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TOTAL ANNIHILATION! HomeBrew #Pinball Machine. PT1

Dead Flip·video·59m 46s·analyzed·Mar 5, 2017
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TL;DR

Dead Flip streams Total Annihilation homebrew; Matt Scott explains design, mechanics, and P-Ramp implementation.

Summary

Dead Flip hosts a streaming session showcasing Total Annihilation, a homebrew pinball machine built by Matt Scott Denisey. The game features a time-travel theme with nine nuclear reactors to destroy, custom software using P-Ramp/Mode, Piranha RGB LEDs, and unique mechanics including lock-stealing, hands-free skill shots, and a distinctive aggressive bumper. The stream includes gameplay demonstrations, rule explanations, and appearances by community members including Bug from Spooky Pinball.

Key Claims

  • Total Annihilation uses P-Ramp/Mode software system with completely new code and rules while preserving original hardware

    high confidence · Matt Scott describes the Bride of Pinbot 2.0 comparison: 'it takes the old game, doesn't touch anything about the old game physically, but you completely change out all the software'

  • The game features Piranha LEDs (through-hole RGB) as the LED system

    high confidence · Matt Scott directly states in chat response: 'I'm using something called Piranha LEDs. Basically they're through-hole, super, super bright RGB LEDs'

  • Total Annihilation will be brought to Texas Pinball Festival

    high confidence · Host asks 'you're bringing this to Texas Pinball Festival' and Matt Scott responds 'Oh, yeah'

  • Matt Scott Denisey manufactures the Dead Flip flipper products mentioned

    high confidence · Host states: 'This gentleman also is responsible for, if any of you have him, the physical DeadFlip flippers. He's the one that's been cranking those bad boys up'

  • The game was originally a Dolly Parton cabinet before being converted

    high confidence · Host confirms: 'Oh, this was a Dolly Parton cabinet' in response to chat question about the cabinet's previous life

  • Multiball in the game grants 2x scoring multiplier like older solid-state games

    high confidence · Matt Scott explains: 'By the way, if you have multiball running, everything is times two, like you would in a school game'

  • Total Annihilation is currently a one-off prototype with uncertain future plans

    high confidence · Matt Scott states: 'Right now this is just a prototype one-off game that I just made. I don't know what the plans are yet. We'll see.'

  • The bumper is intentionally designed to be very aggressive and punishing

    high confidence · Host asks 'what drew you to make the bump so damn strong?' and Matt Scott responds 'I don't know. I like games that are really hard to play. That thing is a punisher.'

Notable Quotes

  • “Two Brothers Pinball rules. Hell yeah. I like the little chat room. It's kind of cool, man.”

    Dead Flip host@ 13:49 — Community endorsement of Two Brothers Pinball beer partnership; positive sentiment on chat engagement

  • “I like games that are really hard to play. That thing is a punisher. Yeah. If the ball even looks at it, the thing creepyfires.”

    Matt Scott Denisey@ 23:40 — Design philosophy explanation for aggressive bumper; reveals intentional difficulty/punishment mechanic preference

  • “Right now this is just a prototype one-off game that I just made. I don't know what the plans are yet. We'll see.”

    Matt Scott Denisey@ 20:49 — Clarifies Total Annihilation is not planned for production; manages expectations about commercialization

  • “Everything's 2-up. Like that. It just played. Yeah, there you go.”

    Matt Scott Denisey@ 38:43 — Explains multiball multiplier mechanic and its impact on scoring strategy

  • “This locking mechanism is great. Yeah, I don't know. So the locking mechanism, as you see, is like three drop targets. It's freaking amazing.”

    Host / Matt Scott Denisey@ 17:47 — Technical description of unique lock stealing/multiball mechanics using drop targets

Entities

Matt Scott DeniseypersonDead FlippersonBugpersonJack DangerpersonTotal AnnihilationgameTwo Brothers BrewingcompanyBride of Pinbot 2.0gameSpooky Pinball

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Streaming-first approach to homebrew showcasing with real-time audience interaction, chat participation, and community sponsorship integration (Two Brothers Beer); reflects growing professionalization of pinball content creation

    high · Extended stream with live gameplay, chat interaction, sponsor mentions, chat challenges ('type fart', 'letter O and number 7'), audience donations tracked, community forum promotion requested

  • ?

    event_signal: Texas Pinball Festival confirmed as venue for showcasing Total Annihilation homebrew to broader community

    high · Host: 'you're bringing this to Texas Pinball Festival' | Matt Scott: 'Oh, yeah'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Homebrew creator intentionally prioritizing aggressive difficulty and punishing game design (strong bumper, complex reactor mechanics) contrasting with some commercial trends toward accessibility

    medium · Matt Scott: 'I like games that are really hard to play. That thing is a punisher.' Describes bumper as creating difficult control challenges

  • $

    market_signal: Two Brothers Brewing partnership with pinball community demonstrates craft beverage industry interest in pinball IP/branding; represents cross-market collaboration opportunity

    high · Two Brothers Pinball beer launched with marketing support; Bruce Mike Miller leading pinball-specific marketing initiative for Chicago-based brewery

  • ?

    community_signal: Bug from Spooky Pinball appearing on Dead Flip stream signals cross-promotion between manufacturer and independent content creators; potential talent/relationship building between boutique manufacturer and streaming community

