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Day 1 of TWILIGHT ZONE Battle Week!

Dead Flip·video·31m 13s·analyzed·Dec 11, 2014
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TL;DR

Dead Flip Twilight Zone battle week begins with setup and casual play.

Summary

Dead Flip's first stream day of a week-long Twilight Zone battle features hosts Jack Danger, Nick, George Campbell, and Brad Stark playing the 1993 classic. The stream covers machine setup (including gumball multiball adjustments for tournament fairness), playfield balance issues, audio troubleshooting, and establishes a billion-point goal plus completing all modes to 'get lost in the zone.'

Key Claims

  • Twilight Zone came out in 1993 or 1994

    high confidence · Jack Danger states the release year while introducing the game

  • Twilight Zone and Roadshow were designed by the same designer

    high confidence · Jack Danger: 'so a couple things, if you've been watching us last week, it's the same designer, actually, as Roadshow, as who made Twilight Zone, so some of the rules are similar'

  • The Powerball (white ceramic ball) moves faster and lighter than regular pinballs and scores 2x on some shots

    high confidence · Hosts explain the gumball machine mechanics: 'a white ceramic ball instead of your typical regular pinball, which is lighter and it moves faster' and 'scoring with that ball is actually 2x'

  • Tournaments typically adjust gumball machine to have two locks instead of three by removing one regular pinball

    high confidence · Jack Danger explains: 'because the gumball is worth so much mate, a lot of tournaments set this right here, balls and gumball, to two instead of three'

  • Completing all door modes around the playfield edge triggers 'Get Lost in the Zone' wizard mode

    high confidence · Jack Danger: 'if you complete all the modes here around the edge of the door here, you're going to get lost in the zone, which is a main goal'

Notable Quotes

  • “Twilight Zone is an incredible game. It's a lot of people's favorites.”

    Jack Danger@ 4:30 — Sets tone for the week's celebration of this classic title

  • “You fill out this door with the key of imagination.”

    Twilight Zone game (attract mode)@ 1:00 — Iconic Twilight Zone game callout, used to open and close segments

  • “A billion is a good goal. The high score, just like, so a couple things, if you've been watching us last week, it's the same designer, actually, as Roadshow, as who made Twilight Zone, so some of the rules are similar.”

    Jack Danger@ 17:06 — Establishes tournament goal and connects game to Roadshow designer

  • “I think the machine is leaning a little to the right. You may have to face that.”

    Host@ 18:42 — Identifies mechanical issue requiring adjustment before proper play

  • “So by making it only two away, it means all you have to do is get two gumball locks lit and now you are in multiball instead of three. Which makes it more obtainable and more of a game of chicken with you and your friends.”

    Jack Danger@ 15:42 — Explains tournament strategy and psychology behind gumball machine setup

Entities

Jack DangerpersonNickpersonGeorge CampbellpersonBrad StarkpersonErica DeMarcopersonTwilight ZonegameRoadshowgameDead Flip Pinballorganization

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Dead Flip establishing tournament goals (1 billion points, complete all modes/Get Lost in the Zone) for the week-long event with audience participation

    high · Jack Danger: 'I think a billion is a good goal... I think another second goal is to complete the door and get lost in the zone'

  • ?

    event_signal: Dead Flip hosting 'Twilight Zone Battle Week' featuring multiple hosts competing on the 1993 classic; positioned as celebration of final unstreamed machine in their studio

    high · Jack Danger: 'Today we are celebrating the last game we have in the studio that has not been on the stream, and that would be Twilight Zone... And all week we're going to... battle'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Twilight Zone machine in Dead Flip studio exhibits playfield lean/balance issues requiring adjustment during stream

    high · Multiple instances of hosts noting machine tilts right: 'I think the machine is leaning a little to the right'; hosts spend extended segment leveling machine with balance tool

