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Riverboat Gambler VPX (Williams 1990)

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·32m 0s·analyzed·Nov 5, 2020
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TL;DR

Mystery Pinball Theater plays VPX Riverboat Gambler, discusses System 11 mechanics and chat tech updates.

Summary

Manu from Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 streams a VPX version of Williams' 1990 Riverboat Gambler, discussing gameplay mechanics while managing chat integrations and chat features. The episode includes commentary on the game's progressive jackpot system, chip targets, and multiball mechanics, with a transition to an Iron Maiden remake. Manu also discusses technical updates to his streaming setup, moving from Streamlabs to Leonboard.

Key Claims

  • A VPX modder updated Riverboat Gambler and now it plays amazingly

    medium confidence · Manu states: 'a certain vpx modder updated it that's all i'm going to say and now it plays amazingly okay'

  • Manu played the physical Riverboat Gambler machine at Texas Pinball Festival

    high confidence · Manu says: 'I got to play Riverboat Gambler at Texas Pinball Festival and I'm plenty surprised how much fun it is'

  • Gold Chico worked on the VPX version of Riverboat Gambler

    high confidence · Manu credits: 'a vpx that was worked on by gold chico'

  • Chicago Gaming Company confirmed they are not remaking Theater of Magic

    high confidence · Chat discussion: 'way on Chicago Gaming Company confirmed it isn't theater of magic'

  • Manu migrated from Streamlabs chatbot to Leonboard for chat management

    high confidence · Manu states: 'I ditched stream labs chat bot I ditched it not using it anymore I had to convert all those redemption sounds over to the onboard'

Notable Quotes

  • “Pop, pop, pop. I'm blowing out my microphone. I don't care. We need a pinball sign.”

    Manu (Mystery Pinball Theater 3000)@ 0:00 — Opening energetic moment establishing the casual, chaotic tone of the stream

  • “I stream from locations that have thousands of pinball machines loud music and people screaming one child one child is all it takes to throw me”

    Manu@ 1:12 — Humorous self-aware commentary on streaming challenges and parenting distraction

  • “It's a Louis Armstrong impersonation, but it's not actually... It's Mark Ritchie. Mark Ritchie is singing this silly song. Steve Ritchie's brother.”

    Manu@ 19:53 — Discovery moment identifying designer/celebrity cameo on the Riverboat Gambler table

  • “In the meantime we're gonna take a quick break and when i come back we're gonna take a look at some Iron Maiden which i think is one of the best remakes or reskin ever”

    Manu@ 30:30 — Transition statement and endorsement of upcoming Iron Maiden remake quality

  • “if you have VPX installed you should install a pinup system. A whole pinup system. That's what I have.”

    Manu@ 23:46 — Technical recommendation for VPX users on infrastructure setup

Entities

ManupersonGold ChicopersonJon HeypersonMark RitchiepersonSteve RitchiepersonVP FiendspersonMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationDave Linkperson

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 demonstrates strong community investment through live streaming, interactive chat features, redemption sounds, and educational content about VPX installation

    high · Manu manages multiple chat integration layers, provides technical guidance on VPX/Pinup systems, interacts with dozens of named chat participants

  • ?

    community_signal: Pinball Network explicitly described as grassroots content creator collective operating 'out of the goodness of their beings' for community enrichment across YouTube, podcast, Twitch

    high · Manu: 'The Pinball Network is a collection of content creators... they do it out of the goodness of their beings, out of the goodness of their souls, out of the goodness of pinball'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Riverboat Gambler praised for having 'stuff to do' with meaningful progressive mechanics, chip targets, and multiball integration despite multiball not having traditional jackpots

    high · Manu: 'There's stuff to do. There's stuff to do.' and detailed explanation of chip/star/extra ball progression mechanics

  • ?

    event_signal: Texas Pinball Festival confirmed as venue where Manu experienced physical Riverboat Gambler machine and evaluated it positively

    high · Manu: 'I got to play Riverboat Gambler at Texas Pinball Festival and I'm plenty surprised how much fun it is'

