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Metallica Pro(Stern 2013) with Michael Szabo of Pindigo

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 24m·analyzed·Dec 20, 2019
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TL;DR

MBT3K visits Pindigo creator Michael Szabo to play Metallica Pro and discuss score-tracking app features.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 visits Michael Szabo of Pindigo at his home to play Stern's 2013 Metallica Pro machine and discuss the Pindigo score-tracking app. The hosts learn Metallica's multiball modes (Sparky, Snake, Grave Marker, Crank It Up), playfield mechanics, and skill shots while playing casual multi-player games. Michael shares Pindigo's origin story and development roadmap, including iOS support in development and post-launch feature planning.

Key Claims

  • Pindigo was originally called Pinscores before being rebranded due to naming conflict with another app

    high confidence · Michael Szabo directly states: 'Actually, trivia, it was originally called Pinscores. Uh-huh. And I announced it on Pinside. I'm going to find out that some other guy had already made an Apple Pinscore score. The week before.'

  • Pindigo's name and purple color derive from 'pinball to go' concept

    high confidence · Michael explains: 'It was kind of like pinball to go. Oh, pinball to go. That's kind of where the sound of it came from. Okay. It's not Pindigo Girls, right? No. Not the band? No. Look at this. Look at this. Oh. I did get that. I did get half a million for that. Not Pindigo Boys. But yeah, that's why the color is purple.'

  • Pindigo released version works on Android; iOS version in development as of stream date

    high confidence · Host states: 'By the way, the release version of Pindigo works great on my Android phone now. I just deleted the beta today on my way over. I had two versions. Yeah, we need to get a box for the iOS as well. We're working on that actually this weekend.'

  • Metallica's Sparky multiball requires approximately 10-12 hits to activate, with hits carrying over between balls

    high confidence · Michael explains: 'Sparky takes like 10 to 12 hits or something like that at the beginning. It's like three hits per thing. They carry over from ball to ball.'

  • Snake multiball is difficult to achieve as it requires hitting lane targets to light a specific lane and then completing letter progress

    high confidence · Michael details: 'So the snake, you only get letter progress to snake multiball if the light on top of its head is lit. You have to light that by hitting a lane that's lit for snake. So usually snake is like one of the Lord of the Rings multiballs to get because it takes a while.'

Notable Quotes

  • “This is the cleanest Metallica I've ever seen. Like, literally.”

    Host (MBT3K)@ 4:20 — Compliments Michael Szabo's machine maintenance; indicates the Metallica is in excellent cosmetic and functional condition

  • “The more I know about the rules, the worse I play.”

    Host (MBT3K)@ 8:26 — Self-aware commentary on the cognitive load and complexity of Metallica's ruleset affecting casual play

  • “Pindigo to go... That's kind of where the sound of it came from.”

    Michael Szabo@ 42:17 — Origin story of Pindigo's name and branding philosophy

  • “It lets me brag to my friends about how much better I am than they are. It's an enabler.”

    Host (MBT3K)@ 36:34 — Humorous take on Pindigo's competitive/social scoring function

  • “Never let a pinball machine auto-plunge your ball.”

    Host (MBT3K)@ 53:47 — Pinball technique/strategy advice about manual ball control

Entities

Michael SzabopersonMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationPindigoproductMetallica ProgameOscarpersonWe Are PinballorganizationStern PinballcompanyWolfmanpersonPinsideorganization

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Pindigo app being actively used and promoted within pinball streaming community; host encourages viewers to track scores on platform

    high · Host states 'I hope all the viewers are using Pindigo right now to track their scores' and regularly references checking scores on the app during gameplay

  • ?

    community_signal: Metallica remains actively played and enjoyed in home and casual streaming contexts with strong educational/tutorial value

    high · Extended gameplay session with detailed rule explanation; machine in immaculate condition; multiple players (adults and child) actively engaged

  • ?

    product_strategy: Pindigo iOS version in active development with expected completion within days of stream

    high · Michael Szabo: 'Yeah, we need to get a box for the iOS as well. We're working on that actually this weekend.'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Host testing 6K streaming resolution on Twitch, indicating adoption of higher-quality streaming technology in pinball content creation

    medium · Host mentions: 'I'm testing 6K. I'm doing 6K up right now... I just cranked it up to 6k up to twitch'

