VP stream of Laser War (1987) with tangential discussion of VR pinball, streaming audio gear, and pinball community.
Summary
Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 streams a Virtual Pinball (VP) version of Data East's Laser War (1987), exploring its simple but addictive three-lock multiball mechanic. The hosts discuss the game's appeal, VR pinball physics and flipper lag, streaming setup using voice meter potato for audio mixing, pinball community dynamics around streaming and competition, and tangential stories about pinball operators, venues, and personal experiences.
Key Claims
Laser War's core mechanic is lighting locks in three colored scoops (red, yellow, blue) by hitting standups or shooting scoops, then locking balls in sequence within ~10 seconds to start multiball.
high confidence · Primary speaker explains game rules in detail during initial gameplay
Virtual Pinball in VR eliminates flipper lag present in desktop VP, which requires predicting shots early on Laser War.
high confidence · Speaker states: 'I'm primarily playing in VR...there is an actual flipper lag right now when I'm in VR that goes away'
Voice Meter Potato (free software) allows routing audio through virtual channels independently, contrasting with GoXLR (hardware alternative that costs money).
high confidence · Extended discussion of audio setup with explicit mention of both tools and their trade-offs
Two NBA Fast Breaks can be networked together via custom code written by Jorge Gomez, allowing linked team-vs-team gameplay; TJ (local operator in Bay Area) has the only setup the speaker has witnessed.
medium confidence · Speaker describes TJ's machines: 'TJ has two NBA fast breaks...Jorge Gomez...wrote code back in the day which allowed two NBA fast breaks to be linked together'
Fish Tails (game) is deliberately chosen in tournaments as a skill-intensive game when wanting a fair fight or to win.
medium confidence · Speaker: 'Fish Tails is one of those games that I'll pick in tournaments when I either want to win or I want the other person to lose'
Laser War's appeal parallels Total Nuclear Annihilation in having simple, easy-to-learn rules with high mastery ceiling and strong 'one more game' loop.
medium confidence · Speaker compares games: 'that's why the the total nuclear annihilation is so appealing it goes back to this kind of play that they had like in the 80s'
Medieval Madness Remake features RGB lighting and giant LCD display.
medium confidence · Speaker mentions: 'Medieval madness remake with RGB lighting a giant LCD'
Notable Quotes
“there may be more to this table but I'm I'm I'm addicted to this one thing once you've lit the lock for a scoop you lock the ball then you then have maybe ten seconds to lock another ball in to get so once you lock a ball it'll start a multi ball”
Primary host@ 0:50 — Core game mechanic explanation demonstrating Laser War's central appeal
“using virtual cables on a PC allows you to separate audio into tracks so now I have the pinball machine as a separate tract I can control I have the stream labs chat bot completely separate audio my microphone completely secret”
“if you're interested at all um when you install voice meter potato it becomes your new Windows Windows device windows audio device so that instead of you route audio through it”
Primary host@ 7:29 — Detailed explanation of how audio routing software works
“I'm primarily playing in VR I'm primarily planners I play this one in VR because the flipper lag there is an actual flipper lag right now when I the ball come to the flipper comes up cut up cut up”
Primary host@ 29:23 — Explains VR vs desktop VP differences and technical lag issue
“the only thing left in VR that is not that is lacking for me on this table I get to have kicks I get the everything the only thing left is the physics the physics you start to see the ball do weird things and you go yeah a real ball wouldn't do that in real life”
gameplay_signal: Laser War's core mechanic (three-lock multiball with 10-second window, ion cannon jackpot) creates addictive 'one more game' loop comparable to Total Nuclear Annihilation; simple rules, high mastery ceiling
high · Host repeatedly plays through multiple games, describes addiction to the locking mechanic, explicitly compares appeal to TNA's late-80s design philosophy
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technology_signal: VR pinball eliminates flipper lag present in desktop Virtual Pinball, improving shot accuracy and gameplay feel; still lacks perfect physics accuracy (ball hop, ramp transitions)
high · Host contrasts VR vs desktop play multiple times: 'there is an actual flipper lag right now when I...in VR that goes away'
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content_signal: Host demonstrates advanced audio mixing for streaming using Voice Meter Potato (free software) to isolate pinball machine audio, chat bot, and microphone into independent tracks; discusses GoXLR as hardware alternative
high · Extended technical walkthrough of audio routing, virtual inputs, and mixer setup; comparison of cost/flexibility trade-offs between software and hardware solutions
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community_signal: Pinball operator TJ Buyer in Bay Area maintains network of machines including rare linked NBA Fast Break setup using custom code by Jorge Gomez; represents niche operator expertise
medium · Host describes TJ as unique operator with linked setup, mentions personal experience playing networked NBA Fast Breaks with wife, describes networking code as 'only person I've ever seen set it up'
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competitive_signal: IFPA tournament format prevents remote head-to-head competition (cannot control playfield cameras, tilt sensitivity, layout) despite entertaining Jack Danger demonstration of remote duels
Topics
Laser War (Data East 1987) gameplay mechanics and appealprimaryVirtual Pinball emulation and VR pinball physics/lagprimaryStreaming audio setup and mixing (Voice Meter Potato, GoXLR)primaryPinball operator culture and venue networking (TJ Buyer, Freegold Watch)secondaryHead-to-head pinball competition and psychologysecondaryTournament pinball rules and IFPA constraintssecondaryPinball game comparisons and design philosophy (simple rules, high mastery)secondaryContent creation strategy and YouTube channel growthmentioned
Sentiment
positive(0.82)— Hosts express enthusiasm for Laser War's gameplay loop, enjoyment of VR pinball improvements, appreciation for streaming community and collaboration, excitement about pinball tournaments. Some frustration with technical streaming challenges (audio management, layout control in remote competitions) but framed constructively. Tangential stories convey affection for pinball culture and competitive community.
