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DOMINO Pinball - Happy New Year - The Walking Dead Pinball

Neil McRae / Great British Pinball Podcast·video·1h 26m·analyzed·Dec 19, 2025
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TL;DR

Neil McRae streams Walking Dead pinball gameplay, discusses design and difficulty.

Summary

Neil McRae streams gameplay of The Walking Dead Premium pinball machine on New Year's Day, discussing the game's difficulty, rule set, and design by John Borg. He reflects on the machine's challenging gameplay, difficulty compared to other titles like Ghostbusters, and mentions attending his first UK tournament (Robot Bash) and visiting pinball venues in California. He also discusses Stern's rumored new Star Wars pinball machine and the Batman pinball reveal stream.

Key Claims

  • The Walking Dead pinball was designed by John Borg, who also designed the original 1992 Data East Star Wars pinball

    high confidence · Neil McRae speaking about game designer attribution

  • Stern is working on a new Star Wars pinball machine

    medium confidence · Neil McRae: 'Stern, who are the maker of this machine... are allegedly working on a new Star Wars pinball machine. Which might be exciting, or it might be less exciting, who knows.'

  • The Walking Dead Premium arrived a week before Christmas and was plugged in on December 27th

    high confidence · Neil McRae describing acquisition and setup timeline

  • The Walking Dead has a direct drain problem where the ball comes out of pop bumpers straight down the middle

    high confidence · Neil McRae: 'Coming out of the pop bumpers here, you kind of got a direct line to straight down the middle, which irritates a lot of people who play this game'

  • The Walking Dead is one of the hardest and most deep games in the current pinball lineup

    medium confidence · Neil McRae's opinion during gameplay commentary

  • Some players have achieved 100 billion point scores on The Walking Dead

    medium confidence · Neil McRae: 'Many of my pinball buddies are getting 100 billion scores on this'

  • Jack Danger recently visited Michigan to see his family and had technical issues during a Batman pinball stream event at Stern factory

    high confidence · Neil McRae greeting Jack Danger in stream chat with acknowledgment of his activities

  • The British pinball tournament format plays four balls instead of the typical three

    medium confidence · Neil McRae: 'I was playing in the British tournament plays four balls whereas I typically play three'

Notable Quotes

  • “This is a tough game. Those of you that have played it before will know how tough it is. It's got a great rule set, machine designed by John Borg who actually, somewhat timely, is that the right word? He also designed the original Star Wars Data East pinball”

    Neil McRae@ 5:12 — Establishes designer credentials and historical context for The Walking Dead machine

  • “Coming out of the pop bumpers here, you kind of got a direct line to straight down the middle, which irritates a lot of people who play this game, myself included. And we've also got, there's a magnet here that grabs the ball on prison and it can sometimes again send it straight down the middle which is better. I don't think it's supposed to do that.”

    Neil McRae@ 8:46 — Identifies potential design flaw or manufacturing issue with ball control on The Walking Dead

  • “This game can be like, it will drive you mental. This game is just so hard. It's kind of what I like. This and probably Ghostbusters. The next one is... Really, I downloaded the Stern tables.”

    Neil McRae@ 26:34 — Articulates the appeal of difficult games despite frustration factor

  • “Jack Danger, literally pinball royalty, I think I can say that because I'm from here in the UK. Welcome Jack.”

    Neil McRae@ 56:24 — Identifies Jack Danger as a prominent figure in the pinball community

  • “I went to a great pinball place actually, Figo Watch in San Francisco. Phenomenal place. Really friendly guys, great set of machines that are well looked after actually.”

    Neil McRae@ 52:26 — Positive venue review and indication of venue quality standards in pinball community

Entities

Neil McRaepersonJack DangerpersonJohn BorgpersonGreg MottapersonGeorge GomezpersonLyman SheetspersonCarrie FisherpersonThe Walking Deadgame

Signals

  • ?

    product_concern: The Walking Dead pinball exhibits a design flaw where the ball exits pop bumpers straight down the middle drain on some machines, and occasionally the prison magnet sends the ball directly to the drain rather than back in play. Neil McRae notes this happens inconsistently across machines played.

    high · Neil McRae: 'Coming out of the pop bumpers here, you kind of got a direct line to straight down the middle, which irritates a lot of people who play this game, myself included. And we've also got, there's a magnet here that grabs the ball on prison and it can sometimes again send it straight down the middle... I've had it happen once on this machine but a couple of other machines I've played it happened all the time which is a bit infuriating.'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: The Walking Dead is characterized as one of the hardest and most rule-deep pinball machines currently available. The difficulty level is a primary feature of player appeal, comparable to Ghostbusters. Multiple strategies exist (modes, prison multiball, bloodbath multiball, hit flashing targets).

    high · Neil McRae: 'This game can be like, it will drive you mental. This game is just so hard. It's kind of what I like... This and probably Ghostbusters... You want a game that lasts a while and you don't mind getting a bit frustrated? This is the game for you.'

