Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Pinball Party Podcast. A world of wonderful excitement and balls. Pinballs. Lots of, uh... Lots of dullness the last couple weeks. Not like in the world. Tariffs. Life. You know, your kid probably got in a fight, got dumped, dumped someone, got dumped on by someone. If that's the case, if your kid got dumped on by someone, and by dump I mean dump from the butt, email in at pinballpartypodcasts at gmail.com. That's what we want to hear about. But in the world of pinball, we're patiently waiting for the next couple releases from Stoin, if you're Jewish, Stern Pinball, The number one manufacturer out there, Star Wars. We're waiting on Star Wars. Just to hit it. And man, oh man, that's gonna help. King Kong didn't do as much as people wanted. X-Men did not do as much as people wanted. Venom, John Wick, Metallica remastered, but whatever. END Help me out and go on and just add some Neon Dale songs to your playlists. Mucho apreciado, etc. That'd be nice. For those who did it, amazing. Love you long time. For those who didn't, still love you long time. I love you longer time if you do it. But, uh, yeah, I've actually gotten some requests and I've thought about doing this. I don't know. It's, it's a lot of work, uh, for, for, is it worth the squeeze? Uh, what I'm getting at is playing some stuff live at either Expo or TPF.�� π ruled fl I think I'm recording it a couple days early. We will not know yet what what it is. Is it the prequels? Is it the Equals as in oh, holy shit. Is that something? So, you know, there's obviously prequels like obviously, you know, I'm talking about pre something There's the sequels after but equals See what I'm saying here? Like, no, not like just remove the word, but like equals, like the mathematical equals something. So if it's the originate, it's stupid as hell. I'm going with it. But let's say it's based on the equals. Episodes 4-6, A New Hope, Empire Striked Back, and The Return of a Jedi, formerly known as Revenge of the Jedi. Revenge of the Jedi with a blue lightsaber, you know, and then it turned into Return of the Jedi with a green lightsaber. What does everyone... well, okay, and then it's the sequels, like, fuck that, they're not gonna do the sequels, so I just didn't bring it up. Like, if they did Force Awakens and just said, we're doing a Force Awakens pinball machine and acting like the next two didn't exist. I'd say, yeah, in Elseworlds, I'll do it. When there was Promise, I don't know, I liked Force Awakens quite a bit. I thought it was great. Kylo Ren really stood out. He, you know, one of the best things about that role, I think, was when he got shot by I'm in the middle of a movie about a guy named Charlie, who was the first person who was ever killed by the bowcaster of Chewie Baka. And then he hit it... you know, like to... the wound. He hit it to gain more power and essentially, you know, thrive in the dark side, thrive in the pain, use it as fuel. I thought that was... that really elevated it. Small thing, but, uh, eh. You know. So if they do Force Awakens, I'm cool. Captions by GetTranscribed.com Videorell I A Take a old How cadaver H Hä Internal For Dadaki HPVeres administrafih 그렇지, sharek screening group, They're running the prequels in the theaters, at least locally, and even A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. And there's anniversaries coming up, but there's always anniversaries for Star Wars. Every five years is an anniversary. And they're pushing the Coca-Cola Star Wars stuff right now. Not a lot of games. There's not, uh, I guess what I would, I hope it's not aside from the sequels, unless it's force awakens the pinball machine, which yeah, sure. Hey, to be fair, even if it is the sequels, I'll still be interested. Just because it's star Wars, right? And although I like the original star Wars, I think there's the, uh, the original Stern star Wars. There's a lot of missed opportunities to put a positive spin on it. The three bank is the worst thing ever. We've talked about this. There's a lot of good things about it. Steve Ritchie flow, etc. It just it seems a little hobbled. And like, tie fighters, the bash toys. So I think anything will be an improvement over that. Even if it's Jar Jar Binks the game. Or Rian Johnson's Johnson. Eh. Yeah. But what I truly hope it is not is something like Skeleton Crew. It won't be Skeleton. If it is, what? Or Andor. As much as I liked the first season, the second season was a drag. Oh, God. I never finished it. And you know, what? Andor? Mandalorian, been there. Ahsoka, you kidding me? Sure, but no. Were they Acolyte? That'd be a meme of a game. So it would seem to think Stern is a business, they would like to make money, and right now, let's get a boost. Metallica was our last boost, and it was somewhat short-lived. There's some problems with that game, and I had it, and it was out the door pretty fast. It's fine. www.starwars.com Disney Acquisition, anything Disney Acquisition, I don't know. Revenge of the Sith would be a banger, I think. Oof. That, oof, yeah. Out of everything? If it's not the Equals remastered, or special editions, low hanging fruit if they want to just say Star Wars special edition, or Revenge of the Sith, oof, that, that, say Seattle.com Sure, okay. What are the most likely? Skywalker Saga, which is all nine, followed up by just the originals, let's call it just Star Wars Special Edition. We've deleted the three bank and we released it. Sure. Or just the prequels. What would they call it, prequels? I don't know how you would just put a bow on it. Just Star Wars Episode 1, 2, 3. The naming just seems weird. be careful after watching, be careful after watching, Who would call them Star Wars equals? It's probably just Star Wars something anniversary. Or Star Wars Rey and Poe and Finn. Do that. Yeah, I don't know. I think it should be one of the first two trilogies or Revenge of the Sith. And if it's by Borg, ooh, Borg makes some games. And that's it. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please subscribe, like, and hit the notification bell. And I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. And I think he's one of their best designers. And with the game after, Walking Dead... So, I just want to talk about Walking Dead. I keep wanting to get to Walking Dead. Star Wars though, like, will they have more magnets for the Force? I would think so. Just, it seems like, again, low hanging fruit. Will they do everything based on multipliers and Steve Richards? I don't think so. So like as much as that game sells and it sells, the people that really enjoy playing it are not the average and I don't mean that in a negative way. It's not like you walk up and well, I shouldn't say that. Like when I started playing a little more seriously after buying Star Trek Pro and you know, listen to the last episode of when I started getting into like pinball more. The first time I played Star Wars Pro, I loved it. I didn't know the rules, but what I loved about it was the shots. It just felt great. Maybe coming from Star Trek, it was, you know, like, it's like going from Mario 1 to Mario 3. Like, oh, this just feels similar, but just, okay, another version of that. I mean, Mario 3 is significantly more than Mario 1, but you get the analysis there. I drove a Camry, and then I drove a next year's Camry. Okay, you know, you're familiar with it. You know it. I don't know it. Except for the three bank again. But playing it, the horseshoes and the shots felt great. And yeah, I didn't hate it. When I was like, okay, I'm gonna start to like pay attention to this game. I was like, Oh God, I don't know. This is this isn't fucking fun. This is weird. I can see why a lot of people hate it. It's not. It just feels like a mess. And then you kind of like accept it for what it is. And then that's what I was getting at is the average person is kind of like Star Wars fucking whatever. You go through the gamut of the pro and the premium, like, ooh, the hyperspace, it's the best toy fucking ever. I think it sucks. I really think it sucks. The shot is worse than the premium. The... when it starts shaking the machine, like, okay, but that... it's a mode and pinball has nothing to do with, like, Jedi or Star Wars as a whole. Like, hyperspace? Hurry up? It... no. The moment should be Luke got his fucking hand cut off or he's learned the force and then used this big toy and shake the whole fucking machine or Yoda lifting the X-Wing out of the swamp on Dagobah. Yeah, but like it's a hyperspace hurry up get these balls in a loop. Fuck you. Fuck you. I don't want to do that. That's dumb. So it just seemed hobbled and I gotta settle. Essentially people accept the game for what it is. They play a few different versions and they're like, okay, knowing that it sucks, I like it. And yeah, even though like I like it, I think it sucks. So I think no matter what they do, it's going to be an improvement. I'd say almost objectively. Theme aside, cause the theme is already objectively great. I think they're going to just, they're going to knock it out of the park. And they, I think they know what they have with a theme. And before we get the pitchforks out and go on pin side and bitch about the art or what about the assets and the licensing, do you not have anything better to do than bitch about the art and the licensing and the... you didn't get the specific sound effect. Okay, like if they don't get like the lightsaber sound effect or I get some of that, but the art on the original is fine. Like what do you expect? Like we're already privileged enough to have enough money to either one, enjoy this hobby. We can drive, we can go play this game on location or buy the machine. The But all the art isn't perfect for me. Fuck you on the ass. Jeez, guy. I mean, I complain about stuff. Don't get me wrong. But like, there's another level of like, give it a rest. You know, Harry Potter, AI, art, different, different conversation entirely. But Star Wars, let's can we just get it out of the way now? Like, write it down in a notebook or your journal? Like I'm, I'm gonna bitch about the art and the assets when it comes out. I know I'm here I go. Oh, type it in, type it in. Great, can't wait, not gonna read it, I'll downvote it, fuck you, I don't care. I think it'll be objectively better. I think they learned. I mean, it's sold. So they have an opportunity here of, we're gonna sell this thing no matter what, because it's Star Wars, and we'll take the feedback of what people didn't like about the game, and just just give it the extra fifty percent it needs, even just that, the attention, the code, and The Walking Dead The problem is The Walking Dead Pro is one of the best games in pinball, period. One person's opinion, but a lot of people love the game and it's for a used pinball machine a great price. A great price in pinball terms. You know, sub $5,000. So the conundrum for me is, if you've listened to the last few, if there's one game I would The only game that's coming out this year that's going to be a premium on an ELE or maybe even just a premium, but there's that if like a lot of people, a lot of people, not as much as the Black Knight Pro versus the Black Knight Pro, but there's that if like a lot of people, a lot of people, not as much as the Black Knight Pro versus the Black Knight Pro. Man, A lot of people in the Walking Dead camp are like pro is the better game. Not, again, not as much as the Black Knight Sword of Rage Pro is like THE better game. It just is. It's a little more in the Ghostbusters camp of the premium is pretty good but I like The Pro a lot, horse a piece. Walking Dead, I would say horse a piece-ish. Maybe 60% of the people like The Pro better. I like the pro better, but I'm not like 100% has to be the pro. If they do, well, what I want them to do is not release it so that I can just not worry about it and get an old one. But if they do, take the crossbow out. Even if you make it better, it slows it down. I don't care. Take it out. But just make it, make a pro. I guess what I'm getting at, if they just do the premium, the LE, okay, we'll talk about that in a second. But if they, what if they come on, like, actually, we're going to do a pro. And a premium. They probably won't because of the bomb, the bill of materials, and like I don't think they want to invest all that into Walking Dead remake, a whole new game, get all these parts they need to pay for different ramps, and I don't think they're gonna do that. Probably just make one hardware-based machine and then change the trim, LE, if you know what I'm saying. But if they did what I would want and a lot of other people who like Walking Dead it would