Transcript

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0:00
You can plug it. He's so self-conscious about it. I'm going to mess with Ken. I'm going to mess with Ken all night by plugging it in. I see you. That's not my ulterior motive at all.
0:12
My boss sent me here. You invented it. I didn't invent it. I came up with the concept. He invented it. That means invent. Isn't that what invent means? Absolutely. You're an inventor.
0:22
So you did, that's your recipe then? No, I had nothing to do with the recipe. I had the working idea about naming a pinball beer. My friend is at a party. No, absolutely. Sarah would love this actually. She's going to hook up with you to give her one of those. What? That's awesome. Oooh! You got a nice collection there. I'm so fucking excited. I want this on my shirt. I met you at Expo. It's got glitter in it. No, it's all making sense. I knew that. Oh my god. Yeah, and you had root beer in it. I had Rupert at the time. Rupert. Scott Denisey is awesome. What's up, 86pixels? The yeah man, what's going on?
1:03
86pixels, that's Jimmy. There you go. He knows who you are. Can they hear us yet? Oh, they can hear us. All right. Internet, if you can hear what I'm saying, type the word fart really loud in chat, please. Yeah. If you could. When I saw your shirt, I'm like... We got a lot of special guests coming tonight, and it's gonna be dope.
company
Texas Pinball Festivalevent
P-Ramp/Modeproduct
Piranha LEDsproduct
We Are Pinballorganization
Electric Bat Arcadevenue

medium · Bug appears as guest on stream; mentioned as available for post-game discussion; context suggests ongoing relationship with streaming community

  • ?

    product_strategy: Total Annihilation positioned as one-off prototype with no production plans announced; creator being cautious about commercialization expectations

    high · Matt Scott explicitly states: 'Right now this is just a prototype one-off game that I just made. I don't know what the plans are yet. We'll see.'

  • ?

    technology_signal: P-Ramp/Mode platform enabling complete software replacement on classic hardware becoming accessible tool for homebrew creators; demonstrates alternative path to original pinball design outside traditional manufacturer channels

    high · Multiple references to P-Ramp/Mode implementation on Total Annihilation and Bride of Pinbot 2.0; Matt Scott describes full software replacement capability while preserving original playfield hardware

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Homebrew leveraging original Dolly Parton cabinet as base platform, suggesting availability of vintage/non-collectible hardware for creative conversion projects

    medium · Original cabinet was Dolly Parton; complete software and cosmetic replacement while preserving mechanics and structure

