Thank you. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Classic Pinball Podcast. My name is George and I'm here with my co-host, the heavyweight, the middleweight, the middleweight plus? I don't know, it's... Lightweight? No. I don't think you're... Welterweight. I'm glad you said lightweight. I would never call you lightweight. Hello, Dave. Hello, George. Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. Time to review the pinball ollie. Oh, look at you rhyme. Look at you go there. I see what you did there. I kind of lifted it. Well, you know, it works. And it's a little corny. Yeah. But it works. It works. It's all right. It's corny. The only time I have played this game... Is it still there? Or did he sell it? It was still there, right? Who? Where? What? Mike. He sold that. So that's probably the only time I ever played it. Good game. Why don't you get us started since... Our customers. Why don't you get us started since I have not a lot of value in contributing to the who's, the what's, the where's, and the why's before we go and play. All right, March 1980, Stern Ali, they made close to 3,000 units. And Stern programmer Alan McNeil basically said this game did terribly in sales. Terrible. Did not sell. Why? You know, it had one big face in the back glass. Right, but he's one of the most recognized people in the world. Do you know that? Boxing? Even today. Okay. Well, he's not just looked at as a boxer. He is looked at as a humanitarian. He was not very well revered when he was going through his issues with the government. And he got drafted, right? Correct. Yeah. And he didn't want to participate. I would call him something else, but that's probably something that's outlawed in our vernacular today. Oh, well, good. You know, he sounded like a critical thinker. Good for him. He had a conscience. So anyway, I'm actually surprised, but a good time to bring this up. I remember, and again, I grew up in the New York area, when Ali fought Joe Frazier in Madison Square Garden in 1971. And the reason I remember is my dad actually went to that fight. the other cool thing and you might be a little too young to remember this do you remember when they used to do closed circuit tv at movie theaters for fights no and other well our audience has heard me talk about um evil kenevil when he jumped the snake river in i think it was 1975. Don't hold me to it. Whatever year it was, I don't have the figure in front of me. But same thing. You had to go. This is well before cable TV and pay-per-view. You actually had to go to a movie theater to watch a closed circuit event. Okay. It makes sense. That was the beginning of that. Wow. That's early on. Right. Wow. Okay. I'm old, remember? I've heard that. I bring this up because most people aren't old. Right. I haven't said it in a while, but I am. So, 21 units of the production were made as knockdown games. You know what a knockdown game is, George? Yes, I read the passage. Okay. But there's more to that story. It says that those 21 went to Australia. Yeah. Is that all they got? It sounds like it, yeah. My guess is, and we'll ask our correspondent from Australia, if he's ever seen one, and if he knows of anybody who has one in Australia. Now, they could be imported. It's been 40 years plus. My guess is it's probably a pretty rare game there. Well, that's why Galaxy is a sister game, because they also made Cosmic Princess, which was a game like that. Cosmic Princess was another one. Is that a remake game? A remake. Like when we interviewed Tommy with the play field and the back glass and the artwork. the what do you tell us the tins that went on the side of the cabinet remember he was saying that he's saying that from the old school or whatever game we interviewed i don't have it in front of me death what was it called lady death lady death yeah and he said instead of decals for the side cabinet they used actual tin that you would nail onto the side of the cabinet it's very rare he didn't have them for his he was able to buy the other pieces yeah um i'm not even sure he was able to buy the plastics. I don't remember. Again, that's a long time ago. So these were all basically, these went to Australia. All these knockdowns by Leisure and Allied Industries. I always thought it was called Allied Leisure, but I guess I'm wrong about that. L-A-I. Under license from Stern Electronics. So all these late 70s, some early 80s, I think three of them. Stern Magic, Galaxy, and Ali, it looks like. They shipped 336 knockdown games. and kits. They got everything except the cabinet. It's still a small percentage. Why bother? How much money are they making on that? You know? So that's interesting. But Ali, the problem with the game is the sound effects are basically... Are you going to start out with the bad rather than the good? Yeah. Why