be lean on the pro actually and what would you take from the premium that people are really missing I mean, the magnet under the well walker? Don't care. It doesn't really do much. The drop target for Woodbury? It's always dropped when the extra ball is lit or things that you would probably hit it for anyways, so it's kind of strange that it's there. The spinners? I guess. I guess the spinners. But even that, ask yourself, does it make the orbits smoother with the spinners or without them? Class of 2023 Get yourself a little multi-kill. Better yet, start CDC before that, get the three drop targets, then have yourself a good time with that left ramp. One of people's big complaints about the premium slash LE of the OG Walking Dead is that left ramp. For those who don't know, on the premium or LE, there is a bash toy under that left ramp. So when you hit it to qualify Bicycle Girl, it pops up and then there's a bash toy under there, The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Let's line up the differences that people, that you would concentrate on a premium and LE of the version of the game and just like, let's just remake all that. The spinners, so what I'm, I guess what I'm saying is I'm going to again review the things on the premium and LE that are not on the pro and do one more review on are they worth it. I can still hear den Webber on the quarterback's voice. Crossbow also makes, it uses a little magnet diverter in the ramp return to essentially load the crossbow when it's there and it makes the ramp not as smooth on the left. Not when you hit it, but when it's coming all the way down. Another change that like, okay, so is it worth it? That's just part of the crossbow. So crossbow, to me, is it worth it? No, leave it out. Okay. Going from left to right, got a spinner. Okay, for well walker mode, yes for hits, okay, yes. Well, Walker, multiball. I get it. And maybe I'd say leave the spinner on the right side, but not on the left. Just because the orbits are so smooth. And again, do yourself a favor. Hit the left orbit on a walking dead. Pro. Have yourself a nice time. Premium? Yeah, okay. It's the same geometry. But if the spinner with the They do an opto spinner. Mmm, feels good, man. Got it. Do an opto spinner. Okay. But anyways, it's kind of horse apiece. Again, I've heard that that's a Wisconsin saying. Horse apiece means kind of, I'll take either. It's the same. Vice versa-ish, one of those sayings. Going from left to right again, the ramp, the left ramp we talked about, ad nauseum, bicycle girl ramp. Hmm, like, if it were me, I would either find a way to use the original pro ramp, but be able to lift that and have the bicycle girl bash toy. As long as you can make that ramp indistinguishable, then yes, I'll take that change. Why? Because you can make it somewhat easier if you light CDC and Bicycle Girl mode and you just have to hit the bash toy. You can backhand that and cradle it and it's a pretty easy way to get a couple multi kills. But again, going from left to right, prison is all kind of the same, but then you get to the Well Walker magnet. When you hit the Well Walker, it slings the ball around a little more unnecessary. It doesn't add much. Does it fight back? Like, yeah. Okay, not a big deal. Going to the right is a small thing, but those little star lights, what do they call those? Star insert lights, the rollover lights when you launch the ball. On the Pro, they're just white. The color on the Premium, they're like this orange-ish. It's kind of just a different color. I'll tell you about lights in a second. And then the Woodberry... well, okay, there's the fish... sorry, the aquarium in the back right, the three heads sunken in the fishbowl, basically, in the green. It's just a cosmetic thing, so yeah, put that in there, I guess. I don't know, price, just jam it in there, sure, fish tank, whatever. Doesn't really do much to the game, really, other than tell you where you're at with that. Then you have the drop target and spinner in the Woodbury area. It again, take it or leave it, I don't care. I don't think it adds anything to the game. Positively. Doesn't add anything to the game. All these things that I just mentioned from the Premium LE aside from maybe the spinner, doesn't add anything to the game. And in fact, A lot of people's opinions. It takes away. Bicycle girl ramp takes away. Spinner might even take away from the smoothness, the flow of those orbits. The crossbow doesn't. I mean, maybe it adds something to like a first timer like, oh, that's cool. It's a mech. But to me, it takes away from the speed and the flow of the game. The drop target and the spinner and Woodberry, I think it doesn't add anything. It's somewhat of a net neutral. Well, Walker the Magnet doesn't add anything. So the question is really like, well, we're taking two things, I think, for granted here. The art, a lot of people hate the art. I really think that's group think that a lot of people just get on board of like, no, everyone hates the art. Yeah, everyone wants to do the comic. Can't be around the kids. Well, okay, fuck off. We don't pinball machines. If you really care that like these have to be around my kids, which I'm not saying you shouldn't. Again, take... But if I'm spending $10,000 on a game, for me, all of us who have done it, your kids don't play it as much as you want them to. It's... You think in your head, romanticize about, this is the life. Oh, we're all gonna get along, they're gonna love, we'll share this thing in common. They don't care! Oh, they don't care. Some do, but the majority... And I get your wife or you think the theme, sure, I get it. Like, don't get someone with tits on the backboard or someone slicing their throat. Beten manages jewelry and advertisingallenate.com I don't like the art. I just, again, I went off a little there. I'm a little hot on the art package thing because I've seen the one in person with the comic back glass and it's cool. I just don't think it's worth like we have to change everything because of the art. Now, like Metallica, again, like that art was already phenomenal. And did they upgrade it? Again, let's say horse apiece. Sure, to some people I think it's good. I don't think it's worse. So, in Walking Dead, if they do a comic book version art or any of that, um, yeah, sure. Uh, fuckin' horse piece maybe