    • 1:23
    Yep, that is me. But I'm building two more, actually. What's going on, Internet? Fart. Thanks, guys. Thanks for typing fart in chat.
    1:32
    Very nice of you. Dad's going to serve beer, too. No, we're not going to serve beer. Oh, okay. You have to drink beer while you're playing. Okay. Fart. Geek Gamer, thanks for the follow. Or the freaking host. I'm an idiot. Hey, so which way is this flipper supposed to face, to be correct? It's up to you. They were designed so that you could buy two of them and wear them like little lapel belts. Nice. It's happening. It's happening Alright, there we are Internet, how are ya? Double Danger, what's going on? Big shout out to Double Danger for making these pins Oh, it did? Yeah Double D Damn that collection, isn't that nice? What you don't see is We're using the big Lebowski here As a tool bench To hold everything Is the chat double for everyone else? Nope, just you, buddy. Sorry about it.
    2:27
    Dude. Yes. This is going to be dope. Crystal Pepsi. I'm excited. That's an advertising for the future. That's what it looks like.
    2:38
    Hell yeah. Go over the games in the room real quick? Sure. To my left that you can't see is a big Lebowski. Under the camera is Total Annihilation. This is Scott's baby. To my right, we got a Pinbot. Then you got a Bride of Pinbot and a Bride of Pinbot 2.0. Doctor Dude, you got an Earthshaker Aftershock.
    2:58
    Dude, Shay Metro for eight months in a row. How the crap? Thank you very much. Maintaining membership to the League. You're amazing. Ladies and gentlemen, flippers and butts up, if you're good.
    3:07
    We got a High Speed, a Taxi, and a Space Station. And a Golden Tee. Always a Golden Tee back there. What is Bride of Pinbot 2.0? why don't you explain that real quick for me all right yeah what's up guys oh look at this i can see myself this is scott denisi by the way i'm easily the uh man of the hour um very cool and anyway uh bright of pinball 2.0 that was a uh a cool re-theme by um dutch pinball so basically it takes the old game doesn't touch anything about the old game physically but you completely change out all the software. So it's like you put a P-Rock in this game, all new software, all new game. It's great. You can also switch back to the old game if you want to, which is pretty red.
    3:54
    So it's not like you're just choosing one or the other. You get the option. Absolutely. And we did a stream a few years ago. Yeah, I was here actually. I streamed Bright Up In By 2.0. You can find that on my YouTube. Yeah, is it on there still? I think that's in my top 10 videos that people like to go back and watch a lot, for sure. Wax, thanks for the bits. Fresh Poetic, what's going on? Oh, that timing? Yeah, buddy. Um, well.
    4:20
    Sheesh, what do we do? So, while we're, uh... I actually just finished setting up, and we are 11 minutes late. I guess 8 minutes late. Had some stuff to do. We have a lot of guests coming. We're going to be blowing this game up. Scott's going to be describing some of the stuff that's going on here. This is a whitewood with some Sharpie on it, which is awesome. but yeah we're gonna bang around in this thing until it doesn't want us to do it anymore tell Scott his brother is watching oh yeah it's my brother you have a brother yeah what up brother what's up Gabby good to see you PSP gamer where's turbo Ares turbo there you go aww that's a car less than three an Ares turbo PSP gamer thank you for maintaining your membership to the league you're amazing ladies and gentlemen flip your butts up alright if I miss any subs and stuff like that, guys, I apologize. We're here to show this bad boy off. Alright. So, let's flip this camera over, shall we?
    5:19
    Scott will have this game at TPF. Can't wait to play. Oh, you're bringing this to Texas Pinball Festival. Oh, yeah. Nice. So, the reason you're seeing two displays, ladies and gentlemen, is the back box actually has a monitor and maintains the old scoring displays, which is pretty rad.
    5:41
    But look at this. Look at this cool, look at the light show. From the camera you can see that's a star spinning around.
    5:47
    Oh yeah, the camera really makes it better, huh? Yeah, you can pick out the patterns and stuff. Oh yeah, look at that. It's that direct overhead view. It's like when I made it. It's like Tetris.
    6:00
    That's awesome. It looks better on the camera than it does in real life. Yeah, I don't know what this is. Yeah, this looks like crap. This is going to be great. So Scott said that, well, first off, didn't this win an award or something? I don't think so. Not at Expo? I don't think so. Okay. Nah. Well, yo, check it out. This thing's got a banging sound system, and the music, I believe, was made by Scott? Yeah, 100% of the sound. He's got like a dope sound area.
    6:27
    Whatever you call it. It's got keyboards and shit. I don't know. This looks so dope. Wait until you hear it, see it. It's going to be great. There's pizza on the way. You guys don't get any of that, but thank you for watching. This is Scott Denisey, correct. This gentleman also is responsible for, if any of you have him, the physical dead flip flippers. He's the one that's been cranking those bad boys up.
    6:49
    Dolly Parton. Who's yelling Dolly Parton on there? No, he asked what game it was in a previous life. Oh, it was not a game in a previous life. Only the cabinet.
    6:59
    It was a Dolly Parton cabinet. Oh, this was a Dolly Parton cabinet. 100% of everything else is all original. Scott actually, you have the machine to see and see this out in your garage, don't you? I do, yeah. Yep. So he's seen this out in his garage.
    7:13
    The back box actually has Total Annihilation written on it. I can give a once over. We can kind of see it in there. We can kind of see it. When we're done playing. I could probably, it's all, everything's zoomed in just right. I'm going to move stuff around. We'll show you the whole thing in like a pan around once we're done playing it tonight. Should be fun. Love that account. Is Scott the owner of the Pinball Life Instagram? No. No, we don't use that. No. That is owned by a stranger. Really? There's a Pinball Life Instagram? I told you that. That is not. Oh, and it's active? It's active. Yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah.
    7:47
