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Reviewing 90's Pinball Promo Videos

Bug's Scream and Stream·video·59m 59s·held·Jun 14, 2025
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TL;DR

Bug reviews 90s pinball promo videos and compares classic game design to modern standards.

Summary

Bug from Spooky Pinball hosts a casual stream reviewing classic 1990s pinball promotional videos, including Whitewater, Indiana Jones, Attack from Mars, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. The discussion highlights production quality differences, design philosophy insights, licensing practices, and comparative sales figures for these iconic games. Bug reflects on design choices, mode mechanics, and how 90s trailers functioned as educational tutorials versus modern marketing approaches.

Key Claims

  • Whitewater sold 7,008 units in 1992

    high confidence · Chat verification during unit sales guessing game; confirmed as 7,008 units sold

  • Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure sold 12,700 units

    high confidence · Chat verification during unit sales guessing game; confirmed as 12,700 units sold with Pinside average rating of 8.6

  • Licensed games were more popular than unlicensed games in 1990s operator markets

    high confidence · Bug cites play meter and replay ratings data shown in Dracula trailer comparing licensed vs. unlicensed game popularity

  • 1990s pinball trailers functioned as rule/mode tutorials with detailed explanations of skill shots and mechanics

    high confidence · Bug observes trailers like Terminator 2 explicitly teaching skill shots and multiball procedures; contrasts with modern trailer approach

  • Dennis Nordman is Bug's favorite pinball designer

    high confidence · Bug states 'He's probably my favorite designer' when discussing Whitewater and appreciating his varied game layouts

  • Indiana Jones inspired Evil Dead's mode qualification system without mode-select screens

    high confidence · Bug explicitly states Indiana Jones was the reference for Evil Dead's mode design philosophy

  • Mode-select screens kill replayability in Bug's design philosophy

    high confidence · Bug: 'I don't like mode select screens. I think they really kill replayability' and references preference for Indiana Jones approach

Notable Quotes

  • “Imagine narration in your trailer where it's like a person being like, 'Shoot this to do that.' Like talking to you... You'll freaking never see me putting skill shots in a trailer. Not going to waste my oxygen on that.”

    Bug @ ~14:00 — Contrasts 90s educational trailer approach with modern marketing philosophy; reveals generational shift in promotional strategy

  • “Pinball in 2025 is like, 'Maybe we can sneak a gun on the LCD screen briefly if the licenser lets us.' Pinball in the 90s, they're like, 'You walk up and grab a hold of a freaking revolver to launch the vault.'”

    Bug @ ~42:00 — Illustrates how licensing constraints and regulatory concerns have dramatically restricted game design in modern era

  • “I really think this is an all time great game though. I do... Indiana Jones is a really impressive trailer because they licensed the main theme, the John Williams theme song, and a bunch of movie clips.”

    Bug @ ~48:00 — Indicates Indiana Jones as high-confidence classic despite acknowledging design imperfections; highlights impressive 90s licensing acquisitions

  • “Getting movie footage licensed for trailers now is it's no joke.”

    Bug @ ~71:00 — Reflects current licensing difficulty versus 1990s ease; suggests market/industry structural change in IP licensing ecosystem

  • “This is one of the greatest games of all time... the trailer is like also trying to capture that but it's just not landing for me.”

    Bug @ ~64:00 — Acknowledges disconnect between Attack from Mars' game quality and its promotional execution; demonstrates subjectivity in promotional effectiveness

  • “For everyone that's like, 'Why don't you do unlicensed games? We'd love to look at this chart from the 90s.' It's more true now than it was then. It's way more true now than it was then.”

    Bug @ ~88:00 — Provides historical context for modern licensing-preference trend; uses archival data to defend licensing-focused strategy

  • “I feel like this game is not the best layout... but altogether it feels like a great game.”

Entities

BugpersonSteve RitchiepersonDennis NordmanpersonWhitewatergameIndiana Jones: The Pinball AdventuregameAttack from Marsgame

Signals

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Designer philosophy shift: Bug prioritizes integrated mode qualification over mode-select screens for replayability; represents design philosophy evolution informed by 1990s classics

    medium · Bug: 'I don't like mode select screens. I think they really kill replayability... I really love when modes are qualified and you can see them indicated on the playfield'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Attack from Mars promotional trailer execution weak despite acknowledged game quality; suggests promotional effectiveness independent of underlying product quality

    medium · Bug: 'This is one of the greatest games of all time... the trailer is like also trying to capture that but it's just not landing for me... That one wasn't it for me'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Bram Stoker's Dracula compensates for non-optimal playfield layout through iconic IP licensing, atmospheric design, and mechanical features (mist multiball); demonstrates licensing value in masking mechanical design limitations

    medium · Bug: 'I feel like this game is not the best layout... but altogether it feels like a great game. It's a super fun game. Atmosphere is cool, art's cool, music's great'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Bug explicitly references Indiana Jones as inspiration for Evil Dead's mode qualification system without mode-select screens; indicates classic 90s design patterns continue influencing modern boutique manufacturer development

    high · Bug states: 'And the reason I love it so much is because of this game. It was specifically because of Indiana Jones. I remember this was the game where I really fell in love with that feature and it is exactly the reason I wanted Evil Dead to be that way.'

  • ?

