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Darkest Dungeon (VPX Pinball Wizards 2023)

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 15m·analyzed·Dec 18, 2023
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TL;DR

Mystery Pinball Theater streams Darkest Dungeon VPX, showcasing collaborative fan table with party mechanics and dungeon progression.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 streams gameplay of Darkest Dungeon, a VPX pinball table inspired by the PC dungeon crawler game. The host and guest Marty explore the table's mechanics, which include collecting party members, acquiring items, battling enemies across different dungeon areas, and progressing through increasingly difficult encounters. Multiple creators contributed to the table: Herbski designed the core mechanics, Astro redrew the playfield, Merlin added arcade-style progression systems, Oxon handled ramp work, and Darren at VPCLE coded the depth-of-field effects. The table uses the new PUP framework and features novel technical implementations.

Key Claims

  • Darkest Dungeon VPX table was designed by Herbski with significant contributions from Merlin (arcade mechanics), Astro (playfield art), Oxon (ramp work), and Darren at VPCLE (DoF code)

    high confidence · Host and Marty discuss credits and development throughout stream; multiple creators mentioned explicitly

  • The table is modded off J.P. Salas' Wrath of Olympus but uses N-Fuzzy physics and extensively redesigned ramps so it feels nothing like the original

    high confidence · Host states: 'This is modded off of J.P. Salas' Wrath of Olympus table' and 'it feels nothing like it because it's using n-fuzzy physics'

  • Astro never actually played the original Darkest Dungeon PC game despite creating the playfield artwork

    high confidence · Marty explicitly confirms: 'He's never actually played the original PC game. No. No. Astro did say that. He's never played the real PC game of this.'

  • The table uses the new PUP framework with PUP DMD, allowing more advanced features than previous versions

    high confidence · Host: 'this uses the new pup framework um Nail Buster uh provided some new framework which allows for a lot more options'

  • Merlin's design approach includes arcade-style leveling systems and easy/hard modes similar to Thundercats

    high confidence · Host discusses: 'Merlin...he's the guy that kind of brings the arcade feel to a pinball machine...He'll give an easy mode and a hard mode'

  • The table features a manual accessible in-game via coin button press in plunger lane, a feature enabled by NailBuster's system upgrades

    high confidence · Host discovers: 'press coin button with the ball and plunger lane for manual on screen' and credits NailBuster for upgrades

  • Astro suggested the playfield redraw to the host, showing a dramatic before-and-after improvement

    high confidence · Host: 'you know who suggested doing this um astro actually and i and i know astro worked on the...he redrew the whole play field'

  • The table mechanics involve collecting party members at the inn/village, gathering up to 5 items, entering dungeons with 4-5 enemy encounters, and progressing through boss battles

Notable Quotes

  • “this uses the new pup framework um Nail Buster uh provided some new framework which allows for a lot more options you're gonna be impressed”

    Host@ 11:01 — Introduces technical innovation enabling the table's advanced features

  • “This is the kind of thing I expect from Multimorphic”

    Host@ 33:42 — Compares table's complexity and progression mechanics to commercial products

  • “You know what, I'm not going to tell him about that. I gotta blow the shoe lane”

    Marty@ 26:29 — Humorous acknowledgment of table's hidden mechanics and complexity

  • “This is the magic of many talented people coming together and having a passion for common interest. This table's amazing.”

    Host@ 39:31 — Summarizes collaborative nature of the fan-made table

  • “Herb poured his heart and soul into this. So did Merlin. Everybody else did too.”

    Host@ 40:06 — Acknowledges creators' dedication and investment in the project

  • “You know the game. I think the authors deserve to be celebrated. They put a lot of time and effort into this.”

    Host@ 39:58 — Celebrates collaborative creator contributions

  • “This is Darkest Dungeon. It's a dark dungeon.”

    Host@ 43:05 — Humorous observation about the table's dark theme matching the game's name

Entities

Darkest DungeongameHerbskipersonMerlinpersonAstropersonOxonpersonDarrenpersonNailBusterpersonJ.P. SalaspersonMartyperson

Signals

  • ?

    content_signal: Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 stream provides detailed technical and gameplay analysis of Darkest Dungeon VPX, reaching audience with in-depth exploration of table mechanics and creator contributions

    high · Full-length stream dedicated to table with multiple creators discussed and acknowledged

  • ?

    technology_signal: PUP framework upgrades by NailBuster enable advanced features (DMD, manual access, system depth) previously unavailable, setting new technical standard for VPX tables

    high · Host: 'this uses the new pup framework...provides some new framework which allows for a lot more options'; in-game manual feature enabled by system upgrades

  • ?

    design_innovation: Darkest Dungeon VPX implements arcade-style leveling, party management, and dungeon progression adapted from source material, pushing VPX design toward complexity matching commercial machines

    high · Merlin's contribution of 'arcade-like' mechanics; host compares favorably to Multimorphic; Marty explains party collection, item management, and difficulty progression

  • ?

    community_signal: Multiple specialized creators (designer, artist, mechanic specialist, coder) collaborated on single VPX table, demonstrating organized fan community capability and passion for quality

    high · Herbski (design), Astro (art), Oxon (ramps), Darren (code), Merlin (systems), NailBuster (framework) all credited; host acknowledges coordinated effort

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Darkest Dungeon VPX prioritizes mechanical fidelity and thematic adaptation from source game over licensing convenience; includes hidden mechanics (coin button manual, madness effects) requiring player discovery

Topics

VPX table design and mechanicsprimaryCollaborative fan-made pinball creationprimaryDarkest Dungeon PC game adaptationprimaryPUP framework and technical innovationprimaryGameplay progression and rule complexityprimaryArcade-style mechanics in pinballsecondaryComparison to commercial pinball (Multimorphic)secondaryPlayfield art and aestheticssecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.92)— Host and Marty are enthusiastic throughout the stream, consistently praising the table's design, mechanics, and collaborative effort. Multiple expressions of amazement and enjoyment ('This is so cool,' 'This is insane,' 'This table's amazing'). The tone is celebratory of creator efforts with minimal criticism.

