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Don't Panic Flip: Episode 12 - Ghostbusters: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Mass Hysteria Multi-Ball

Don't Panic Flip·video·38m 30s·analyzed·Apr 17, 2018
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TL;DR

Jon completes Stay Puft and Mass Hysteria Multiball on Ghostbusters Premium.

Summary

Jon from Don't Panic Flip plays Ghostbusters (Premium) with the goal of reaching and completing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man mode. He successfully reaches Stay Puft, completes it, progresses to the wizard mode, and triggers Mass Hysteria Multiball, finishing with a 2.1 billion point game. The gameplay showcases various modes including Spook Central, Gozer, and multiple multiball sequences.

Key Claims

  • Stay Puft Marshmallow Man requires hitting multiple 'Dick White shots' to toast the Stay Puft target

    high confidence · Jon describing the Stay Puft mode mechanics during gameplay: 'Stay Puff Marshmallow Man shoot Dick White shots to toast the Stay Puff we got lots of Dick White shots here'

  • Spook Central is initiated by hitting the left ramp and requires five shots to complete

    high confidence · Jon during Spook Central attempts: 'we need to make the left ramp shot to initiate part one of the five shots you have to make for Spook Central'

  • The Premium Edition of Star Wars has mechanical design issues, particularly with the Death Star shot difficulty

    medium confidence · Jon comparing Ghostbusters to Star Wars: 'That shot kind of reminds me of the Death Star shot, except it's a little easier, which really says something about the Death Star shot, at least on the Premium Edition. The Premium's a little weird. I don't know who plays Star Wars Premium. It's not fun.'

  • Mass Hysteria Multiball is a late-game multiball mode in Ghostbusters accessible after completing earlier modes

    high confidence · Jon triggering it: 'We hit Mass Hysteria Multiball!' after completing Stay Puft and other sequences

  • Ghostbusters Premium has a random Midnight Madness multiball that can trigger during play

    high confidence · Jon experiencing it unexpectedly: 'Midnight Madness? Yeah! Midnight Madness! Cool. Cool. this is just a random ass multi-ball it's very weird'

Notable Quotes

  • “I don't know who plays Star Wars Premium. It's not fun.”

    Jon@ 16:26 — Critical assessment of Star Wars Premium Edition design quality and playability, suggesting mechanical issues make it unfun compared to other versions

  • “We came, we saw, we kicked its ass. Mini The Wizard mode.”

    Jon@ 37:31 — Jon's celebratory summary after successfully completing Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and reaching the wizard mode

  • “That shot kind of reminds me of the Death Star shot, except it's a little easier, which really says something about the Death Star shot, at least on the Premium Edition.”

    Jon@ 16:15 — Implicit criticism of Death Star shot difficulty on Star Wars Premium, suggesting poor design balance

  • “this is just a random ass multi-ball it's very weird”

    Jon@ 13:23 — Jon's reaction to Midnight Madness multiball, characterizing it as random and oddly designed

  • “I have no idea what we're supposed to do here. I think I've only been here a few times.”

    Jon@ 31:16 — Jon admitting unfamiliarity with Stay Puft mode mechanics despite playing Ghostbusters, suggesting the mode is not frequently reached

Entities

JonpersonDon't Panic FliporganizationGhostbustersgameStay Puft Marshmallow ManproductSpook CentralproductMass Hysteria MultiballproductMidnight MadnessproductStern PinballcompanyStar Wars Pinballgame

Signals

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    community_signal: Don't Panic Flip is producing detailed pinball gameplay content with mode-specific focus and educational commentary about game rules and mechanics

    high · Jon provides detailed explanation of mode mechanics, shot requirements, and progression sequences throughout the session

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    design_philosophy: Star Wars Premium Edition has mechanical design issues, particularly with Death Star shot difficulty and overall playability; Jon questions who would play this version

    high · Jon: 'That shot kind of reminds me of the Death Star shot, except it's a little easier, which really says something about the Death Star shot, at least on the Premium Edition. The Premium's a little weird. I don't know who plays Star Wars Premium. It's not fun.'