Transcript

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0:02
There's monsters and mayhem at every turn. They did not at every turn. Oh my god, the legends.
0:22
We're going to watch I got a bunch. I found this whole playlist. I haven't seen any of these. I haven't seen any of these besides the Terminator one. That's actually what got me spinning on wanting to do this was I was uh on my couch and out of nowhere in my YouTube feed, this uh Terminator 2 pinball promo video came up and I saw a young dashing Steve Richie standing there and u I watched the video and he had a gorge just the most impressive mullet that you've ever seen in your life and I shared it with my Discord chat. chat and uh a lot of those people had already seen it and uh were were big fans of it and it got me thinking that man it'd be really cool because other people in the chat were like oh there's these other videos from that time that's really cool to see too. So I was like oh I'm not going to watch them I want to watch them on the screen and stream with people the next time I do like a hangout and so yeah I mean look at this we have Doctor Who, Johnny Demonic, No Fear, Jackpot, uh Adam's Family, Twilight Zone. I mean, some of these games are the highest selling games of all time. And I thought it would be kind of neat to kind look at these and maybe we'll watch some of the other manufacturers like newer trailers and whatnot, the newer stuff that's out there cuz, you know, we're in an era right now where a million binball machines get released a year and it's done in uh countless different ways. I mean, well, not countless different ways, but I think it would just be really cool to compare what was it like back then with these promo videos. And I wonder too like where did these air? Where did people watch these? So I want to watch these and uh you know a lot of them are quite long. 7 and 1/2 minutes, 9 minutes. These are kind of lengthy videos. So I thought it would be fun. We can watch these together. We can pause commentary. Make jokes. You know, whatever. We're going to I'm going to pick at random. Just going to scroll up and down. Up and down. I'm not looking. I'm not looking. Whitewater.

Bug @ ~77:00 — Bram Stoker's Dracula complexity insight: iconic IP/licensing/atmosphere can compensate for mechanical design limitations

  • “A path of adventure and a ramp control of direction that you the player manually has is two things I would love to get into games at some point.”

    Bug @ ~55:00 — Reveals design aspirations directly inspired by Indiana Jones; indicates classic game mechanics still influence modern designer thinking

    • Bram Stoker's Dracula
    game
    Evil Deadgame
    DCS (Digital Compression System)product
    Lukeperson
    Williamscompany
    Ballycompany
    Spooky Pinballcompany
    Pinside Top 100organization
    Gary Sternperson
    Francis Ford Coppolaperson
    Gary Oldmanperson
    Damonperson

    licensing_signal: 1990s manufacturers secured extensive movie footage licensing for trailers; modern licensing more restrictive, affecting promotional content quality and game design freedom

    high · Bug: 'Getting movie footage licensed for trailers now is it's no joke' and 'Pinball in 2025 is like, Maybe we can sneak a gun on the LCD screen briefly if the licenser lets us. Pinball in the 90s, they were like, You walk up and grab a hold of a freaking revolver to launch the vault.'

  • $

    market_signal: Historical 1990s operator play meter data shows licensed games significantly outperform unlicensed games in operator adoption and revenue; trend has intensified in modern market

    high · Dracula trailer shows comparative data; Bug states: 'It's more true now than it was then. It's way more true now than it was then.'

  • $

    market_signal: 1990s pinball trailers prioritized educational rule/mode tutorials; modern trailers focus on spectacle and licensing assets; reflects shift in marketing strategy and operator/player knowledge assumptions

    high · Bug observes: 'They actually like take the time in these trailers to be like, Here's your skill shots. Here's your multiballs... it's almost like a tutorial... I think part of that's just because the games were like super simple back then.'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure DCS (Digital Compression System) represented significant audio innovation leap; first game to feature four-track digital compression enabling symphonic audio

    high · Trailer narrator: 'DCS is a fourtrack digital compression system that for the first time brings symphonic highquality scores and sound effects... represents the greatest leap forward ever made in game audio'

