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Venom Pinball (Premium) Debut Live From SDCC!

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TL;DR

Stern Venom Pinball SDCC debut showcases host-selection mechanic and Insider Connected integration.

Summary

Jack Danger and Brian Eddy present a live gameplay debut of Stern's Venom Pinball at San Diego Comic-Con 2023. Eddy showcases the game's core mechanics: character host selection (Eddie Brock, Flash Thompson, Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker, plus unlockable Venomized Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine) that dynamically changes playfield scoop configuration and shot patterns; fast ball-lock mechanics enabling 2-6 ball multiballs; prominent Carnage and Doppelganger animatronics; and deep Insider Connected integration with persistent leveling, character unlocks, speedrun tracking, and cross-location progression. The game features music by Mark Tremonti and emphasizes accessibility with smooth shot flows and combo-based progression.

Key Claims

  • Venom features four selectable character hosts (Eddie Brock, Flash Thompson, Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker) plus three unlockable hosts (Venomized Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine) that change playfield scoop configuration and shot patterns

    high confidence · Brian Eddy directly demonstrates each character's playfield layout changes; detailed explanation of scoop mechanics for each host

  • Mark Tremonti provided 12+ music tracks focused on Eddie Brock host, with different styles for each character and integrated sound design throughout the game

    high confidence · Brian Eddy states 'We got 12 or so tracks from Tremonti that are focused on him' and notes music varies by character

  • Fast lock mechanism immediately kicks balls from locks to flippers rather than routing through traditional trough/kickout sequence

    high confidence · Brian Eddy: 'it will immediately kick out from these locks to the flipper...it's this really fast experience full of strength and power'

  • Insider Connected feature enables persistent leveling (up to level 30+ to reach wizard mode), cross-location character progression, speedrun timing, and team-up character unlocks

    high confidence · Brian Eddy detailed explanation: requires level 10 to battle Riot, level 20 for Grendel, level 30 for Null; confirms persistent saves across different machines

  • Carnage is a kinetic animatronic that moves based on hit force; pushing him back far enough triggers Carnage multiball on center ramp

    high confidence · Brian Eddy: 'When you hit it kinetically, it pushes Carnage back...depending on how hard you hit that ball will determine how far he goes back'

  • Doppelganger is a pop-up animatronic triggered by hitting infected targets; features three uplift targets with lighting mechanics

    high confidence · Brian Eddy demonstrates Doppelganger mechanics and identifies uplift targets as part of the mech

  • Players can lock up to six balls total (three per side) with different battle opponents and bonuses depending on side chosen

    high confidence · Brian Eddy: 'you can lock up to six balls—so three on each side. And depending on which side you lock them in, it's different characters that you battle'

Notable Quotes

  • “Choose Your Host, Change the Game.”

    Brian Eddy @ ~3:20 — Core design tagline defining Venom's primary differentiator—character host selection mechanic that alters playfield layout and rules

  • “It's this really fast experience full of strength and power. It's like there's nothing like it. I mean, it really feels good, and you have to play it to really experience it.”

    Brian Eddy @ ~8:40 — Designer passion for fast-lock mechanic; emphasizes the experiential nature of the design that cannot be conveyed through video/description alone

  • “I love them. They're like super hyper Pez dispensers, washing balls out at you.”

    Jack Danger @ ~8:50 — Accessible metaphor for fast-lock mechanic that captures the rapid-fire ball ejection design

  • “You can't fall asleep playing this game. It really does keep you on your toes, because when you shoot a ball up there, you're expecting that to like feed down, because typically that's how pinball goes. But then it kicks the ball down here while that's still sort of traveling up there, so you don't have time to rest.”

    Brian Eddy @ ~9:00 — Design philosophy: subverts player expectations of traditional pinball ball flow to maintain engagement

  • “So maybe it takes you 20 games to get to level 20. Maybe it'll take 50 games, but what's cool about that is eventually you will be able to get to level 30, 40, 50, and you'll be able to play the final wizard mode, which in most games you can never do, right?”

    Brian Eddy @ ~17:50 — Insider Connected progression design philosophy: enables casual players to eventually reach endgame content through persistence rather than skill gates

  • “We tried really to do something a little bit different. So I hope people really like it.”

    Brian Eddy @ ~33:40 — Designer acknowledges non-traditional shot condition structure as intentional design departure

  • “Dwight and the soccer team's done an amazing job making all this work.”

    Jack Danger — Credit to Dwight Sullivan and programming team for managing complex multi-ball logic and stacking mechanics

Entities

Jack DangerpersonBrian EddypersonDwight SullivanpersonMark TremontipersonVenom PinballgameStern PinballcompanyInsider ConnectedproductSan Diego Comic-Con 2023event

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Stern conducting live stream reveal with direct designer participation and real-time community questions; encouraging convention attendance for hands-on play

    high · Jack Danger: 'stream it at seven o'clock...get your questions in before seven'; Brian invites attendees to 'come play tomorrow to the arcade'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Flash Thompson character identified as popular choice among competitive players; advanced mechanics (host switching, multiball stacking, speedrun timing) suggest depth for tournament play

    medium · Dwight Sulllivan states 'Good players will probably pick Flash'; speedrun feature enabled; multi-level progression allows skilled play differentiation

  • ?

    design_innovation: Fast-lock mechanic subverts traditional pinball ball flow expectations by immediately ejecting locked balls to flippers while upper ball still traveling, maintaining continuous engagement

    high · Brian Eddy: 'You can't fall asleep playing this game...when you shoot a ball up there, you're expecting that to like feed down...but then it kicks the ball down here while that's still sort of traveling up there'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Venom employs host-selection mechanic that dynamically alters playfield scoop routing and shot patterns, combined with fast-lock immediate feedback design to create constant engagement

    high · Brian Eddy: 'Choose Your Host, Change the Game' tagline; detailed explanation of scoop reconfiguration for each host; emphasis on no-rest gameplay from fast locks

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Venom features Marvel/Spider-Man IP with multiple character hosts (Eddie Brock, Flash Thompson, Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker, plus Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine variants); music composition integrated per-character

Topics

Character host selection mechanic and dynamic playfield configurationprimaryFast ball-lock and multiball stacking mechanicsprimaryInsider Connected persistent progression systemprimaryCarnage and Doppelganger animatronics designprimaryMusic composition by Mark Tremonti across character hostssecondaryAccessibility and shot flow design philosophysecondarySpeedrun feature integration via Insider ConnectedsecondarySpider-Sense center button mechanic during battlesmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.85)— Both Jack Danger and Brian Eddy express enthusiasm for Venom's design. Jack frequently uses positive language ('I love that', 'that's awesome', 'incredible') and Brian demonstrates pride in the mechanical execution. No significant criticisms or concerns raised. Community engagement cues (live stream comments, crowd encouragement) suggest positive reception at Comic-Con.

