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Scorbit System Q&A with Jay Adelson

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 58m·analyzed·Oct 30, 2019
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TL;DR

Scorbit's Jay Adelson demos cross-platform score capture and leaderboard system for classic and modern pinball.

Summary

Jay Adelson of Scorbit demonstrates the Scorbitron system—a connected platform enabling real-time score tracking, leaderboarding, and tournament integration across vintage (EM/solid state) and modern pinball machines. The system uses a probe device installed in the backbox to extract scores from different machine architectures (6800-based Bally systems, SAM, Spike, Spike 2) and streams them to the internet via Wi-Fi, supporting player achievements, operator analytics, remote pricing, and automated tournament scoring.

Key Claims

  • Scorbitron is installed in the backbox and connects to the display bus of pinball machines, auto-configuring after initial setup via app

    high confidence · Jay Adelson explaining installation process during live demonstration on 8-Ball Deluxe

  • Scorbit project started officially around 2014, building on earlier versions of global leaderboard ideas Ron Richards was working on

    high confidence · Jay Adelson discussing project origins in response to host question about how the project started

  • System can support both older electromechanical machines and modern Spike/Spike 2 systems, though EM support is still being developed with external partners

    high confidence · Jay Adelson explaining multi-platform support and willingness to open API for EM solutions

  • Scorbit has integrated with MatchPlay and NeverDreams tournament platforms to automate scoring without requiring traditional scorekeepers

    high confidence · Jay Adelson describing tournament operator features and integration partnerships

  • At Pinball Expo in Chicago, Scorbit displayed the system on multiple games (Spensor, Star Trek, Theater of Magic, Batman) with screens showing live player names and scores

    high confidence · Jay Adelson recounting Pinball Expo demonstration and moment when manufacturers recognized the value proposition

  • Current Scorbit app is in beta version and allows players to log in via Pinside account or create custom users to personalize their name on machines in real-time during play

    high confidence · Jay Adelson demonstrating app functionality on stream, showing how 'Player 1' changed to 'JSA' in real-time on 8-Ball Deluxe

  • Scorbit will publish an open API specification to allow third-party developers to create integrations, including apps like scavenger hunts and remote play features

    high confidence · Jay Adelson discussing future API availability and mentioning PinQuest and surrogates.tv as examples of integrations being developed

Notable Quotes

  • “Scorbit is a platform that allows you to connect any pinball machine to the internet.”

    Jay Adelson@ 7:04 — Core definition of the product and its primary value proposition

  • “The advantages of that are different depending on who you are. So if you're a player, what it does is it allows you to walk up to any machine you want, say I'm player three, have your scores broadcasted live in real time to the internet.”

    Jay Adelson@ 7:09 — Explains differentiated value across player segments—a key market positioning

  • “It seemed impossible, yeah... we decided to just do it.”

    Jay Adelson@ 6:48 — Reflects entrepreneurial decision-making and the scale of technical challenge undertaken

  • “When you become more than just 'Player 1' in pinball—that's a boss.”

    Host (Mystery Pinball Theater 3000)@ 28:13 — Captures the emotional/social impact of player personalization feature

  • “We've got developers who are all over the world... we like humans. We're helping.”

    Jay Adelson@ 12:16 — Reflects inclusive philosophy about impact on pinball community and human roles in automation

Entities

Jay AdelsonpersonRon RichardspersonBrian O'NeillpersonScorbitcompanyScorbitronproductMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationFree Gold Watchorganization

Signals

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    business_signal: Scorbit is a funded company actively hiring developers, designers, and UI/UX staff; product in beta with plans for public API release

    high · Jay Adelson: 'We're a funded business... We are hiring at Scorbit. All kinds of developers.'

  • ?

    community_signal: Scorbit integrating with existing community platforms (Pinside, MatchPlay, NeverDreams) and third-party developers (PinQuest, surrogates.tv) to expand ecosystem

    high · Jay Adelson describing planned integrations and API openness: 'we're going to create a public... API specification... anyone who wants to create an application... can create that'

  • ?

    community_signal: Distributed global development team and strong relationships with venue operators and manufacturers supporting Scorbit ecosystem expansion

    high · Jay Adelson: 'we have developers who are all over the world... Dilshad... Dubai, Olivier in France, Tony in Idaho, Adam in L.A.' and thanks to Free Gold Watch operators

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    market_signal: Achievement/badge system for pinball games designed to level playing field for casual players and add Xbox Live-style progression layer to vintage machines

    high · Jay Adelson: 'we're adding that whole sort of Xbox Live layer on top of real world... playing pinball... So if I was playing Adam's Family and I toured the mansion, I can unlock a Tour of the Mansion achievement'

  • ?

    announcement: Scorbit system formally demonstrated on multiple platforms (EM, SAM, Spike, Spike 2) at Pinball Expo Chicago with manufacturer recognition

    high · Jay Adelson: 'At Pinball Expo what was great is we had these screens above every one of the games... the manufacturers started coming over and saying, alright this is really cool.'

Transcript

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0:00
I'm having a few questions on my phone. One, two, three. Oh, I'm live. I'm live right now. What a terrible host.
0:19
We're starting in 30 seconds. What is that? Oh, yeah. Hello, hello. Is this thing on? I think we're on. I'm going to check and see if my audio is good. Yes. What up everybody, MPT3K here at Free Go Watch.
1:19
Let me know if the audio is sounding good. We are here today with Jay Edelton of Scorbit to show Scorbit and answer questions about Scorbit and the Scorbitron and the Scorbit system. So the plan today is to stream three different games.
1:42
We have Scorbitrons in an 8-Ball Deluxe. I'm just going to set it up so I can read the chat. We have Scorbitrons in 8-Ball Deluxe, which is an older Solid State.
2:00
We are going to then move the rig over to... Hey, Jay. How's it going, everybody? That's it right there. Oh, hi.

System can encode and stream video from DMD and LCD displays in real-time, with capability already on hardware but focus currently prioritized on score reliability

medium confidence · Jay Adelson explaining video streaming capability and current development priorities in response to streamer questions

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  • ?

    product_strategy: System capable of real-time video encoding and streaming from DMD/LCD displays; feature available but deprioritized pending score reliability confirmation

    medium · Jay Adelson: 'we have a version that has an HDMI output and also gives you an endpoint to point your streaming software to... we're focused first on the scores, making sure scores are solid'

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    technology_signal: Real-time score capture and internet connectivity infrastructure for all pinball machine types enabling connected leaderboards and tournament automation

    high · Scorbitron installation on 8-Ball Deluxe (1978-1980 Bally) demonstrating 40-year-old machine connecting to modern cloud platform