    • 2:24
    All right, let's do this. How's the audio? Can you guys hear it? Okay. [Music] Oh, I want to be a part of this promo shoot, dude. Luke, we got to go white water rafting for our next promo on the raft. That's so stupid.
    2:52
    [Music] Can we do this? But it's jet skis. I'm coming out with a jet ski pinball machine and it's just going to be a highlight reel of me jet skiing in the Mississippi River. This actually looks super dangerous though. These people are getting like messed up.
    3:11
    This is 90% just white water rafting. Where's the pinball machine? Okay. Whitewater is a fresh approach to pinball design. Oh, I like that trailer voice. All over the playfield, you'll find pure innovation. Hold on a second. I want to plug in my uh I need to plug in my headphones. A spinning whirlpool
    3:36
    That Bigfoot mech is crazy good. You'll also find an easy to follow logical set of rules and a waterfall that really rounds. You'll also find an easy follow logical set of rules. Something you will not find in 2025. up the players. Oh, wow. Toppers. Yeah. Don't Aren't a lot of those toppers like damaged or broken? Like I feel like nobody has a good white water topper. Key components are located where operators can get at them. I went white water rafting once when I was a kid. One of the Carolina or something like that.
    4:15
    The white water skill shot is achieved by sending a ball from the plunger. So, I noticed this in the Terminator video. They actually like take the time in these trailers to be like, "Here's your skill shots. Here's your multiballs." And it's like actually kind of more of it's almost like a tutorial. And I think part of that's just because the games were like super simple back then. So, you could like real quickly be like, "Hey, here's a general guide through and you can figure out the rest from there." I mean, we kind of do that in trailers now, but it's it's still like it's very different. Imagine narration in your trailer where it's like a person being like, "Shoot this to do that." Like talking to you. A shot down Insanity Falls will also light the whirlpool. When Bigfoot sends you into the lit whirlpool, you'll collect skill shots. Yeah, you'll freaking never see me putting skill shots in a a trailer. Not going to waste my oxygen on that. The award you'll collect is determined in the Boulder Garden. I always love the music. The Boulder Garden This game is great. Boulder Garden Jet. What is um Sorry that I keep pausing it. I'm going to keep doing it. Uh it's my show. Um what's with the There's like a snow version of this game, too, right? Isn't there like a very limited amount of snowy editions or is that just like a custom mod thing that somebody did? I'm curious.
    5:48
    That was not the best like editing thing there. Primary goals is advancing your raft all the way to wet. Advancing the raft. Just really fun.
    6:00
    Your raft will get one step closer every time you complete the required array of hazards indicated by the yellow. Random ass shots in the play field. It's a fun It's a really fun game like progressing the rap and everything. Will get you to wet Willies. All hazards will then relight and be worth 10 million points each. Is this the best Dennis Norman game? Collect all seven Hazard. What's the best Dennis Norman game? Then collect 100 million points. I love Dennis's layouts. He's probably my favorite designer. Around the playfield.
    6:34
    I appreciate how different each one of his games is. Bigfoot jackpot offers another chance at big points. Multiple shots to the hot foot targets will distract Bigfoot.
    6:49
    Think about sending out games with code fully done. I I stand by I don't think people really want that. I don't there I've seen what was the game that Jersey Jack came out with that they were like this code is done. They they released a game that the code was basically considered done and people were itching for more updates like shortly after that, you know, because like gosh, what would I I I love doing updates throughout the year. The years is the thing. Like I love bringing new features. It gives me something to it gives people something to look forward to uh with their game. Like you get it and you get to see it develop and grow. I mean uh fundamentally you have to send out really good code. I mean, you have to like you can't send out freaking early crappy unbaked baby Colin. What is Luke talking about right now? The gills. They be Luke, are you fishing right now? Oh, you son of a [ __ ] We'll collect back to this trailer. No. Okay, he said no. He was just sending me an old photo. [Music]
    7:56
    Enable the lock by completing the light lock standups. Was that an airball? Enable the lock by completing the light lock stand up. That was an airball. They put that in the trailer. I mean, I People probably didn't care about that. Into the no way out hazard. We'll then lock a ball. Once three balls are locked, it's time for white water multiball. White water.
    8:22
    What a fun game with the music multiplier. At the beginning of multiball, a player can determine the value of 500 favorite by sending balls into Insanity Falls. For example, multiball begins and you're able to immediately send all three balls down Insanity Falls. Insanity Falls might be one of the best ramps in pinball history. Falls shots will award a 3x jackpot. They really get into the nitty-gritty of some of this stuff. Like, oh, here's how you get 3x jackpots. Like, that's No game has Where did this stuff air? Does anybody know where like you saw these promos? Were they on TV? Like water. I mean, they might have had the budget back then to be doing stuff like that. Strategically located to provide unlimited access. Here's our service ability in the promo trailers. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Upper play field can be easily serviced. Lights and coils can be accessed from one side or the other without Most underrated '9s game. I'm a big fan of Frankenstein. Mary Shell's Frankenstein. Um, that one's really great. Um, yeah, probably that one's my knee-jerk reaction answer. Whitewater's Playfield is access mounted, giving you a full view of both sides. I like the silhouette thing. That's kind of cool.
    9:46
    This game is waist deep in adventure. Wild ramps, hearts stopping hazards, Bigfoot, Wet Willies Ranch, and the waterfall. It's a combination sent via VHS to distributors. Yeah. And hold them under. This promo trailer s sold like 15,000 games. It's a screaming good time. [Music]
    10:15
    1992. All right, let's play a game. Every time a video's uh we're done with a promo on one of these, I'm going to guess how many units I think it sold. But I'm going to give you guys an opportunity first. How many units do you think Whitewater sold? If you know the answer, don't say. Let us have our fun. How many units do we think Whitewater sold? I'm going to say
    10:40
    I'm going to say 8,000. I'm going to say 8,000 units. In the chat, how many units do you think that Whitewater pinball sold?
    10:58
    Water. Wow. I love doing things live. 4,500 6,800 9,000 7,000. Okay, I was a pretty good guess. I I had a pretty good guess there. 7,000. That's not so crazy. Oh, trash can ninja. You got it. Yeah, trash can ninja was right on the money. 7K. 78. I feel like that can't be Where are they getting that number? You know, why eight? What's with the eight? 7,08 on white water. That's for 1992 golden era. That's is that technically like underperforming for the time? Is that like a lower amount for that time period? I wonder. All right, let's do Indiana Jones. That would be kind of Yeah, let's let's try and bounce back and forth between like licensed and unlicensed. Let's check out Indiana Jones. This is 10-minute video. 10minute promo video. Isn't that nuts?
