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Scared Stiff (Bally 1996)

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·53m 24s·analyzed·Sep 18, 2019
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TL;DR

MPT3K streams Scared Stiff with competitive player Eric, teaching advanced multiball strategy and machine mechanics.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 streams gameplay on Scared Stiff (Bally 1996) with competitive player Eric Wagensoner and newcomer Audrey, discussing advanced strategies like using multiball modes to safely advance other features, exploiting mechanical issues, and the game's challenging design. The stream includes technical analysis of the machine's condition (broken spider, missing crate internals) and educational commentary on shot sequencing and multiball stacking.

Key Claims

  • Scared Stiff is designed as a quarter-eater with a sucker shot in the crate area that encourages beginners to shoot it repeatedly, causing balls to return down the middle

    high confidence · Eric Wagensoner discussing game design philosophy: 'when you hit the crate, it's going to come straight back down or come at a weird angle somewhere. so it's designed to take quarters out of your pocket.'

  • On Scared Stiff, you can advance other game features simultaneously during multiball modes as long as you don't start a different multiball

    high confidence · Host and Eric discussing strategy: 'You can advance during the multiballs... The only things that are mutually exclusive are that you can advance one multiball in the middle of the other multiball.'

  • The coffin multiball on Scared Stiff is worth more than crate multiball and should be prioritized for scoring

    high confidence · Eric: 'The coffin's a little more valuable' and later 'coffin is more. Especially when I started double scoring because now it's a million a shot.'

  • Theater of Magic was the machine that introduced Eric and his wife to competitive pinball; they initially couldn't understand when multiball would start

    high confidence · Eric discussing his origin story: 'It was hard to do. It was a Theater of Magic game... probably for the first year or so we couldn't figure out why sometimes a multi-ball would start.'

  • Eric Wagensoner is currently ranked around 150th on IFPA

    high confidence · Eric stating his ranking: 'I'm around 150-ish right now' in response to host offering to look him up on IFPA.

  • A new Elvira's House of Horrors game (presumably fourth in the trilogy) is coming out in October

    medium confidence · Host: 'the announcement about her third in the trilogy of Elvira's House of Horrors (Premium Edition) pinball. It's coming out we think in October.'

  • The particular Scared Stiff machine on stream has multiple mechanical issues: skeleton is broken/patched, spider doesn't spin, and top eyeball cannot be chosen

    high confidence · Host describing condition: 'the skeleton is kind of busted... the spider doesn't spin... the top eyeball does not... You can't choose it.'

Notable Quotes

  • “You can advance during the multiballs. The only things that are mutually exclusive are that you can advance one multiball in the middle of the other multiball.”

    Eric Wagensoner@ 7:14 — Core strategic insight about Scared Stiff multiball stacking that changes how players should approach mode selection

  • “The coffin's a little more valuable... Especially when I started double scoring because now it's a million a shot.”

    Eric Wagensoner@ 18:42 — Explains why coffin multiball should be prioritized over crate multiball for scoring optimization

  • “As long as I haven't validated the playfield, it's going to keep popping back here... As long as my score is flashing on that cadence, then I know I'm safe.”

    Host (Manu)@ 9:47 — Educational explanation of playfield validation mechanics that applies to multiple pinball games

  • “it's designed to take quarters out of your pocket.”

    Eric Wagensoner@ 32:39 — Commentary on Scared Stiff's deliberate game design to encourage beginners down a losing path

  • “Eight or nine years, I guess. It's nice to play with somebody else because then you can read the screen to each other and learn the games and that kind of stuff.”

    Eric Wagensoner@ 38:22 — Personal anecdote about how couples learning pinball together creates community and shared knowledge

Entities

Eric WagensonerpersonAudreypersonManupersonScared StiffgameElvira's House of HorrorsgameTheater of MagicgameMystery Pinball Theater 3000organization

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Eric Wagensoner invited as competitive guest player to provide advanced strategy and real-time commentary; stream functions as educational tool for casual players

    high · Host explicitly states 'This is educational, though, okay? That's why I love when Eric and somebody like one of these guys can come and play.'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Scared Stiff deliberately designed with quarter-eating sucker shot mechanic that encourages beginners down losing path; contrasts with safer coffin multiball strategy

    high · Eric explains crate 'is designed to take quarters out of your pocket' with poor return angles, while coffin is safer and more valuable

  • $

    market_signal: Eric Wagensoner's participation in streaming and community teaching suggests ongoing vitality of competitive pinball scene and integration with content creators

    medium · High-ranked IFPA player (~150th) dedicates time to stream appearances and rules teaching with casual players

  • ?

    announcement: New Elvira's House of Horrors pinball game announced for October release (described as 'third in trilogy' suggesting fourth game in franchise)

    medium · Host: 'the announcement about her third in the trilogy of Elvira's House of Horrors (Premium Edition) pinball. It's coming out we think in October.'