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Tournament standard for Twilight Zone gumball multiball is two locks instead of three (achieved by removing one regular pinball), increasing accessibility and strategy

    high · Jack Danger explains: 'a lot of tournaments set this right here, balls and gumball, to two instead of three' to prevent random powerball advantage and increase 'game of chicken' psychology

Transcript

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0:00
Thank you. I'm sorry. You fill out this door with the key of imagination. Thank you.
3:30
Oh baby! Let's turn some light on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Let's make sure the audio is working. Hello. Yes, it is.
4:17
All right. Good evening, pinheads, and welcome back to Deadflip Pinball. Today we are celebrating the last game we have in the studio that has not been on the stream, and that would be Twilight Zone. Twilight Zone is an incredible game. It's a lot of people's favorites. It came out in like 93, 94, something like that.
4:38
93. Great game. Lots to do. Lots of different approaches to blow this up. And all week we're going to... We haven't really set a goal for ourselves. We're just going to sort of battle. But as people start coming in, we'll try to figure out what we want to shoot for throughout the week. trying to, what is it, get lost in the zone by completing all the modes. I'm not sure that's something we want to shoot for because it does take a while, but we'll see how it goes.
5:09
Bowen Kerins
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Unable to connect to chat. Cool, the chat's being stupid. Today we have Nick Campbell, I'm Jack Danger, Brad Stark is also going to be joining us. We also, we're going to have Erica DeMarco, but her dog got sick. It ate a whole stick of butter or something. and apparently that's bad news for dogs.
5:29
I don't know. I have no idea. So I guess we'll start off with getting some practice games in. I'll call the guys in here and we'll start banging away at this thing. Alright, here we go.
5:50
Oh. How's that? Oh, that light looks much better. Much much better. You fill out this door with the key of imagination.
6:50
Jack Dinger, Mick Campbell, we're all ready? Wearing a pinball t-shirt. Oh, I'm ready. Wearing a pinball t-shirt. Papa, who's in a pinbird? Who signed up? Who's going to be there? Who's going to have a high five? Who's going to beat me? I got a quick drop off. That's why things are being also extra stupid.
7:09
All right, get it figured out. I'll get you going here. Dead flips. Oh, that's the stop you want right there, folks.
7:20
Come on! Clock's literally on. Yo, I want a nap before... Clock, get a break. Whoa What What is this George Hello Excuse me Mr George I'm a very nice substandard.
7:56
Don't hurt the dog. Oh, shoot! I thought I was gonna fix that this week. What, the not-tilted? The not-tilted. Uh, sorry, let me get one last thing. See if Starkman wants to join.
8:41
I'll just play this shit, I don't care. After a practice game, we'll figure out... We're going to have to move... We got lag? No way. There's no lag. There ain't no lag, son.
8:56
Oh, here, yeah, you play. One minute, second. The machine is wild compared to our voices. We can turn the machine audio on.
9:09
That's hard. What? That's difficult. No, it's just the spring is... No, I'm saying the spring here on the plunger is very sensitive. Oh, okay.
9:26
So I'm going to Papa. Er, Pinberg. You're going to Pinberg. Yep, I'll go to Pinberg. Everybody's going to Pinberg. I was B division last time.
9:39
Now you're going to be Super A? Yeah, I'm going for A this time. You're going to play this time. You're going to play this time? Yeah, be last time, don't play this time. No. Be all that you can be. You little motherfucker, man! Be all that you can be. Yep. Be all that you can be. Ummm... What's your, uh, guys' goal? Uh, to get the keys to this game. We should get out of here now. Here, I'll do it now while I got a thing in there.
10:11
Yeah, I hear that ball. Powerball! This works? Hell yeah! I'm pumped! You should be able to watch this on Xbox, on Switch, on Chrome, on your Roku! Do they have that Roku? They could!
10:31
Are you ready to battle? Woo! How long? It's fast. The Powerball feels faster. Hell yeah! Oh, where are we going? All right.
10:50