Transcript

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0:00
Cool. Oh wait. I think, I think they've been listening to us. Was my music not happening? Oh my god my microphone was on the whole time. Streaming curtains. We got people outside! It was a good thing we didn't say anything bad. Let me see. Switch to Wicam. Well that was embarrassing. Y'all didn't get to hear the cool music. Oh, I think it was just Mary.
0:33
What's up, MBT3K is here and we are at the lovely home of Michael Sabo. Am I saying that? Zabo? That's it. Shabo? Shabo.
0:47
Just pretend there's no S in front of it. He's got that silent S. of Pindigo with us today. So not only are we going to learn how to play Metallica, which you see in the title, but we're also going... This is his Metallica. We're also going to learn some things about Pindigo, because I'm going to ask him questions about Pindigo. By the way, the release version of Pindigo works great on my Android phone now. I just deleted the beta today on my way over. I had two versions. Yeah, we need to get a box for the iOS as well. We're working on that actually this weekend. All right. Yeah. So thanks for inviting me out here in the lovely East Bay.
1:33
Oh, look at my hands on this thing. Let's take a look at what it looks like. Oh, boom. Boom. All right. Michael's going to school me. Right. Come on over. All right. So what are you trying to do? What do you know how to do? You know how to get the multiballs, right? Okay, so yes, I know Sparky's multiball. I know the cross multiball and maybe the snake. Yeah. So the snake, you only get letter progress to snake multiball if the light on top of its head is lit. You have to light that by hitting a lane that's got a lit snake. So usually snake is like one of the leader multiballs to get to because it takes a while.
2:12
Sparky takes like 10 to 12 hits or something like that at the beginning. It's like three hits per thing. They carry over from ball to ball. those it takes one two three four shots for your froze multi-ball the problem is those targets come back up every ball so if you're down you're one shot away and you drain you're screwed you have to start over again okay what what how about most people competition wise they seem to just go for they just go for spark go for sparky first a short plunge it goes for sparky but there's a long game that you're trying to go for which is the crank it up modes those are worth a ton of points and then eventually getting to end of the line which is going through all the crank it up modes I haven't gotten there. I've only gotten to three crank it ups. That's my best so far. But they're worth a ton of points, and that's how you put down really good scores. And so you get those by hitting enough gray marker, electric chair targets, crop targets, and snake targets. And once you get them all lit, you've got crank it up over there. There's four different modes in there. They're all worth tons of points.
3:08
All right. So my first – okay, so you play your game. My first goal is going to be just starting all the multiballs. Yeah. and then you can tell me about because I know there's things where if you shoot a thing once and you shoot it again yeah that was the hard thing it took me a while to figure that out do you want to play a game? yes I never played this game on location because I never had a game that lasted longer than a minute or two it was just not worth the money but now that I got it at home I learned the rules about the arrows and stuff like that hell yeah I like to go for the gray markers. I like to do that first because I get those lanes lit up there for crank it up value. Oh, okay. Now I'm going to go for a snake to try to light that row. Nice. I got to tell you guys, this is the cleanest Metallica I've ever seen. Like, literally. It's so clean he's got the profanity filter on. Yeah.
4:47
Nice. Trying to hit that cray marker before I drain. There's my drain. Oh, too many head shots. Oh wow! Oh! Yeah! Told ya! We got cabinet flashers underneath the floor. I feel bad you guys didn't see that. The floor lit up. It's got LEDs underneath the cabinet. That's awesome. Alright, here we go. Alright. Now I'm gonna take Michael out. Alright. Oh! Do the songs matter? They don't. They don't matter. So it's just what you want to listen to. All right, I want to listen to this. I know, I know. What's a skill shot?
5:28
Standard skill shot up top. It's not worth a ton of points, but if you hold down this flipper, it'll go around, and it'll light up that lane for a super skill shot. You can hit any major shot for a super skill shot. Okay. So if you just flail it and hit the snake, or that ball is usually the easiest one to hit, you'll get a super skill shot. But if you can actually hit the shot that's flashing right now, it'll light up all the inserts on that. Oh, so you kind of completed it. It gives you a nice head start. So it'll like attack from Mars. Okay. It won't light them solidly. It'll light them flashing. You still have to hit it again to get credit for it. Oh, okay.
6:01
All right. Here we go. I'm going to do that. Ah! I still have time. I'm done. Okay.
6:12
All right, next time. Boy, these flippers are brand new, it feels like. Alright, so I'm gonna go for Sparky!
6:23
Oh! Sparky! Can I hit Sparky from here? There we go. Oh, God. I forgot he has a magnet. Yay, mystery!
6:38
Alright. Oh, jeez. I feel like this game is new. It feels like it's brand new. And I got one shot for multi-ball up there. I'll go for that. Grave marker. Oh, grave marker, yeah. Boop.
7:00
Nice shot. Thank you. It only gets worse from here. Yeah. My game gets worse. This is your beginner's luck, right? This is totally my beginner. All right, so what am I shooting for in this multi-ball? All the shots that are flashing crosses. All right. Oh, flashing crosses. Okay, so that's pretty much everybody. But you also want to give the pick targets for your out-of-ball. Right. Or flashing pick target. Oh, it'll come back, right? Okay. My last flashing pick target is right there. Nice. Got it. Now I want to hit the snake to collect it. Oh! And there's no grace period. So, so that's the thing I missed on location. You hit the picks. I thought it just happened. No, you gotta hit the snake. All right. Get that out of the bottle in 30 seconds. That's not a good deal. Why am I having trouble hitting Sparky? Why is this flashing right now? So if you hit a snake right now, it'll light that robe for you to hit it again and get credit for it. Was that a hit? I know. Just go in. Just impacted on the surface. Ah! So now that shot's going to ruin me today. Oh, no! Ah!
