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Galactic Tank Force LE Pinball Gameplay - 4K (Flip N Out Pinball, 2023)

Flip n Out Pinball·video·15m 28s·analyzed·Sep 10, 2023
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TL;DR

Zach showcases GTF gameplay, praising magnets, rules depth, and design while scoring $629M.

Summary

Zach from Flip n Out Pinball demonstrates extensive gameplay of American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force (GTF), highlighting the game's mechanical features, rule structure, and addictive gameplay. He praises the machine's magnet usage, artwork, lighting, and overall design while scoring over $629 million across three modes. The video serves as an enthusiastic gameplay showcase and sales pitch for his pinball retail operation.

Key Claims

  • Galactic Tank Force is designed by Dennis Nordman

    high confidence · Direct statement during gameplay: 'This is a Dennis Nordman design, for those of you unfamiliar. He's done so many cool games...He's done games like white water'

  • GTF features multiple magnet mechanisms including left orbit magnet, top-left magnet, and under-playfield magnet for UFO

    high confidence · Zach repeatedly calls out magnet action throughout gameplay: 'it's got magnets baby it's got a magnet there it's got a magnet up top left and a magnet under the playfield under that UFO'

  • The game has a three-row insert system: left row (tanks), middle row (ranks), right row (missions/modes)

    high confidence · Detailed rules explanation at beginning: 'you see one row to the left a row in the middle and a row of inserts to the right...This row to the left are your tanks...right row of inserts. Those are your missions, or your modes'

  • Completing all modes, rankings, and tanks leads to a final wizard mode (referred to as 'Sunday or Zulu or Ice Cream Social')

    high confidence · Direct statement: 'once you complete all of the modes and get all of your rankings and defeat all the tanks, once you do all of that, then you get to Sunday or Zulu or Ice Cream Social'

  • GTF has a stopper in the middle of the flipper that can save balls on occasion

    high confidence · Observed during gameplay: 'Then you got this stopper right in the middle of the flipper that can and will save your ball on occasion'

Notable Quotes

  • “The reason I like this game is because, I mean hell look at it, it's a beauty. It's a bastard of a game. It's mean at times, it's addictive, it'll keep you coming back for more.”

    Zach (Flip n Out Pinball)@ 2:45 — Encapsulates player sentiment toward GTF's difficulty-to-reward balance and addictiveness

  • “This game is simply fun and pretty. And it makes everybody talk when they walk into your game.”

    Zach (Flip n Out Pinball)@ 14:04 — Highlights the aesthetic and social appeal of GTF as a location machine

  • “Magnets! ...Just the magnets alone make this game just so fun!”

    Zach (Flip n Out Pinball)@ 13:36 — Repeated emphasis on magnet mechanics as a key design strength

  • “I defeated Houdini, so it could happen”

    Zach (Flip n Out Pinball)@ 2:07 — References defeating one tank and suggests wizard mode is reachable despite difficulty perception

  • “I love their use of the knocker on this game”

    Zach (Flip n Out Pinball)@ 8:30 — Praises audio/mechanical feedback design element

Entities

ZachpersonAmerican PinballcompanyGalactic Tank Force (GTF)gameDennis NordmanpersonFlip n Out PinballcompanyWhite Watergame

Signals

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    community_signal: Content creator using extended gameplay footage to showcase machine appeal and drive retail sales

    high · Zach provides detailed rules explanation, highlights key features, and concludes with direct sales call-to-action with contact information

  • ?

    design_philosophy: GTF demonstrates sophisticated magnet implementation across three distinct locations (left orbit, top-left, under-playfield UFO) as central design feature

    high · Multiple magnet interactions shown during gameplay with enthusiastic commentary on their behavior and enjoyment factor

  • ?

    product_concern: GTF receiving strong positive gameplay praise for magnet implementation, lighting design, and overall aesthetic appeal

    high · Repeated emphasize on magnet fun factor, artwork beauty, and statement 'This game is simply fun and pretty'

  • ?

    product_strategy: GTF is available for purchase through Flip n Out Pinball as of video production date (2023)

    high · Direct sales pitch: 'you can buy one right now at Flippin' Out Pinball. Just go to FlippinOutPinball.com'