Nope. Oh. Nope. Maybe we should set up the powerball the right way for Joe and the one. Get it. Oh, yeah. Yeah buddy! This is the real game right? This is the practice? No this is the real game guys This is the real by practice standards
11:20
Oh, oh, oh Come on buddy Push Good money bruh Oh, slow ice. That was good ball, sir. Turn in the audio down here, folks.
11:44
Good ball, good ball. Got that lock bar down. Something like that. Oh, no. Sorry, buddy. That's weird. You almost got me. One button there folks. Oops. So that should be a little quieter. Yeah, trace it up. You haven't played No.
12:28
We are going to poop our pants. Put two balls in the... I thought you have to physically do that. You do. But you also have to tell it.
12:42
Really? Yeah, the standard. It's probably a feature. Yeah. So, we're looking... Because the... The gumball. Yeah, thank you. Because the gumball is worth so much money, a lot of tournaments set this right here, balls and gumball, to two instead of three. And then what they do is they remove one of the normal pinballs. Do you even have to remove a ball now? Yeah. Yep, you both. So how do you get it out? You just kick it out or... No, Twilight Zone's not broken. We're just tweaking it for tournament standards by removing one of the balls out of the pinball machine, or the gumball machine. So the gumball machine, if you can see it, features a power ball, which is a white ceramic ball instead of your typical regular pinball, which is lighter and it moves faster and it makes the game a hell of a lot harder. But it's an objective for one of your multi-balls and scoring with that ball is actually 2x. Not all the time. Some of your... the jack... that is really not coming around. you turn the so oh you need a magnet yeah do we have one of those oh seems like we do I thought we had like a lot all started got it got one oh oh there you go perfect what out okay folks put this back in How'd that go in? And then this screws on and now we have two balls in the gumball instead of three. Do you have to put that ball back in the field though? Nope. That stays completely out? It stays completely out. Swip. Hold on. Lock bar. Admiral Lock bar. My, my, my, my man. Swip. Oh, that's on. Oh, Jesus. Look at this hippity. Well folks, we're back in the game. We're back in the game. Well, folks, sorry about the delay there, but that should make things more fair for tournaments. DT, we didn't take the Powerball out. We took one of the regular pinballs out so that it made the Powerball more frequent. Right, so with three balls in the gumball machine, it means you have to do three locks to... I'm just going to... We're all set. I should stop fighting. You have to do three locks instead of two to get to the next powerball multiball which is worth so many points that you don want to make that an advantage for one player just because it randomly gives you that ball So by making it only two away, it means all you have to do is get two gumball locks lit and now you are in multiball instead of three. Which makes it more obtainable and more of a game of chicken with you and your friends. because if you get it set up, it means I can get it my next ball. And if you don't get it set up, it means I have to do two locks. So there's a lot more psychology to that. Yeah, if you work on the gumball machine, make sure you collect it because if you work on it and you get it there and you don't start it, the guy coming up after you is going to get that multi-ball.
16:19
How do we sound? Is the game versus voice sounding pretty good? Cool beer, bro. I'm just going to play this real quick to see how the sound sounds. Sound, sound, sound. Cool train. All right, let's do battle. That still works.
16:41
Brad's got his practice. I got my practice. Let's go. Ready? Let's do it. All right. Yo, unlock that door, Brad. Good luck. Good luck, sir. Good luck. Hey. Two, one, zero. By the way, yes, 2-1-0, should we make a goal for ourselves for this machine this week? I think a billion is a good goal. A billion is a good goal. The high score, just like, so a couple things, if you've been watching us last week, it's the same designer, actually, as Roadshow, as who made Twilight Zone, so some of the rules are similar. The play field's all full of toys like last week, and billion is still a decent score. So I think a billion is our first goal. I think another second goal is to complete the door and get lost in the zone. So if you complete all the modes here around the edge of the door here, you're going to get lost in the zone, which is a main goal. The other main goals are getting multiball, which is by spelling the two ramps. Get both ramps. Spell gumball. And then the lock is right here. We already talked about the gumball multiball.