    12:04
    That's a good run. Is that a good run for back then? I'm just comparing to things in my head like Adam's Family and Twilight Zone that sold like a billion units. Did we license movie footage or is this going to be like on set? Oh, wow. Wow. They licensed movie footage. That's great. Good for them.
    12:29
    So, this was post all three movies. Who are you? That's his name. Henry Jones Jr. Like Junior. We're named the dog Indiana.
    12:50
    [Music] So, these trailers kind of have a formula where they're like they start and they show you the world of the thing and then they bring in the pinball machine later. Man, a world where there was only three Indiana Jones movies when this game came out too. Is that wild? What year was this game? His seductive charm. I learned to hate you in the last 10 years. And his all too human reactions. Is this the same narrator from the last video? have captured the imaginations of both men and women, creating freaking Indiana Jones merchandise. I would love to do a Raiders of the Lost game for you guys. Oh, I would love to do indie. The newest challenge for one of the world's favorite heroes with its innovative features dynamic. God, this game rules. Look at that. It's freaking stacked. This is an experience no player will ever This had to have just rocked people's worlds back then, dude. Indiana Jones marks the debut of Williams DCS sound system. All of the game audio you'll hear on this tape was played by the new DCS board. Okay. DCS is a fourtrack digital compression system that for the first time brings symphonic highquality scores and sound effects. The result is a brand new pinball soundsscape and a brand new experience. Indie was the first game. Yeah, I've I've always seen that DCS logo. Wow. You didn't know you could fly a plane? Why? Yes. [Music] I need to rewatch these movies. It's been a long time since I've watched them. From the realistic shooter to the classic fighter, the shooter the gun a gun in a pinball machine.
    14:42
    Pinball in 2025 is like, "Maybe we can sneak a gun on the LCD screen briefly if the licenser lets us." Pinball in the 90s, they're like, "You walk up and grab a hold of a freaking revolver to launch the vault." The rotating idol will delight. I forgot all about this mech. That's a really cool mech, dude. I've been Luke and I have been trying to figure out like a way we could do a path of adventure in our layouts for like years now. Every time we get to a new layout, I'm like, "This is the one where we're going to do a path of adventure." And since there are many paths on the Road to Adventure, Yeah. What's your guys' favorite of the original trilogy? In this high-speed archaeological odyssey, I want to say Temple of Doom, but it's been so long since I've seen them, I need to rewatch all three, honestly. Indie contains 12 modes of play with three high action video modes. Two sixball multiballs are available. Fun fact, uh, this game, the way modes are qualified in indie is directly the reference I pulled from for Evil Dead on how you qualify modes there, where I I I don't like mode select screens. I I think they really kill replayability. Um, I know a lot of people do like them, and I think they can be okay. Uh, but me personally, I don't like mode select screens. I really love when modes are qualified and you can see them indicated on the playfield or backboard and you interact with something to change what is lit. And the reason I love it so much is because of this game. It was specifically because of Indiana Jones. I remember this was the game where I really fell in love with that feature and it is exactly the reason I wanted Evil Dead to be that way. A multiball. It all begins when balls are released from the idol. Begin the game with a pistol shot to the indie rollovers each time you That's a fun skill shot. Honestly, I do like that one. Indie circle of friends. When you collect the Gosh, this takes me back. My dad had an indie for quite a while. It was like two two or three years growing up. We had an indie. I loved it. We used to play it before I drove to school in the mornings. You'll enter a mode each time you send a ball to this eject.
    17:00
    Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure. 12 games in one. This is a really impressive trailer because they licensed the main theme, the John Williams theme song, and a bunch of movie clips, which back then licensing movie clips probably wasn't nearly as common because I mean, they didn't have LCD screens. So, this is a really impressive trailer.
    17:32
    I like DMD mini games. Yeah, I do. I do. Yeah, the punching sounds in this game were so good.
    17:43
    Oh, you played indie today? I'm jealous. Oh, the monkey brains. What? That's a call out in the game. He's like, "Shoot the monkey brains or something like that." This is a really long trailer. Oh yeah, this mini game is really hard. The tunnel one. The video mode tunnel one. Oh, it's super hard. It gets going so fast. You're like,
    18:12
    "What did you get if you beat all the modes? Was there a wizard mode behind beating all the modes? I don't think I ever did. I feel like I got really close a few times, but I never got quite got it.
    18:33
    [Music] How do you feel about mode start without selection on the fly by shot? Say Transformers. I'm not familiar with Transformers. Um, a cuz I think that game kind of sucks and B cuz I don't like Transformers. Um,
    18:52
    should you succeed in collecting all Do you mean like when you shoot, you know, the left ramp three times starts a mode and the right orbit three times starts a mode? Cuz I love that. I love mode starts like that. If you can make all flashing shots, Ben says he's going to do an Evil Dead mini like LCD mode. I don't know. I don't know when, but he says he's going to do one. Hit the captive ball to start two ball multiball. What was I think I've only ever then collect directed one um video mode. I think just the Scooby-Doo one activated by completing the adventure. Yeah, Mark, I love I love mode starts like that. And you'll like extra ball here at the second hole. Game play is always better than sitting there and se like pausing and choosing stuff. God, Mandalorian, when you get stuck between all the different screens, it's like once all set, God, there's just times where it feels like I'm stuck at a scoop for forever. I'm like, give me the center shot. [Music] The holy grail wizard mode. Oh, yeah. See, I never got to it. begins with this same shot. Ball sent here will lock at the idle. Lock three and you'll start multiball.
    20:11
    [Music] Oh yeah, the elephant sound effect. Gosh, what? It it would play that before it like released the ball or something, right?
    20:22
    Those are like direct Lucasfilm sound effects sometimes. [Music] This game's got a lot going on in it. A ton going on in it. Multiplied with center. I really think this is a all time great game though. I do. You'll collect a super jackpot each time you put one of these items into the museum with a shot to the captive ball. That captive ball shot is like really tough, but it feels so good when you do hit it. Yeah, I remember that jackpot. Hurry up at that captive ball. That is just soundboard. I'll fold you like no other. DCS stands for digital compression system and it represents the greatest leap forward ever made in game audio.
    21:08