  • $

    market_signal: Chat member mentions hesitation about purchasing Riverboat Gambler or Cactus Jacks machines; interest in Chicago Gaming remakes instead of originals

Transcript

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0:00
Pop, pop, pop. I'm blowing out my microphone. I don't care. We got a pinball sign. which camera am i on hello welcome mbt3k You know I'm lazy if I'm wearing this. I'm not showing off merch. I literally wake up in the morning. It's cold in San Francisco.
0:43
I'm like, I want to wear something warm. Hey, there's that sweatshirt hanging on the door. Let me put that on. And then I forget that I put it on. And then I wear it all day. So anyway, here we go.
0:58
Welcome to the show. today we're going to do a little something well not different i did this last week um where i did two tables because there were two awesome tables um for halloween you know what just a second i stream from locations that have thousands of pinball machines loud music and people screaming one child is all it takes to throw me I guess it's because it's my child if you guys can't hear that then I'd be surprised I can hear it very loud and clear anyway I streamed a couple of games the other day What is that?
1:54
Being vocal, yeah. What's up, Captain 12? Oh, yeah. So, I did this last week. We did a couple of tables. And it worked out pretty well because there were two Halloween tables that I needed to get through. They were awesome that I wanted to show off. By the way, Flipstream, loud, very loud. The child is very loud. What's up, Flipstream? How's it going?
Pinbot
person
Texas Pinball Festivalevent
Riverboat Gamblergame
Iron Maidengame
Chicago Gaming Companycompany
Teespringcompany
Leonboardproduct
Pinball Networkorganization
VPXproduct
Cactus Jacksgame

low · Chat: 'Becca wouldn't let me buy one a while back' and 'won't let you buy a riverboat won't let you buy a cactus cannon... GCC maybe remaking it that's true so let's hold on let's hold out for the remake'

  • ?

    product_concern: Unnamed VPX modder's update to Riverboat Gambler significantly improved playability, suggesting original conversion had quality issues

    medium · Manu: 'a certain vpx modder updated it that's all i'm going to say and now it plays amazingly okay'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Manu migrating from Streamlabs chatbot to native Leonboard integration, indicating platform consolidation and reduced dependency on third-party chat management tools

    high · Manu: 'I ditched stream labs chat bot... I had to convert all those redemption sounds over to the onboard so now it's natively on board that's one extra app I don't have to run'