17:50
I'm going to kill you. Again, it's the Lank Road Show where there's a lot of stuff going on, so let's just go. All right. 2-1-0, baby. You're going to see some people going for the skill shot, which is worth $10 million a shot. And you're going to see me and maybe Jack and who knows skip the skill shot altogether just by full plunging. And that's because this feed out of here feeds it into the bumpers, and the bumpers can get a little hairy. I'm repeating everything that Bowen has already told you guys that you already should be watching, so I'll stop and I'll just play. I think it's a little off balance. I think it's an off balance thing. That was an off balance thing. So that ball was creeping really slow on that rail and I think it's because the machine is leaning a little to the right. You may have to face that. Yeah. I was fine when I did it. Yeah, you're right. You made it all the way there, right? Yeah. there right yeah best of how many usually it's I I start to win and it's until I lose my thing is how it goes yeah until Jack loses um so like Nick said usually you want to pull it and crank it but I'm just gonna I'm just gonna steal it I'm gonna take it doesn't matter I screwed up
19:20
Shit, boy. Shit! Alright, that felt pretty good. Shit, boy. That must have just had a slow one. Oh, man. And it happens. That feed, that top feed there is always a little weird. So it happens. There's Gumball. Gumball! Oh, I missed. Oh, man. This thing's leaning right a lot.
19:43
Like, a lot. I think I can see it. Yeah. It's bad. Alright. Look at that. JD! That was the old Jack Danger, folks. All right. So forget what Nick said about the skill shot.
20:02
I always go for yellow. Well, he can win. If you get yellow, you're winning. I always go for yellow until I get yellow because that's one of the door things. If you get the 10 million with the yellow, it completes that mode. If you think it's worth the risk, go for it. Ten mil, ten mil, he's got it. He's in the bumpers. That's the feed that gets scary. Yeah, out of the bumpers is where it gets nasty. If you can survive it, it's probably worth the moat. Go-go-go-go ball combo! Go ball! Bing bong. Oh, that leaned. That leaned. Time for my some power! So up there is a mini-clayfield where the bloopers are made. You want to punch as many of them as you can and then shoot it up the middle just so it falls down. And it'll double whatever you made up there. It'll double whatever you made up there. So instead of 16.5, we put it at like 30 degree.
21:20
That'd still be too loud. They may want to ask them. We can't. Why not? It's loud for us. Can they hear us? What, the audio's too loud? Yeah.
21:29
I think the audio moves better. Basically, it's not as loud. All right. Well. Yeah, if that's still too loud, let's let it stay. Good ball. Good start, dear.
21:44
Oh, Bart! What was that? No ball save. No ball save, folks. You didn't tilt. That's right. Good job. That's right. No, I'm not tilting this one. I mean, you did tilt it. No! You got it! Nice and done! But it wasn't on camera. So here's where it gets tricky. That crap. Anything out of the pops. Just kind of swirly, folks. That... ...nice murder. So we can fix it just after this game. I just wanna keep compading. So now I- I- I- You can play it, I'll just leave it. I got the yellow. So... Or I got the yellow so I don't care yet. You got the yellow? Yeah.
22:26
Oh. Swift. Yeah. Sorry. Ah! Love you, Internet. Warm. That was Terry talking. Warm. Alright, folks. It's even worth the yellow. Are you folks watching this on your TV? Whoa! Look at that collection of CDs down there! Alright. Wait, wait. Have you guys seen the drinking game with the TV and the Santa hat? Oh yeah, where you put it on the corner. Yeah, you put it on the corner. That's so good. Every time it looks like someone's wearing a Santa hat, they drink. Drink. What am I doing? There we go. This beads a little dirty too. It's like the tip of the flip. No. Geez, no. Geez. Dead lean, though. Look at that. Well, at least it's going back. Going to city. Going to city, bitch. I ain't hitting nothing. Did you say Erica is not coming Yes she not coming Her dog sick Alright, we gotta fix that crap. I think it's fine. It ain't fine!