not? I'll go with the good later. But they're the same sound effects as Galaxy. They use like space sounds in this game. Now if there was ever a game that should have sounds, it would be this one. I'm the greatest. Yeah. Right? And punching sounds. I mean, you know. We could recreate that right now. We could right now. That's right. Yeah. We could. We're not. We're not, but we could. I love the marketing of this game. And you'd figure they would let... Did you read this? No. This is as hacky as it comes. It looks... See, it looks hacky. You get him on there. He doesn't even want to be there. what's he even doing if that were today he would be photoshopped doing that yeah he wouldn't even be with a game no i love this a fast fortune is easy to earn yeah just go with a winner like i did with stern oh oh oh cringe i'm not done i'm not done if you want five rounds to try your luck, Allie's got a shot for an Anthony Buck. Susan B. Anthony, five plays for a dollar. Turn it off. Turn it off. Tell us something positive about the game. It's got two flippers. No, it's a good game. Isn't the whole idea behind the game is to spell greatest? Isn't that the whole game? Yeah. You spell greatest. You want to hit the drop targets down, get multipliers, and they stay. Once you get them early and often, they stay. They hold over. Didn't you and I play this at Pintastic? Wasn't this in the bank? That was in the bank, yeah. Okay. So I played it somewhere else. It played tough there, too. Yeah, I think I came in absolute last. Mine plays better. Well, we're going to find that out. That's why I'm not invited to be in their lineup. I don't know. Our critiques probably have not helped us in the world of pinball. But you know what? I don't care. C'est la vie. We are, hey, you know what you're getting. When you talk to us, you know what you're getting. Yep. Okay. You're not going to tell us anything else about this game? I know back in the day, I loved Stern Games, and that was over in the corner somewhere. I looked at it and it's like, this game does not look appealing to walk up to the game. it's like it didn't grab me it didn't grab anybody it just it just looked like a fighting game really bad yeah i'm on the next page of the brochure okay what's the next page say you gotta be tough to take on me but only the greatest can whoop ali not whip whoop you want the next one go ahead george you don't want to catch a left hook from me get operators hooked on explosive Ali. Wait a minute, so now he's threatening violence if I don't buy his game. He's going to punch me out. That's a threat. I'm not done. I think there's more. Oh boy, I'm going to be threatened some more by Ali. Oh no, that's the same one. Let's see. Maybe this one. Maybe we got one more. Oh yeah, I got one more. Oh, get ready. Get ready. Oh, okay. I'm getting ready. Go ahead. Oh, I can make this one good. All right. The roar of the crowd. The flashing of light. At the ring of the bell. You've got to fight. There no bell in the game You didn hook one up Oh I hooked one up But it does not come with a bell don worry there a bell in this game John Youssi but there no bell in this game there no there nothing it goes it goes bloop bloop it goes bloop bloop that's i'm not surprised now why this only they couldn't sell as a stinker imagine if they had all these phrases in there him reciting this? Oh, it'd be horrible. It'd be horrible. No, terrible. And why, you know what? Instead of doing that bloop, bloop, why didn't they put a frickin' EM bell in there? They could have easily done that. Instead of the knocker. You're the knocker. Do you want to talk about the features of this game, or do you want to wait until we stand in front of it? Oh, we can go. So far, this is not going well. Oh, on-off switch for optional background fight tones. There are no fight, what do you mean fight tones in this game? There's no background fight. The only background fight tones... Background fight tones? No, it's an increasing... This has a soundboard in it? Yeah. A bleep bloop. Not even... No, a better soundboard. It has an MPU200 version soundboard. It has the, you know, whatever they call it, the SB-300 board. Not the piece of crap cash register from 1972 board like the older Sterns did. At least it has that. But it has that... You're not selling this. I know. You're – You know what? It's better than I'm saying because once you play it, it's like, oh, it's a good game. But this is the reason why I didn't play it back in the day. In fact – So what was it competing against? You're in the arcade and you're playing what instead? You're playing in – I don't know. So you don't remember. Well, just say, I don't remember. I don't really remember what I'm playing, but it's 1980. You're not playing this, though. I'm not playing it. You're playing – oh, you're playing Stargazer. You're playing, are you playing Star Trek? Okay, so it's like Star Trek for me. If I go into an arcade, I'm not playing the Bally Star Trek. Just not. I'm not putting my money in that. That's got no allure to me. All right, you are playing, oh, you know what you're playing? You're playing Meteor. For certain, you're playing Meteor and Galaxy. You know. Okay. But also, around the same time that Ali came out, Big Game came out the same month. a couple months later, Sea Witch, Cheetah, Quicksilver, all the same year. So you're playing Quicksilver, Flight 2000, you're playing Stargazer, you're playing Nineball. You're not really playing Ali. Because it's more like... Ali is like... It feels like an older game. It feels like a game from the late 70s, like Galaxy and Meteor. They feel like from the late 70s. The big game, Cheetah... So it wasn't much of an innovation time. It wasn't innovation time. So to grab your quarter, you were looking for something else, and these were like standard practice. These are more like early solid state-ish. But they did play, I mean, this thing played better. It has a lot more flow than a bat. There's a lot of purple. Yeah, another reason, a purple play field. It's kind of purple. It's very purple. And the Ali in the back, that's a big Ali thing. That doesn't light up at all. They light up his face. His face is lit up, and other faces are lit up. But the Ali is not lit up. So I actually put lights back there and lit it up. Then I really... I mean, the other four... Yeah, all those faces are all lit up. Bigettes. Those are all lit up. You lit those up? Well, those are lit up from the factory. The Ali writing is never lit up. Oh, the writing. I thought you meant the head. That is a giant head. It's a giant head. And in one picture, he's punching his head. Yeah, why is he beating himself up for it? Don't beat yourself up over it. He's punching the afro right there. That's kind of weird. That's a weird game. No, we're going to see it in a couple minutes. We are. You have anything else to add to this? Because we're kind of droning on. What's up, Doc? What's cooking? What's up, Doc? Oh, you're looking for bugs, bunny bunting. Doc is going to hunt them just to get a rabbit skin. But now the rabbit's going to get. What's up, Doc? What's cooking? Hey, look out. Stop. You're going to hunt someone with an old shotgun. What's up, Doc? So I got a call And He said he's moving His brother just passed away Got a bunch of stuff Got a pinball machine Brother was a bit of a drinker And he got this How the hell did that come out? He told me He picked up at a bar Oh that's how it came out So the brother bought it at a bar Bought it at a bar Here's your reward for drinking here so much Here's a game Grand champion Grand Champion Was it an Oktoberfest? Oh no you said it was an OXO No Sorry I was keeping with the beer thing I getcha 120 year old house He with dad jokes are going to Yes Cast dispersions That's true George So built in 1900 This thing was First I said Old? oh yeah and he was he said well I hate to just throw it out so is it worth something well it's worth something depending on what it is it's worth anywhere from like 50 bucks to 200 bucks it doesn't really work and it's dirty it's not really worth a lot to me I already spent a lot of money on the OXO I got from Allentown which I paid up for that one and I didn't even try to plug it in I might have got rooked on that one especially now since they're coming out of the woodwork for like nothing nothing but they weren't around before but you just got shut down well i think i did get kind of shit well he wanted he thought no no no he wanted to get money gold he's got a better offer you don't really need it you really needed it you would pay up i am you're not i get it no i am i'm good it happens all the time yeah you're used to just holding the basket and catching yeah right i get it yeah there's falling out of the sky mere mortals actually have to take our wallets out and What is that you're saying, George? Let's not get into it. We can talk game pricing. I was looking at game pricing. It's insane. Still? I know I told this story once before. What can I get for my freaking rush game? I remember this story like it was yesterday when the guy bought my Medusa. And it was $1,300. And he was hemming and hawing. He had come from Burlington, Vermont. Oh, now all day long. And I said to him, I said, you will not lose money on this game. I guarantee it. Fast forward, I forget how long it's been. It doesn't really matter. You didn't lose any money. What's a Medusa worth these days? I've seen them for $3,500. Dumb money. There's no such thing as an under $2,000 Medusa anymore. Same thing with Mata Haris, which I've been playing mine a lot, and people keep hearing it. But