    Look at this guy. Our sound designers are now This is me writing stuff. This is me writing songs for Evil Dead this week in Indiana Jones DC. Oh, never mind. He can write and read music. He actually knows how to read notes. I can't do that. I'm not that I'm not that smart. Oh, what? And any sound that can be recorded can now become part of the pinball soundsscape played back with the Oh, this is badass.
    21:43
    What a Chad. Oh my god. [Music] No [ __ ] Oh my god. That was speech. What a legend. Wow. See you tomorrow. That dude slays. See you tomorrow Indiana Jones. Dude, the the pure '9s coke writing making these games and writing that music had to have just been something else. That's a whole other world, dude. Man, remember when you own Indiana Jones, you also own the world's Oh, I haven't done Graham Stokers Dracula. We should do that one. That would be a good one. In Indiana Jones, the pinball adventure players bug. Have you ever thought of adding a control on ramps to change the ball direction like the shadow? That's another one. Every game I feel like I set out and I say I want to do that and we just end up not doing it. Indiana Jones, the pinball adventureventure. We just kind of end up not doing it. Just a game. I would love to though. A path of adventure and a ramp control of direction that you the player manually has is two things I would love to get into games at some point. Is this almost over? Yeah, it is. Okay,
    23:01
    here we go. 3 minutes. Let's see what Attack from Mars has. Oh, wait. We forgot. Indiana Jones. How many units do we think Indiana Jones sold? I'm going to say
    23:16
    I bet indie sold [Music] 9500 is my guess. 95. My knee-jerk reaction is 10. I want to try and be cool and be specific. I'm going to say 95 in the chat. How many How many units did Indiana Jones sell?
    23:50
    15 15 We got 15 125 10 75 115 All right, let's see. Wow. 127 127. So, Adam Smith and JM, you guys were like right on the money. 127
    24:17
    with a pinside average of 8.6 was it? Where does it rank in the top 100? Oh, what? Who put that? Oh, Evil Dead. Number four. Number four. still suck on that haters. Anyway, anyway, did TCM get bumped out? Yeah, it did. That's too bad. What virgin went in and rated TCM poor after it came in so high. All right.
    24:51
    A one out of 10. Did not leave a comment after it got in the top 100. Gosh, how small is your schman, dude? How small? It's okay. Moving on.
    25:08
    Are we on? We're here on location where one of many unexplained landings. John, is this your brother? Coming from, but it seems Valley has a new game materializing all across the nation. Never before have so few made so much fun for so many. Watch it, play it, buy it. It's attack from Mars. Watch as the people Okay, objective I'm going to be a jerk. Objectively, this trailer sucks so far. It's not very good. Defend our precious planet. This is an amazing game. This is one of the best games of all time. The fight all the way to Mars. Run away. Can we roll that? We've been receiving video transmissions from an unknown source. We're getting reports in from all over. They seem to have some sort of Did I hear that right? Yes, mind control abilities. With its meme gameplay, it's no wonder this bally brainchild brings in astounding collections. Here at this local arcade, we've found folks testing out the new arrival. Attack from Mars embodies a Universal sci-fi sort of theme. It's actually quite reminiscent of the ' 50s movies from the same genre. This game, what the heck? Why is this one so bad? Simply remarkable. It's more understandable than any No offense to anybody that worked on this. I mean, I understand what it's like. Some things you have sometimes you have ideas and you think it's going to execute well and it just it just doesn't mad. They're sure to draw players in with their wacky antics and their tongue and kick battle cries. Miss me? San Francisco reports that the key to this trailer would not make you think that this is one of the greatest games of all time. Multiball. Yes, it's annihilation. Our affiliate in New York tells us how add nuclear in there and it's perfect through this game with it centrally located right. It's perfect. There's also a fascinating well it's like the game perfectly encapsulates that fun ' 50s sci-fi thing and the trailer is like also trying to cap capture that but it's just not landing for me. will actually defend countries all around the globe from these medicine. Dieard players, don't despair. It fits the cheesiness of the game. I don't know. It's like the cheesiness of the game is like they nailed it. It's right in the pocket. This is like I don't know. Don't walk. Run to capture this collection monster. Easier to understand. Timeless theme. A game for all players. It's Attack from Mars. They found that echo effect to put on their voice. [Music] Huh. I don't know, guys. That one wasn't it for me. That one was I I didn't care. Black Rose pinball promo.
    28:08
    All right. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Here occurred the frightening and more movie clips. of dude. They were licensing movie clips for trailers back then. Good for them. Cross the oceans of time to find you.
    28:28
    They put Winona Ryder moaning in the trailer and then they sold a billion units. Draco,
    28:40
    there's a sinister darker side to him. I find irresistible. I have This is a pretty good one. Any man with such a passion for life. He is unlike any man. The uh What are you? The total amount of um time of movie footage they're licensing too is just so impressive. It must have been a completely different game back then cuz I'm telling you, getting movie footage licensed for trailers now is it's no joke. both young and old. He can appear as mist, as vapor, as the fog, and he can vanish at will. My love, another 100 units sold. Your desire has no Oh my god, the candles around it. That looks so good. You got to go to him and you got to love him. She is a willing recruit and disciple. Another 100 units. Devil's concubine wins. Join me in a dude. They honestly they almost do too much movie footage in these trailers. Like it's it's like show me the game. Your salvation is destruction. But it does get me hyped. Another 100 units. It does get me hyped up. Like when we did the indie one, I I wanted to play Indiana Jones immediately. And now I I really want to play Dracula. What is this death?
    30:17
    Dude, I'm hyped. I'm super hyped. I want to watch the movie. I want to play the game. That cabinet, the reflection on it is really good, too. Like really high quality decal or whatever. Dracula, they've barely showed Stoker's horror love story epic has been brought to the silver screen more than 70 times. Most recently and most perfectly by Francis Ford. The film stars Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reevesman as many incarnations of an oldtime this blockbuster. Guys, I love Keanu Reeves. I love him. I adore his movies. I think he's a cool dude. John Wick, those movies are some of my favorite modern films. He's not good in this movie. He's I have seen many strange things. Count Dracula. He He's just There'll be many strange things. I've seen many strange things already. Bloody wolves chasing me through some blue inferno. I love Keanu. I think a Bill and Ted game would be awesome. I'd love to do it. Man, he's just not the best in this movie, though. He's just not the best. Has now grossed over $170 million. During the design of this game, we worked intimately with Colia. Honestly though, in modern day, if your promo was talking about how much money the movie made when it came out from the movie that grossed this many dollars, people would roast you pretty hard for that. That sounds like something Gary Stern would