23:40
Alright. So that's, uh, starting the grid. Shall we bounce? Dude, that was terrible. Yes, let's bounce. Shall we go? I got the balance tool! I win! Alright, throw it down, don't sweat it. Uh, my guess is it's off a little on the back as well, so um, I guess you have to go. JD? You wanna lift or spin? I'll lift. Tell me when you're ready. One, two, three, go!
24:24
Go ahead. I went the wrong way. Go ahead. Oh my god. Ready? Yeah. I went the wrong way. It's now worse. Okay, let's stop. You want to stop? You want to lift a little higher? Oh shit. One, two, three, SWIP!
24:50
Okay. Checky, checky down here. The pops made the game super loud again. Alright, you know what? Maybe I won't do the audio off of the webcam then.
24:59
I thought, what about this? That's what I'm doing. This is where it is. That's where the audio's been captured from. No, yeah, that's what I mean. What happened to the... Oh, dangling that? Dangle. Um, I was hearing some weird noises coming off of those. in the yeah that's a way better feed okay here we go this is gonna be a little tough can you squeeze back there and spin that if I pull it you know what are you talking about well I guess you could just drop this one but then it won't be a speed oh you mean hold on what what are you trying to do sorry we need to raise that foot a little bit the one on the right one right but I think it's already raised all the way so I think instead we're just gonna drop this one Okay, so I'm gonna lift it up When we come over here, you can come over here if you want. Yeah I'm just gonna lift it up. Hold tight folks. We're adjusting the game Dead lean though, and you're gonna make this go up into it. So it's lower. You want me to spin it? If we're push, I'm not a spinner. You push like that You push like that. You ready?
26:09
You're going to run like crazy. Come on, dad. Lean. Okay, dropper. Check the... blah blah. I think... Wait, are we dropping that side? Yeah. It needs to be dropped more. I think. Ready? Here we go.
26:32
Sweet. Tight? Yep. Let's take a gander. Oh, that looks good. Oh yeah, that looks great. All right, one ball apiece. Oh, camera got turned. One ball apiece to try it out. Camera got spun. And then we'll be, we'll be in another tournament here. Here's to that lead.
27:00
How's that look, you see? This feels good. Yeah, I mean, I drained right away, so... Plays like norms. Plays like normal.
27:17
Let's try swipping the audio to the facing camera. How about that? So you can also just get a mic that plugs into your beat style. Like, you don't have to mess with any of this wireless bullshit. Wait, how do you do that? By mic. That is appropriate. No, I mean, that's not what you do right now. That's what I'm saying. wait what do you think instead of getting a mic that screws into here yeah get one that is screws into like a usb oh like a sexy do you have like uh one of those dildo mics no i sent you that boom mic that would be that would be the best one get that and then off usb audio interface you don't have to mess with any wireless i don't want the wireless because then you have no wireless interference you have none of that You're just plugged in, no batteries. We're killing the audio. One second, folks.
28:32
The opposite door is the missing foot step. Don't touch the door. Listen, first off, don't touch the door.
28:46
Don't touch the door. Don't touch the door. Woohoo! Here we go, folks. Please get knocked over, if you need to.
29:02
Wait. Are you testing it? Testing! That is still really loud. Well, during multi-ball it gets louder. It does.
29:32
Try to get in the camera folks. So the power light is on which means I can get it over here. The upper playfield there? Yup. Oh, almost lost it.
30:20
Oh, we gotta replace that light. So the piano light is out. Usually it'll tell you when you need it when it's on. So there's the multi ball that we were talking about. We can get directly into the ball with two shots. And now I'm in it. So now I gotta get it over there.
30:45
Just like that folks. Now my goal is to get it up here and get it in the top of the pyramid. Nice Kill it