Transcript

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You gotta screw up your stream, Tom. Oh my god, why am I so low? When it just dawned on me why you heard me cough, I'm using the wrong mic. You're using the wrong microphone. Oh. Oh. Yeah, we got Marty with us tonight, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know if you were already on his stream, but he's over here now. I'm going to talk quietly because I might be too loud now. Is that good? I guess. Yeah, sure. Let me see. My level. I don't know. My level doesn't. I don't like how my level looks. I'm going to boost my level a little more. Check one, two. Check one, two. Check one. Check two. Plosives. Siblings. Plosives. How does Marty sound, guys? Marty, what did you have for breakfast? Gina Lola Brigida. For breakfast, I had oatmeal, strawberries, and cream. I wish I had Gina Lola Brigida. Actually, give me a serving of Ann-Margaret. Yeah. Mmm. all right if you guys in chat need me to be louder i'll be louder welcome in uh uh yeah fully prepared for this i tried i went i printed out marty i printed out the instructions for this table because they look beautiful like the pdf for this looks amazing yeah it really does somebody really put a lot of time into that whoever that is so i was like oh this is worth is it me or is this a dark stream no it's a dark stream because it's a it's a it's darkest oh my god they they got me who said that that was you marty god damn it marty stop typing sorry you ah lynn printed out the rule sheet i printed out i went to print the rule sheet on our beautiful color laser printer and it's still printing it it's taking like 10 minutes per page so that's that's wrong there's something wrong with my printer might want to laminate it after it's done I know it reminds me I wanted to show it to you guys this is why maybe in like a few minutes I'll go and Dave says you can 3D print it faster what's up nail buster it's beautiful anyway It seems like it reminds me of those old school, you know, you know, the games we grew up on, Marty, right? When you when you had a box, the game came in a box. Those were the days. I still have a few over here. And yeah, yeah. And you have manuals and stuff. You just let everyone color manuals with pictures. Yeah. Marty, did you ever get around to getting Exodos? or did you even bother exodos what no i don't recall that oh okay what's up uh ray torendon exodos is a uh a dos collection um exodos six is the latest one it's a collection of dos it's like 7 000 dos games ready to run via launchbox you showed it on here but it was going to be updated so you said wait for the update i think um yeah i have all that stuff natively and i run a vm usually to play a lot of it but right um it's a big download too it was how much of a download was i can't remember it's like six gigs 60 gigs the small one was the six gig one was the one that will download the game ask after you ask to launch it but then there's another version that's just all the games all of them they still have this kind of stuff wait wait wait let's look at that really close oh you got the orange box you still have that? I have everything I ever bought I was a member of Game Press so after buying everything and reviewing it they started sending me stuff for free but this one I bought jeez I have a whole closet full I don't have mine anymore I'm nostalgic what's Marty doing at Surreal's house I stole all the pin skateboards he had there you ever heard of Flashpoint Archive all the flash games in history oh man all the flash games nail buster I remember a particular Flash game that I couldn't show at work. Or two. I actually wrote a Flash game for the comedian Gallagher. Oh, wow, really? Yeah, you'd smash stuff. It was stupid. Early, early days of Flash. Yeah, that sounds like Gallagher. All right, surreal. Here's the thing. What's up, J. Crane? Yes, Marty, but do you have Oregon Trail in the original package? No one has that, Mr. J. Crane. alright Marty do you no just pool of radiance for you geeks in the room I do have that one five and a quarter floppy I remember that you are here to be my manual now when you offered I was like well there's no way I'm going to get to read the manual and flip this game before I start streaming so now you are my manual If you don't mind, I'd also like to give you some history about the table itself, but the game that it's inspired by. So Darkest Dungeon, for those of you that don't know, is a very interesting PC game. It's a dungeon crawling game. It's turn-based, so for old people like me, I enjoy it quite a bit because it's something I can control and walk away for 10 minutes and deal with whatever's going on in the house and then come back to it. But unlike other dungeon crawlers, it takes that darkest theme very seriously. So you get conditions as characters. You can get anxiety, not just bleed, but you can be fearful, and that will affect the gameplay. When your comrades die, you can inspire them, and different mechanics happen because of the mood that your characters are in as you progress through the dungeon. they've released a second one recently it's called darks dungeon 2 we call it the road show because it's not like the other one where you go through a dungeon you kind of just travel along the road and fight things but there's four different areas which you'll explore in the pinball game here or dungeon areas there's the wield there's um well i'll let you discover it but they're all different atmospherically. They all have a sense of dread to them and pull you into the atmosphere. Go ahead and hit start, and as you progress, the first thing you're going to do is you're going to go into the inn or the village, and that's where you'll start to get the flashing lights, Manu, and you'll collect a party of members. Oh, really? You've got to collect the members? Yep. I'll give you a little brief overview, and then we'll get into details later. After you collect your members, you can start the dungeon, but what I like to do is collect items before I enter the dungeon, which you'll also see flashing lights for collecting items. I think you can collect up to five items, and those will help you in the dungeon later. Once you enter the dungeon, you'll fight a slew of enemies, anywhere from four to five, through different objectives on the table. And then if you're successful, you can go into a boss battle. Merlin had a hand in this table, if you've ever played any of Merlin's tables. So he also wrote in a lot of arcade-like stuff here, Manu. So if you fail the dungeon, you can re-enter the dungeon where you left off. Ooh, that sounds cool. It's neat. All right. Let's see. Isaiah? The apron is your friend for instruction. The apron is gone. Okay. Okay. I will help you, but watch the flash. Adios. Sayonara. Au revoir. Auf Wiedersehen. Until next time. since I said gone alright at least you didn't say what I know Isaiah I will get your sound I promise this is getting old now Isaiah I'll get your sound very clever man you're having GCC on so I cannot Sam Jackson you no you can still Sam Jackson me I should move that over to his screen I don't remember asking you a god damn thing Damn it. Oh, no. Did you just hear the voice? What's that? Well, so... Somebody suggested it. I don't remember who it was. They said, can you bring back chipmunk voice? But instead of being a chipmunk, it's Wanda from... It's Kathy Ireland's crazy voice from Alien in L.A. So there you go. Isn't that great? I can't hear it. I know. I don't pump it back to us. I don't need it. Yeah, I don't need it. I got enough of that from her. Marty, your voice is also Wanda. So we're both Wanda. Oh, excellent. But I'm not pumping it back to us because it's whatever. All right. Good job, kids. here we go alright this is so cool this is the most work I've ever seen in a pup and I just this uses the new pup framework um Nail Buster uh provided some new framework which allows for a lot more options you're gonna be impressed okay so I'm looking at the back glass I see an anvil I see cards I see this I just gotta flip it for a little bit and see what happens yeah um Pup DMD is not Pup I don't know, did I say something? No, it's my terminology Nail Buster's right, it's Pup DMD Oh, okay I said pin-up framework How many flippers are there? 