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Episode 110 – Goobe Gone

Slam Tilt Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·Oct 3, 2018
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TL;DR

Expo news, WoZ rumors, VR pinball release, and repair tech talk on Slam Tilt Episode 110.

Summary

Slam Tilt Podcast Episode 110 covers industry news including Pinball Expo announcements (Pfeiffer Basher and Oktoberfest reveals, no Munsters announcement), Jersey Jack's rumored Yellow Brick Road Edition Wizard of Oz, Stern's Virtual Reality Pinball release on Oculus Rift, and Stern's next release being Munsters. The hosts discuss tournament experiences, league updates, and extensive technical repair troubleshooting for a Stars game with knocker/chimes malfunction.

Key Claims

  • Monster Bash remake will be released at Pinball Expo (roughly 2-3 weeks away)

    medium confidence · Bruce (host) predicts this based on 7-8 month development delay and timing

  • Pfeiffer Basher and Oktoberfest will be revealed at Expo, but Munsters will not

    high confidence · Bruce states 'You heard it here, folks' with confidence about insider knowledge

  • Jersey Jack is releasing a Yellow Brick Road Edition of Wizard of Oz

    medium confidence · Described as rumor; Bruce indicates this is cash grab strategy given existing Ruby Red and Emerald City editions

  • Stern released Virtual Reality Pinball on Oculus Rift with 10 available tables

    high confidence · Confirmed news item; tables include Ghostbusters, Star Trek, ACDC, Last Action Hero, Phantom of the Opera, Spidership Troopers, High Roller Casino, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Harley Davidson, Mustang

  • Stern's next release after current games is Munsters

    high confidence · Host states 'Yes. Okay. We're just gonna say that right off. Yeah. Why'd they go around? It's the truth.'

  • Tiger Rag is a reskin of Kings of Right Target

    high confidence · Mike Dimas confirmed this in email; host agreed Bruce was correct about this

  • Vintage Pinball Museum near Ann Arbor, Michigan has over 400 games and is run by Clay Harrell

    high confidence · Email from Julie describing museum visit

  • London, Ontario Pinball League has over 60 members and is run by Mike Dimas

    high confidence · Email from Julie clarifying Mike Dimas' identity and role

Notable Quotes

  • “You heard it here, folks. Because Bruce is never wrong with these things.”

    Host (Ron or similar) @ Not provided — Establishes Bruce's credibility on insider industry predictions about which games will/won't be announced

  • “It's just a cash grab. Well, what do we have so far? We had the Ruby Red Slipper Edition. The green. Oh, the Emerald City Edition.”

    Hosts discussing Jersey Jack Wizard of Oz editions @ Not provided — Highlights community skepticism about multiple editions of same machine and Jersey Jack's monetization strategy

  • “Stern and Farsight release Virtual Reality Pinball. Wow. How's that going? I don't know.”

    Hosts @ Not provided — Indicates uncertainty about reception of VR pinball product despite official release

  • “Unfortunately, I have to admit that Bruce is correct. As much as it pains me to admit, Bruce is correct.”

    Mike Dimas (via email) @ Not provided — Running joke about Bruce being right; validates his previous claim about Tiger Rag being reskin

  • “Knocker goes off instead of the chimes every time the ball hits a switch. My stars is a-rockin', but it's also a-knockin'.”

    Harry Jackson (email question) @ Not provided — Technical problem on Stars 78 that stumps even experienced repair people

Entities

BrucepersonRonpersonZachpersonStern PinballcompanyJersey Jack PinballcompanyWizard of OzgameMunstersgameMonster Bashgame

Signals

  • ?

    announcement: Stern released Virtual Reality Pinball on Oculus Rift with 10 playable tables

    high · Stern and Farsight release Virtual Reality Pinball with confirmed table list: Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Mustang, ACDC, Last Action Hero, Phantom of the Opera, Spidership Troopers, High Roller Casino, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Harley Davidson

  • ?

    announcement: Pinball Expo will feature reveals of Pfeiffer Basher and Oktoberfest games

    high · Bruce confidently states 'Pfeiffer Basher is going to be revealed. We know Oktoberfest is going to be revealed' and declines other announcements

  • ?

    product_strategy: Jersey Jack pursuing multiple limited editions of Wizard of Oz for revenue (cash grab strategy)

    medium · Discussion of Ruby Red Slipper, Emerald City, Australian, and rumored Yellow Brick Road editions. Host characterizes as 'cash grab' given abundance of existing WoZ machines in secondary market

  • ?

    rumor_hype: Rumor of Jersey Jack Yellow Brick Road Edition Wizard of Oz

    medium · Bruce and co-host discuss the rumor; host suggests it's driven by cash grab motives and abundant existing supply

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Critical Hit Tournament format uses card mechanics to alter outcomes; generates mixed sentiment from players

    high · Host participated in Critical Hit Tournament, finished 5th; expressed frustration that card mechanics nullified strong individual performance and first-place game win