8:25
That's the thing about this game, I found. The more I know about the rules, the worse I play. I know.
8:30
I knew that shot was going to ruin me. All right. I've got, like, no progress on anything here. So I lost my copping multiball essential there.
8:47
Thank you for the follow. Bass Apeggio. Huh? That's an awesome name, Bass Apeggio. Oh, my God. That's how you pronounce it, right?
9:17
Arpeggio. Bass arpeggio, thank you for the follow. Alright. What am I doing now? So I'm still trying to get sparky. Yeah, I go for sparky. Okay, I'm gonna do this shot again. Ready? Oh no, that's a hard... See, hit something! Oh my god! I'm not Captain Ball in the middle account. You can hit pretty lightly too. Oh, you... Oh, you're not Captain Ball in the middle account. You can hit pretty lightly too. Oh, you... I killed my ball save with that skill shot. This is going to be a one ball game.
9:56
Here we go. Hell yeah! Nice. Woo! Dig it out, baby. Sticky. So tell us a little bit about Pindigo, Michael. I hope all the viewers are using Pindigo right now to track their scores. I'm just going to do regular right now. I'm going to be putting something up today. I'm going to be putting something up on Finnego today. Look at that. That was weird. We are playing Metallica with Michael from Pindigo. If you have any questions about Pindigo, just throw them in the chat.
11:27
Okay, here we go. Getting picks. Got two picks. Three picks. I got them all? Oh. Snake. Please, just go in the damn snake's mouth. Oh my god! Snake! That's coming back. That's coming back. Snake!
11:49
Michael, why is the snake so hard? Okay, everybody, calm down for a second. Why can't I hit the friggin' snake?
12:10
Hi. Hey there. Who's this? We got another player. Got a snake, finally. Got the snake twice, actually.
12:34
Oh, boy. Oh! Who's this? You know, he was supposed to meet... Hey, Oscar. He was supposed to meet Micah. Oscar, you're going to meet Micah soon. That's my son.
12:56
He's 10, you know? Micah's 10. You want to play with a 10-year-old? He's a really good player. All right, let's see. What am I doing?
13:09
Wow, that was good. I'll hit the flashing lights. All right. Oh, Wolfman, what's up, Wolf? Is Michael going to rig your Pindigo scores?
13:22
Is Michael going to rig my Pindigo? No, I don't. Michael would never rig any scores, especially mine.
13:34
Oh, no. All right, here we go. Okay, there's one more multi-ball that I want. So now what you do is check snake. Check how many snake letters you got. Let's see.
13:53
Oh, you have none. So that's a long way off. So what you're going to go for are these flashing shots. Okay. If you hit one of them, it will light a hurry up at the ball in the center for a million. Ooh. If you can hit both of those shots, it'll light up like a 2.6 million hurry up. Oh, geez. Jeez.
14:09
How about if I just drain? Yeah, that's when you drain. Is that an option? You just start thinking, that's when you drain. All right, here we go, here we go. Did I hit it?
14:18
No, I didn't. All right, let me try to get the other one. Oh! Okay, let's see. My Metallica plate blows. Well, mine is not that great either, bro. I can't backhand that, that was dumb. What am I trying to do? Alright, can we post? We can. And then we can... Oh my god, really?
14:49
You're just some snake hits away from cranking up the e-board. Am I? How many snake hits? I don't know, but that's the only thing you need to like so far is snake.
15:03
Actually, you don't have to hit the snake. Any shop that has a snake on it. Any shop that has a snake on it is valid. Uh-oh.
15:12
There you go. Oh, out the other side. Oh, my God. Why, why, why is he mad? Ooh, yeah, that's the ball. Wolfman, is that a challenge, sir? What is your high score, my friend? I guess I could look it up on Pindigo, but I'm a little busy right now. Alright, here we go. What is your high score, Mr. Wolfie? If that's your real name. Definitely go for Snake and the Snake Shop that's lit. Alright, uh... Ignore this motor because it's going to make you mess up. Oh, you built it! You're so close to the finish. You're so close to cranking up. Well, there is a tilt bob installed, and it works very well.
16:10
That's snake jib. Do you want to play with us? You want to play? Yeah. All right. We've got a third player right now. We've got Oscar here. This guy actually has got some skills. Oh, yeah?
16:21
Oscar's got his stand here. All right, buddy. We're going to play a three-player game, okay? So you're going to play ball one, and then I'll play ball two. Yeah, you chuck, Wolf. Well, if you check what that score is, we're going to take it down today.
16:35
All right, buddy. We're going to take that score down. Oh, did we see Oscar? We need Oscar Cam. Oh. Yes.
16:47
Oh, you got distracted. Okay, my turn now. Right here. Oscar, up top. All right. Daddy's turn.
17:01
Not your daddy. Hell yeah! Uh oh. Up and over? Nope. Hook it up now. Rift commands do work. Rift commands and color commands, guys. So if you want to change the color of the background, go for it. If you want to send us a rift, go for it. There it is. Nice. Uh-oh. Double scoring.
18:02
Double scoring. I got nothing worth any points right now. See Daddy on the screen? No Metallica listed must have been sad.
18:31
Wolf, I don't have a Metallica score. This would be the first time that I get to... Alright. I might put this over here. That wasn't a very good ball, was it? Let's see. Yeah. So, Wolf, I don't have a score yet on this. But I'll... we'll get... Michael's gonna give me a score on this. He's going to help me.
18:56