Transcript
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well laser water plays let's talk laser ward 1987 datings could never imagine that this would be any fun hi Skyler but here's the rules of laser war right super simple there's these three areas where you can there's red yellow blue right okay right now blue I can either hit these stand up targets to light the lock for red light the lock for yellow or light the lock for blue I can also just shoot the scoops in red yellow or blue to light those locks after a couple of shots I think three shots it lights the lock now here's the fun part there may be more to this table but I'm I'm I'm addicted to this one thing once you've lit the lock for a scoop you lock the ball then you then have maybe ten seconds to lock another ball in to get so once you lock a ball it'll start a multiball let's start a multi book after ten seconds and kick out the ball but if you can lock another ball before you lose both balls then you're like 3x huge score ready Skyler can you come over here [Music] so you have a huge score already because you have three balls on the table then it then it's hilarious because the guys in the table go shoot the I in candidate that when you have to shoot this guy the ion cannon get that ramp for the huge huge jackpot right Scylla can you not got enough to this can you not keep that okay okay he's found my um my pinball ring so he's like kicking it and it doesn't hold up well to kicking trust me so if you can manage to get a three ball you got to hit the ion cannon and get the super multi blow also this is the extra ball that's lit after I think a couple of blocks anyway there's more to this table but that's just like the one more time I can do this kind of thing on this table so by shoot yellow so now it's locked I shot yellow enough so I thought now I gotta see if I can give you the cool counting down I got read but I wasn't ready probably gonna kick out yeah I kicked out okay no I already lost so my progress has been wiped out I got to start again turn this up a little here so I can hear it let me know if the music of the pin is a little too loud using virtual cables on a PC allows you to separate audio into tracks so now I have the pinball machine as a separate tract I can control I have the stream labs chat bot completely separate audio my microphone completely secreto so OBS is seeing these all individually musically pin is a little too loud yeah I figured as much i boosted it just to make sure that we could hear it hard to hear you when the game really gets going thank you so once I so that's great because I can take the pin and just change its volume independently of every other volume if I had Spotify Spotify I could be its own volume that's how I like it as an audio guy I like to control volumes independently instead of having desktop right you have desktop which all your sounds flow through George you might benefit from this it's a little tricky to set up and it costs money but you know how your your chat BOTS your stream lacks chat BOTS comes in really super loud because you're forced to channel all your audio through just desktop this allows me to channel chat box has his own its own yeah I'm down what cost money actually so it's called virtual it's called voice meter potato voice meter potato and sometime we should jump on a zoom and and talk about how to set it up because if you've ever yeah it's a great name right that the first version was called voice made of banana this what's called voice meet a potato rock temp onion um if you ever heard of a goal go XLR if you've ever heard of the go excel our device the go XLR is kind of a hardware version of virtual virtual inputs for your PC uh-huh yeah Amazon keeps trying to sell tell me that the only reason I would suggest the only reason that was suggested go XLR is for this capability when you use AG or XLR you're not you're not doing a software version go XLR once you plug it in it it splits out all your audio on its own so and you have physical sliders it's really just a physical version of what I'm doing right now so you won't ever have your stream line chat pod being super loud in your ear because if it comes in super light you just lower it nothing else gets gets and I the funny thing is I don't maybe I'll do a video about this it's it's it's not rocket science I mean the stuff we're doing with nginx and stuff like that is way more complicated than this but it's still the kind of stuff that's a little if you're not used to passphrase and audio and like conceptualising can I go XLR except a quarter-inch input for a to mic yes go XLR is basically you know XLR is the lip is the three you know the three wire you know what I'm talking about a microphone has like three wires one is a signal and the other one is a opposite and the reason you have that figuration is so that it cancels out any noise for long runs because we can run XLR cables really super long with no noise and that's because the wiring cancels out any noise that happens along the signal nice so so the go XLR the XLR part of its name means it can accept one if that's that's the way you want to do that you want to go back and forth oh three look at that it accepts a standard XLR input and it outputs via USB separate audio to all your devices so if you're interested at all um when you install voice meter potato it becomes your new Windows Windows device windows audio device so that instead of you route audio through it so instead of saying routing your audio out to your your monitor route audio through voice meter which then routes it to the final destination that way you can hang it that way you can act as a man-in-the-middle