Transcript

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0:00
Hey, this is Don't Panic Flip. We're still on Ghostbusters Premium. We're going to be playing this for a little bit as we move towards trading it for something a little different. Last time, I'm not sure what our goal actually was. This time through, we're going to try and get to Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Let's see if we can get there.
0:36
Let's get this started. Going with Not 80s tonight. I know that's a little weird, right? When was the last time I went Not 80s? We're going a little bit of a heavier mix, which is really like Tool and Eminem for whatever reason. I feel like they work well together. So let's get started. Let's get started.
1:18
Cannot suddenly get this. There it is. That's right, on this one it's early. Fast forward through some of that.
1:32
Missed. I'm going to use that one right away, I take it, huh? Alright, let's backhand that first shot.
1:47
Shoot, we got the... Scowary Brothers! All right, first one. And second one. Got the super jackpot. All right. a little post transfer and to finish off the moat that was going right down the middle couldn't do nothing about that i guess i could maybe could have moved the entire pen but shoulders a little sore. That had some spin on it. Got ourselves a chute again.
3:00
Come on. Flailing. Here we go. Let's get it. Ugh. Gotta shoot again. They're so nice about that, aren't they?
3:21
Oh, god. Can't finish the first mode. Easiest mode of the game. really, I don't know why I have been struggling to make that shot recently. 10% ain't going to get me anything.
3:42
Luckily, we lit extra balls, so there's a chance of saving this. Come on. Get there! Oh, my God. Here we go. giving me all the opportunities in the world oh no that was just bad
4:23
here we go It's okay. You know, need a couple games to get warmed up. Because, God bless America, I am not making that job.
4:38
Here we go. All right, started the mode. First shot, nice and easy, all the way around. See if we can trap it. Nice. Up the ramp. Nope. Oh my god.
5:31
That's where that hole just got a lot smaller. Alright. Get off. Thank you. Backhanded it. and up the ramp. There we go. All right, first mode done. And we initiated the second mode, which kind of sucks. I should have done that where I finished it off on the right side instead of hitting that one first, because that would have immediately initiated Spook Central.
6:18
There it is. There's one. Got to make two more shots. Nice and easy. All the way. Nope. Nice. Good catch.
6:34
Up and over. All right. There's two. Kind of sucks. We reinitiated second mode. He slimed me. We need to be working up this right side here, but we're not doing it. We keep hitting this left mode. so first shot up the ramp looks like second shot up the ramp up the ramp let's see if we can hit it oh don't flail no flailing
7:17
Come on, we can catch it. There it is. Get up there! Nice trap. Let's throw it on the other side and up and over. There's two. I think we need one more.
7:38
Ugh, keep hitting that top of that plastic there. There it is. Oh, we timed out! and extra ball is lit all right so two mode three modes done on the first ball we could have could have done better um in fact i think if we hit this shot we start automatically get there yes all right started spook central actually working towards our goal right oh my gosh
8:17
Get there. Shoot again. Not sure how we got two shoot-agains. Really? Wow. Really want to get that extra ball right now. That would be great. All right.
8:49
Get it. Boom. All right, got the extra ball. Next up, we need to make the left ramp shot to initiate part one of the five shots you have to make for Spook Central.
9:03
Here we go. Oh, we got it for free. That was a bad, bad hit. It's okay, we're gonna trap it here, hit it again.
9:14
Alright, that's one. All the way around. Now we gotta go left ramp. Oh, felt bad. Bless America Alright three shots left got a shoot again which is nice
9:43
Just got 10% score, which was seven and a half million. Not awful. Let's see if we can hit the impossible shot here. Nope.
9:54
A little early. Got to wait for it to hit the tip of that flipper. Lit storage facility, which is nice.
10:02
There it is. Oh, man. What a hard shot. Got storage facility. We've got two shots left. My nemesis and this shot, which is beyond nemesis-tem. That's just a really effing hard shot. Cool. Two times multiplier.
10:25
Yeah, don't drop down to the middle on me. Yes, there we go. Come down the right side. That's not awful.
10:40
All right, here we go. Oh, wow. There it is. Hit my nemesis shot. One shot left for the mode. That has never happened to me before.
11:01
All right, here we go. Here's the shot. Nope. I actually... That was me. That was my fault pushing it over there.
11:16
That's... Should have trusted. Should have had some faith. So what are we doing here? P.K.E. Frenzy. Two times award super jackpot. That award's probably not up that much. So let's add three million to the super.