Yeah, you're next. That was it. Yes. Wow. Oh, what happened? I got caught playing with my flippers. Maybe I shouldn't have cleaned this plate film last night. I'll give you a score to beat, Turkey. Nice job. Go for it. Go ahead, Oscar. Woo!
19:32
Yeah! Good ass, though. Let's get distracted. That was a natural. Jeez. Hey. Yeah. Good job. That was a good one, buddy. Wow. Now it's my turn. Yeah. Oscar, how old are you? Two. Three? Yeah. Awesome. You know you're a great pinball player? Is that your dad? Hell yeah. Is that your dad?
20:53
Whoa. Hey Ntrack learning hands beating fingers with looks Oh Oh All right. All right, Daddy. I'm coming at you. I got to put up my, uh, an additional thing on the rig so that we can see the chat. It's like there's not enough things already set up on this rig. Now we're going to put up one more.
21:22
So I can read All the junk that Wolfman is trying to send my way. Player three. There we go. All right, Wolf, watch this. You're going to learn some Metallica right now.
21:34
Not from me, but from someone. Someone who's going to teach it to you. So is the skill shot really worth it? You said lunch. Yeah? Yeah.
21:43
There's another fun skill shot that's a little more skillful. You basically hold the button down and try to plunge just hard enough to get it in the lit lane up there. Oh, that's weird. Okay, so a kind of combination of the two? Yeah, so, I mean, hold it down. Let's see. Try to get it in that little lane there. Oh, God, that's impossible. All right, here we go.
22:05
Oh, yeah! And what is that, 18? 1.8. Wow, 1.8. It's a lead on the first ball, and then it goes up every ball. Can I get a ball save? Yay, all right.
22:19
What is it about the fuel? Fuel is a double scoring. Okay, so if I spell fuel, I collect it? If you spell fuel the first time, it'll light that lane to start 30 second double scoring. Right. If you light that lane enough times to fill up the meter, it'll start like a, I don't know how long a motor is, like a... Not my turn.
22:43
Yep, it's your turn, Oscar. Go for it. I always seem to start fuel right before drink. Yeah.
23:07
Nice. Wow. That was so good. Oh, yeah. You're going to buy Barbie to play with. Don't get distracted. You're there. Go after her. Woo! Oh!
23:57
Mom, your turn. My turn. Dude, that was awesome. Now it's dark in there. He's not an ambi flipper like most kids you see where they just flail on both flippers. No, he's... All of his flips are determined. Yeah, yeah. They're very like, okay, I'm going to flip now. It took my son a long time to get over that.
24:23
Good job, man. Why did they put that over the presser wheel? Oh, so we could let people watch. So people are watching this right now. So they can have fun watching us play pinball.
24:46
I can see Daddy's dog. He's playing some pinball. Hi. Why are you trying to distract me? Don't distract me.
25:05
I can see something. There we go. I got something. Yeah. See, right there. Uh oh, what happened? Sometimes the ball gets caught on that lane protector. That was terrible. I was like waiting to cash in my add a ball and I lost two balls before I could do it. I guess I should go for gray markers.
26:33
Yeah, sometimes it'll get caught in the clicky up there too. I need to adjust that. We need to teach some nudging skills. Buddy. Some other nudging skills. Buddy, watch it, watch it. Okay. Let's leave this right here, okay? That's good. That was mean. There you go. You ought to give me room to flip the flipper buttons. That was me there you go, you gotta give me room to flip the flipper button
27:35
All right, here we go You see the light underneath like the lights Oh, that's pretty cool No, no, don't drain not now
27:55
One shot from all people, right? Oh, I see, yeah, it's close. Oops. Oh, yeah! Nice. Oh, nice. Just look at him. Nice balance. Which multiball is this, Oscar? Um, this is...
28:17
Why are you doing that? This is the grave marker. Come on, let's get that red ball. There it is. Nice. Now let's go for some double scoring shots. Super jackpot. Oh, nice. Super jackpot is lit. Got it. Oh, wow. Wow, that's three million. Oh, I shot it down the middle. That's stuck. Oh, that's a good shot. That's a good shot. shot it down the middle. That's stuck.
29:27
There are two scoops? There are two scoops. Two scoops? This has a scoop and a sneak. What? This game has a scoop and a sneak.
29:46
Oh wow. Extra ball? Yeah. Nice. Light two. I like the chairs. Three million. Hurry up going on. I missed it. Mount Miser. I have an extra ball. And then it's... Then it's... Mudder's turn.
30:10
You're first. I'm second. He's third. Well, I got work to do. Yeah, a little bit. Damn right! That's where the PG cartoons are. Oh! That ball had some spin or something. I got distracted. Oh, wow.
30:48
Alright. You got this. 55 is the score to beat today. You got this. Well, what have I got? I don't know what I have. This one isn't mine, darling. I have Sparky, maybe.
31:00
Those three are mine. I have Sparky, maybe. Other than that, I have nothing really going on. Nothing really going on. Watch this. I'm going to do this again. Nope. But I'll do that one. So it seems to be kind of safe to try both skill shots, actually.
31:21
There's a timer, though, for the super skill. Okay. Come on. Alright, here we go. Waka! Oh, no. I'll take it from this one. Thank you.
31:47
And it's out. You need to get that fixed. That's obviously broken. Good game. All right, so 55 is the score to beat. What's broken?
32:01
What did the snake do, Oscar? What's broken? What did the snake do? What? What did the snake do? Pew. You're cute.
32:10
All right, Asuka's going to put up the first score. All right, let's get a multi-ball, Asuka. Here he goes.
32:17
Asuka's going to do it. Wait, is this three players or two? Three. Okay, launch. No, we're good, we're good. Okay. Boom!
32:28
30 points for launching the ball. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, no. Oh, Oscar. All right, it's my turn. You were robbed, Oscar. Sorry.
32:44
You're still good, bro. You still got it. All right. I'm going to go for a crank it up this time. I'm not going to go for the quick monkey balls. I'm going to crank it.
