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Stranger Things Pinball v.0.98 2 BILLION

Dead Flip·video·41m 23s·analyzed·Aug 14, 2020
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TL;DR

Dead Flip plays Stranger Things pinball v0.98, reaching 2B+ points amid rambling commentary.

Summary

Dead Flip (unknown speaker) livestreams Stranger Things pinball v0.98, attempting to reach 2 billion points and complete wizard modes. The stream is heavily laden with casual banter, tangential conversation about word pronunciation, pop culture references, and humor interspersed with actual pinball gameplay. Minimal substantive content about the machine itself beyond basic mode progression and mechanics observation.

Key Claims

  • Stranger Things pinball is version 0.98

    high confidence · Video title explicitly states 'Stranger Things Pinball v.0.98 2 BILLION'

  • The machine has three total isolation modes that can be replayed

    medium confidence · Speaker references 'total isolation numero dos' and later 'third total isolation,' indicating multiple instances of this mode type

  • Demogorgon and Demodog modes are incomplete wizard mode requirements not yet successfully played

    medium confidence · Speaker states 'We have not successfully played a Demodog mode, and we have not successfully played a Demogorgon' and later 'we completed all of our yellow modes' but 'all we have got to do is successfully play a Demogorgon and a Demodog'

  • Final Showdown is the wizard mode for Stranger Things pinball

    medium confidence · Speaker says 'Final showdown is lit' after completing Demogorgon prerequisites and references needing Final Showdown completion

  • The game has a three-ball standard for Stern machines

    medium confidence · Speaker references 'The standard Sam Stern six' when discussing ball count in machine

Notable Quotes

  • “I'm an a but not S does that make sense i'm an a but i'm not S i'm an A tier not S tier If we're going like fighting game rules.”

    Dead Flip host@ 31:59 — Self-assessment of pinball skill level using fighting game tier terminology; indicates casual but competent play

  • “jack invented pinball i did”

    Dead Flip host@ 31:48 — Humorous aside referencing Jack Danger; shows in-community awareness of notable pinball personality

  • “If this ball drains, I'm firing everyone at Sam Stern. You're not allowed to have a job anywhere.”

    Dead Flip host@ 21:03 — Humorous complaint about machine behavior during multiball; shows frustration with gameplay mechanics

  • “The Wizard mode's hilarious because it just gives you points. They made it a mode now.”

    Dead Flip host@ 26:16 — Commentary on Final Showdown wizard mode design; suggests it primarily awards points rather than substantial mechanical challenge

  • “I really wish that multiball didn't waste that shot just then.”

    Dead Flip host@ 29:58 — Observation about multiball shot sequencing and mode interaction issues

Entities

Dead FliporganizationJack DangerpersonStranger ThingsgameStern PinballcompanySorcerer's LairgameSouth Park SpencerpersonBeardpersonBig Baby JesuspersonNotorious B.I.G.person

Signals

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Host expresses frustration with shot routing, ball control during multiball, and specific mode mechanics (Demogorgon drop targets described as difficult to hit; Final Showdown described as primarily point-awarding rather than mechanically challenging)

    medium · Multiple complaints about shot accuracy, ball placement, and multiball interaction; observation that 'The Wizard mode's hilarious because it just gives you points'

  • ?

    announcement: Stranger Things pinball version 0.98 is currently in public testing/streaming, suggesting pre-release or beta state

    high · Video title states 'Stranger Things Pinball v.0.98'; decimal version number indicates development version

Topics

Stranger Things pinball gameplay and mode progressionprimaryWizard mode design and Final Showdown requirementsprimaryMultiball mechanics and ball save systemssecondaryPinball skill assessment and tier rankingssecondaryStream community engagement and chat interactionssecondaryWord pronunciation and linguistics (caramel, aluminium, etc.)mentioned

Sentiment

mixed(0.55)— Host expresses frustration with specific machine behaviors (drains, shot misses, multiball issues) but maintains humorous, self-deprecating tone throughout. No strong criticism of game design overall; frustration appears situational rather than systemic. Extended banter on unrelated topics dilutes any substantive sentiment about the machine.