    • 2:19
    Welcome to the theater, everybody. So, this week I decided to do two more tables. I had my eyes set on doing this Riverboat Gambler right here.
    2:31
    This Riverboat Gambler. Oh, my plumbus is back. Oh, wait a minute. Hang on. Let me make sure my plumbus is in that view, too. So, this Riverboat Gambler is...
    2:40
    It came out a little while ago. There it is. Oh, let's put the DMD on, too. We need a DMD on the screen, too. There we go. Alright.
    2:50
    Ba-boom. Apparently, apparently I don't have an intro sound now. Oh, crap. And the bot isn't echoing in chat, I don't think. You ever seen a grown man naked? Well,
    3:07
    Flipstream, here's what happened. I didn't, I didn't signal the bot, actually. We'll, we'll, we'll say,
    3:15
    Pinbot, say hello. Hi, Manu. I'm pin bot pin bot what is your status my levels indicate I am low on battery so I'm feeling rather drained I'm very sorry so um hey what's up to rookie so flipstream here's why you don't have a sound right now because I forgot to put you in the Leon board so I ditched stream labs chat bot I ditched it not using it anymore I had to convert all those redemption sounds over to the onboard so now it's natively on board that's one extra app I don't have to run so I will as I always do write it down flip stream flip stream redemption sound Got it. Why did you do that? Why would you use 4,000? You have a sound. You have a sound. Oh, my God. All right. I guess everybody is watching the election right now. I don't want to even think about that right now. I want to play some of this. so we got riverboat gambler that was made um it's a vpx that was worked on by gold chico um once again link will be in the description gold chico did a good job with this um i will let you know one thing a certain vpx modder updated it that's all i'm going to say and now it plays amazingly okay so yeah stream elements no no i didn't ban stream elements no i uh i got rid of stream labs i'm not watching the election i don't want to think about it either what's up rolling wonder come on what's up show these little ponies how it's yeah so then just stick around with me for an hour and we'll play some vpx and we'll take a look at some fun pins that you can download and play yourself um oh that was a mistake flipstream that was a mistake can you unban stream elements um that was actually that was a mistake that was me testing things and my hand hit ban instead of hitting something else and then i forgot about it Thank you. Of course, Manu. No, that's not you, Pinbot. That was Flipstream. Oh, my God. You guys are getting me just crazy.
    6:01
    Pinbot, I'm going to play some pinball. The data I collected from last time shows a significant drop in your performance. Are you sure you want to play again? Wow. The sass. Okay.
    6:15
    Let's see. let's get the sound going there we go and all right i think we're all set to play a little riverboat gambler uh updated by gold chico gold kiko gold kiko see if i can get that skill shot i never get that skill shot so I do know a little bit about Riverboat Gambler.
    6:46
    One thing I do want to do is point out the chips targets, right? See how it's cycling through 10, 20, 50, and star? You kind of want to hit star. Because if you get three stars, you get an extra ball. So you want it to freeze on star.
    7:01
    Boom. So now it's frozen on star. So... Ah, I should have nudged. So it's frozen on star, so now when I complete chips, I'll get a star. Three stars gets you an extra ball. And since we're just starting, I'm just going to kind of flip around a little bit. But it's still locked on star, so that's good.
    7:27
    Never get that skill shot. So another thing you need to do is you need to light casino, light royal flush. Basically go around the table doing things. If you notice there's a, the pole that's got the lights on it that's kind of your win pole. So that's like, once you get, once you win all the way up to the jackpot, then you have a chance of getting the jackpot. So I have to keep winning things or not sucking that bad to get to the get to the jackpot It a progressive jackpot once again like in all these system Not very... I can't remember.
    8:08
    Um, is stream elements being banned? Why there are no automated messages in chat when I send my first message?
    8:17
    No, Rolling Wonder, you should have gotten your message. Whoa! Fiends, what's up? Rolling Wonder, you should have gotten your message just like VP Fiends got their message.
    8:28
    I heard your messages. No one hearing the messages? If you're not hearing the messages, let me know. I know Flipstream didn't get a message because I forgot to put Flipstreams in.
    8:38