  • ?

    rumor_hype: Stern is rumored to be developing a new Star Wars pinball machine. The speaker uses cautious language ('allegedly working on') suggesting this is unofficial information or industry gossip.

    medium · Neil McRae: 'And allegedly Stern, who are the maker of this machine, based out in Chicago, Illinois, are working on a new Star Wars pinball machine. Which might be exciting, or it might be less exciting, who knows.'

  • ?

    content_signal: Neil McRae streams pinball content simultaneously across Facebook and Twitch, indicating dual-platform streaming strategy. He mentions challenges monitoring both platforms while playing. Jack Danger's Batman factory stream was well-received and featured Stern designers.

Transcript

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0:00
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2:44
© BF-WATCH TV 2021 The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Happy New Year everybody. Hopefully you can hear me. I had the usual fun of XSplit and running it on a Windows 10 partition on a Mac. Happy New Year everybody. Cheers.
4:26
Hope you had a great New Year, I did, with my lovely wife. Drinking champagne in a champagne bar. I'm just going to put something on in this place before I freeze it to death. Because it's pretty chilly and rainy outside. You'll hear the rain, no doubt. Anyway, a bit of Happy New Year. And what better way to welcome the new year than to play some Walking Dead Pinball. So as I have, as I've seen, as you will have seen, this is a tough game. Those of you that have played it before will know how tough it is. It's got a great rule set, machine designed by John Borg who actually, somewhat timely, is that the right word? He also designed the original Star Wars Data East pinball, with Carrie Fisher sadly passing away. That pinball machine is kind of a reminder of that whole era. That was 1992 I think that machine came out. And allegedly Stern, who are the maker of this machine, based out in Chicago, Illinois, are working on a new Star Wars pinball machine. Which might be exciting, or it might be less exciting, who knows. So I'm going to play a bit of this, probably get stressed out by it because I'm not very good at it. And I'm actually streaming on both Facebook and Twitch, which sometimes works really well, sometimes doesn't work so well. C 27 Dave

  • “There's a lot of people complaining there's not a lot of collage from the TV program and I can see how that... there's not a lot of the characters. There's some stickers here on the apron and on the side of the machine. There's nothing about the characters on the back glass.”

    Neil McRae@ 68:37 — Community feedback about IP licensing and theme integration in The Walking Dead machine

  • “I know they've been working on it, it's my understanding. Apparently very close. I think the red and black is perfect for this game... For this game, I think the original is the best. I can't imagine color DMD really adding much.”

    Neil McRae@ 84:03 — Indicates ongoing discussion about potential color DMD upgrade for The Walking Dead

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    high · Neil McRae: 'I'm actually streaming on both Facebook and Twitch, which sometimes works really well, sometimes doesn't work so well.' Also: 'the Batman show by the way, the Batman show was epic... It was great seeing that game. So much potential in it.'

  • ?

    venue_signal: Pinball venues in California (Figo Watch in San Francisco) are noted for excellent machine maintenance and friendly staff. A venue outside Los Angeles (Banning area) appears on lists of top pinball destinations but operates limited hours (once or twice yearly).

    medium · Neil McRae: 'I went to a great pinball place actually, Figo Watch in San Francisco. Phenomenal place. Really friendly guys, great set of machines that are well looked after actually.'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: The Robot Bash tournament (UK, December 30) used four-ball format, which differs from the standard three-ball format. Tournament environments provide players opportunities to practice difficult machines they may not own.

    high · Neil McRae: 'I was playing in the British tournament plays four balls whereas I typically play three so it did help me a little bit. I won one of the rounds and Monster Bash...'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Community feedback indicates the original Walking Dead game lacks sufficient character representation and TV show theming despite the license. The game focuses on locations (prison, barn, CDC) and walker concept rather than characters. Some players have created custom code modifications to add more TV show content.

    high · Neil McRae: 'There's a lot of people complaining there's not a lot of collage from the TV program... There's not a lot of the characters. There's some stickers here on the apron and on the side of the machine. There's nothing about the characters on the back glass... Some guys have done code that you can download that adds it in. They've kind of hacked the code and put much more from the game in.'