again, I'm sorry about that, all that, that horse. The, I don't, I don't, I don't think the art, I like the original art, god damn it. And then the other thing is the lights. I actually prefer the white and red and yellow lighting scheme of The Pro that didn't have the RGB inserts in a couple spots, the prison, the arrows, the main arrows on some of the games where it could... I talked about this before, but when you see like blue in that game, because of the art, which lends itself to a very warm and amber and red and yellow, seeing blue is just blech. I get it, like prison, right? Prison cell bars, silver, blue, I guess, kind of things. It doesn't fit the theme. And then the orange inserts. I don't know. Like the pro just fucking, it's a banger of a game. And then the DMD versus LCD. Licensing aside, if it's the AMC show or the comic, I don't have any skin in the game. That's what she said. And I really, I don't care. The original music in the Walking Dead Pro or Premium or whatever in the Sam game, it was fine but most people mod it out, including myself, either with the Cleland mod which is a lot more show stuff or there's a few of them online, I made my own, I have a Tool mix where a lot of the songs are Tool. Just because you're playing that game a lot, it's a one more game kind of game. So instead of hearing the Walking Dead theme song over and over and over, which can sometimes get grating, or the original game non-tweaked sound just doesn't sound as good, putting in music like Tool or like Fraggle Rock, which I've heard that one out there, it's pretty funny, just putting in 80s cartoon songs. I like the idea of being able to change those songs. So what if they pick, you know, that we have LCDs and its Stern or it's sorry spike two or three ish and it's here's the music you can't change it and it's shit. What if it's shit? Then we got to just hear that and I truly don't care what goes on the screen because that's a game that you just the playfield tells you so much about where you're at in the game and what you need to do. It's it's it's a good game for a reason and whether it's being remastered for a reason, it's not being remastered Lord Raetvenkiutter The Federaliquement The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. So it's been a long time since we had a mean Jett movie to be like we said with the best practices on console gaming with stable 64ividad messages with a bunch of great peel cris, so a lot has been done. The people like it's going to go from Star Wars and people are going to bust their loads on and then Walking Dead for the people that love the game again this comes across as like I don't think it needs to be done and all these reasons I don't think however if they bang it good it could be even better and holy fuck that's why I haven't bought a Walking Dead Pro recently because what The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Spot it like once you know, you know, and you love it. It's another layer of like what the. But the game, it makes it easier, the premium and elie so yeah. So there's a chance that it just comes out and it's even better than the original. It's like the best of all, let's just say two trims of the original walking dead. And then I going to obviously get behind because let's take something incredible and make it incredible. Yes. So personally, I'm more intrigued about Walking Dead this year than Star Wars or Beetlejuice than any of them. Walking Dead by a landslide. And it's the thing holding back my money. And there's still a... I'm wrestling with it. I'm serious. I'm really wrestling with it. Because I want to just play and have that original game so bad. You know? It's like... Do you just keep playing Mario 3 on Nintendo Entertainment System? Or wait and see what happens to Mario All-Stars on SNES? Not the same thing. And that one... Okay, I'm not going to go down a rabbit hole comparing those two games, but it's strange. Like what's... Walking Dead Premium's remaster comes out and what? Just makes the original... I mean the original Walking Dead Premium or LE right now are basically free. So if you want to go get one of those games, go on the internet and pay pennies for them. But it could keep the Walking Dead Pro's price where it's at, which I think is a very healthy like $4,500 game. And I think that's kind of where it should hover. And that's just... that's all right with me. Or, the new one comes out and it makes the original like, you would never play the original because, yeah, what? There's no contest. However, another however, if they have to change the geometry slightly again like they did in Metallica remaster, that original game, again, do yourself a favor, hit that left orbit, hit that left ramp, have yourself a nice Saturday night. All right, well, due to the power of the internet and how time works, it's actually been a few days since I just said those last words, have yourself a good Saturday night. The reason I wanted to jump in and put this little break is George Gomez was recently on Loser Kid Pinball Podcast, and we got some new tidbits that I think is important to not Keep drowning on about every little detail in The Walking Dead without talking about a couple main points he made about some changes to Stern Pinball as a whole. Your podcast catcher of choice, YouTube. Go to YouTube. It's a great video and they always have really good questions. Honestly, some of the best questions come from that pinball outlet with interview questions and who they get. One thing that Stern continues to fail to do though is bring a good microphone to these things. If I was interviewing Stern, this is not loser kid thing, but if I will again do this, I'm shipping you a whole setup and saying, And saying we're not starting until you plug this in, put your face about a fistful away from the microphone, check the gain, all that stuff. Production aside, which was garbage on Stern's side, stop doing that. Spike 3 is a-comin', specifically. And I don't mean it sexually, like you think, but it might make us all do that aforementioned word. Specifically, Spike 3 is coming, again, sorry for using this vernacular, that's what she said. The next game, the next game to be released will be Spike 3, technically, or 90% there. What do I mean by that? Again, go listen to Loser Kid for more in depth, but essentially the next two games should fully unveil Spike 3. The next game, Star Wars, will be Spike 3, basically, mostly. Sounds like the screen the speakers and uh and the and the guts you know we already have the quiet Power supply and a couple of those things and most likely the the CPU and the actual motherboard and hardware let say the computer guts In Star Wars should be Spike 3. George mentioned that the game after will finalize the rest of the cabinet redesign for Spike 3. So if Star Wars is the next game, there's our biggest Spike 3 change. And then if the game after that is... So if it's Walking Dead Remaster, is that what they mean by the next game will finish Spike 3? Or does he mean the next like full new game will be Spike 3, aka like Pokemon, let's say, where the cabinet redesign and the new expression lights area is there? Twenty six waste puns will be peppers And that's it. 