Transcript

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yeah I hope you're enjoying that other shot what's up ladies and gentlemen Jack danger here coming to you live from San Diego Comic-Con 2023 where we are unveiling a brand new game you may have seen some photos of videos but today we're going to show you the gameplay and who better to explain what's going on and show us what's up than the actual designer Brian Eddy Brian thanks for joining us thanks Jack excited to be here excited to be at Comic-Con it's my first Comic-Con so I am wait ever ever what the [ __ ] well in San Diego okay got it dude that's incredible um yeah this game's amazing uh we've got a whole mess of them here so if you're coming to Comic-Con this year um the arcade has uh like 18 18. 16 16 for players so we have 16 here and then we have two actually on the convention floor that you can jam on uh Pro and premium uh Brian went around kissing them all they're going to be perfect to play yeah so um so we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna do the thing we're gonna do the game reveal thing where we're gonna let Brian discuss a few things we're going to shoot on it at seven o'clock we go live on the front page so get ready for the chaos so if you have any questions we got to get them in before seven because you won't be able to type anything at that point um but I say we jump right into it and we just start doing the thing huh are you ready all right let's do it uh but if he's acting weird just so you know what you hear game wise he can also hear through these weird like bone headphones that go through a skull um let's do it okay we're done talking all right so uh Brian what model of game are we standing over right now all right so this is the premium and LE model of the play field and it has the most toys on it so I'm really excited to show this one off heck yeah so just jump right in you know what uh internet if if you're okay he's just gonna start talking pointing clicking and clacking all right yeah you're fine with it let's go knock yourself out let's do it okay okay I'm just going to go over some of the big cool new things on the game and then we'll play a bunch right and I'll kind of point out other rules along the way totally just so I don't bore everybody completely yeah so you you do your thing I'll yield some questions uh you just go to town okay so one of the coolest things about this game is you've probably seen the tagline if you've seen any of the videos which is choose your host change the game so I'm going to show you a little bit about that really quick here and then we'll start diving in so right at the start of every ball and sometimes in the game you could actually change what host Venom is in and what does that mean well it means it changes a bunch of things about the game it changes the rules and what each character is good at and bad at and what Specialties they have so from a player sampling and say well I really like multiballs I want to play Eddie Brock because he's better at multiballs so what character you choose will change and we show all this stuff up on the screen you're showing the screen too right there Jack yeah yeah if you notice over on the right hand side there I'm going to switch some characters you can see according for Duty what some of these special things that they each can do so there's four characters you can choose from to host with at the beginning of the game and what's really cool is there's also three more really cool characters venomized Hulk Captain America and Wolverine that you can unlock eventually deep into the game so just to put that as a little bit something also that's happening that's cool is when you are cycling through the character you want to play you're actually watching the Playfield change at the same time together so let's let's show that a little bit so if you look in the back are you on the camera with that Jack yeah okay so this is Eddie Brock you can see we have the 180 scoop right here the ball flips around and comes back to the to the lock into the left flipper so that's in that position over on the right it's just flat here so that means it goes into a loop around the back into a drop hole so that's the configuration for Eddie Brock when we change the flange Thompson you can see the scoop moves and it changes into a blockade here with an up down post that holds the ball briefly so this shot completely changes in the left side you notice a little ramp came up and that leads to a loop all the way around back to the left orbit back to the right flipper so again changing the shot patterns of the game depending on which character you choose and we'll go to Gwen Stacy everybody's favorite um she on her site you can see the scoop moved again and now there's a pass through to a sharp U-turn a really fast U-turn that flips around from left up to the right Clipper you can shoot it with either flipper and it comes back around if you shoot the left side the right side will go down into uh if you can see in the back here there's a hole it also leads to this web Slinger Buck over here and kicks it back up on to the right Clipper to the right block so again changing shot patterns and then the last one Peter Parker um we go back to the 180 scoop but then he gets the the up ramp on this side and the right orbit actually will go to the pop bumpers instead of going all the way around the orbits so again lots of choices it's really fun to just play each of the different characters find the one that you like that you feel you know more attached to and then you'll eventually discover too with the rules that some do things better than others yeah and the music is different for each character as well right absolutely yeah each one has its own style um you know Gwen Stacy is kind of a funky music and who do we have for Eddie Brock Mark Tremonti yes we got 12 or so tracks from Mark Tremonti that are focused on him it's not just the tune it's also webbed throughout the game and the awards and other stuff that you will hear different sound effects so it's almost like having four different soundtracks in one game which is really cool so it takes a different flavor for every character okay so that's the choose your host change your game and that's one of our really new cool cool big features next I think I'll talk about these fast locks because they're one of my favorites yeah um so you can see all these triangles on the Playfield are locks so just about every shot can potentially go to one of these ball locks on the right or left side which is really cool depending on which one's lit so as a player you can choose when these are lit to lock a ball on the right or the left side and when you have at least two you can start a multiball if you want but if you want to use some strategy and try to push it up to higher number multiple you can lock up to six balls so three on each side and depending on which side you lock them in it's different characters that you battle and different bonuses you can potentially get so again a good risk reward from a player's standpoint you know am I going to just take that two ball and try to get some points or am I going to push my luck a little bit and try to lock some more balls and go for a six ball heck yeah I love that because there's like you said that really awesome risk reward of actually like lining all that stuff up right exactly the other cool thing about these locks is and you really have to experience that so you got to come down and play the game here at Comic-Con is the fast passing of these locks so most of the shots will lead to these two shots and instead of waiting for the ball to fall down into play fill in the troughs to kick out and come back to the flipper it will immediately kick out from these locks to The Flipper so what this does in the game is it's just like Venom it's this really fast experience full of strength and power that it's it's like there's nothing like it I mean it really feels good and you have to play it to really experience I love them they're like Super Hyper Pez dispensers washing balls out at you yeah you can't fall asleep playing this game it really does keep you on your toes because when you shoot a ball up there you're expecting that to like feed down because typically that's how pinball goes but then it kicks the ball down here while that's still sort of traveling up there so you you don't have time to rest you're playing this game the whole time right yep and it is it does feel like a battle against all these superheroes um okay so we'll show that and you'll experience it but again it's you really got to play it to get the full feel um so the next really cool unique thing is the Carnage Mech so Carnage is your main adversary in this game you're battling Carnage because he wants to reawaken null the god of the Symbiotes to take over the Earth and bring chaos into everything but Carnage is the the ring leader to everything so he's got his own mechanism here there's a captive ball that's stationary here when you hit it kinetically it pushes Carnage back so depending on how hard you hit that ball will determine how far he goes back so if you get a good solid hit he may go three quarters of the way back yeah or just a slight glance you may only move up a little bit so the goal here is to push Carnage back in the ravencroft anybody who knows the lure behind uh Carnage that's where the criminally insane that's where Carnage was kept when he broke out so we're trying to get him back into ravencroft and once you get them back into it you get light Carnage multiball on the center ramp here and then all chaos kind of breaks out of card is taking over so that's Carnage over here so he remembers where he's at which is which is really cool you'll see that during play um the next cool Mech that we want to talk about is doppelganger over here on the right yeah so doppelganger um he kind of just hangs out on the side here you don't even know what's going on and when you hit enough of the infected targets which are all the stand-ups around the game and you hit enough of them he's just gonna jump out and attack just like happens in the movies right and happens in the Marvel Comics he'll jump out and attack swing into action and come down and he's got three targets hanging below him yep we call the uplift targets one of them we lit two of them different patterns all you have to do is hit that light that sounds really simple isn't it Jack is it simple no no not at all it's actually quite challenging and really fun because it takes over the game your focus changes and you want to hit that Target you just really do and it becomes a challenge when he jumps in it's really obvious because he just swings right out oh yeah it's a huge State change for sure music change everything yes so those are probably the core big things there's lots of different shot patterns around the back there's orbits there's three ramps four if you want to count the up down ramp there's a bell tower with a oh you can catch I don't know if you guys can hear that but it's real well it's the details I love it I love it um so those are the main features I'd say we just start playing and maybe I can talk a little bit about this progression through the game and how you get to battle all the different enemies up to null love it go grab some glass and we'll uh we'll we'll set this baby up and I have uh is there oh that right there behind you let me restart this for you we'll talk about all the cool icy stuff on here too yeah let's do that before we even start all right that's exciting set ties into the characters thank you and it's a good segue to this grid all right yeah why don't you uh if that's something you can talk about now yeah let's do it so Insider connected we're really trying to push some of the boundaries and give players something more and there's and it does a couple really cool things in this game so one of the features in this game is you level up as you play so as you do