  • ?

    design_innovation: The Walking Dead Premium tier is differentiated from lower tiers by the crossbow firing mechanism, a moving ramp, additional spinners, and a removed drop target. Premium also features more colorful LED lighting.

    medium · Neil McRae: 'What's the big difference to the premium? It's got this, the biggest difference, it's got this crossbow thing that fires stuff. It's also got a ramp that goes up and down here, a couple of spinners, a drop target that isn't there. I think the LEDs are more colourful on this machine.'

  • ?

    rumor_hype: There is ongoing community discussion and speculation about whether a color DMD upgrade is being developed for The Walking Dead. Reports suggest this is 'apparently very close' in development. Opinion is mixed, with some (including Neil McRae) arguing the original red-and-black DMD is optimal for the game's aesthetic.

    medium · Neil McRae: 'I know they've been working on it, it's my understanding. Apparently very close... For this game, I think the original is the best. I can't imagine color DMD really adding much just because of the blood and the color scheme of the game.'

  • ?

    personnel_signal: John Borg's historical role designing the iconic 1992 Star Wars Data East pinball is invoked when discussing The Walking Dead, establishing designer pedigree and connecting contemporary games to pinball history.

    high · Neil McRae: 'Machine designed by John Borg who actually, somewhat timely, is that the right word? He also designed the original Star Wars Data East pinball, with Carrie Fisher sadly passing away.'

  • $

    market_signal: Significant disparity exists in high score performance among different player skill levels. Neil McRae notes casual players achieving 50-65 million scores while 'pinball buddies' are reaching 100 billion point scores, indicating either massive ruleset depth or potential scoring system balance issues.

    medium · Neil McRae: 'Although many of my pinball buddies are getting 100 billion scores on this, I'm quite happy with 50.'