Transcript

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0:00
Hey, what's going on everybody? It's Zach from Straight Down the Middle in Flip and Out Pinball. Today, I got the gear all out. I want to show you some gameplay of a game that I have quickly fallen in love with. It's American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force, or what the cool kids call GTF. Let's play.
0:46
What in the f*** is that? I'll chill out really quick before I plunge ball one I want to go over some of the quick rules I'm no expert but if you look down here you see one row to the left a row in the middle and a row of inserts to the right simple enough this row to the left are your tanks every time you defeat of a tank, you climb the rankings up there. Speaking of rankings, right here in the middle, as you're completing the game, you are building up your ranks. Rank system is up top of the rollovers. You advance your ranks up there. Targets also can advance ranks over here to the right. Those targets also can advance spinners and cow, etc. The targets to the left over here can advance going towards meltdown, quantum accelerator, pop bumpers. But what you need to know, what I chase, is that right row of inserts. Those are your missions, or your modes. Right now, the Walnuts mode, or the Walnuts mission, is lit. So once you complete all of the modes and get all of your rankings and defeat all the tanks, once you do all of that, then you get to Sunday or Zulu or Ice Cream Social. This game is a little bit too difficult for me to ever think I'm going to get to that point. But hey, I defeated Houdini, so it could happen. things that I'm focusing on right now. I'm focusing on starting a mode. I start a mode right there. You see that mission that's lit right there? It's kind of like on the Shadow, the 90s Valley game, the Shadow, where you start the mode there. So it's like it's a little saucer shot. I'm also trying to spell... Come on, people. I'm chill. I will. Air. So I light air targets. A, Once I hit those targets, I'm going to enable my lock. Left orbit, magnet is going to grab it, physical fall lock, right into star fighter launch. The reason I like this game is because, I mean hell look at it, it's a beauty. It's a bastard of a game. It's mean at times, it's addictive, it'll keep you coming back for more. A tank will humiliate you. Do you know how to use your plunger? But you're going to want to keep going for it. Look at the lighting on this game. control it's fun and above all else it's got magnets baby it's got a magnet there it's got a magnet up top left and a magnet under the playfield under that UFO to throw that ball around so many things to love let's try to skill shot it right now you see that white beacon kind of shining over there I skill shot to that buck it's a one shot right to the plot next lab or I can switch to the right side over here and try to lost it right up into the kind of the mode start shot so I'm gonna try to do that Hunter one still your turn and I missed it alright that's okay get over there bam bam thank you ma'am well back into it nope over here let flip it come on flip it good baby Fighters lock in now
3:58
Alright, the cool thing is, I've already got my locks lit by hitting A-I-R, the stand-up target. So left orbit is going to qualify in Locked Falls. But first, so right flipper, I'm going to go for that. Left flipper, I'm still trying to start that mission shot. I missed it horribly. Come on, babe. Come on. Oh, do me right. Do me right. We'll take a ball one slot. I love man. Level. Here we go. I'm going to drop it right into that mission shot. What's up, Panther? Panther's lost. Okay. Oh, look at that magnet action, baby. Hit that cow. So this is a Dennis Nordman design, for those of you unfamiliar. He's done so many cool games this is a hurry up to hit that saucer hit it hit it I can't get it that's okay he's done games like white water how great white water white water the power generator is close to overheating the lab is heading for a meltdown all right we're gonna lock the ball there That's two! That's two. The UFO is still standing. It wants me. Oh, come on.
5:37
Get that mission going, baby. Jiminy Christmas! Alright, ball one kind of stuff. What a shot! Oh, Billy! Oh, let's hit it again! Let's fucking murder it. I get myself in trouble by going for that tank. Watch, I'll do it again. Oh, it's just so juicy. I also hit a UFO shot there. Helpful. Alright, we'll start a mission. And now we're going to start a mission on Bolt 2. This is Bucket of Berries. I like this. This is a repeatable shot. A repeatable mode, right? So we're going to try to hit five ramps in a row. I've never done it. See, can't even get one ramp. Come on.