  • ?

    product_concern: The streamed Scared Stiff machine has multiple mechanical failures (broken spider, non-functional eyeball, malfunctioning crate) but location staff keep it playable despite neglect

    high · Host notes 'Between you and me, they don't really take too much care of this particular machine' and lists three specific failures

Transcript

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0:00
What are you doing for me now? Oh, we're about to get started guys. You can hear it. Oh boy. What do you got to say Elvira? Oh yeah! That's right girl. Okay. Hey hey. Alright, she stole one. Oh it's starting over again. Can't have that. Oh yeah! Give it back, give it back.
1:01
Welcome to MPT3K. Today we're playing Elvira Scared Sip. I don't know why I'm rushing. I know why I'm rushing. Because I wanted to get this stream started at 2. And then I found a problem with the camera. And now it's 2.30.
1:21
We also have our lovely guest, Audrey. She's here playing pinball. She got bored. So she just left me.
1:32
She's like, you get the stream working and then you come talk to me. I'm like, alright, I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. Let's take a look at this beautiful beast. Now here's the deal, guys. Between you and me, they don't really take too much care of this particular machine. They keep it fixed. There's some issues. Number one, the skeleton is kind of busted. but they patched it up. Number two, the spider doesn't spin. I think that's usually the first thing to go on most of these games. The spider doesn't spin. That's why I'm only sharing a little bit of the spider wheel.

  • If the crate on Scared Stiff is functioning correctly, it bounces the ball back in dangerous angles; this particular machine's broken crate makes it easier to exploit

    high confidence · Eric explaining: 'because that crate is malfunctioning and you can just shoot it in, it probably makes sense just to keep hitting it' and contrasting with normal behavior.