Transcript

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0:00
Guys, I'm really disappointed in you. We're disappointed in you. It's like, you pull down the shades like you're gonna do it and then it turns out you're not even naked. Yeah, really. What about the chick? Is she naked? Where is she? Come on, buddy, let's go find her. Um, what's going on, David? David. Hey, baby. If things don't, like, work out with David, maybe you and I could, you know. What the hell are you talking about? Come on, John, don't worry about it. I'll drive you back to your place. Yeah, baby. Because it's like, if we were on a date, we'd already be naked by now. Yeah, yeah, and you would too. All things pinball, yes. Oh, wow. Like? Tournaments, Repairs, Tech Talk, Shows, and more. This is episode 110, Black Panther. Good, good movie. Guess what? Never saw it. I haven't seen this one either. Surprise, surprise. Sorry. How did I guess that so easily? So you'd recommend it? Yes, very much so. All right. Very much so. So, did you enjoy being back on the show last week? Okay. I know more people are like flocking to me saying, oh my God, where have you been? But you know, we'll get back to that when we get to the mail, ball bag. Yes, Ryan C., I mean, he added over 10,000 to the ratings. It's incredible. He did, wow. It's unbelievable. I know. And he sent us a special, he sent somebody to send me a special note, I see. He sent somebody to send you a special, okay. Well, again, we'll get to that. So we'll talk about that when we get to it. You sure? Yeah, I'm sure. But first, news! Piece of news. Everyone needs news. So guess what website I'm at right now? Pornhub. That's in my other tab. What? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, the other tab has thisweekinpinball.com. Wow. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Jeffrey. So we got, where is the Monster Bash remake? Yeah, where is it? Come on, Bruce, you know everything. Yeah, I know. You know everything. Where is it? Monster Bash remake? Yeah, what's taking so long? What's going on? They're going to probably bring it out for Expo. So that's your prediction? Because guess what? They've waited eight months or seven months. What's another two to three weeks? Yeah, that's kind of where I'm going. I'm going the same route there. Because they did have people play it already. Yes, and some people are like, oh, not bad. You know, nothing really big and exciting. The Wally Winka Podcast is brought to you by the Wally Winka Podcast Network. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Yep. That would have been cool, but a little too far for me to bring games. Yeah. And then they had, uh, they're gonna have a ball bowler tournament. Yep. Where you get to win a ball bowler. That's gonna be interesting. And an arcade, an arcade tournament. An arcade tournament. And a kids tournament at the American Pinball. And American Pinball's gonna have another tournament for the top 16, like the old days of Expo. Yeah, the one where you can win a Houdini. Yes. Deep Root is gonna be there. You get deep rooted. I'm gonna get deep-rooted. Uh... With John in attendance, supposedly? Oh, John Popadiuk? No. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He's gonna need security. Security! Where's my money you fucker? God damn, you're gonna get me my damn game. Should be like, um, John? Where's my money? Where's my money, man? Seriously, man, where's my money? Where's my game? I got zizzled. You got zizzled? What's my game? I got zizzled. First you talk of Shizzle, who is most told about Shizzle? Yeah, you should have a great show. The best expo ever. That's what I was told. It's going to be the greatest thing ever. Can't wait. It's going to be super duper pooper trooper expo. Well we said Pfeister Basher is going to be revealed. We know Oktoberfest is going to be revealed. Do you think any other games are going to be revealed?
Pinball Expo
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Tiger Raggame
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Ashleyperson
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Ron Hallett Jr.person
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competitive_signal: New league member Ashley performed exceptionally in Stern Army tournament on first participation (third place)

high · Host notes 'She actually knows how to nudge' and 'didn't play like no newbie. She played expert.' Won Wrestlemania translight

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Western Europe Pinball League (Rochester) grew to 20 players with new addition this season

    high · Host states 'Now it's going to be 20' players after one new addition, 'a little less than last year'

  • ?

    product_concern: Hobbit pinball machine has playfield ramp malfunction causing balls to skywalker to outlane

    high · Host states 'I got totally boned twice on the one ramp. You hit the ramp, it comes back into the right in lane... skywalking like avatar-like out to the out lane'

  • ?

    product_concern: Stars 78 knocker firing instead of chimes on startup and every switch hit; cause undiagnosed

    high · Harry Jackson email describes issue; tech hosts unable to definitively diagnose despite extensive troubleshooting discussion suggesting driver board or connector issues

  • ?

    venue_signal: Vintage Pinball Museum (Ann Arbor, MI) operates 400+ games but limited public access

    high · Julie email notes 'I wish he opened it to the public more' and describes visiting with opportunity to play rare machines in great condition

  • ?

    content_signal: Podcast listener Ryan C. added 10,000+ to community ratings upon return appearance

    medium · Hosts note 'He added over 10,000 to the ratings. It's incredible' suggesting significant audience draw from specific guest

  • ?

    community_signal: John Popadiuk (assumed industry figure) facing customer complaints about game delivery/payment at Expo

    medium · Hosts joke about needing security for Popadiuk: 'Where's my money you fucker? God damn, you're gonna get me my damn game. I got zizzled.'