and it can look at all the the incoming audio signals run it through this mixer here I don't know if you can see but there's the old mixer now that I love some people I I gotta tell you it's a little it could be a little daunting but once you set it up it's pretty nice anyway that's the longest short story of voice meet a potato I think we were talking about it the other night oh look at that I got a blue I got a blue I got a blue I got a blue what's ready nothing's ready yellows not ready but I can probably return the bass so yellow is gonna come out soon maybe I could ah looking shoot red okay red I got red and yellow I got red and yellow yeah darn it I can still shoot the iron cannon though cuz I prepped it uh uh I think I can't now I can get the extra ball though oh my god I got the extra ball but I didn't get the jackpot I got a replay okay so that that was it and it's it's like do it over okay do it again lot two balls get the third ball into play shoot the ion cannon get bitcoins rinse repeat you know I think that's why that's why the the total nuclear annihilation is so appealing it goes back to this kind of this kind of play that they had like in the 80s in the late 80s you know where it was very simple rules very very very easy to learn very difficult to master this ball 3 I'm doing pretty well so of course the war targets ups up up top increase your bonus alright so yellow now notice I'm not hitting the stand-ups I'm not hitting the stand-ups to light those right those lots because sometimes the standards a little unforgiving and it come right back at you but if you're really good at hitting me stand ups you can prep those locks with no problem lighting target increases iron cannon jackpot 100,000 points just checking to make sure everything's working my riffs are working problem with the screen behind me is I can't you call that pinball I can't see how I've been rift unless I have a screen in front of me I think my sounds work so I have a whole sound oh my colors work George you know what you should do on your stream deck make a folder called colors I have ROYGBIV I have all the colors I can hit a button there and they're actually the color of the light so I just tap a color of the light and they turn that light that color so if I tap yellow it turns yellow which is I like that because I always like to return my logo to red so I just tap red and my logo goes back to red anytime I want to reset also we should talk at some point about how to make it clear to the users now your users know you got you you get an average of 20 per stream and they all know what to do what to type in fact they know to type hex codes to put in color commands the the couple of people I have maybe stroll in and in and out every once in a while don't even know those commands exist so I'm trying to make them know by I know this is the ugliest thing in the world but I put them up on the screen I'm trying to think of a cool way to get people to realize hey you can interact with the stream also so I'd like to pick your brain about how to how to make that happen may make more interaction happen based on giving them information about the stream I also have a sounds directory so make yourself a sound folder in the color folder now I can just launch you know mystifies back much did you hear that cuz I didn't hear it oh I have my sound now yeah you heard this is the hard part about this when you hear it you hear it over your laptop but um so I still want to get these nuances worked out like if I do everything's under control situation normal everything's perfectly all right now where I can really hear fine here no thank you how are you I'll figure that out I'll figure that out I know jack danger used to say I've seen him he uses am an earplug by the way what'd you think of the stream today the Dead Pool stream you know after all it said be done I didn't bother to get in touch with him about streaming Dead Pool with them because I I just I just kind of want to stay like lay low and not not really risk it by going over to free gold watch to set up and stream I don't know maybe I'm being a pump there's nothing wrong in my neighborhood those guys don't have kovat everything is cool my neighborhood is so lightly I don't have a lot of people in my neighborhood it's like but at the same time you know I'm Matt Matt Henry over a free gold watch is more than happy not he's like dude just let me know he says like do let me know when you want a common wool you know we'll make sure that as you can do it hi last ball okay 92 I need to play some pinball now let's see what was terrific the other day I screamed a test the last test I scream for my laptop I played Elvis and I got to frigging Graceland in in the second game I got the great stylist like again who's the most epic but my highest score on Elvis ever the most epic game ever it was good managing that number of people is rough but the trade-off is is easy with regards to tech fourth quality nginx is native quality but man is it tough to get functional yeah I watched a little bit of it too and I thought okay good we have a more realistic number of participants I like that he did it in a competition mode and I like that he would do two players at a time much more engaging much easier to follow and I guess I'm watching my son just leave my office and just leave I think I'm being too loud for him he's watching magic Motown and on Netflix and I think I'm being too loud sorry Scott he just he just totally left I felt like you know the fact that and he said he said something to the effect of he's gonna be able to get better quality kind of wish there was an option that didn't have any kind