    • 2:08
    Good to see you. Yeah. You're on the Mystery Science Pinball 3000. Almost. Mystery Pinball 3000 Club. Don't worry about that. You worry about what's the important stuff. Okay. Is revolutionizing pinball. I am delighted to revolutionize pinball. I know, because this is the stupidest project I've ever seen. The hardest thing I've ever seen anyone work at.
    2:38
    I like hot things. Yeah. So I was telling the viewers we have Scorpotrons, and we're starting off on 8-Ball Deluxe, and then we're going to move to, we're both talking about Solid State, right? Which I guess 8-Ball Deluxe is considered a Solid State. Yes, this is considered a Solid State. Okay.
    2:59
    And then Metallica? Metallica, which is a Stern, SAM, DMV. Right. SAM, that's right. The SAM platform. Spike. And Spike came after, and then Spike 2. Spike, SAM, and Spike, and Spike 2. That's right.
    3:19
    And then, what, Black Knight? I think we're going to do Batman. Oh, yeah, that's right, we're doing Batman. We're doing Batman 66. Now these are incredibly different, ridiculously different systems. Yes, incredibly different systems. And being able to create a way to speak to any of these things in real time and broadcast that information to the internet was not trivial. If we were just designing for one, it would have been way easier. But we were designing something that could work on all three-ball machines at all times.
    3:59
    Well, EMs, GBD, but all electronic three-ball machines at all times. Yeah, I can imagine score reels are way, way down the line. I mean, we've had four people reach out to us with different ways of solving electromechanical systems and they're all really interesting. So what we're going to do later is just open up our API and let them try it. And if something works, we'll add it to our system. So that's how we'll end up supporting the area. Cool. That makes sense. the best to go to win.
    4:44
    Right? Yeah. Okay, just so we can back up a few steps. Sure. Tell us a little bit about, and people in chat, let me know if the audio is okay. It looks like it's okay on our end.
    4:57
    Jay, tell us a little bit about how this project started and how did you get involved in doing this thing? I don't know if you guys know Jay, but he's... Jay Adelson. I'm a recovering entrepreneur. I started a bunch of companies in my life and wanted to do something that was more of something that I love. I was very, very fortunate to be good friends with Ron Richards and Brian O'Neill, both of which I worked at. Ron and I worked together at Revision three years ago and Brian O'Neill at Digg. And they got me into pinball. They got me hard into pinball. Yeah, I can imagine. It was like incredibly... Okay, that's the wrong expression. Very, very seriously into pinball. Right, right. And I think it was about the same time that my son and I started destroying pinball machines together. And one thing led to another. I think that Ron and Brian hit me over the back of the head with a bottle. I was knocked unconscious. And then five years later, woke up and now I'm, you know, very good.
    6:16
    Well, really, we started this thing around 2014 officially. I mean, Ron will tell you that there were different versions of this idea for a global high school board and other things that he was working on as well. I think everything kind of converged around 2014 and we just decided, hey, this looks really, really hard and no one's going to do it because it's impossible.
    6:48
    And so we decided to just do it. It seemed impossible, yeah. Yeah. And so now we've crossed over. We, you know, we're a funded business. But wait a second. What is it, though? We haven't actually said what it is. Yes. Torbit is a platform that allows you to connect any pinball machine to the internet. And the advantages of that are different depending on who you are. So if you're a player, what it does is it allows you to walk up to any machine you want, say I'm player three, have your scores broadcasted live in real time to the internet, have the option of saving your score on a leaderboard, But of course you get challenges by your friends, you know, Brian beat my score at Zeitgeist. Right, right. And you're a fan of that. That kind of thing. Right. As well as, I mean, in addition to the social features, things like a cheese. So, you know, for certain members of my family that aren't as good a pinball player as I am, it levels the playing field because now you're playing this old game from the 90s And instead of it just being about the score, you get 25 achievements like on the old Xbox Live system. So we're adding that whole sort of Xbox Live layer on top of real world, you know, playing pinball. But you guys are defining the achievements? Actually, so, good question. We've been talking a lot about this now for next year when we launch the product, that we'll allow an interface for game designers who are asking the people who design the games to add those achievements. But for games that are obviously too old for that, we'll find some kind of crowdsourcing platform. We'll make it so that people can contribute different achievements to the system. Right. But the whole point is there will be a system that allows achievement to be achieved in pinball. So if I was playing Adam's Family and I toured the mansion, I can unlock a Tour of the Mansion achievement and have that as a badge as a pinball player that, hey, I actually did this. That's right. And you can get specific. You can have achievements that are from a specific venue, a specific city, or during a tournament. And so all of these different kinds of layering is easy to do once the machine is connected. And I think that payments is another important thing to mention because I'd be remiss if I didn't say that since we're a connected device, we enable players if they go into a place that charges per game to digitally pay for those games using an app that we've developed. Right? And so, you know, that really comes more as part of our operator features. Okay, so we're talking about operator features now. First it was player, now we're operator. Now we're operator. So operators, as you know, are anyone who owns a mobile machine. And the feedback we've gotten from that group of people is that we need to have people like, is my machine alive? When was the last time it was online? you know, what are the current statistics on the machine, you know, the things that are relevant might be how many plays have I received in over what time, and different kinds of insights that are relevant to operators, and remotely managing the machine eventually will give the operator the ability to remotely do things like dynamic price change. Wow. You know, happy hour price change. Right, right, right. So we've added these things to our operator features and then there's this category that some of your viewers might know about which is just the tournament universe. Yeah, tournament players. So the tournament players look like regular players to us, but the difference being that our software is integrated with things like MatchPlay or NeverDreams and all these different platforms So we can automate the scoring of those experiences for both the players and for the tournament operators. Right.
    11:14
    I've heard people say that it would be able to get rid of the scorekeepers. Well, we can get rid of scorekeepers. Right. We don't want to get rid of humans, but we can. Yeah, so that's going to be up to the tournament operators. I think that culturally there are some things that we really like about them, like them all work. Yeah. And if a tournament operator says, hey, I want it streamlined, automated, make it go faster, then by all means, we'll do that. But last year's InDisk, just as an example, what we did is we pre-populated the scorekeeper's iPad. Exactly. So it just made it faster that way. Yeah, so that's a tedious job that no one wants to do. No one wants to be the person to write down the little score and get a nine wrong where it was a three or something like that. That's right. But there still will be people who have to make decisions about a stuffed ball or something. That's right. Right. So it's not going to get rid of the humans. Don't worry. We're not getting rid of the humans. We're helping. We like humans. We're helping. I'm all about crowd-sourcing. I love that stuff. And I want the people to be part of this because anything that gets more people playing pinball is our goal in life. Right. Which is why we engage with anybody on that booth, whether it's a manufacturer of pinball machines, or it's a home-pinned, somebody creating their own, or just a casual player who just wants to get into it and do something fun with their friends. This is what we're focused on right now. Well, what we're focused on is getting this product to market. Right, right, right. Full time. Okay, cool. So, I think that covers, that's the thousand-foot view of Scorbit, Scorbitron, and the Scorbitron. The device is called Scorbitron, the company is called Scorbit, right? Because I get mad when people call the HMD that Oculus makes the Oculus. Right. It's not the Oculus. Anyway. All right. No, I'm with you. I think we've called it the Scorbitron. Because it is kind of a retro name. Yeah, it's Corbatron. Exactly. And my co-founders Brian and Ron, I mean Ron is Corbatron. Corbatron, Corbatron, Corbatron, oh God. Alright, I'm going to turn on the rig we have here. So we set up the big boy rig since we have to move machines. Right now we're on 8-ball and I'm going to walk over here. here you can still hear me I'm going to swap it over oh yeah to my name Paul and I should probably get you some borders huh so we can play this game alright you got something down I know I'm the mustache well can I at least tell the story since we're starting you can tell the story I'm going to fix this camera so they can see you so yeah am I too? no no you're good So the deal is that the mustache is a modeling after Monty here, who has the exact same mustache as I do.
    14:34
    I like his pointing towards Apollon Rex because, you know, he's got just a classic mustache. Wow, you have thought this one out, bro. I was like, swallowing over. Right, right, right. Come on, I mean, you know. Although you're looking a little thin there. I cannot do what you do, Jay. You're all this. This is many, many years. Actually, this was originally a Halloween costume. Oh, okay. But I'm kind of growing attached to it. So we can give votes on the channel, on the stream. People want it gone.
    15:08
    Get it gone. So I have, on the DMD display, I set up basically, Jay gave me an access point. It's just basically a URL.
    15:20
    And for those OBS heads out there. That's a browser capture that is showing you 100% that the scores that we get in this old-ass 8-ball deluxe machine. I mean, this machine didn't know the word internet. No, it didn't. Maybe ARPANET. Maybe. Technically, ARPANET was around. Yeah. This machine was probably built somewhere around 1978, 1980.
    15:52
    Where's the copyright? I don't know where it is. That's a good question. Right around there, this is a Bally which had the best 35 MPU system in it. It ran on a 6800 processor. A 6800, not 1000. Yes, 6800. That's a Motorola? Yeah. Wow. And it was capable of a lot of stuff. And they did some really fun things. And we can get the source from this using a couple different ways. One is TPU monitoring and the other is the display bus. And what I love about the display bus is I can change what's on the display.
    16:36
    So you can have it say shell oil like the old calculators? Or have it say you really suck or whatever on a game that was built before that kind of thing ever existed. Wow. So, uh, Scorbitron is kind of like a man in the middle? Yeah. So it sits between the... It's passive. It's passive, well... Somewhat passive. It's somewhat passive and it connects to the internet. So obviously it requires that there be an internet connection available. We're a Wi-Fi device. We don't go through your phone to the internet because that's weird. Um, we go to the internet. And so most venues we talk to and home users have a Wi-Fi network so we connect to that. Use the app to install it, roll it out and then you're online. And obviously only the things that reward us are looking at. Right. I can imagine this doesn't have a huge bandwidth cost, right? No, although... I'm going to ask some of the questions now. No, it's funny you say that Because with the LCDs and with the DMDs, we can encode and stream that video system. And so one of the things we're asking ourselves as a company is, does anyone care? We have streamers. We love streamers. But we're in the minority of a niche. I mean, because the difference there is in my processing time. Like if I have to do encoding a video or not. If I can avoid it, I will. But we already are capable of doing it. So we just have to decide what people tell us now over the next six months. Yeah. We have to find it. All right. So, Jay, a one-player game has started. Why don't you finish it up so we can see the scores move, and you can talk a little bit. And I'm just going to make sure everything's looking good. Well, you tell me. I mean, if the score's not going up. Oh, the scores are going up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