everything in the game you battled Apple gang or hit Carnage going to Mayhem multiball with the with the side locks you'll be getting experience points and you'll be leveling up in the game and you actually have to get to level 10 to start fighting Riot agnifed oh I see that now I actually had Riot lit uh but I I wasn't able to battle him I didn't realize right on the play field and to get to Grendel it's level 20 and the beat the null or even the battle no I mean you got to get to level 30. awesome so what's cool about that you can do that one game if you're Jack danger if you're me you'll get to maybe level eight or ten or something like that right but the cool thing about Insider connected if you play Insider connected it saves that level over game amazing so maybe it takes you 20 games to get to level 20. maybe take 50 games but what's cool about that is eventually you will be able to get to level 30 40 50. and you'll be able to play the final wizard mode which in most games you can never do right right or at least I can never do you can do but I can never that's a cool way of keeping progression right for sure so it's also it builds up the strength of Venom as your character so as you move at levels you get stronger so at level 10 it may take like eight shots to beat one of these right Agony phage or Lasher but if you're up to level like 40 or something it may only take two or three shots because you're stronger it makes you stronger you can fight stronger take them out a little bit faster so I think as somebody plays even if they play over months they'll eventually get to know and they'll eventually beat no hopefully because they'll be so strong and the cool thing is then you get to unlock these three different characters these three different hosts that you can pick those are the ones I talked about at the beginning Captain America or Wolverine that's it and though they're really cool characters and the game amps up with them and you can choose from me bar and with Insider connected once you unlock those they stay unlocked forever oh and you bring it with you to the barn same with your level wherever you go it stays that's awesome there's a couple other features like that like these Team Up characters who jump into a battle and help you in the game they'll also stay once you light them they'll hold over until any game that you play we have another really cool feature um call out to Dwight for this one is we have a speed run feature popular in video games forever it's like yeah yeah so I think that's what toys think we got to put it in so there's a timer running if you're inside or connected from the minute you press start until you've beaten all oh whoa and you will be time that whole time and you'll be there's a high score for it so I we think it's going to be really fun to see if we can get some that's the fastest and the lowest time so that holds over to the things that are connected so lots of new features you can also go to inside connected on the website you can see your status of where you're at what level you're at and whether you're having the team up characters and your speed run time all that stuff is saved for people to see love it well I I say we beat the heck out of this thing you could talk a little bit about what's happening all right go all right internet um should we put two players in or do you want me to play and you'll do a little commentary uh let's do two okay so you can see how a bad player looks so I'll suck first and then yeah yeah yeah so here let me let me log into Insider listen all right all right Zach Sharps here okay and he's like he's reminding me what to do because I'm I'm forgetting there you go Stern danger prediction game open now all right we are there this is all live right now yeah we're here come play tomorrow you can log in you can be up oh yeah by the way internet come here tomorrow to the arcade and you can jam on us so like he said you can use your left flipper button to change where your skill shot's gonna be and your right flipper button changes the character You're Gonna Play I'm gonna do uh Mr Flash Thompson here and my skill shirts on the far right and I missed it but I got a lock so that doesn't matter you can hear the game I cannot hear it you don't hear the game okay oh it sits in front on the bone of your skull let me turn it up turn it up a little I think that's where it is I think it's there I just came here there you go okay is it too loud no that's good all right all right let's see Jack turns volume's low all right I'll turn yeah we got bone phones on All Right There You Go internet so so one of the cool things that I was talking about before is this Grid at the bottom here to see it's great with all these Awards in the centers so what Jack is going to try to do is hit a shot yeah so he has three colors he has yellow blue and white and you can see those matching the arrows up there these are simple two-way combos all he has to do is make one shot and then the other within a few seconds just so you know I turned the ball save off oh you did yeah so good luck good God I can turn it back on for instructional purposes you're rough Jack all right we'll see okay I'm gonna go with Eddie Brock because he's a little better at multiballs and I think I'm going to need that to come close to Jack I'm switching my skill shot up to the 180 scoop in there that's how it's done one shot double Point score [Music] so now I scored one of these lights too because I got the skill shot which is always a fun bonus to the uh lines and dots game if you'll remember playing with your friends we're like you draw a line in the middle of the line you're trying to circle the the art that's on the Playfield to get that thing like an extra ball if you can do the Four Points there or plus one Playfield and stuff like that it's actually a pretty neat idea all right so now I'm actually up to three balls but I'm Gonna Cancel because I'm gonna try to go to four balls locks the one thing I really love about this game is it's so accessible the shots are all easy to make and smooth and it becomes the combos and succession you can see the ball really moves in this game [Music] I love that yeah you'll have like two balls moving but it knows only once it's supposed to come out right the logic there is incredible it's pathetic [Music] yeah Dwight and the soccer team's done an amazing job making all this work huh well there you go I got to give you a chance Joe yeah thanks bro thanks bro okay mini modes all right let's see if I can actually do something so there's the blue and you'll see they're they're colored here so like in order to get the dots that you need just uh follow follow the magic oh there you go hilltower okay let's shoot up here we'll talk about the bell tower here so the bell tower once you make two of the center ramp shots in a row and then you hit the bell tower which is a combo you just flow together pull off your Playfield multiplier for a certain amount of time and then if you do three in a row and do it again it UPS it again if you do four in a row and hit it it UPS it again so it's a great strategy thing should I try to up my placement multipliers before I get into a multiball I love that hold I'm trying to figure I keep changing what I want to shoot for you so the uh these swirly guys here yeah those are the drones those are the effect infected thank you so all those targets are the infected and when you hit enough infected you can see it on the screen here it's full right now oh once he gets to certain levels Awards come out and one of them is doppelganger how Dara all right you know what's interesting these targets that you have here are so they like hit each other almost it's awesome all right so I want that orbit for the don't do it I just wanted you to see the danger you know okay then you notice it changed right to the yellow one they're all flowing shots too so as you make one it leads right to the next one yeah so we purposely lined them all up that way and one of the unique things about this game this game is it's not traditional conditions like you're seeing a lot of games we tried really to do something a little bit different so I hope people really like it oh these little tasks these little combos are always active they're always trying to fill in the Grid it's always rolling there's doppelganger in the grid right now he just got the third one boom so now I need oh I think Agony I am level 10. he's level 12. so I can actually battle yeah there he goes he's gonna battle Agony but he's only level 12 so this is gonna be a tough battle it's gonna be even tougher if I drain all right come on stay alive baby give me a second all right so there's a shot these are timed modes and you can see on the screen every time he makes a shot they're fighting on the screen and doing a battle and there's a health bar at the top here so he's trying to get the health bar to Zero by hitting the red shots oh he's halfway there halfway there come on so that purple shot there what is that in the scoop that is a Super Attack if I can nail it yeah you can see it lit up on the billboard here the special attack that gives you a really big hit from a bunch from the health bar oh there we go so you might have done it that may have killed whoa look at that awesome that was 20 million million I'll take it thanks for the money oh she's almost done strong [Music] all right Brian you retained yourself yeah thank you I appreciate it I'm trying I'm trying uh internet how's everything sounding looking are we good thumbs up love you he did that on purpose all right see I have Riot lit too but I'm only level five so I can't quite battle them so I'm gonna probably try for a multiball and maybe I'll battle Carnage a bit awesome bring Doppel out find one of the other things to do he lost and he loses all the mini mode like what I didn't know I lost [Music] we go skill shot so wild when that ball decided to shows up there we go there's doppelganger's come out there we go you can change hosts between balls you can so I have change hole slit because I filled up the Grid on this pathway up through where I am oh nice so if I could make that left ramp shot I can choose a different host which is good to do because I can't get any more locks right now so if I want to go for a six ball multiball I need to switch to another character every light or two lights depending on what character you are that you fill in you get a lock lit oh that's awesome I do have one lock lid over on the right hand side so I might try to do that oh it's like you can it's a really difficult backhand but it is possible [Music] all right yeah okay so I'm in change the character I decided to choose a different character I'm gonna choose Agony right next to which is a great way to explain so you can see in these boxes in the grid that there's Awards extra time plus 1X play Field Web combo 2x so there's a whole flamethrower which is really cool once I fill in four lights and fill in that whole grid I get that feature that's in there for trying to fill in more of these characters so internet just so you know this is a six ball game and the center button does spider sense we'll talk about that later all right you might just survive yeah I love just how those targets they just find each other when you you go side to side like this area is lit mystery mystery is really fun because there's an Ali above miles that's my team up character that's killer and he will stay since we're inside our connected flamethrower topper confirmed oh damn I threw him off because I guessed it all right I'm I'm setting up for the last okay I feel it I feel it man I I know you're you're we put money on this and now you're gonna kick my butt all right um so I lost all my progress I lost progress battle right yeah weren't able to do it so you go back to the beginning Let's Jam with uh Peter Parker Carnage small spot here we go [Music] one of the cool things about the multiballs in this game too is that you can stack