SDTM Tutorial: Monte Carlo Pinball w/ Chuck Wurt

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TL;DR

Tutorial on Monte Carlo (Gottlieb 1986) with gameplay, rules explanation, and tournament considerations.

Summary

Chuck Wurt provides an in-depth tutorial on Alvin Gottlieb's 1986 gallery pinball machine Monte Carlo, covering its unique dual-ramp layout, bet pool bonus mechanic, roulette wheel collection system, and the controversial 10-million-point timed shot. Wurt demonstrates gameplay throughout the stream while discussing tournament viability, mechanical quirks of Gottlieb games, and strategy for shot sequences and bonus accumulation.

Key Claims

Monte Carlo was released by Alvin Gottlieb around 1986, same era as Genesis
high confidence · We Are Pinball gonna learn some Monte Carlo from Alvin Gottlieb 1986 this is a gallery premiere game I think it came out around the same time as Genesis
Maximum base bonus is 430,000 points when all six bet pool levels are lit
high confidence · if you add all those up...four hundred and thirty thousand it looks like if you add all those up
The 10-million-point shot lights every 40 switch hits and is the most valuable shot in the game
high confidence · every 40 switch hits that 10 million point shot will light...that's a huge shot I would say average score is if you don't make that shot or in the 5 to 10 million range
In multiplayer games, the 40-switch timer for the 10-million-point shot is per-player, not shared
high confidence · if it's a multiplayer game I found out that the 40 switches is per player so if I get 39 switches on my ball the first switch you hit it it'll light for you
Monte Carlo is a good game for practicing shot sequences and flipper tricks
high confidence · if you're a competitive player or you want to learn how to do certain flipper tricks especially shot sing this is a perfect game to learn on
Wurt considers Monte Carlo's 10-million-point shot potentially problematic for tournament play due to exploitability by top players
high confidence · Unfortunately the ten million point shot I don't want to say it breaks the game...I think the tippy-top players can just chat all day and then get good at timing it

Notable Quotes

“if you're a competitive player or you want to learn how to do certain flipper tricks especially shot sing this is a perfect game to learn on”
Chuck Wurt@ 1:58 — Establishes Monte Carlo's value for skill development in the pinball community
“the tippy-top players can just chat all day and then get good at timing it so it's on the right the left side when it's lit and just jam it up there”
Chuck Wurt@ 13:15 — Expresses concern about competitive balance of the 10-million-point shot
“I'll need to use it in some tournaments and see but yeah I just like that the almost all these Bally machines leaves have such unique layouts”
Chuck Wurt@ 17:01 — Reflects on broader appeal of Gottlieb games despite Monte Carlo's potential issues
“they're really cheap too because nobody likes them”
Chuck Wurt@ 17:52 — Notes market positioning of Gottlieb games as undervalued among collectors
“I'm definitely going to use this in tournaments but I think since it's consistent every 40 switches I don't know it doesn't seem too bad”
Chuck Wurt@ 13:34 — Shows willingness to test Monte Carlo in competitive play despite reservations
“if you do determine that that 10 million point shot is too insane for tournaments you could just disconnect the switch”
Chuck Wurt@ 33:07 — Suggests practical solution for tournament operators concerned about balance

Entities

Chuck WurtpersonAlvin Gottliebcompany Monte Carlogame Stranger Thingsgame Genesisgame Firepowergame Diamond Ladygame

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community_signal: Pinball streamers on TPN organizing weekly clip reels from streams, showing collaborative community content creation
medium · all the streamers on the on TPN are trying to put together a weekly like clip reel of all the best clips from our stream from the week
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competitive_signal: Chuck Wurt uncertain about Monte Carlo's tournament viability due to 10-million-point shot potentially being exploitable by top players, though consistent 40-switch timer mitigates some concerns
high · I'll need to use it in some tournaments and see but...I think the tippy-top players can just chat all day and then get good at timing it
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design_philosophy: Monte Carlo presents excellent platform for teaching shot singing and flipper control due to dead-end lane design allowing back-and-forth shot sequences
high · if you're a competitive player or you want to learn how to do certain flipper tricks especially shot sing this is a perfect game to learn on
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market_signal: Alvin Gottlieb games positioned as undervalued in collector market due to lack of collector interest, available at low prices
high · they're really cheap too because nobody likes them...if you've been around a while collecting games and want to try some new types of games I definitely recommend all these weird Alvin Gottlieb games
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product_concern: Monte Carlo experiencing mechanical issues: broken top lane freeze switch, plunger inconsistencies, roulette wheel spinning too long (resolved with stoppers), and occasional stuck switches