    • 5:36
    No. Those two won't. You don't think Munsters is ready? Nope. They will not announce it there. Okay. Nope. So you heard it here, folks. Because Bruce is never wrong with these things.
    5:49
    Am I right more than most people? I don't know. Who's most people? Some other podcast and people talking out there in pinball land. So that's the upcoming expo, which was not even on the, uh, this week in pinball, but... Jersey Jack! Updates and rumors! Mmmmm. Uh, there's rumors there's a new Wizard of Oz coming, called the Yellow Brick Road Edition! Yes. How many freaking editions are there? Oh, three or four. Give me a whole lot of editions! Yeah, okay, Pete Puma. Yeah. It's just a cash grab. Well, what do we have so far? We had the Ruby Red Slipper Edition. The green. Oh, the Emerald City Edition. Yep. The Australian Edition.
    6:40
    Was there a black one too? No, nope. That's the base there. You're thinking you're getting mixed up with the Hobbit. Oh, damn. You're right. You're right. And of course I'm right. And then the regular edition.
    6:51
    There's a lot of Wizard of Oz's. It's just the cash grab. So, for Wizard of Oz, the perfect Wizard of Oz would be what? The original run, but with the new light boards? Yes. That's pretty much what I've heard. So the original run with the original ridiculously insane cabinets that look like the butter cabinets that they sell for T&A. Yep. Because the same company I think is doing them. But they have the earlier more problematic light boards. I'm a fan of the 7.5 volt light boards. So someone is probably sending one of those to be restored and then with a bunch of light boards to swap out to get the perfect Wizard of Oz. Yellow Brick Reddit say you think that's true, the rumor? Oh of course. We've known Jack for years. It's all about the quiche. Even though the problem is there's not many people probably going to buy it because you can pick up a lot of Wizard of Oz's out there. It's not like they're being hoarded or something like that. And they made more of them than anything else. Yeah. With, uh, I dialed in a distant third. Yeah, I told you. Didn't I? Well, you hate, you hate dialing, you hate everything now. No, I don't. Stern and Farsight release Virtual Reality Pinball. Wow. How's that going? I don't know. You ever tried it? I don't know if VR said it. I thought maybe if anyone, you would. The, uh, it says it's available in virtual reality on Oc, Oculus Rift. I have no idea what that means. For new Oculus Rift. Is Oculus Rift the name of the product? Is that like the, uh, is that the goggles? It's a new death metal band. It's a new death metal band. Actually, it does sound like a death metal band. Ladies and gentlemen, Oculus Rift. Okay, let's, let's do a search on that. It's, uh, let's see. It's a type of, uh... It's a virtual reality system. Okay, yeah, so it's the actual system. So instead of like the Atari 2600, it's the Oculus Rift. I think it's better as a death metal. So they're gonna have 10 available tables for this. Now how the hell does this work? You put the goggles on and you flip like you're in front of the game? Yep. All right. I guess you use your hands to do everything else. Oh! So we have Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Mustang, ACDC, Last Action Hero, Phantom of the Opera, Spidership Troopers, High Roller Casino, so Bruce is in, Ripley's Believe It or Not, and Harley Davidson. You gonna have one of those at the saloon? No. No? Okay. What is Stern's next release? Is it gonna be monsters? Yes. Okay. We're just gonna say that right off. Yeah. Why'd they go around? It's the truth. So that's about it for the news. Wow. Yeah. I don't really have much. Yeah. Light news week. Like the third in a row. Light news week. Yeah. Next time on E finals Increasingpodcast.com We finally got to the wait number four.
    10:16
    So in other words, it's in other words like three people canceled out so far. Four people canceled. Yes. So we have four people now. What number are you? Well, I was 20 but since four people, I guess I'm 16. 16 to go with a month to go. Yeah, it ain't happening. Yeah, you never know. They drop faster. I still say it ain't happening. I'm not counting on it. But I can be transportation for someone if they don't want to drive back. Like, are you coming by yourself? Are you coming with Zach? I don't know yet. I haven't thought about it. Ah. I'll know the week before. Just like I'll know about the other thing we're talking about next week, big boy. What other thing we're talking about next week? What are we talking about next week? Yeah. Good time getting up early, checking out some things, yeah.
    11:07
    I'm totally confused. Of course you are. What did I find for you this week? Yeah, but you said next week. No, that's next week. It's next weekend. Oh, no, Saturday would be this week, Bruce. Well, I consider it, I haven't even really enjoyed my full weekend of this week, so I'm just considering next, this being the next weekend coming up. How's that? See, see, Bruce, seven day week starts Sunday. It does not for me. To Saturday, Sunday to Saturday, okay, Monday to Sunday then. Either way, it's still this week. Nope. No. Nope, my weekend starts usually on a Wednesday. Your weekend starts... Because it just blurs. It just blurs the whole weekend working it. It does. I'm just so confused. And Todd, one of my friends, actually got many Bruce-isms this past week. I don't know how he handled it.
    12:01
    Who's Todd? One of the guys in our Western Europe Pinball League, Rochester players. You have a league? Cool. Yes, we have a new addition, one more person joined, so that's a good thing. So how many players do you have in your league? Now it's going to be 20. 20? Yep, a little less than last year, but still. It's not the quantity, it's the quality of play. Yeah, we don't have 20. Mm-hmm. Yeah, our league's gonna be starting up, actually, this upcoming weekend. There you go. On your... How many games? Uh, two, um, less than yours. Okay, good. Two. Two, yeah. It's gonna be Twilight Zone and Simpsons Pinball Party. You're gonna be so lucky. Yeah, yeah. The league is gonna go so much faster now. It will. Yeah. Well, luckily, next league night for us, we get to play Cactus Canyon. Medieval Madness, Circus Voltaire, Tales of the Ramian Nights, Whitewater, Indiana Jones, Black Knight 2000, Space Station, Haunted House, Pirates, Elvis, a couple others I'm missing, Creature from the Black Lagoon. Good for you, Bruce. I'm so happy for you. Yeah, you enjoy those two games. Thanks. Thanks very much, Bruce. No problem. Yeah. But it looks like you had fun this weekend. Oh, so we're going to get into that. What the hell? Alright, yes, the Critical Hit Tournament. Where was that at, sir? My first time ever playing in the Critical Hit Tournament. Were you critical? Uh, yeah, I was critical. Did you want to hit somebody? Um, honestly, at one point, yes. See, I told you. They're kind of, they're kind of very frustrating because if you're a good player, everyone hunts you down. He wasn't... So nobody hunted you down. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. This Tu interowser resource is available to download in your🍀 If you're considering signing up for a zero- curiosity hypothesize a little over cenote The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Hobbit twice and stars twice. Okay, lucky you. So I was one out of three there. Mm-hmm. Actually, I don't mind Roadshow. And then I got to play ACDC in round seven. There you go. And I ended up and I right at the page right now if we look at the standings first qualifier was Jerry Bernard Of course Sab from OCPC fame Second was Bowen Kerins Ever hear of him No Never heard of that guy And then third was some guy named Ron Hallett Jr. You sure it's not Ron Hallett Sr.? No, it's Ron Hallett Jr., so I qualified third. Isn't that awesome? I got a bye. Super. That was great. And? So after the buy, let me just preface this, although this probably gives stuff away, but they paid out the top four.