even those are going for crazy money, and they made a zillion of them. but people are getting older, they're 50s and 60s, they want to buy a piece of their childhood back, they remember playing the game, it's worth something to them, that's how it happens it's too bad they get to buy a piece of junk from somebody and not a nice restored one I don't know how many nice ones are out there, but I don't know who knows, so speaking of a piece of junk this OXL so the guy, I said where is it, oh it's in the basement oh this is fun to stay, it's like but you know I'm having people I'm having a crew come over here to move and throw a bunch of stuff out so they can they can bring it out for us okay great so I got movers good makes it easier we'll bring it out by we'll bring out to the curb for you great so I said ah I said you know 100 200 bucks tops for it because it probably doesn't work you know I really don't need it but you know I'm trying to improve the one I already have maybe so I went over there and uh went downstairs There's a dusty basement, cobwebs, and just like, and sitting there on, you know, just field stone and dirty concrete. Where was this? Malden. In Malden. Okay. Suburb of Boston. Yeah. For those of you who don't live here. A lot of old 1900 homes there. A lot of these old homes, you know. Boston's an old city. Not a lot of means, it seems, in Malden. People with a lot of means aren't really. At least for a section I was in. Not a person of means, you know. cashola money trying to walk George through this he knows George knows money okay so so I said so hey the guy so I said I'll take it apart these guys were gonna these guys real nice you know burly guys oh we'll take it upstairs for you it's like don't let me take it apart first you're not gonna there's no way you're getting up the stairs all the time so i took it apart and they the big guy i mean he must be he's a muscle guy he was pumping his things up i put them down yeah but these guys are i think they're from either jamaica dominica some island these are island guys you know so i lift the pinball yeah man i do it man no mother of mine yeah man it's legal here in massachusetts One kind of scrawny guy and one, you know, did some weightlifting. I can't use the word I want, but he's big. He's strapping. You're right. He's a strapping dude, man. He was on the bottom pushing with all his might going, and it's like, oh, and this, oh, it's always heavy. There's so much crap in that game. It's like a ramp game. That's how heavy this freaking thing is, the whole body of the game. And he's trying to get around a corner. The other scrawny guy at the top trying to guide it. So those switch stacks go deep. It's a honeycomb. Oh, there's so much stuff in that game. It's just ridiculous. So, got it out of there and brought it out to me. So, I put the two-wheel under it and got it out. They kind of bashed it against one of the walls a little bit. But, yeah, they couldn't really help it. I don't blame them. It's like, whatever. It's a $100 game. Who cares? So, I got it out of there and put it in the car. And then I said, you know, I got to pay. I mean, I paid the guy. I got to pay these guys something. They're getting paid anyway to throw stuff out. I got to throw something at them. That's the right thing to do. The right thing to do. So I threw them both a couple of times. Say, here, buy yourself a little bit of lunch and a coffee on both of them. Here you go. So I threw a little of the dough. And the guy said, the owner of the game said, oh, thanks for doing the right thing. Right. It's always the right thing to do. You have to. Yeah, it's like, you know. You've heard me. I bribe my landscapers. It goes a long way. I gave him both a dollar a piece. Is that good, George? No. No, I'm just kidding. I gave him more than that. I gave him $2 a piece, George. just i'm leaving that alone i think you're lucky you're here they did okay if you gave him a dollar you lucky you here he wouldn throw back me cheap but he would have thrown you he would have thrown it back he would have thrown you would have said you need more than i insulting me Ed Boon And then the other thing that would have been dented is you not the pinball machine I could have just handed him each a quarter Yeah, yeah. Let him go play the game. He would have thrown that one at me. He would have broken your hand. Oh, boy. So that was that story. So then I had to go and find a place to put this thing. So now I'm looking at my storage unit that's getting really packed. So you haven't told anybody anything. Is the game any good? I mean, is it... Well, actually, no, it played, actually. Is it worth $100? Yeah, it's worth $100. Yeah, and I... Does it have a nice play field? It's the back glass, the cabinet? The back glass is decent. Are you going to light the