32:56
Whoops. Got to love that. 500 pounds. You know what you gotta add? You gotta add a subwoofer. Don't be messing with us. Yeah, I was thinking about it. Oh, nice! I might tilt that myself. Uh-oh! Oh! So what is up with that? Why would it still tilt out after... That was too much of a move. Yeah. It is a pretty tight tilt. I do two warnings and then I'll stop it all right I mean we have to tilt better okay all right all right line this up oh I'm still on my hands okay all right oh Oscar you have a little bit of space thank you bro Nope, no good.
34:02
I can't manage to hit anything after that. Okay, I'm going to go after coffins first. What song is this? It's very serene.
34:20
It's like the quietest Metallica songs ever. I got something. Oh, this looks good. That doesn't look good. Okay, okay, here we go. I said I was going to go for coffins.
34:42
I'm going to go for coffins the right way. This is the right way to go for coffins, but I'm not. It's weird how you can do that.
34:52
Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Sparky. Was that two sparkies? There's a coffin head. This is the slowest game of pinball you will ever see.
35:09
Let's slow it down a little. Oh! What was I doing? You tried for that on the fly? Whoa. That was dangerous trying on the fly.
35:26
Fade to price. That was dangerous. Check out our score. Oh wow. Oh wow. We're like a thousand apart.
35:39
Go Oscar! Oh! You're so distracted with all the cameras. I know. Your turn. Daddy's turn.
35:53
My crank it up plan is not going so well here. I know you want to crank it down. Let me just crank it down a little bit. Are you going to crank it up? You want me to crank it up? Yeah. Yeah? Okay, I will. I just... Are you serious? Oh my God. That's so stupid. Your turn. My turn. All right. Hey Oscar, do you use Pindigo? What? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? Use Daddy's program?
36:30
Yeah. Daddy's program, Pindigo? I use it too. I like it. It lets me brag to my friends about how much better I am than they are.
36:40
It's an enabler. Who are my friends? Everyone who's watching the stream right now is my friend. What's his name? Manu.
36:49
Is it Manu or Manu? It's Manu, yeah. You got it. That's a weird name, right, Oscar? I'm hungry. Oscar's hungry.
37:03
No, stop. Uh-oh. Dude, come on. What is that? It's a set-up tight. You've got a tournament set-up, right?
37:18
I could loosen it, I guess. If you want to practice, why not set it to a tight tilt? That's fine. It just makes it bloody better. Wait a minute. If you were hitting your shots, then you wouldn't need to worry about it. Ooh. I'm talking to you. Doo, doo, doo, doo. Arr. Nice. Look at this kid. You're getting it back, you're getting it back. Here it goes.
37:42
This kid is on point. Nice shot. He knows which to hit. I mean, it's great. Oh. And almost drained. Almost drained. Let's go! Let's go!
38:05
They can see us. They can see us. Oh, no. Good ball, Austin. Hey, tell me about the multi balls. Which multi balls are there? What? Which multi balls does this machine have? Um, what? He told me last... Tell me, what's this? What?
38:28
Last time when I put him to bed, he was telling me about the multiball. I was like, there's the grave marker multiball, there's the snake multiball. And what's the other one? Layer two.
38:37
Sparky. I've got like, all right, my crank it up strategy is, got me nowhere, so I'm just gonna go for a, Do you want pretzel stick? I'm going to go for gray marker multiball.
39:17
That's what I was going for. Yep, yep. Not a problem. Just a go. Yep. Not a problem. Just a go. Oh, yeah.
39:52
Ew. Get back where I was. Oh, that would have been beautiful, right? It's already beautiful. It's a perfect job. Wow, you did it. Daddy's got a lot of... Juicy, juicy, that's like outside. Yeah, put the light outside. Whoa! Man, that thing keeps like, blazing. Okay, got plenty of time. Oh wow, I didn't know it was blowing it. Oh, it's a good thing. Oh wow, I didn't know there was a ball in it. It's a double jackpot. After a while it will hold it and you have to hit it for a super. 2.2. You trying to go back in there again? I think the jackpots in that lane are worth more than the other shots. I don't know for sure.
41:32
What's up wax? I know we had. We had. Oh Oh What That the first time I seen that happen on this machine Your turn My turn Wow It slowly creeped its way out Michael, what's... You cranked it up. What's up, Wax? How's it going, bro? Cranked it out. Michael, what's the origin of Pindigo, though? Is it like indigo and pinball? It was kind of like pinball to go. Oh, pinball to go. That's kind of where the sound of it came from. Okay. It's not Pindigo Girls, right? No. Not the band? No.
42:28
Look at this. Look at this. Oh. I did get that. I did get half a million for that. Not Pindigo Boys.
42:38
But yeah, that's why the color is purple. You're not Pindigo Boys. Oh, okay. Actually, trivia, it was originally called Pinscores. Uh-huh. And I announced it on Pinside. I'm going to find out that some other guy had already made an Apple Pinscore score. The week before.
42:58
That's bad timing. It's going to tilt anyway, so let me just bring it back over. Yeah, I knew that was going to happen. All right. Come on. I've got to get a score. now. My first goal was 30. You remember that? Yeah, you had a good first one. A long time ago when the stream just started, I got 30.
43:26
So I need to do that again. That needs to happen. It'll happen this game. Because Wax is here. He's going to tell me what the special things I need to shoot are.
43:40
Right, Wax? You're going to tell me all the special stuff? That's Oscar, by the way. I forgot to put the Oscar cam on. My bad.
43:48
You can go all together. That's a daddy count. You're not listening to the wrong song here. I don't know.
44:01
There we go. Let's do this. Here too. How's the stream look, guys, by the way? I'm testing 6K. I'm doing 6K up right now.
44:37
I want to bet. Jeez. I want to bet. nothing has changed on this it's just easier ramps and pistons all day to get crank it up