    16:08
    Ooh, so you finished fifth. Okay, like I said, I probably gave it away right there, but let's get to the finals. Okay. I'm in Bowen's group. Okay, so you got this. You got to take first place on this. Congratulations.
    16:23
    Well, I'm in Bowen's group, so I figure I want to finish second. I want to get second in the group because we know who's going to finish first The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. But whatever. So theater of magic. Oh God, Bowen, what are you doing to us? It's the magic day. I pick first. I pick for my order because I finished later. I pick first. Ooh, gonna go out and jump on everyone and show them how powerful you are and... Yeah, first of all, I didn't do anything. First of all, Bowen had like, I don't know, 300 million, 400 million. Excellent. You know, he got the... he did what you do on a non-modified theater. Loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, left loop. Yeah, left loop, left loop, etc. Yes, rinse and repeat. Let's just say the next two balls, I destroyed the game, ended up with like 1.2 billion, and I won. Bowen second. Wow. And then the other two players third and fourth. So here's where the card stuff starts. So they play cards and I'm not sure which cards they were, but they both got to play the game again.
    17:55
    So they both play the game again and still end up like third and fourth. So then the one guy plays another card where he can force someone else to play the game again.
    18:06
    And he forces Bowen to play it again. Oh, my God. Which was actually excellent strategy because he wants Bowen to beat me. Yeah. So then Bowen is basically he's already he's moved on. So then it's just between the three of us or closer, the three other players. And Bowen beat me on ball one. Oh my God. Yeah. See, the thing that pissed me off is in all the years I've played in tournaments, this was the first time I ever played Bowen. Oh wow. Ever. Because I'm never in his group, because I'm not at that level. So this is like the first time I ever played him. You know, like the second game, you know, you have this huge game and actually beat him on something and it's basically completely nullified. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I really didn't want to play Grand Loser because that would have went on forever. So, Hardbody, I thought I did good enough to win, but I ended up second. Okay, so now you're in a tiebreaker probably, right? No, no. So I have four points, and the other player is five, the one who won Hardbody. Oh, so you got screwed, blued and tattooed. So you finished fifth. Yes, I did.
    19:42
    Now, I could, you know, if I had actually won that game, I would have went on. If I had got an extra point for the first game, I can't totally blame the card shenanigans. But it helps. Yeah, I don't know if I'll do that again. I wasn't like... It's just, you know, some of it, it's cute. It's cute, but some of it's really goofy. It affects you, and then it's kind of annoying. consumers demand periodic online so if but heaven in ever over the uh... the instar which does not follow our facebook page might have seen my score on that their orders at lake of interact with us i looks like seven point plumilion with eight million however held those fit although they are on the Cafe store of feelin star evidence so I love Alien Star. It's such a great game. But of course, the first ten games I played on it before that, I don't think I broke a million, so... That's Alien Star for you. That is Alien Star. Got to play a bunch of games of Hobbit, as I said. I got to play two in the tournament, and I also played a bunch of games to try to find out why the game sucks so bad. It just sucks. Mmm. Yeah, I got totally boned twice on the one ramp. You hit the ramp, it comes back into the right in lane. It was actually then skywalking like avatar-like out to the out lane. Like from a made ramp shot.
    21:20
    Did that twice. That was great. That felt great. Overall, it was cool. I mean, I definitely, I would do another tournament there. As long as it's not critical hit.
    21:31
    Nice. Hey, I gotta try everything once. I still want to try a Flip Frenzy. Mm-hmm. I haven't had any opportunities to do that. Hopefully one will happen somewhere close to me where I can go to it. Yeah, I've done them. They suck. I'd rather do a critical hit than a Flip Frenzy. Why, you just hate everything. No, I'd rather have. I'd rather do... The Australians love Flip Frenzy. They're criminals. They're... Oh, wow. Okay. So criminals... Only criminals like Flip Frenzy. You said it, not me. Well, shouldn't they like Critical Hit more because you can steal victory? No, because sometimes they get screwed and criminals don't like it screwed either. Uh, yeah they do. Oh. No, they don't. No? No, no, no, no, no. Only thing they like get screwed if, you know, they don't even like it in the bathroom in the prisons with showers. Bathrooms with prisons with showers? Okay. Bathroom in prison with showers. Oh my. Yes. So that was a critical tournament. It was fun. Pizza was good across the street too. You had your league. No, we didn't have league. We had Stern Army. Oh Stern. I'm sorry. I'm sorry Mr. Stern. What are you again? Private? Private Nightgown? I am Mr. Private. I'm sure you are. Private was behind and I was second. Zach was first. He was so happy in the picture as you saw. Yep, and your new league member was third. Yes, Ashley. First time she ever played in a tournament, she got third. Took out some regulars, so she's a power to be reckoned with. A power to be reckoned with. I guess that's right. It is right. Usually it's a force to be reckoned with, but with Bruce, it's got to be a different word. Power to be reckoned with. Okay. That is true. She is a power to be reckoned with. So that was nice to have new blood come in and kick some people's asses. She actually knows how to nudge excellent. I was like, cause she's like, I don't play that much. Okay, well come on in. And boy, I saw her nudging and moving the playfield. I was