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Oh, okay Press either flipper to continue Sure, I'll continue So now to release the ball and you can collect your party okay let's collect my party let's collect this guy wait a minute okay this looks like i can get into this you know you know who suggested doing this um astro actually and i and i know astro worked on the yeah he redrew the whole play field yeah he showed me the before and the after and i just gotta say the after is pretty badass um well that that that sucked but i'm gonna i'm gonna continue um uh is this the bonanza update i don't know if grammy's telling uh sometimes i don't know about grammy all right here we go i'm gonna go back to the inn i probably have to go back to the inn right and collect some people i should just be flipping but yeah you haven't collected any party members yet. Alright, alright. Let's, let's, uh... Let's get in the inn. Okay, I'm in the inn. Oh, did I? No. Okay, I'm gonna... Oh! Oh, it's still pinball. It's still pinball, Marty. It's still pinball. Now, this is based on Wrath of Olympus from J.P. Salas. Uh, something's going on with your screen, buddy. Oh! What the... I don't know. Oh! Oh my god! All right, I have to turn off PinBot's, um... Okay. Oh, my God. You better fix it. I'm having way too much fun. Everything's under control. Situation normal. We're all fine here. How are you? Marty, if I... Oh, God. I'm sorry. I asked to be on. No, I need to tell you why that did that, because for some reason, Pinbot thought we were switching to the data porn scene. All right. Never mind, everybody. I turned Pinbot off. She's gone for the day. Ed said it was too dark. He didn't like it. I want to see that later. Okay, I can collect party members. All right. come on you'll get you'll get there watch look at the ball off screen look at that i can't that's the problem i'm looking at everything but pinball right now this looks so cool what happens five balls and you will be able to you'll learn as you go it'll get easier as you go you get five balls i believe five is the default yeah If you want Smash the Glass, I'll get it back to you. But let me play this one game, kids. Let me play this one game and I'll give you Smash the Glass. Yeah, so Astro was like, yo, this game is fire. And I was like, okay. Okay, cool. Okay, let's go. Oh, this does look so freaking cool. This is insane. They give you a minute to enjoy the pup. That's why he says hit the flipper. Okay. You got your first hero. Do I need another hero? You should get a full party. You should have a full party. No, Marty, you're supposed to say you don't need another hero. We don't need another hero. Sorry, I missed the opportunity. I apologize. Captain 12, he actually has not played the original PC game. No. No. I come here to feel like a loser, actually. Oh! There you go. You got another character? The Houndsman? Okay. Ooh! Ah! You got another hero. That's okay. Damn it! Oh, I like this! Okay. I'm just figuring out the layout of the table, man. Well, the other thing about Darkest Dungeon is you need to fail to progress. You literally die over and over again. As your party builds up, you get better at the dungeon. So why is the village... The village is your starting point. That's where you go, and either the village or the inn is where you'll collect your heroes and get items and get ready for your adventure. And you do that each time you die, a.k.a. lose your ball. Son of a gun. Right there. Okay. Okay. There you go. So now you're in a battle. No, you locked a ball. Sorry, you're not. Here we go. Okay, so now you can choose a dungeon. So use your flippers to select a dungeon. That's the cove, the wield. I guess you're only getting two selections. Three selections. Oh, there they are. The chroma, the thing, is covering up the thing. Yeah, it says the ruins, but I see it's getting cut off on your screen. I'm in the ruins. All right. Here comes your ball, and you can enter the battle. Do I get a ball save? No. No. Welcome to the darkest dungeon. It's not so dark. I got Sade. Okay. Hey, Grummy. Where did you fire that off, Grummy? Like a minute and a half ago. Last ball. Last ball, right? Oh, am I done? I think you get... Oh, here we go. All right. The next game I'm going to play, just like a game of pinball. I'm just going to... Yeah, just get used to it. Look for flashy lights. Don't worry about the... Marty, I'm going to let you deal with chat, and I'm just going to get used to this for a little bit. And feel free to tell us more about this game, or... Sure. Whatever. So, for those that enjoyed the original PC game, this was the brainchild of Herbski. That is a good question. Is your Backglass 16 9-manu, or is it 4-3, or... Oh, can I run a different pup option? It 13 blah blah blah by 7 blah blah blah Somebody do the math Oh you got it Okay Tell me and I do it I do it while we here No we just curious why it showing like that It fine Okay. Plus either flip or two and two battle. Kind of, McCarter. It is kind of pinball for smart people, I guess. If you want to progress, you have to do things that make sense. So right now he's in the battle. He needs to make orbit shots and ramp shots. in this scenario, to defeat those enemies. In other scenarios, it'd be the pop bumpers. This shit is so good. That's the announcer from the game. And it's... He's awesome. Look at this. This is stupid. And look at... Look at the middle of the table. You see that huge 3D model there staring at you, the big eyeball with the other eyeballs? that's insane that thing is so cool that's in the game alright I'm gonna do this again oh it's a two screen pup issue there's Herb oh it's Adam on behalf oh what's oh Herbski what's up I'll try and get a change for the next update the two screen wasn't I'm sorry Herbski I have a lame two screen I'm poor but he knows about it so that's good so Herbski go ahead go ahead Paul Why are you so good? He's like, alright, alright, you got this joke about being poor? Alright, let's go. I'm gonna start a new game. I'm gonna start a new game. That's rich. I need to be a soundboard. Surreal when you need him. how do you guys how does he pump his sound into you are you is he sending you a secondary source or what he's a genius it his sound well i know that his sound comes over his channel and he's just amazing he's got abs open and he's mixing he he's got he knows all the routing stuff and all that other crazy stuff so i don't even ask questions go ahead you're gonna address Herbski for a moment. I was just saying, when Herb said, hey, I want to make a table about this game, I got excited because I love this game. And you saw the difference in the first and second play field, but all of that was Herb. He put that first play field together, made the basic mechanics work. This is modded off of J.P. Salas' Wrath of Olympus table. Oh, is it? but it um i have no idea well it it feels nothing like it because it's using n-fuzzy physics you know it's all the ramps were redone i believe oxon herb is that right i believe oxon did the ramp work um there's multiple ramp selections by the way yeah i was i was i was it was suggested to me to turn the wooden ramps off guess by who no I know by who and that's fine I just want people to know there's options there's a few ball options as well but you know Herb was kind of at his end and went to the larger group at VPW got a help shop there's Astro your bro That's my bro. He said he's never actually played this game. Well, yeah, no. Astro did say that. He's never played the real PC game of this. Did a wonderful job on the artwork for, you know, not having a personal reference to it. This looks sick. Herbski, I hope I'm not doing your game injustice, but holy smokes. I'm loving this. Yeah, Herb makes a good point. There is a trust post. You probably can't see it because you cut the apron off, but it is there. I can see it. I can see it. I'm just terrible at using it. I just don't trust it. I understand. Okay, here we go. After the help shop, Merlin got involved and really helped push this over the edge. Of course, Astro did