cabinet on fire? The cabinet, actually, when I compare it to the one I got from Allentown, the cabinet... Is there a cabinet that's going to be destroyed at some point in time? No. I know you're ready with the freaking lighter fluid right now. I can see with your fire in your eyes, George. I saw somebody online. And he must have been an op lighting games on fire in his backyard. I thought it was excellent. I've done it. I did it to an embryo. I hope these are just like bug-infested ones. Oh, mine was waterlogged and damaged. And I had so much fun. I've got to find that. I have a clip of that somewhere, on a drive somewhere. Oh, yeah, the embrygon. The embrygon. It's gone. I stuffed that thing with so much newspaper. Oh, my. A vortex of fire. That was on a beach somewhere? It was in Groton, Connecticut at my buddy's house. On the water. Interesting. Oh, yeah. That was the highlight of the drinking evening. Very nice. Very nice. That's all big fun. So where was I with that? So are you done with your stories? You got more stories? No, just the same thing with the other side. So the plans with this is to combine these two OXOs and make one nice one for me and one project that will be for sale. I'm going to be getting some projects ready for sale to make some room and do a little... Dave's Garage Sale? Yeah, right in time for... Dave's Warehouse Sale? Dave's Warehouse Sale, right in time for the winter season. People are looking for something to do inside. So when you get your website optimized, you're now going to have a spot on your website that's, these are going, going, see you later, gone? That's the rumor. Okay, good. Yeah. Good. Things to look forward to, folks. Yeah. my great-grandfather was a prize fighter where in boston and he and his do you know what weight class yeah well sereno what was his name forget his name did he did he fight professionally and did he jack jack reno jack reno's his name did he fight anybody of any notoriety. Do you know anything about his fight experience? I've got a picture of him. He stood there like this. So his name was Jack Reno? Jack Reno. That's a good name. It is. I'll have to look it up. Also, he also is later on the guy from Loverboy. Same name, Reno. Not Jack, though. Mike Reno. Reno. Not Reno. No, no, no. Jack Reno. Sounds like a porn star. Could be. No, no. Oh, wait. Hey. I know. I'm not going there. New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, Jack Reno. Is that true? Yeah, that's what it says right here. Wait, 82. No, that's not him. That's not him. That's a different Jack Reno. I want the other one. So did somebody take... Somebody took his name. It's a 40s. Oh, 1935. There you go. This guy. American. No, country singer. That's not him either. Darn it. I don't know where... You're not prepared. I'm not prepared. See, this is what upsets David Marston. He doesn't like it when we're looking at Google and trying to find information in real time. You know what? I find it endearing. And I actually like listening to podcasts out there where actually they're learning live real time. It's, I don't know, you get to walk the path with us. Take this for what it's worth. Yeah. This is in the brochure. Bong. They have all the pow and... Like Batman. Right. At a single time, I'll take on four. Because Ali remembers everyone's score. Oh, it's so bad. Are they trying to be bad with this? They might have been trying to be bad. I think it's pretty funny. It's just so... It makes for a good podcast. It does. It's so bad, it's good. That's why. It's kind of like us. Yeah, in some people's opinion, maybe. you know we're going to keep harping on that for a long time a long time yes that horse he's still alive but not by much no he's on the ground I kicked him a few times I'm not allowed to say that Pete is going to come after me oh hair on fire how dare you not be politically correct hey no wonder you say you don't like a PC I walk through the minefield every time we do this podcast. You know what? That whole PC culture is starting to go bye-bye. I'm seeing the pendulum has swung so far one way, it's going to swing way far the other way. It never quite settled in the middle because it's always extreme. Just like the stock market. It's overcompensating in both directions. I already see it starting to happen. Wait for it, folks. It's going to be a fun little ride coming up. Hold on to your seats. So are we going down in the basement? Let's go down in the basement, George. Down in the basement. Yeah. We are standing in front of a Stern 1980 Ali in restored shape. And just about to play this with its new mod it has. So this game, when you hit go, hit the start button, It goes, you know, pling, pling, out of the sound. Now that, okay, I got to interrupt. It did it again. The attract feature, all, the whole back glass starts