Topics

Monte Carlo rules and mechanicsprimaryShot singing and flipper technique practiceprimary10-million-point shot balance in tournament playprimaryAlvin Gottlieb game design and market valuesecondaryBet pool bonus accumulation mechanicsprimaryMultiball and lock stealing mechanicssecondaryGame-specific maintenance issuessecondaryStranger Things new code updatementioned

Sentiment

positive(0.72)— Wurt is enthusiastic about Monte Carlo's gameplay and mechanical design, appreciates Gottlieb games' uniqueness and affordability. However, he expresses clear concern about the 10-million-point shot's tournament viability and balance. Overall tone is educational and appreciative despite identified flaws.

Transcript

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soundin all right okay welcome everybody we are gonna learn some Monte Carlo from Gottlieb 1986 this is a galley premiere game I think it came out around the same time as Genesis if you're familiar with that game unique layout it's got two ramps one in the back right one on the left the left also is a lift ramp so you can go either up the ramp or underneath it to curl around and hit the back Saucer kind of like firepower some unique rules they're heavily based around increasing your bet pool which is essentially your bonus your end of all bonus down here you'll see this counting up if you can't read on the stream you got 10,000 20,000 40,000 80,000 160,000 and 320,000 so depending on what lights are lit up you add all those up to get your your bonus I think you can get to the point where all six of them are lit up so I guess your max base bonus can be thirty seventy one fifty three ten four hundred and yeah four hundred and thirty thousand it looks like if you add all those up then you can also get that to extra 3x but we'll we'll cover how that accumulates there's just a lot of different things that accumulate that and various different ways that you can collect that as well so again welcome everybody we're gonna learn some monte carlo pinball from gottlieb tonight so we're gonna get planned and I'll kind of talk through what's going on as we play one of the coolest things about this game that I like if you're a competitive player or you want to learn how to do certain flipper tricks especially Shatt Singh this is a perfect game to learn on so I hid a saucer right away if you hit any of the three saucers it will have the roulette wheel go in the bottom of the playfield unlockable so I just hit the one that's back behind the pop bumpers there's another one in the back of the game that circles around like firepower and then there's another saucer that's almost in the same exact spot is the right one on firepower as well so you can see the white flashing inserts those are your three locks once you get the balls in those three holes it starts multiball once multiball starts you have a play field multiplier depending on how many balls you have in play if you have three it's three X to 2x not quite sure exactly what all is applied to that play field multiplier with these ATS got leaves it's not everything it's usually just all the minor switches around the play field so poppers drop targets things like that so most of the switches in this game are giving you somewhere between 10 and 20,000 points so if you're in multiball you have three balls go and you could be getting you know 50 60 thousand a pop if you're in the pop-up version they're all lit one thing with my game that is currently broken that I need to fix you'll see the top lanes up top see how the lights rotating between all the top lanes you're supposed to be able to stop that from moving with by holding up the right flipper but you can see when I hold it up it just keeps moving the switch down below is broken so it's not making contact so I need to fix that so you can use some strategy on that because if you roll down a little a nup top it'll light one of the pop bumpers and then if you roll down a little aim three times all three pop bumpers are like oh I haven't seen that before so when you plunge is supposed to come around and feed the right flipper but as you saw there something crazy happen or it jumped off the rail just did it again huh so get on there ball lock what's happening down below is it's doing the roulette wheel and depending on what number you have you get down below you'll get a different number of points if the number is red and your insert says red and that's lit you'll get 10,000 points if it's also and an even number if evens lit you'll get ten more thousand points and for a third collection of points if you have the number lit on the playfield as well it will award you your your bonus and multiplied by any multiplier you have okay to light up you can see right now I have a couple numbers flashing in the play field in order to light those up and possibly be able to collect it down below I don't know what that's doing haven't had this game too long so working out some kinks definitely hadn't had issues on the plunge yet so if we can get a trap here I'll show you what I mean so you can see the number a is flashing the number eight is pointing to this red drop target that I still have up so we got a lit Lane up top so now one of our popovers is lit for 10,000 okay so you can see now I collected the eight and I actually collected a couple numbers over here as well so I got the two the three and the eight lit so now when I go down and do my roulette wheel if I collect one of those numbers it's