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And I'm kind of skating around and jammed the cabinet full of those things to see if that helps some of the base attenuation or putting them on the side of the actual cabinet Webcom making us allundaigallymaetory, end useofdate.com, guestveryand sätt millimeters, big82feelings.com, lobbyincafeh, placebo, architechture,əthneathofthe preferrushn.tsd, locations, mamaahkens.suldoflightw� bore, tuchcatouo, cacp, activip impersonation, my line network. There is this app I podcast program called the Magic oferson 1990 work series, The room acoustics is 90 percent of the battle and the fact that you're bouncing off glass right before it hits your ears. Not what you see in a movie theater, a big piece of glass on the floor before it hits your it's your ears, but yeah. But on the other side of the coin for audio, headphones sounds like is going to be something I'm just kind of baked into Spike 3. And when Loser Kid brought up, oh, like connecting Bluetooth, you do see a cut in the edit of that. And then George comes back like, oh, no, it's much more sophisticated, basically. It's a cool new thing. What does that mean? Is it going to be a direct Wi-Fi connection? Probably sounds more like that. If you're using insider connected to say, hey, I'm attached to this router and here's They're not Bluetooth. It's its own proprietary WiFi thing. So, would they really invest in their own audio streaming protocol? I mean, it doesn't seem like you should, a pinball company should invest that much time How to get into the proprietary audio streaming protocol but maybe yes, please, thank you. But the fact that headphones will be much more accessible without putting an aftermarket kit is huge on location. Yes. Would I be bringing my headphones and be one of those dumpy headphones? I'm I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Good Job improveölkermost Marc On Wednesday, March 5, 2022, at 12 P.M. You all take a break. We look forward to the upcoming next episode of Rainbow P Winround. That does not sound good to me at all. Again, speculating here, not to say that's the case, but as soon as you introduce any sort of wireless audio solution, especially that is daisy chained in a way, if it's not direct connection to the box, to the Stern machine, you're talking about the audio bouncing from the Stern machine, going through a digital converter to like what, Wi-Fi, then to your phone, then from the phone wirelessly to your earphones. That's going to be some latency up the butt. No thank you. And as someone who can't stand latency in emulated games and I have to use original hardware or run ahead for those who are up in emulations butt, you know what I'm talking about. But run ahead has its own problems, not the latency from a video standpoint. You turn on run ahead, you hit the A button to jump, Mario jumps. Perfect. However, the audio is tied to the initial instance. So then you still have audio lag in run ahead, which is my new kind of troubleshooting. Not troubleshooting. It's not something's broken. It's to try to get around it. You know how you get around all that? You just use original hardware and original CRT. Or you get a mister and stick it onto an OLED, but not through a receiver. But then you got to bring in CRT filters. It's a whole thing. For those who know or get down the emulation rabbit hole, you know what I'm talking about. And then you gotta realize you just gotta go back to the original stuff. So for me, Walking Dead, again, could be, why don't we just get the original one that plays awesome and I love it. This whole new one, Spike 3, redesign, you don't have to use the audio system, whatever the new thing is, headphones, but, uh, yeah. I'm like, all this new stuff could introduce things that I don't like to just play the original one. What's the problem? The problem is the financial. More than anything. The problem for me in pinball has always been the finances of it. The room in the house, yes, that's a problem, but the finances of it. Like, I'm not willing to lose $2,000 just to be like, oh, let me try it. Oh, it's just two grand, not a big fucking deal. Everyone else out there who just like $2,000 ain't no thing, it should still be. Even if it ain't no thing, it should still be. Your life is not correct. That's still money that you shouldn't be... Well, again, if you're that wealthy, don't listen to me. Fuck me, Jesus. You probably shouldn't be listening to me anyways, at that point. But yes, the money in pinball has always been the bottleneck for most choices, if not all of them. Should I buy this game? Should I sell this game? Should I continue to own this game? It's rarely that, like, this game is so bad, it just has to leave my house. It's so bad! There's not been a single video game that I can think of that has been like, oh, this is so bad. It makes me so angry. It must leave my house. No, it's the money of it. So, so will Spike 3 come with enough advancements to make Walking Dead that much better than the original? Will it come with enough advancements to make the hobby continue to be an upward trend of like, all right, we're growing, we're doing better. This is awesome. These aren't changes for the sake of changes. They're changes for the sake of positive evolution of the game. Are they going to bring with them a price increase to spike three? Please know there's nothing you can add that I can think of, but again, that's your job to think of these new