    Uh-oh. Oh, well. All right. Well, I say we bang around on this thing. Scott, what do you want to tell us about this bad boy? All right. I guess we'll go over some basic instructions, right? So the storyline of this whole thing is you are from 1988, and you're sitting down with some scientists, and they said, hey, man, we got some bad news, but you're going to be able to fix this, so sit tight for a second. They said a future civilization has discovered reverse time travel, which we all know is a big problem with reverse time travel because you come back and screw everything up and then paradoxes and all sorts of stuff, right? so they're actually going to use that for evil and we know this uh you know i don't know how they know this they're scientists whatever sure not my problem so uh so basically they need you to go forward in time which forward time travel is fine because that's easily doable with cryogenics or whatever they have in 1988 um so they are going to send you into the distant future which is kind of, I left vague purposely, because I don't really know. It doesn't really matter, does it? I expect a full book report on this. Exactly. So you're going into the future, and you need to destroy this civilization before they invent reverse time travel. So they have nine nuclear reactors on their land, right? And those are in the center of this play field here on that little map. and basically they are shut down at the moment because they've no longer used them but they can be restarted and overheated and exploded and kill a lot of people. Oh, yeah, you're trying to kill these natives. You are trying to kill everybody in the civilization. The only problem is it's a one-way mission because there's no reverse time travel because you just blew up the people that knew how to do it and you kind of destroyed everything. So I guess you fail all the time and there's no way to actually win. It's always a loss. Yeah, but you're going in, you're trying to destroy stuff.
    9:50
    So actually know how to play now, and what we're looking at in the play field is up in the top part of the play field, you'll notice this little area, and there's actually three slingshots aimed at each other up there with a bunch of star rollovers and some stand-ups and things. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I've never seen anything like that, so I was like, I just want to do that. So that's the reactor core, and you can enter that core through the top, those four rollover lanes there. Or you can sometimes sneak it in through this scoop if you hit it just right and it ricochets through. Oh, yeah, it could bounce over the scoop. You could bounce over the scoop. It's rare that it happens, but it's kind of cool when it does. But you go into this reactor, you heat it up to the point where it's critical. The reactor will go critical, then you need to get out of the reactor, and then you complete a lit shot or multiple lit shots on the bottom play field to actually destroy it. so um in order to start the reactor up though because it's just they've been dormant for a while you need to solve and complete this nine matrix oh right nine coded thing there with no graphics on it um and then then it'll actually start up so uh i think that's kind of it multiball is kind of cool i'm just gonna let you guys watch multiball dude it's really the coolest freaking shit. It does some weird stuff. It's a very, very unique locking mechanism on this game. And there's a lot of other things that we can go into details on. There's like a hands-free skill shot. There's a lane saver, which is kind of cool. You complete three of these lanes down here, and you can lane change it, and when you complete the fourth one, it gives you a ball save. Oh, hell yeah. Which is really cool. Also on the fly, you can throw it over to E just in case. Yeah, you can just throw it. Yeah, so it's bouncing around over on this side. You want to, like, kind of put it over by E, so just in case, you know. And it flashes bright white. Like, you know that's the one. Great. It's kind of cool. The pop bumper is, I don't know, can I say asshole? Yeah. Oh, it's a fucking asshole. Yeah. I like how you passed it. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so, yeah, sorry, kids. I'm sorry.
    11:54
    Yeah, so that's basically it. I mean, it's still a work in progress. Hopefully we don't see any errors tonight, although, you know, we may. Yeah. No big deal. I like the countdown display for a ball save, which is phenomenal. And what's this readout here doing? That tells you the reactor temperature. So when the reactor is started, there will be a number showing up on there, and it's actually a percentage of where it's at to overheating or getting critical. Oh, dope. So when it hits 100%, then it's critical and it shuts down. Get out of there and start getting shots. Yeah, you've got to get out of there, and then you've got to hit the lower shots that randomly light on the bottom. Oh, yeah. And does this do anything? Yeah, every time you want to. Hell yeah. Don't even talk about that.
    12:35
    I'd say let's fire up a four-player game and freaking go to town. Do you want me to go first? Yeah, why not? Well, let me go first. Yeah, you go. I'll try to discover what the hell's going on. Sounds great. You just go ahead.
    12:47
    Oh, ladies and gentlemen, I've been forced to advertise this. But we are drinking the Two Brothers pinball beer. I don't know if you folks have had this yet, but it's freaking amazing. and the gentleman who invented this beer is here right now, folks. No, I did not. I did not invent that beer.
    13:10
    Let's be clear. That beer was not invented by me, although I appreciate the... But what does invented even mean, right? No. This was a great concept by two brothers that came to life. A friend of mine, Bruce Miller, who runs the marketing department there, really wanted to pioneer a pinball beer. Hell yeah. And for the community to have a craft beer with a local company like Two Brothers out of Warrenville, a Chicago-based company, and Pinball out of Chicago just made sense. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's really good. I appreciate you saying hello. You're not forced to advertise that. No. Thank you. I will be forced to drink it, but it's going to be good. Someone's asking me about the RGB lights. Two Brothers Pinball rules. Hell yeah, Kazem. I agree. I like the little chat room. It's kind of cool, man. Got to have the chat. All right. Also, hey, that Patches guy, right? He wants to know what RGB LEDs I'm using. I'm using something called Piranha LEDs basically they're through hole super super bright RGB LEDs I'll find some later during the stream and I'll put them up I'll stick it in front of the camera and show you what it looks like alright internet you're going to have to tell me if this is too loud and if it is I don't give a shit alright we can change our lanes up here