    VP Fiends, thank you for the sub for two months. And you know what, guys? I got to mention something real quick. Okay, VP Fiends, you heard yours. I got to mention something real quick. I spaced out last time. I was supposed to give you the password System11C Thank you Flipstream Got my soundbite, nothing appeared in chat Oh, Rolling Wonder Yes, that is also something that I have to add back on Okay, so I'm kind of slowly doing stuff Like I told Flipstream and everybody else I got rid of Streamlabs chatbot I got rid of a program And I moved all the stuff over to another program So, thank you for This is all good stuff This is all great stuff. Liptronic is rating.
    9:25
    Channel messages. What's up, Liptronic? Messages. Updates. Oh, God. Hire Peanut. What's up? What's up, Becca? We demand extra balls. Do you really?
    9:43
    So I'm still building stuff. Thank you for reminding me of that. VP Fiends, you told me to give the password to the moonwalking dead last time. And I did not give the password to the moonwalking dead last time. I got inundated with messages on YouTube and Facebook. Where's the effing password? So the password is boo.
    10:14
    And what's up, Little Bubblegum? VP Fiends, if you would be so nice As to just type the password To the zip file Into chat I also updated YouTube So that I did too, which is why I call them fiends I also updated YouTube So that it It tells you what to do, but if you keep scrolling down In the description it says, by the way, if you just want the password The password is B-O-O Exclamation point Alright guys Alright Um What's up little bubble gum Look at that skill shot Cause my karma is good now Always been on black Come on black Should I grab headphones I have an hour to hang if you like Oh I never thought of that little bubble gum Um Yeah if you want to hang Wow it's shocking to have little bubble gum On a uh on a Tuesday, yeah, how about we do it at the break, thanks for the follow, by the way, Manu, you're awesome, man, oh, yeah, I was like, so, fiends, I gotta, I gotta admit, I was watching your VOD today, I was watching your VOD today, by the way, everybody, please go follow VP Fiends, because, um, I'm, like, little level VPXer, VP Fiends is, like, big level VPXer, so, if you want Is he a big level, you know, virtual pinball developer, creator, pup pack maker, and all around awesome dude? Go follow VP Fiends right now. I'll wait. Welcome aboard. And while I wait, I will. Here's what I'll do while you guys do that. Pinbot, open merch store.
    12:01
    Pinbot, open merch store. Affirmative. We have a new merch store. the only reason I'm telling you this is because I've changed um where do I go to follow them since I can't I can find I can friend request them where do you go to follow them oh on twitch if you go to VP Fiends channel which is I think it's just VP Fiends twitch.com forward slash okay you found it merch store last time won't go over this again Teespring is now my official merch store if I can speak there it is teespring there's a url go there don't go to the other places you can still go to spreadshirt and there's still be stuff there but teespring cheaper better pin bot close merch store yes um and let's play let's play as one sexy merch store so once again this game is a little dangerous because of those freaking lanes welcome all you wonderful people who fliptronic brought over welcome to the pinball theater my name is manu um we play stuff We've got people who like to do stuff like that I'm riding the riverboat right now And later we're going to be Playing a little Iron Maiden But not the Iron Maiden that you're used to Ten chips, not good, not good, not good An Iron Maiden remake From Laser War Raise Lock the ball I didn't lock a ball
    14:14
    Oh My lovely people How's everybody doing tonight by the way I knew something happened. I knew something big was happening today. It's Teespring. I've been gnawing at me all day. What's up, Bert? The man, the myth, the legend.
    14:39
    Wow. So, yeah. So, I'm not getting... I didn't get Don't Panic Flip sound. Did I forget to do Don't Panic Flip also? I think I did. I forgot to do Don't Panic Flip. Second place Andy What's up friendo Riding that river boat Yeah Um Stern Iron Maiden Yeah exactly Best polar picture And I missed it Um Doing well The pinball is helping Nice Trying to figure out About the election Doing fine Everybody is for new Frack Hollinger Hi there What's up Welcome to the pinball theater Fantastic I figured out how to do Cueing and touch portal Nice Um Don't panic flip I don't think I got your sound. I don't think your sound happened.
    15:22
    Let me write that down. I know you guys came here to see Pinball, but I got problems.
    15:32
    Pinbot, take my picture. Say cheese. Cheese. Okay. Don't panic. Flip sound. Oh, boy. Boba. Anybody watch The Mandalorian this week I got 99 problems and Twitch ain one Anybody watch The Mandalorian? No spoilers. No spoilers. Oh! Frank!
    16:30
    Stay tuned. Your table's coming up. Frank is a legend. And is it Frank, by the way? Can I say Frank? Yes. So it sounds like it's Frank. Frank is in the house.