    • 6:30
    It's kind of a tough one To monitor both so I'm on in Twitch one and Facebook today because I keep missing people on Twitch apart with me new gaps a with me very happy years everybody and One more day. Then. We're back to work
    6:48
    But looking forward back to Oracle quite happily stay at home. I'm playing pinball all the time So, quick intro to this machine. This is a premium machine. Literally arrived a week before Christmas, but I only actually plugged it in on the 27th of December. What's the big difference to the premium? It's got this, the biggest difference, it's got this crossbow thing that fires stuff. It's also got a ramp that goes up and down here, a couple of spinners, a drop target that isn't there. I think the LEDs are more colourful on this machine, I'm not entirely sure if that's true or not. But ultimately the game and the gameplay is pretty much the same. The core, there's kind of, there's probably five or six ways you can play this. I've been playing this. There's two ways that I've tried to play it. One is to go after the modes. You start the modes by hitting these three drop targets and then you light up the modes and then you carry out the modes which are basically kill, I mean the name of the game is kill zombies or walkers as they're called in this game. There's a couple of other approaches. One is to go for prison multiball and also with the drop targets you can go into blood bath which is kind of another multiball. It's an addable multiball which means every time you hit the drop targets it adds another ball. So you start with two balls, you hit the drop targets, you add another ball, so on and so on. I think the other, and the other way to play this game is just literally to hit anything that flashes, but this is quite a difficult game. Coming out of the pop bumpers here, you kind of got a direct line to Straight Down the Middle, which irritates a lot of people who play this game, myself included. And we've also got, there's a magnet here that grabs the ball on prison and it can sometimes again send it straight down the middle which is better. I don't think it's supposed to do that. I've had it happen once on this machine but a couple of other machines I've played it happened all the time which is a bit infuriating. So listen, let's just get into it, play a few games, see how we get on, try and get a high score, current high score, 75k, I've got, I think I beat that once on another machine, so 32 million kind of target to beat I guess, and see how we get on. City is full of walkers. First thing you got is a skill shot. You have to roll the ball over those two lights. That one is really close. Better keep your eye on that ball. Try to gut us. Don't want to be you right now. So I'm going to go for prison by whacking the prison. You see a big head there, you can't see it on the screen, but there's like a big head that you whack. That's one of the other infuriating things. Turn the volume down just a little bit so you can hear me. Let's hear it for the shaking ol' allez. Song And that drives me nuts. Anyway, so the school show, you'll see the two lights flashing at the top here and here. The goal is to roll over and then hit the right target on the lanes. I accidentally launched the ball there because this button, as well as the plunger, you've The Ball is a long shot, you've got a button here that you can use to launch the ball. So the blue targets are the shots to go after for prison. Or you can hit the, you can whack the head that's in prison behind these two doors. I don't know if you can see that on the thing, I'll maybe get another camera next time. There's a prison here, this house, Which is from the TV show, like the second series. And then there's a big head here that you can whack which takes out the light. So I whacked one of them and took out the CDC light. Or you can just, you can score. Let's try and do the school shot again. So you see as the ball progresses, the speed of the flash gets faster. So you've got to be quicker off the mark. And that's the perfect way of doing it basically, what I just did.
    12:13
    So you'll see another, the light for Riot, screwed up, luckily the right here for Riot went out because I hit the prison. And then the light for Arena went out.
    12:55
    I've now started multiball because I hit the prison and I've hit all the lights out of the prison. I've also got 2x Playfield running. Luckily for me, I've got balls saved on multiball. I started a riot, actually this is great news from a multiball point of view. I'm letting the balls deliberately drain because riots score points for all the switches. I won't do that anymore because I'm now, well, I'm trying not to do that because I was out of balls but luckily I've still got 2 balls in play. I've got a lot of games that I want to play.
    13:38
    And then as per usual I use the ball almost instantly. This game can be like, it will drive you mental. Actually I didn't start prison multiball, I started well walker multiball and I managed to start Riot. Well walker multiball you hit, as I understand it I'm not 100% sure Well Walker several times, and when it's lit up as well and you whack it, it starts it. And then as you hit him it adds more balls, which is what happened there, luckily for me. So I didn't get to the prison, but I got to Well Walker multiball. And actually not too bad on first score, for me at least. 25 million, and I'm trying to get to 30, so is that right? I'm trying to get that skill shot very right at all.
    14:32
    I'm going to go after prison again. Luckily I've got ball safe. As you can see, this game can be mightily frustrating. Just clean the old bins.
    15:10