    14:27
    Hold on. Lock. That's a lock, lady. Stay laughing. Ah, fumbled that. Sub JP Patches Thank you for maintaining membership to the league You amazing Ladies and gentlemen flippers and Butts up It a very clever lock isn that awesome Oh you gotta short plunge that I see
    15:04
    Short plunge. Let's see if we can... That ball locks this in there. Oh, it was blinking white! I see.
    15:27
    Alright, we're going to try to short plunge this. Here we go. That was way too short. Oh, you did it!
    15:38
    Four frames. Up four frames. Attack heart. Hell yeah, baby. Woo! Stay alive, baby. Come on, play. No, I wanted it!
    16:27
    Alright, so we have our ball save ready. Alright, there we go. Now we gotta get into the reactor. See if we can backhand this.
    16:45
    It looks like you can. Not yet. Oh, get up there! I cannot hit that shot. Give it to me. Oh, my God.
    17:11
    Do one. All right. Let it sit for a second. It got trapped behind there. I forgot about it. Wait, what happened? Let it do a ball search for a second. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, it dropped. It's going to lock the ball. What did I? Okay, come explain this to me real quick if you don't mind. So I hit all this enough to light the reactor. Yeah, you've got to get in there. Then you've got to get in there. Yep. And does it just shoot it into there? No, you'll see. Oh, okay.
    17:36
    Let's get a four-player game going. Yeah, I mean, let's wait until we find it. Oh, it's looking for this bad boy. Gotcha.
    17:47
    Yeah, this locking mechanism is great. Yeah, I don't know. So the locking mechanism, as you see, is like three drop targets. It's freaking amazing.
    18:01
    Oh, it's going to keep me going? Yeah. All right, don't mind if I do. Hell yeah guys, this game is playing super smooth.
    18:38
    Get in there, buddy. Come on. You want to shoot that pink orbit. That pink orbit up there, it will capture the ball at the top. See that? Oh, no.
    18:51
    So you're trying to hit those rovers. You're at 16, 33%. Nice. Does spelling core help with the percentage? It's your bonus multiplier. So now when you've got to get out, you want to let it train. Yeah.
    19:08
    Hell yeah! Nice. We did it, boys. Nice. Alright. Where's that? Yeah, yeah. Alright, I think we need one more hit to get our next reactor going.
    19:31
    Reactor? Go ahead, go ahead. Here we go. Alright, isn't this awesome? Banger J, what's going on, J? I'll take three. Yeah, no shit. Oh, bud Alright, we gotta shoot that orbit
    20:29
    Here we go Feel free to answer any questions that you read, too, dude. Yeah, right now this is just a prototype one-off game that I just made. I don't know what the plans are yet. We'll see. Oh, shit. Doug wants one.
    21:00
    How is Scott D'Anissi typing in chat right now? Sarah's over there. I don't know. She's hijacking my account. Is that illegal? Can I get kicked off for that? Nah, you're good. Just kidding. Account hijacking. So the score to beat right now is 1.1 million. Said by, you know, Yancy. Thanks, Yancy. Where is, uh... Oh, my score's right there, yeah. 371,000. Shit, okay, I wasn't even close. All right, let's get a four-player going on in here. Let's do it. Welcome to the future. All right, here we go, folks. I'm going to let someone else play. I'll do it.
    21:36
    All right, so there's a hand-free skill shot, too. So right now I can select what lane I want to go on if I think I can hit it. I can launch the ball if I don't move. If I don't move again after the ball is launched, it gives me a super skill shot, which spots me a lane save. Oh, nice. And it also starts the reactor. Oh, damn. Like immediately. Dude, that's awesome. Yeah, that was an ad for Crystal Pepsi. So, when it's white, that's the super skill shot, but if it turns yellow, that's the regular skill shot. Oh, sure, sure, sure. That's awesome. So here, I'm going to try and get this. I'm probably not going to get it, but... Oh!
    22:10
    Are the spooky guys late? Sure. Is anyone really late? No. I was late. Love this music? Hell yeah, man. There's also a reactor jackpot too When the reactor's running Oh my god There's a reactor jackpot too If you solve that grid again Oh really? Yeah it's half the reactor value Let's see what I can do here Let's see what I can do Uh internet Can I get a Um The letter O Like the small letter O And the number 7 in chat please Thank you Shit.
    23:03
    Oh, is there lock stealing? Oh my god. There is lock stealing. Got it. Thanks for the 6,000 points. What?
    23:28
    Yeah, why don't you play, man? Are we paying a dollar on this, or what? Scott, what drew you to make the bump so damn strong? The pop bumper? Yeah. I don't know. I like games that are really hard to play. That thing is a punisher. Yeah. If the ball even looks at it, the thing creepyfires. I love it.
    23:48
    Small letter O in the number 7. Double danger, thank you, you son of a bitch. Yeah, that thing is chill. It reminds me of the old Gottlieb game. I love it, man. Yeah.
    24:02
    Go, go, go. Wax, thank you for the bits. I love you. Dude, this thing is so awesome. Yeah, let's fire it up.
    24:15
    No shit. Dude, hell yes. get out of here man wow that was brutal alright that was my four minutes alright let's see what you got buddy you were player one oh was I? yeah man I mean you can get to it no way dude this score is better than all of them alright I'm going to hands free skill shot again yeah for a minute I'm like I almost did as good a shot on his own game Oh my gosh.
    24:54
    Mother Father. You can cheat the skill shot too. Or cheat the auto plunger. Oh really? Yep. Wonko. Love you bud.
    25:09