    18:28
    Now, I should warn everyone on the screen is that I actually struck a pinball, and I think that those of you who have seen me stream 904 know this to be true. Occasionally I'll have like a crazy lucky experience, but it's fun. I have to thank a lot of people who went in, who basically contributed to make this possible. Our developers who are all over the world, you know, Dilshad for example, who's based in Dubai. We've got Olivier in France. We've got Tony in Idaho.
    19:10
    Adam in L.A. The list goes on. Of course, we've got Brian O'Neill, who just moved to New Hampshire, with his wife, Allison. Both have been incredibly important to this whole project. And Ron Richards, who is in New York, having a marvelously great day. I thought I had to.
    19:33
    Sorry, Ron. All right. So I wanted to make sure that they're seeing the scores. It seems to have worked. Yeah, it's working great. So as the scores come in. Sure. I need to get some quarters for you. Yeah. Sure. Why don't you put that in the machine and I'll explain it. Well, we're going to pop this in right now. Okay. So, so... Want me to talk about like the path? Right, the path. So the Scorbatron is in the... Is inside the back box. Inside the back box. Right. So, for example, in this case, in this 8 Ball Deluxe, we... You good? Let's do it. Two player. Great. Watch the two player shows up on the... There you go. Here, we can change this up when we need it. I got chat messages coming in, but you talk about where it's installed. All right, yes. So basically, you know, I totally respect that some people will want to install this in different ways, but we've designed it to be mounted in the back box in an area of free space. We can be powered directly from the 12-volt bus of the pinball machine or an external power pack should you desire. What's nice about using the pinball power is that it's nice and convenient and there's no wires running around everywhere. And I think the other sort of important thing about that is so the way we install is you pull the display bus off the MPU board and then you put our little device, which we call probe onto the display board in place of that cable and then you plug the cable into that. Okay, so yeah, it fits right in. So it's basically like you say in the middle and then that connects via a cable to the main Scorbatron brains. Is it, it's relatively easy to install? Yeah, you tell our app that you're installing it the first time and you tell it what machine it is and then the Scorbatron auto-configures itself. It connects to the Wi-Fi, it goes to the cloud, pulls down the right settings it needs to talk to this era of machine, and then the rest is magic. All right. We love pinball. Thank you for the raid. That's awesome. Joe Soap has some questions. Why don't you take a look at that? Sure. I'm going to try and put up a higher score than you did. We have already integrated this into a MatchPlay API, and Andreas, who's here in San Francisco and has been working with us continues to improve that integration over time. But, you know, I mean, the challenge with any of these things is, of course, match play will improve, Never Dreams improves, all of these things change over time. And so, you know, we'll keep up with that in various versions. So in the case of match play, it's more of like we know the ball, the player number, and ultimately who's won the game. So you can see how that is really the minimal amount of information you need for something like match play to work.
    22:48
    So let's see. I'm like watching you play better already than me. Yeah, you run the company, but I'm going to kick your butt. When you say this, we'll see what your bonus looks like. So I want to hit that 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x. That's what I want to do. I understand about bonus multipliers.
    23:11
    I mean, I'm not good at pinball, but I at least know how the game works. It's just, you know, that whole, like, having intent and actually hitting what you're intending to hit? Well, that's a trick, right? That's how it works. I don't dream, but I watch a lot. Having direct access to DMD TV will be very cool. So we've already got someone saying, yeah, access to... Well, maybe we make the streamer version. And we have a version that has an HDMI output and also gives you an endpoint to point your streaming software to. I can imagine. Here, we're going to trade. I can imagine a DMD pretty light as far as data being sent. A DMD. We're talking about a regular dot matrix. Yeah, a dot matrix, sure. But a Stern or a Jersey Jack is compressed video. It could be really, really rough on the system. Well, our system has basically a chip on it that's capable of doing real-time video encoding. So we have that ability. The question is, you know, like all these things, we're focused first on the scores, making sure scores are solid and our API and infrastructure is reliable. And then we kind of move on from there. And we see what happens. And some of the features that people are telling us they want, come on. And you got your 2X. I got, thanks. Go ahead. Wait, am I beating you? Yes. That's all I got. Okay, some of the features you were saying? You know, some of the features are kind of exposing themselves as we start to roll out. Like when we showed this at Pinball Expo in Chicago. How'd that go? Oh, it was crazy. I've never been to Pinball Expo before. And I got to meet Lyman Sheets and George Gomez and all these like Stern greats and you know, and Joe Balser and all these. It was really like pinball mecca. That's cool. And so we had like a booth. Oh, look at that. What did you do? I just paused it for a minute. I wanted to hear what you said. Okay, yeah, you planned it that way. Yeah, well, you know, that's pro players. We can do that. He's good. He's good. He's really good. No, no, no, no. No. You know, I want to be... My viewers know me. I mean, I can do stuff like that all the time. Yeah, sure. Where is it? It's up there between A and B. Oh, wow. That's kind of awesome. Can we just point that out?
    25:47
    That's kind of awesome. It's not awesome that I can't get it back without sheltering and ruining your ball. Oh!
    25:54
    Okay. Oh, my God. I'm raising my hair for tournament director. All right. Corbin. I feel good. All right.
    26:04
    Sorry, man. You know what that is? That's called... Wait. That's me winning. Wait, did the show game over? I'm, like, looking at the screen over there. You can look at the score right on the... Now, I'm going to show you something since we're playing this game. Okay.
    26:22
    I have the ability also, because, like, I mentioned that I have an app, right? and the app allows me to basically tell the platform that I am who I say I am. And our current version is beta, so it's not for public consumption. But, like, for example, I'll just, like, hold it here. You can log in with Pinside. You can create your own user, whatever you want to do, depending on what you like. Okay. And I'm at Free Gold Watch right now. Okay. And so I want to play A-Fall Deluxe. So here I am. Alright, so here's our score. I guess you could show it to... If you want to show it to that guy right there. Right, so here's our score, right? Anyway, the whole point being that if I wanted to... You could personalize? I could personalize and I could say, here, so if you're watching the screen right now, you see Player 1. If I select it and I submit it, it should change to JSA instead of Player 1, which I believe it did. And that will do it in real time while you're playing the game as well. So you know, it was fun because at Expo, did it say, may not have said it, we're behind. We're behind. But at Expo, it did it. That's crazy. So at Expo what was great is we had these screens above every one of the games. We had it on Spentor, Star Trek, Theater of Magic and Batman and we had screens above all of them and you could see the people playing the games as they were playing and if they used our app you would see their name and at the end of that... Finally. Yeah, at the end of that it was like, alright this is sort of obvious now what we're doing. So the manufacturers started coming over and saying, alright this is really cool. Yeah, that was the moment where they were like... They connected the dots. When you become more than just player one in pinball, that's pretty bad ass. Yeah, and that's, there's casual players, there are people who want to sort of challenge themselves with their friends, and then of course there's this idea of leaderboarding, which is sort of this amorphous thing. Like, for me, I don't care how I rank of all the people of all time who play this machine here. And I'll have that, so you can see that, but what I more care about is how do I rank against you and my group of friends. And so that's something that we've introduced into this platform, the ability to sort of create these sorts of things. So, by the way, thoughts and prayers out for everyone in California right now. We're in San Francisco having fun. You don't have any power at your house. And, yeah, my house is without power. I live in Marin County. and only an hour away we've got the Kincaid fire that is tearing. It's just people have been forcibly evacuated, not to be a downer, but same thing in Southern California. And so right now my family is fortunate in that it not affecting Mill Valley right But we all you can go outside the smoke is too thick to breathe out there right now That's crazy. Yeah. Any questions? Yeah, you got another comment here? And I'm going to start this game so that I can redeem myself. Okay, so we run an eight ball. Herb style qualifying every two weeks makes it easier to not having to wait for those scores to be posted and the accuracy would be right. That's absolutely right. And what we're going to do is we're going to create a public, what we call an API specification, a programming interface spec. So anyone who wants to create an application or an integration to any kind of software that either they write or someone else writes can create that, including apps. You know, you come up with something cool. I love the folks, shout out to the folks at PinQuest in Colorado who, or are they in Utah? I'm trying to remember. I think Colorado. Sorry, guys. Who created like scavenger hunt kind of things around a location or across the city. Oh, wow. That will integrate with our platform as well. Right? That's cool. Another fun one is the folks at surrogates.tv we've been talking to because they allow you to remotely play a game over the internet. Oh, that's right. And so we're going to be working with them as well. You mean like the Batman? Yeah, like the Batman. I was playing that just the other night. It's super fun. It's hilarious. It's a neat idea. It's like people who are super into pinball ask about latency. The truth is, it's a different game. It's a fun game. It's a remotely played game with different latencies.
    31:23
    See that? Now, that was a good ball, is what that was. Oh, you shut up. Scorbit needs a way to be able to freeze that ball.
    31:33
    He just snapshotted my ball. Well, there it was. You know, I will never... I think that if it were up to me, I would have some way of connecting to the shaker motor of those modern sterns so I could just kind of give it a little wiggle, you know, or weaken. Actually, the surrogate guys were talking about playing against someone and weakening someone else's flipper or something like that. I think that's really fun.
    32:06
    You know, the first time I ever seen features like that was on Jersey Jack's Pirates. It's not a genius. Or you can plunder someone else's points. Isn't it a genius? It's pretty cool. It just adds a whole new layer. All right, Jay, step it up. And I think after maybe this and maybe one more game, we'll move over to another machine. We'll relocate. Feel free in the chat to ask any questions you want right now about the Orbit system. Sure. That is installed in a bunch of the games here at Free Gold Watch. That's right. we go watch is like our, it's like our secret hedge works. We're testing things and people don't even know we're testing them here, which is super fun and you know we can watch these games if people are playing them. Yeah, thank you to all the operators here, especially Matt Henry and Creech and all those guys who have machines and are helping out. Greg Creech and Sean and everybody who's helping us, well helping Jay develop Scorny.