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    2:11
    Actually, I may just zoom in on the DMD. For some reason, the top eyeball does not... You can't choose it. That means you can't get an extra ball if you get all three balls.
    2:27
    Eyeballs. Whatever. I don't know. I got no reason to complain. I'm here. I'm playing pinball. It works for the most part.
    2:36
    It's beautiful. It's Elvira. And of course we're playing Elvira because of the announcement about her third in the trilogy of Elvira pinball. It's coming out we think in October. I am very excited about this. Elvira Scared Stiff is one of my favorite, all-time favorite games.
    3:03
    And I can't wait to see it. Although I'm not sure if we're going to get it here if we go watch, because I don't know if anybody really super loves the Elvira franchise.
    3:16
    Whatever. Eric, would you be so kind as to play on the stream today? Sure. So Eric's here. He's a pro player. And I think... Were you on my stream before? I don't think I've been on your stream before. No, I've been sort of chatting on it in the chat. But not actually live on screen. So you're practicing right now?
    3:39
    Just trying to get some games in. Trying to figure out some selfie games as well. But we have the selfie league here. That's right. The selfie league. Yeah, yeah. Well, this is a simpler one. But is it still up to... Yeah, sure. Absolutely. Are you busy? I can do it. Yeah? All right. Sure. So my co-host, Audrey, has left. So we're going to get started with Eric. Sounds good. I'll be running her up then. I'll find her. I'll find where she is. Oh, wait. You want to go for three? Sure. I'll see where she is. Okay. Have you talked about the rules of the game yet? We haven't talked about anything. We just got started. Okay, great. You want to talk about it a little bit? Sure, sure. I'll give a quick overview. So there's a couple of main features here. There's two pretty accessible multiballs. One is to shoot up the center at this trunk here over and over again. This particular one is missing a part inside the trunk, so you can just keep shooting it over and over. And then you'll eventually get a multiball that way. A second multiball is... there's three locks in this left orbit here. and you light them by going up the ramp, the Boney Beast ramp. And so every time you go up there, it'll light a lock. Well, at least for the first multiball. For the second multiball, you have to go up there twice and then light the lock.
    5:01
    And that actually is a higher-scoring multiball. That's it for multiballs, right? Well, no, there's two more. Right. So one is by getting through all these features. These features down here, they tend to complete themselves on a long game, but often when you're getting the crates, that's one of them, that's that crate multi-ball, and the other one is this coffin multi-ball down here, those two multi-balls will often give you lots of features. So, for example, this monster's lab, you have to hit the pop bumpers 15 times. They're like hidden back there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You kind of get around the loop there. Another thing is to get these three top lanes, the three deadheads way up on top. Good drawing up there. Complete that. And then the other ones, the Boney Beast ramp and the frogs, they kind of finish themselves. Boney Beast is just hitting that ramp. And the leapers, I guess it's called, are hitting these three things. Which actually, sorry, these three. Which actually, if you're playing just on location, can be good because that can lead to an extra ball as well. Okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, absolutely. What, multiple hits to the leapers? Yeah, I think it's maybe finishing the Leaper mode the second time gives you an extra ball. So that's one way to get extra balls. Hey, Joesope, what's up? There were three credits in the Metallica game. Nice. Nice, Metallica. We're talking about the rules a little bit. Yeah, you guys know Audrey. Hi! Hey. Okay. And so what I like to do sometimes is I'll try to, we haven't talked about the back glass, but I'll try to go for maybe coffin first with an extender. Yep. And then I'll start Crate, but I won't actually use Crate to go after the Crate Jack Blast because they're pretty low. 250,000 a shot. Instead, I'll use that multiball to safely go for other things. Like I'll try to go for the top lanes up there to complete Deadheads. Wow. I'll try to shoot it around to get the monsters left to finish that. And then when I get that stuff out of the way, if I'm still a multiball, then sure, I'll get some Jack Blast. I never thought of doing that. So you can advance other, what are these called? Yeah, the other features.
    7:12
    With that multiball. You can advance during the multiballs. The only things that are mutually exclusive are that you can advance the one multiball in the middle of the other multiball. Right, right, right. And then, can they see the back glass here? Oh, yeah, they can see the black. Yeah. I told them already, the spider's not working. The spider's not working. But there's some really good awards up here. I don't want to go too deep into this, but I'll just quickly point out three of them. One is that if you can hit... I don't know if you can see this on screen. there's a coffin here.
    7:44
    There's a coffin. Oh, that's good. This one right here. So if you get that, that essentially, it's an extender for the coffin multi-ball. So what that does is, when your coffin multi-ball is finished, it'll restart it, and it'll put more balls out into play. Yeah, that one's a good one. And there's also the crate extended. I don't have it tell us straight on the screen, but it's fine. Yeah. And so those two are good. One other one that's of note is this one up here that says double trouble. If you're right about to start some big scoring feature like a multi-ball or something else and you shoot up and hit double trouble first then you get double play field for, I don't know, maybe like 20 seconds I want to say. Yeah, like I've seen people try and stack they go crate extended and then they go double trouble and try and get into the crate as fast as possible to get 500 per shot. Yep, that's a lot of work. Or if you do it with a coffin, then you're getting like a million a shot. Right. The coffin's a little more valuable.