the playfield redraw, as we said. Oxon got involved A lot of talent Made this happen Darren at VPCLE Did the DoF code Did you just see what the fuck just happened? Uh huh You're in a different area So the whole table changes Wait till you Wait till you experience the The dark mode What? There you go, now you're bleeding So good things and bad things happen during battle but usually it's bad things, Mono. Wait until you get a condition. Bleeding is one thing, but wait until you go mad. I hope you hit that, honestly, because I want people to see what happens. I'll hit it. Watch this. I'll hit it right now. All right. Oh, you used your key that you picked up earlier. Good job. But you can get madness in there, and it will cause the table to do things to you. Because your character... There you go. Oh, look at that. Thank you. Now watch your flip. No. No. I don't want... Let's get away from madness. So now quit hitting that hole and just get some monsters. I believe it's up at the pops. Again, your apron would tell you. I'm not sure. The apron would tell us. It might be the pops or the top of the play field. I can't tell. I think I can get to the... Can I get to the pops through the orbits? Pops. Ignore the scoop. But I can get to the orbits, right? Yeah, through the orbits. Yep. Either orbit. Oh, man. That's a tricky part. Go for the freaking orbits, Manu. Come on! Oh! There we go. There you go. Come on, come on. Give me more. All right, so now as you... Don't we need two pops? As you get pops, you'll see monsters go down. It gives me like two pops. Thanks, Erbski. You've defeated one. Three left. Or two left. Defeated two. Erbski, can you put like 17 pops up there? One left. You had a bill of materials or something? Come on. There you go. Oh, no! Now send her scoop to collect your bonus. Uh-oh. What? Don't say uh-oh. boss battle no yeah i'm not ready for okay now hold on before you start this is upper playfield stuff so just so you know if you look on the dmd there's a little magnet um i don't think you can see it right now but if you hit i think it's the right mag save you'll enable the magnet on the upper playfield area where the top flipper is and when you shoot it up there in the orbit it'll hold the ball and then you can shoot it up that top ramp which will get you to that top play field i saw that grammy shut up good luck i can't do it all right how do i hit the upper play field though from the upper that ramp yeah the top flipper up the ramp yeah that's i'm not good at it how do i reach that at all oh boy go go go I wasn't going to tell him about that I gotta blow the shoe lane oh you got two balls for the boss battle okay that's good I'll take them oh shoot it's okay try to get that top clipper try to focus on it Oh! You son of a bitch. All right, slow down. No time to worry about. You got 23 seconds. Nothing to worry about. Plenty of time. Oh, old man, Marty. Faster. I'm an old man. Faster. Just channel Carl D'Python Anghelo. Just channel Carl. A little bit. Oh. Okay. Is this not timed? Yeah, you have 27 seconds. You reset your timer. Oh, damn it! So there's a mag save that can help you. Is there? Yeah, on the right mag save. Hit it once. It'll activate the magnet. Okay. Shoot. No! You know what, Hollywood? You know what? I swear to God, Hollywood, you do this because you know I have to He has the best moments. He came in as I was hitting the raid button tonight. I had something with meat and rice. I'm out of time, right? How much time do I have? You keep resetting your timer. You're good. Now you don't have any time left. I have food, okay? You had something with meat and rice, I think you said. I had something with meat and rice, okay? You wait. I know, Hollywood. I know you wait now. How did I do, Erbski? How did I do? How did I do? I'll be honest. At least with the food porn, you did horribly. let me try hollywood polo i had a firehouse sub with turkey and melted cheese it had lettuce mayonnaise and it was on a toasted bun and then i washed it down with some loaded potato soup and kettle chips damn man was that good or bad yeah i mean i'm hungry again and i just had dinner well and then we made christmas cookies on the street i saw the cookies the cookies okay All right. Let's go again. Get me in the end. Oh, yeah. Get him in the end. Let's see. All right, you calm down over there. That's a tough thing to do, to get that, to hit that ramp up there. The top ramp, I've hit it like three times in my life. What's up, Paul? But if you look, there's actually a magnet light up there by the flipper. And I don't know if it's a left mag save or right mag save, but you turn it on and you leave it on. You don't, like, keep hitting it. It's just an on-off thing. And that's supposed to help you get up there, but it doesn't help me, honestly. so this up in the up in the corner over there says four is that ball four yeah okay you get five let's explore this some more kids let's all explore this astro you were right this is fun this merlin's good at taking a game oh you're in the dark you need to hit torches it's It's your stand-up targets. You'll see them lit there flashing. Ah, it's drained. Yeah. But if you get that again, that's what... In the dark, you have to collect the torches that are lit. Oh, nice. You'll see one flashing, and then it'll cycle around as you hit them. A lot of atmospheric... Yeah. I hope Herbski understands that I am printing out the manual. This is a game that's like, Hey, do us a favor. read the manual before you start to get frustrated i'm not frustrated but i'm just definitely like i wouldn't have played this without trying the manual or without marty here with me oh look at that that was pretty you do need some point of reference that'd be great okay here we go press coin button with the ball and plunger lane for manual on screen oh snap what is what are y'all smoking Let's go So apparently Nailbuster did some Upgrades and stuff To the system So that this fancy stuff Could happen Well it's Pup DMD Pup DMD No idea what that is But you know it's magic to me And I'm enjoying it What the... What was... Oh, it hit off the middle post. That was weird. Okay. How many more people do I need? I agree, Nailbuster. I like to go in with four. You have four right now. Three right now. So you can get one more or you can go in the dungeon. You'll always stand a better chance. Where's the dungeon? The scoop. Okay. Oh, wait. Uh, the middle scoop? I think it's the mid... Yeah, it's the middle scoop. It says quest. Yep. Look at all the people I got. And this has Scorbit, as you probably know. Well, I didn't turn it on, but yeah, I saw it in the options. Yeah, but it's there. Okay, quest. Or collect items, but... Oh, shoot. what is lighting d-a-r-k that i do not recall and by the way herb was giving you a little uh easter egg you can press the coin button when the ball's in the plunger lane you'll get like a manual right there on the the play field that's cool all right let's either flip it or enter battle. This is completely original and crazy. This is the kind of thing I expect from Multimorphic. Yeah. Yeah. Now, while this is the brain child of Herbski, I'd like to call out Merlin RTP because he's the guy that kind of brings the arcade feel to a pinball machine. Uh-huh. It makes them different in that way. Thundercats was like this. You could level up and train and, you know. build up your skill. I guess we're starting to see that now with some of the Stern Venom and other stuff, right? Yeah, just that table, actually. Just that one. But we've seen it in V-Pin before, and Merlin does it really well. He'll give an easy mode and a hard mode. He'll... Madness It's just not cool Roll it again, roll it again, roll it again Damn it You know what, I can't I gotta get the timing right McCarter, this is a Pretty small game publisher, so I wouldn't expect licensing would be huge if Multimorphic looked at something like this. Oh! Oh! Oh! That upper playfield would be jam-packed. Oh! Oh! Oh! So close. Did you see that? I did. You were close. Oh! It hurts, doesn't it? Oh my god. It literally says in the middle of the play film, Manu, why did I bother? I don't know, Astro. Why did you bother? I'm trying to think