them so you can start in a Mayhem multiball and start Carnage while in Mayhem but things really go crazy jump in oh really jumps out so I want to beat up Carnage here I want to hit the lit shots I want to do all the above and the bell tower is only going to do something if I have it with it so [Music] this and bell tower is ready oh and that's done okay get up here get up here okay all right this is the door open for Brian to kick my butt I still got a little ways to go [Music] it's just your friendly neighborhood Spiderman all right Agent Venom reporting so the uh when you beat no and you're granted access to Hulk or uh Captain America so do you pick who you're gonna take or is it is it uh scripted that you're gonna always get hold first the player gets to make his choice so pick your favorite character awesome I love that mine's whole but you know knock it on there's a there's a Hulk smash smash feature in the game you gotta love oh heck yeah Jack diving deep I'm just I want to know as much as you do internet okay so I'm gonna stay on ride I think because I have a lock over here and it's the hardest shot in the game I think is the right right ramp over here the right Loop but I'm gonna try for that are Venom oh wait you took the ball sitting all right Jeff sorry on this I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I should get that game but somebody turning off the ball safe sorry I'm sorry I kind of count on that I love I love this animation him like ripping the Symbiote off of his head I want uh internet see people are chomping at the bit to get in here to play this game okay um should we uh let's do another one but let's do a four player okay all right let's do a four play and we're gonna since we're Insider connected we're gonna keep our levels heck yeah let me steal the bone the bone things unless you want him is it bothering you nope it's good okay cool uh I want to do a little bit of commentary I want to get um I want Zach Sharpe and Nick wayna in on this too okay all right I'm gonna log in with Insider all right let's see all right Nick yeah I mean Nick play tests every heck and game we have all right log it in baby [Music] three players and Brian wait what three great players in Brian you're right I'm gonna have to prove them wrong now oh doesn't like you oh look at me why don't you try all right no get in there increase the brightness on my phone yeah it just doesn't like you no dude I like your cool cool initials bro oh Brian's going less all right smart smart all right um oh Spider Sense explanation so um oh I'll let you do it okay here's I'm gonna give you what I think it does and then he's gonna tell you if I'm right or wrong so when you're in a multiball any anywhere but something active about okay an active battle um when you hold down the action button you'll see all the inserts start going ballistic with white and then when you let go it picks a shot that will start strobing white if you hit that big money if you want to explain it now that's the gist of it okay okay yeah you can do it anytime and but you want to save it for a battle because then you get the most points heck yeah all right let's did we shoot time out son of them guys I'm sorry I started talking you can log in when you start playing all right uh I'll I'll go with Eddie Brock can we all be the same character when we play multiplayer games it doesn't like lock anyone out nope cool awesome no competition that shot is backhandle which is awesome don't okay there's no ball safe internet I don't know who did that evil person some evil person so I got my yellow shots done now let's go for blue nailed it first try yeah great all right that just sort of like did its thing no two multiball yet yeah we got four players internet don't worry that was me missing okay I love you stealer okay okay all right player two get get it whoever wants to be player two you gotta log in try again Zach I believe in you all right I should just clean up now all right pull it up I'm watching out my flight looks awesome oh pull out a little bit there you go look level six level six oh come on 14 I think I think somebody's stacking the deck here I don't know dude that's awesome that's awesome he remembers it dang I'm gonna have to do Eddie Brock now too oh wait it even remembers like how far along in the level you were yeah no kidding away thank you oh come on seriously Brian so here it is Brian so here's the thing uh uh so uh no ball save you know what Joy Dwight could program it where you can't turn off also yeah he's good only when Jack's around yep Flash Thompson Flash Thompson why not now let's get to work #nick wayna okay okay I see you internet I blinked and missed that yeah that was a that was a rocket good players will probably pick flash is what Dwight is saying oh Zach's not signing in yeah he doesn't want he doesn't want the uh nope I'm gonna play with my food yeah you can log in later game is fast yeah it is it is she was a host one of the things you mentioned Jack was also changing hosts and whether we can all be different hosts right there is a co-op mode in the game and why you correct me if I'm wrong but in co-op mode I believe you all share reporting okay so it may is to your advantage made it to play different characters because you'll feel that Grid in more yeah that's awesome all right what's going on internet all right so um when yeah I I like starting with Gwen um just because I like I really like the ball one music it is good that's it that's it yeah exactly I can't hear him but yeah I'll I'll let you guys enjoy it um but usually I try going down the center because I want the flamethrower first and so then I'll do uh uh flash is there a way to reset your level on your Insider connected if you wanted to start at zero and make the battles more challenging it may not be understood connected we're playing with a way in the game to do it when you start killer just like a video game where you can continue your progress or you can start over awesome yeah each house has their own music this one's funky just log in on ball too yeah it'll be good internet you can log in pretty much at any point as long as you get it before you drain your third ball is there a Max Level I believe it's 99.99. [Music] okay if you log in on bulb 2 you will not have your saved game oh oh sneaky okay all right stuff gets easier so you can get to the boss fight yep that's the that's the point of leveling up yeah Nick's already level nine I played some games earlier yeah because if you're cheating bro if you fail any of those battles along the way it was just like Jack did yep um you gotta start back over again all right so I think I'm gonna switch to Flash Thompson so I can complete uh the center group so uh you get that flamethrower maybe yeah yeah that's that's what I'm looking for and then um I can choose a a bonus shot um every single time you can uh choose a character so I'll do the uh can I am yeah internet if you're coming to Comic-Con uh tomorrow our arcade opens up at 10 in the morning we'll all be here all right oh wow so from Mystery I got the 2x weapons so ah yes yeah the arcade is at the Marriott Marquis look for signs in the hotel it will say Stern arcade [Music] yeah I believe we're number 14. 14 through 16 I believe I am streaming forever I'll be streaming for the next uh week yes we're gonna be playing Venom we'll play some Pro Venom um and then we'll play some more Venom as well it's gonna be a lot better you're gonna love it do you need a badge to get in here hey we open to the public uh a flight right now yeah if you want to if you want to slap a fiver in my hand you know that's on you but uh yeah come on in all right here we go I'm not gonna fail this time I still got it right there give me the turn baby give me the time Zach don't forget to log in you will oh [Music] I'll never blow it 20 in a row three okay stay alive hopefully it doesn't drain in one shot like it did last time we just flip our soft dense as that is that dude you almost got it I would have cursed you again come on can he do it will he can you can you zoom in on it my wallet one it's your wallet one yeah there we go got it look at that and you got your achievements do I get like a tardy achievement yeah right dude look at this oh yes [Music] mystery time [Music] anything is the game still in the room can you see are we good bye bye Jack look at the Playfield he got four mini mode lights I know his whole thing is glowing his whole grid is just [Music] all right nobody even challenged you oh in the top right for mystery oh the billboard above the scoop oh here Nick you step up here I'm gonna move this yeah there's there's a couple cool features on there yeah I think we're gonna have trouble seeing that because of reflexion but let's see yeah what's that billboard above the scoop doing for us so these are all different features in the game there's a lot of cool things on here a special attack which you actually got Jack and uh when you're battling I think who are you Agony or page one of those Agony yeah um so that's a special attack there's a host hurry up there's a screen which is a video mode which is really cool I got to play that where you're using your hair to like right dude that's awesome yeah so another character in the game screen um and then Clint iron multiball that's a really deep that's even past null I would say you pretty much have to do everything in the game to get the quintar multiball is the planet that Noel came from the planet of the symbiats um so it's a it's a very end and end of the game I guess it's called toxic team up one is for people like me it's kind of a mini wizard mode on your way to all these deeper bigger things and it's if you play the big things if you play Carnage knock him all the way back to ravencroft play him play doppelganger he comes out and if you play a multiball man multiball in these side locks if you play those three things you light toxin Tino team up on the scoop that's awesome and that's another like mini wizard mode we call so it's it's a great thing for like me to shoot for because I can get there a lot of the times Jack will just blow through it for sure not that he's proven that at all yeah but I have hope for Nick at least Nick's got this covered mini mode yeah I want to spot a mini pizza yeah get it baby yeah it's tough though now let's get to work Chris your look whoa and for no whammies lit out there he's gonna get more of the grid lights I don't know yeah I'm um I'm thinking I want to change over to uh to Eddie Brock to get one more line so I can get it uh he'll start with one box he'll get you the six poem thank you um I could work towards uh my 1X uh plus one let's play Plus One X just your friendly neighborhood Spiderman [Music] oh yeah so from the front here uh it's a clear window that makes it look like a canister with a symbiote in it but you can see through it to see the balls that are lost and there's a light next to it see if I can aim something at that yeah it might be a little it might be a little yeah for me [Music] you got 2x XP going over there got one lock on it can you do it it's the hardest shot let's see this is it right here oh yeah I'm good backhand that it's tight it's a tight all right six ball multiball what a champion that's our way now have you played Mayhem much longer no no first actually I totally messed up at the beginning oh well one at a time if you can keep them going that you want to do and then it will bursts in the multiball It's Kind of a Funny start yeah six balls in the game yeah the game being so fast and taking the balls out yeah it's non-stop action just like you'd expect from the Marvel film oh got my super tough hot lit oh there's doppelganger did I get it no oh yeah I did yeah oh yeah you're on the second mode already yeah nailed it it hey kitties you got two doppelgangers done he finished the third one then it lights Rampage on top again this is chaos [Music] man there he is stacking all right keep it going to