44:54
all right how's the stream look guys because i'm doing a michael has insane internet so i just cranked it up to 6k up to twitch i don't know i can't tell the difference
45:08
i'm also not rocking an nvidia card so it probably doesn't look as good as if i whoa Oh, I got that one. Yeah. And that one worked.
45:32
Let's go! That was a dumb idea. Hey, Wax, do the pistons get you closer to crank it up? I saw a tournament video where a guy was hitting the right ramp in the piston lane, and I wasn't sure why he was doing that in a tournament. Where are the pistons? I mean, it's worth a million. It's this lane over here. Oh, piston. You hit that ramp and then hit that while the hurry up's lit, you'll get like a million. The next time you'll get even more. It's actually a decent small place. But I think it had anything to do with crank it up. Oh, okay. Travis, the wrong flipper to hit.
46:16
Oscar time! The ramps are the safest shots on this. Nice job! And the orbits. So, in the case of I don't know what to shoot, I'm just gonna shoot either a ramp or an orbit. I mean, I do that already on Attack of Mars. I think then you'd want to get your row for the ramp so you're getting cranked up. So you're doing it for a reason, actually, not to shoot a shot.
46:52
Oh, good ball, Oscar. Your turn. Daddy's turn? Yeah. All right, I'm going to crank it up. Yeah. Oscar is no joke. He knows how to play pinball.
47:15
I'm on the floor, so... Where'd they go? They're over there. Oh, okay. That's not good. There you go. Whoa! What is that? That's the bomb. That's the flasher bomb. Crap. Did you guys see that? It's that Playfield lighting bomb. Wow. Did you guys see that? Michael broke his machine. Think we can just play on? I think we can play. We can... That's just an LED, right? Yeah. Think we can just play on? I think you can play.
48:02
That's just an LED, right? Yeah. They kept coming out, and so I asked the people online how to stay in, and they told me to wrap them with tape, and I did. And it still came out.
48:17
It went in the right sling, yeah. You alright? Yeah? You wanna address that after a ball game? Oops, that was supposed to be a trap.
49:06
Oh, get in there. How many shots did you take for Sparky in the beginning? Six? I think the first one is like 10 or 15, 10, 12, something like that. If you hit that little target in the middle, I think it gives you double credit. Oh, okay. Sometimes the magnet will catch it and swing it back up, too.
49:22
That was bad. Hello. Hi. Why are you here? Because I'm playing pinball with your dad. We're showing pinball to people on the Internet.
49:36
There you go. Is that your house? My house is in San Francisco. That's not too far. That's about an hour away. Or maybe half an hour away. Half an hour away. Oh my god, I can't hit that lane.
49:56
My house is in Kensington. Yes, your house is in Kensington. I accidentally went to the Kensington High School. Alright, I got it stacked there. Alright, I got him stacked there. That's cool. Oh, cool. Go for it! Hit it. You got it. Gotta hit the captive ball. Man. Some bad shooting. There we go. Nailed it. Every shot needs double. Goal! If that thing even looks at me, buddy, I'll get up. Oh, nice. See, that's how you nudge. One danger. Period.
50:42
One single danger. Let's do this multiball. Daddy, hi. Hi, buddy. Nice. Now that light is slow. I'm good.
51:02
Do I go for the edible or do I go for the super dead bod? Oh geez. haha, geez How do you get in that tunnel? It takes a special shot to get in that tunnel That's it I'm going to have a seizure.
51:58
High driver. Why didn't you say high driver? High driver. Gottlieb, 1959. Why did you say that? Because my friend just told me that he's rebuilding a pinball called high driver. High driver.
52:23
Alright, now I gotta crank it up a little. Did you just brought this pinball machine? No, it's your daddy's pinball machine. I brought the camera. Yeah, it's almost full. I brought the camera.
52:44
It's almost full. That's metal. Nice. Oh boy. Geez. Okay. Now I want to crank it up. Hi, diver. Hey buddy, watch your arm. Watch your arm, buddy. I'm looking for the other game called Hi Driver. It's the game where you call a driver and say, hi driver. That's what happens. Wow. You crank it up a little bit and you drain. You okay with that there? You want to take it out now or do you want to address it? It seems to be... Alright, let's just play this game now. It's right there, yeah. Let's play it. Alright.
53:31
42. I am just getting my butt beat. I'm glad there's a fair ball so I can play the crank it up. This ball too? Wow, Daddy. You're just wrecking this game.
53:46
I'll do it myself. Thank you. Never let a pinball machine auto-plunge your ball. Never let that happen. Okay, I'm close to...
54:01
I'm not close to Sparky at all. He said lock is lit. Where is the lock lit? That's the captain ball.
54:14
Oh, I see. There's a fourth multi-ball there. You have to have a really long game to actually see. Oh, I don't know what's going on.
54:30
I gotta go pee. Oh no! Sorry buddy. Where's Mondew? He went upstairs. He'll be back. I want to go upstairs. You want to go upstairs? All right. I'll be by myself. All right. Let's see if I can get this cranked up. That was supposed to be a short plunge. Is that going to work? Yay, there we go. This one's the worst of those points, but I've been playing some of the other ones to try to get my scores higher. Let's just go for points today. To whom the fell tolls!
55:45
Yes! I got fuel mode. I should start fuel while I'm doing this, huh? As long as I don't drain, I'm going to start getting a lot of points here because I've got fuel going and I've got crank it up going. Let's get that extra ball. It's not drain doing it. It'll make you work for that. It's a draw. I'll take it. Nice tackle. That's the ball. So during this, I got to try to hit all the major shots so that you can cash out. Back up, buddy. Well, home the bell tolls. All I need now is electric chair.
57:01
What? Now I could stay in this mode for a while and get more plants, but I've got double score going. I'm going to try to cash it out.
