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Blood Machines (2022 VPW)

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 10m·analyzed·Apr 21, 2022
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TL;DR

Host showcases Blood Machines VPW pinball with designer input, praising innovative mechanics.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host plays Blood Machines, a VPW (VP Workshop) original pinball table based on the 2019 film, with designer Astro present in chat. The host praises the game's innovative mechanical design (particularly a striking ramp shot), explores its rules and missions, and discusses design philosophy with the developer, while emphasizing the game deserves to be manufactured as a real machine.

Key Claims

  • Blood Machines is based on the 2019 film Blood Machines and designed by Pin Workshop

    high confidence · Host explicitly states 'This is called Blood Machines. This is by a group of guys... The Pin Workshop original table based on the movie from 2019 blood machines'

  • Steve Ritchie advocated for actual skill shots in pinball game design

    high confidence · Astro confirms: 'Steve Steve Ritchie was mad because skill shots weren't skill shots anymore. And he's like, frack me.'

  • Blood Machines features a no-lane-switch skill shot mechanic similar to Deadpool and Elvira's House of Horrors

    high confidence · Host: 'no lane switch on the skill shot you're locked in aka Deadpool correct correct you're locked into that skill shot aka like Elvira's House of Horrors'

  • The game uses a FlexDMD display affected by host's video settings

    high confidence · Host states: 'so yeah this is flex dmd so apparently the the flex dmd is affected by my settings and i think my settings are global'

  • Blood Machines includes character Mima as a playfield feature, echoing the Rocket Raccoon ramp shot from Guardians

    high confidence · Host: 'Mima is in the table What? Oh yeah, Mima is in the table That's literally just the Rocket Raccoon shot'

Notable Quotes

  • “I'm telling you right now Matt Scott, if you have any pull with like any company, you need to get this game built. This game here has got to actually see the light of day.”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host (Manu)@ 9:16 — Core pitch for Blood Machines as a manufacturable real pinball machine

  • “this shot here that that right there just blows my mind i need we need to make that happen i don't know if you guys if you made it happen will it actually happen as a um as such a thin rail like two rails there i'm not sure that that would go out the factory with two rails”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host (Manu)@ 10:20 — Identifies mechanical manufacturing concern with the signature ramp shot design

  • “Steve Steve Ritchie was mad because skill shots weren't skill shots anymore. And he's like, frack me.”

    Astro (Blood Machines designer)@ 7:36 — References Steve Ritchie's design philosophy influence on Blood Machines skill shot mechanics

  • “When you play this game in VR, too, and I don't want to keep telling you about VR, because this is what you would call the pancake... but when you're in VR you get to see some of the detail really that's going in”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host (Manu)@ 35:38 — Notes VR version reveals additional visual detail and craftsmanship in the virtual pinball design

  • “Every choice was based on that theory. That's why the timers are real long, too. Okay, like 90 seconds.”

    Astro (Blood Machines designer)@ 39:46 — Explains intentional design choice for timer mechanics based on classic pinball philosophy

Entities

Blood MachinesgameAstropersonMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationPin WorkshopcompanyMatt ScottpersonSteve RitchiepersonManupersonSpooky Pinball

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Matt Scott (Spooky Pinball code designer) raided the stream and engaged with Blood Machines discussion, suggesting designer familiarity within the pinball developer community

    high · Host: 'What's up Matt Scott?' in response to raid; Manu notes 'Matt Scott knew about this table like six months ago'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Host identifies potential manufacturing challenge with the signature two-rail ramp shot design, questioning whether it would pass factory QA without additional support structures

    medium · Host questions: 'i don't know if you guys if you made it happen will it actually happen as a um as such a thin rail like two rails there i'm not sure that that would go out the factory with two rails'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Blood Machines incorporates classic pinball design principles (long timers ~90 seconds, no timer pause on ball staging) intentionally based on Steve Ritchie's philosophy that skill shots should be actual skill-based challenges

    high · Astro confirms: 'Every choice was based on that theory. That's why the timers are real long, too.' References Steve Ritchie's advocacy for authentic skill shots.