    8:51
    Looks like Joe has a challenge. Oh, what's that? Get your coffin multi-ball with double scoring running. With double trouble running. Yeah, that's a great objective. That's a great objective. Yeah. Should we just start playing? Can we get a watching play? Well, we can all play. We've got three games in. We got three up now, we're gonna keep going. Okay, should I start? Yes. All right. I'm afraid to let Eric start. Why, why, why, why? I don't know. This, uh, I said that before. Scare Stiff is generally known as a pretty long, a pretty short playing game, especially this particular one. So on the plunge, what I'm gonna try to do is to shoot into that, into sort of the back of that spin hole to get the first award. To get the first spider award. And then I'll probably go, I'll shoot it short a few times first. Is that to test it out? Just to test out the strength of the spring.
    9:41
    A little bit further. Oh, too long. I'm going to let it go. I've got no points on screen. Why do you let it go? Because as long as I haven't validated the play field, it's going to keep popping back here. What? Yeah. That's another reason why you don't want to full plunge into something. As long as my score is flashing on that cadence, then I know I'm safe.
    10:01
    Let's see. There we go. Not on every game, but on some games. That spider would normally be spinning, but right now it's just lighting things. I was trying to go for crate and I missed that. It's easier when the spider is spinning than you can anticipate. But you guys have great lights!
    10:21
    Now there I hit that right ramp. That's going to relight that spin hole. There we go. So now I'll try to get that crate again. I'm going to get that backblast award.
    10:43
    There we go. All right. Okay, so normally that would bounce out and be a much more dangerous shot than it is.
    10:57
    So in this particular game, because that crate is malfunctioning and you can just shoot it in, it probably makes sense just to keep hitting it. Is it malfunctioning? Yeah, it's supposed to... Are we just going to take advantage of that? Yeah, we can exploit it. What does a crate normally do? It's supposed to bounce. It's supposed to not... It's supposed to put the ball in it. Right. It bounces, bounces, and you light up all the bats on top, and then it lets you put an edge on it. So now I've started that multiball and in this multiball I'm going to try to do some of the other things. I'm going to try to do Monster's Lab, Deadheads, get some other stuff going. So the Monster's Lab is from Pop Bumpers.
    11:48
    Oh, fortunately you got that extended. You can plunge it right in. Alright, I have two on this flipper so I have to separate that somehow. With the geometry here it can be a little tricky. I haven't played this game recently actually, I don't know how strong this slingshot is. Sometimes you can just sort of slip it up a little bit.
    12:21
    Alright, now I'm going around trying to get these top ones. You're back over there.
    12:30
    Why is he holding the button? Because it's safer to play. Because if you drain the one, you still have the other. Plus, he's also still in multi-ball. Not anymore. So, yeah, if you can trap up and do stuff, then you're getting three points. Yeah, it's sort of a safety feature. Keep one ball trapped and the other one playing. That was dangerous. Now here I think I'm actually going to go for this right ramp. When I hit this right ramp, I'll relight that spin hole to get another spin award. And then I can go for the coffin and the extender. How do you know those things are going to happen? Can you just note the game? Wasting a lot of quarters. Wasting a lot of quarters over the years. See if we can get that coffin Sometimes I like to let it go around There we go Nice Just to get the timing of it Especially if the spider is disabled which is fairly common on this game We call them handicapped spiders actually Oh, handicapped spiders. Okay.
    13:31
    Alright, so... I'm like so curious about the plunder, I'm like trying to see what's going on. That's awesome. All right, now, since we have this challenge, I need to not hit that spin ball. I need to try to light the lock first.
    13:53
    I'm trying to pass it over here. That was a very bad post pass. That was even worse. All right, so I'm going to light the lock but not start the multiball.
    14:09
    All right. All right, now I can hit the spin shot and then choose double trouble and then start the multiball.
    14:33
    There we go. And now some hard fire. Hard fire. Wow! Alright, that's the challenge. Got the challenge. Does it keep going during this animation? No, I think the timing stops, but it doesn't last that long. It is nice. So here in this multi-ball, my objective is to alternate the ramps. Oh. Does that get you the most points? That's for the jackpot. Oh. one. Those two. So I'm getting a lot of points for these. A million a shot right now. But I think that timing is about to run out soon. Trying to get the ball into control on the left flipper. Oh boy. See now they probably have gone down, I'm not really looking at the screen right now, but they've probably gone down to 500, yeah. Just alternate.
    15:55
    Oh well. Wow. Still going, still going. Oh. Really struggling with that right ramp. Trying to get up there. Got it. Got the middle top up there, but I lost the ball, unfortunately.
    16:33
    Woo! Free game! Got a free game. There's a device called a knocker in the backlash to make just that loud crack. So everyone in the whole place knows that you just got a free car. You have an extra ball, right? I don't think so. Player two is up. Why is it me? Because it's going in order of best to worst. Joe Soap says... We're not judgmental here. No, we're not. Guys, you could look Eric up on IFPA. I don't know how to spell your last name. Wagon Sonner. W-A-G-E-N. Wagon Sonner. W-A-G-E-N-S-O-N-N-E-R? That's right. Wow. You can look up Eric Wagon Sonner and see where he's ranked.
    17:22
    I'm around 150-ish right now. This is educational, though, okay? That's why I love when Eric and somebody like one of these guys can come and play.
    17:31
    You've actually given me strategies that I've never, ever tried on this game. So did you just do the thing he did? Yeah. I do that thing all the time. You never taught me the thing? We never played this game.