like, oh boy, we're in trouble now. We're in trouble because I thought, you know, the way she acted in the beginning, she's like, oh, I'm just like a newbie. And she didn't play like no newbie. She played expert. So she was hustling. We should start playing the color of money music. It's in the way that you use it. She's got skills. Yeah, Zach, you looked very happy to win in that match. Yeah, Zach is just thrilled in that one. Just thrilled. And she won the Wrestlemania Translight. Wrestlemania, brother! Yes. All right, we got the ball bag here. Yes. Before we get into that, do you want to do the Stumper first? The N Soul Universe Stumper of fun. Okay, so... That's your song for it now. I'm going to sing that every time we do the Stumper. Mailballbag. First email is from Dr. John. Hi, Dr. John. Good day, mate. Dr. John Cosson. Hello there. Just wanted to add my praise for your shark jumping tech episode. Remember, Happy Day still had two seasons after said jump. I think I have a nerd man crush on Scott and Zach and what they know about coding and repair. Coding and Repairs. Oh my. I enjoyed the entire podcast, even the really obscure bits I couldn't understand. Another of these episodes would be welcome at any time, although I understand they may not be everyone's cup of tea. Ah, screw them. P.S. I did miss Bruce a little bit though. See? See? Okay. So somebody missed you. Yes. Our next email is from the designer of the awesome game Total Nuclear Annihilation. moistur Putin Neales Page, Crowd當然ie washboard, databases, ubs, and Ali's podcast I think I'm so misunderstood sometimes. How are you misunderstood? You suck. How do you not like TNA? It's awesome. No comments. Nope. Did you see on Pinstyde someone put a ramp on TNA? Really? What'd they do? Put it right up into the back box or something? They took a ramp from a no-fear and they literally, like, it's in front, it's a little left of the grid where the entrance is, So you hit the ramp and it puts it into the reactor area? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. No. Okay. No. Not at all. Yay. So then we have email from Scott Larson. Hello, Scott. Apparently, your allotment of hate mail has been deficient, so hate you. Cheers. Thanks, Scott Larson. That must have been for you. I guess so. I'm going to have to go. It didn't say Bruce. Oh, you'll love this one, Bruce. Okay, let's go. You love being right. Of course I do. God, it's a given. This is from Mike Dimas again. Oh, what did Mike have to say? He's already read it. Hey, boys, unfortunately, I have to admit that Bruce is correct. As much as it pains me to admit- Hold on, hold on, hold on. Stop. Okay. Please say that line again and say nothing afterwards. Let's glow and, like, enjoy it. Uh, okay. I'm just going to say, well, I'm not going to say it. I'm going to say it.
    27:28
    Okay, I'll read it as, I don't know, Gene Simmons. Hey, boys. Actually, that's not Gene Simmons. No, that's not Gene Simmons. I'm listening by Gene. There we go. I had to find it there. Hey, boys. Unfortunately, I have to admit that Bruce is correct. And as much as it pains me to admit, Bruce is correct.
    27:46
    That Tiger Rag is actually a reskin of Kings of Right Target. I just discovered this. I think you guys call it Kings of Right Target. Oh, I just did. Well, I guess there won't be much mystery to the game strategy when I get this thing running. I actually never played Kings of Steel before, so either way it'll be my first time playing the game. Okay, Mike, what you want to do is you want to hit the right target. And when you get bored of that? You hit the right target. And then you get bored of that and you? Hit the right target. You got it. There you go. And there's the game. Ta-da! On a side note, we can turn this into a small text segment if you like. I do not get a sixth flash on Tiger Rags MPU. I read that U11 and U10 are suspect and I've swapped them with various used 6821 chips from used bally boards. That made it worse. I would get a locked on MPU LED or just two flashes with various combinations of chip swaps. Getting five flashes is my best. I swapped the 5101 RAM as well and that did not help. Any suggestions? Sockets.
    28:54
    So you think it's bad sockets? Could be, because it keeps on changing. Well, first, were the chips that you swapped good or not good? That's the first thing. If they were known good, then I would still suspect the sockets being moved around and pressed around and shoring up everything.
    29:11
    Put an Alltech board in it. I don't know if you can, because I don't think they support that game. Get a Weebly board. Yes. With the correct knobs and try it. Yep. That would be the next step, I would say, if you cannot figure out the board. We have an email from Julie.
    29:32
    Hello Julie. Bruce and Ron, thanks for the entertaining podcast. I was listening to the Tiger Rag episode on the way to the Vintage Pinball Museum near Ann Arbor, Michigan run by Clay Harrell. He has over 400 games. It is amazing and I wish he opened it to the public more I play lots of your conversion games and many rare games I have never seen. They were all in great shape too. I would also like to clarify who Mike Dimas is. He is the London, Ontario Pinball League President. He puts a lot of work into our league and has over 60 members. He also buys lots of games. Here are some pictures to check out. Another one of our friends was at that same show. Who was that? The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Did you walk away from it? Walk away from it? After I played my game, yeah. No, during it? Not during it, no. I think you're lying. We have World Defender, which is basically Terminator 2. Not the game, but the back glass is a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger from Terminator. Actually probably from Terminator That right Terminator 2 wasn even out yet so it just Terminator But it World Defender Then there another one called uh Thunder Man Thunder Down Under Which is obviously Kurt Russell from Escape from New York, for the eyepatch. Mm-hmm. Then we have Bullseye. Yeah, which we almost bought the kit from. And we have, um, Alvin G on World Tour. Mm-hmm. And Garage Man on World Tour. And Mystery Castle, which I've played both those games. Yep. So thank you Julie. Well we have another tech question. This is from Harry Jackson. Hello. Hello. Stars, tech question. Okay, here we go. You've been on a roll lately with repair tips. Oh my. So I have a question for you on the issue that recently developed on my stars. Whenever I turn the game on and press the start button, the knocker fires three times instead of giving me the opening chimes. The game still loads a ball into the shooter lane and is playable, but the knocker goes off instead of the chimes every time the ball hits a switch. I'm guessing this is some kind of operator alert, but could not find info on what's going on in the manual. The game has played properly with chimes in the past, and I did not mess with any settings. Help, my stars is a-rockin', but it's also a-knockin'. That is weird. Yeah, I've never heard that one before. Sounds like something crossed up with it, like on the driver board side. Try a different driver board, make sure connectors are all good. I don't think it's a connector issue though. I'm thinking more driver wackiness. Because a knocker is being told to fire. And being told every time three knocks is really weird. It's almost like the reset for the coils is getting somehow done. Well, I'll go the easier route. Make sure you didn't put a connector in offset like a pin.