    So this is a P-Rock system. P-Rock. Yeah he used P-Rock to make this. So if you lock a ball, you can actually cheat the auto launcher by getting ready, and as soon as the ball comes out, you can launch it manually first. Yeah, so otherwise it won't launch it around them. It's like a free core shot. How much did this cost you to build? I don't want to talk about that. Fair enough. It's a waste here.
    25:38
    Ah, that holds. Please give me. I have to unlock. By the way, if you have multiball running, everything is times two like you would in a school game. Oh really? Hell yeah. So if you destroy a reactor with multiball on, you're going to win. Awesome. Play it baby. Get in that reactor. Got to get in there. Nice. That's what's up. Something to keep in mind too, the pink shot will alternate with the blue shot. The shot will alternate every time you hit a pop bumper or a sling. Oh, okay. That's why it's messing with you. So you kind of have to get control and kind of take it easy. So this will let me up there, but that will not. That will not. Got it. And if you hit a pop bumper or a sling, it switches sides. It switches sides on you, yeah.
    26:32
    Nice. Didn't live up there very long. Nice. I love ya. Bay live, baby. Ah, your butt. Alright. Your reactor jackpot's almost gone two shots away.
    27:04
    Oh, shooting the, uh... One more shot on the reactor jackpot. Come on, baby. Come on. Great. Oh! Damn. So close. All right. Dang. We're taking a close-up.
    27:23
    Oh, my God. Who is that? Well, we just... Brian Dillard. See, that's him. That's him. We just came in here. That's all. Well, I'm getting it. internet i love you um the music does rule totally uh if someone would like to go hit up some of the uh pinball forums and let us let them know we're live that'd be rad i my phone isn't working right Good luck. I got to eat the live last one.
    28:11
    Dog! We can't get this in, dog. Lion Man. I know, I know. I don't remember really anyone here this God dang thing. Let's move on. Let's not.
    28:27
    Five people. How many people? Oh man. I got to win. I'm working on artwork. Right now, yeah.
    28:48
    The spooky kids are showing up. Take the knife out of my back. Spooky needs a sales guy. I move. Okay.
    29:16
    So I'm actually jacking the reactor value up right now. You see it on top of the screen? Yeah. If it's critical and you can get back up in there. Alright, I need this. Oh, you need to shoot the red shot to kill it. I need to start my multiball and then shoot the white shot. Because remember, multiballs, everything's worth two. If I kill that reactor while multiballs are running... Oh, yeah. Charlie's looking good. Okay.
    29:39
    Double danger. Come on, hit that bargain. Yeah. There we go. He got the swag on Very cool design Scott Yeah I agree Oh Oh Everybody out!
    30:04
    Everybody out of the pool. Alright, let's see what I can do, boys. Cool things. Multi ball please! We might be third. This game is trash. Oh yeah, well there's pinball beer. Pinball beer. And there's other random beers. Fresh and sweet pinball. Pressure's on.
    30:58
    Charlie looks good. Brian looks like old balls. Rude. That's a good skill shot. If you move it, yeah, it turns into a regular skill shot. I got it. You'll kind of see, I mean, there's a lot to it. It's really, really helpful. Careful, careful. He's trying to overheat the reactor. The reactor's critical, which means he's going to get out of there. He's going to shoot the white shot, which was bad. I got to shoot the white shot? You're done. He was the puppet. Was he? Yeah. I'm switching my rules. It's like Rob Blackman. He dropped down. He's bad. He's done. I created a post about Scott's pin streaming live on Twitch, bro. Thanks, Yahtzee.
    32:06
    You da man. On pin side, okay. Okay. So spooky, when are you going to mass produce this? There you go. That's a good question, Jack Danger. Maybe we should get Scott DiVicci over here to do the after.
    32:46
    There you go, Internet. There you go. Oh, Scott won. Bravo, sir. There you go. Nice. Boy, I actually wish I had access to smart drop targets. Oh, baby. Welcome to the future. Play a tree. That'll put the meat in your loaf. This guy has a camera phone. Wow, look. They're using their phones. You know, you were taking photos of the Internet. Like, he was taking photos of all those guys. They were watching you take the photos. when you do that. So, you're technically taking a photo of all of them. Let me ask you this, how much can they hear? All of it. I need to leave the room.
    33:41
    I'm going to say something I shouldn't. All of it. I'll start us off. Sack it up. What's his toes? What's going on, guys? All right, here we go. Yeah, internet, here's the thing. Like, go make a pinball machine right now. Go do it.
    34:01
    No, you suck. What? I want to live backflip that damn lock. Thank you. Well, let's see what you got, buddy. I forgot the rules. It's been a long time. Internet, this is Bug. He's single and ready to mingle.
    34:31
    JP, I love you, buddy. I love the ball. Me too, Jaded. That'd be dope. Yeah, Arcade, you're working on like a Metroid pinball machine, right? That's awesome.
    34:48
    Homebrews and Crest. There you go. Oh, nice save. Then I must have... Yeah, they did that. You guys forgot to put your sack on the glass. Damn it.
    35:07
    Wait, how do I, where do I get one of those? That is yours, I think. Is that a, what, no, like the... Oh, the dollar? Oh, that's a dollar coin. Yeah, yeah. I'm a freaking idiot. You call them sacks, I see what you're doing.
    35:22
    Okay, in fact, it's a weird thing. Mimosa, what's up, buddy? I'm pretty sure Bug is older than 14, ladies and gentlemen. Nope. Very young, 14. Really? Yep. That would be different. You look like a grown-ass.
    35:45
    You're 14 years old. More so every day. I don't like it. You're 14? Is he a sophomore in high school?
    35:59
    I don't know anything anymore. Jack's tall enough that his sack is on the glass every time he steps up to a machine. Gross.
    36:10
    Let's see what Charlie's got here. What's the skill shot? You get to choose it up there. You gotta soft punch it, though.
    36:19
    So I forget, don't you have to line up nuclear reactors and stuff? So what you're going to do is hit that grid right there. You see that 3x3 grid? Yep. So get all that one solid color. It likes the reactor shot. Get it in the scoop or up top. Bang around in there until it says you beat the reactor. Then make the blinking red shot that shows up. Okay. And then you've got to get out of the reactor.