    16:46
    Don't panic, Flip. I changed... I got rid of Chatbot and everything's going through Leonboard now. So I'm just working out the bugs, that's all.
    16:54
    And send me your music. Send me your music, okay? You guys gotta check out this Iron Maiden table. Well, first let's talk about Riverboat Gambler because it's not really fair to Gold Kiko to be like, hey, check out this other table when I got one tabled up. All right, here we go. Is that a lot? All right, pick a color. Black.
    17:16
    Come on, black. Star. But I got a star. So that means I got two stars That means I'm one star away from Oh I got second chance Thank you for that You're welcome mommy Alright Second chance Did I watch Mando this week? You know this Who didn't? Frank in the house Yes, this is the way Hashtag Pearl Super Kmart Welcome to the stream Welcome to the pinball theater Don't mind if I put me too If you want to use it also Yeah, yeah Yeah, he's going to send the music You have to ask Gold Kiko But I think I may have done the physics On this table VP Fiends I'll tell you this much I'll talk to you later VP Fiends Okay.
    18:24
    5.20 in the morning. Frank, where does Frank live? Shoot. I'm sorry bro, for making you wait long. Where does Frank live?
    18:50
    Yeah. If I can get all chips lit, I will get my third star. I guess not anymore. Oh, that's weird. I've never seen that before.
    19:09
    Who is that? First person to tell me who that is in chat. This is awesome. Who's singing the song? Pinheads, who's singing the song?
    19:20
    Not Louis Armstrong, no. It's a Louis Armstrong impersonation. It's a Louis Armstrong impersonation, but it's not actually, yeah, well, what's up, Surreal?
    19:42
    Spain! Wow, welcome from Spain, Frank. Damn. It's Mark Ritchie Ladies and gentlemen It's Mark Ritchie is singing this silly song Steve Ritchie's brother Of the famous Ritchie brothers Who always do Mortal Kombat And Black Knight And all those tables Can you believe it?
    20:17
    Believe it or not Yeah. Play the flash. If the pop-bombers are flashing, you get, I think, I think you get five chips, or three chips for each one.
    20:29
    Um. Ronnie, too. Don't forget about Ronnie. Toasty. You think they are a Richie Rich? Fliptronic just always on. Fliptronic is always on.
    20:47
    Damn. Are you never not funny? Here comes that multiball. Now, here's the thing about multiball and Riverboat Gambler. It really doesn't mean much. There's one thing that it does do, but there are no jackpots in Riverboat Gambler. so one thing that happens is i think the um i think you you can spot royal flush cards faster if you're in multi-ball i think that's one of the things oh black we're going black you gotta go black come on black got it can you bust i think you could you know here's the thing you can bust You can bust on Blackjack Okay I'm not always I'm always not funny Good luck getting this music out of your head What's up Wax We'll say thank you I'm going to leave it at that right now What's up Wax Play Blackjack! I busted. So there's a queen target. Alright, so here's what happens with...
    22:16
    Physics equals verified, even though... There's a whole other show going on. Everyone who's watching, there's another show happening too.
    22:32
    Boba. What's the matter? Why are you ball searching? Oh, it's actually ball searching. Wow. I wonder if PinBot knows what's going on. PinBot, what's your status?
    23:07
    Not even PinBot knows what's going on. PinBot, how are you? My levels indicate I am low on battery. So I'm feeling rather drained. I'm sorry, baby. Cookie Monster! And you broke it. Yeah, I guess I broke it. Let's restart it.
    23:26
    Oh, I'm doing it this way. By the way, if you... If you... Should I add that? Please wait. I am now loading up the game. Have fun. If you have VPX installed, you should install a pinup system. A whole pinup system. That's what I have.
    23:55
    Let do one more game and then we going to go over to Iron Maiden But by the way this table will be released on well this table is actually in the wild right now You can play it Um uh it a lot of fun Ooh.
    24:10