    17:43
    It's not every game, just some games. Oh, yeah, it's only on some games. Alright, so I'm going to go for... I don't know what to go for. Go for an extender first. There you go, perfect. Alright, so... Oh, only one button? Okay. We need one button. One of the clicker buttons.
    18:04
    Got it. My lock is lit around there. All right. You just, but Eric, you blew my mind when you said use the call for multi-ball to get other things. I never, ever thought about that. Now, if I go now, I'm not going to get the web spin. Actually, I would say I tend to use either multi-ball to get what I need, but the crate is even more valuable for that because the jackpot is worth it. So because you're not getting such valuable jackpots, you can use that for advanced monsters. Okay, but coffin is more. Especially when I started double scoring because now it's a million a shot. But then after that, sure, use it to advance safely. very we're good price I'm just gonna get that skills nope
    19:04
    a over deadhead yeah I'll get him up Oh god. Go to the lab! Oh crud. Ah! Bad flip! You said that's a bad flip? Bad flip! I know my bad flips from my good flips. Flip like this and that. Alright, another extender? Sure. Yeah, let's collect all the extenders. It's a pumpkin and a grape. Are they acceptable? Yes. It's an apple! So, pumpkin extends to the bottom of the hole, More lab! Did you say more lag? More lab! How do you know when you're getting labbed? That's the pop bumper. See it says 11 hits to 9 hits left, 8 hits left, 10 hits left. But you have to hit that guy. You have to hit the pop bumpers. When you hit that, when you get that, then it lights your tails. Why do these newer games have the ramps? They're all about ramps. Well, wait, I'm not set up for anything though. Ah, crap. Ah, that was dumb! Why? It's 20 seconds of double scoring, but I don't have any... Are you close to the crate? Are you close to the crate? Oh, yeah. My time's gonna run out. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. One more for Monty Ball.
    20:50
    I'm going to run out of time. Oh, wow. The challenge was just to start it, not to take advantage of it.
    21:01
    Good try. All right. I feel good, though. I feel good. I have strategies now. Ladies and gentlemen, Audrey.
    21:14
    You're going to tell me what to do, right? Thank you for the host. Don't panic, Flip. What's new host me?
    21:21
    He's inviting people on his house. What's the small thing I do? So, you want to short plunge to get into where it says spin. That is the hole right there. So, you can choose an award off of the backlash.
    21:36
    I didn't do it! Alright. The pressure feels... No, just play pinball now. Just shoot. Alright, alright. Play your game. Just enjoy the game.
    21:48
    We get geeky about it, though, because Eric plays at a competitive level, so... Okay, here we go. Oh, shit. Oh, that's okay. I attempted.
    22:02
    Now I want to hit the crate? I'm trying. What's that hold? That's what she said. Sorry, I couldn't help it. Oh! You got points in the crate. Well, you know, I'm trying. Yeah! Where's my ball? Oh, Jesus! So, with some of these moves... We fake a light, bro. It might actually be better off going for the left poppin' orbit, the green light. The green light, yeah. I'm learning how to aim at all, so... No! Ha ha ha ha! Now she's getting snooty. Look! Look at that! You got it! I don't know, what did I get? You got it! You got a ball. What does that mean when a ball is locked? It's gonna kick out now. Oh Jesus! Ha ha ha ha! Why do these games lock balls? Uh, that's what makes for your multi-ball. Oh! Yeah, that's all for multi-balls. Oh! It has to hold the ball somewhere, so it... So if you hit that crane down, you get multi-balls. Ooh! Nice! Well done! Thanks!
    23:09
    I'm already scared. Now just hit the crate as many times as you want. You just did it. You just did it before the screen. Oh shit! AHHHH! I'm trying so hard! It'll come back, it'll come back. I don't think so. Yes, they do. Oh, is this mine? Oh, Jesus! Oh, it's over though. Oh well. Where did that ball come from? Oh, is that a sneaker?
    23:38
    Why didn't that go through the whole thing? It was a little too slow, so it fell out of the back. Oh, no. Why did that one not give me the spin?
    23:52
    Why didn't it give you what? The spin thing. Oh, because it wasn't lit. Got it. To relight it, you have to get the right ramp. Oh, shit. And have it actually go all the way around. That was great. Once again, that was awesome. You got two of your tails done already. That's really good. That was awesome. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Eric's back up. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. So my next, so I have five of the six things done.
    24:22
    Okay. I have five of these six tails done. I have the crate, the dead heads, the leapers, which are those frog things, the coffin, and the bony beast, but I don't have the monster's lab. It's always a pain in the butt. Oh, because it remembers what you went up. It remembers what I had on the first ball, exactly. So my objective is to try to finish the monster's lab. There's two ways to do it. She's not too bad, Pez. You're right. She's good. So the first is I need to hit that left orbit, and then it'll go around to hit the pop bumpers. That orbit, I don't know if you guys noticed when you were playing, it alternates between Monsters Lab and Deadheads. No. Monsters Lab, Deadheads. That blue light there will change to the white skull light.
    25:00
    But I can't remember. I think maybe because I finished Deadheads, it's going to stay on Monsters Lab the whole time. I'm not sure about that. We'll find out in a second. The other thing I'm going to do is try to get into the spin hole so I can get to the spider web. And on the spider web, right at the very bottom, there is one that says Monsters Lab. That will give me a certain number of hits. Seven or eight hits. Seven or eight, something like that. It's always good. I'm not sure if it tells me the status report.
    25:27
    It's not going to tell me how many I need, but once I hit one, it will. So I'm really prioritizing that.
    25:37