of trade-off easy-to-use at 1080 60 with maximum flexibility I I agree the only thing I can't imagine IFP a being cool with playing competitions like that though because they can't control in the play field alright one person's tilt can be super super super easy and the other person can be at a much higher slope and stuff the next issue bazoom is how do you put two players on the screen without any wasting real estate yeah you don't get to control the layout you're unless your participants are all here we go I got blue I got blue unless your participants are all there we go big points big points big points here we go to last I'm going to DM you about that oh no you can't oh wait are you saying no you can't that you can't control the quality or yeah you can't control the can't control the layout you can't control anybody's layout unless they all buy into your layout decisions come on damn it my god the shot oh you suck ah this is so much fun alright I'm gonna get it next time control the playfield cameras yeah you can IFP a remote competitive IFP what points they're not gonna allow it you can't you can't control anything and you know the way we all know the way they work tight tilts extra balls turned off competitive mode turned on as far as fun yeah Jack's only concerned with fun which I agree it was hella fun watch him a lot of that I watched about a half-hour of it it was stupid crazy fun like I love that oh but as far as something that's like seriously considered for IPA or whatever I don't think it's it's not part of his idea as part of his this thing is look look at how many people we have streaming now there are people in the Freegal watch lead that I don't even know had streaming gear I didn't even know it's training gear I was kind of like like Zack is streaming every day and I'm like I didn't even know you had gear at streams but I think now that we're all kind of stuck for a little while and and and and not in a position where we have a lot of competition of entertainment right now they can they can use pinball more as entertainment then you know showing up and kicking ass and you know Here I am thinking that I'm like I mean I never really thought this but even if I thought that I was like helping people every go Watts dream I'm five years later I'm just some kid that showed up that decided to just stream somewhere you know death flick was that f wrote free go watch five years before I even showed up he streamed from narrow like first he was clearly right but and then you you know George you've been streaming you been straight A's pinball since before I was even thinking about playing well not really but you've been streaming pinball soon before I was even thinking that shaming pinball was something that I wanted to do yeah um so I never I forgot I don't know where this point is going i me and my buddy were chasing we're chasing YouTube dubs in fact we're pretty damn close to 10,000 subs two years in May two years in May there you go yeah so since 2014 I have been working on YouTube whoo wow what the what what was that how did you do that and I did you did somebody do that I didn't see him come and show up on the screen thanks for the color since 2014 I have been working at pull my focus on YouTube and we are whoa the colors are crazy when it happens in my house it's kind of freaky if somebody there is trying to freak me out it's working oh that was that wasn't you I don't know maybe maybe Micah's in the other room McCullers somebody's changing the color so we've been working at pull my focus for a while and our our main goal color black our main goal it was to get to two color white once it gets hit it's just it's just George how do you do it oh my god got it locked got it locked you can't distract me two locks with the colors going on I don't care I can do it not with the colors Judi Iook at it boom boom jackpot is that another job is that another job I'm sure one more no that's laser war baby oh oh my god I'm missing a lot ye old pinball shop color blink blinking lights I don't know if that's a color so George does it turn it to white if it doesn't find a valid color I think it turns into white correct that is the creepiest thing ever hi I am so happy this is working now because I don't know what's happening in my house when those colors ghosts are going crazy okay what do I need what do I need what do I need Barney I need red got it correct okay cool oh well let's just let's just let's just make my box was work right now Santa Starfleet we have engaged the drain ye old pinball shop having fun with us cuz dude you gonna or or do that I don't know what you are you can use a hex color to your show man example of using a hex hex color those get really specific and I have the old hue lights Wellington New Zealand oh my god I was so close to New Zealand I visited Australia eight times and I was I was trying to get a gig in New Zealand so bad and I was really close to getting a gig in New Zealand nice to be a dance teacher ice ice to teach dance all over the world and and New Zealand was the place I always wanted to go I got to Australia eight times I got to lismore I got to Sydney I got the / I got to Melbourne I got to Brisbane and notice I said Brisbane not Brisbane hate that and where else I get I got to whoa oh geez damn it I mean dang it I mean don't swear George what's your color here your color looks like a greenish something but New Zealand was just not in the man just wasn't in the thing love Brisbane yeah Brisbane pinball masters in August hopefully the silly virus thing will be over by then I agree that's the one thing I really missed you know you could put it's funny we play pinball alone