say and that people would make fun of him for online. Create an unparalleled pinball experience. The result is a complete license. The voice of Dracula is that of the film star Gary Oldman. We travel to London to So they did pull his audio from the movie then. I always couldn't I wondered if they hired a soundike or not. They hired a lot of sound alikes back then. Hey, we're finally seeing the playfield. The game features some of our most, you know, it's weird. I feel like this game is not the best layout. Like, by for no reason is this game as loved as it is, but I love it. It's a super fun game. Atmosphere is cool, art's cool, music's great, call outs are great. It's fun to shoot, but like none of it's that good on its own, but altogether it feels like a great game. castle and mist multiball can all be activated simultaneously to triple jack. I think that's just how iconic this movie is. Multiball is completely unique and miss multiball. The ball coming across is just an all time by nothing more than Dracula's elusive form. The green. That's what Harry Potter should do. You know, like it's to begin miss multiball players must knock the ball. That's an all time best pinball mech right there. This is only the beginning. Is it a mech feature? Whatever you want to call it. Presents an intricral part of the Dracula story. Dracula's London mana house. his Transian castle. See you later, JM. The cemetery. You'll also find bats. My buddy Damon, he won the best in show award at TPF for his Dracula. It's the nicest Dracula you will ever see. The market a million miles. It's so amazing. His work on that game was so impressive. Check it out. License like Dracula. The result has proven to be increased collections. I have seen many strange replay and replay ratings show. Wait, what is this? Last four titles, licensed, unlicensed. Wow.
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    Interesting. The signs were there. That was the They were They were showing you what the future was going to look like. And did I hear that right? Oneyear play meter and replay ratings. show that among operators, licensed games are more popular than non-licensed games. There you have it. For everyone that's like, "Why don't you do unlicensed games? We'd love to look at this chart from the '9s." It's more true now than it was then. It's way more true now than it was then. That's so crazy. How about that? And Dracula is one powerful license. Again, so interesting how the stuff they chose to put in these trailers back then. It's very different from what we were show. One of the world's best recognized themes to the world of Coin Op. Now it's time to set a few box office records of your own with Dracula. Make no mistake, he must be stopped.
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    Best trailer so far in my opinion. I think that's the best one we've had tonight. So, I'm going to teach you guys the Bug Scream and Stream Margarita recipe. So, we got we have our measuring cup here. This one is by milliliters. Are these all by milliliters? Do any of them go by ounces? Milliliters. All right. We have our cup. You have your tequila. You have your trip. You of course have your freshly cut lime. If somebody offers to make you a margarita and they say, "Let me check and see if I have any margarita mix, shoot them. Shoot them right there and leave that house immediately." We have our lime. We of course have our shaker full of ice right now. Full of ice. And we have our glass full of ice with the salted rim. Of course, when you do the rim, you take the lime, trace the edge of it, take your cup, put it in the margarita salt, give a little twist. All the salt will stick to the edge. The salt is a must. You have to have the salt. You have to have the salt. All right. Super simple recipe. This is going to take 3 seconds to make. Tequila. Open that bad boy up. 45 milit. I don't know how many ounces that is. You guys can translate that. All right. 45 milliliters.
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    Perfect. Let me get my my shaker open here. 45 milliliters into the sh I got to hold it up. I got to remember to hold it up. 45 into the shaker. Perfect. Tequila done. Easy. This is a single serving, by the way. I usually drink a double when I do my streams, but this is just a single serving. All right, your triple sec. Uh, be picky about your tequila. I have found bad tequila really sucks. Uh, what I've also found, you don't need to be that picky about triple set. This is like a $12 bottle and I've always found it's perfectly fine, but bad bad trip is or I'm sorry, bad tequila is it'll ruin the whole drink. All right, we did 45 ml of tequila. Triple sec. 30 ml.
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    There we go. Into the mixer. Perfect. Now, the freshly squeezed lime.
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    22 ml of the freshlysqueezed lime. I have my my squeezer here, of course. Let me just load this bad boy up. Now, not all limes are created equal. It's a fact of life. you're going for 22. If you want to have a little bit more than that, that's fine. A little bit less, that's fine, too. I usually do end up just doing whatever the lime gets me. But if that lime produces like 30 or 35 milliters, that's too much. You have to then counteract that with more tequila and triple sex. So, let's squeeze this guy out. Juiced on me a little bit there. That was a smaller wedge. Yeah. So, that that only yielded like 10 milliliters. So, we're going to need the other half of it, which is fine. Which is fine. Get that.
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    All right. Yeah, this is a much bigger wedge. This will for sure get us to that 22. And again, I'm just squeezing this into my cup. Oh, yeah. There we go. This is money now. Here we go. Honestly, this one might be like right on the money of 22. Maybe a little bit more. It's more like 25. This is more like 25, but that's okay. That's okay. All right. Lime gone. I don't know the proper names for like any of this stuff. Okay. Lime into the mixer. Beautiful. Take this bad boy. Shake it till it hurts. It should be so cold your hand feels like it's going to fall off. Shake that bad boy up. This is probably super annoying to listen to. Sorry. Shake that bad boy up.
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    Take off that cap. Here we go. Here we go. This will be an absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous, perfect serving
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    of a margarita. There it is. The scream and scream margarita. Cheers, folks. Get a little salt. [Music]
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    Perfect. Oh, now it's screaming stream time. Now we can begin. This one is gangster. The [ __ ] aura of this video, the sex appeal, the macho energy. And I really wish I had seen this video much sooner in my life because I feel like I would be twice the man that I am now if I had. this video just it's just the most FU energy ever where Williams was just the big dick in the locker room. They were just like, "Yep, we're we're the best of all time. Here's why we rule. Here's Steve Richie, the freaking goat." Like, this video's energy unmatched. Unmatched. I'm Joe Dylan, vice president of sales for Williams Valley Midway. You know us. We're the company that consistently brings you top earning award-winning games. Today we continue our program of product presentation tapes. This guy literally shows up. He's Ricky Bobby. Yeah, we're the best there ever was. I wake up, I piss excellence. This is the most Well, Dick, here's the deal. I'm the best there is. Plain and simple. I mean, I wake up in the morning, I piss excellence, and nobody can hang with my stuff. efficient and easiest way for you to learn the game rules and outstanding features. Today I would like to introduce the game of a bow tie pinball. Steve Richie is no stranger to any route operator. His games are still on location. This guy looks like he has a security button. Like he presses it and security shows up. This guy looks like his Christmas bonus bought him a pool. He's had successes like Black Knight one and two, F-14 and Highspeed, just to name a few. He joins forces now with another great star to create for you very, very exciting action entertainment. God damn.