11:35
Storage facility is lit. We've already got one in there. Still got our chute again. Don't have to try that hard.
11:48
Alright, come on, come on. There's our storage facility. I still kind of feel like I'm flailing around here a little bit. Storage facility is lit again. Maybe I'll go for that and hope to score this last shot or timeout, one of the two, to complete this mode.
12:26
Come on, come down nicely, safely on the right side. It would be wonderful. please? Thank you. Oh! Made the shot again. Alright, Spook Central.
12:42
Since I don't care... Oh my god! Four modes. That's not bad. We're not really caring about score all that much, so I'm not trying for the multipliers.
12:59
Nope. Maybe... Oh. What happened? Midnight Madness? Yeah! Midnight Madness! Cool. this is just a random ass multi-ball it's very weird god not even in the multi-ball do i hit that
13:53
Super jackpot, storage facility. Got to shoot again, thankfully. Uh, oh. I had to shoot again. I'm really surprised I didn't... that I didn't get to keep that.
14:53
That was the attempt for the backhand. Nope. So I got a midnight madness. Didn't do too great on the multiball there. I feel like... I don't know what's up with that. I had to shoot again.
15:23
All right, well, I think we got spotted that last shot, maybe. There it is. Storage facility two. Jesus, did the storage facility not actually trigger while we were in Midnight Madness?
15:39
Yeah, I don't know what just happened there. That feels pretty weak to me. There it is. All right, whatever. There's two. Storage facility's still lit. We're going to get that multiball. It's going to happen. We should probably wait for Ghost of the Gozerian for points, though. Not that we're caring all that much about points right now. Remember, we were kind of focused on modes. Here we go. The Nemesis. Oh, the Nemesis shot. Wow.
16:14
Hmm. That shot kind of reminds me of the Death Star shot, except it's a little easier, which really says something about the Death Star shot, at least on the premium. The pro's a little weird. I don't know who plays the Star Wars pro. It's not fun.
16:33
Come on. I was supposed to wait, but whatever. We get some multiball. Storage facility multiball! Here we go.
17:20
Thank you. Are you kidding me? I gotta shoot again. Thankfully I got a super jackpot, it looks like, and an extra ball.
18:04
All that work for nothing. all right so i don't know if we completed or just got ran out of time or somehow oh my gosh got spotted spook central but uh if that was ball two we can immediately start goes nope that was ball three damn it all right Not what I wanted.
18:44
Alright, we're going to start this easily. By essentially hitting our full skill shot with whatever was lit blue and still leaving it set to start the scene. So, here we go. Three shots. and we're going to learn from our mistakes and make the other two shots first. Hey, I got the hard shot.
19:10
Now we going to try and hit the ramp And lastly we hit We hit the right orbit Oh come on That was... There it is. All right, now the right orbit.
19:28
Maybe? Here's the right orbit. All right. That automatically started Spook Central. Oh. Right down dead center. God, I hate that.
20:03
Still got the one shot. Come on, get there. There we go. There it is. Alright, four shots. You guys are familiar with the drill.
20:29
So we still want to end on that right one to automatically start the next mission. I don't know how feasible that's going to be. Oh my god, get up there.
20:39
All right. There's two. Let's make the impossible shot. Yes! just don't lose the ball and we got this there it is all right mode complete automatically a start it goes to the gozerian now we want to get multi-ball for points if we care about that Got a super jackpot, hit storage facility. I think we're still on first ball, and we're on our third mode. We're well on our way to Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. So the cool thing about this is it's really easy to backhand that right orbit.
21:45
Oh! Not my... Oh! Did you guys see that? It jumped over! Zip these bullshits. Oh my god. Alright. There's one gozer.
22:16
One gozer. Ah, ah, ah. Okay. We'll take it. two gozers not a great shot that was both all right we got this we got this we are gonna kick some gozerian ass here make it past goes with the gozerian
22:56
There it is. There's one. Missed it. It's okay. Woo! Damn it. Did not want to do that. If you remember... Not going to get salty.
23:34
Not going to do it. We got this. Oh my gosh. Extra ball is lit. I mean, you know, we have that going for us.
24:06
Oh, this game hates me sometimes. You kidding me with the air balls over here? Alright. Come on. Let's get that extra ball. And get that last shot. Nice and fun. Ugh.
24:47
Yeah, this is the definition of flailing. Okay, made the last shot at least. Now we've got to make another shot. Spook central. Worked out well there.