when we play but we play with friends but we play you know we play a serial game right where it's one after the other each like it's randomly assigned a color each like it's randomly assigned a color pool which is which is which is why I love that don't panic flip decided to start to do these duels because when you duel with someone you're playing side by side on the same machine you know let's just take a click technically say it's the same machine you get this energy what's up mr. Kennedy pinball sheen you get this energy uh oh my god that that person is playing the same game and you just wanna go what are they doing no no no don't worry about what they're doing you do you think nobody but what are they doing am I am i doing gonna like I don't think I've ever seen George so focused on just playing from when we were when he was playing against Jedi and we love Timbo the focus was insane that always drawn him well she I just lost my pittmoss soon buddy he just he left I think I was too loud for him both my guy both my kids are just gone they just they just left the wrong where am I so anyway I'd love to get to New Zealand also once this thing finishes whoo-hoo love that kid lol 8-pin Kade we had 10 fish tails lined up for oh my god they must have been the fastest games ever too cuz pin fish tails is fish tails a little brutal fish tails is the game first to catch a monster fish also good ramp ramp ramp ramp ramp ramp monster fish fish fish tail Symphony the 1 $1 off my kid playing sure shot tonight what's your shot is that a that I am fish tails is one of those games that I'll pick oh cool got lip something this this guy leave fish tails is one of those games that I will pick in tournaments when I either want to win or I want the other person to lose you know I mean I want to I kind of want a fighting chance so I'll pick fish tails returned the yellow bass return to yellow bass ready I think I got two locks I got two locks what I got to do is I got hit the ion cannon I think no I got one lock don't fight oh yeah oh I had it locked already in yellow don't fire yellow let's get red any times you got to do that there's an extra four that's so that's the separation I want let's do extra ball hopefully yeah a better player would have done better at that you still throw on the VR headset sometimes I I'm I'm primarily playing in VR I'm primarily planners I play this one in VR because the flipper lag there is an actual flipper lag right now when I the ball come to the flipper comes up cut up cut up so the flipper comes up a little bit so I kind of have to almost predict my shots or at least take my shots early when I'm in when I'm in VR that goes away that literally goes away the only thing left in VR that is not that is lacking for me on this table I get to have kicks I get the everything the only thing left is the physics the physics you start to see the ball do weird things and you go yeah a real ball wouldn't do that in real life you know so Chris jail is a great competitive game ten fishtails seems excessive Pacifico you know what there's a there's an operator out here his name is TJ buyer you might have heard of him you might not have if if you know if you know in debug pinball in the Bay Area TJ has most of the machines TJ has two NBA fast breaks and Jorge Gomez at the Georgia Gomes game he wrote Cove back in the day which allowed two NBA fast breaks to be linked together so you can play each team on a separate machine so you're now playing against someone else real basketball scores it requires a certain board and a certain kind of setup TJ is the only person I've ever seen set it up at a local arcade two NBA fast breaks side by side me and my wife Karen we played it it was the most fun ever because you hear the announcer on the other team go oh what a shot that was amazing and you're like ah I gotta make shots I gotta make shots and all you do is concentrate on like the the hoop the scoop in the middle you know the big it's it's it's the only time I've ever seen like a lot of like two machines networked together like that all right guys let's go for another super I got a lock yellow base let's go for another super okay that's a lot I gotta leave the lock red or blue it looks like blue is ready okay so not fair because the game doesn't pause while all those bumpers are going okay that was dumb Oh good luck right come on pass it yeah it's gonna let him go too late can I get blue maybe I have a p3 with the comic kart racing oh I look forward to having a second whip head-to-head I heard that that is a fun game I heard that that is a super fun game oh and I never played heist oh you you're asking a yell pinball people underpriced I need to look at some I need to look at that Jack danger reveal of heists also so I can see what that game looks like there's a p3 Alamo here in San Fran stole and also it's owned by TJ I forget what game he currently has in it yeah lots of blinking lights I want a heist but I just paid for my MMR would that be medieval man this royal so I cannot afford it right now is that a medieval madness and I'm alright what's ready what's ready red might be ready we're ready Oh Oh blue lucky smack into blue uh and con free Congrats cooler yeah R equals remake that's right indeed yeah medieval madness remake with RGB lighting a giant LCD I played one in kawaii didn't have the giant LCD I put up I think 80 million on it from a really lucky game that was also the same place where I did grand finale in theater of magic the first time two billion broke two billion brand-new machine with all the extras how much does a machine like that go for now if you don't mind if you don't mind me asking Oh 5 X 