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    I will never be as cool as anything about this video. Literally like never. I have to live my life knowing nothing I do in my pinball legacy is going to add up to this. [Music] Is this from This is from the movie, right? I don't remember. I just watched Terminator 2 not that long ago, too, but I don't remember this.
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    All right, pinball brothers. [Music] All right, pinball brothers. If you don't have Naked Arnold in that Predator promo, how many units you think you're gonna sell? How many? You better have Naked Arnold. Just saying. Just saying. I'll be back. These guys had mullets, naked Arnold, and an undisclosed amount of cocaine.
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    That seems to be the recipe for success in my eyes. Hi, my name is Steve Richie. This is our new pin machine to judgement. Steve, you're a [ __ ] legend.
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    It's based on the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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    [Music] This machine will be ready for delivery at the same time the movie is released. Listen to that. this machine will be ready for delivery at the same time that the movie is released. That's how much they knew. Oh, they knew. I mean, granted, they didn't always know. They also did this for Congo, I'm pretty sure, which that was a flop. But like, dude, they had this game ready to go when the greatest action movie in history came out. They had this ready to go. God, the [ __ ] balls on these companies back then. It's nuts. Look at I mean, they have the movie assets. They're showing off Arnold. I'd like to talk about a few of the features. Uh the first there's a gun on the cabinet that you shoot. Is the back glass. I think it's a masterpiece done by Doug Watson. Doug Watson's an amazing artist. Had him on the podcast like 10 years ago now. He was super great dude. Super long interview. He had a ton of cool stories. Legend. Absolute pinball legend. Doug Watson. Feature is probably has gun grip which replaces the traditional plunger. It has a switch mounted inside the cabinet. This is a separate unit with only a trigger and a firing pin that actuates the switch. The game begins when a player shoots these targets. He wants to try and hit the lit target with the ball. He Steve He Come on, Steve. Girls play pinball, too. Come on, Steve. For every shot that he makes on the target, he receives a million points. On the second ball, 2 million. On the third ball, 3 million, etc. The swagger of him just like running through that. First ball, 2 million. Second ball, 3 million. Like, another feature actuated by the gun grip. There's a feature located underneath this terminator head here. You knock down a drop target sequence initiated. Throw the ball in the ball popper behind it and it loads the cannon. Amazing feature. This is something I really want to do, too. Fires the cannon at the lit ball. He hits the lit ball. Multiball begins.
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    How many games did that? The uh the cannon feature where it shoots the ball out. Star Trek Next Gen, Terminator 2. Did any other games do it? I'm trying to remember the demolition man. Once the player is in mult
    46:38
    T2 is a very fun tournament game. I've noticed every tournament I've played that had T2 in it. I always enjoyed T2 being a part of that tournament.
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    [Music] Dirty Harry. Oh, okay. Yeah. Batman Forever. I don't know that I've I've probably played Batman Forever once or twice in my life.
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    The trailer involves him jumping on a semi and gunning it down and turning it. Oh my gosh. Video mode. Video mode is a feature that allows me to play a video game within this pinball machine played on the dot matrix display because video games were taking over the world at this time to control a crosshair on the dot matrix display. The object is to shoot terminators and other characters that move back and forth on the screen. Gosh, here I'll demonstrate it. For every half inch of Steve's mullet was 1,000 units sold. I want to cast this crosshair across the terminators that are coming out on the screen. It's a pretty decent video mode. Not the best.
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    My favorite video mode's probably Guns and Roses on the motorcycle. That's probably my favorite video mode. Oh, AC/DC. That's right. Yeah.
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    Who designed Star Trek NextG? Was that Steve also? Seems like Steve is like the main user of this mech.
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    shooting out their legs because he promised he wouldn't kill anybody.
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    It's weird. We've never gotten a Terminator 1 pinball machine. You know, we've had T2, T3, no Terminator 1. And honestly, the second one's probably my favorite. I love T1, though. T1's really great. It's like a horror movie. It's literally like a slasher movie, but there is just guns drop.
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    Another group of features that we've integrated into T2 are ball savers. This first ball saver called auto fire prevents They really get into the details in these old trailers. Beginner players don't have to deal with the frustration of losing their ball instantly. They'll get it back again. This is only effective at the very first of every game and every ball. We also have a feature here called kick back in the left drain lane which will return the ball back out to the playfield. It's not too easy to reload. A whole section of the video dedicated to if you suck. This is why you should still put your money into this game cuz look at all these features that give you the ball back at the arcade. Take this out and put the plug in in place of it. What a time to be alive. in the game. It's pretty innovative, is a feature called payback time. What you do is you take right flipper shots up the left ramp and left flipper shots up the right ramp back and forth. When he says, who all in this chat saw Terminator 2 in theaters when it came out? It goes into payback time. Now, this shot is worth 5 million. This shot is also worth 5 million. You get 5 million. You get 5 million. this shot and this shot. Yeah, he goes through and like shows off all the rest of them. We feel it's going to be more reliable. I have easy access to my motor device here in the working on a pinball machine like flipping it up in a suit is just the swagger will never ever be matched. The playfield is very clean. On the top of the game, we tried to keep it simple and uncluttered for easy cleaning.