57:09
Whoops. Nice. So I can double my collect. Wow. 42 is not a huge collect, but it's 42 million, right? Yeah. It's nothing I have.
57:27
So that was a crank it up. Yeah, I'm next. That was a crank it up but all my scores are doubled because I have this fuel thing going right now. Okay, good. Pretty close to multiball here. The bottom of this pinball machine is going crazy. It's awesome.
57:57
So you got to do it all over again. So the good strategy I was told is you want to come out of crank it up, start another multi ball because then during multi ball you're getting credit for all of those lid inserts every time you hit it and it gets you closer to the next crank it up. So when you come out of that multi-ball, hopefully you're ready for another crank it up.
58:33
Yeah, he's got amazing LED under lights on this wax. It's really nice. And it's a white floor too. All right, here we go. Thank you, Spark.
58:53
So we're clearing it out of the way so it won't come back to you. Jeez, not much rapping today, not so good. That's pretty cool.
59:35
Who are you shooting for right now? That was a really bad attempt at trying to go for that super jackpot up there. But I also want the snake. There's your ball.
60:12
That's a good one. I don't hear that one very often. Alright, so, the good news is I got my coffin, my Crank It Up coffin lit. That's the hardest one to light because you have to hit that captive ball a lot. So now I just need to get some, bless you buddy, some grade markers and some snakes to get my next Crank It Up. Maybe you can cash in your gold. I'm sorry, wrong game.
61:20
Jeez. Ooh, that was dangerous. Does he work for the view? No, he's on my pinball team. I got a football though. Yeah. Last time I hit ball, I mean. One heck of a ball, man. Nice, dude. Wow. We got that on screen, too. 153. Would you say 153 is a good tournament score? A competition score? Yeah. Competition score? Yeah. Like, I think they had it in the tournament last weekend that they were showing, and the scores were like 40, 50, you know, like that. Oh, okay. Yeah, maybe the machine was probably set up pretty hard, though. Yeah.
62:06
I bet. I mean, I'd say 8 out of 10 of my games are below 10 million. Right. Yeah. I think I put 18 million up once. I thought I was an amazing person. All right, I need snakes.
62:21
I need snakes. That's not how you get snakes. Any snake, any snake shatter is a snake. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Wax. Turning mode is different too, exactly.
62:48
Can I crank it up a bit? That good man Live to fight another day Let get that wacky bounce again I watching it just bounce right out of the friggin thing Dude, that was amazing. I don't know. Alright, it's my turn. Well, whatever. No, it's doable. Oh my god, no way. All right.
63:27
What's that button? It's the space button. Okay. You know what? I'm not going to worry about it. I'm just going to...
63:36
You're not close to sparking a multi-ball. One more. That's the second time I kind of bobbled it around. Yeah. Turning mode is different though. It's different. Turning mode would be way, way harder. So I just, I just have to hit Sparky a bunch, right?
64:10
And maybe Pix. You need all the Pix. They're all in the question. Or wait, no, you got it. I think he has to sneak in. Had him all ready.
64:29
Oh yeah, alright. Oh man, that just walked right out of him. Yeah. Alright. Uh, mystery is lit. But it doesn't matter. matter oh I wish I was a better pinball player oh man 158 I think I got time for hi got time for one more I got time for two more if Michael doesn't keep pulling Michael's on me.
65:10
Can I go? You want to play a game, Oscar? Yeah. Let's have Oscar play a game. Just a single player game. By himself? All right. Here you go, buddy. You're going to play three balls. Watch this, guys. Watch this.
65:23
This is amazing. Coming back. Oh! Alright, here we go. Look at that! Did you see that live catch? I don't care if it was an unintentional live catch. It was a live catch! Boom!
65:58
Oh! You're gonna play one more ball. His plunge is savage. Oh, I distracted him. I distracted him with his beautiful image.
66:29
All right, Oscar, start it off. Start it off. Two players. Ready? Here we go. This one's for all the cash. This is going to be it. Next time I'm definitely going to come over earlier. We'll do four hours. Maybe I'll have two machines by then. Alright, here we go. I have it down in the basement of my new place and I got room for three right now and maybe five if I knock out a wall. Oh yeah. Michael's talking about expansion of his pinball man cave. It's awesome. Alright, here we go. Here's for all the money.
67:09
Layer two. For all the money, right? Hey, buddy, sit down. Oh, oh. You're so tall in your giant chair. You want to watch the eye on here?
67:21
Watch the eye on here. It makes it bigger. You can watch this right here. Yeah. Isn't that cool? Yeah. This is probably going to be the nicest fucking screen I've ever had.
67:50
Dad, your computer. That's my computer. Oh, no! That was better. This is the pre-Mafia party. Oh, be careful. Okay.
68:45
And. Moth is lit. What's up, CNK? Oops, that's not good. Ah. Nice green star. A lot of streamers complaining about Twitch's bandwidth. I think it's good to keep things fair. These people complaining here have 20k setups.
69:34
Oh, interesting. Oh my god, I can't hit that lane again. And that happens. I've missed so many times, that happens.
69:44
Hey Wax, are they complaining that they're saying the bandwidth is too low? See, why can't we get 8K? Because I tell you, I've been streaming on 3K forever. This is the first time I ever streamed on 6K. Because Michael's internet here is ridiculous. So I just figured I'd just crank it up to the top.
70:08
Well, that was useless. I didn't even hit a switch. All right. These are sparky hits for Pete's sake. Nice. One more grave marker. Do it the hard way. Do it the easy way right here. That's the backhand I couldn't do. You just did it though. They want to one-up other people. I can't watch any stream.