of a good diehard quote to give him right now, but I can't. There we go. this this is reminding me of how excited i got about um unreal tournament pinball this is from oxon yeah m1 box this feels this feels so much like like dungeon door defender on p3 or or unreal um totally being a troll here but what would this cost as a multimodal module um well since they are any generally between 3 000 and 3 500 they would probably put this oh as a no so what they would do is they would tack this on to a existing module and then charge you like 300 bucks something like that but you'd already have to have a module if they built a module for this which they totally could because all the shots are up there um probably 32 i just bought heist that was 32 but this would have a licensing component so it might be 35 for what's weird al cost weird al is 35 yeah it'd be 35 yeah weird al was the table i think that got them to the 35 price point You know what I mean Like before they were around 20 and then Weird Al showed up and like oh Once you start licensing stuff Yeah Of course, Weird Al uses original music and stuff, but so does this table. I gotta say, every time I hear this music and maybe I shouldn't say this because nope, you're not going to be able to unhear it, Marty. Should I? Okay. I covered my ears. I can't hear you. there's a part, and Grimmy, Grimmy, you're not going to be able to unhear it either. There's a part in the harp support, harp, where it goes, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So all I can hear is, let me see that thong. That thong, the thong, thong, thong. I'm like, why am I thinking of... Grimmy made me listen to that last night. Oh, my God. I know. I was like, why can't I hear the thong song in this game? I'm sorry, Herbski, but somehow you guys got the thong song in here. This ruined Darkest Dungeon for everybody. Darkest, yes. Oh, Marty. Oh, Marty. Let me see that thong. I'll be quiet so you guys can hear it. I need to go to the inn. I'm hearing it, trust me. All right. Let's go. Remy thought it was the McDonald's jingle. I'm loving it. Oh, yeah. Who's that? I'm getting people. Let's get some more people. Tell me if you need help. Reach out in our Discord. We're happy to help you if you are having issues getting the table to run. Yeah. When Marty says we, he means him. Because I can't help you. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I call Marty. I don't always know. Let's see. I like a ramp you can backhand. You can backhand both sides. Oh, you son of a... Man, this is insane. This is the magic of many talented people coming together and having a passion for common interest. This table's amazing. I saw your name in the credits too, man. You're not biased. I didn't do much. I really didn't. That's okay. You know the game. I... You know the game. I think the authors deserve to be celebrated. They put a lot of time and effort into this. Herb poured his heart and soul into this. So did Merlin. Everybody else did too. I asked her, I don't want to discount what you did. Everybody loved this and just took it and ran with it. So cool. I'm going to go on a quest now. What haven't I done? Let's do this. My launch button works. Nice. Your fire button works? Yeah, my fire button works. Oh, I have to hit lights? Oh, I get it. That thing spins your... Remove bleed and award points. Okay. Up and over. Oh, up and over! You'll get there. Damn it! I have faith. What did I have, 8x on the playfield? Shit. If one of those anti-gifts looks like a... 20 hours into it, I wouldn't say I was my heart and soul. And or soul. This is very, very impressive, kids. I'm digging this. Good recommendation, Astro. Astro, no one reads... Look, Astro, look. No one reads inserts the first hundred times they play a game. You know that. Did I read the inserts on Die Hard? I don't think so. Actually, I did. I want to just get that ramp now. Like, the whole game has become get that ramp. I sent you a still image of all the credits if you find that useful at all. Okay. I'll see if I can work that in. Alright, let's go. Alright, let's do another quest. Why is quest lit? Because I have people right now? Yeah, you have a party. You have a grave robber, the jester. Oh, I see. They're ready to rock. Yeah, but you can get items. You still have two slots for items. Where are the items? In the... That scoop on the right. It's hard to see there. Oh, I see this. Yep. This little treasure chest Yeah I made it as bright as I could kids Cause this is uh There are lots Darkest Darkest dungeon Yeah I tried a couple This is darkest dungeon It's It's a dark dungeon Okay Oh Battle There you go Okay Alright let's fight him I see wield What is a wield? Like a decaying Uh Swamp foresty At least that's what I recall from the game. They're just biomes. I hope I'm doing damage. That's a zygote astro. It's not the PP guy. Am I doing damage to anybody? Going for the ramps on this one, I think. Death blow? Oh. Oh, the ramps? I got a death blow. Wait, wait. No, no, you're right. I think you're right. Yeah, someone in your party members got killed. Oh, crap. Can I still kill this guy? Oh, he's the spinner. Is he? The blue thing is lit. I want to shoot the blue thing, right? I don't recall on this mode. I think you're trying to avoid the blue thing. Why would I avoid a blue thing? It's a flashing blue thing. It's beautiful. Inner orbit is awkward. Needs to go all the way around the right with three seconds. Herb says it needs tweaking, but yeah, you're right. It's the inner orbit. Okay, good. I like the blue thing. The blue thing looks cool. Yeah, sorry. It is. And you can hit it from back or front hand. There you go. Oh, see how it's not going all the way around? Yeah. That needs oiling. there. Hit that ramp. Let's hit this ramp because you can backhand it. There you go. Now the orbit. Yes! Yes! Nice! Second ball. And the right orbit. How am I doing? You're good. Back to the inner orbit for the last monster. Oh, geez. That orbit again? Yep. The blue thing. Your favorite. The blue thing. My favorite thing is the blue thing. So, it's the spinner or what is it? You got to go. It's the orbit around and you're not making it all the way around. but like Herb said, that's a problem on the table, not you. You're still up. You got 25 seconds. You're good. Yeah, it's not the spinner. It's the orbit around. There you go. You got it. I beat him? Yep. Now the center scoop for your bonus. Never mind. That's okay. I beat them. But you got them. come on bring it oh i'm getting better and better better you ain't poor anymore no no i'm still poor i'm still poor i only have a two screen layout but but yeah and and a ten thousand dollar pinball machine but but hey what happened i stepped wait i stepped away for a minute you can snort spores oh yeah i don't know if you watch the monsters they were commenting about what they called the p-man or the pp head man it was a zygote you were you were fighting a mushroom oh okay oh boss battle well Destroy targets to extinguish his fuse. Uh, okay. Stand-ups? Looks like it. I haven't gotten this one. The dude is literally telling me, but I'm not listening. It's also on the apron, but you don't have that. I'll turn the apron on on this one. For your personal, I would. It's easier to watch than the pup. No, no one's watching the pup during gameplay, guys. I'm sorry. No. Unless it's on your DMD. Yeah. The player is not going to be looking at the freaking pop! Oh, I should have let that bounce. Hey, look at this. That's cool. Oh, I guess they didn't disappear. Ha! Grammy. Grammy. Aprons. A fashionable alternative to pants. That's correct. Man, this is just... This is freaking baller. Oh! You got your name in. This is my... Marty, it's my second name in. You didn't see my first name in? No, I was probably ignoring you. Yeah. They took over my knocker and they made my knocker go clack. Yeah, table has an issue. After a few games, it's best to restart the puck. Okay. Let's restart. Should I, let me ask real quick, because I got probably time for one more game. Should I use a different pup option, or what should I be doing? No, it wasn't considered for the two screen, so just go with what you got. Oh, sorry. We're