    36:46
    It looks like somebody took out Jay's little island. I know. Someone scrubbed out. I loved it. There used to be a little stick figure there with a spear.
    36:54
    I watched Crazy J put it there. Aw. I think it was at Xbox. He used his mouth. Um, all right, let's see if we can... Go, go, go, go!
    37:10
    Boom. Ow. All right, let's try to backhand this block. Nice. My man. No auto-punching, please. What have I done?
    37:29
    I trusted too much. Oh, there's a free ball lock for you, buddy. Oh, that's right. You can steal it in this game. Oh, yeah.
    37:41
    Mother of... I pretty much stole the free ball lock the last time. Oh, you can steal it. Hits it immediately.
    37:48
    I just gotta hit that now, right? Yep. I feel like you're listening to a Prodigy CD. Okay. Thank you, Scott.
    37:59
    I'm down. So, how do you hit it? I don't know. Hit the target or the scoop? So, here's the thing. Hit the drop target, you'll get multi-ball. The scoop will give you reactor. Hitting the drop target will give you multi-ball.
    38:14
    My man. You can still get reactor while you're at this, too. Oh, okay. I like that. All right, pinball. Jared, good to see you, buddy.
    38:31
    I'm proceeding to do nothing. Oh, now you hit it. Well, you started the reactor. Also, when you're in multiball, everything's 2-up. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like that.
    38:47
    It just played. Yeah, there you go. That was almost really bad. So the shot you want to hit is a shot that's pink. Whatever orbit is lit pink is the one that will stop the ball and let it into the reactor.
    38:58
    This is a hard game. I agree. Needs more ramps. Oh! Bonnie, don't do it. Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. Lion Man! Wait, Lion Man? Lion Man.
    39:24
    Code's looking good, I agree. CW, what's going on? Hell yeah. Lion Man. Ah.
    39:41
    I'll do that. Alright. He's got this, buddy. I think the ball safe timer would screw me up though, even though it looks awesome. Why?
    40:07
    I don't even look at it. It just makes me know that... Oh, there's combos. I can pinball, what's going on dude? Yeah you don't even notice the ball safety, the apron is covering it. Absolutely. I cannot hit the ball. That was a great save too So remember if you get three of the lanes lit it lights one of the lanes that's left over as a blinking white light that If you hit it It is a ball save, so it activates a ball save. Hey, you should put something like that in your game. I wish I had thought of something like that.
    41:08
    I don't think there's the chop ball save. You guys put your sack on the glass. Damn it, my sack. All right, Charlie, if you want to see me put my sack on the glass, I'll do it.
    41:23
    Bounce. I love you. All right. I want a ball. Here we go. Nice. Boom. You should lock the second one.
    41:34
    And then give it to you. It's yours, my child. Win. I am horrible at that. Love them bass drops? Hell yeah. Oh, look at that. This guy, I'm horrible at it. what he says.
    41:58
    Jack Danger, his Blade Runner, I'll take it. Reno, I'll be doing that in a minute. I like to try faster than this to see how well it works.
    42:12
    But we're going to be controlling the hell out of this in the next game. No! Yeah, if you folks went to the Chicago Pinball Expo, this game was there.
    42:45
    Thank you very much. You're welcome. Although I still got to get that shot. It's frustrating. That's tough.
    43:18
    Internet, don't walk through Scott's front lawn, please. Simon, what's up? This is a home-brewed pinball machine made by my boy Scott Denisey. We're at his house. We're playing it right now.
    43:34
    You'll snap your Eagles doing 350. Oh, and there's pizza here. Well, that was pretty awful. Hey, you gotta go back there. Can you guys hear the audio okay? No shit looks hot? It's really cool, dude. It's really cool.
    43:58
    Ba-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. Come in? Yeah. I did four ones. There's nine. Yeah. Four whole reactors. I'm on the nine-way. I'm late.
    44:09
    Cool. There's a guilt tree in the game, too. The internet was complaining that I wasn't trying to play with control, so I think we're going to try to beat the shit out of this next game. Do it. Audio on point.
    44:27
    Come on, Dad. I can't up. Jump, jump. I wasn't complaining. All right, cool, dude. Spooky should make this says 86pixels There you go Would you guys buy a single level game again Because I want to know
    44:56
    I would love to do one. Put My Little Pony art on this and sell it. Steve Ritchie has that covered. No pressure by the way. Steve Ritchie making the My Little Pony video.
    45:14
    I really thought it's bad. Yeah, yeah. There's no grip. I can't grab it. I know. Yeah, beat Jack. Did I retain my sack?
    45:30
    Nice, Doug. All right. Somebody's having to get miscomplaints. Who did the voiceover? On what? Oh, who's the voice on this game? Uh, Google.
    45:47
    Oh, Google? Yeah, that is actually a computer speaking. That is a real computer talking internet. You need a lion man call out? Uh, yeah, I can get some of those.
    45:58
    Alright, we're going to do another four player, and I'm going to try to blow the crap out of this game. Welcome to the future. Player two, player three, player four. Here we go. You have the start button on the keyboard. He doesn't even know what he's playing. He's just playing. You have to play it angry. If you try to play it controlled, it gets me angry. Oh, hands-free skill shot! He's being sarcastic. Yeah, I guess he's really not screwing around now. I take that back. It's really dangerous. Oh.
    46:39
    I waited for that Let's do that. There you go. Oh, it's sneaking. He blinked that. Oh, nice save. That's crazy. Get angry. Here we go.
    47:11
    Get out of there? What does he have to do? He has to hit the right shot. Oh. It's random, but then it goes up like... Hey, Scott, does the shot move then? If you don't hit it? It doesn't move until the next reactor, right? The next reactor will have multiple. Okay. That's one, boys. Here we go. We just got to hit these again. Yeah, right?
    47:50
    Mother, father, Piston, Rabin. That's a nice first ball. Thanks. Nice one. I don't know if I can go as serious as you. Thank you, darling. That was tough.
    48:10