4 and 65 oh look at this oh that's ball three dang it one point - I think my height is like - there's a bonus she's 10 K what up hey hey I should I should you know what I really should be rocking the Royal Rumble right now thank you so much for explaining a little bit I came to me last night cuz I I play it in VR like I was telling these guys just earlier cuz VRS waywaywayway more fun waywaywaywaywaywayway more fun is happy Friday thank you happy Friday happy Friday gents and yeah I'm definitely gonna give it a shot tonight when I finished streaming and I slowed up the vrm oh okay yellow gimme yellow oh so you mean yellow right now this is it shoot the ion cannon piss out points I heard you I heard you calm down we'll try and shoot the ion cannon three two crash and burn Wow Jose ion cannon possible oh come on that wasn't all right I'll say goodbye to you George thanks for thanks for hanging George likes to bounce around channels he wants to watch them all and I'm sure he's frustrated that he can't watch them all I bet he has like 12 screens up I put up oh my god 1.8 a billion last night and beat the way you did I missed it was it after I left I seriously had to go to bed because I had already done you know the wheel of pinball slash don't panic Flint streams and I was already like three glasses of wine in but I was excited to see you playing that cuz I was like oh my god nobody plays this maybe I can get a chance at finding out how to play it you son of a get up there do whatever you got to do guys to keep that ball on the table if you got a squat like you got a P do it all right let's get oh my god I have an extra ball in it and I'm not calling for it ah okay Congrats it was it was was a ways into the stream okay thank you for the thank you for the nice save that's a weird kick out of that so that ramp I don't know if you could tell but that ramp kicks out to the front of the sling onto the flipper yeah but if you don't engage that flipper that thing's gone get some bonus X bonus X everybody likes with a bonus X I swear I got sounds like that guy says damn yeah 2.0 and I got extra ball I need to stream while I'm doing like a tournament because it makes me not think about you know the difficult shots coming up and I just kind of chat and then I end up putting up like great decent points okay lock red lock yellow lock blue profit Oh blue I mean yellow that's - this is where you profit or you or you totally brick it like I did last time Diggity Dog okay still do it got it you son of a crappy crap 300 I'll make a simple tutorial edit of raw Rumble to wizard as well as turn the treasure wow that would be very kind thank you so much Wow laser war is so much fun ladies Awards it's super simple you guys have seen the hardest part of it that break3 bill three mil yep I almost broke four mil oh so good this game is funny it gives you a Lana says hi hi Lana it's very nice to meet you and this will be f e this is who I have to beat boom I got beat that pump that pump came to my house put up 3.7 million on my game and I showed up I was like hey man what you do is that oh I'm just I'm just playing get up for me get off my game at what's wrong with you sorry chill chill I'm good okay I walked over and I looked I said 3.7 million damn you can't rolled up in my house pull the WWF on my laser war now gonna beat that I don't play one more time [Laughter] all right I'm gonna play well I play until 9:00 my time but then I got put my boys to bed all right once again lock already hit R and until you lock hit yellow to your lock hit blue into you luck I'm gonna go for these stand-ups cuz like I said before you can cute the scoops which kind of gets you a lot get your locks going but if you shoot the stand-ups you can prime your locks already stand-ups are hard cuz they come flying back at you and you got to hit the one that's flashing that's the trick right see I'm hitting the other one next to it but it's not doing anything that's why I don't bother with this cap tops I gotta hit that oh they see the nudge move the crazy nudge move check it out a lot I don't have kids yet so we can be totally responsible with our times yes do me a favor be very irresponsible go to Vegas gamble do crazy stuff cuz when they come they're like luggage you can't get rid of them they're your kids check it out it's digital but it shakes and it tilts too which is kind of cool fire red Oh some of them alright so red is bounce red is yellow the easiest one to get Prime's what I try and do is I try and work on blue wait why is blue ready there's some stuff about lighting these locks we take naps and no one interrupts us dude what's a now red Oh son of a gun that was terrible that was a waste of a kickback how do you realize your kickback I have no idea complete Bank lights or laser kick when lit a light laser kick right there we go crazy you know shut up I get the picture [Music] hey go fix that machine man that you gotta fix go fix your room fix your machine to go fix your flippers no dude do me what our house ball come on go make babies go make lots of babies you know what it's the greatest thing in the world though it's like oh I'm not going out like that rip it rip it what you got for me guys a little to the right uh I see I see I just blew George's mind because I just did I just told him to make folders in a stream deck to put all of his colors all of the sounds and all that stuff so if he wants to change the colors of his lights in the back he can just call it up like I can go indigo press indigo and then the lights in the back turn into go from the stream deck I mean he knows that but sometimes my brain works a little differently when I'm like I