    You know what it's like? It's like playing a game that someone's telling you what's happening while you're playing it, and you're just like, uh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is the right play right here where he's going for the... So how come he could let the ball drop down like a lost play? Because... I'm going to talk this way so I'm on camera. If you don't hit a switch... What's a switch? Anything. Anything that the game senses the ball is on. Any target? Any target. Then the play field is not validated, so to speak. Oh, but he can still move the flippers. remove the flippers and if the ball drops in the thing, it gives it back to them because it thinks you didn't do anything. Okay, it's complete. All right. So now my objective is to hit that coffin. And it starts the, this is the sort of wizard level. Your objective here is to alternate the coffin with the ramps. Very hard to do Ideally you want to get up to level 10 you get the scrape multi but Everyone has this pinball stand Not everyone
    26:46
    A lot of people. I don't. What do you do? I have my own legs. Did you teach James what he does for pinball?
    26:57
    Alright, so he has to hit a ramp, then he has to hit the crate, then he has to hit a ramp, then he has to hit the crate... Oh yeah! Around there. There.
    27:06
    Boom. Wow. Notice the thing is going up. Pulse pounding, eye poppings, fine tangling. Oh, I see that. Nice.
    27:15
    That was accidental, but I'll take it. Come on, now. Yeah? Why is he alternating ramp, crate, ramp, crate? So this is the mode he's in now. And just follow the lights that say jackpot.
    27:25
    So now the ramps are lit. Oh, you're following, he's following the jackpot lights. I didn't know you could move a machine this much. You can. You get a couple of warnings. Oh.
    27:37
    Oh, well. So now what happens is when you get to that mode again, you start on level six. Yes, but I have to go all. But I do everything. I have to go all the way through those again. All the tails.
    27:49
    On ball two, he gets scared stiff. All right. I'm chasing you, Eric. Do it. I'm chasing you. Come on, chat. Chat, be with me. What's your strategy? Oh, that's right. You have to think before you plunge. Yeah.
    28:03
    I got leaping legs. You have your crate extender already? You do. You have both extenders. So I should just go for crate. But you're also going to be pretty close to... Oh, you've already earned double trouble. Yeah, you're going to be close to coffin, so why don't you go for coffin? What does don't brick mean? Don't brick.
    28:24
    So if you miss a shot to one side or the other... Oh, crap. Dang it. Hang on, I'm going to steal it. I stole it.
    28:40
    Oh, I had lab. Well, alright. Oh, I got to hit light lock. See, the difference between me and Eric is that Eric thinks before he flips, and I just flip. Alright. He's just reacting. Alright. Fantastic. There we go. There you go. He's very encouraging. Nice. That was fast. Boom. Isn't that good? That was really good. That starts the ball. Oh! Ramps. Okay. You get a ramp to start and then you alternate from that point forward. The stiff in the coffin! Uh huh. Nice. Oh, oh. You have multi ball. Oh, oh. Oh, you have multi-ball. Oh shit!
    29:28
    I gotta get the coffin right? Oh jeez! You lost two balls, Ryan. No, you don't have to get the coffin, you're just being ramped. Oh, just ramps. Okay.
    29:42
    How do people need to get ramps when it's lighting up? Uh, well, yeah, yeah. The jackpots are just lit on the ramps in this building. How do you pay attention to, like, the balls How do you pay attention to the balls versus the playfield? There's a lot of things to pay attention to. There's the balls themselves. There's the playfield. You're very close, by the way. You just need to get that head.
    30:07
    There's the display. It's all giving you cues. Yeah, I can't like... Part of it is I play this game a lot with my wife, Louise. He has 11,000.
    30:18
    You're doing great, though. He's great. You are. 1.3 million. Yeah, 1.3! See, I told you it's in ranking! You have like four times more than I do, he has like three times more than you do. The game's not over yet, you have an extra ball. You have a ball in hand that we don't have. Why do I have an extra ball? Because you're player three, so you're on ball two, and we've already finished our ball two. Oh, right. Well, I can try to beat Manu. Yeah, you can beat both of us for sure. Root for Audrey, everyone. Root for me, the person who's learning. who's learning um okay and i want to do a short plunge question mark yes i want to plunge into that spin 11 million 11 000. what's a few million between friends she's like two orders i said 11 did i say only 11 000 i meant to say 11 million you're in order of magnitude uh below us but that's okay go in the hole okay and i want to get crate and or coffin yeah i said i say crate would Okay.
    31:15
    Fuck! I go a little too early. It happened the last time. Go into the crate! Hit it? Shoot it up the left light. I'm trying.
    31:35
    The one that says lock? Yes. Shit. No! Look at the face. I lost my ball. Dang it. What do I do there? Should I have like, So, I was gonna say, Eric, what do you think about Dopanic Flip's comment about Scared of Stuff having too many? What's STT in there? Straight down the middle. Oh.
    32:09
    Yeah, that's true. There are a lot of shots, the geometry of the game, the comment was, the geometry of the game has a lot of shots that when they return, they tend to go down the middle. Particularly this whole crate area is quite a sucker shot, it's a dummy shot. It's the easy thing in the game, so it's trying to encourage beginners to shoot that crate over and over again. But, especially when it's functioning correctly, when you hit the crate, it's going to often come straight back down or come at a weird angle somewhere. so it's designed to take quarters out of your pocket. Yeah. So typically I tend to not focus on that too much. Like I said, this one's a bit easier because it's broken. And instead I'll go for this coffin multiball. It's a little harder to get to, but it's generally a safer shot. Here I'll probably do a mix of them.
    32:59
    We'll see. We'll see what we got here. Again, I'm short plunging to try to get that spin shot. Uh, no. So then you read one money. Two, I don't have anywhere to put it. Can I read it? Nope. That's it. I can't. I can't, yeah. There we go. I mean, that's the good... That's the good... Ha! Mike is there walking.