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    But, I mean, you're saying that it worked fine before, so I don't know if you were in the back box at any point, maybe took the connector off and put it back on, but that's very weird.
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    It's when he's hitting start, too. That's the really weird thing. Well, it's because it's playing the theme.
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    And it hit three times. Now, I know it does more than three chimes when you start a game. So it almost sounds like it's just... It's all firing one different thing. Yeah, like it's firing one of the chimes is now the knocker. Firing the knocker. So you got to follow some wiring out of that connector and figure out which one, And which I think is going to be the bottom one. Yeah, that's really weird. I mean, I'd ask like, did anything happen before this started happening? Or literally it worked fine one day and the next day didn't.
    34:09
    Which is so weird. Very weird. How bizarre. Unless it's just telling it to fire the wrong things. I'm thinking we're drawing something on the dashboard. Okay. Let's get the stars. Let's see what the wiring looks like. Stars 78. Tech support on the fly! Yep, English manual. Let's go.
    34:31
    Let's see if it's going to actually run this one or not. While you're looking that up, he says, Stay awesome, Harry. P.S. Really enjoy the Marvel movie titles.
    34:39
    Of course you do. You should really give them a try, Ron. Yes, you should, Ron. Okay, uh... The knocker is on J3.
    34:50
    Well, it could be off. J3 could be off by one pin. The Wally Winka Show, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams,
    35:23
    The Wally Winkelman Show, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams, No sense. And the game plays normally, you said, or afterwards? Yeah. Yeah, it plays normally. That's weird. Corrupt ROM. I don't know, that seems really weird, because the knocker's on a different, different total line. Totally different line. Let me see what's in the, I'm going to look at the switch matrix and see if nothing's going wacky with that. Oh, because the knocker wouldn't have a switch, so it doesn't matter on that. Yeah, because it's computer controlled. The CPU's telling the knocker to go off. It's the only thing that will tell it. The knocker to fire.
    36:25
    So I don't know. That's a new one. You've stumped him. No, it's not stumping. I just say if I was there, I'd try different things, but... What would you try?
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    Well, I'd try a different CPU first with an Alltech just to rule out the CPU not having an issue or something like that.
    36:42
    Then I would trace and see, make sure the wiring is not like crossed somewhere. Like, you know, I'd go into the CPU Tim Williams Fast Полم었던 Tylenol, PAF Team, S Dogs districts, Lex All right, now half of our audience has fallen asleep. Yes, they have. That empties the mail ball bag. All right. So I got a Stumper for you. I have one too. Oh, very good. He's multitasking, thinking of the Stumper. I am way ahead of you, Chief. And we're actually hoping some, a listener can think of one that's earlier. Okay. So this is from the Zach Stumper collection. Great. Hi, Zach. Hi, Cookie. She's outside the door looking, trying to find her way. Cookie makes an appearance on the podcast somewhat. Yes, she does.
    37:52
    The question is, what was the first game that you could use flipper buttons to select something? Well, it's got to be something with putting your name in. Well, we're not talking about high scores. Okay, we're talking about moving it on the play field. Or it gives you a choice or something. synch Face It's giving you a choice. Hmm.
    38:29
    Yeah, so Gottlieb or... Huh, don't know. I actually thought of this one. Zach couldn't think of anything earlier. But we're hoping there is something earlier.
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    Well, I know... 89. It's before 89. Okay, because Gottlieb's did it, so... Yeah, it's before 89. 87? The one I'm thinking of is from 86. What are you thinking? It's got to be a Gottlieb. Nope. It's not a Gottlieb. Oh, maybe a Bally. Now you got the idea. Yes. Is it, what's it called, the neon one on top? No, not Strange Science. Okay. Then I don't know which one. Same year, same... Yeah, 6803. Yeah. Is it the... You were the one who told me how to play it the one time. Lost World? Kules jawablista of the sagenkos online. Uh isemedark So, if anyone can think of something earlier, please let us know. I hope, please, because I don't think that needs to be in the world. That shouldn't hold any kind of distinction, Motordone? Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. So send your responses to slamtiltpodcast at gmail.com. That's slamtiltpodcast at gmail.com. Okay, are you ready for my stumper? Uh, that sounded so weird. And it's not a Stern one. Okay, cool. I'm sick of the Stern ones. Okay. I know you won't get this one. What System 80 games are non-widebody? God, you ask all these questions and basically you're just sitting there in IPDB. What do you think Zach does? He's not doing that. No, some of yours. No. When we come up with these things specifically not to look at IPDB, that's the fun part. Nope. You're just sitting there and there's probably like 10 of them. No, there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
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    This is not a stumper. This is dumb. No, it's not. It's stumping you right now, so don't even go there. See, you're looking at it. See, at least if you did it before, if we had a third person, we could go back and forth until one of us couldn't name one. Yep, but that's not the game of the game.
    41:16
    I don't fucking know, dude. Which is like, I didn't know, so dude. Okay, how about Hot Shots? That's not a System 80. Yeah, it is. No, it's not. It's an 80B. Okay, I said 80. Oh, that specific? Yes, okay, I'll give you the year make between 1979 and 1982.