    That's how you do this, go spot on. You can see the animation changes. If you get it right, you get a shotgun and you blow the guy's head off. If you get it wrong, you get a little gun and you only wound the locker.
    15:24
    I'm trying to go for prison. Ball control in this game is so important. It'll drive you nuts. Amen to all my interviewees!
    16:13
    I've got a clear of the yard which is to hit the blue targets or whack the, um, I've got one of them. This now, um, started a mode called crossbow, you can see this moving. This is a bit flakey actually, um, but I managed to, to hit that target with the crossbow. Still got two targets to hit on PRISM Multiball. Ooh, I got a free game, hooray. Hey Bill, I'm not keeping too much an eye on Facebook tonight, but we'll see how it goes. The one thing that's insane about this game, Lyman Shoes to Decode, is that they've got this great mix of red and white LEDs. So you'll see the game change, you know, get darker and lighter. The atmosphere here in it is brilliant. I'm not a big Walking Dead fan, I'm a big zombie fan. I love zombie stuff generally, but I'm not. I watched the first couple of seasons of Walking Dead, but I haven't watched it recently.
    17:47
    I started prison. So the riot light has light up, it's taking out one of the prisoners, the prison walkers. Try and get the CDC one, missed it. I've got the barn one.
    18:23
    I managed to get the tunnel one by whacking the prison head. I'm going to try that again. But as you can see, you whack that head, it's a risky shot. So I've got one to get which is the CDC one. Which I'm usually reasonably good at that shot.
    18:45
    There we go. Bang. So now I have to hit the two things that are outside the prison to start multiballing.
    18:56
    There we go. Multiball has started. Again, the goal is to put the shots out. I've got two eggs on it on the Playfield.
    20:00
    I'm pretty good at this game. Good replays, it's always a good time to hear. Oh, and I got the multi kill.
    20:30
    I'm going to try and hit that barn target. You've got 2x in the playfield. There's a multi-kill here. The multi-kill gives you a bonus. It's a limited time. It gives you a bonus on when you finish a mode. I've got 2x Playfield running. Ooh, didn't expect that. Extra ball that I was trying to pick that up. Six and a half million for Barner and that's my best for Barn.
    21:24
    Multi they up Ah screwed up I think I might have got it Wow, 52 million. That was not a score I expected tonight. Probably this ball will last all of 10 seconds. It's kind of the way it goes in this game.
    22:03
    Let's try to see if I can pick up the eight with the ball and it'll slip. OK, it's time for Will Walker, multiball.
    22:26
    S clothing is cited in kill fight, Knittalles and K That's it, back to normal, oh and I screwed it up.
    23:06
    Yes! A high score! The top high score on the machine, yay! Although many of my pinball buddies are getting 100 billion scores on this, I'm quite happy with 50. I could have done with a game like that on the 30th. 65 million! Fantastic. Happy New Year. Oh no, I'm high school number one, not the champion. Oh well, I'll take that. Another Top模aza 만약 Hey Look at this I'm really in Yeah, very dangerous shot.
    24:19
    Oh, that was dreadful. There you go, got lucky on that skill shot. Just came on just to the right. Okay, I've got two of these drop targets to hit, which are notoriously difficult to hit. Let's go to prison then.
    25:28
    In this game you kind of need to nudge hard. It's not something I'm that great at. The blue target is strong because I started prison.
    25:42
    And I can either go for the targets themselves or whack the prison, the head that's on the prison, or I can drain the ball.
    26:01
    Hey Lee, happy new year mate. It's because we are all walking along the same road from the same place. We are all walking in the same direction. This game is just so hard. It's kind of what I like.
    27:11
    I've got to lie for me to get these toilets down. They're all there. Prison Star 8. spending cash for online pinball games, driving' too quickly for worse for doesn't get scammed Pot of Woodle good and good you
    28:28
    how rubbish is that just going through and confusing in here you right When you win a recordings of an hour later in the month of March when the leverage of the frozen world sean marcus Okay, I started the feature mode and then lost the freaking ball. Such a hard game. But it's a great game.
    29:33
    Didn't quite time that so it's going well. Super�enses Diddy, Many fahrgtuners, When the ball comes out of those bumpers it's pretty lively.
    30:52
    They're big beyond the видите 85 Jenny Run behind by Jen WARA. . www.subsidiarobot.com Oh, that's pretty dreadful.
    31:52
    Play again, there's more walkers to kill out there! L alleviates, Hey separate,apper Pickle P. He looks like холод. He calls me the lay open bagger. On Facebook I think the stream has died, although it still thinks it's live. The machine thinks it's all okay, which is a bit bizarre.
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    36:46
    God Duh誰든 Baker, Michael blessed z Cheese, Chico Chico, Sean Cooper, Guard, Greggos All right, back to the game.
    37:37
    Okay, I'll start with the features. You can see they're all flashing now, the dead features. You've got barn, CDC, riot, tunnel and arena. And they're all kind of different ways of pretty much killing zombies. I usually go CDC first because it's kind of the easiest one actually. Although my ability to aim needs some work let's say. Right here we go, CDC started. The only place I play now is where I lose the ball.