things to sell me on that would warrant not, not warrant a price increase because yes, costs of good and labor increase. That's fine. But there's nothing like a attribute to a machine that you can add that suddenly, Ooh, now I want to spend $500 more on something that's And I'll probably lose money on. Hmm. Yeah. And I, and as much as George says in the video that yeah, sales aren't as good as they were during COVID. They're not, they're still like, you know, slow. They're not slowing down tons. Sure to distributors. But if you look at distributors, they're just sitting on loads of games, loads of games. You want a game that's out there? Yep. Just go buy one anytime you want. So yeah, you're selling through to distributors. You're not selling direct as much as so. Are you taking that into consideration that yes, let's say that during COVID they were selling. We're just going to use a number. I don't know what any of these are. Let's just say that you sell 5000 of a game per year in COVID on average. It's not true. We're using that as our scenario. Okay. You would do that to all the distributors flipping out preferably. I mean, if we're, if we're being real, we're going to flip it up pinball to buy your games. But there's others out there. There's... I'm not going to name them because I'll talk shit about some of them. But you're selling 5,000 a game. So let's just say there's five distributors total out there. There's not, there's more. 25,000 games a year. 5,000 to each. We're saying 5,000 to each distributor. I'm changing the numbers from 5,000 a year to 5,000 to each distributor. You sold during COVID 25,000 games a year to distributors. Okay? And they sold them right through and there was not a lot in stock. Yeah. You suddenly didn't go back on the line like, all right, let's make 25,000 more. No, you had this schedule laid out and you kind of made this over time and you would have things on the schedule a couple months in advance and make these and make these and all that. Okay. So now say after COVID, it didn't drop much. Let's say just dropped to 20,000 games per year per game. Okay. You're still selling quite a bit, 20,000 titles to these distributors per year, but now all of these distributors are just sitting on these games. So if they want to stay a distributor for you, they still have to buy these games for you, so of course, like, you're still selling close to the same amount, because the distributors are the ones buying them and then taking the risk and like, oh, hopefully you can sell these shits. This is a big, heavy, lots of money thing. Oh God, what's happening? We better diversify and start doing all sorts of different shit to get these things out the door. And since we have contracts with you as far as like minimum cost that we can sell these at and free shipping and we better open these and sell them as used and oh shit what's happening. But you're still selling X amount of games, X equals 20,000 to these distributors until these distributors go out of business or just say like, hey, I can't do this anymore. Well, if you can't do anymore, you're breaching contract and you don't have customer like then you're asking the distributor to completely change their career in life. Junction wrenches. isolated. Out Detailed walk of life. Part 3 Out Detail isludi The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Have you ever, um, pay attention to the things in life that give you energy versus take energy away from you? And I'm not talking like cocaine or caffeine or alcohol or pot, which I mean, you know, let's party. However, things I talk to, let's say John, I'm just saying a John, that person drains me. Oh, I can't. Oh, every time I talk to or I talk to Steve, you know, you talk. Oh, my God. See, it's been so long. You know, those kind of things. And you don't always think about them consciously. And maybe you do. But may I just divulge some of my own struggles as of late and as of late as I said, what am I, 43? So about four, about 43 years lately of ever since I quit caffeine. Jo vær's join us at n機t mettre www.willywonka.com I need things that give me energy, like naturally. For example, raising a child gives you energy, something mentally you have to do. I gotta do this. Or, I gotta go to work. Asterix. Come back to that in a second. Or, I gotta take a shit! Oh my god, I gotta go to... You're not usually like, oh, I'm so tired, I just can't get this thing, I'm just gonna poop myself in my sleep. Not a lot of us poop our pants in the sleep. If you have, email in at pinballpartypodcasts at gmail.com and tell me that you've shit your pants in your sleep. Cause that is, those are stories that give me energy. I, I wanna read those. Please, if anyone has, please, I'm fuckin' dead serious. If you've shit your pants sleeping, preferably a solid shit. Liquid shit in your sleeping, I could assume you're just blackout drunk, you party too hard, yeah, your body's gonna shit your pants. But no, like just a solid four on the Bristol stool tribe. Yeah, I just had a nice healthy shit in the middle of the night. You know, you wake up from having to pee sometimes and, oh, I gotta pee. Or as a kid, you're like, oh, I gotta pee. Oops, I pissed my pants. Not a lot of us in our adult life are shitting our pants. So in waking life, you usually like have enough energy to finish shitting. So paying attention to things that give you life, give you energy or take it away. You know, talking to certain friends, doing certain activities, going out to eat, talking to your mom, reading a book, playing a video game, playing pinball. I've talked about this before that pinball generally gives me a pretty good set of energy balls. Feels pretty good afterwards, but not always. Not always. I've paid attention a lot and even used it as like a headache journal over the past few weeks. What I mean by a headache journal, I used to have migraines a lot and headaches. It's kind of what I'm built with. And it's been stimulants that have done it. I say stimulants as in like, oh my God. But throughout my life, you know, caffeine, just like any normal person, nothing weird. And then cigarettes, you know, I've realized like, oh, I've always had these headaches and those made it worse. Guess what? Now that I don't have any, no headaches. Fucking fuck me. All the things in life that kind of calm me down