start jumping oh you've already got almost a million oh my God it's got some playful multiplayer he's got three targets here there's one oh you split the uprights there yeah [Music] nice one more yeah Rampage is lit get it baby yep and so for uh for Carnage multiball um the point of it is you want to get Carnage all the way back and once you do you like yeah you're getting like a hundred million a shot right now Carnage multiball [Music] dude nasty okay we must not give up 1.9 billion points [Laughter] level 16. so because you beat Riot you get to keep progress that you had down here or how does that work uh like why does he still have this grid up the middle well he also had um who'd you play did you play right or egg um I I didn't play any of them yet but um when you're in Mayhem multiball um you can defeat oh sure oh yeah that's right yeah you did the back door it's another way to beat the Friday sneaky yep right however um you need to uh you can't see right now but on the locks um each of the uh what are we calling them bosses sure um right acne face life right they're they're all represented as uh inserts on the locks and you need to get those in order to battle them so he beat them in multiball which then gives them oh my gosh it's a back doorway it's hard to do yeah of course they did it that's amazing you might just survive do you think this game does have seven balls in it you know how we thought it does yeah yeah okay internet I I accidentally put one too many balls in the game yeah I know listen listen listen no no there's only six listen listen I messed up I get it all right go ahead and take that all right all right all right oh Jack internet listen I don't want to hear it okay go buy a pinball machine shut up I love you all right here we go um all right so today yeah right his score doesn't count right come on the score doesn't count all right let's get this money so I need the white shot which is all the way over to the right one more yeah one more and you can fight right right away I'm gonna try something here real quick yeah I mean that's literally what almost happened yeah don't play with your food internet oh I'm trash I'm trying to do something sneaky and then I do well now we know why there is a wonkiness Internet it's a six ball game you've been asking me all night all right seven in there like in like a dork we are Venom let's see if we can set the machine up in your home with the correct number of balls oh you already have second place so internet do not hire me to set the game up into your house okay also if you have an extra ball I don't know how the heck that happened we are Venom I said Warren's a t-shirt [Music] oh my goodness great Robin sure isn't a trick right [Music] dude you can't hear it you know what fall through oh and if you don't know what to do and you want to know the rules on the instruction card is a QR code that will take you to the washing directly to every rule in the game right on your phone that's actually one of my favorite features right now it's apparently drained oh man [Music] what's up I'm trying people oh do you got another doll I hear he works out there we go awesome [Music] if I can make him sweat just a switch [Music] thank you my way [Music] I'm from Barcelona hello Barcelona Rampage all right so we get all the way through doppelganger all three levels [Music] grab a brick throw a bridge grab some wood and throw some wood grab a stick throw the stick more power [Music] we must not give up Agent Venom reporting for Duty do you know how lucky you are I Choose You the the ramp in the middle has three stages it has the 180 the the what do you call that like the shorts and then uh when it's all the way up it's like a throughput to the Horseshoe or yep is it sweet thing [Music] video mode don't let him get too close oh nuts I don't have a hair only goes so far though so don't go too soon You're Gonna Miss if you can get 50 you win Oh no I got all 50 the second time because some of them start going really fast is if they stack on each other I've eaten red three at once joke give up they they ramp up they start slow so you can get acclimated with uh controlling it this is not the first Spike to wizard mode because Dwight put one in uh Star Wars this is the first one involving tentacle hair [Music] um I love scream dude it is really cool Zachary and chat there can tell you uh everyone involved in the software process an amazing talented group of people yep she's disappointed in you your mother called she's disappointed in you that's a cool thing I mean the team really knocked this game out of the park yeah zombie yeti on the graphics on Kevin Playfield we echoed that exact same looking kill and display all of the display team totally nailed this game incredible job I love these backgrounds too man yeah it's all custom made artwork for the game and with over 20 characters I mean it was an incredible amount stocks and team up so this is a toxin team up we talked about earlier so when Zach's done we're gonna do a quick q a because in a couple of minutes we're going on the front page and then you also be able to ask anything foreign [Music] max level 99 next question what triggers the host change on the left ramp when you complete any of the three lights you can change the host in the middle of a ball or at the start of every ball two balls are not uh staged naturally on the ramps you have to put them there um let's see is there a competition mode for tournaments well I think yes yeah every game does absolutely um and we even the Playfield there everybody starts at level one what trip what triggers doppelganger so collecting infected targets you'll see it up on the screen there'll be a little count so any of these stand-ups right in the left and these two up here and uh Carnage himself yeah uh are you gonna stream the pro we will be streaming the pro at some point this week yes absolutely [Music] does hold Wolverine and cap have their own music too they share music but the rules do change slightly instead of completing one row on this grade you have to complete two roads what a waste of time uh where does the cowboy go-to um it goes to the web Slinger oh it kicks it up on the wet Slinger nice both of them actually go to the same website but yeah different Pathways in yeah there are two pop-ups in the back two in the back underneath Carnage heck yeah there's two lanes up here at the top I got the skill shot a couple times and uh the the the lane Target lights are also represented on the uh ravencroft [Music] what's a decent score in this game you're you're looking you're looking at some pretty decent scores oh that depends on who you asked me too I in general over a billion is a really good game uh does XP progression okay things are getting faster now um flamethrower what does it do flamethrower will will shoot up the Playfield and take out the shots oh so it just hits hits off the shots that are lit oh dang let's go and it's one of the things you can get in the grid here so it's a very lucrative one to a very important question how is Brian Eddy still so damn handsome [Laughter] Kimberly are you typing this Brian Eddy Brock um what does the bell tower do is what someone's asking uh the bell tower is the Playfield multiplier so when you make Center ramps if you make at least two in a row to start then you hit the bell tower your playful multiplier goes on one then you have to do three in a row and hit the bell tower right and the belt our time's out so you have to do the combo and the certain five six seconds or so awesome and how long does your multiplayer stay is it's not for the rest of the ball right no it's got a timer it does have a timer cool awesome um so you got to keep pumping it up to really you know that's really big but even Nick you know he was up to 2x Playfield and got two billion yeah that was disgusting yeah um but he had an extra ball so that's right we're not gonna count that seven balls uh what is the pinball machine you're looking at it um someone will make Taco Bell mod for the bell tower oh internet why sometimes I I feel bad that I read something out loud Southern Fried Expo the games will be there okay yep you'll see some uh Venoms at Southern Fried um again if you're coming to Comic-Con this week we are going to have 16 um Venoms here in the arcade that's Pro and premium and then we will have two actually on the convention floor at the stern Booth make sure to go check that out too if you are coming um and again to reiterate you don't need a badge to come into the arcade here in the Marquee Marriott um but you do need to have a badge to go to the floor inside Comic-Con obviously okay obviously um mirrored art blades those are on the Le right yes yeah it's pretty cool it's really cool yeah the Ellie's is beautiful um all right I I say we just keep cranking on this thing if you want to ask more questions we could do that we're going to get Seth in here to play a pinball actually I um ownership of the company I love it all right uh let's do another four player game I'm gonna log in um let me grab my wallet but blam I'll go first and then whoever's next is next and then we'll call today uh to all of you coming from the front page what's going on I'm Jack danger I invented pinball um and here we are this is great okay um this is the new Venom pinball machine from Stern Pinball design by Brian Eddy uh uh Dwight Sullivan uh Raymond Davidson RFI zombie yeah there's an amazing amount of talent that went into producing this game um the actual designer of like the layout and stuff like that uh Brian is actually here with us at Comic-Con if you're coming to Comic-Con come hang out say hey and uh we'll do the thing all right last question who let doppelganger get so okay internet you know what stop internet Venom y'all are terrible should I turn the ball save on yeah I wouldn't not not if Nick Wayne is getting five or uh two billion yeah right oh man what date and time can people play at the hotel tomorrow at 10 A.M is when the arcade opens all right and uh all the games are gonna be on free play first come first serve uh come play on the machines make sure to take turns you know and you know what I recommend invite people over for some games if you're starting a game turn around and be like do you want to play against me they're gonna say yes and they're gonna beat you but it's okay it's an opportunity [Music] feed runs are measured in days [Applause] [Music] in one game yeah okay like Nick yeah I mean Nick Nick head potential for sure Nick had the potential okay uh you can backhand this I love that and you can oh you but oh what are you doing maybe hit a little Carnage Carnage just there you go Blue ding dong all right ring that Bell oh my old man wrist is acting up internet they're not so Supple these days okay so it's a joke now I need the white shot on the phone right or we can go for this lock you're right it's there you just gotta find it man I'm trying not to swear I'm I'm I'm here all right who's number two how many times have I told you not to talk about yourself or wrists on the front page Pluto I'm sorry well he's coming uh okay I'm gonna stick with rock here again thank you foreign flipper got it thanks internet um to everyone new in chat uh show of hands how many of you played pinball nobody's raising their hands what's going on raise his hand okay I own three nice I love ping pong you know what get up get him out of here get him out of here old pinberg injury flaring up a little bit I did actually hurt myself pretty bad at Pembroke there's a lot of yeah a waste of time it's a fast game all right who's uh number three Seth Davis did Gary starting to walk in too there he's here too maybe Gary's gonna play we're sure it sort of looks like a lab coat on here [Laughter] [Music] no like set them set it here okay so you can still hear yeah yeah [Music] okay since doing some work here neither level 13. what the heck I think you might have I started a little early I bought a couple levels with