want color red right now that changes color ready all right last one laser war if you see it on location give it a shot it is it's it's super simple but it's got that one more one more time kind of feel makes it reminds me of total nuclear annihilation like that it's not as brutal as TNA but it's uh oh you know what I don't have I don't have a rain button once again this is all don't panic flips software he's kind enough to let some of us beta test for alpha test I guess he says it's alpha uh yeah TNA definitely that's what I love about Stars Stern oh stars has that one more game do you have a stars I want to try and see if there's a decent stars emulation the EMS can be tricky to emulate though because I have a much different feel this is not really so this is totally not a TM right but this is a UH it's like a DM did you see that ball spin holy smokes you know it's cool once you start playing in VR I always thought that TNA is my next challenge after probably reactor nine my furthest reactor in TNA is five that's it Oh completing four getting to five not completing five was I gonna say after I was gonna say I don't think I'm gonna do yeah Oh English that's right before I started playing in VR I thought that VR pinball the ball couldn't lift off the table I was like well the ball can't hop the ball never hops off the table that's not true you just don't see it hop because you're not seeing depth the ball actually hops because if you think about it it has to to get to a ramp it has to go up right it has to go on the and the z-axis so I've hit balls in some of these virtual games when I'm in the VR and the ball hops I had a ball hop the flipper hop the flipper I went what that's impossible in fricking VR and virtual pinball it is not because the guys who code these games play these games and love these games and what everything tour you know so I was pleasantly surprised to see balls hoppy now it doesn't probably doesn't happen as much but if you're in VR you can actually watch the ball spin you got to go peepee Skylar hang on see it doesn't matter how good your game is if they got to go peepee they got to go peepee I love my boys all right that was worth it because we we my wife spent three days potty training Skylar three days he's done he's potty trained we thought it would take two months three days fortunately for us we have a separate bathroom that his his stuff is all set up in so whenever he has to go he goes to that one bless his heart laughing y'all oh man that is so freakin tricky I have to get the ball a nudge when it comes off this wall otherwise it'll go straight down the holdover bonus lit I'll take the red then I want them Oh hopping over that ramp is harder than you think all right we got one locked is for all the money this for all the cash get up in there I can do that I can fire yellow and lock it in yellow okay let's try and lock it in red I love that I love that about this game though like if you don't make that happen you're chopping wood to get back back there there are no gimmies in this I still don't I still don't have my holdover bonus by hitting that guy there we go bonus held you better put that flipper up all that suckers going away boom the physics have come a long way my friends our understanding of physics of pinball got a long way to go look at that it rejected got a long way to go but come a long way all right let's get yellow 3 2 1 coming out suck a duck that totally invalidated my locks not gonna do it what up wax wax this is yours I love it this Batman Forever bill is killing me I'm sorry bro I'm sorry one more one more I matched I got two so that it like my average on this is 2 million now which is terrific um Matt Matt forever has a ton of shots in it I got to play when a pin Berg you uh planning on tackling TNA yeah whack so you uh may be planning on tackling DNA maybe I know wax is like a million tables a million tables light lined up thanks pay you okay this has to be my last game because he's passing out he's passing out pink ninja man that's the best song ever for you come on right Shia LeBouf stay with me let's see what's happened in chat just got my booty kick no one in my team knew how to play teach me how to play Oh teach me how to dougie teach excuse me on a dougie teach me how to play pick a man's really good intro oh this games pretty fair - let's do yellow fire yellow baby what's ready blue is ready bounce blue is ready mommy was not ready but blue is ready I can't nope nope nope oh yeah shy short side George laboof the second that I touch TNA will get updated again and no the last build we have to wait that's why it really stinks what they did with it I just just walked my brother through the basics and if he can figure it out he's oh ok ok yeah maybe maybe teach me these heroes of the storm right I need a game to play so maybe that'll be it oh that was just baller right there yellow No right Oh light my kickback red oh you like those words Skylar yeah don't touch the door last ball good luck do it for me sky thank you bro you see that nudge what a nudge bend it no send it no I can't stop playing competitive shooters I'm a big did aren't hard not a lot hard knocks life for us Paul George I have something to show you that I have been messing around with in After Effects I can't show you here Kenneth maybe I can let me switch it's actually not finished yet I don't think I should show it until it's finished so this is this is me using studio mode which should be fine for everyone I switched to studio mode so I can screw around with a different scene without you guys seeing I'm gonna run it I'm gonna run it once this this is what I created for my I think for my