Transcript

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I spelt my milk on my pillow. Call my mem. Hey, remember David? That guy was fun. How's a Jack Danger animated series already? It would be an anime like My Hero Academia, where everyone's got pinball superpowers. Can we say heed? He's probably deed. He probably did what? He's probably deed. Maybe he's deed. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. What are you trying to say? Get over here. Lure Dart. Come get it, Dart. Aluminium. That's how you say it, right? Aluminium. pecan pecan huh do you say caramel or caramel you say caribbean or caribbean caramelo it changes for me it it depends on the thing that i'm like referencing it's caramel or caramel like it's a caramel apple right for me it's caramel apple but some things are caramel as well like if you eat a single caramel but it's a caramel apple you pronounce the z in garage the fuck are you talking about mature. And it bugs the crap out of me. He's too mature for his own age. The candy bar was caramello. It's not caramello? How about schedule? Um. Why? Internet. Why did Almond Joy Why did Almond Joy have the nuts in it and a candy bar called Mounds didn't have any nuts in it. What the hell was the point behind that? Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't. Because sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't because sometimes you feel like a sometimes you Mounds has dark chocolate and coconut only one coconut is gross no way dude cracking a fresh hunk out of a fresh coconut now I'm just gonna start saying things weird when you crack off a fresh hunk of coconut the flavor is it's too much to handle. That's flavor with a U. Have you tasted this flavor of the coconut? Coconut. What are the actual F called? Is it Nutella or Nutella? It's Nuh. N-U-H. It's Nutella. Swip! Get up there. One million. Dip, dip, take a sip. Wall two locked. It's caramel coconut milk. Coconut milk. Coconut? Coconut? Nailed it. First try. I'm sorry, but coconut tastes like ass? Dog, then I love... Wait. Wait. Wait. Coconut-ella, not a thing? Ooh, coconut-ella sounds amazing. Almost said it. Wait. I love the taste of coconut is what I was trying to say I'd crush some pralines Pringles? Is it called Pringles? Oh my god, is that going to give me the 2x before the jackpot? Double super jackpot! Pronglace? Pringlace, por favor? Okay, come here. Go up there, dude. Oh, we finished the mode? Hell yeah. With her mind. With her mind. You guys don't like GIFs? I posted a great animated GIF earlier. People adopted that just to be annoying. Because nobody called it Jif until that son of a bitch came out many years later. And then some people were like, well, we got a call by his real name. Mystery. How do we get another ball save? No, don't collect it. Yes. Actual ass. Ooh, we collected enough burn it backs for a extra ball. Don't fail me. I looked away. Oh my god, that was stupid. What? We got a last minute jackpot? And we got it. You had an attaball? Let's just call it JPEG, JPEG from now on. Oh, I call it JPEG. You mean J'Page. J'Page. Yo, SP Spencer, thank you for gifting us some Marduk. I appreciate you, buddy. This is extremely kind of you, friend. Thank you so much. I stutter, I cold, everything. 87 million danger jackpot. Jackpot. Oh, did I get a monster jackpot? Why do I have so many freaking points? And why do I have another extra ball in? No, it's still burning the kid down here. It's still burning the kid down here. Give me bullshit, give me bullshit, give me bullshit, give me bullshit, give me bullshit, give me bullshit. What the effing upside down? Trash can. And then I shoot it in like a freaking forehead. Stop it! I'm like... My subconscious is kicking in. You're late. These points, Mr. Danger. I gotta get back to my dog. That's what he just said. You have a freeway, though? Whew. That was hot. You say PDF? Yo, surreal. Mardude with the three months. Thank you, bu... Oh, okay. Thank you, bud. I don't like... Oh, thank you. Big Baby Jesus. Do you say Jesus or Big Baby Jesus? You don't say MP3. You say MIP3. MIP Trace. MIP Trace. trap them oh is this the multiball oh give it to me baby oh damn that's right it moves is it depending on i forget what moves it slingshots find the gate follow the compass i'm trying dog shane easy bro that was uh i really wish we didn just drain right there because we got total isolation on one ball I like the idea of kickbacks, but I like... I don't... just the... I don't know. I don't know. I say... I say P and G. I don't say ping. Did you say Adaball or Adaball? Adaball. Notorious B-I-G, not B-I-G. The Notorious Big. Yeah, right. B-I-G-P-O-P-P-A. No info for the D-E-A. Federal agents mad cousin flagrant. Tapped myself and the phone in the basement. My team, Supreme, stay clean. Triple Beam Miracle Dream. I be that. Every every ball just Oh my god, internet. That was the choo-choo train of doom right there. DMCA coming. Oh my god. What the hell? That total isolation was bullshit. It was total bullshit, dude. Mystery. Give me extra ball. Extra ball. Bullshit. Extra ball. Oh, barf. Impressed by the rap game? Thanks, Mar, dude. I went to the morgue last night, Joyce. We want house. Okay, I didn't look. Shit, I started this stupid demodig. Demodig. Are you a rap