me oh yeah yeah [Music] here we saw him gaining levels in the promo videos that's strategy I like it what does this pinball thing [Music] video game friends this is pinball [Music] it's so confusing because you walk around you can still hear but you still get the audio in your brain [Applause] it makes the screen weird hey Dwight what's up baby all right so we got a four ball multiball we can potentially still drink Carnage into this right yep all right oh so the let's try it well I ruined it because I'm trash doppelganger oh yeah so you gotta get done [Music] left one nope all right here we go I did something I slammed a dude oh extra ball [Music] okay okay sorry doppelganger is on the timer right yeah so he started regressing yeah okay we're getting some good money here [Music] I go that say was nuts yeah are you level 20 no you could fight Gretel one more level one more left okay let's get it let's get that level oh that backhand all right oh video mode oh there you go we're going all 50 get this gotta gotta let him come to you a little bit here [Music] [Laughter] we're going all the way here see that guy's a little faster a little faster they're getting there too see two at once sneaky boom I like your grits okay oh that should be an achievement come on all right yeah yeah yeah okay oh my God oh my God I thought okay we're good we're alive everything's fine thank you Gary's your lucky charm yeah right thanks thanks it's just floating inside of your head all right so toxin all right push back the car we're fine everything's fine I'm good everyone's good okay what are you doing I gotta stop trying to drop catch I'm like oh it's fresh tonight I don't know what the heck's going on [Music] everything's fine guys we're all doing great we made it to level 20. so I can Jesus oh [ __ ] okay give me the ball okay okay okay [Music] stay yeah oh not on my watch please okay we need Super different frick does that time out oh and what oh not at least Frick all right did I get an extra ball I got an extra one all right shoot again we're gonna stay with you know let's move over to yeah black suits oh I split it there it is okay I got it I got it I got it I got it I'm trash [Music] [Laughter] there's a lot of pressure I mean Seth's beating me to Williams all right I'm taking the two ball multiball did I get three all right it's at least three I feel better all right undeterred all right let's do it [Music] she was a host oh my God look at this foreign just a quick note for everybody watching if you're new to pinball I encourage you all to go out in the world find some pinball machines to jam on uh if you don't know where to find any there's a website and also an app called the pinball map that will show you pinball machines that are around you so you can go play them if you are at Comic-Con come here tomorrow 10 a.m this arcade opens up in the Marquee Marriott and if you are attending Comic-Con you don't need a badge to get in here but to go to our booth on the Comic-Con floor you do need a badge we have more games over there as well Casey Jones or kcfs is it Casey Jones no that's from Ninja Turtles all right um Grendel I'm gonna Grendel it internet I bet you a surprise literally nothing but I I bet there is one there there's I bet there's at least two in Argentina shot I forgot you could do that so a lot of questions about the version of the game this is the premium this is the premium whoa Grendel bro I'm ready nailed it first try am I dead already okay exactly it's pathetic it's pathetic are you working down that house fire yeah okay stay alive I love you so it's a blue shot and then when you hit it it turns into an orange you've got a really long balls my slippers are reverse it works better if you use the flipper and don't just tell the ball yeah okay so this is my brain okay okay okay oh no it's fast wait it's back again okay stop switching all right here we go okay congratulate you little man little man [Music] I'm grindling the crap out of this guy stay alive I love you how do you know when it switches I'm like I'm afraid that it's gonna happen again okay no okay come on baby stay alive yep yep we're ahead don't you know [Laughter] um internet you're welcome there's the Tilt oh my gosh that was our first Grendel so you do have that thank you Deadpool for showing us the Tilt animation you know what I'm champ you know I'm not here for you somebody had to do it there you go so let's ramp is back flippable correct like an old sweater what do higher levels get you access to more uh baddies and also makes it easier to knock them out [Music] Zach is DQ wait why is that dude I think it's Hilton you're welcome trindle's HP bar is still visible oh hey Grendel we did the first bundle I agree always and forever his name is player available on my Mac what so Dwight said if you log in on second player then you can play with uh level back at zero I'd be null too oh if you've beaten all it resets to zero okay yeah that's awesome all right get it Zach this is it climb that Hill are you playing Co-op we are not seriously my name is Eddie Brock our name is Venom [Music] secret skill show play multiple oh is that pinball machines in Argentina oh no I thought he was sucking it up when is my arcade getting this game exactly internet listen so you can also uh use Insider connect it and go to the locator map if you want to find where we are oh very true where to go to very true listen I I that's what I should have said you can use both we don't care we're happy to yeah it's awesome too I agree fine pinball as long as you're playing just freaking do it I'm gonna take them they're asking for the Tilt animation again why would you want six balls at once are you kidding it's awesome orange is all about chaos also like what's interesting is a multiball is it doesn't make things easier because all those balls get in the way of your shots even be hitting more things but if you're trying to be accurate that's out this one I love you a little bit third ball you know what that's recorded can you screen grab that yeah [Music] all right nice [Music] all right if Brian says this could do it what a waste of time [Music] is this an extra ball oh no there you go [Applause] well done sir [Music] come on oh yeah you guys can't hear the music it's really good it's really good [Music] game looks great heck yeah um give me one second internet all right do y'all have any we could do another q a if you have any more questions do you have any more questions internet for Brian or for Dwight Dwight is currently uh in chat he is Zachary with a pink diamond next to his head uh is Co-op coded in yet Co-op is not in yet okay what does Spider Sense do so when uh you're in a mode in a battle when you're in a battle I'll let Brian explain it you you the camera's only on you so just just wave hey by your sense is that Spider-Man right he has a sick sense of when enemies are around them so that's what this is anytime you're in a battle you can hold this down you got to hold it though for a few seconds all the lights show that Jack was talking about happens it'll light up a shot that you have to make so and that's when you get the the points from and is that a value that is like counting down or is it like how what maybe builds that value or like is it just you know it's a certain amount and you have all this time to hit it and it will time out eventually if you don't hit it right yeah that's a great question for Dwight yeah Dwight hey Dwight this is this is Dwight's feature light show is pretty yeah it really is check out Stern Pinball's new game yeah hey thanks moderators love you yeah all right there he is Spider Sense toy yeah can you explain Spider Sense to uh the folks in chat so I guess what I was uh trying to look for is like we know that when you have Spider Sense and you you start the hurry up uh it's gonna pick a shot um what is dictating that value does it count down as it's timing out um stuff like that excellent job in showing the full game so quickly after reveal hey Bowen what's up baby love you dude how do you learn the rules and what shots to go for in a new machine you haven't played before well there is typically a card right here in the bottom left like at the front of the game where your Flipper's at look above your left flipper under the glass will be a card that gives you the broad stroke rules of the game and then if you want to go deeper we actually put rule set documents on the website so if you go to the Venom uh page QR code now you think I would know this stuff for working on this that's strike number two yeah this is new to this game it's a brand new feature I think players are going to love it secure our code right on the instruction card scan it with your phone it'll take you right to a page with all the rules if you have any questions it's right in your fingertips that's freaking amazing all right we'll tell you what I said just take your phone out and scan that thing yeah what is your favorite feature of the game oh Brian oh I think overall I just like the flow of the game because you'll start hitting shots and they'll just keep going keep going and going that feeling of that constant flow along with these fastball locks that these fast locks that return the ball back to you instantly it feels like a battle it's always fast and it's always moving so I think that's probably mine yeah man nice long shots I love this uh the half pipe raising Mech is really neat it sure as heck is um can we discuss the hole in the orbit area that's like a secret little like a short plunge a little secret skill shot back there they asked how long have we been working on this game it takes a couple of years yeah this is about two years quite good like five years bro [Laughter] uh-huh this is a premium this is a premium version yep this is the premium we also here have the pro if you are coming to Comic Con so make sure to jam on both of them uh and believe it or not the pros even faster than the premium I think heck yeah that's great I want to see some gameplay did you just get here bro we've been playing this thing for hours okay let's go let's do another one another four player game maybe uh we'll get Gare bear in here Gary do you have an Insider connected account yes all right great do you want audio or can you play without it the way I play it doesn't make any difference there's my wallet here sounds good internet get your bingo card out no I'm not going first you guys what see I want to be challenged so he wants to play clean up these guys scared he's gonna know what he's up against all right I'll go first screw let's go all right Gary's coming to battle I love it yeah all right time to win all the things prediction open gamble now all right will Gary win Gary I have one yeah Jesse how much guys I'll split it can I get a cut yeah right can I get it yeah you can four ways Gary just so you know uh the ball safe is off okay that's pathetic all right they lost their game well that's because I turned it off all right and that's why I have my moderators thanks Tater listen to the funk all right two ball multiball wow all right here we go what's wrong with that you can have six yeah you can't no I can't get you got this scare 's a ringer dude okay and stay alive all right appreciate it you it's okay we're good everyone so what do the inlanes do [Music] so now I have Carnage with Mayhem you just throw balls at him eventually you'll knock him out there you go yeah I'm going I I kind of like the fact that you have the Horseshoe open Dragon Gwen I believe is the infected she that comes down oh really which is why you have doppelganger out so often yeah oh I see yeah heck yeah uh okay okay I'll go sit there again we'll call you over here okay you're good you're ready all right you're in Kansas thank you it moved on me [Music] can you click it all right guys moving North move your phone North up the game a little bit there you go there you go there you go there we go someday I gotta change that goes way back ah