missing Charlie. Oh, Grimmy, I know why you did that. Hi, welcome to about 30 minutes ago, Manner. um marty i bet you don't know who's saying the thong song was that cisco it was cisco yeah okay it was one of his only hits he had one more after that i can't remember the name of it like leather and lace something or other i don't know oh really it wasn't as popular i don't know i have no idea all right let's go Dan? Who's Dan? Get off my game, Dan. I got this. It looks like Sade. It is. Howie, it's her? This is... No, this is... Marty, did you see my new stupid thing that pinballed this one? No, what? This is Emoto. Oh. Is she okay with you saying that? She doesn't know I'm saying it and you're not no one's gonna tell her right that i wear a t-shirt with a moto on it no no actually a moto and shade don't look anything alike nothing alike except the fact that they both have i don't know same hair faces they have the same hair as long as they both have faces that's true they both have faces faces people who need faces are the loveliest people. Speaking of faces, I mentioned Merlin and Herb. We also had Anthem, who did some pup videos. Oxon did the inserts. Did the pop-up targets. He did some scripting. If you have VR, this table looks awesome in VR. Tasty Wasp provided VR room and some overall table guidance. Astro did play-filled artwork and overall assistance. KG Lauer, who is actually Merlin's son, did a voiceover. What are you laughing about? Nothing. Why does she have a shirt with your face on it? Grammy, you are priceless. Yeah, why do you let Grammy do anything in your stream, Marty? You can't trust Grammy. I strangely I can he thinks a lot like I do it's really really uncanny now Grammys my bud he is Oh give me more characters no no no no I don't okay good I didn't want to fight anybody I don't want more yeah you have my axe you and And my bow. And my bow. I'm going to hit that ramp once this stream, before the stream is over, I'm hitting that ramp. Oh, that YouTube should have gotten me a RT. That rules document you liked, which is, if you haven't seen it, take a look at it. It's very well laid out and gorgeous. That was made by SuperHack. I printed it. And it's still printing. and I never waste printer paper and I was like, oh, this deserves to be printed and kept. That 3D model on the table and others were provided by Joe Picasso. You know that guy. I know Joe, yeah. Joey's badass. Let's go. Can I backhand? No, probably not. We got so many people, dude. We're going to go into this quest now. We're going to play something we haven't played, which I guess would be... Whatever this is. Howie, the answer to your question is, you can buy a cabinet from somebody, like VirtuaPen, LabArcades, and then you can put your own computer in there and go. There's no turnkey solutions other than the AtGames Legends cabinet. But even that doesn't come with a table like this. you would have to attach a PC and load it separately. If somebody does want to sell you a turnkey cabinet solution, new in-box, they probably are stealing from the community. You might look at a used one. Can I ask for at least a little bit of a ball save when the battle starts? Yeah. I felt the same way, but then I kept thinking about how unforgiving the real game was. I could ask. I'm not saying it has to happen. That's all I'm saying. I never try and tell people how to code their games. Do you want us to put kitty rails on the outlanes for you? Yeah. I'm okay with just getting better, you know? If you really want to spend the time with the table... This will make you want to get better. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no. Oh, so many dudes. And you got a full party. I have a full party. Okay, upper playfields. So this is where your magnet would come in handy. Upper play field. Top flipper up that ramp. Maybe my magnet doesn't work. So can you hold the ball real quick? Yeah. All right. So hit your right mag save real quick. Just tap it once. Okay, tap your left mag save. Oh, I'm not seeing it. Do you see something change on the table when you do that? There it is. See that purple light? That's the magnet. Oh, you can enable and disable that magnet on demand. Oh, Marty, you should have shown me that. Now I'm going to I tried to tell you table. No, you did. You tried to you you wanted to sabotage me. You you. Oh. Steve O Pub raiding with a party of 51 people Welcome Steve O thanks for the raid Steve O Pub I sorry you had to see that We were arguing We were Yeah we had a moment between us. Welcome in, Raiders. I'm Manu, and this is Game Club Central, and we are playing an amazing virtual pin. Thank you for the... Sheepwalla, what's up? Sheepwalla, oh my god. I haven't seen you forever! What's up, Nick? We are playing a game called Darkest Dungeon, which Game Club Central will be happy to tell you a brief synopsis on. Darkest Dungeon is a PC game that's now been ported into a real game. You have to start up a party of adventurers, take out the dungeon monsters, and then hit the boss. There's four dungeons. My weakness cannot be tolerated. Hi, Cascade. Good luck. Stevo, once again, thank you for the raid. Welcome in. Welcome, everybody. Cascade, yes, I did work out the P3. I worked out mine. Mine works now. I spent all day with a buddy who was trying to get his to work, and not so much. Anyway. Hey, did you know you could see Manu's P3 in the garage. In fact, he'll take you home with him on the way to his house from Free Go Watch. Just go to the Patreon. You can join for free or you can be a paying subscriber. Link in the chat. I didn't know where you were going with that, Marty, but yes. I'm trying to help you out, brother. I appreciate it. That was awesome. I forgot. I was like, I forgot I do special videos for patrons. And I was like, why are you telling them this, Marty? And you can join for free. You can join for free and see some of that stuff too. Yeah, yeah. All right. We're going to fight some of it. Not the OnlyFans stuff. Just some of it. Yeah, you can. We're going to fight in the cove. Let's go. Ooh. Going to need a blanket. Look at that. Look at that. Oh, if you defeat at least one boss, when you lose all five balls, you can trade a boss token and to continue. Oh, that's. Oh, whoa. Urbski with the freaking multi-game stuff. Yeah, I didn't want to get too deep on him until later once he got used to it. Yeah, please don't. There's a lot of depth to this table. That's why I said you're going to keep coming back to this one, Bono. It's got a lot of replayability. Shit. Oh, stand-up targets! What the? I mean drop targets. Yep, On the playfield. Didn't see those coming, did you? No, I didn't even see where they were. Oh, you're so lucky. No madness. I came for Darkest Dungeon, and I end up with Cactus Canyon. Come on, let's kill these motherfrackers. Get away from my pinball machine, you bitch. Okay, let's go. but yeah by the way i'm streaming a alien uh ripley edition on thursday so i'm psyched sheep this is actually an original layout based on a guy named jp salas who created wrath of olympus and this was um this uses that layout Oh! Why is that drop target so freaking hard? Just hit it, Manu. I don't know, but Grimmy says you need a hat and I need a clock. What? He's calling you Chuck D and me Flava Flav. I am no Chuck D. that's for sure just oh nice oh oh my god just hit it just hit it just hit it just hit it so those that use that came from steve o's um manu's playing virtual pinball on a real cabinet it's a full size with a 43 inch monitor it's 4k 120 hertz super responsive yo bro thank you yeah thanks to marty for giving hooking me up with the screen that everybody asked me about now i don't think you can buy anymore ah actually you can i i recommended it to somebody last night is it still on sale uh you can i don't know about now but it was three days ago the new hotness is the lg oled um i'm hearing great things about that oh no don't make oh don't make me no no no no no you and i are good where we're at for a while buddy all right to me it's more about the responsiveness than the blackest of blacks yeah uh i actually said uh i want targets just like cactus you you actually did is that a real thing that happened