink Ninja Man wants to know if you can give score breakdowns after a game. Yes. And I want to tell Pink Ninja Man that we actually changed the code right now so we can... It does that. Yes. The answer is yes. Well, yeah, so... The answer is definitely yes. So one thing that came up after we started beta testing is people were like, well, since you're timestamping all this stuff, can we see sort of like a playback of the game? And that's not hard for us to engineer. And I'm like, wow, I didn't really think about it that way. Now the average player walking around Walking in the game isn't going to want to do that But a tournament player would I want to see when, timing, how long it took me To get to certain things Not just a recording Of like you know The game Come on Hey Jay Is it fair for me to say that What you're seeing right now on the stream Where the score is above the DMD Is more of a simple display of just the magic that's going on yeah we're just showing you it working yeah so like the real value comes in when you know I get I'm sitting at home you know and I'm watching Stranger Things and I hit pause because I get a little buzz in my pocket and it says Manu beat my score on Theater of Magic at the Zeitgeist Bar just now at which point I freak out because of course my pride has been hurt right so I have to now go to the bar and beat that score. Or how about this one? You're playing the game. Okay. And you unlock the achievement for free beer.
    78:01
    Okay. You get to a certain score in the game in a certain period of time and you unlock a promotional achievement in the venue you're in. Oh, that's cool. You like that idea? Now, I want to say something. I keep doing that now. Yeah. Well, it's because I'm winning. So you could ask, like, why should I do that if Pindigo already does that? Oh, no, we love Pindigo, by the way. This actually does a little more than Pindigo because... It automatically connects the email. Your score is automatically in there. And my score is attached to me. That's right. It's attached to you as a player, so there's an identity management piece. So it's not just Manu beat the high score at blah, blah, blah. It's Manu beat your score. Yeah, there's a social component. But Pindigo does some of that too. I think that we love Pindigo for a lot of reasons. It's just that I'm sure the Pindigo people would agree if we could put a score automatically into Pindigo, let's do it. Yeah, because I'm taking a picture and I'm doing all the Manu stuff. I love Pindigo. I'm not saying anything about El Pindigo, but you guys are kind of a little higher level than... It's the automation. It's the automation, and you know what? But I think the important point to the Pindigo thing is that there is something fun about certain manual things. Like, we don't want to take away the cultural fun of those photos, and we don't want to, like... You know, so we need to enhance the experience versus take away from it. Right, right. But there's a bunch of things out there, apps that we really like and we use, that we would love to integrate with. And we'll have our own app as well that will have its own special features. Knock and roll. Are you out of quarters already? How is it powered? We're almost done. Do you shut off the pin? Does the score bit also shut off? The answer is yes. The device shuts off when you shut off the pin. There is a delay, but it does shut off. It mentioned it can power from, yes. And so you can detect if someone shut off the game. Yes, we do have that ability. And in fact, the operator of a bunch of machines will have on their version of the app, they get to see which machines are live and which ones are not. Is this me or you? I think that you're player two. Okay. Oh, we changed it, so MPT3K is not player two. Anyway, whatever. And the thing, it's down there. Well, that's because we're not using the app. We're not using the app. Right, right. Then it would know who you are and why. It's kind of like Rock Band. Like, you come up, and it has your four players, and then you select a slot. And then the other people with their app see you and slide into that slot. And then when it's done, you can claim the score, or you can let it slide. So you might, like, have the worst game of your life. That's, by the way, up for debate whether or not we like people. Oh, MoonDucky, thank you for the follow. Awesome, awesome. Can you detect the credit dot and tell me? Yes. Absolutely. We can detect the credit dot. Oh, someone said can you – did you already – you got everybody? Yeah, I think so. Can you shut up the – Yes. Yeah, we got that. Why would you want to do that? I'll tell you why. Because – no, this is a big deal. So a lot of operators told us it's not even so much like what's broken. What they want to know is did the bartender shut off the game? Because the bartenders don't call the operator and say, hey, it's not earning. They just shut it off. And they wait for you to show up again. Oh, yeah. Because if you had an alert saying it was off, so we have a bunch of ways to alert a person when it's shut off. But, yes, now I think taking a step further and saying it was shut off because of this would be nice. Right. But, you know, like all of that data that we're enhancing with, oh, this is a game now.
    82:06
    Because sometimes, yeah, if the game gets broken down, they just turn it off and they say, forget it. Forget it. Yeah, we have a lot of operators, particularly if you have a lot of machines. You want to optimize which machines you go to and which ones you visit so you keep an earning. We have operators here in San Francisco who literally would earn more money because the bill collector's full. And they don't know it. Oh, wow. And so they show up like... No, that was a drain. That was terrible.
    82:44
    I could mess with him because he just started another company with cool shit. I don't have... Oh, no swearing on the... No swearing on the stream. All right, here we go. All right, so if you have any last-minute questions for Jay, please put them in right now. We are going to be finishing up this stream. Are you ever going to stream Grim Shrocker Dracula? Because this game is really, really cool. I'm, like, standing next to him, and this game next to him is BSD, and it's, like... We just got a Dracula game. The ball, like, goes across the playfield magically. It's great, right? It's one of my favorite things. That multiball is awesome. It's literally one of my favorite things I love Pinball and MST3K is my favorite show Since 1992 And by the way those are Two of my favorite things in the world I was just watching MST3K The Gauntlet The new Netflix production Where the first movie Is Mac and Me Also popularized by Paul Rudd And his Conan O'Brien visits Mac and Me It was a movie made I'm pretty sure by McDonald's in the 1980s that's sort of like a really bad ET yeah oh no I'm not gonna get a triple I'm not gonna get a triple Mike are you here to help me get a triple Yeah! Oh, you missed it. You missed it. See, that's what happens when you get all excited about things. I celebrated and I lost. That's all right. Oh. What? You're going to finish the ball. Why? Finish it up, baby. You've got to concentrate. Concentrate. Why? This is my son. He's awesome. Yeah! Well, I'm not that good at racing. Well, I'm not that good at it right now, but I love it. No, no, he's good. Well. All right. We psyched him out. All right. We're going to shoot down the stream right now. Maybe I'll let you play one more thing. All right. Any more questions for Jay here? Good work, guys. Oh, yeah. Well, thank you, Wormer.
    85:01
    New season is good, but it's no pod people. Yeah. I'm more of a Manos Hands of Fate kind of guy. Manos Hands of Fate, definitely. But, you know, absolutely pod people. Yeah. There's so many. Secret Agent Super Dragon. Another incredible, incredible work of art. Secret Agent Super Dragon. You've got to see it. Anyway. You're talking about the old one. MSC3K. Yeah, the old one. Okay, okay. All right.
    85:24
    Thank you, Jay. Thank you very much. It's been great. The website is? Scorbit.io. No E. No E in Scorbit. S-C-O-R-B-I-T dot I-O. Just like in the logo underneath the MSC3K logo.
    85:39
    Thank you again. One more thank you for the follow. And everybody's good. All right. Thanks, guys, for joining me here at MMSC3K. We will see you later. Next time. Say goodbye to that picture. Bye.
    86:01
    I've never done so good at Indiana Jones. I always. Thank you.