    33:06
    It's been super fun. And by the way, we are hiring at Scorbit. Nice. What are you hiring for? All kinds of developers. We love... You hear that, George? We love embedded system developers, front-end developers, back-end developers. We need designers. We're looking for all kinds. Like UI guys? Yeah, you know... UI and UX? Yeah, we've got some, we've got actually some really good design happening right now.
    33:40
    You see that design, buddy? Okay, you know what that design is? See that design? Well, you know. Y'all see it clearly because it's on the Corbettron. The way sharking works is that you think you're in charge and then you get your ass kicked. That's how it works. All right, all right, all right. I've got to take this seriously now.
    34:02
    Don't say anything. People are watching closely. Oh, yeah, that's what, 8-Ball will do that to you. It's not nice.
    34:10
    We have to do a tiebreaker. Oh, I think so. You won one, I won one. Okay. A tiebreaker. Oh, yeah, let me take that 10 and change it up. Uh-huh. We always give back to the community here.
    34:25
    I'm going to kick his butt now. I let him win the first one. Y'all know that, right? He can't hear me right now, but y'all know I let him win the first one. Because, you know, he's got the Corvitz system and all that stuff. He doesn't really have much. He doesn't have much. I have so much. But I have to make him feel like he's got a lot.
    34:45
    Here he comes. By the way, I want to do a little shout-out to Chris Coose of Pinball Pirate. Hey, good to see you. Good to see you. We're actually live streaming. We're streaming in Corvitz. This is Ryan Vineyard here. Ryan Vineyard helping us with the score bit project. Hello, hey. Nice to meet you. I'm Manu. Nice to meet you. Alright. So we're demoing the score bit functionality. You can see the stream right there. You can see we have the score bit scores on the right and we're playing a tie breaker. You can get involved in this stuff. Alright. You're going to go first. I think you go first. I go first. I think. I'm going to make up that rule right now. I have spoken. Official tiebreaker rule. Yeah, official tiebreaker.
    35:36
    There's no confusing the scores because the Scorbitron is directly telling us. You can't mistake an 8 for a 0.
    35:45
    It's true. We have no way. And we're like answering questions as people, as he streams this. It's on Twitch. It's on Twitch, yeah. Yeah. And we're installed in 8BallGox. Did he just do that? He actually did that. You know that if I did that at home with my kids, I would be laughed at?
    36:12
    Or seriously embarrass my children if I ever try and do that. We are on twitch.tv slash mtp3k. Mystery Pinball Theater 3000. Oh, M-P-T-3-K. Y'all don't see me messing up the Scorbit name, right? I don't know. Right? I swap letters sometimes.
    36:38
    All right. And by the way, Scorbit is not spelled with an E. There we go. Oh, boy. Thank you for the follow.
    36:46
    Woo! There you go. Woo-hoo! Oh, okay. Thank you for the follow. I had to find it. Thank you, Ryan. I like that. Ryan Vineyard. Ryan is another one of our San Francisco hardware crew. I wish I had a, I don't have a mic for you, but, uh, Jake? No, of course. Jake could tell everyone, oh, had he told everyone how you help out with? Okay. Nice. Awesome. We've got Ryan here also if you guys have questions. He can tell you as much as he can tell you. That's all I'm going to say. Exactly. I know everything that I know. Ryan just started with us to help us build the hardware. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Jay's on a tear. Oh man, why is this happening today? This is a really fun game. This is one of my favorite solid states.
    37:55
    People know that one of my favorites is Future Spa, which I restored with my son Ben. Ben and I spent a bunch of time building machines together, which taught me what I know about
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    electronics, which isn't much. I say to the person who has to help me build the hardware. Oh, wow. Look at that.
    38:23
    This is a fun game. And, you know, hardware for my son came naturally because he's a maker and whatever. For me, it's a little, I'm more of a software guy, you know, internet services, that sort of thing.
    38:36
    But never was particularly good at pinball, though. Now, what just happened there? That was interesting.
    38:43
    Uh-oh. I want that bonus. Uh-oh, what just happened there? Uh-oh. Oh, boy. Oh. I think I got an extra ball, though, unfortunately.
    39:08
    All right. Wait a minute. Hold on. Extra ball, my friend. Oh, my God. Jay, you know we have questions. in the chat, right? You know, questions are overrated. I'm kidding, of course, we'll answer
    39:24
    your questions about Scorbit. Oh yeah, Joe, you can also plunder another person's balls. Oh yeah, which I haven't. Have I selected myself? Hold on, let me select myself as, in fact, the player. Oh my god. So I am player one, Steve. There you go. And I'm going to I'm coming back from a death day. And then you'll stay on over here. You know what? I like helping people. Sorry there. You got questions. We're going to move on after this to Metallica. You can plunder another person's vault too in that game. Great idea. I don't have the app so I can't put MP3s in there. come with that awesome mustache? Yes, in fact, we will have a very realistic looking mustache with every package. How far are you to release to open it up for more testing? Well, we're in beta now. Our next batch is being manufactured. We're hoping to go live. By live, I mean shipped anyone to our early adopters and then after that to our next group in the March-ish time frame. I don't want to commit. Ron's like, don't! Is that Q1? It's a Q1 kind of commitment. Because I know how to talk the talk. You know, but it's hardware. The thing is, I don't want to release it until it's ready. Yeah, yeah. Until somebody like us could kick the crap out of it and nothing bad will happen. I don't think they want you to release it until it's ready. All right, let's see. Wait. I'll go for it. All right, is it my turn? It is your turn, but ask a question first. How do I get access to a Scorebit and developer API? We will publish the API and put the URL on our website, which is scorebit.io, as soon as it's ready for people to start hacking at it and to integrate it into other products. Don't panic, Cliff is definitely going to do it because he writes a lot of code for Kimball stuff. And don't panic, Cliff, let me tell you something. Reach out to us anyway because we could probably start working with you if you've got a project already underway. Yeah, I can vouch highly for Don't Panic Click. All right, so my goal is to cross into the million. Yeah, let's see. Joe Stokes in Australia.
    41:44
    Yay! Wait, wait, wait. Yay! Good! Yay! Over a million. Oh, my God. That is a sick tournament score. Yeah, yeah. That's a sick tournament score, bro. Is it? Yeah, you could... I don't even know. I mean, I don't... I like sometimes, one thing that's consistent about my pinball game is that it's inconsistent. There you go. He's going to do this to me all day, I know he is. I know he's going to do this to me all day. So yeah, so today we are going to stream from the 8 Ball Deluxe. And then we will be streaming from two other eras of pinball machines. From a Stern Sam era, Metallica, and Batman 66. I'm killing myself with that upper clipper. Which is the modern LCD. Ah, crap. And what's nice about this is just sort of showcasing how this works on all these different platforms. Not through yet. All right. Move for me, guys. Move for me. Our mechanical version is not yet ready with score wheels, but we were talking about that earlier, too. Oh, wait. Yeah, I'm watching this. Here we go. Shia. People are using machine vision. They're doing it with induction. They're doing it with interlopers. Different ways of doing electromechanical. Uh-oh. That was a really good ball, though. Thank you. Well done. That wasn't condescending at all. No, I meant it. It was a really good ball. All right, once again, we're here with Jay Aldson of Scorbit and also Ryan of Scorbit. Ryan Minyard. Hello. And we are currently set up on an 8-volt deluxe, which is a machine from 1970-blah-blah-blah. 1977, eight, nine. 1970-something. We can look it up. Well, you guys can look it up, because you're all on the Internet. That'll take one second for someone on the internet who's not in California dealing with our connectivity issues right now. If you've noticed, the scores are going to the window on the DMD, on the, on the, on OBS. Capturing scores live, there's a score-bertron in the back box. We're gonna go switch over to Metallica and show you how it works with the DMD era. Although Metallica currently has an out of order sign. No, I did that so no one's playing. Okay, that's smart. 1981 actually. 1981? 1981. Yeah. Okay. By the way, we have tested this on the 8-ball deluxe limited edition. You basically can work on all solid space at this point. All we need is connector adapters and we're good to go. And it's pretty amazing that thanks to the incredible work of Olivier Galliez out there in Paris, France. Should we, um, should I move this over live? I can, I can... Or do we pause and say we'll be right back? I have a be right back, but I think some of these guys just want to see it live. Okay, whatever you want to do. You want to see, like, my bald head move over there. Right, but can I mute out for a minute? You can, and you can mute out by going... Boop. Wait. Boop. There we go. All right, so Jay's muted. I'm going to move the rig over and set up on Metallica, which is right here. There's another score-bitron in the Metallica.
    45:21
    And I'm going to change the URL. All we have to do is change the ID of the game, which will change the URL. Let's see. Oh, this is what you need to build to do pinball streaming. And this is as far as we need to move, so this is good.
    45:38
    In a mobile situation. Oh, okie doke. Wouldn't it be funny, you guys would love to see me fall down right now and totally destroy Pringle Watch's streaming rig, which I built, by the way. Alright, and I will fix the camera. Tiebreaker, yes. It is not out of order. I just did that so no one would play it. Let's see if we can get this thing. I need to see flips. Sorry about the glare, guys. I do have the Penn Stadium X-Tremes, but I'm not sure
    46:29
    we have a lot of time to set them up. Maybe I should. This will become not only an ad for Scorebit, but it'll be an ad for Penn Stadium, too, because the one thing that happens is... Oh, thank you for the follow. John of Sixth? John of Sixth? I'm saying that completely wrong. I'm sorry. Now let's get... Okay, this guy needs to look at the DMD. Right there.
    47:05
    By the way, if you are interested in pinball streaming, please check out Don't Panic Flip and MPT3K's streamcast called Silver Ball, Second Stream Silver Ball, where we talk about how to make this easier for you to stream pinball. We talk about the setup and everything.
    47:28
    And that camera's in the way, but that's okay. So what I will do is change the ID. I think I will try and put the Penn Stadiums on here, which will light this play field up a little bit. But in the meantime, I'm going to walk over here.
    47:50
    Here's my OBS setup over here. Hey, Jay, what's the ID for Metallica? 41? All right. Let's go to 41. There it is. Alright. There she is. I'm going to play a little Metallica and you guys can let me know if the scores are updating live. Which, they better, right? It should be updating live.
    48:34
    And I will get... Maybe I'll get Jay to play or someone else to play so I can go get those Pinstadium lights.
    48:42
    It's so far so good. I'm all set up. Thank you for the heart, George. I suck at Metallica. We zeroed out.
    49:01
    I'm going to get the pin stadium light. So if you're ready to come back on air, you can play and I can get the light. Yeah? Alright, so this is the one that I thought was the
    49:17
    easiest of all the pinball machines, the DMD era. Turns out they all have, they're all hard. Every single era of pinball is hard.
    49:31