see i can i can see them now but before i didn't see them let's go back to the end oh yeah i didn't want to call them out to you and i want like the darkness mode you haven't really you've gotten that a couple times but you haven't ball safe you mean darkness that most darkness yeah darkness darkness all right let's finish up this game my family probably thinks I'm crazy right now once again Steve thank you for the you're probably gone but thank you for the raid that's really nice I love you love you to death darkness confirmed what's that not concerned about the blackest blacks mr. hard like Marty short you shout out your channel please shout out game of central because if you actually want to help with this you have to talk to Marty Am I here? Can you shout out? Can you shout out? I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to try. You try. I just got to frigging mod you, dude. No. That's it. That's it. I'm modding you tonight. I'm modding you. You know I won't be bad like Grammy. No, I just do it just because I'm being a dick to you. Oh, I know that. Okay, good. Now you come to my channel, you don't say anything, you lurk. I shout you out and you're like, crickets. It's fine. As long as you know I know you're eating your meat and rice I'm eating my meat and rice Whatever You're like the girl in like third grade that I like And I just go up and hit them I know I know It's fine Oh guess who just noticed that there's a captive ball over here Never ever There's too much stuff on this table. What is going on in chat? Why are you giggling? They say everybody's a dick to Marty. I never lurk in Marty's chat. They're picking on me. Okay, Mr901. Happy to help, man. I'm in Manu's Discord. I've got a Discord. Everybody's got a Discord here. Discord there. Discord. I'm kind of just having fun shooting this play field right now oh no that was bad I gotta tell the team who worked on this thank you because I was really kind of bummed tonight and uh I was like there's nothing I'm inspired to play I can't play anything and Astrid was like yo give Darkest Dungeon a try trust me it's baller and I was like I was super impressed. Yay! What was that? It was Grammy being a baller. Oh my god, Grammy! Grammy gives him 5, 2, 1 subs to the community, to BoardDog, to Basetone, to Lamb, to Meatball, and to Stephen Silver, who's gonna be like, so freaking happy. Whoa! Oh! Jerks. Oh my god. Marty, did you shout yourself out? I can't. We talked about this. Okay, I'll shout you out. It's the meat and rice that's eating your brain. You're welcome. Um, Astro? Level three. Astro, let's not talk about how I worded it. Let's just talk about how I love everyone. Let's do a quest. Hey, you can do XXX. Oh, look at that. Oh, that was so cool. Collect gamble. Yep, welcome to gambling. The mini game. Oh, no, what's going on? Hit left and right ramps. You're gambling. Oh, shit. All right, all right. Roll the dice, brother. You feeling lucky, punk? Is that how I roll? It is now. Ramps? left and right ramps to increase your bonus. Collect at center scoop. Oh, boy. Should I collect? Should I collect? You got 20 seconds? You can get one more ramp and then collect? Or no, yeah, you should collect. You're flirting with drainage. 500,000 baby Sneak eyes I'm still in it I'm still in it Oh no So you're gambling You're betting against their role Isn't that neat Dude yo Oh my god, there's so much in this stupid game. It has a surprise for you at every turn. Oh, man. Shout out Merlin's Darkest Dungeon. Yes, this is cool. All right, I think it was my last ball. Man. Yes, let's go. I love that I get my party members, and then they could die, right? But I can... Yeah. but you can collect more at the next dungeon when you start the next dungeon you can go back to the end fill your party back up fill your items back up so I got the magnet thing so that's cool oh I missed it like I just wanted to do it just for the heck of it can I hit that magnet any time you can turn it on and off yeah yep yo come on come on let's make a physical game with that that's pretty cool well I'm ready to get her that's a feature of wrath of olympus okay so if you've ever played mr. j crane has scooby-doo that has a a magnet you can turn on and off as well. Hey! What's up, Fiend? Thank you for the raid! Oh, this is my favorite song ever. What's up, Stadius? My favorite song. It gets me so hyped. By the way, if anybody wants to download this table, here's a direct link to the table. It includes everything you need. Turn these lights on, man. I gotta turn these lights on. I gotta turn these lights on. I got one more light to go! Oh! Oh! Oh! Wow, level three hype train. Thank you guys so much. It's so great. Persona 5. Yes! Irod, steadiest rhyme, owns the Persona 5. owns Persona 5 like everything on this channel. The only reason Persona's on this channel is because of the studies. I'm clapping for myself, Marty. Well, you really should. You did a great job. Pat yourself on the back. Did you see that? GCC, baby. Thank you, man. Oh, you're welcome. What do you have to say for yourself? I don't know. I don't remember asking you a god damn thing yeah I'm wasting a thousand points for that and that's all you can say oh my god yeah so ladies and gentlemen this is the this is the darkest darkest dungeon it is available in the VP universe um herbski said there's going to be a couple more updates and then get your hands on it play some of this this reminds me of games like um ranger in the ruins and um some of the other kind of like uh i don't know how many dungeon based games there are actually pinball games um not too many huh and you're the real reason for the persona 5 love oh Once again, Marty, thank you for helping me with this game. I guess eventually my manual will get printed out. Of course it will. I have faith. If your printer's not totally hosed. Yeah, I don't know why it's taking so long. Yes, Diablo. Thank you, Astro. Diablo was fun, too. Yeah. Scotty Wick. Scotty Wick. Wait, Scotty Wick and J.P. Salas, right? Yeah, that was Scotty and JP. That's like Sonny and Cher. That's like Donny and Marie. It's like person in person that people below the age of 40 wouldn't get at all. We haven't heard from Scotty since Pizza Time went to At Games. Miss that guy. I miss printing shit on someone else's... What? I miss printing shit on someone else's... that's the guy alright guys see you later, Marty when are you streaming? every day I stream tomorrow 9pm FX3 Thursday we do a VPX weekly tournament Fridays I stream before Manu and Raiden to him before he does his theater join Manu's Discord to drive where the theaters goes, by the way. There's Sunday. I stream a lot. He streams a lot. Did you do your recap yet? Of what? So Twitch has a yearly recap. You probably will get a notification. And they want you to go over it with your viewers. But I had 550 streams last year. I'm ashamed of myself. no i didn't go over recap maybe i should go over recap you might want to let me know let's compare sizes the better question is when is game time not streaming exactly i am going to uh oh um alien or pop-up oh uh yeah isaiah reminds me thursday isaiah we're gonna play the ripley edition of alien i know we were supposed to do pop-up but the pinball brothers actually um an employee of the pinball brothers actually was like hey so when you're gonna stream the ripley edition and i'm like okay let's go i'll stream the ripley edition on thursday it's amazing ripley's all over it we love it it's actual physical pinball machine in case people want to know and on fridays we're celebrating surreal's birthday in the theater we're watching johnny mnemonic that's right johnny mnemonic 8 p.m pacific time we're referring to johnny mnemonic party game club central isn't that exciting that's exciting whoa I think alright say goodnight Marty goodnight Marty hey kids uh do me a favor we're gonna go rate don't panic flip my streaming brother from another mother as as marty would put it um stick around say hello uh throw some mbt3k love in there don't panic clip is the guy that i followed in the beginning if you want to see awesome stuff check him out i'll see you guys on thursday i don't know why i'm talking like this