gonna give me my end of all bonus so you can get your end of all bonus by getting your number that you've collected via the roulette wheel or draining your ball and I believe those are the only two ways to collect your end of all bonus oh I'm sorry you can also do it by the ramp if the lift ramp is down you can see us down right now it's lit read it says collect bet pool BET pool is your bonus to your accumulator here so what I was talking about before there's a perfect game to practice at Singh on shat Singh if you don't know what that is it's when you shoot the ball from one flipper up the in lane of the other flipper and you'll see that this games inlanes are kind of like dead-end shots and you can just go back and forth back and forth and what's happening there is it's doing multiple things the first time you hit one of these spot targets it opens up your outlaying gate on the right but it's also increasing your your bet pool your bonus so if you can get really good at shots and back and forth and back and forth you can just jack up that bet pool bonus as high as you want you can max it out if you get really good at it so yeah we talked about multiball we talked about collecting numbers collecting the roulette wheel the last major component to the rules is there's a ten million point shot you can see on the screen there I put an extra camera angle on the 10 million Point sign in the back it should be below the the score display that I have up there so what happens there is there's a setting that you can change how this behaves but I have it set up to every 40 switch hits that 10 million point shot will light and you have to hit this right ramp in order to collect it it's lit for a very short period of time it's pretty obvious when it's lit it starts lighting up and sounds go crazy but if you hit it within the time period you'll get 10 million points so that's a huge shot I would say average score is if you don't make that shot or in the 5 to 10 million range maybe so you want to get good at kind of anticipating when it might be lit again because it's every 40 switch hits so what I like to try to do to get better at shot Seng is just keep shots and back and forth these inlanes until that ramp lights and then try and collect that 10 million so once we get into it we'll we'll try and do that more but that's the most important shot in the game and it's all about timing on when it when it lights up we're probably pretty close to it lighting up so let's there it goes so you can see it's it's flashing like crazy and it times out pretty quick so boom it's already out but again another 40 switch hits and it'll start flashing again so we hit the right ramp or the left ramp I'm sorry and I collected our our bonus and you can see even when you collect that bonus it doesn't reset so that bet pool is accumulating your entire game so I would recommend if you're practicing this game trying to get better try and increase that BET pool early and often cuz you're gonna get it at the end of your ball possibly if it lands on the right number and the roulette wheel and you can collect it via the the left ramp if that's down I believe the ramp comes down after each saucer you've made I don't know if there's any other way to make the ramp come down all right so we got one more lock for multi balls let's try and do that it's the one up top one thing I didn't mention too is our is our bonus multiplier so it says two-to-one odds down here in three-to-one odds that's 2x and 3x bonus multiplier I believe the only way to collect that is if you have a number lit solid on the play field and it lands on that when the roulette wheel spins you won't I think if you collect it via the ramp or losing your ball you just get straight bonus it won't be multiplied oh just missed it all right so now we got ramps lit so you can see there's a lot of times where just you can't get the ball quick enough to make a shot at the ramp so pretty tough that's why it's if you can get really good at doing these Schatz's then you can anticipate that that 10 million ramp a lot better that's bad drop catch you can see I collected my bet pool but it stays where it's at so you can just try and build that up as as early and often as you can so let's see where this is going I think I just got to adjust something all right so we definitely want to get that third lock because we got a decent bonus built up here I've got a lot of numbers that we could win with on the roulette wheel because remember all those numbers that are let's solid our winners if the roulette wheel lands on them and it looks like our pot bumpers we had them lit on the last ball looks like you got a re earn those each ball all right so we still need a number six up the middle that's the also what I didn't say before we're gonna do this tutorial on gameplay for about an hour and then we're gonna switch over to stranger things and check out the new code that just came out today all right so we learned pretty much the whole game now we're just gonna try and show you as much as we can one thing I didn't mention too when you light up your numbers solid in the middle of the play field if you do happen to land on a winning number down below it will reset the numbers on the play field so you have to collect them again they won't stay lit solid which is kind of nice cuz you could get to the point if you're having a really good game where they're always lit and you're just cashing in left and right so again the drop targets are