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    T2 is probably the best license ever obtained for a coin operated machine. We feature the voice at that time. Reliability and serviceability have been designed in. Best of all, Terminator 2 is collecting top videos and out earning alls on location. [Music]
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    Terminate the competition with Williams Terminator 2 pinball. Hell yeah. I'm buying one right now. I'm about to order one. How many units?
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    I'm going to say 10,000. 15,000. Yeah, it did terminate the competition. Holy crap. Holy 15,000.
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    I mean, yeah, it it had everything going for it. Like he said, it was the biggest theme they could have gotten at the time. They had locations really in mind with serviceability and reliability. They had the voice of Arnold freaking Schwarzenegger, the biggest movie star on the planet. Not even close at that time.
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    I mean, it just had everything going for it. It had absolutely everything going for it to be the biggest freaking thing ever.
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    Immediately. Awesome. This is already great. Yes. Look at that set. Oh, dude. They got the fog machines out, the [ __ ] oils, the candles, the machines there.
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    Yes, it's me, the titillating tempress in the flesh and not much else. Elvara, mistress of the dark. And tonight, I have an especially terrifying monster hitmakers of Bali. It stars my favorite actress of all time, me. And it's destined to become a true cult classic forever. Or at least until you croak. Steve, you've got some competition. I'm sorry. This might win. This might be T2. Whoever comes first. But classic forever. Or at least until you croak. Whichever comes first. But I can see you're ready for some action. So get ready to get scared still. Peek. Peek.
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    Oh, that's funny. It has the uh this here, the don't break open our game and steal all the money. So, this is what you would have to have on your machine if your arcade was in Detroit.
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    Frenchie's going to be pissed I said that. Leapers, this trailer freaking smacks. [Music]
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    [Music] Wow, dude. This is awesome. You can't run. You can't hide because scared stiff is going to make you steer with fear. Everyone panic. Don't stay calm because there's monsters and mayhem at every turn. Mistress of they did not at every turn. Oh my god, the legends tales of terror soul. Look, it's the eyes of the bony beast. These gaping jaws will devour your shots down the creature's curving carcass. That noise and those eyes. Yikes. It's the This is one of my all-time favorite games. I I from the crate. Alltime favorites. Attack the crate to keep the evil eyes at bay. If you dare, break through the box. Everything about it iconic. Absolutely every inch of this game is just so iconic. Come on. Stop this giant spinning spider on any I love the the spider wheel thing. Oh, it's great. Rewards. How about another bomb? Hey, this guy may be stiff, but he's quick. Lock the balls and watch his tricked out coffin go into action. Just wait till you get your hands on my bumpers. Boy, you'll really find out what fun is then. And did you catch that stiff in the coffin? I guess that's what happens when you hog all the popcorn. Well, how about if I show you a little more? I scared myself. Absolutely goated.
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    So, darling, how scared are you now? Let's sneak a peek at my favorite tool and find out. Elvra's favorite tool is the stiff meter. Look at this. The stiff meter is an alltimeiff great wizard mode. I dream of anything I do being as intense as the stiff meter doesn't send chills right up your spine. You better check your pulse cuz you're dead. I mean, you got your terror from the crate. You got your giant spinning spider. You got your big bony beast. And the biggest features of all, yours truly. Oh, when people get an eye full of valley scared stiff, they're going to be They got a ton of promo with cereal out of her for this. After all, darling, it's on me. Unpleasant dreams,
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    Watch it back. Uh, yeah, this stream freaking ruled. I can't believe how much fun this was. I I seriously this was some of the most fun I've had just hanging out streaming in a while. This was great. Next week, Evil Dead. Uh we are doing Hero from the Sky and Mirror Mirror. Uh two modes in the next Evil Dead update. Super cool. Super excited to show off those modes for you guys. Uh really, really fun. Both of them really cool. Uh reverse flippers in one of them. So that'll be that'll be fun. I love doing some reverse flipper shenanigans. You know me. Uh what else we have going on? Like I said, for the people who weren't here at the start, we increased Evil Dead production this week. So, we're going to be cranking more of those games out. My shop is absolutely drowning in games that are ready to go overseas to Europe. So, that's really cool. Always love seeing that. Um, Topper Productions going great. Um, Tiki Drink on the next stream. Mary, you have to send me the recipe and I'll make it. That'd be awesome. Uh, yeah. Guys, have a great freaking weekend. Uh, get outside, sit in a hammock, make my margarita recipe. I promise you're going to enjoy it. Go fishing, go golfing, go do go do fun [ __ ] Go be outside, be with your friends, have a bonfire, smoke a cigar for me, have a margarita, do something spooky for me like always. And yeah, what a freaking absolutely awesome time this was. I can't wait to do this again. And yeah, we'll see you guys again shortly. And uh, have a great weekend. You guys are the best. Thanks for being here. Do they Jimmy Buffett has to have his own Jimmy Buffett margarita machine? He has to have There has to be one, right? Yes. Oh my god. It's $275.
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    I have to own this. It's really expensive. Yeah. It says Margaritavville, Jimmy Buffet. And it makes you a frozen margarita. Huh? I want to see is there like a trailer for this?
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    How to make frozen drinks with the Margaritaville concoction maker. And today I'm going to be showing you how to make frozen drinks with a Margaritaville. My tutorials would perform a lot better if I looked like that. My favorite thing about this is that it only has three easy steps. Ice and ice. We're going to take a detour from pinball for a second. Hang on. This is important to me. Switch. If you would like to customize your drink, there's also a manual switch so that you can make Oh, there's fins on it. Today we're going to be making my favorite drink which is strawberry dairy. So let's go ahead and get started. So first thing you're drink which here we have our strawberry daiquiri pre-made mix which you could buy at any local grocery store. Don't buy pre-made mixes. Don't do it. And if you would like to make any other type of drinks included is a recipe book. Oh, I need that recipe book for the number of drinks which here we have one. I've actually never looked into one of these before.
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    And then you can just have your own frozen little slushy drinks. Huh. Looks good. Looks about right. To learn more about this frozen concoction maker and many other products from our gourmet shop, be sure to check us out on app. She could sell me an evil dead probably. Anyway,