    Alright, I'm going to start this up. I don't know. What should I pick? I don't know. I'll pick... I don't know if it matters. It doesn't matter. Skill shot! I think I saw a stream about how to play this once. Oh, hit Sparky, that's right. Just go for Sparky. Once again, if you have questions about Sforbit, this is the place where you're going to ask them because I've got two of the developers right behind me. And as soon as Jay's ready to come back in, he will be answering questions. We just did 8-Ball Deluxe. Am I live? There we I hit the button. Am I live? Ah! See, you're green? I'm green. Okay, you are. I'm going to go grab the Penn Stadium lights. Okay. If you want to finish up this game. Sure. I'll finish up for you. This is awkward. It's alright. Let's see. Let's use this side. Or if you want to just stick it in the cup. The cup. There we go. Okay. I don't know. Maybe Ryan can hold it. And how is the URL working?
    51:04
    I love this game. So this particular Metallica is Greg Preach's Metallica. It's notable because it's a super limited edition. If you look here, it's number 186 of 500 limited edition, master of puppets. He's got the colored DMD on the front, which will colorize those frames as they go by. And then also, this particular version has this hammer and snake automated thing over there, Which other versions of the game don't have and they use a serial controller for that stuff and
    51:48
    These games are I believe in I know it's it x86 processor running these things I Don't know much more. I Just know that they're fun. Yeah, and they got shaker motors and so, you know, you kind of feel it and Stern just announced that they're doing Bluetooth audio. No, Jersey Jack announced they're doing Bluetooth audio. Stern already released their adapter so I could plug a headphone into some of their new machines,
    52:24
    but Jersey Jack announced that I will be able to connect my wireless... Yeah, which for a game like Metallica is amazing. Oh, look at you. Look at you. These are the, I know this isn't a stream for Kin Stadium, but these are the Stadium Xtreme lights. Xtreme, so they're designed for folks like you? They're designed for streamers. As you notice, they don't go under the glass, they go above the glass. They're kind of a stillness, stadium-style mounting. I am loving this. I'm going to put this here. So thanks again for our 8-Ball Deluxe lending us this machine. Chris Koontz who let us play with that one. He's the pinball pirate.
    53:14
    He's the one we have in Jurassic Park. Yeah. And he's fantastic. He's based in, I want to say, Vallejo. Hopefully he's doing okay with all the fires up there right now. Did that help? Let's make it look a little better because you can meet light with light. Wow. The man who knows his videography. He's got the rig. He knows what he's doing here. I'm going to... We still have to... Now you can press it up. We still have to... We still have a... We can't contend with the tons, stripes, what they... But I think it's acceptable, right? Yeah, that's great. Let's see if we have any other... Any questions? Questions. Uh... I think it's acceptable. Any questions? I'm so confused. I think Ninja Man says 0.5 seconds. Click the jump forward. I don't understand what that's for. I don't know. There might be other things before this. Yeah. Oh, 1981 is 8-Ball Drugs. Yep. Wireless mice. Wireless mic. These are the Rode. All right, here we go. These are from my house. Oh wait, I need to cut it up. I got it. I got it, I got it, I got it.
    54:32
    These are the road wireless microphones. They knew Wade, I would be moving around in them. I'm not sure if you guys could hear it. Chris, you're Jay, you're Dave, and I'm Gavin. Well, I mean, I'm not, I am a yapper actually.
    54:48
    You wanna play us? Yes. I think you should. I definitely have to play around. Everyone at this program has a play around with it.
    54:55
    Let's do it. I'm going to pick from my other, my little world, my, uh, production, production video guys. Alnonymous, you're awesome though. Alnonymous is the one who knows how to configure the... Configure the... LVDS. LVDS, oh! And everyone else who jokes that... And IntelliOne, yeah, we've been playing with that a little bit, just for streaming fun, and making the right cable is the magic. Alright, so am I going first? I guess I'm... I was skipping our video, but... Alright. Oh, okay. Do you think anyone made it? They called out of us? Alright, so we have three players, right? Yeah. Did it at least show up with three players? Yeah. Oh, he's going to adjust because it's bigger than the screen. Oh, there it goes. It is. Of course, the more cool the mechanism, the more likely it is to break. Yeah. All right. Or jump the ball weird. Exactly. All right. Player two. I think you're player two. Do it. Go for it. Now there's a rule in tournaments where you're not allowed to coach people while they play, but that doesn't apply to me because I don't know how to play. There you go. Yeah. I don't know how to coach, so I'm not out of it. No, I actually love going to tournaments and watching how it's done, like how people do it. Sometimes coaching is allowed for the first ball and then not for any other ones. I had a great experience out at Chicago Expo with the Columbus Chapter of Bells and Chimes, which is the women's tournament league. There's a version of that in almost every region of the United States or state or city.
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    Okay? And it was absolutely amazing working with them. and I was watching them how they played the rules, and they were teaching me basically how to play pinball.
    57:12
    And it's not that Brian O'Neill, who might be watching this, it's not that you don't teach me how to play pinball, but it's just, I mean, one of your balls, okay, let me rephrase that, one ball of pinball that he plays is like a hundred times longer than the ones I do. So it makes it hard to kind of pay attention after a while. Yeah. It's like you're playing different rules. It is different rules. And then when he coaches me, he goes, just hit that. Just hit it. Just hit that. I'm like, all right, sure. Yeah, all you got to do is unlock the door. And I don't know what to do to do. In a speedy...
    58:00
    Wait, did I just die already? Yes. Wow. That last detail just got me. Oh, man. Okay. Oh, that's nice. It's nice to see the product working. You make it so online, right? Yeah. Of course I'm online. I just like going over there and watching it actually. So what was nice about Expo is we had these big screens over everything, and what was not nice about expos we had these big screens over everything so if we were in any way if there was a moment where we were really glad that our stuff worked it was when everybody was watching in real time yeah and it really just sort of makes you sweat a little bit but you know thanks to the hard work of our team literally the years of work as far as we're accurate and you know the network lag was interesting like we learned a lot about how to optimize different um sort of network conditions an expo We have you know thousands of people Yeah thousands of people all jumping on the thing That's right. So, by the way, I didn't get any points. Okay. We like our arcades and the ambient noise in the arcade. The first time I walked into Free Gold Watch, having not been in an arcade in years and years, and I heard the combined sounds of all the games, it took me right back to like 1982. Isn't that great? Yeah, Keith is amazing.
    59:58
    You know, we had some example achievements that we were showing people. At Expo, one of them was like, have you played every Keith game in the city of San Francisco?
    60:10
    Like, literally go to... Well, there's two. I named them there. But have you gone to every venue where it has pinball and played every example of this game in every venue, and then you unlock an achievement? Like, I think that would be fun. Oh, I think what you're saying. Achievements for score bits. Yeah, well, or pin quest or whatever. Right. Right? If you were in a movie, what would you talk about?
    60:33
    Gameify? It's already a game. It's already in-fied. By the way, in honor of your stream, I wore a... This is a pinball. This is the patent for pinball. 1936? Yes.
    61:09
    That's a good question. Does it actually have the author of the patent on here? I don't think so. I bet you one of your viewers could answer that question. Anybody know who patented pinball?
    61:23
    We'll find out. Thanks to Owl Anonymous. Al Anonymous If you put the question into the Al Anonymous computer out can come MPT3K your mic isn't on. Am I mic-bound? Now his mic is on. All the witty banter that I gave with Matt by the way, Scorbid is spelled without an E. Just so everyone knows that. S-E-O-R-B-I-T. The Scorbit guy is me. My name is Jay.
    62:07
    I'm Jay Adelson. And I am the... So close! One of the co-founders of Scorbit. By the way, thank you for telling me that my mic wasn't on. I'm so professional.
    62:19
    Well... I'm so professional. How did we do this? I would have said professional enough is what I would have said. Let me close some of this so that people can keep their smiles. How did we do? Are we playing again? Yeah, we're going to play again. Yeah, totally. I think I deserve another try. I think you...well, wait. I don't need to wait for the scores to show up. I can go over there and look at what the Scorbitron told us. It turns out that...who's the winner? Hey, Walter. Alright, there we go. I did not win. I came in second.
    62:55
    Oh, I can edge it out. I got edged out. Yeah. Anonymous says, hey, he met you at the Xbox. He came up and did it. Oh, he did? Oh, great.
    63:09
    Yeah. And I apologize if I don't know everybody's screen names. That's okay. You'll learn it over time.
    63:19
    Hold on a second. I like what you're doing with the score bits. And I did it again. Score boots.
    63:35
    So don't panic clip. Are you, I wouldn't, you know what, don't panic clip. Why am I looking at your comment?
    63:46
    All right, I'm gonna get more quarters. Me and Ryan are going to play. Ryan and I are going to play this game. I love that I can walk away from the rig and you guys can still hear me. We're going to turn this mother out. Alright. We're going to turn this mother out. Here we go. We got one more after this guys, we're going to show you the Scorbatron in action on Batman 66. Don't panic, this is where you get excited. Well, once you've fixed your Batman 66. We're going to keep going. Okay, we're going to do one more here. Yeah, sure. Then we go over to Batman. Okay. The winner of that last round was Ryan. Was Ryan. So you go first. Ryan Vineyard. You go first. Master of Puppets. Excellent. Master of all the puppets. You can play through college with Metallica music.
    64:55
    Let's see end of the line. Okay, you know what, George? This is not a stream right now about being awesome at pinball. You already put the credits in. I already put the credits in. That's my excuse for not being awesome at pinball right now. All right. So who goes first? Ryan, you go first. And Jay, you were dead last, so you're going to go last. Okay. You're going to anchor. But the person who goes last gets to choose which number. No, this is my string. So check this out. Joe Stokes. Look up the bolo. Oh, this is for the patent. You want to read it? Instance Novelty Manufacturing Company in July of 1936. The first pinball machine designed with bumpers. Each bowling pin, which the balls hit, had a long metal rod that... That's really cool. Yes, I'm not going to read it out loud since all of you streamers can read it. But that is really cool. Thank you. You can all read. And Al Anonymous, absolutely. I will definitely let you know soon. Two arcades. Fantastic. What is a Scorbatron? So, a sport-a-tron is a device that you install in any electronic pinball machine. Oh, that sounds terrible. Any DMD, any LCD pinball machine, and it collects scoring game information and real-time broadcasts it to the internet. This is then married with an app that allows players or operators to access certain features while that is happening. There you go. Alright, so I'm last. No, I'm second. You're up. I'm third. Yep. All right.
    66:35
    Okay, yeah, good question. Thank you, Ann Colabare, because we just got back from streaming an 8-Ball Deluxe from 1981. There's a Scorbatron in the 8-Ball Deluxe,
    66:51
    and we will be streaming Batman 56. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to show the Scorbatron in action in three very different eras of pinball. Right? We've got the EMs. Right round, we're on our DMD. I'm all up in the YouTube pinball as part of the pinball mechanism. That's right. You're up, Ryan. They call that a Newtonian ball.
    67:17