just giving you like a set number of points maybe ten fifteen thousand think of ten unless you're hitting a flashing one and that might be 15 instead of ten so but again since I don't have that ability to freeze the the roving Lane up top it's a lot harder to light the pop bumpers so definitely get that fixed oh come on my life catches our family Oh ramp ramp Oh missed it you usually can only have it set up to where you get one shot at it which is kind of nice because that's that's a very valuable shot since I'm a big tournament player unfortunately the ten million point shot I don't want to say it breaks the game we'll see how it does in some tournaments because I'm definitely to use this in tournaments but I think the tippy-top players can just chat all day and then get good at timing it so it's on the right the left side when it's lit and just jam it up there but I think if you had to like top top players but battling and seeing who could do that the best I think it'd be kind of cool to watch but we'll see if it if it's not the greatest tournament game but I think since it's consistent every 40 switches I don't know it doesn't seem too bad but I won't know until I use it in some tournaments so you can see I can I can do it two or three times in a row and then it it'll fail at some point back see you like it's it's a good strategy to try and do that because it could be a big payoff but it can also screw it - oh damn it oh yes so I have already changed it there's only two settings for the 10-million point shot it's either completely random who got it it's either completely random or it's every 40 switches and if it's a multiplayer game I found out that the 40 switches is a cross player so if I get 39 switches on my ball the first switch you hit it a light for you see again not the greatest thing in the world for competition but I'm not I'm so I landed on ten so I get my I get my bet pool times two but my bet pool should stay you know like everything carries forward but you can see all my numbers that were lit on the play field reset so now I gotta collect them again in order to have a chance to to win down below because right now if I spin the roulette wheel there's no chance of me collecting my my bet bonus because I don't have any numbers lit so it forces you to hit at least a couple drop targets before you spin the roulette wheel oh and the ball the ball lock shots are tight but like satisfying to hit them it didn't it kick that ball out it went back in and didn't kick it out again let's see if prize the power cycle it these got leaves are weird hey I guess yeah that's one way to put it yeah this is probably I've had a few weird Gottlieb's come through my house and they've all been pretty solid for tournaments this is probably the least of them diamond lady in Genesis are totally fine there's nothing exploitable in those there's a score doubling feature in diamond lady but it's literally impossible so you don't have to worry about it this ten million point thing doesn't feel too great but again I I'll need to use it in some tournaments and see but yeah I just like that the almost all these ATS got leaves have such unique layouts and some of them don't even really have like much going on there a lot of times they're just like basically a single level play field I mean yeah there's a couple of ramps on this but they're they're just kind of redirecting the ball more than just you know ramping the ball around the whole game and those street level games they did I think those are even in like but like 1990 in 1991 or so a lot of those have cool cool fun laughs so if you've been around a while collecting games and want to try some some new new types of games I definitely recommend all these weird got League games and they're really cheap too because nobody likes them yeah so they only got a 5 so if we don't get a 5 or screwed oh I'll miss and I don't think I mentioned how to increase your your bet multiplier so two-to-one odds is 2 X 3 to 1 odds is 3 X each time you get a ball on the saucer it'll advance it so once you get to saucer you're gonna be a 3x4 the rest of the game oh yeah tuner yeah see now my fives not lit I wonder if your numbers reset every time you get it in the roulette wheel no matter if you collect it or not we'll keep an eye on that see ya my numbers are staying but I wonder at up at top saucer you got to be just right kind of like firepower a lot of fire powers top lock is pretty tough you got to be perfect oh that was too perfect it bounced out oh boy alright we got two locks let's get this third lock terrible well when I first got this these these outlanes that start way up here we're closed off all the way and I was having some crazy long ball times so I open those all the way up so it makes a little harder hopefully you guys can hear the music a little bit over the over to the stream because it's that's another good part about these 80s got leaves they have very awesome like MIDI music really cheesy but fun okay up there ah man yeah so hang on ball all right we need two three we need two three yeah so I guess no matter what if the roulette wheel spins your numbers reset so if you wanna if you have a big bonus built up you might want to make sure you collect a bunch of numbers before you go go down there 86 need the 601 other adjustment I had to make to this if people are familiar with this game that fall in the roulette wheel will spin for days like easily 3045 seconds like it takes forever I put I know if