HEAVY METAL PINBALL! Private Label game from Incendium!

TL;DR

Dead Flip streams Heavy Metal pinball from Incendium with gameplay, rules explanation, and production details.

Summary

Key Claims

• Heavy Metal is a private label game produced by Incendium with only 300 units being manufactured

  high confidence · Jack Danger states directly: 'this is one of one of how many uh there's 300 one of 300' and later 'And there only 300 of them being made'

• The game features characters from Heavy Metal that are receiving voices for the first time (Tarna, Nelson, Lyra)

  high confidence · Jody/Wason state: 'This is the first time Tarna has a voice. First time Nelson has a voice. First time Lyra has a voice. Lyra. Okay. They were very excited about us giving them voices.'

• All songs in the game were hand-chosen by Heavy Metal or are cover versions

  high confidence · Jody explains: 'all the songs were hand-chosen by Heavy Metal themselves' and mentions 'There's a handful from the original soundtrack. There's a handful from the soundtrack, and there's a handful that was hand-picked by Heavy Metal. And then there were some cover songs done for it.'

• The game uses dot matrix display (DMD) technology rather than LCD

  high confidence · Jack states: 'It's a DMV with a full video. There you go. Yep, it's DMV, baby.' and later 'It's a real DMV. It's not a fake. It's not an LCD pretending to be a DMV.'

• The cabinet features a special galaxy speckle armor with black-teal-to-purple color shift

  high confidence · Jack explains: 'this is in a cabinet that has a special kind of armor on it. And when you look at it, it's like this galaxy speckle. It's like a deep, it's like a black teal that turns into purple when you look at it from an angle.'

• Mimi Ertz (daughter of animator Chuck Ertz) created the dot matrix animations

  high confidence · Wason states: 'who did the animations mimi did me Mimi. Mimi. Chuck Ertz's daughter. Oh, Chuck's daughter. She did a fabulous job.'

• Sammy Hagar purchased two units of the Heavy Metal game

  medium confidence · Jody claims: 'Sammy Hagar bought two. One for two.' and 'Jody claims there's one for home and one for Cabo.'

Notable Quotes

• “This is the first time Tarna has a voice. First time Nelson has a voice. First time Lyra has a voice.”

  Wason (programmer) @ ~26:00 — Highlights the unique licensing achievement of getting voiceover approval from Heavy Metal Magazine for characters that have existed since the 1970s-1980s

• “All the songs were hand-chosen by Heavy Metal themselves.”

  Jody Dankberg @ ~15:00 — Indicates deep IP collaboration and music licensing specifically curated by the magazine

• “It's a real DMD. It's not a fake. It's not an LCD pretending to be a DMD. We went old school for this.”

  Jack Danger @ ~68:00 — Confirms use of classic dot matrix display technology, a notable choice in modern pinball manufacturing

• “I hope DMD stays around forever... I'm kind of there too.”

  [name withheld pending review] @ ~25:00 — Reflects the community's fondness for traditional DMD displays vs. modern LCD screens

• “Everything is from the Heavy Metal universe, from the magazine itself. It's all their style of artwork. The images they've had over the many, many years that Heavy Metal has been around.”

  Wason @ ~16:00 — Shows deep thematic integration of decades of Heavy Metal Magazine's visual and creative assets

• “This is the one I'm taking home... I'll be nice”

  Jack Danger @ ~20:00 — Indicates this prototype/pre-release unit belongs to Jack Danger after the stream

• “Sammy Hagar bought two. One for home and one for Cabo.”

  Jody Dankberg @ ~61:00 — Notable celebrity collector purchase, indicative of game's appeal beyond hardcore enthusiasts

• “There's 300 of them being made... Most are spoken for, but there's some available.”

  Jack Danger @ ~62:00 — Demonstrates FOMO-driven limited edition model typical of modern pinball manufacturing

Entities

Signals

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  product_launch: Heavy Metal pinball game from Incendium officially launched/demonstrated with 300-unit production run

  high · Extensive live gameplay stream showing completed game with all features functional, animations done, music integrated

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  product_strategy: Heavy Metal employs limited edition strategy with exactly 300 units; most already pre-ordered with few remaining

  high · Jack Danger explicitly states '300 of them' and 'Most are spoken for, but there's some available'

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  licensing_signal: Deep licensing partnership with Heavy Metal Magazine including character voice approvals, music curation, artwork integration

  high · Magazine approved character voices for first time ever; hand-selected or approved all music; provided decades of artwork assets

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  design_innovation: Game uses traditional DMD display rather than modern LCD despite current industry trend toward color LCD screens

  high · Wason and Jack explicitly discuss choosing DMD; Jack states 'It's a real DMD. It's not a fake. It's not an LCD'

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  manufacturing_signal: Incendium producing exactly 300 units for private label release through exclusive website distribution

  high · Multiple references to '300 units' and exclusive Incendium website sales; no mention of distributor channels

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