high confidence · Marty provides detailed overview of game flow as core tutorial during stream

  • “I hope Herbski understands that I am printing out the manual. This is a game that's like, you'd have to read the manual before you start”

    Host@ 31:09 — Recognition that the table's complexity requires rule documentation

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    high · Playfield redraw improves visuals; N-Fuzzy physics implemented; host notes complexity requiring manual study; in-game manual feature

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    gameplay_signal: Table features sophisticated rule set with dungeon progression, party management, item collection, condition tracking (bleed, madness, fear), and environmental challenges across multiple themed areas

    high · Marty's rule explanation covers multiple mechanics; host struggles initially without manual; conditions like 'madness' affect table behavior; multiple dungeon biomes (Cove, Weild, Ruins)

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    sentiment_shift: Host begins with learning curve frustration (complexity, missing apron, playfield visibility) but quickly transitions to high praise after understanding mechanics and recognizing creator effort

    high · Early: 'I'm not frustrated but definitely like I wouldn't have played this without trying the manual'; Mid-late: 'This is the magic of many talented people...This table's amazing'

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    product_strategy: Darkest Dungeon VPX demonstrates feasibility of adapting indie PC games (no major licensing barriers) for VPX, potentially expanding available themes beyond traditional pinball IP or major franchises

    medium · Host notes: 'if Multimorphic looked at something like this...licensing wouldn't be huge' due to indie game nature; speculates potential $35 module price point similar to Weird Al