you can see it on the stream but I put one of those silicon Stoppers for like cabinet doors so it doesn't Knick up your wall I just put one in there so it acts as like a speed bump so now it takes like five seconds like you've been seeing instead of almost a minute it's got these elevated slings so the actual slingshots are here then you just got these weird rubber triangles down here god so yeah the the shot sink is fun and it looks cool but it can also make you look really stupid like that hey what's up man thanks for tuning in yes I definitely am loving the Gottlieb's as well yes I think this will be a pretty cool game to have around for a while don't forgot to get that one thing I didn't mention it's real minor the lights how saying before if when you do the roulette wheel and it lands on your color or odd or even that you have lit up you'll get more points those switch with various switches around the play field I think pop bumpers and maybe drop targets will change those back and forth I don't really worry about it and then it seems like it randomizes them when you get the roulette wheel spun as well but again just know that if it if it happens to land on a nod and a black number you'll get some additional points so I guess it's not entirely a lost cause if you go down there with no numbers lit solid but you're gonna get the most points by building up that bet pool and collecting down below I should just chefs it again was I doing damn it and I tend to make some really stupid mistakes when that 10 million Ram is with some other thing some various things around the play field outside of hitting your spot targets down by your flippers will advance your bonus completing any drop target Bank will increase it basically hitting any major shots to the left orbit or the right ramp that will advance it the top lanes might as well but I'm not entirely sure so we had our open gate so that's why you always want to get that little bat like hit one of those spot targets get that gate a little bit so now you only need to worry about two drains instead of three there's also a post in the outer hole with a rubber on it so the ball will come back into play not exactly sure why that's there that's on a lot of guy leaves I probably take that rubber off oh come on give it to me nope nope brutal brutal so where people just tuned in we're learning got leaves Monte Carlo right now we're going to do this to around nine and then we're gonna hop on Stranger things and check out that new code Oh Dean hide get in there hey what's up James how you doing this learn some weird-ass Monte Carlo here man come on give it to me go yeah [Music] get up there squirrely there we go get there alright so we need a seven seven never played this one trying to check it out while avoiding mosquitoes and watching half the neighborhood swim in your pool well good on you man for letting the neighborhood swim in your pool my brother just moved into a new house and he's having his pool built and it's like way behind and he's all pissed off because it was supposed to be ready this weekend get up there dammit I almost had two in one game whoa lucky come on come on get up there trying to get the ball in the locks we got a got a bunch of numbers lit 3x bonus and we're going to get so let's see 50 so we're on to 10 times 3 so that's 6:30 so I think if we plunge and hit that saucer and we land on one of our numbers will get 630 thousands that's a pretty good payoff there we go all right so let's collect it yeah so they should get around beach-like 11 yeah so we collected it three times yeah so the only way you can get the double and triple collect is from getting your number spun on the roulette wheel and that was the worst multiball ever but again we were getting 3x scoring while we had three balls out there 2x scoring while there's two balls out there so that's cool that is just not you know multiple balls out there with nothing changed so it's actually the best way to do it have a bunch lit get your last lock for multiball collect then during multiball collect a bunch of new numbers for your next roulette spin and it looks like after we collected our multipliers reset our base bonus didn't but our multipliers did so that's good to know everybody just joined from eclectic gamers welcome we're learning some got lead money Carla right now we're gonna play this to around 9 then we're gonna check out the new stranger things could lots of improvements to the the demagogue and multi balls and stranger things if you're familiar with that game damnit don't hold the flipper up that's a good first ball almost 13 million highest score I've gotten so far since I've gotten this is 22 million all right we just need the top lock for multiball see if we can't get a damn you you suck let's keep jacking up our bonus our bonus is really high and one thing I just thought of if you do determine that that 10 million point shot is too insane for tournaments you could just disconnect the switch that's up there that swish doesn't do anything else except give you a minimal amount of points outside of the 10 million shot so there's always that all right let's see if we can't collect some more numbers here ah our numbers should still be lit we still got ball three should we risk it having six through ten I think that's a good I mean we got half the wheel yeah so I'm gonna try and go straight for our top lock see if we can't collect a close to million point bet cuz we got 320 plus eighty that's four hundred