god? Yes. If you didn't know. Now you know. Oh god. Okay. I'm beginning to feel like a rap dog. Does this time out? Like, can I just not play this? Okay, good. Wrecked him. Damn near killed him. Alright. oh that was a gearbox that stopped that already okay we gotta be conscious of the one warning that we got and shook the crap out of the cameras we're gonna find them Will's booty was a fake. That slap save? Holy half. Mystery is lit. Did he call him toothless? That's cute. I want a three amigos pinball. All right. So we got three modes to finish and we're still in ball one forehead. Everything's essentially lit, which is incredible. We just need to not drain. We can take the mystery award. The only pin I've ever come close to jack score is Sorcerer's Lair in the Zen Timbal. Get it, dude. Scores are different for every machine, so it does... Oh, word of habit. This ball's gonna drain. Shit. There we go. Extra ball! Suck a duck! I never nudge because it's so hard to do on mobile. Now it's got to build up a dope-ass bonus. Football one. Football one. Turn around and look at what you see in your face. Okay, I didn't want that. You effing forehead. It forced me to have double spark. Dude, that feed is a little dirty. I nailed that, so... There you go. Mystery is lit. Oh, come on. I can't forget, we're not in love anymore Oh shit Get up there You cockadoo Stop doing that I won't though Oh, come off. All right, so that mode's done. Remember, don't drain unless you're in a mode. So we just got to shoot the left orbit and then we're on to total isolation numero dos. Holy frick, that was fast. Yo, dog, that mystery was lit, dog. God damn it. I hate that I can't post fast on this game. That's two. Oh, we found her. Internet. We found Barb right away. One shot. Total isolation is now lit. And we're not supposed to be in a multiball. I think it let go of a ball before it was supposed to. Alright, here's total isolation number two. I'm just going to hold this ball. JK. These noises are cuckoo! This is the reward. it sounds like an old Atari game mystery burn it back lit? hell yeah give it to me baby Okay, we're getting some locks, some lock keys. Hard to shoot my shots when all the balls are in the way. There we go. Got it, got it. That was it two times. And we put it away. Let's find another one. All right, we did it. Missed it. Must want another one? Alright, we did it. Missed you this lit. 2x playfield here would be pretty clutch. Or klooch, as they call it. It'd be so klooch right now, Brute. Okay, there's 2x ready for us. We just need a ball to fall in there. There it is. Mystery reward. Dude, the shotgun blast saves that I'm doing are pretty wild. We still have another ball in the playfield, right? Somewhere? No? Okay, we're good. Sick ball control, super klutch. So klutch, dude. Okay that going to be lock three Uh let me check here Hard to hit many shots. One ball is lit. Oh, locked? Okay, let's lock another. That's two. One percenter problems? I wish I was a one percenter. I'm more like a twelve percenter. Just the way I like my booze. Oh. Mystery is lit. Bam. Alright, Dart, you're looking pretty good. Dart, looking good. Still have 2x going. Oh, multiball. Stay the fuck... It screwed us. If this ball drains, I'm firing everyone at Stern. You're not allowed to have a job anywhere. You'll leave with 14 months in a row, you amazing ladies and gentlemen. Flippers and butts up. Mystery. Mystery. Jackpot. Let's get some burn it backs going here. There you go. There you go. Okay, let's trap up. I said trap up. Mystery is lit. That ball's gone with the wind. All right, so you weren't a chief. Okay. Is there a third total isolation? I don't know. Man, we haven't done Demo Dog or completed a Demogorgon. And you only get the completion by... Is it defeating all the Demogorgons, or is it by putting the ball in a Demogorgon's mouth? Give me bullshit, give me bullshit, give me bullshit. Wait, uh, okay, forehead. I'm fine with that because locking balls at this point is difficult. Having played two multiballs. it will always look like goats. Yeah, it's a little it's a little goatee. Lock is lit. A second? Lock? Damn. Wait a second. Oh, it said it said lock a ball but all it did was light the lock. That was kind of bullshit. We got Scamazd. It said lock lit. Oh. It said lock a ball. This game's out here. Scamazin. Sclamiel. Scamazin. Austin Pepper Incorporated. The Vernon Trilley pinball win. We're gonna flip it. On your mark, get set, and go now. Gonna flip the ball, you know now. We'll make your pinball dreams come true. And we'll flip it our way, yes, our way. Please don't drain. Oh, gross. Okay, we're close to a third. Isoleo, you farting ass. Cheek. I wish we were in a mode before we drain that for the progression. All I care about is progressions, dude. Ball saved. Ball shaved. A 6x bonus is going to be a big guy. Wait, we've already drained that, though. Take your puny home Take your puny hole. I hate the left and right on this. Take your puny hole. This will not time out, right? Okay, it won't. That's the second lock. Take your puny hole is my stage name. True. We want to finish it, though. Because we need to finish everything for Final Showdown. Mystery is lit. Who's Batman? 