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    Alien Star? No, it's not an 80. Oh, I'm sorry. Wow. That's an 80A. Ooh, it's an 80A. Ooh. 80. 쳐ice-, What do you mean the last? Oh, the last regular 80. Yes. So that gives you half the edge. Half the edge. Yep. The half the back end. So go forward from that. So go older. That wouldn't be forward. That would be backwards. Or forwards. All right. See? Yeah. I honestly do not know because the only Gottliebs I know are all ones. I think it'll say Sinbad, Joker, Poker, Countdown. Hmm. I honestly don't... It does have the... This one does have the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da sound. So they did that on 80? Yes, for one or two. Ugh. Buck Rogers. Nope, that is a one also. Oh. Ready for it? Okay. Incredible Hulk. Oh. That game sucks. I know. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I don't listen correctly because I thought you meant there was 15 of them and I had to name. No, there's just one. You never said that. I said which one. If you listen back to the thing, I say which one is not a wide body. All right, listeners, you've just heard this debacle. Yes. So please write in and tell me if I am the idiot who just doesn't understand simple directions or whether Bruce is right again. Mm-hmm. Because I did not get what he said there. As usual. Ruining the Stumper Segment. Fail. Yeah, you failed. So, do you know which one is the most popular System 80? Black Hole. You got it. Yeah. See, you did get one. Thank you. Do you know which is the second most popular System 80? No, here we go again. You know what the third most, the fourth one, the fifth, the sixth. The second one's going to stump you. The second one will stump you. The second one will stump me. Yep. Second. Well, we know it ain't Spirit. Nope. We know it ain't Haunted House because you said it would stump me. Mm-hmm.
    44:45
    Or would it? Oh, what a dumbass. Is it a wide body or is it a wide, wide body? There was only one size. I think there was only one size wide body. I think they went, well, you're right, Circus is a wide, wide body. Roller Disco is wide, wide body. Roller Disco is still, I think, a one. That's still a one. Maybe it's an ADA. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. What else do we got here? I guess repairs? Repairs and what you fixed? I fixed, um, what did I fix? Nothing! No. I had a broken rubber on ACDC that I replaced. Oh my! Yes. And I finally, since we're getting near the time where I have to bring the Cheetah Playfield back to you, I finally took the stuff off it. Yay! So I got my targets. We got flipper bats. We got a pop-upper plastic ring, which was a pain in the ass to get off. Oh, my. Took the screws out of it, take the whole thing out, jiggle the thing to get it to come out. Did you jiggle it hard or jiggle it slow? Slow. I didn't want to break it. That's the whole point. And half these friggin' parts are for the damn Quicksilver anyway. Of course. Nothing wrong with that. That playfield, every metal piece on it is rusted. Oh, you don't see, you haven't seen mine yet. Wait a minute, this is yours. No, no, the other playfield, the good playfield. So it's even more rusted? Oh yeah, so I'm gonna be stealing one of the other and I'm gonna put them in tumbler and... Yeah. every cleaning parts Every metal piece in that thing is just rusted So what was the song that the roadshow sings John Popadiuk Bob Betor Knapp Arcade 3
    47:12
    So, Ron! Yes? So that's all you repaired today? Or this week? That's all I repaired. I'm gonna take a look at the Spanish eyes this week.
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    See if I can get that working. Huh? Yeah, that's a way. I think it's just, I think it's just a misadjusted switch, honestly.
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    Because if it's the, let me get this right here, the thousands position, yeah, the thousands position, basically if you manually put the reel to zero, you can start a game and it works fine, and it counts up fine.
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    Yeah, one, two, three, everything works fine. One, one, switch, two, two, switch. commissionerialbizone.com It's just the motor just keeps going and it doesn't try to reset either. It like never moves. Does the relay engage? The relay on the actual reel never engages. But one of the other relays in the back is engaging constantly as it's trying to do it. So I'm basically just going to take the simplest route and just focus on those two things. Okay. Make sure everything is adjusted, I'll clean the contacts and I wouldn't be surprised if it just starts working after that. Okay. Well, remember we talked last week about removing mylar? Yes, you said you were going to try to remove mylar from dragonfists. Yeah. Well, luckily I have a playfield here that has mylar on it and I don't give a crap about the playfield. And what playfield is that? My original Centaur playfield. Centaur. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, it's pretty worn, but it had mylar protecting the worn wood. So I got my cans of air and I got my gooby gun and I start spraying from the bottom up where the wear is. Your what gun? Gooby gun. Gooby gun? Yeah, so when you air, when you actually spray the mylar. Do you mean goo-gon? Gooby gun, it's the cheaper version. Oh, okay, gooby gun. Yeah. All right. It's like the dollar store version. Continue. Okay, good. Okay, thank you. So I started spraying and okay, wow, it's really come nice and easy, the first three or four inches. And then I hit the place where it was where. And oh my God, here comes some playfield up. A whole lot of playfield. And I stopped halfway and I rolled it over and I had took about a third of the playfield around the wood areas that were worn. So like I touched the playfield and it's really sticky from the stuff. I got the Goobygon off and I start...
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    And more of the Playfield comes up when I start playing the Goobygon. And I'm looking at the Dragon Fist, I'm looking at this, I'm looking at the Dragon Fist, I'm looking at this and I said, Boy, that Marlar doesn't look that bad in that Dragon Fist anymore.
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    So you're gonna leave it? Yep. Yeah, or leave it to a professional who can touch it up afterwards. So don't forget, if anyone's got a Dragon Fist Playfield, I'm interested. Oh, Jesus Christ, yes. If anyone has an NOS Dragonfist playfield, right next to the cheetah NOS playfield I have, I appreciate it. I'd be very happy.
    50:30