four ten times three so one point two million we can get by hitting the top saucer and spinning our number or you can just [ __ ] it up [Laughter] is it one shoot scores all on a timer I'm not sure what you're getting at the the only shot that's on a timer is the ten million point shot and it lights every 40 switch hits you can either do that or have it be completely random on when it lights when it lights for a very short period of time every 40 switches if you were in a multiplayer game that goes from Player to Player so if I get twenty switch hits once you get twenty switch hits on your turn it'll light you can also steal locks on this game which I notice I'm completely for lock stealing games some people if they use them in a tournament they play them as one player games but I'm totally for them being played as multiplayer games just kind of strategize a little bit and hope that you either get to multiball or step up and they only need one lock to to steal somebody else's I just think they had their place and you should issues them or not use them but I think it's more common for lock stealing games to be used as single-player games and big tournaments but I don't do that so yeah the only time shot is going to be that ten million point shot everything else you can take your time on and most things that you've collected or earned carry over bought a ball so if you build up a huge bonus on your first ball it's gonna be there the rest of the game you can just keep collecting it you just hit the reader and bonus multipliers you have to re-earn lit pop bumpers but that's about it I knew it I was like this is definitely not tilt so again thanks everybody for coming out to learn learn monte carlo and check out some new stranger things good boo i really need to get in the habit that started my ball to get that right out lane gay open because it's so easy to do i just never think to do it right away and the outlanes aren't that hungry even with them wide open so i don't really it's not really a top of mind oh hang on ball come on that right ramp is so simple but it's satisfying to hit can we backhand this trying to backhand that lock by the popovers doesn't seem possible alright 3 4 or 9 oh yeah so we're gonna get 90,000 for that collect [Music] another collect single value remember your bet pool collect is only going to be multiplied if you collect it via the roulette wheel Oh baby alright think we're due for another 40 million or 40 million ten million point shot here - suck it there we go get up there god I'm so terrible like I said someone way better than me can probably exploit that a lot more but oh-ho man bomber Bing Bing oh come on that was lit Oh No yeah that was like perfect timing the last switch before it fed my left flipper lit it that was sick that's gonna be my clip for the night all the streamers on the on TPN are trying to put together a weekly like clip reel of all the best clips from our stream from the week which is a pretty awesome idea so hopefully I know how to if anybody knows how to clip that that ten million point shot I just made that'd be awesome if not I can do it later I tell you how to do it but I don't even know how to do it I'm not sure I've ever clipped something on somebody's stream but that's cool the perfect 10 million collect yeah the me we were talking about the music before if you've played any of these 80s got leave games they're all cool funky music like this so a lot of people always harp on Robo war and TX sectors being these amazing soundtracks and they are it's they're they're the two best but all these other ones are pretty good too for a fraction of the price so I already got that we need the right salsa come on come on four four yes Wow the only number we had lit so we're gonna get a three collect their the way they have this set up is cool because like it feels like you're gambling you know you get excited when you get that big that big collect it's free gambling you don't need to worry about losing your money just your balls good first ball to a twelve million first ball I'll take that come on dum-dum sweet thanks for the clip man man or lady oh look I had a stuck switch they're lucky I opened up that gate right before I drained he has lost his chatting ability those are terrible area damn one two three four damn your dog dog it is can you cash in and keep playing doubling your pointer not sure what you mean by doubling your pointer but if you mean by cash in your your bet pool yes you can cash that in multiple times if you're talking about the ten million point shot it's purely just based off that time and if you hit the ramp within that time or you'll get the ten million points but your bet pool never goes away you can just keep building that up and collecting and collecting and collecting it your multipliers will go away if you collect it via the roulette wheel you got to get those back by putting balls back in the saucers each saucer will give you two X and then three X so if I collect it right now like with a seven or an eight okay so nothing but now I'm at three X because I put it in another saucer see how that three-to-one odds is lit up and the only way to get it multiplied when you collect it is via the roulette wheel hopefully from this video if people are so confused on how things work hell I'm gonna go back and watch it as well should be easy enough to go back and like rewatch some certain segments to see how the game behaves I do that a lot of times if I do a tutorial