    38:32
    Ah, just like that. Tasha Green, Fes Castseason, It's a great show out there. Off the لل I didn't land that skillshot but I did get a bonus 3, which can be handy Come on get up!
    39:02
    That was dreadful cheeks laughs, primo4haven't화봐스 a face on camera he'll pay back a poo load he's missing his
    39:08
    filtro event Lucky Bowl save theory reality Let's just pretend that game didn't happen.
    40:20
    Wow. Yes, yes, yes. We've got Prison Star 8. Mesindra Gar Así. Now cover and then go to display day in and day out, place in- clarity.
    41:47
    Touch-pad page or map on screen. No, no, no, that's direct. I saw that. No, Mom. The box. Instead of that, we'll check it on video.
    42:07
    Think this is a crime? You're dead! So I was playing at a tournament last week and this game was one of the games I had to play in it.
    42:39
    There's three guys, four guys, we're playing a four player tournament, four guys. And then, three of us had the machine. And one other guy didn't. And he's like, oh, well I'm gonna get hammered here. And I was like, well I've only had it a week. And I'm rubbish at it. And the other guy didn't have the machine beat at all, as I recall, I think.
    43:09
    Thanks for watching I ain hangin out Expo is latest If I shake this table one more time it'll tilt because I've had two warnings. I've started buzzing.
    43:46
    I got the extra ball. Not by design, but by luck. With Puget's The one thing I'm learning is to nudge the machine. I'm kind of like to respect equipment so... Hi there everyone, no it's not Domino's Pinball, a few people think that, it's just Domino's the name of my channel. Anyway welcome, I hope you like Walking Dead, and I hope you'll put up with my rather rubbish playing.
    45:21
    Write to us to forward to IPFAN! They look pretty decent games. A good bunch of guys. I saw a video of Rod Zombie and it looks like a great game. Sadly you can't get a hold of them here in the UK unless you import them which is a non-trivial thing to do as you might imagine. Let's try and get that bicycle going.
    46:44
    Free ance Nordoff, Joshua skateboarding, I got the multi kill there. Multi kill gives you a big chunk of bonus points after you complete a mode. I've got another one left there.
    47:39
    Let's scoot that multiball up. I've got a multicooler on CEC. Two million, I'll take that. Seven million for Will Walker.
    47:48
    Got another multicooler I'm going to try and get on Barn. You really gotta have good aim on this game.
    47:59
    CDC 6 million ind Правilähän You getting big too bad for you indeed The score 58 million. Ball three. I had to get an extra ball so that's one of the great things, that was one of the things that helped me in the tournament actually. I was playing in the British tournament plays four balls whereas I typically play three so it did help me a little bit. My goal when I'm playing pinball is to try and always have one decent ball. If I get one good ball, then I'm kind of happy. I had a couple of really good runs. I won one of the rounds and Monster Bash, which is a table I've got, came second. So I was quite... another guy got Monster Bash and really, really nailed it.
    49:24
    We've got prison multiball side, which is nice. I do like to see us start right. News Ah, screwed that up, seven million on prison multiball, two million on bloodbath. That was dreadful. Barm 200k, that was dreadful. That was a good score though. Oh I'll take that. Yes! Grand Champion! Woohoo! Ah we'll take that. I'll take the pinball machine. Ah this is a pinball machine. I will take that.
    51:21
    Woohoo! Only by a million. Make sure you go champion, excellent. Foo-Foo's, where are you in the world? Are you in the US? Are you in Europe? Let me know.
    51:58
    California, the weather must be reasonably decent there. I was out there first week of December. It was very wet. In fact, really went Northern California up to San Francisco. Went to a great pinball place actually, Figo Watch in San Francisco. Phenomenal place. Really friendly guys, great set of machines that are well looked after actually.
    52:56
    He's dead as a doornail. There you go. Firebusters shoot the box, bro. Extra ball is lit. Completely boxed up.
    53:35
    Shoot that ramp again. There's a good place in Los Angeles out, is it Badd or California? It's about 100 miles out of California, it's supposed to be a great pinball place. I saw it on this list of great pinball places, outside of Los Angeles rather.
    54:13
    I started bottom. I have to kill the zombies before something bad happens. I'm two and a half billion. I'll take that.
    54:43
    It's in, I think, Bada, California. It's about 100 miles east of Los Angeles. I read about it somewhere. I think it might be the Los Angeles Museum or something they call it. 100 miles east, I think Bada, California, but I might be wrong.
    55:24