70:52
I can't watch any stream give me only one resolution choice. Oh, the ball is stuck in there. I think that's what I wanted to do, right?
71:04
I continuously do it. Snake's flying. There you go. Oh, I got it in by mistake. And I got to... Look at this. Look at all the junk I'm stumbling into. Oh, she's a great marker.
71:26
Is that a super bonus or something like that? Sorry. Okay, I remember I can't nudge too much on this guy.
71:52
In the casket. Let's continue with Sparky. Maybe I can beat Daddy today. He's not my daddy. He's Oscar's daddy.
72:04
That's kind of creepy. As soon as I said it, I drank. Oh, boy. Thank you. They're making daddy's hands. Let's say Michael.
72:29
He's good. He's still good. High five. Up top. Bam! That was a big high five. Hey, he knocked you all the way back. It was like that.
72:44
Alright. Sparky is close. We can go for that. This is for all the cash. Once again. What am I at? I'm at 11? I'm at 11.
72:55
Dang right. That's the sound of the snake. Ozzy, give me space here, buddy. Good job, buddy. There you go. Is that the sound of a snake? Yeah. That's not a snake. It's a snake sound. Oh my God, that was so bad. That deserves a rip.
73:57
Boom. Way better. Yeah, seriously. That was not good. All right. I have a chance here. Guys, I have a chance to beat. It figures that, you know, the guy who invented Pindigo is kicking my butt. But, hey, the guy or one of the guys?
74:17
There's two of us now. There's two of you? Yeah, the other guy, Brendan, he's in Birmingham. Oh, okay. And he does all the back-end code and database stuff, and I do all the design and all the social stuff. I got to say, guys, if you're not using Pindigo, definitely use Pindigo. By the way, Pindigo is a sponsor of Free Go Watch's streams. Anytime you see a Free Go Watch stream, it happens because of Michael and Pindigo. They were kind enough to help us make that happen. I just got to say once again thank you to Pindigo because it actually would not happen if it wasn't for these guys. And I am playing his beautiful Metallica out here in the East Bay with his son Oscar, who's also a better player than me. Oh.
75:08
Perfect timing to say that too, right? Wow. That was a dumpster fire. Well, Rick, we've got a match going here. Oh, no, we don't. No, we don't. I could be like 20 million ahead of you right now.
75:24
Stop laughing, Wax. There's nothing funny about me. Jeez, that was terrible. Nice. Nice one. Is it sparky? Yeah.
75:46
Nice. Oh, three shots. Oscar, you're so good, man. All right, it's my ball. Wait, wait, wait. It's my ball. Oscar, 35.
76:10
Give it back. Don't leave my new hand. Oscar, Oscar. Yeah. All right, all right, all right. I got a multi ball ready. I missed my graveyard. I'm gonna go for that sparky multi ball.
76:27
I should be able to get to a crank it up if I get that multi ball going. Hey buddy, sit down please.
76:47
Manu. I'm going to change my color back to red. You can say Manu if you want. Like it's something new. My new horse. My new car. Manu. Manu, yeah. Can I go in the light? Can I go in the light, Daddy? Air and water. This kid is really into plumbing right now. I have a good friend. I'm really into plumbing right now. I have a three year old son. You're older than him. He just, my son's turn three. He just turned three. You're a little older than he is. His name is Skylar. Skylar just turned three. Just turned three. But you are... Oh, that's sorry. Maybe I'll get it back. Buddy, watch your arm. Watch your arm. You're almost there. That's what I can tell. You're very mature.
77:52
In the snake. You look really small. Huh? You look really small. I don't know. Really small? That ended really fast.
78:09
That's it? Buddy, give me a little space please. Let's go for it. Master's my only chance of beating you.
78:23
Maybe. Right now. He's on my side. I'm going to go upstairs. Okay, buddy. Can you do it? Okay. See you later.
78:41
Oh my god, man. Oh, it almost came back, too. I'm going to go soon. Huh? I'm going to go soon. He's going to leave soon. Yeah, I will. You can show him your little boom boom machine. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll come up and see you later, okay? Okay. I love to see it. Oh, I will as soon as we're done, okay?
79:17
I will come up as soon as we're finished. Okay? You going to say hi to Mommy? Oh, my God, man. That post post was so much easier until I cleaned it. Now it's really, really sticky. Did you say you were going upstairs? What? Did you say you were going upstairs? All right, let me see. Wow, so he put up 27. I have 11. I'm going to go up the thing after I play I won the first game guys I think I got 30 on the first game But I clearly had no idea what I was doing And he didn't taught me some stuff And now I'm in trouble The more you know The worse you do I'm going after like skill shots and stuff When I should just be shooting things No sparky No nothing I already did the cross one right Try for a sneak Try for a snake. It's hard.
80:12
I didn't do a snake, actually. Snake multiple doesn't seem to be worth a heck of a lot. Kind of generic.
80:21
Oh, please don't. So, I think I got a total of maybe three minutes of play on this today. I just can't get the ball on the table. No, I'm not going to play people. No.
80:38
Thank you Oscar. Thank you for playing big man That hurt a little bit, but I'm okay Yeah, we got a breakdown and then I'll come upstairs and see so Oscar has a Oscar's that what do you have a red pinball machine Yeah, he's got this cool little brio brio makes the trains, but they make this little pinball machine. It's really cool It's got like some ways on it. Are you serious? Yeah
81:08
Do you want to see the red one? I will. Will's going to say goodbye to everybody on the stream. Thank you guys for showing up. Thank you, Michael. Yeah, you got it. We're going to do this again sometime. I'm going to come out. Say bye-bye to them. Say bye-bye to the Metallica guys. Let me switch this back over to the Y. Bye. Bye-bye, Metallica guys. And bye-bye, Oscar. And bye-bye, you guys. Later. See you. Bye-bye.
81:38
Thank you.