    The three bank target is so dangerous. It's the most important shot. You've got to go for it. Reaction? I think off of the left flipper it's not as dangerous. If you go for it off the right flipper it's pretty dangerous.
    49:10
    Oh yeah, the purple, the big one. Let's go! Here's what I'm noticing about playing with control in this game.
    49:30
    Do whatever you want, but you have to hit these targets above the center drain on purpose, and that just messes you hard. Did he see laughs maniacally off camera? Go Doug! There's an ever so slight angle to him. To feed him right to that freaking pop bumper. And that radar lane.
    49:52
    He doesn't want you to play nice. Yeah, isn't that ball walk great? Someone was asking if we could get a copy of the MV with this music. We have a lot of music online. We'll find out. Another person says, Charlie, is Spooky going to make this? Three question marks. That's a very good question. I would love to talk to Scott Dinesi about doing something like that.
    50:33
    That was brutal. No, I don't like this game at all. All right, here we go, boys. We got a multiball sitting in there. All right.
    51:01
    Nice. Got Gigi Otto on you. Go, Trigger. Eat up! so the jackpot is uh shooting the drop target One more, guys.
    51:46
    Stay alive, baby. Stay alive. Oh, that was it. All right, we're going to try to backflip this here a little bit.
    52:20
    Why did I do that? It's okay. So much power. We don't respect you. Sativa, what's up? Hey, for anybody that listens to the podcast, this is the writer-director of Lion Man. And Lion Man himself is following him. The voice of Lion Man.
    52:47
    The Lion Man. You know, I have not tried post-passing. That's not what I was doing. I was trying to give it a little tap to let the ball roll out to the tip of the flipper and then flip backwards. Wait, am I on a reactor right now? Uh, yeah. You're at 50% on the reactor. I didn't know that. So shoot whatever orbit is pink, and that'll put you back up top.
    53:18
    Give me the ball. Oh, that would have been so good. Oh, my God. Get out of there and hit the red flashing or the white flashing. Oh, it's the pop. Yeah, it's the pop. How do you hit that?
    53:43
    You'll find one. You can flop it to the pop. Flop it to the pop? I like that. Yeah, you know, that's a half-disc. It's a half-disc.
    53:53
    Can you get it off? Where's the left flipper? Please subscribe to Reactor. Reactor, on. C and K, what the hell is it going to take to get you to sub to this channel, buddy? Come on. Do I have to send you those pictures again?
    54:25
    I love you. Joel Reeves, what's going on stud? You know Joel. Strike the fire with him. Is this incredible? What's with that left hand? Is this the lion guy? This is the lion guy. This is the voice of lion man.
    54:51
    Yeah, see, I love you. Yes, this is lion man. Alright, we got strangled! You're supposed to leave that for me, Doug! Sorry!
    55:18
    Send all the pictures to my private account. Yeah, like it guys! Wow! Like it guys! So good. Nice! Hey! It's okay, I'll do it. Whoa, whoa. I think you shot something that it didn't know. I don't think it was expecting that. Yeah, I went in the uh, scoop for the lock.
    56:01
    Did I break it? No. Is he gonna find it? Might. Buddy! Hate living on the west coast, need more homebrew machines out here. They built one, buddy!
    56:17
    Oh, is that a gap? Wax thing for the bitch dude. What's that? Slow crawl. Captain, give me a key to the rescue. Yep. I don't want to end the game. Is it gonna end the game? Nah. Oh no, I can't pull it out, I got new plastic on there. Oh no. We gotta end the game, sorry guys. Oh! I know, look at this. My man. Oh, you got a plastic over the top of it now. Yeah, I have to. Where is this place?
    56:57
    Moonducky, we are at Scott Denise's private abode. This is where he lives and works on pinball machines.
    57:05
    The music is from the game. It was all created by Scott when he built this machine. Sorry, guys. No problem. It is available online. Available online at scottdeneseshotjams.com. No, you can stream. You can actually stream if you search my name. Oh, really? Yeah, there's a lot of the music from this game, actually, I released on little singles and things. Oh, hell yeah. I think I was listening to it on Spotify and iTunes.
    57:29
    And here's the God's honest truth about spooky, total annihilation, single-level, so-called street-level games. The problem is, in production, a ramp is going to cost us, depending on the number of units you're making, of course, $50 to $100. bucks but if you pull a 50 to 100 ramp out of a game people suddenly think the game is worth a thousand dollars less right that is the trap because it still costs a heck of a lot of money to build something as cool as this so you need to find a happy balance to make street level game i would love to do this game for the record and i've told scott's for the record i would say open it up and show them the bottom side of this yeah you look at the bottom side of this play field it is Yeah, we'll fire it back up. You guys ready? That's cool.
    58:17
    Everybody should sack up on this game. I wish I had a sack. Here, Jack, I can spot your horse. Oh, you're a sack me dog? Yeah, I'll sack you. Yeah, what's up? I have a human dollar if you want one instead. Let me buy this off of you. I don't have the sack me dollars. If you're patient. No? Would you like a sack me dollar? We got a sack trap, or what do you call this thing? I got some extras. Okay. All right. So Scott made... That's the first dollar Charlie made off of Total Annihilation. This is the first dollar he made. Check this out, guys. Scott made these. They slide into the lock bar. Come on, computer. You think I... You want to just crash on me? That'd be super dope. Okay.
    59:00
    Don't crash, you crashes. Please don't crash on me. That would suck. Here, let's type the word poop and see if that works. Okay. That works fine. Internet, if you could see me... Oh, I think it crashed. I think it did.
    59:16
    Yo, sweet, what's up? This is a street level. This is the future. Rip, yeah, it did crash. Okay. It's all good.
    59:24
    We are going to close the application and reopen it. Stream crashed. Yeah, stream just took a little doo-doo nap. There's pizza ready. Pizza! so Scott made and the stream went down alright