    What's interesting here, I think people should notice, this is not just Metallica with its straight-up DMD. It's using a color DMD, and it's still, the Conch Tuber Tribe, it's still working just fine. I think a lot of folks, sort of, when we first demoed this in InDisk in 2017, their first reaction to this was like, oh, I've seen people hack this to look at displays before, you know, they have this opinion or that opinion. But what they don't realize is that this is much more than that. This is an entire game logic system, internet infrastructure service, custom hardware that designed so that it would be very easy for operators to install, that can work with all the different power types and all the different sort of nuances and variances of machines. And so we did all this work and then, you know, people would say, oh, well, hey, I've seen somebody plug a laptop in and do that before. I mean, great. I'm glad. You know, one of our, one of the people we work with, you're next. That was very good. That was a good ball. A little bit longer actually, get the things. Olivier Galiès, who was also the creator of Smart DMD, which is a product that you can install in the stirrers, actually pretty much anything, that would allow you to put, first of all, put the DMD through a Raspberry Pi and output it on a video screen, on an HDMI output. It also would work very well so that if you wanted to colorize things, it allowed you to change the frames as it was going through the ColorDMD, which was super cool. So on your video screen you could change what it looked like when these were all monochromatic when they were made, which I think is super, super cool. But then ColorDMD came out and really they sort of hardened that to be not as hackery, more of a streamlined product that you just plug and play. But Olivier is one of our developers who really, we were able to quickly, I should say, under great challenges and many obstacles, many, many rebels died getting the plans to all the DMDs of all time. You know, like, okay, we've got to decode a Capcom now. How are we going to do that? Decode, like, oh, this one, you know, Spanish pinball game that existed for one year. We want to be able to decode that. So we do all that, and we can work with CPUs as well. So all these different types of sources of data. We've been working with Scott Denisi. Oh, you've been working with Scott? Yep, the designer of total nuclear annihilation and getting Sforbit working with that. We're having so much fun and the people we're working with are super rid of going. Oh crap, no no, stay with me. This is super fun. I need to sneak, don't I? I don't know what I need. Oh, Brian O'Neal will be so upset with me right now. So whose turn is it, mine? Leo, look at that. Oh man. Hey, what's up? Howdy Spacey Tracy. Oh man. Welcome to the screen.
    71:03
    Remember what you did to me in 8 Balls of Luck? Sure. Yeah. Welcome to the screen. We can still see the scores at 8 Balls of Luck if I went back over to the Scorbitch Fonds display. Scorbitch display. It's still there.
    71:21
    Hi, friends. I love Tony G. We are here with Jay Adelton. And Ryan Vineyard. Yeah. And Ryan Minyard of Scorbid.
    71:33
    Yeah! It went into the coffin. That's right. Ryan, were you at Expo Aqua? No, I wasn't. You are. I heard the great thing about Expo. I didn't get a chance to go out there myself. I assume you were out there? I wasn't, no. I was with children. And they were mine. I brought my son Ben with me and his friend Dallas who are working the score bit boot. See now, I actually tried to move the table which is unusual for me. You're a prize. I did it, yeah, actually. I gave it a shot. You gave it a shot. So, I was just curious, he wants to know if you had a good time at X-Files. I absolutely did. I got to meet some of my heroes. For example, Lyman Cheats, who created the wonderful Batman game Walking Dead, and the brand new Elvira House of Cores, which I got to play a ton. They had like 50 of them in the Marco's Specialties booth. I want to play so bad. So Marco's Specialties, a little plug for those guys, they were incredibly generous with their time and people and made the Scorbit thing possible. So they were fantastic and they ran the booth with Stern and they had like 50 pinball machines in there and Elvira, of course, yes, Clarissa? Cassandra Peterson. Cassandra Peterson showed up and she looked amazing. She is, I'm just going to say it, she is beautiful. And a pinball legend, I think it's the fourth title. No, it's the third. It's the third actually. It's the third? Okay, well you have the Vyra and the Pirate Party Monsters, you have Scared Stiff, and now you have House of Whores, which is, I love it, it is another Lyman Sheeps game. Yeah, Lyman, yeah. Is it my turn? It is your turn, you need to make up a deficit of, I don't know. I don't know your score then. We'll beat them for five. That's my goal. Go for Sparky.
    74:00
    Jay, now you've adopted Lyman Sheets' stance? You can't do that. That's not fair. That's not how you play pinball.
    74:14
    Boys go up, boys go down. Uh-oh. Wait, give it a second. I'm not shaking nothing. It'll search it. I'm letting it shake. Come on, come on, come on mouth. It'll get it. Oh, wait. The suspense is killing me. Watch it just rain right down the middle. It's not going to happen. It'll get it. It'll get it. Cherry, you want to raise your hand? Should we take the glass Give it a little forward nudge. There you go. He really wanted that ball in his mouth, didn't he? It's like the worst pinball joke told over and over and over again about balls and mouths and stuff. Shout out to This Week in Pinball. I'm going to shout them out. The reason why we have the Penn Stadium Extremes is because of This Week in Pinball. Check them out. They're awesome. Jay is coming back from a deficit. And we almost made it. It was a valid shot. It was a valid shot. It was a good chance. Good try. All right. Batman time? Well, I'm just going to claim my score here. So for those of you watching the screen, I'll show you how it's done right now. First of all, I will, let's see, I am going to...
    75:45
    So he's using an app on his phone to personalize the score right now. Right, yeah. I mean, normally you do this before the game is played. Like, I could steal, you know, I'm not going to. I'm going to go ahead and submit... You could steal mine. This is, well, because... You were supposed to put your name already on it. But we're relying on the honor of the
    76:07
    system a little bit here. Okay. You thought out loud for a moment? I thought out loud. Because I was thinking about just stealing it so I look good to my friends, but I'm not going to do that to you. We're one and one, and one and one, and Ryan's the randomizer here. Okay. So, should we move over to Batman? Let's move to Batman. All right. Let's do it. Let's, um, here, here, first. Uh, what did I do? Here, I have one quarter. Oh, no, I have quarters. Credit up Batman. Here, here's the rest. No, I got, I got, I'm good. Oh, wow. Did you rob a bank? Yeah. That's all the funding for Star Wars. Alright, we're moving over to Batman, ladies and gentlemen. What is this Batman machine? Batman, a guarantee by the genius Wyman Sheets. What a terrible joke. Alright. You know, honestly, this is on free play. Does the tour that is captured, Ryan, you can answer this. Does the tour that is captured associate to a specific name? I don't know. Does the score that is captured associate to a specific machine? Alright, let's do this. Let's... Extra balls enabled and stuff? You know, that's a really good question. I'm just going to play through this one. You guys can't see this yet. Well, I don't know if it's the kind of events going on, the extra balls, the things like that. I don't think that's important right now, but... Yeah. I think I have to do that. For those of you who don't know, Batman 66... Right, so this machine at this location, so you'd be like, my store has Free Go Watch on Metallica software. Really one of those interesting games where it teaches you about software changing over time. I want to do it live when it gets over. It was first released and it was kind of... Yeah. And we're going to move over to... We're going to do some capture because of the anniversary of the release of it earlier than you know when it was live. We're going to move over to Batman. We're going to do it live. And you know, I'm sure if you're a game designer, you're forced to do that. I need to... That's got to just... No, I can do it.
    77:55
    I can bring the two stadiums over later. But, you know, the thing about Batman, which makes it so unique and wonderful, is it has this TV show that it's based on. It's so exciting. When I was a kid, Harry, I used to watch every episode of the show. I'm going to have to go around.
    78:15
    Come with me. It's absolutely incredible, and he was like a real hero to me. Now that I watch it as an adult, I'm like, wow, it really was campy, wasn't it? Jay's playing. No, I'm not really playing. Why are you practicing? No, I'm not practicing. I'm just playing out so I can start it again.
    78:32
    I'm going to mute out for a minute. All right. Okay. I'm leaning to one side, and I'm... And again, I would like to thank Greg Creech. Creech has been generous enough to allow us to use both his Metallica machine and his Batman 66 machine for score bit. That's right. And as you can see, Ryan, the newer machines have the very advanced 13 something something by 76 something something resolution. Al Anonymous knows that resolution. Al Anonymous can tell us. I'm going to go get those pin stadiums. Okay, pin stadiums are being moved. Let's see what we got. Chase Micanup is on and he's chatting up a storm. Well thanks. Don't panic flip. I think that might have been a little bit of a...
    79:55
    I'm going to have you guys... A criticism of my chattiness. I am chatty. I haven't been that long, but I know that. No, that's true. That's true, I am chatty. But that means this is your opportunity to get your questions answered about score bit. I had a question while you were over here. They were asking, does the score tie back to a specific machine? And then also the event history, like when you got that score, does it say you had that score and there was one extra ball and this kind of event, things like that? Well, the answer to that question is, our platform considers each machine its own entity. So in other words, this Batman 66 and this free gold watch in the city of San Francisco, of California has its own leaderboard and its own history of players. And, you know, part of the reason we do that is because every machine is a little bit different and so forth. Now, could you then query against our data and say, tell me what everyone's scores on Batman were without caring about that? That's possible, but we have found that most of our customers that we talk to are more interested in the specific machine. Yeah. And then the second question about the history, we do know in real time, every time score changes, every time game events happen and so forth, and we do store that. We can even play back a game as if it was being played in real time. The challenge with that in terms of how we present that data, what is a useful way to present that, is interesting. I'm curious to know what the viewers think might be a good way to do that. Like, would it be certain correlations, like this person got an extra ball before this time or before unlocking this mode or what have you?
    81:53
    This would be 42, I think. All right, be right back. Everyone, be right back. Okay, we are about to screen Batman 66. Again, this is Mystery Pinball Theater 3000, MPT3K. Hey, hey, I'm back. I got it. We got everything ready. We got Montague and Jay and Ryan, and we are currently demonstrating. What are we demonstrating, Ryan? So now, this is, I was going to ask you, because this is completely impossible. I can figure out how you do it. I can figure out how you pull from like an alphanumeric display. I can somewhat surmise how you do it from a DMV, but this is a completely different animal. You're getting scores from here. They want to see it. They want to see us get scores. Okay. Can we fire up? Yeah. How many we have in here? All right, there we go. Three players score. Tell as much as you can without breaking any NDAs. Well, I mean... I'll start it off. As we mentioned before, there are a number of ways for us to extract data.
    83:26