on a game but I don't know backwards and forwards I'll kind of go back after I record it just to see exactly what happened in certain instances damn you get it how was weird you see the the roulette wheel just started to spin for no reason Gottlieb weirdness for you right there oh no oh no and the more I think about it that would probably be the recommended setting for this in a tournament to just disable the switch it's the switch on the exit of the right ramp if you disconnect addy you'll never be able to collect it because as you can see like if you were to like any score where I've gotten over 10 million it's been because of that shot so it's definitely unbalanced now if everybody's consistently collecting them you know it seems fairly fair but at the same time it it's not the best thing in the world so I'm sure that's what I'll end up doing with it because I love shooting this game so I want to get rid of it quickly because normally games don't last too long at my house if they're not good for tournaments but I think making that adjustment will will definitely make it more than balanced I thought that was dead for sure don't hold the flipper up semi-pro tip get out of the habit of when you flip holding the flipper after you flip always let go always let go so you're ready to flip again had I not held up my flipper on that myth I would have been ready to hit the ball away after my mess either don't hold up your flipper or don't miss that's one of the oldest habits I have that I can't break oldest bad habits I should say Wow games being brutal to us now get there get up there hang on too early too early you can definitely backhand that right saucer also when I got this game underneath that right ramp there is two super bright LED flashers I almost had a seizure the first time I saw that ramp going so I put incandescent bulbs back on that that part I love me some LEDs just no LED flashers nice Oh halfway down post pass good question haven't tried kind of oh yeah little squirrely well yeah you can do it I've just been so ingrained to do the shat sing to pass it oh yeah you can do it for sure maybe for a quick you know if you want to get it over quick - to be able to hit the ramp that's stuff way an option all right almost to multiball let's get in multiball and then collect a bunch of numbers there we go all right so we're gonna concentrate on drop targets to try and collect as many numbers as we can so that after multiball oh we got double zero if you get if you get either of the greens it'll give you a 500k I like how the music changes during multiball - that's always fun some little things make the game pretty fun okay so we've got a decent man numbers lit but we don't have any multipliers that kind of stinks yes what I was thinking there is kind of not really possible because you're gonna want a lot of numbers lit with 3x multiplier and that's gonna be your third lock so you can't really safely collect a bunch of numbers so we got nothing what makes that big buzzing noise I think it's you got nothing you didn't get your number you didn't get your color you didn't get otter even whole bunch of buckets I believe it just spits the ball right out that's something I have to go back and watch the video but I'm pretty sure I've seen caught myself blocking a ball during multiball and it just it it catches the ball for a minute and then spits it out there's definitely I believe the only multiball rules are the 2x and 3x scoring we gotta hit a couple hit a couple left ramps here one to collect bonus to lift up the ramp and then Locker third Bowl because I think we got a decent amount of numbers at oh [ __ ] all that all that stuff gonna save this that's good yeah it's definitely hard to see this those inserts down below and what they say but this says two-to-one odds this one says three-to-one odds and those are your your multiplier all right another five or ten minutes actually after this game will switch over to stranger thanks all right so we got our lifter ramped up so let's try and get that because what'll be sitting on here two hundred thousand two hundred and twenty it's a six hundred and sixty thousand that's not a bad collect get up there don't kill me don't kill me that's good all right two three seven eight nine ten yes so a little over 700 K looks like it was 240 times 3 we'll take it I'm not sure if the 10-million point shot lights during multiball I feel like we haven't oh my god I feel like I haven't seen that going nuts during multiple yet so it's probably the games way of saying hey sorry but you're not going to get a 20 or 30 million point shot sorry I like the sound the lit top bumper makes damn yeah I'm scared to hit that center bank with either flipper but you're right it almost seems like the perfect trajectory from left to go left out link boom boom it's funny like I guess you can't put a gate on the left but the left out lane seems a lot a lot more risk of death in the right got I'd left the flipper up again all right okay yeah that's what I thought it did during multiball it just kicks the balls out of the saucers well that's Monte Carlo people not a bad game super cheap twelve thirteen hundred bucks for nice ones I see him in that price range all the time so if you're thinking of getting a cheap game this is a decent choice so don't be afraid to pick one of these bad boys up they look like hell but they're pretty fun okay so let's switch over stranger things here we're going to lose the player came here for