    33:35
    Huh? I'm trying to get around to that second coffin multiball. because then hopefully in a multi-ball I can do other things with it. Maybe try to advance around against some of these different features. His name is Eric, George. That was weird.
    34:37
    Okay, so this is going to give me access to a multi-ball again. And in the multi-ball, I'll be able to get some jackpots, hopefully, but also finish some of these features. All right. Oh, I think there's an extra ball there. I don't know if the extra balls are on or not. I don't think it's working. To learn the, like... Huh? To learn the... I guess strategy, you just have to play it a lot, or can you read up on it?
    35:05
    Yeah, I have to play a lot. She has some really good call outs when you get many many many jackpots because you know it's Elvira so she starts to get a little saucy. Ah!
    35:21
    Nice! Ah! All it takes is one ball to ruin your day. Alright, now here it's really critical, really critical at this point that I get that left orbit so I can complete the deadheads on top. Oh. Easy tiger. Haha. Yeah, he's got some strategy. I didn't even know that. He's got some strategy. Yeah, he's got some strategies I didn't even think about. Because I've played this game for years. There we go. That was critical. Okay. Now, again I have five of the six. So now I'm just focused on that crate. If I get to that crate, that will light the wizard mode again. The Scared Stiff, is that what it's called? Scared Stiff. Okay, and then hopefully I can finish off the rest of those and get to that big multiball. Let's see what happens.
    36:51
    Look at this, hello! That's a lot more shots. He keeps stacking shots up on this. It's one of those Dennis Norman games where you have to get more and more and more every time.
    37:06
    Oh, the deadhead from the novel. Deadhead! Better practice your scales. I like that. All right.
    37:23
    And it's a lot of shots. And Eric is also great at talking and playing, Mono. Oh! Pilled! Wow! How's that a tilt? That was not even close. Oh, my extra balls are on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it. What do you say Eric is good at? Talking and playing. Talking in general. Talking more than playing, I think. How did you and your wife get into pinball? My wife and I were playing, uh, pinball. Pinball. We were playing pool one time. Uh-huh.
    37:58
    And, gee, I wish I could hit that shot. And it was just getting kind of sort of later in the evening, and the pool table was getting fuller and fuller.
    38:09
    And there was just some pinball machines over in the corner, and we decided to play that. Just got bit by the bug. Yeah, like, I didn't even know this was a world until the new table. Yeah.
    38:21
    How long have you guys been playing for? Eight or nine years, I guess. It's nice to play with somebody else because then you can read the screen to each other and learn the games and that kind of stuff.
    38:35
    And how did you learn your first game? It was hard to do. It was a theater of magic game. game and probably for the first year or so we couldn't figure out why sometimes a multi-ball would start. I'm reading your posts, hey Rito. You're funny. So what I'm doing here is I'm just keeping, all I wanted to do was keep one ball safe because that multi-ball was very little. I'll start this mode again. If I can get it up to 10, great, then that starts a big scoring mode. So I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't flipping around a lot. Keep one ball under control because I knew I had this when I came out of it.
    39:26
    All right, we continue from five, I think. I think so. Are you scared yet? I just didn't get it. Seven. You're killing me. I'm scaring myself. Uh-oh. Oh, that's two. See like how was that a tilt You gave me dangers Yeah you get warnings first
    40:10
    Next one is a shot. Last one is a shot. Gotta get this. Oh! What does that do? It's crazy. What's gonna happen? This is Monster Multiball. And it doesn't even have to do it? Well, it's just giving me a light show.
    40:41
    So it's just ramps? And everything. What is it? It's ramps and it's a crate. Oh my god, there's so many bulbs.
    40:56
    It's cool seeing how your people are getting excited. Yeah, they're going, whoo! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they know what's happening. Remember, you have two days. Yeah, I'm sure I'm going to tilt out. A million per, wow. And again, I'm just trying to keep balls safe on one flipper so that I can try to take as much advantage as possible.
    41:26
    Wow. It just landed in there perfectly. All right. Uh-oh. Good. Oh. Had to let it go. One more. Yeah. That's the problem with having the two dangers earlier. Mono, did you read that comment? Yeah, I love to hear someone say, oh my god, so many balls. Oh my god, so many balls! So, there's one other feature in the game and that we haven't talked about, that's the spider web. Yeah, I've never seen it. Yeah, if you complete all of the spider awards, it gives you, there's another wizard level just for that. I forget what it's called, spider's web or spider multi-ball Web multi ball. That's it. And you have to complete all those awards. But as you pointed out, you can't get that, for some reason on this game, you can't get that top eyeball. I'm not sure if that would spot it for me or not. But that would be the other thing. But I'm very, very far away from that. Hey, All Anonymous. Yeah, this is a dark game. All Anonymous. I have it lit, but my pin stadiums come in today. So I didn't get to use them. They'll probably be there when I get home. Ah, that's too bad.
    42:59
    Ah, it triggered a hit. Try to get some more of these spiders. So you're going specifically for spider webs. Yeah, it's pretty unlikely, I'm afraid. It's pretty tough, yeah. And I don't even know if it's possible with this problem with the spider web. Maybe it's because of extra balls? I don't know. I don't know why that would happen. Yeah, we need to talk to Sean because that upper light never lights. You can't choose it. Yeah, I haven't tried it before, too. How about another ball, says Elvira. How about another ball?
    43:38