and bring me joy, nah, fuck you. Those give you pain. So, just deal with the six and a half out of ten. But when you realize you have to kind of align your life around these things that naturally keep I going to talk about when I go to a cinema If I had a headache. Okay. What time of the day do they have a headache? And I had to do that for a few years when I was doing a headache study with Mayo to find out what type of headaches that I have. It was cluster migraine headaches and it turned into a whole bunch of things and I've gone through it. And it's been. A system of checks to simply self-diagnose in a way during those times you would bring it to a doctor and he'd be like, oh, no, that's the year it's this. But I've used that formula for paying attention to what gives me energy, what drains my energy to the same level of discernment or detail. As in I have something written out for seven days and in each of them it's named the three to five activities you did in that day roughly and then rank how much energy they gave you, one out of five, five being the most, one being the least, and then how much interest did you have in it, one being the least, five being the most, Distinguish boys under 8 and酸 High School, WhiteARI, HL yen exclusively, 아닌 biidades abHigh School, HL employers in Hotardonia, School of Arts, NAPFA Rajar Des Sensei, CM média district'monline. 그대로ả Toby속' School of law & Human Services, Gingrich犬 and Crick Secret Areas, caughtmemich境 Lebich bean There's nothing from it. Oh, it's just find ways to cancel meetings, to schedule, like all the shit that we do to survive in this. Maybe it's just me. Ones across the board and then other little tiny things. Sometimes picking up the guitar and playing, it's like, it's just like a two and a three and a two and so things like that. You do those for enough days and then you look at it with discerning eyes or in my case, You take pictures of all five pages and upload it to AI and let it do the work for you. Of course, why wouldn't you? But the things that it finds is, I know we've talked about this before and oftentimes on the show we're talking a little more deeply about some of this stuff and it's just, hey, it's what we do. It really, it wasn't necessarily eye opening. It was like, of course, but you know, when you strip away all the falsities, all again, For me, the caffeine, nicotine, anything that alters anything, the spending pinball time and money and going here and going there and the distractions, like just to keep going and doing stuff and not taking time to think about like, what am I doing? That would come afterwards. Well, I drink a bunch of caffeine, go buy this game. Oh my God, I gotta play the game like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Did you really want that? And now that you've like played that game and gotten over it, you got this $10,000 thing sitting there and in your bedroom and you can't do other things with that room. I don't mean like activities like stepbrothers. I mean just like, oh, like you can't fit a bed there for guests or oh my God, now if you need to move or something, you have this $10,000 thing. So though I was sick of making those mistakes. Same with cars. I was getting into cars. Same thing. Oh my God. So, looking at the patterns and seeing that the things that give me my energy throughout the day are talking to friends in order of the most energy. Talking to friends and I am underlying and bolding friends. Not just people who I think, oh, these are friends. But, you know, every time you get a text from them or it's like so often you're just like, oh, God, why is he always like that? The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Is this still something I want to do and invest time and energy into it? Or is it completely draining the energy? And that's so again, bolding friends of the things that give me energy are talking to friends, going to the gym, and honestly, this podcast and anything kind of not... I'm not, how to describe this? The inconsistency of me doing podcasts over the time, over time, has not been again of like, oh, I don't want to do this. I can't. It's I really am driven by kind of spontaneity, the irreverent absurdity of life in general, and meff, jacking off horses, etc. The things that we've done or, you know, it comes across as you shouldn't swear so much And all that. No, that's just, this is, this is the, this is what you're signing up for. This is what we're doing. This is the brand. And that really bleeds into my real life. So sometimes music and this podcast are like a one or a zero out of five. It's just, that's just not that, it's just not that time of the month. Just don't have my podcast period right now. It's just, it's just not that time of the month. But the consistency of going to the gym, going on walks and talking to friends, family as well in the friends, essentially anyone that you truly care about, is almost exclusively a four or five out of five. And what is consistently a zero or a one is work consistently.amy Join the lakes. What am I doing? What am I doing? I'm doing this for money. Yes. And when I was raising a daughter at the house, okay, yeah, it's clear you see what it's for. You need to eat, you need to go to school, you need these things. And there's just kind of this built in whatever now that she's graduated and all that. Yeah, it's still there. And it's not that don't have responsibilities. But any of those who work in software or can afford a pinball machine know that like when you're smart with your money and you have a car, you can afford a pinball machine. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I know the answer is not that at all. And the things that give me the most energy, which is the most valuable asset to me now, it's a mind fuck. It is a, you know, call it a midlife crisis, if you will. It's not a crisis. Does it, you know, for those who are shamed by the midlife crisis thing, I don't think it's a midlife crisis as in like, call the crisis hotline, I'm going to blow my fucking head off and jump off a bridge. But there's a sliver of this like, oh shit, how much time is left in life? Okay, oops. All right, and time is speeding up. Okay. Do I spend the time doing these things the majority of my life that I hate? Oh, that's a good question. As a solution engineering, I'm in that field, let's say. I got to engineer a solution. The solution is not banging your head against the wall permanently. Um, yeah, something's gotta change, you know? And I think exploring that to the nth degree is important. I mean, for me and for all of you, because when you don't, you're dead. I mean, at some point, that's it. Oops, shit. And maybe I'm somewhat alone in this. And I guess I literally am talking into this microphone alone saying this. And a lot of us are in different places in our life. Some of us are still, you know, three to five kids. They're young, got all these things. Oh, what is this person talking about? All this crazy. And, you know, for those who know, you know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. We're canceling work meetings, making shit up. Oh, I don't want to travel. I don't. It's it's hard when you're raised to think not that money is everything, but success is everything. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. The Wally Winka Show, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams, When yourктric.com. I'm going to have a drink at night so you can calm that down. Oh, how's your sleep? Oh, it's shit. Okay, you go to the gym, you work out? No, not at all. Because I got to get up and I got to drink this caffeine and I got to eat this shit and I got to go to work and I got to get the money so I got to drink at night and I'm really dishonest with my spouse and we have a fucked up relationship. Okay, but that, my friends, is the norm. So when you don't do that, strip all that shit away, like a lot of us and a lot of you, oh God, now I don't have all this armor. I don't have this caffeine. I don't have this alcohol. I'm just raw to the world. And in fact, we're all, a lot of us working remotely. We have phones. This is, whoops, this doesn't feel quite right. And when you start to step out into that realm, things change. Things change in you. They change around you. You're more honest with yourself. You're more open to the world. And to be frank, most of the world and the people around you are not ready for that. They can't handle it. It's strange. I mean, even the successful friends, the family that's around you, the ones that, you know, are millionaires. So they have tons of money. They're doctors, they're lawyers, they're consultants, they're whatever. They're all successful. They drive a BMW. They look great. But if you're just like yourself and like honest, you know, oh my God, oh my God. You know, they try to force you back into the no no no no no you should eat this way why well that's weird why would you do that why would you eat clean oh you got to get up at what time to do that all that's fucking crazy you got to get up at 5 a.m. to go to the gym just so you can do this and then go to work and why are you eating that way what so you can feel good all the time and you can just fuck oh that's it's fucking crazy oh what you're doing a podcast about pinball what what is what is wrong with you oh you're doing a podcast you swear why are you swearing so much don't you do it this way do it why why would you do it that way why wouldn't you do it this There's a pattern. The more you kind of become yourself and your true like bare naked soul self. Yeah, things change in you and around you. And I guess I'm just trying to say that like, I feel you, I hear you. It's more power to you. And it's the way to go. It's the long term way to go. pruyka€òs STATION INDISC – tactical Shock buffet, So... ONE correct answer If you didn't know any Where the Hell I'm From, you're the girl in town cutузier.com De Ante's Day worth of And for those who do only love you and listen to you for what you produce, drop them like a bad habit because sooner or later they're going to drop you anyways in some form or another. So there's not really a point of me saying all this as opposed to just checking in with those who write in and express similar sentiments and like, hey, I'm dealing with the same stuff you Well, that's all the game team for today. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. operations realized Vanderbilt I'm going to be talking about a game that I love and I love that I can continue to be open and fully honest with all of you and you still tune in and listen to this. It's awesome. It's a great hobby. So when Spike 3 comes out, let's try to come into it with open arms and maybe I'm trying to convince myself of this. Let's hope that it gives us more energy. Let's hope that it continues to pique our curiosity, that it continues to pique our interest. And that it continues to keep this community good and solid and we weed out all those fuckers. If it wasn't clear in the beginning of these days of podcasts doing the figure it out sentiment, it was a way of like, hey, keeping the bad apples out of here. Like, for those who want to rip people off and pinball or not treat us well when they're trying to do a deal or trying to act like a snake salesman, like, that's not what this is about. This is a hobby that is near and dear to most of us. All the ones that it's not. You go get your Costco pinball machines. Play them at home. Good for you. Go get your Addams Family. Nothing against the Addams Family. But you know what I mean. Get your Addams Family sit in your basement and shut the fuck up. Just move along. Get out of here and let the rest of us who want to freak out and obsess over certain physics shots in Walking Dead or we want to talk shit about the three bank in Star Wars, Star Wars, or we want to obsessively talk about the remake of Lord of the Rings. That's what we're going to keep doing. So that's what pinball is all about. All right. It is 1013 AM. I'm 13 minutes late for a meeting because fuck it, right? I wanted to finish this podcast and I would rather talk at length about personal shit to a bunch of strangers than go to a meeting that gives me zero out of five minutes. So, hopefully next time you hear from me, I still have a job. I probably will. But until next time, keep flipping those balls. Keep flipping your balls. I don't know. I don't know how to tag them. See you later. So I'm looking at my past through all this mayhem. And I'm looking through the lens that I am now. If I had it all up for my own conclusion, I'd fucked it up again. Well, I've had enough of all my pessimism, and I've added up the heat with who I am.