    One is from the screen, where we can, you know, some people call it screen scraping, but it's really more, probably closer to OCR than it is screen scraping. But it's not, it's neither of those things. It's sort of our own algorithm, our own methodology of how to do that. Another way we get data is from the CPU or from memory where we have a probe that can clip on these devices and we're able to extract in real time that way. And then the third way that we can do it is over a serial connection. And that's usually something where, for example, someone running a P-Rock or something similar decides they want to send us over a very specific, according to a very specific format, the game data in real time. And then finally, I guess the fourth way, which I haven't mentioned, is our API. So it is possible for someone to develop an interface to connect to their API directly as well. And so if you already have a connected game, that might be a way for you to do that. If your game's not already connected, we might be the way that you connect that game. Right. Whatever way you come up with to get us your score data, we're going to take it, we're going to use it, and we're going to have fun with it. And again, the goal of Scorbit and the entire platform is more people playing pinball. So as long as we succeed, I think we can even sell more pinball machines. You think so? You know, as I've shown the beta version of the platform to people around the country, One of the things that comes up a lot is the idea of achievements really makes pinball more accessible to a wider group of people who aren't necessarily tournament players.
    85:29
    I think also just the whole social piece to it of challenging people, getting a notification when your score or achievement's been beat by another player who's part of your friend group. That's the kind of stuff that would get me back to Free Gold Watch sooner than my normal visit to go play again and jump in. That's why I think it's really important for people to understand that it is machine and location specific. I mean, obviously it's machine specific because if the machine moves to another location. Yeah, but the Scormatrons are designed to be one-to-one with a specific machine. And our API considers this Batman.
    86:18
    I have a Batman 66 at home. Right. And that Batman is a separate instance from this Batman at Free Gold Watch. Right.
    86:28
    You guys just, by the way, saw the worst strategy in Batman ever. But you're welcome. You want me to go or you want to go? You want to go. Go ahead. You want to watch a little bit more? Jay with the mustache. I don't know if you can explain that. Jay with the mustache. Originally planned as a Halloween costume, for my 2019 Halloween 70s experience, became popular at home. But most importantly it's because I'm trying to look like Manu who, if you look, has the same mustache as me. Alright, alright.
    87:21
    I'm going to try and keep the cross chatter to a minimum so that Jay and I aren't talking at the same time. I got a ball safe. Yeah.
    87:33
    All right. I got to get that bat phone. That was not what I expected. I'm running out of bat phone time.
    87:56
    There are a few Batman from all machines. There's a Sega Batman. There's a Data East Batman. There's a Stern Batman.
    88:11
    Correct me in the chat if I'm wrong. I think there's Dark Knight. There's a L.E. in premium. There's Dark Knight. There's a Batman one with a cage.
    88:22
    What's the other Batman? Okay how are we doing there Let see what we got That was a mean drain yeah Batman Forever yeah I think I was right There three additional Batmans besides this one All the drains in Batman 66 are mean. They all feel so personal. It's true. Why don't you personalize your score right now? That's a good idea, yeah. Jay's going to go into the app and personalize his player. So you are player two. And then can you personalize mine too? You can. I can. Okay, cool. I'm glad you can't. I can only be me.
    89:07
    I got to be me. How's it look, guys? The scores are coming out. We're not looking at the OBS screen right now. You got to let us know. Scores coming in. Yeah, I'm not doing myself justice with the... I'm going to just hang over you like this while you play.
    89:26
    No, actually, you can be on camera. I'm going to be here. I can do the secret skill shot. People saw enough of me on camera already. I can tell by the love of my mustache. I blew it.
    89:41
    I blew it. Will each Corbett have an easy way to scan a pinball machine to auto-identify a select machine from within the app?
    89:49
    Yes, sort of. You'll tell the app, well, that's interesting. Right now you tell the app what machine it is. I think what the viewer is suggesting is that it figure it out on its own, which is actually pretty easy to do.
    90:07
    So let me just file that into our suggestion box. of cool things to do, because it would probably speed up how fast the install is. Although really searching on a type ahead thing on your app saying Batman 66 is not that hard either. And you definitely have to use the app to install the Scorpion because you have to give us your Wi-Fi credentials and everything else. So... Unintentional chat. Yes, for QR code we have... Oh, come on! We've talked about doing actually all of the above. QR code and AFC as well as... Well, that's for authentication. All right. You guys know I play better than this, right? Yeah, so just to give you an idea. So, Ryan... So, my co-founder, Brian O'Neil, he one day decided, he's like, you know, I'm not cool with that score that I have on this machine. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is just beat it for you. And it was 12 billion points on Batman. I'm just excited to score up there and did it. I cannot believe how good some people are at this game. And the key to the game, it's like I know the rules. There's these three TVs here on the right. And when you light all three of them, you qualify for basically called minor villain mode. and when you get the minor villains, you win those minor villain rounds. I got it. I get the four villains. Well, those are the major villains. The minor ones are like King Tut.
    91:44
    These guys down here. These guys right here. Yes. Thank you. These guys. Thank you. Just want to point out that in any pinball tournament,
    91:59
    Manu would be disqualified immediately. I would be given all the money. Is there money? Yeah, there's money. Coming back.
    92:10
    Holy bat grenades. Hey, Jay, when you get power back, invite me over. We'll play some Batman. Absolutely. When you get power back. When I get power back. Yeah, so for those of you who tuned in recently, we are streaming from San Francisco, California, and my family lives north of the city about 20 minutes where there is no power. It's been shut off by PG&E. Millions of families are without power right now because of a massive windstorm. The second one this week that is hitting California.
    92:48
    And in order to prevent wildfires, which there are two giant raging ones right now, but to prevent more, they turn the power off. And in fact, during the power failure from last Saturday, we had, we're still going, we had a tree fall in Mill Valley. So if the power had not been shut off, it may have actually started a fire. It's crazy, right?
    93:18
    Pretty crazy. It does seem effective. Yeah, well, it's the best he's got. At this point, I'm not even thinking about PG&E. I'm just thinking about the fires and all those people who are being mandatory evacuations.
    93:32
    In Southern California, it's destroying homes all year, too. And that evacuation zone keeps changing.
    93:48
    As we can see, Manu is cheating. I'm not cheating. I'm using shame. I'm allowed to use all the shames that exist.
    93:55
    Each one in each. What happens if you get all three shames? There's only two shames. Are you ashamed?
    94:03
    That's where that joke was going. I don't know. I'm kind of feeling ashamed right now. Wow. Nice day. Well, it wasn't really a stay. It was more of this last minute flip. I'm actually trying to beat Shane right now. Well, I think you're... Can I beat him? No, to play fair, I could perhaps point something out on the playfield.
    94:30
    Wow. Nice job. Oh, did I get him? I think you might have. Alright, let's go back for... Oh, look at that. I got the score a bit.
    94:43
    The score bit is blowing up right now. I've never seen scores this huge. I have never seen scores this huge. I hope you wrote it in, not in integer, but in, hope your data type is right. Wow, that's great. I love watching it. I think that I did. I totally did. I walked away while you were talking because I didn't want to hear what you were saying. I heard trash talk and I lost three more sets of one-punches. Is that what happens? You know what happens when you trash talk? Oh, it got mad at me too. It tried to attack me. Ah!
    95:17
    The end of a perfectly good run. Did I beat Shane at least? I don't know. No, I didn't. Hey, George, how did you beat Shane?
    95:30
    Did you see the question about... Jay, what has been the most challenging part of developing Slow Bit so far? Making custom hardware. which without question, I mean don't get me wrong, and I don't want to belittle the incredibly difficult work writing the embedded software has been for both Olivier and Jill Scott working on the project.
    95:50
    But making custom hardware, I never knew about the lead cycles, all the things that can go wrong in the manufacturing process, testing, dealing with design and manufacturing and all these different components all together at once. It's really not for the faint-hearted.
    96:12
    Ryan here, standing next to me, that's all he does. I don't know why. I'm a masochist. I only do hardware and only do a startup. You're nuts. I really like chaos. I'm just not one of those children. I'm a masochist.
    96:31
    Come on, you can cheat too and take shame. Bookworm. Now, she's determined to be able to start Bookworm.
    96:52
    Now, what would Bookworm get you? I don't even remember. I own this game and I could barely... But you don't play it. You don't play it. I don't. I'm too busy building score bits. Yeah, exactly. I know, it's sitting in your whatever play area. That makes it sound like I have a ton of games. No, I know you don't, but I know you don't have any time either. No, like most of it, my way into pinball was through restoration. So I was restoring games when my friends were playing them. And I love playing them. I do enjoy it a lot. But I haven't really been sort of sitting in front of the machine and practicing and practicing. The other thing that happens when you restore a pinball machine is when it's all finished and it's perfect and you're standing in front of it and it's super nice, you're afraid to move it. I don't care when other people move it, but I'm like, oh. Did you, your Bride of Pinbot that you were throwing with Fenn, did you guys put the, that uh, that... Bride of Pinbot 2.0? Yeah. Yes we did. Yes we did, in fact... Oh boy. You did, so basically I completely got screwed in that. Alright, one more? How many have been here?
    98:11
    How many have been here? Alright guys, we've got time for maybe one more... One more game? One more game.
    98:21
    I want to tell me how many credits are in it. Yeah, the most challenging part of making Scorbit work was probably the hardware.
    98:31
    And making an API is not trivial either. And building Internet infrastructure, and I speak on behalf of DevOps engineers all over planet Earth right now who know how hard that is, it's a lot of work. Because we're not just building a service to scale. Thank you for the bits, Wax. Not just only a service to scale just for like a few machines. We're building a service that could scale to all of the machines. Yeah, to all of the machines. Not just all of the machines. All the players playing all the machines. And that's a lot to think about.
    99:08
    Go for it. I'll be anchor. Yeah, thank you for the bit swag. It's very... it helps out a lot. Very cool. I don't know what that is. Did anybody, here's the thing, this is not Scorpion related at all. No one seems to know that you can change the episodes in Batman. I did. You did. But a lot of people I think, you change the episodes. Hold the flipper, find feathered pranks, and you can switch through the different episodes. The reason why I do that is because it will let you play with Eartha Kitt Catwoman. Which is the better one. Which one is that? She's, He's, oh, sorry. There, wait. There she is. Yeah. Catwoman Dressed to Kill. That's Arthur Kitt's Catwoman, as opposed to... Yeah, that's the one that I... Julie Newmar? Julie Newmar is the other one. But it was beautiful. Like, if you have the Catwoman edition, you get one signed by Julie Newmar. By Julie, right. Which is really cool. At Expo, again, Marco Specialties, who took care of us there, got us a new in-box Catwoman edition Batman to demo our product on.
    100:10
    And then sold it. It's good to be the king, right? It sold it there, as well as a new inbox. Metallica and our friends over at Hemispheres who provided us the Star Trek.
    100:25
    I'm not sure it was a limited edition, but it was Star Trek or Stern Trek, as some people call it. Stern Trek? Yeah, which was really just one of my favorite newest pinball machines.