    If you put in a quarter right after you play and start again, she goes, I knew you'd come back. Aw, that's so cute. And of course you guys know about the new game that's gonna be coming out? Yeah, that's why we're streaming this. That makes sense. Yeah, we're getting excited for the new, uh, Vi- what do you think? Have you seen the, have you seen the leaked pictures on Pinside or whatever? I've seen like one or two things, but I haven't really studied them very much yet. Yeah, I haven't either. There's, apparently there's a big castle that everyone hates. Oh really? That's funny. All anonymous, my favorite call out for the game is when you get a few jackpots and she says, wait me when you're done. You're everywhere!
    44:18
    Mine is when she says, I'm having multiple jackpots. Only because I'm dirty. I'm staying out of this one. But she's dirty also. I can't tell what's good and what's not. Yeah, it's a little hard to see what's not good.
    44:33
    And they kind of tell you what to do. Is it Elvira's birthday today? That's what he said. Holy crap! How awesome are we that we're streaming this game on Elvira's birthday?
    44:44
    Okay. And now we got Eric to kick our asses, like, terribly. It's a learning opportunity. No, this is... Anytime I get to play, you know, with a person way better than me, I'm going to take it. All right. I can do this. It's just like Daniel. So let's have a quick look here. Okay. You create multiball, which I think you're pretty close to. I think some of the lights on top might be out, but you've got to be pretty close to it. Yeah. And then deadheads. So you only need one deadhead on top. Yep. You only need one of them, but you have to get in the unlit lane. So I would say just focus on the crate. Give him the crate. And then use crate to get the last deadhead. To get up there. Okay. I would have done something stupid like tried to get that deadhead. Wait, there's another way. There's another way here. There's another way. Short plunge. There's an extra ball lit too. There's an extra ball lit. So short plunge into the spin. Yep. And then go for one of the deadheads. Go for one of the deadheads. Got it. And then I'll give you the last deadhead. It will complete the tail. So then you can just focus on the crate. Okay. I'm leaving you. Cassandra Peterson is 68 years old today and still looking great. I owned this game for a bit. I got through Scared Stiff twice in one game. Are you leaving, Audrey? In a minute. Okay. It's a three ball game, right? Beautiful. Got it. Oh, I see.
    46:13
    See if I can get the extra balls. Whoa! Am I not ready? Oh, yeah. You're not ready. There we go. That's it. Yeah, now go for the extra ball. Now go for the extra ball.
    46:22
    Any other tales can I complete right now, or am I done? No, you're all done. I'm all done. So just enjoy it. Okay.
    46:28
    Okay, it's all coming back. As long as the ball stays on. Sometimes it's even better to drain the ball We probably all saved Zion. So why don't you hold a ball like Eric does? All about the party. Because... It's hard? So, different players have different play styles. And some players really like to control the game. That's my style, controlled play. Other players, like our local champion here, Isandre Matzkoch, he's a flow player. He plays amazingly. Meanwhile, Manu just got to the scary skip level. That's awesome. Wait, that's great! Yeah, alright. Turn on the skip for me too! Don't panic flip Manu, how come you're not as good as Eric? Yeah, that's what you're asking Audrey! It's true. You understand what you're saying, right? Yeah.
    47:26
    I think the reasoning is because you just don't play as much. Whoa. Right? Oh! What was that?
    47:37
    Okay. That was great. I'll hold it. I'm a dad too. I can, I can, I can call the practice. It happened on the stream. Oh. It's fine. I'm an old man. You are old. I told you your game, damn it. It'll be over quickly. We're going to wrap this up. That's so true. I need to go. I need to go to work. What was that? Oh, my God. Y'all need to tell me what to do! So choose the crate. Choose the crate. Beautiful. And now, crash on the crate a couple times. Oh, okay, great! I mean, crate!
    48:15
    Oh my god. Alright, I'm fine. You're fine. I'm fine. Why was that so sad? Because you had your scared stiff, Manu? It's not registering, right? It was sad because I was trying to do... Try that crate again.
    48:39
    What was your flipper trick? See, now the crate's not registering anymore. Dang it! Good. Okay, there we go. Beautiful. I just had to hit it like six times.
    48:58
    Jesus Christ! No, it's coming back. It's all coming back. Okay, well, I can... Oh, my God. This is too many balls!
    49:20
    Okay. Okay, I'm gonna do an Eric and hold. Oh shit! That's good. Beautiful. Now it's coming back because you got the extender, so it's all coming back again. All right, I'll go down the, oh! It's all coming back. I've never noticed those. You can plunge them straight in if you want. Oh, I can't, I don't even know where they're coming from. So. Fair enough. Go for it, go for it. I'm trying so hard. Yeah. Shit, fuck. How do you manage, I don't understand how he manages three balls. How do we manage not to square so much on my screen? Oh yeah, that one. Ha ha! Oh no! Oh! Woo! Great job. Don't take balls. High five. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Ha ha! All right. That was great watching you lose. That was fantastic. Ha ha! All right, guys. The score for you to beat is, well, Eric's 32. Well, it's what you're thinking. All right. 32 million. This is your ball. 32 million.
    50:19
    Is this your pinball candle? No, this is my two-and-a-half-year-old son, Daniel. One of his initials. See, I was going to say Eric's better than you because he doesn't have kids. And I can... Let's see who else I can shout out here.
    50:39
    It's my wife, Louise. She's the law. She's the law in the house. Well, Eric, thank you so much. Thank you so much. It was a lot of fun. And anytime you want to come on the stream, so I don't have to be good, please do.
    50:55
    But thanks for the tips. Happy birthday, Elvira. Thank you, Audrey. Oh, thanks, Manu. Great to meet you. Oh, yeah, you too. She's over there. Oh, I'm on the side. Yeah.
    51:06
    And thank you, guys. That's going to be it, actually. That's it. We're done. We're done for the day. Have fun, everyone. Bye, Manu's stream. What do I hit? I kind of like, I like having three different levels, Manu.
    51:44
    Thank you. you