youtube channel for I am PT 3 K YouTube channel I wish I could incorporate it into the stream I don't think I can but for the you know kind of the premiere on your YouTube channel that people see as kind of a representation of your channel I want to run this and hopefully it runs the sound too [Music] [Applause] [Music] after effects I'll run it one more time Lana loves it thank you here I should just be able to switch over to my run one more time like I said it's it's 20 seconds which is what I was going for you don't want to waste anybody's time but you want to kind of give him some pizzazz I was hoping to use it at the start of this stream but no one sees the start of my stream so why am i doing so much work for no one so I'm gonna put on my youtube channel ever do it one more time [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right I would work a little bit longer on I have my emmy-award-winning buddy the guy who originally designed all the artwork for amputees okay I had him look at it he had he thought it was cool he has some suggestions I might change the ending and do whatever but that's about it thank you guys so much for watching you can use this yeah I can actually well it's 20 seconds that's a long freaking stinger oh thank you Ark mecha I attend you I bet you guys didn't know I wore glasses yeah Ark mecha I don't have a screen big enough to be able to read so I'm like this George also yeah I added more lights I have two lights on me right now so it was tired of being one of those streamers that streams in the dark Faye your your lighting is terrific and I just like I'm just tired of losing the streaming game so so now I'm gonna just pull out all the friggin stops and just just be one of those guys I give up I'm a streamer I've I've I've faked it for months I give up okay buh-bye see you guys tonight
Speaker's channel has been operating on YouTube since 2014 and is approaching 10,000 subscribers (2 years to milestone).
high confidence · Speaker states: 'since 2014 I have been working at pull my focus on YouTube' and 'we're pretty damn close to 10,000 subs two years in May'
“that that person is playing the same game and you just wanna go what are they doing no don't worry about what they're doing you do you think nobody but what are they doing am I am i doing”
Primary host@ 26:12 — Describes psychological aspect of competitive pinball
“I need to stream while I'm doing like a tournament because it makes me not think about you know the difficult shots coming up and I just kind of chat and then I end up putting up like great decent points”
Primary host@ 38:52 — Comments on how streaming affects competitive performance
“I don't play one more time...he rolled up in my house pull the WWF on my laser war now gonna beat that”
Primary host@ 41:27 — Anecdote about competitive pinball culture
medium · Discussion of IFPA constraints: 'can't control the layout...can't control anybody's layout...can't control the playfield cameras...you can't control anything'
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gameplay_signal: Virtual Pinball in VR shows physics gaps: ball hops are visible in VR (not in desktop view due to perspective), some trajectories behave unrealistically compared to physical machines
medium · Host observes: 'the ball actually hops because if you think about it it has to to get to a ramp...the only thing left is the physics the physics you start to see the ball do weird things'
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content_signal: Host's pinball/streaming channel operating since 2014, approaching 10,000 subscribers with 2-year milestone target mentioned
high · Direct statement: 'since 2014 I have been working at pull my focus on YouTube...we're pretty damn close to 10,000 subs two years in May'
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venue_signal: Freegold Watch venue (associated with Matt Henry) hosting competitive remote streaming events with modified formats (two-player duels, competition mode, simplified logistics); Jack Danger running events with entertainment focus over strict IFPA compliance
medium · Host discusses watching Freegold Watch Dead Pool stream, notes format change to two-player duels, mentions Jack Danger's focus on 'fun' over IFPA compliance
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market_signal: Medieval Madness Remake priced ~$5,000-6,500; mentioned as recent purchase preventing acquisition of Heist; Theater of Magic premium version cost not disclosed but implied high ($3,000+ range)
medium · Host: 'oh 5 X 4 and 65' (interpreting as $5,400-6,500); states 'I cannot afford it right now' after MMR purchase
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design_philosophy: Host and peers value pinball design with simple entry-level rules but deep competitive mastery ceiling; cites Laser War and Total Nuclear Annihilation as exemplars of late-1980s design approach
high · Host: 'that's why the the total nuclear annihilation is so appealing it goes back to this kind of play that they had like in the 80s in the late 80s you know where it was very simple rules very easy to learn very difficult to master'
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content_signal: Host experimenting with interactive stream deck controls (hex color commands, sound triggers) to engage casual viewers unfamiliar with commands; average stream viewership ~20 concurrent, mostly familiar with chat bot interaction
medium · Host discusses viewer education challenges: 'the couple of people I have maybe stroll in...don't even know those commands exist so I'm trying to make them know...how to make that happen may make more interaction happen'