blinking on and off. It's like they're taking pictures of them because there's five, well, there's, in each corner there's a caricature. And then you got the alien Ali head in the middle with the creepy eyes. Is that on all of them? That's a really. I can delight him. I can hit lights out. That is not a very flattering picture. It's not. That's why this game didn't sell well. It's like it just had a, I don't know. I mean, the caricatures are better than the alien head. Yeah, right. Leave those up there. Do that instead. Well, you could put a couple extra letters on here. A-L-I-E-N, and it would be alien by Stern. You know, not a bad idea. They could do that. Maybe you could put a set of rabbit ears on top of the game so it looks like it was coming out of his head. So like the My Favorite Martian. I hear you there, Flight 2000 It's Ali's turn Pull the curtain back again Curtain's being pulled So we're going to play this Ali It has a special thing in it And you're going to find out when I hit the start button Instead of doing pling pling, it's going to do something else And when you lose the ball, it's going to even do more Something else, you'll see So next to this Ali, we have some head stack We have a nice bally Hocus Pocus, A Valley of Bow and Arrow. I love that game. A Godly Pinball Pull-Up. I love the... I've got a lot of requests to put that one back up. I just think it's a really cool looking game. Yeah. And nice artwork. It's beautiful, but... Right. But... Princess Pocahontas wouldn't like it? Oh, screw her. George, you know, I just like to celebrate, you know. No, I know, but it's like every step of the way. I don't even think PC. If you're that PC, I think you've got racism on the brain. Whoever does. I don't think that way. That's why it's like, whatever. There's no bad words, only bad intents. Yes, it does. It's flashing a little bit. Are you going to apply? Sure. What do you need to describe? Three holes up top. Horseshoe on the upper left. Drop targets in front of it. A three bank. On the left-hand side, there's a three bank, but it's off because there's a lane behind it. On the right-hand side, there is, in the middle of the play field, there's a lane that goes to a... Collect bonus. Help me. Collect bonus lane. No, but what's the outkicker? The saucer. Saucer, thank you. Jesus. Dumbhead. Italian bottom. That's pretty much it, isn't it? Pretty simple game. but it's got a lot of targets in it. I'm always a fan of. I mean, this thing over here, especially if you get to the left side, three drop targets, all targets down scores lit value, no, lit star value, plus the lighted star value for each letter of the greatest that is lit. So you get that plus that. So you want to get those drop targets down. So here's what, you'll notice a little difference when you hit the star button. Actually, I let you hit the star button. That's awesome. If you lose the ball it goes in the round. Ding ding ding. Okay, I'm taking it all in. Alright, I'll show you how it goes here. Okay, Dave got the one saucer for the A. He's on the quest to spell the greatest. He's got an E and an A and an E. Okay, now I'm really confused what he's hit, but okay, he's on his way. I want to get those upper three drop times. I see a random generator on the bottom spot. Is that when you run over that? Yes. Oh, there's a rollover. A couple of them. Star rollovers. They advance bones. And they all do stuff. But that one, that one right there between the slingshots gets you letters, four different letters. I like that feature. That should be on more games. Okay, so far. The sounds are... They're galaxy. Yeah, it makes no sense to me. Okay, dude is whaling on that upper target there. What are we striving for as far as the threshold? A couple hundred thousand? Nice save. I forget, actually. Almost down the drain. four times good okay so every time you hit that upper that well that came crawling back in okay almost five times almost got five times And he got he needs the R in greatest wherever that is Is that on the random generator? It is. Oh, so you can get an R if you wait. True. Oh, I like that aspect of the game. Oh, wow. Oh, you bastard. Extra ball. Is that? Oh, ding, ding, ding. Why did that flash? The back... Is that in the game? Yeah, it's an extra ball. No, no, no. But the whole back flash flashed. Is that part of the game or is that an enhancement? Part of the game. Okay. That's great. There's some cool things on... Love the bell. The bell's awesome. Okay. That's the biggest bell Steve Young sells. That's a five-incher. Oh, no, no, no. It's kind of funny. He's going to come out. Knockout! Knockout. Wow. Four thousand. I didn't even touch it. Oh, awful. Awful. I want to put... It's almost like an extra ball. It's a train track. I want to put a little caboose and a little train