    100:39
    So great. I have no idea what I just did. There we go. You lose it. You got it back. I'm just looking at the chat. Yep. Make sure, guys, if you have questions... Oh! All right. My turn to come back, everybody. Darn it. This is it. Got to go in. Wow, Wax, you won 20,000 bits. Yeah, you're into that Reese's game. Holy smokes. 20,000 bits. Yeah, you're into that Reese's game. Holy smokes. Oh my god. Streaming at 100% of it. Twitch takes none of it. Wow. Wow. Congratulations, Wax. What happened? One of the viewers is making bank. Oh good! We'll just put it that way. Making Twitch bank. He's also an amazing kind of pinball, virtual pinball restorer. He cleans up virtual pinball so that they play like real pinball. Oh that's awesome. I love that. It's amazing. I love that. to all the people who do that stuff. Thank you. You are the most coolest people ever. Yeah. Well, I don't know, actually, who the coolest people ever, but I am grateful for the work you do. The thing is, virtual pinball people and real pinball people, generally speaking, are the same people.
    102:11
    For some reason, people think virtual pinball people don't like pinball, and it's like, no. No. We love pinball. I think that there are lots of pinball people who don't even know about virtual pinball, which is sad.
    102:24
    And it's so cool, and the stuff that has been done, and I know about you guys who are tweaking the physics to be perfect, and I'm always so impressed.
    102:35
    TurboGrafx, thank you for the bits. Oh, my God, you guys are awesome. So, once again, we're here. Ryan is playing. Ryan works at Scorbit, so to speak. Ryan Vineyard. We are showing off the Scorbit system. There's a Scorbitron in the Batman. If you watch the streams, no one likes VODs, right? but please watch this one because we showed the Scorbitron in 8 Ball Deluxe, which is the machine from 1981. Then we did Metallica. There's a Scorbitron and a Metallica, which is your general DMD that makes you play. And it's a color DMD also. So you choose with the flippers and then hit the action button. And now we're showing how the score betrothed can capture the scores from back head.
    103:30
    Yeah, so my understanding is that the gadget is necessary for some reason in the egg head thing. You like have to get the gadget... Oh! Caught you with your clip at that. Yeah. Alright, let me redeem myself. So you're talking about gadgets? So I think you have to get all of the gadget just before, or you get a gadget and then you hit the gadget button during the mode and then you have to hit the gadget again and you get some superpower for the rest of the game. I don't remember what it is. Okay. Someone online could help us with the rules. machines are 100% different, although some rulesets play field get copied sometimes. That is absolutely true. As we saw, Sea Witch and Beatles do very different games based on the same playing field. Yeah, Beatles is a little better because they fixed what was broken in Team Rocket. I gotta say, every time I play Beatles, I am super impressed. How difficult... Okay, wait a minute. Do most pinball machines follow the same general concept or is each machine completely different? No. Well, I mean, they all have a pinball and flippers. That's about where it ends. There's ramps, there's loops, but there are some rules that are similar, like collecting bonus. But, I mean, these designers get super creative with modes.
    105:10
    Unless you're Keith Elwin in Jurassic Park where there are no modes. Which I respect. Absolutely. Or no scoops. There are concepts that are similar, but the games are generally pretty unique.
    105:26
    But, you know, conceptually, it's pinball, right? Danny Mnemonic wants to know how difficult is it for the operator to install a quadrotron? It takes about five minutes. Our goal is to not to make it so easy that there's no soldering required or anything like that. You unplug one cable, plug us in. Like I that we take advantage of existing power inside the cabinet and what we generally do is have you remove a cable from something put our probe in and then connect your cable back to our device or you know it's the same thing as through the power. Now for operators who are uncomfortable taking power from the machine you will be offering an external power pack option and so that external power pack is designed specifically, like let's say you have a Williams game with a power driver board that is just in bad shape and you don't want to put this on it. I would say get your power driver board fixed. But let's say you didn't want to do that. We would have this external power pack as an option for you. Yep.
    106:44
    Wow. Okay. Look, he's going back. I don't know. Let me see if I can fix this guy's score, but he does. This is great. So, uh...
    106:57
    Is that wax? Is that wax? Wax. So wax that Batman killed the samples record held by Family Guy, which had 600 plus samples, with over 6,000 video and audio samples.
    107:12
    How badass is that? That's a lot. You got a lot of... I mean, how did Wyman, like, imagine how to lay all these things together? Like, I'm Mr. Speets. If you're watching this, keep doing what you're doing.
    107:31
    That was nice. That was an expert move. You know, my first pinball machine was the Theater of Magic. Oh, yeah. Great game. Good one. And I bought it from a guy here in the Bay Area named Chris, who apparently had a tournament in his house once, and Neil Schatz, a very famous pinball player, you know, tournament champion. I met Neil. Had played the game and got his score up on my machine. So by the time I got the machine, he had the world's biggest champion.
    108:05
    And so I didn't... As Neil would do. And so I didn't want to... I didn't want to erase this high score. First of all, I couldn't. Yeah, I was going to say. But I was also motivated not to because it was like it was like it was signed by a champion.
    108:28
    Don't panic, this is Batman 666, a copy of Batman Dark Knight. Yeah, pretty much. Here's what I'll say. Okay. Here's what I'll say. If you play both games, you don't feel that that's the case, but the layout of some of the components are the same. It is not the same play field. It does use the frame. I would say it's in the style of...
    108:54
    Uh oh, I just won. Yeah, uh oh, I just won. Well, it's fine, Jay, if you win the final game because...
    109:04
    Because I scored it? Because I scored it. If we were playing as friends, you know, I'd have to go a little tougher on you.
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    Let's figure out what these last two things... think, um, Lyman is insane, that's why the crane is in the exact same position, that's all. Yeah. Crane, right ramp, right scoop, both orbits. George just goes through every reason why. Well, I think that, I mean, every game has, you know, two orbits and often two ramps. So, I mean, I don't think it's fair to... They're hating on Gomez. That's what they're doing. Don't hate on him. He's, look, you know what, you can hate on Gomez if you want, but the fact of the matter is that under his purview, we have seen these incredible games. I mean, I'm standing right now in front of Black Knight, Deadpool, Iron Man, Batman, Guardian, Star Wars, I mean, the list goes on. These are incredible games. And people know, like, I am all about the independent whatever, but keep doing it. All of which currently work with the Scorpion. Yes. All right. Now, I know you guys are not hating on Gomez. I love Gomez, too. No. I think that's it. Are there any other questions? There's a couple more credits in here. I mean, we can play these out. Yeah, sure. I mean, why not? No, wait. There's not just a couple more. It's in free play mode because I set it up for what we're doing. Oh, okay. All right. Then never mind. But Ryan can play this game. Ryan, you play this out. Yeah. And we'll chat. We'll chat and we'll be at the peanut gallery while you do that. I'm going to set the record here. Yeah, there you go. Make this happen. We'll take one or two more questions for Jay. Okay, let's do... It says, with the initial rumors, a lot of folks were concerned that Stern was just going to re-theme the Dark Knight. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think what I find happens is that rumors come out about a machine, and in the absence of information, particularly on the inside, people just go really deep with speculation. And then people react to the speculation. If the term doesn't say it, I would just assume it doesn't exist until it does. And I would even go a step farther. People leak stuff out. If you get access to information like that and you leak it out, what you do is you create, yes I get it, I know people like to have the hot news, but you create dissent. Because you put something out there that isn't finished and then everyone comments on it negatively and imagine what if that affected the artist and what he was creating in a way that somehow impacted what his product or her product was going to be. So I feel like, you know, secrets are meant for a reason for these companies and you should keep them if you can. Now, Scorpion of course is fully transparent and we have no secrets whatsoever. Yeah, okay. I'll see about that. I think we're just talking about... We got all the questions answered, right? Yeah, I think we're just talking about Batman at this point. So once again guys if you're watching, thank you for joining us. We showed off an 8 Ball Deluxe, which is a pin from 1981 we discovered. We had a machine running from 81, a machine from what, 2000 and I want to say, what was it, 13? I think Metallica, yeah. Maybe older, I mean newer than that. And the fact that it had a color DMD didn't matter, because I actually had someone ask me, oh does it work with color DMD? Does it work with color DMD and stuff? Yeah, nothing in your machine has to change for SCORBIT to work in it other than installing a SCORBITRON. Right. And having internet. I think it takes longer to change a light bulb than to install a SCORBITRON. Right. Oh yeah, internet, your miles may vary. We do want people to have internet. We will not install or support your internet connection for you. Look, if you're buying a device to put your machine on the internet and you don't have the internet, then we're not the problem. No problem. I spent 25 years supporting the internet. In my career. And I don't want to do that anymore. But I love you all and what you brought to the internet. Some of you brought some weird, weird stuff to the internet. No, it's good. All the weird stuff, like anything on 9gag. That's a thing. How is that even a thing? It is a thing. It's a weird thing. Just like Reddit. I have a 19 year old son. Actually my 21 year old daughter Rowan, actually all three, my son Ben and my youngest daughter Lisa, they all use Reddit. And it's funny because I was the CEO of Digg, which for us old geezers was the predecessor to Reddit. To Reddit, exactly. Well I will say that. Alexis and I are the same. I agree. I will agree, because I was there too. You know, it was roughly the same time, but Dig was definitely a bit more popular at the time.
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    And I've got to tell you, man, when seeing my kids whose Reddit and not even be able to explain what Dig was,
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    that was hard. That kind of hurt, right? That hurt. It's such a history. That's all right. All right. Well, thank you, Jay. My pleasure. Thank you so much. I'm sure the audience thinks... Thank you, Ryan. Good work, Ryan. Excellent first pinball stream. If you want to know more about Scorbit, where do you go? You go to scorbit.io.
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    And then you can sign up for our beta. You can even reserve a Scorbitron, should you wish to do so. And, of course, if you have questions, you can reach out to us through Twitter. to reach out to us through our email there. I think it's info at scorebit.io, but it's on the website. All right. Oh, and don't forget to check us out on Pinside and on Tilt forums, where on the official scorebit threads, if you have any more detailed questions. Cool. All right, fantastic. Thanks, everybody. Thank you guys so much. MBT3K signing off. I've got to run all the way over there to the computer I'm not going to spell it down, but...
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    And if you have any other questions you can ask me on the stream too. I know Jake. Like, personally. Like, he's like my personal friend. I know him. He's my friend. Hey Jake! Go mute.
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    Alright, I'll see you later. I can't even open my door. Oh, that's alright. Thank you. ...