    Oh, that was bad. Banning, yeah. Well really, only one of them is close away. Hey virtual pinball fanatic, welcome. This is a real thing I'm afraid, although sometimes my playing is a bit virtual. I didn't know that Banning was only open once or twice a year. I'm glad you told me that otherwise I might have turned up there one day. It was on a list of the best 10 pinball places along with the Alameda place in San Francisco which I didn't make it to The place in Las Vegas that that well-known guy runs, I forget his name, who's in one of those pinball movies and a bunch of other places, the Laundrette in New York City. Here in the UK actually. Hey there, Flip. How are you, man? Jack Danger, literally pinball royalty, I think I can say that because I'm from here in the UK. Welcome Jack. I hope you're well mate. I hope your journey to, was it Michigan, went well and you saw your folks. Yes, we're nursing hangovers here. We're probably a bit more over them than you. Anyway, it's good to see you on the channel. I'm a streaming noob so it's a bit flaky but we're getting there on New Year's Day. We're playing or we're trying to play, oh yeah the Batman show by the way, the Batman show was epic. Thank you a lot for that, that was superb. The costume was very fitting. I think I might fit your costume better. Anyway it was a great show and the Stern guys were really good even though they had a few technical hitches. I think it was great seeing that game. So much potential in it. Can't wait to see it come on. Anyway, we're getting through Walking Dead. Obviously I'm not that great a pinball player, but I love it. I got about seven machines here. The machine, Brian Pinball, as he got me into pinball, Stunning Generation, Medieval Madness, The Remake, Walking Dead which I got a week ago, Ghostbusters and Monster Bash and Theatre Magic which is the pinball machine my wife bought me. I showed you the thing wrapped up I think and it's a great game, really addictive, so much flow to it, the ball fires down. Anyway, I'm doing my best to not do a bad show on Walking Dead. Anyway, I will continue playing.
    58:22
    Jack, when's your next streaming? Are you doing one later today or are you on holiday? That is the thing that drives me nuts about this game. I really struggle with some of the shots in this game, especially the drop targets. My kind of figuring is that because this game is so tough like Ghostbusters, the better I get at it, the better my pinball gets overall. That's the theory. I don't know if that's the practice or the... I'm trying. Here we go. Crossbow. Thank you!
    59:50
    So we're really encouraging people to load all of our stuff. Obviously it's always kind of j 2702??? You don't have to get fitted of in your one word steel beneation bag. Well, there's a very good, ah a forgot to copy them back issue of ADO's就可以 Aorrogera risk or break our A. I look forward to that, well I am in some ways, but getting up at the crack of dawn, never a great thing.
    60:29
    Thanks Jack, have a great day mate, appreciate it. And enjoy bed and nursing your hangover mate. BETH pourra www.KuringNught.net There we go, right between the eyes. All right, between the eyes.
    61:21
    Can't believe I got away with that. Getting started at CDC. All right. Take it easy. Yeah, Batman's stream is great. Take it easy. Nice to have you on. Vuvu for another great new year, mate. It's a lot harder to watch what's going on in the chat room and play pinball at the same time. For those of you on Facebook watching, I'm on Twitch as well. Take it easy, man. Easy man, have a great New Year. Bunch of people on Twitch pinballing that predominantly.
    62:20
    Got a skill shot. Hey Virtual Pinball, thanks for the comment on the table line up, it's pretty good. I've only really been in the pinball years ago. I used to skybox most of school and university to play, but then kind of moved to London, I've recently got out of sync with it, recently got back into it and realised, remembering how rubbish I am at it. Extra ball, excellent, I'll tell you that. My target was to beat my high score which I've done twice. I had to beat all the high scores which I'm very pleased about. So it's been a good night for playing this game.
    64:22
    Nooo! Mr O'Flaherty, I don't know when you joined, but if you're still on, hello mate. Sorry I flipping between this and Twitch which is the pinball hangout for pinball addicts like myself In fact I need a drink or something because it gone from freezing in here to rather warm Right, we've got a few people on Rudy's soup. How are you mate? Watch some of your virtual pinball the other night. It's pretty good. I guess America's waking up after New Year. Happy New Year, Rudy. Happy New Year everybody. I'm playing a bit of... Rudy's got a great channel. I'm playing a bit of Walking Dead here, but I'm not a great pinball player. I'm kind of an okay, in fact probably less than okay pinball player, as the saying goes. I enjoy it, it's great fun. And I try and get everyone into it. I was in California recently on business and one of the companies I was with, rather than them taking me to dinner, I took them to play pinball, which was kind of an eye-opener for them. But they loved it, they really enjoyed it.
    65:56
    paid convert Rob my shit, er tälly Hanlen, This game is just one of the hardest games I think. Also one of the most deep games. You want a game that lasts a while and you don't mind getting a bit frustrated? This is the game for you. This and probably Ghostbusters. It can be quite a frustrating game but I think in my mind it's easier to progress on Ghostbusters. The next one is...
    67:14
    Really, I downloaded the Stern tables. I thought Star Trek was pretty well done on Pinball Arcade. I don't know what you thought of it. I'm not a big fan of that game but it seems to be a pretty decent conversion. I was playing it on an iPad, which I thought was alright. Which I thought was alright.
    67:55
    They're all dead. Collars in this game. I mean a lot of people complain that there's not enough from the actual...
    68:06