    So that was my first dig. After that, I was working with Dragonfist. My right out lane switch was not working, so I pulled the connector off where the switch is, pulled that pin, repinned it, pushed it back on, nothing. I pulled it back off again, got to put my continuity on one end of the lead on the switch and put it on the other end, which I pulled back off where the wiring goes. No continuity. Broken wire in the harness. Love when that happens. So I ran a whole new wire. So I've tied it all along, put it back together. Guess what I have now? It works. I have a switch. Yeah. Then I replaced the light, I have like five or six light boards me and Zach tested like two years ago and repaired. And I'm down to the last one finally and I popped it in Dragon Fist and now all my lights work. So now I put the Dragon Fist all back together and it is now a functioning, fully happy game. So that was a good thing. I put some things up for sale. I put my project Future Spot up for sale. I put up a 60 in 1 arcade game up for sale. I put up my Centaur backglass up for sale. And I put my Black Spider-Man up for trade or sale. Trade for what? Anything. Whatever tends my tummy with a taste of golden honey. Honey nut Cheerios. Okay. You're a honey of an obrus. Yes, I am. And then what I'm going to do probably tomorrow morning is, well, I can't do it tomorrow morning. I'm probably going to do it Wednesday morning is pull out Meteor and start staring at that wiring hack disaster. Very scary. And then we have to possibly go somewhere Saturday morning together. Oh my. Road trip. Yes. In separate cars. We can't tell them what the game is though. We can't. Why not? Can't do it until next week. Why? We're going to build a suspense. Ah. And other than that, I worked a couple games at the bar, nothing bigger. So I had a couple broken flipper bat rubbers, a couple coin jams. I have a weird one. Nine ball. When the doors open and you feed a quarter through the two quarter slots, they work. When you push the door in, the right coin slot always rejects. Replace the back with the left to the right, which the left one will work. Rob Jeffrey –
    53:32
    Where on October 13th, we're going to have the Finger Lakes Open returning to golf, pin golf at the Silver Bowl. So we're actually calling it the Finger Lakes Open? No, no, no, I'm saving that. I said the Finger Licks Open. Wow, did you lick? No. So Bruce, I'm going to go to Facebook right now and see who won our contest. Oh, I already know who won. Well, I'm guessing who won, but I'm going to look at the poll anyway. Oh, okay, you can do that. Do you remember when we ripped off? Well, Ryan was here, so I guess we didn't rip it off. We didn't rip it off. We had permission to rip it off. When we played, what is it? Slam the top 100 to 200, or what is it, 200 to 300 or something. 200 to 500 or whatever it was. We each got games. Now, I found out a certain Orange County Pinball Club member, who may have qualified first at the Critical Hit Tournament, actually owns a Hot Shots. The Money Guy is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, LLC. Philosopher Kyle bond gives Bally the key to laure 1968 ot
    55:30
    It's Clever Lang. I love this. I love Clever Lang. I know. So we're almost out of Marvel movies. Yes, we are. So we're going to go to Eddie Murphy movies? No, I can't do that. I really can't. Okay. Can't do it. What were the other suggestions we had?
    55:46
    A lot of them, but they were like five episodes ago, so I've already forgotten them. Well, we can do five episodes.
    55:52
    I don't remember what they are. Oh, God. I love how we ask everyone for these things, but it was so long ago, I just forgot. We failed. All of that, yeah. They failed. And we did Bond movies, didn't we? We have done Bond movies. Damn it. We did Godzilla movies. We always said we can do Harry Potter. I haven't seen any Harry Potters. Oh, I got it all in my head, unfortunately. They're burned in. I can have my wife introduce each one. How many Harry Potter movies are there? I think there's seven or eight. That's not enough. One's too many. Beavis and Butthead episodes in order.
    56:33
    That would hold us over for a long time. I think we're going to go to Harry Pothead. Really? Harry Potter movies? I hate to say it. I don't know any of them. Is there anything we've both actually watched?
    56:49
    Planet of the Apes? I'm surprised you're not jumping on that one. Friday the 13th? The Yeah, zero, yeah, one through twenty. Superman, Pirates of the Caribbean. Wait a minute, Superman? But that kinda goes with the superhero crap again. Yeah, it does, but it doesn't. Uh, Saw, Fast and Furious, you can do nine of them or eight of them. Never seen any of them. Which is unusual, because it does have The Rock in there. Transformers. Never seen any of them. Oh, God, you're killing me. That's about it. Yeah, that's it. Let's see, movies with a number of lethal weapon. We can at least four of them. That would be more pinball related.
    57:33
    It is one of my... Rocky, we got one, two. We did Rocky. Godzilla, Harry Potter. We can do Lethal Weapon. We can do Lethal Weapon to get that out of the way. X-Men.
    57:45
    That's actually different because it is Scream. It's still Marvel. No. Scary movie. I haven't seen that. At least lethal weapons I've seen. Fast and Furious. Lethal Weapon. Friday the 13th. Lethal Weapon. Okay, we'll do Lethal Weapon. How about A Land Before Time? Oh my god, there's so many of them. Isn't that animated? There's 14. Yes, there's 14 of them. Yeah, I haven't seen any of those either. Nightmare on Elm Street? I've seen like the first three or four. I think the last one I saw was the one where he like smashed his way through the wall. He like smashes her head through the TV. Welcome to prime time, bitch. Yeah, that's the last one. You knew American Pie. I've never seen any of them. Three, four, five, six. Really? They made that many of them? Yes, they did. They made seven of them. They must have went straight to video after a while. They probably did. And then Saw, there's Saw, Saw 2, Saw 3, Saw 4, Saw 5, Saw 6, Saw 3D. Saw 3D? Yes. Yep. Oh my god. We'll do Lethal Weapon for now. Mm-hmm. We still have a couple more Marvel movies. Okay. So you got anything else, Bruce? Uh, nope. That's it for me. I'm just gonna do... yeah, that's all for me. Don't forget the tournament. Saturday the 13th, October. October 13th. 24 people, max. Making this really limited. Mm-hmm. And what are you up to? I haven't even checked. Very good. It could already be sold out and he's telling people, okay. No, it's not that. There's like five or six I think we have. So, it's about a fourth sold out. Have some fun. Play some pin golf and get into the finals. I'm going to try, Bruce. And be right out of the money. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Never be cashing. That's what I say. Never be cashing. Yep, so Harry Potter's got eight movies. Fast and Furious got seven. The Just stop. Stop. Lethal weapon. Then we'll think of something else. So I think that's it. That's all I got. That's all I got too. Come on pinball, we need more news. Damn. Like nothing's happening. Yes. So we are the Slam Tilt Podcast. We can be reached at slamtiltpodcast at gmail.com. Look for us on Facebook. Look for us on Twitter. I don't know why I never post anything. Maybe we will this weekend. Look for us on Instagram. Fabulous site, anchorage great creator of the right to live on most national commentators screengrains will check each last one anditter of his One of these nights, one of these crazy long nights.
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    Group of actors, Star蛮L, ante, Laurenaut, and Ken Hughes. In nineteen thirties on Friday a peg and number one and only overall the order of home Goodbye Bruce. Goodbye Kevin Shamus.
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    Oh my!