25:01
Fast forward. Yes, this man has no dick. Thank you. Oh my gosh, finally. Shots are lining up. Maybe I'm just now starting to get warmed up. I'm starting to feel the flippers a little bit here.
25:17
We got this. All on one ball, we're going to get this. I love this song. All right. No storage facility lit.
25:33
We've got four shots we've got to make here. Here we go. First shot. Okay. There's one. First shot. The roundabout way. Oh, my gosh. Another air ball. Oh, Jesus.
26:00
Flailing. Come on. Get somewhere. Work with me. Light something. Thank you. There it is.
26:18
Easy howdy, Chef. Hey! Alright, one last shot. Here we go. Nice and easy. We're going to let it dead flip across. and then we're going to make this last shot.
26:45
Nope. Now we're going to go for the storage facility. Ball one locked. What's the right way to get this over there?
27:02
Oh, my gosh. All right, we timed out. So now we've got to initiate yet another mode. We can do that by hitting Ghost, and then bashing Slimer.
27:24
Are you kidding me? There's our extra ball. Let's see if we can light extra ball yet again. Hey, we started Gozer. That was the other way to do it. Lose the ball and hit the mark. All right, so we've got one storage facility. Storage facility is lit. We've got Slimer in the way.
28:01
I guess let's go for the shots. Yeah, worth the danger. Alright. Slimer is gone. There it is. There's two. One more. We want this multi-ball Walgozer's alive. I think we get a lot of points that way. The shots are actually relatively easy. You just have to hit it a bunch. Uh, storage facility is not lit. Come on.
28:45
That what we need Come on get in there Give me some goodness Yes storage facility is lit We coming down Yes That was a catch throw, storage facility, and we have Ghost of the Ghostarian lit. Let's see if we can actually do something with it this time? Come on.
29:08
That's a great start. All right, extra ball's lit. Let's get that extra ball, people. Oh, just get in there.
30:11
Got it. Woo! Let's see, did we finish Gozer? How we doing on Gozer? How we doing? We did finish Gozer.
30:25
And I think somehow restarted Multiball. And Relit. and we relit extra ball. No! Come on! All right, well, we can start automatically Stay Puff, which is nice, and there it is. All right, so we initiated Stay Puff.
31:04
Get... Alright, initiated. I have no idea what we're supposed to do here. I think I've only been here a few times. Stay Puff Marshmallow Man shoot white shots to toast the Stay Puff we got lots of white shots here we go there's one white shot two white shots
32:01
Fire a Gozer, huh? We got Gozer. Ugh. Hit Gozer again. We didn't have to. Need to hit that extra ball. Oh my god. give me the extra ball. Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me.
32:36
Alright, here we go. Extra ball. Ah, I missed it. There it is. Extra ball. Woo! Alright, let's see if we can finish off Stay Puff now. We got that.
32:55
Oh my god. Thank god we got this. the extra ball. Dear lord. Let's see. Two times. I don't know. 10%. I don't really care.
33:22
There's that. Shoot again, thankfully. Looks like we've got to make each shot twice, I think is what this really comes down to.
33:41
There's one. Maybe we just have to hit it once. I don't know. All right. Super tough shots, all that's left.
33:51
Did it! Did we just beat Stay Puff? 65 million. shoot right orbits to cross the streams all right now we need oh wow that is really flashing not what I meant to do alright here we go, easy shot there it is holy shit completed the mode and now we're at we saw we kicked its ass mini wizard mode
34:50
Thank you. Come on, let's hit 100. Maybe we can also snag. Snag. Oh. Oh, that jumped up and over! Oh my god, that was cool!
36:16
Oh shit! We hit Mass Hysteria Multiball! Oh, they were flipped! They were flipped! Shit, at what point did that happen? I confirmed... Wow, a 260 million bonus. That's not bad. I wonder what we got there.
37:08
High score one. We didn't even max it out. Are you kidding me? 2.1 billion. Not an awful game. I mean, you know what? We achieved what we wanted. We wanted to just get to Stay Puff. We actually beat Stay Puff.
37:30
Got to the... We came, we saw, we kicked its ass. Mini Wizard mode. And then I think we hit all the... Majority of the multiballs there. And then we got... Light Storage Facility multiball. and finally we actually hit Mass Hysteria Multiball and at some point during that I should have switched and played like this but it happened all of a sudden it felt like the flippers weren't working on me halfway through the Multiball I feel like the second you went into Mass Hysteria Multiball it should have switched so hope you guys enjoyed that I just had a lot of fun that was an enjoyable game I'm sure people who are actually good at Ghostbusters probably do this all the time, but yeah, that was a lot of fun. Enjoy, guys.