751,300 points. That's lit. that save was sick alright it is up alright there's our third total license wait we didn't finish all the wait we didn't finish all the modes oh is this like burn it back or some shit okay I wish there was a way to get the ball to should we try to backhand it I don't like this internet I don't like this Oh, this wizard mode's hilarious because it just gives you points. They made it a mode now. Oh, it does something now. We're just putting balls in the holes, dude. I kind of like this just shoot the one teal hole okay now I have to shoot demodog targets I guess Nice stroke Okay, frick The flipper's died Had a bone I got 200 million points for that? That was a lot of money. Hey, YouTube. Weird end of the mode. So what that means is we completed all of our yellow modes, which is great. And, bite the fire's lit. We have not successfully played a Demo Dog mode, and we have not successfully played a Demo Gorgon. Welcome aboard, kid. Welcome aboard, kid. Stay up there. Yeah, baby. Is that a mode with a multiball? Oh, who was that? Yo, Beard is life. Thanks for three months. But hey, thank you, Beard. So monster hunting is the best mode to have during a multivolve because you just bash the targets and shoot up the middle, and then the mode is completed just like that. So now we're one mode away from... Send it back to the other wizard mode. And then all we've got to do is successfully play a Demogorgon and a Demodog. Which we have not. The fact that those are what we have left to do is kind of sad. Check. Check. Have infinity train? Infinity train. Is it an anime? Sounds like an anime. Is that like dinosaur train? You need to get the fifth Demogorgon mode. Can't stop this. Oh, that's how you get it? Okay. I really wish that multiball didn't waste that shot just then. Okay, so we need some Demogorgon love is what you're saying. So we'll shoot through the middle. Let get this mode going Nancy Where are you Mystery. Dinosaur train. Hold boners again, man. Threat the needle. Oh, I thought I was going to get that. Where are you? Did I hit that shot and it just didn't... I'm not gonna... That's done. That mode's done. I should have finished that. God damn it. Is that 200 million bonus on the back end? Okay. Alright, so this is the wizard mode. Send it back. Let's try to get the ball on the right flipper. That is... Whoa, it jumped over. I think I can backhand this. Shit. Why chance it, Jack? It's house ball time, Internet. So that was one warning. We gotta keep in mind. We have one warning. fudge me dude game go up the ramp jack invented pinball i did what would you say your pin skill level is um i'm i'm a but not s does that make sense i'm an a but i'm not s i'm an a tier not s tier If we're going like fighting game rules. Oh, this mode is tough because doesn't it make you... the final mode, you need to shoot it into the Demogorgon's mouth. The final shot. If all I gotta do is break that opto, man, we're living the dream right now. Alright, so... We could do a Demogorgon attack. We gotta knock some of these drop targets out. Hopefully cleanly. Oh, please. Okay, we didn't get enough to sneak it in, so we gotta knock the U. Mystery is lit, shit. We gotta clear instead of... Okay, that's good. Right through the middle. Okay, that didn't work. Breathe. It didn't go in. It didn't go in. Okay, it's lit. That went in. Run, Will. You're close to S tier I'm close I guess Mystery award You gonna hold my bonus again? I'd love to get an extra ball from y'all that would be great. Twelve more? Oh, I might focus on fart. Okay, never mind. Okay, so we need to get this last demogorgon. God damn it. This came up. How many balls in the machine? Maybe six, I'm guessing. The standard stern six. There's the creep in. Can we do it again? Fuck. You're gonna tilt. Wait. Why did my telekinesis and fire... Okay, we're good. Don't do it to me game. Is Can't Stop This a wizard mode? Let's start the Demogorgon. It's a tarp! Alright, so there's the Demogorgon light. I think you can make progress on your Demogorgon. While you're in this. Ugh, I hate shooting these fucking drops, dude. I think one more shot through the middle. There it is. Alright, here we go. Final showdown is lit, ladies and gentlemen. So once we're done in this... I would love to get just an assload of burn effects right now to secure myself an extra ball. How many more do we need? 10 more maybe? Oh, fuck. That's right. The last shot is putting a ball in his mouth. So we'll just shotgun blast it up there and see if anything pops off. Oh, it's time! Okay. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Time's up. Okay, killed the flippers. Hopefully these all drain properly. Don't screw me. Please don't screw me. Please don't screw me. I don't like being in this position. Ball three. No extra balls. One shot and you have to go off the Stranger Things plunge. Which can drain right off the nut. Just need that left ramp, baby. Here we go. With 2X scoring, imagine. With double scoring. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait! Wait! We got... That was the hardest debate in pinball. I don't even want to say... Enter your initials. Beard life, congratulations. Man, that's pretty cool. Imagine your butthole being this tight and then when you hit the shot, it opens to the size of a watermelon. You match it.