    The game is a bit of a game but, sorry not, there's a lot of people complaining there's not a lot of collage from the TV program and I can see how that, I mean it kind of, there's very little specifically from the TV program except a couple of pictures on the side. On the game there's barely anything except the well walker I think and some of the kind of artifacts like the bicycle garden, prison and barn etc. But there's not a lot of the characters. There's some stickers here on the apron and on the side of the machine. There's nothing about the characters on the back glass. So, and then you've got the fish tank, which I think is fantastic. So again, I see there's a couple of guys that have done code that you can download that adds it in. They've kind of hacked it and they've kind of hacked the code and put much more from the game in. I'm going to go and buy lots of bits for my theatre magic pinball machine.
    69:44
    So again, you've got a skill shot up here, you've got to roll the ball over those two links that are flashing up here on this lane. Whoops, I've started it and I actually really blew it badly. And then as it rolls over onto the other lane, you want to light the lane that the ball rolls over. And the animation and the score changes depending on how well you do. I accidentally pushed the ball with my beer belly as it were. Ooh, that was bad.
    70:36
    We'll try and get prison multiball again. Actually, last time I thought I had prison multiball, I think it was actually bloodbath multiball. You got bit, man. So I started frizzing, now it wants me to hit the blue targets. I've got a lot of them, I've got a lot of them. I'm going to hit the blue targets. I can either, or hit the prison, the prison itself, in which case it will track that you've hit those targets. So you can either whack the prison with a little head, you whack whack whack it, or you can kind of hit the shots. I'm gonna go for prison multiball again. Got some guts. There you go. Weird, it keeps doing that. I was doing that. It just goes out a bit and then... What's that?
    72:49
    I need to email Stern about that because it's pretty irritating. I wouldn't do it all the time as well which is a bizarre thing.
    73:11
    No. Here's the way it goes for me. Like dead feet, yours lose ball. Oh, lucky on ball save. Now I get one more multiball and then I'll chop the broadcast as it were. Oh man, this is just the best! Only way through is backdoor!
    74:38
    Ok, prison's started, now I'm going to either hit the prison or hit the blue targets. And that's one of the irritating things about prison. Fire the ball up and then just straight back down. Very frustrating. I can see why people get hacked off that. They've got no control over it basically.
    75:12
    For more Okay, got one more thing to hit. Oh, prison. God, it was cheap. Nothing to do with the game being hard, it has to do with me being rubbish.
    76:26
    I'm all in the war. Ooh, shoot that. That puts some hair on my chest. We don't mez paz, we can punch you in the back! Knapp Arcade, Feinkosnick Pinball, Hitman's Pinball 라고 venite首 mé parán! Entity now using Forehand side spin time Another hole!
    77:58
    Honestly I spent when working with four players but I won't claim what I won't owe пол I'm not making it on this game now. All the excitement of having Jack Danger join. You bake the pie or the pie strikes the eye. Find the back of the box, hop on and keep clutching the sunshine and keep stalling WINNELL危خ� chant Come on!
    78:52
    Uggggghhh! Kill the game! This was an emergency garage lock system. Boom! The Oh, is it going to give it to me? Oh, lucky. Right on the edge of all save.
    80:15
    You got the riot target. CDC one. Start a bicycle goal. You're not totally sure what you're meant to do on bicycle goal. Shoot left ramp. That's that one. Who says shoot live rams? Give it another go. No, you missed it. Lost the ball!
    81:13
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    83:02
    I love that animation. A lot of people are, I was actually one of them, but after the color DMD for this game, I actually don't, I think it would be nuts to put the color DMD, I think the red and white and black, the red and black is perfect for this game. There's other games like Monster Bash and Medieval Madness and even Ghostbusters where I can see color. For this game, I think the original is the best. I can't imagine color DMD really adding much just because of the blood and the color scheme of the game. I suppose they could change the screen around, put different LEDs, different colors in. But for me it's the one game that's not high on my list to put a colour DMD in. I know they've been working on it, it's my understanding. Apparently very close. Flip the dead features.
    84:17
    We've got that guy before the game died. Ball 3, last ball of the first day of the new year. Probably be a super quick one.
    84:50
    Okay folks that's it, happy new year to everybody, thanks for watching, probably won't do any streaming until next weekend, maybe try and do a better stream of Theatre of Magic, I've got a few extra bits and pieces that should make that easy. I did get the grand champion score, that was my mission for today so I'm very happy with that. Keep flipping everyone, have a great new year and if you haven't seen it as I said, Jack Danger deadflips stream of Batman from the Stern Factory was fantastic. Great insight from George Gomez, Lyman Sheets and the other guys here at Stern. It's really good that they do that and it looks like a fantastic game. Have a great new year and I'll see you soon hopefully. Bye bye.
    85:51
    Oh, and one other thing. Big thanks to Greg Motta who ran the Robot Bash tournament, 30th of December. First tournament I've been to here in the UK and it was great. It was a great bunch of guys. Greg ran it in his house which was fantastic, really welcoming. So a big thanks to Greg and his family and everyone else that helped on the day. It was a great gig. Met some great people there. Thanks everybody.