7:02
There's always ball three. We have started the accelerator while active things would be... We're in light though right now. Going nuts! TANK! Woo hoo hoo hoo! I love it. Hey, defeated that tank though. And we got into Meltdown. I going to melt down some multiball It kind of like a give me multiball but there are some good points in here You light four green arrows and if you get the jackpot those are kind of like a give me multiball but there some good points in here You light four green arrows and you get the jackpot Those are kind of your jackpots Super jackpot once you've played it all. There's 1.6 for that one. Oh baby. Come on. There's another one. Two more in there. There are multiple you can really maximize on tank destroying. Oh snap! I don't know if you guys can see from overhead, but I got the alien out. He's all pissed off looking at me. He will mock you. Look at that. You guys got to see that magnet action. Bam! I love their use of the knocker on this game. Come on, come on, come on. Boom! Oh, that's two of them. Oh, come on. Lighting up some meltdown right now. Magnets! Oh! Then you got this stopper right in the middle of the flipper that can and will save your ball on occasion. Alright, I'd love to get some mode going here before I start my multivolts.
9:25
Oh, thank you for the ball too. Enemy shield is destroyed. Boom shotgun. You mean fern nuts? Use the nut detector to find them.
9:51
Alright, I'm looking for the Nut Detector. Now you see it's kind of like a sonar where it will stay across the playfield and only one will be lit for pink and that's going to be the left orbit. Boom baby! we meet in person? Here we go. Multiball, baby. We've still got this, uh, the, uh, walnuts mode going as well. So I'm maximizing on finding those. Let's see. It's the right, Right see, right scoop, right orbit. There's worth it.
10:48
Right orbit. Oh, watch these points. Watch these points. Oh, shit. Watch these points. Oh, didn't want to lose the ball yet.
11:02
Oh, with multi-ball you can really tear them tanks up, baby. Come on. Oh, oh no, it's already down. No, I get a ball pit. Get a ball pit. 7.6.
11:14
Oh, this thing's going nuts. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. All right, all right, all right. Oh, baby. Calm down.
11:27
Where am I going? I'm going left ramp. Nope Yeah left ramp No Did you hear that knocker I love it It was like BAAAARGH I need that left ramp. Ahhhh, no, no, no! It's over. It's over. I'm feeling lucky. I'll take that. That was a blast. I need a bourbon after that. Alright, now my mission is lit again. I would love to get it back in there. Make it all possible. Oh! Little knocker. Alright, now I'm already through Charlie. Or, I'm on Charlie. Bam! BAM! Bring it! BAM! Oh it's so temptatious! Oh baby! I want to start that mission though. I want to start that mission. Come on Wilbur. Oh silly boy. Come on! We a little alien. I'll mess you up son. Alright, what mission are we going to get? Looks like Fudge is lit here. fudge is lit here.
12:56
Okay. I'll drill that fudge. Five shots complete this mission. Purple arrow. Good pump. Fudge. Looks like we got left orbit.
13:09
And left saucer, or right saucer. Left orbit. Ah, I didn't get it up there. Oh, shit! Did you see that save?
13:21
Oh, that magnet! You see that magnet messing with me right now! Magnet's going crazy! Woo! Whoop whoop! Just the magnets alone make this game just so fun! Ah! I knew it! I knew it! It's okay. Wake the fudge up! Okay, thanks for the pun! Shit, that was fun. That's a half a billion game. I had a blast. We got through three of the modes.
13:59
$629 million. I'm the airstrike champ, the meltdown champ. High score number two. This game is simply fun and pretty. And it makes everybody talk when they walk into your game. And you can buy one right now at Flippin' Out Pinball. Just go to FlippinOutPinball.com or email me. ZachZACH at FlipInOutPinball.com Here's what's really cool you guys see on the screen right now. It saves your initials. What the hell is that?
14:29
Boom! GG, yeah! You want some of my ice cream, baby? See you next time. See you, Clem. Fire the methane missile. Ooh, that game done got me all worked up. Oh.
14:46
Sweating and shit. you don't know what to do with a team now you i know i got four cows i know plenty about can you say with a straight face you can't handle the scoop gtf Ram those goomy goomy trees to harvest the nuts.
15:14
Ram those gooby booby trees? Is that what that said? Did that guy say teet? Come on, man. Teet? Alright.