    Yeah. I got to play Riverboat Gambler at TPF and I'm plenty surprised how much fun it is. Yeah, it's, there's stuff to do. There's stuff to do. Uh, quickly, I want to, let me see if I can do this quickly. Um, there's a roulette table. If you get 100 chips, you get to play roulette. they're the chips here, chip targets right, if you, first time you hit it, you lock in which number of chips you're going to get next and then when you fill all the chip letters, you get that reward the thing you want is the star if the pop bumpers flash you get three chips for each pop slot machine is kind of the ball lock, so if you hit up this ramp, and the ramp actually goes up and down, you hit slot machine and you can win another star um there's four buttons on the actual bar there's red red green black and white and that's how we bet um progressive jackpot carries over from ball from player to player for a lot of those system 11 tables and um royal flush gets lit with i think this ramp here with multiple shots and then there's casino spelling casino means you did everything on the table um so there's there's stuff there um becca wouldn't let me buy one a while back oh uh let's see after my fight with pinball x last night i'm switching the pin up uh good um probably a good idea prom i mean did you change the script to censor the f-bomb no um won't let uh won't let you buy a riverboat won't let you buy a cactus cannon damn well hey like wax said try getting this song out of your head now it's probably a good idea i'm not buying cactus cannon gct maybe remaking it that's true so let's hold on let's hold out for the remake shame you don't have a v-pin so you can have them all um way on cgc franchi franchi confirmed it isn't theater of magic i do have a super v-pin i need another donor card. Boom! Let's do one more game. Quickly, quickly, quickly. We're running out of time here. I gotta get you guys on that riverboat. That lucky riverboat.
    26:24
    Now hitting five card is the same... Damn it. And they're... Of course they're terrible targets to shoot for.
    26:34
    Thank you for the follow, Frank. Thank you. Thank you very much. And it's super late where you are. And Leek Salmon, thank you for the follow. And Mr. Scoop, thank you for the follow.
    26:51
    I did that early. I saw that coming in. Where are we at now? Are we at 800? Wait a minute. I can't read it because...
    27:04
    Did we make 800? Congratulations to me for making 800 followers. I think we're at 800. 802 or 798 how is it both this sold my buggy project so I'll have garage space congratulations fliptronic congratulations bro um so if I hit the card 5 card that means I can get a card on the table now if I do a post pass Well Then get it to a flipper I can get Okay so Again No okay so Notice how I have now If I can show you guys The tent is locked Because not only did I hit cards here But I also hit the ramp, and the ramp got me a locked car. A flashing car moved away after a while. I think after a while. And a locked car now has locked cars. So I'm closing the door for it. Here's a little escape, a little escape hole or something. Um, let's see. If you're a fan of Laser War, stick around because we're going to have some Laser War fun.
    28:40
    And there we go. This little bounce here is really important for you to learn how to do, even in VPN. Even in virtual pinball, learn how to dead flip.
    28:53
    And not panic flip like that was. That was just a panic flip. Pinbot, switch to wide cam. Do I have a wide cam set? I don't even think I have a wide cam Pinbot, switch to wide cam No, I don't have a wide cam set up Okay I thought I had a wide cam set up I thought that camera over there was set up Holy smokes So Wax just dumped all over everybody That's what Wax does all right i think this game is over plumbus is for closures uh i wanted to make the n8000 uh okay let's do this dirty toes what's up dirty toes ken swift what's happening it's really either late for you or going to sleep where you're gonna wake up um let's see yeah so so okay wax okay wax calm down all right so anyway it's just a combination of a lot of really cool people who put this thing together this is crazy fun now to play it's insanely fun to play in vr i gotta tell you when i play this in vr it's it's it's like literally playing the real table i mean the the the the it's as close to playing the real table as you're gonna get um but in the meantime we're gonna take a quick break and when i come back we're gonna take a look at some iron maiden which i think is one of the best remakes or reskin ever and thank you to ken swift for letting me know, as they always do, which tables to check out because I am asleep half the time. Pinbot, go to commercial. Stay with us, folks. Mystery Pinball Theater will return in just a moment.
    31:00
    With the Pinball Network. If you're not, maybe if you just give me a moment to speak directly to you about what the Pinball Network is and what it could mean to you. The Pinball Network is a collection of content creators across multiple media. It's YouTube, that is podcasting, that is Twitch streams. Okay, I'm talking to you. And they do it out of the goodness of their beings, out of the goodness of their souls, out of the goodness of pinball, to further pinball as a hobby and the community. That is the reason they do the things they do. They do it for you. so if you're not familiar with the pinball network you should be I suggest you check out all of those people who are a part of the network you should give each of them a follow if what you're interested in is soul enriching pinball related content