track sign there. Lighting. It sounds like a crossing to a train. Right? Or you could do like Beatles. And in the end... Oh, I have a Beatles song. Do you want to hear my beetle joke? Sure. What do you got? I think it's more of like an observation than a joke. It's about beetles. Okay. So while the elites of our country listen to the beetles, we're going to be eating them. All right. Well, they want us to. I enjoy it. They can have fun with that. I ain't into no bugs. You know what, let's eat them first. I ain't into no bugs. Yeah, you're not up for a little grasshopper pie? No. No thanks. No? No. What's the thing that they're combating down in Jersey? The lantern bug or the lantern fly? Have you seen that thing? No. Some invasive thing from, you know, that place. and there's like a bounty on him now. Because I guess it eats and destroys everything that's native to Jersey. George, I'm kicking ass here. Maybe you should take a couple of politicians out. Sorry. That's all right, George. Oh, come on. Don't go out there. Oh, good. George is yacking while I'm kicking ass in Ali. I'm on the mat. He's up to the eight count. It's over 600,000 to 4,000. Oh, boy. Ding. Extra ball for me. That's just a reminder of how bad I am. Ding. Okay, Dave. Dave is whaling. Oh, you piece of shoe. Ding, ding, ding. I love that. Don't remind me. Okay. Let's see if we can bring ourselves up off the mat. We're at an eight count right now and going down fast. And we're at the nine count now. One, two. Oh, boy. I got flattened. My good playing karma wore off. Ollie punched me out. Yeah, this is a bad soundtrack. They should have made this a chimer. I kind of did. Well, you kind of did, but I'm saying, I mean, a real chimer. The sounds don't make any sense. Exactly. It's like a space game. It sounds like a... It's a space game. That sounds great. Yeah, no. Yeah, I understand why they didn't sell it. It's really cute. It's a great game, though. It's a fun player. You've made it better. And obviously the software has made it better. You are crushing it. 845 to 14. Shut up. I didn't say anything when I was beating you, did I? Did I rub it in? I might have gloated a little bit, but I didn't rub it in. Oh, again, the curtain comes off. Sorry. Breaking that fork wall. Yeah. Or curtain. People just don't get it. I'm horrible on this. I would like a rematch, thank you. No problem. What do you think so far? Would we fight 2,000 or all these better, you think? Oh. one and one a this is a good game yeah you made it better though oh yeah no spinner it was gonna spinner yeah but there's only too much for you yeah that I'm not really sold on that horseshoe thing I don't know can I go since you beat me I'm guessing those bumper caps are unobtainium Oh, that, I'm... Not good. But these are worth lots of dough for points. I'm not sure I like the right side of this game. Yeah, there's really not a lot there. So you've got to be pretty good at passing it back and forth, which I'm not very good at. I don't play that way. I probably should. I always think I'm going to lose more. There you go. Nice. So that... Oh, so you shoot that bank down now, which works 8,000 points? Okay. Yeah, that... That horseshoe thing... Oh, thanks a lot. Thank you for going out there. Ball, too. I'll let you go, Billy. Hmm, not very good Dave. Like, why would you put this background sound on for an ollie game? It makes no sense. Okay, that was a good save. And that was a good save. And that was a jump over the flipper. And an insult to the ding ding ding. I was liking this earlier. It's really starting to irritate me. It's kind of sarcastic. It's kind of an instigator, really. It should be called Woody Woodpecker. There you go, you get it. Been there. I like that effect. I like that effect. Okay, so your horseshoe is lit. Oh, I should have. I'm coming out. Okay. Here we go. Final chance. It's not too bad. Are you good to take on the champ? Yeah, I'm taking on the champ. You should have Mr. T on here. I'm taking the fool instead. You're kidding me. Okay. The TV, I'm moving. Okay, there we go. Come on, come on. No! That's just not right. Okay. Going out, going to the... What do you need to get a... What's the threshold? 520. So I need an extra ball. You got some work to do. Okay. I'm going to go to the... I'm going to go to the... So I need the extra ball. You got some work to do. Alright, let's get the A. A. Yeah, thanks. That's irritating. I'll answer the question again. I like Flight 2000 better. Yep. I'm not even going to ask for a rematch. For the Classic Pinball Podcast, my name is George. His name is Dave. And we'll see you in a couple weeks. We'll see you on the flip side. We out. Thank you. I'm sorry. Who do you call when you want your pinball machine restored? Dr. Dave! Dave! Who? Dave! D-A-V-E! Yeah, Dave! Dave! Right!