this I'm I'm nervous yeah okay all right this is probably a two second long we are now the great designer Harry Williams didn't play pivotal you watch people play Asian venom reporting for Duty just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man Back in Black [Music] shirt looks good on you man you gotta wear black more often rough stuff like on the Harley yeah um pull your phone down a little bit there you go [Music] way some snack and stuff over here you know how lucky you are that I choose you all right Gary wow boy man I don't know what I'm doing here let me just flip without looking that's when we made tons dude that was actually a pretty cool match I enjoyed that fan that came out over the flippers yeah all right what do we got here what am I shooting for oh shucks all right good job good job this is this is not gonna be your best game let's just get this one over with it we did much better he's never kicking me the whole time that's where I want it because I give you the 180 down in the dude that's awesome does that give me the ramp yeah yeah I'm sorry [Applause] [Music] uh-huh getting a little slow now keeping me you're keeping me in the game she was a host laughs we are Venom now I want everybody to know that I was practicing this afternoon that's still pathetic it's an age thing sure all right we got this that's not gonna help me all right okay I got an extra ball that's fine everything's fine everything's fine everything's good all right video mode is it sweet thing apparently we need to make this more chill I like your grits slip to the guys in the room I'm sure this is riveting without any audio you stole my life and it's great that you can grab a few of them at once boom got him 51. I win over [Music] gotcha okay this is it yeah okay yeah get in here get in here you can't leave yeah you're at level between 25 you need to get the 30. it's a 30 yes yes what's the quickest way to get levels play the game play the game got it shoot the shots better shoot harder yeah multiball stuff like that all right cool great job [Music] and some of this [Music] do better and you will play better honestly some words of wisdom right there keep the ball alive longer and good things will happen Okay games there it is you did it okay Gary I believe in you bro this is like a drop in the bucket for what I've seen you do right thank you thank you thank you Chad that was both your balls ah that was all of them that was it all right there we go this game seems fun again if you were at Comic-Con this week come to the arcade in the Marriott Marquis thank you oh oh that's that's scary you're gonna jump on this thing maybe so we could jump out there for us oh stop cool that's that's good yeah thank you thank you I want to see if you can do that again my last round was way better thank you hey kitties thank you goodbye [Music] uh he really is yeah maybe designing the game's worth more than the audience oh they want food stories last week there's a lot of hand holding on motorcycles yeah for five hours on Saturday and we made it 101 miles [Applause] I feel a little better Yeah I broke 100 at least [Music] claps all around we gotta keep this train rolling though let me log everybody out all right who's in the next one Gary do you need a Redemption game I gotta see if I can get well it works yeah I'll play it again do you want to go first so you can set the bar no no okay I'll go first yeah let's I wanted I want a challenge he said okay all right let's do it um yeah come to the Marriott Marquis uh we are attached to Comic-Con um we have an arcade here it opens up at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning all the games are on free play you don't need a badge to come in here and if you're on the Comic-Con floor we do have a booth uh where we're teaming up with reigning Phoenix music um we've got some games over there too all right so uh come play you'll have an opportunity to beat me there you go Gary's gonna be here uh he's gonna be kicking everyone's butt all right here we go I want slash Thompson I feel like flesh let's get some flash going here now let's get to work straight off the rip let's go light mystery [Music] okay Gary you're getting shout outs from Argentina were they saying you someone in Argentina is owed money all right here we go we're gonna win we're gonna win Gary's not gonna beat us we're gonna win oh [ __ ] I'm not feeling this dude Gary you do you you have like a you have a presence yeah I love it it's great I like the pressure I like the pressure three bonus multipliers oh there's George George is back home making some more games yep Jordan short biscuits he's watching this George has us on speed dial in case you say anything stupid all right get it Gary [Music] let's see if I can get it to work this time yeah there it is I better be somebody else which one should I be come on guys help for an idiot player yeah there you go okay okay [Music] yeah God it's quiet look at the Precision [Music] I mean you were hitting them yeah okay all right player three see it even my last game was horrible this one's not great uh but I want to play again because that's what pinball is yeah I just want to play need that Redemption all right who's player three we're getting wasting requests no you're playing three get over here you also don't get to hear the game now the rules are the job see this is what I was trying to avoid I got suckered into this Zach bail me out exactly uh yeah yes we are at Comic-Con there is wasting oh my God eating over here is it you Jack [Music] Dwight says hey Mason HI Hawaii the game looks good [Music] I don't know how do I stop this this guy I know how to fix this game I don't know how about fast game is it's very fast I don't know how to play so internet I got a question for you should we uh play the premium again tomorrow or do you want to move on to the pro we are going to be streaming for the next several days foreign [Music] who has one of these on order [Music] Pro please heck yeah hey it's my wife hi wife I just resubbed with my Prime sub okay thanks for the money that's our money uh who's player four what's up all right get it baby Ellie his own arcade got a pro premium premium Ellie heck yeah premium Le yo internet do you know how lucky you are that I choose you nice Ellie dude two Les what the heck it's prone orders dude that's awesome internet congrats Pro in order for location that's dope how does speaker this game is fast AF foreign it's actually not a bad idea just put it behind the mic it was mine yeah yeah all right cooperate and you might just survive secret hideout skill shot what's the recommended pitch probably um probably six and a half I'm guessing seven Seven's a recommended pitch cool seven it is yeah right how fast do you want it ten yeah right it's uh you gotta it's like Max on the back feet plus put up two by four underneath the feet um what's an ashtray two guys [Music] you great game Pro okay Pro premium tomorrow all right Pro it is was that uh 58 all right uh thank you for running that pull Tater appreciate you baby I have managed to ruin everybody's gameplay whoever you're getting billions here he shows up four million points pinball [Music] you don't like our squeak ERS oh no how do these designers pick a pitch to Target uh I think there's like a standard that you sit at it like six and a half and then you just work around that I guess I don't know I've only made yeah [Music] poison are you just now to I heard that you can scan in any time before at the end of all three some some guy said it just down oh was it me yeah I live a couple of blocks from the Marquis Marriott can't wait to play tomorrow yeah come on bye we are uh open for business 10 AM wayson will be here to shake everybody's hands and I'll be here oh my gosh I gotta be two places at once again you're getting fun achievements can you get someone other than that uh you can choose the character with the right flipper button are you in whatever internet whatever if you got a question uh at Zachary that Zachary with an X um yeah let's hold on let me tag them Zachary yeah that that's Dwight if you got a cool comment throw it at Dwayne now let's get to work all right let's get to work you're supposed to be showing people the features of the game oh damn okay sorry so uh if you shoot this thing okay we're gonna get bigger scores yeah it's bigger scores all right there's doppelganger I'm okay everyone's fine I'm not no silver no tilt that's too dangerous we're good all right so I have Grendel ready don't you do it to me game I swear to Grendel I will not if I switch a host can I still battle brindle no because you're on the path God I need a password all right Grendel three level 26 it should be a little easier this time going down weird dragon thing [Music] increase one nailed it damn it yes yes okay shoot that okay I shot that already all right all right we got I gotta remember there's a ball save and not to just throw the game around the room that's fine I don't care so Grendel's taking a little bit more damage now which is good back on no uh I just happen to be in a mode that has a ball [Music] oh man the the flippers reverse thing is so special attack it's so good okay now it's back okay now wait is it back hold on my brain okay it's back I couldn't tell what reverse was anymore okay we're grindling we're grindling okay so phase two phase two okay it ain't just a one and done internet oh my gosh that was quick okay stay alive I love you Grendel Randolph okay here we go Grendel okay we can we can get this shot right I'm trying oh you can't hear it I'm just talking to myself guys please don't reverse my flippers oh [ __ ] I'm just wait okay I don't have a ball save anymore okay okay okay okay okay okay okay that wasn't shot it's later okay we're good okay everything's fine oh okay okay wait I need this ball on my left flipper so I can backhand this Frame or never mind yeah right [ __ ] it didn't get away wait listen oh my God [Music] so you're only level four Gary that's why he's winning it's the only reason I'm sure change [Laughter] I got three instead of two the owner's code yeah yeah no shoot why do I have it yeah we have our owners go so I can play for money I congratulations is it gonna put you put you in second place so far oh yeah okay okay yeah okay all right this music on the game is pretty neat yeah it is oh man well internet I think we're gonna call it there um I want to give a big shout out to Stern Pinball for like always having a cool place here for us to enjoy pinball Comic-Con big shout out to Brian Eddy and his team for making such an awesome game Brian step it step in the frame here a little bit yes look at this look at this guy look at him he was over here polishing thing it was great he got everything all Juiced up yeah I just want to thank the team too for creating such an amazing product from video group to Mechanical Tom and Kevin Dwight and software and all his people and they really knocked it out of the park with us some Jeremy on the artwork it's insane heck yeah uh sorry on the sound Jerry Thompson always killing it amazing heck yeah shout out to Brian Eddy hey everyone do you know how to do a clap emoji do you know how to do that can you do a clap Emoji for me I love you friends all right everybody have a wonderful night tune in tomorrow we will be live periodically throughout the day and of course throughout the entire rest of the week and weekend we're gonna be playing tomorrow we're going to be jamming on the pro uh if Brian's still here maybe he'll come over and show us some some of the differences and explain some of that stuff uh should be fun all right friends be good be good to each other and uh we're gonna say goodbye while you're staring at um just the best the best towing pinball all right friends have a good night I love you and I'll see you tomorrow adios clap
  • Spider-Sense is a center button feature usable during multiballs/battles that strobes random shot selections for bonus points

    high confidence · Jack Danger explains and Brian Eddy confirms the mechanic; demonstrated during four-player session

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  • “You can stack them, so you can start in a Mayhem multiball and start Carnage while in Mayhem. But things really go crazy.”

    Brian Eddy @ ~44:10 — Advanced mechanic enabling multiball stacking for escalating complexity

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    Venomized Hulkgame
    Captain Americagame
    Wolverinegame
    Carnagegame
    Doppelgangergame
    Nullgame
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    Nick Wayniaperson

    high · Multiple Marvel character selection; Mark Tremonti music composition for Eddie Brock; character-specific callouts and musical styles

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    market_signal: Venom positioned as premium title with multiple playable units at major convention (16 arcade + 2 floor units); significant production capacity for Comic-Con deployment

    high · Jack Danger mentions 'whole mess of them here' at Comic-Con; specific count of 16 arcade units and 2 convention floor units

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    community_signal: Brian Eddy credited as designer; Dwight Sullivan and 'soccer team' praised for programming complex mechanics; Nick Waynia identified as tester for all 'Heck and game' iterations

    high · Jack Danger credits 'Dwight and the soccer team'; references Nick Waynia playtesting; Zach Sharps and Nick Waynia participate as demonstration players

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    announcement: Official public debut of Stern Venom Pinball at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 with live gameplay demonstration and designer commentary

    high · Jack Danger introduces 'a brand new game...we are unveiling' at SDCC; 16 playable units in arcade plus 2 on convention floor; official reveal stream scheduled for 7pm

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    product_strategy: Premium and LE models feature identical playfield with most toys; Pro variant (implied) has reduced toy configuration

    medium · Brian Eddy: 'this is the Premium and LE model of the playfield, and it has the most toys on it'; Jack mentions 'Pro and Premium' on convention floor

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    technology_signal: Insider Connected integration provides persistent cloud-based leveling, character unlocks, speedrun timing, and team-up progression across different physical machines

    high · Brian Eddy describes level persistence, character unlock persistence, and speedrun tracking; references 'Insider Connected on the website' and cross-location saves; demonstrated during four-player game where levels persisted