  • ?

    announcement: Blood Machines is a completed VirtualPinball title in active circulation within the VP community; host emphasizes it deserves real hardware manufacturing

    high · Host: 'This game here has got to actually see the light of day' and 'I would love to flip in real life. I mean, come on.'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Blood Machines demonstrates advanced VP Workshop design capabilities including FlexDMD integration, mini-playfield transitions, portal mechanics, and VR functionality

Transcript

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0:00
This thing, this game, okay. So, I'm in my office, right? And I got this game running. this game right here.
0:31
Come on. So I'm in my office. I got this game on a track mode. I'm just chilling. Like I'm taking a break. I'm not playing. I got on a track mode. I'm chilling. I go in the kitchen.
0:43
Five minutes goes by. Like five, six minutes. I don't know how long. I hear some dude talking in my office. Like, and I'm like, I forgot I had the game on So these kids Decided To make it real super quiet It's super quiet But then like five minutes later It'll say something that's so clean and clear It sounds like somebody's talking I swear Somebody was in my office I came back in here and the game was just like this I was like Did you say something?
1:23
All right, we're playing Blood Machines. Now, I have got my VPN workshop shirt on. I have put some time into this game here. I apologize. This thing is blown out because my freezy update thing is blowing pixels out.
1:51

“I mean, this is what you would call the pancake version, right? Papa Duke freaking amazing.”

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host (Manu)@ 35:51 — Contrasts VR and 2D 'pancake' versions of Blood Machines

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high · Host praises: 'the mini playfield transition... That was cool' and notes VR detail visibility beyond pancake version

What's up, Astro? What's up, Meemaw? iron fox nail buster of course lamb diggity dang dog what's happening uh that's a sexy shirt whoever made that must be super talented way more talented than this game because this game sucks no i'm just kidding i've been putting in some time on this game let me just say this thing okay first of all this shot here blows my freaking mind I want you guys to engineer this has to work for real this has got to work and be in a real pinball machine for real oh that was nice Mima's in this table What?
2:50
Oh yeah, Mima is in the table That's literally just the Rocket Raccoon shot We stole that That isn't a game? Wait Rocket Raccoon From Bullwinkle?
3:11
Are you serious? from guardians wait no not no i mean the ramp shot that that shot's not in guardians i mean the ramp shot yeah yeah oh shoot astro this flipper up here this flipper up here oh my god and i did this in vr too this game is sick you guys all right so i'm gonna say right first of all that has to i mean this i don't have my telestrator on i mean this shot here i don't have my telestrator on sorry i also don't have my glasses on this ramp just goes around what okay we need to we need to keep that we need to make this game and make that shot happen i know it would be a nightmare if you don't have the game leveled and if you don't have the game like perfectly set up that would be a freaking nightmare but bro holy smokes let me turn this on and start playing because i'm gonna need as much time as i can get by the way um yeah sorry that this is kind of a little blown out but my freezy uh is set up to kind of blow out some pixels and it's blowing out these pixels on this because i haven't seen this is a what is this ultra dmd from bullwinkle cute rocket raccoon from bullwinkle sorry about that um hey what's up arthur hey bullwinkle is current so so yeah this is flex dmd so apparently the the flex dmd is affected by my settings and i think my settings are global um but i want okay let's so let's play um yeah astro i was like yo i got some ideas for your game i i don't think i have too many i think i have one or two and i'm going to ask you if they were creative artistic choices if they were actually choices or actually things you guys maybe didn't think about i'm gonna my assumption is that they are rules choices that may be a little harsh for a sucker like me. For a sucker like me. And I'm going to play a little bit, so let's watch. I don't remember all of them. There are not many. There was like three things I was like, wouldn't it be nice if this happened? But they probably thought of it and didn't do it because reasons. Right? Ah, the ball saver's fine. I like the ball saver, actually. Dondi you got your t-shirt why not why is it not sent for Free Gold Watch because Free Gold Watch to make the quantity of shirts that I need is way below Free Gold Watch is like I'm not going to ask Matt Henry to print out one shirt every like what two weeks you know okay there are no mistakes it's totally intentional got it okay um here's totally intentional ready no lane switch on the skill shot you're locked in aka deadpool correct correct you're locked into that skill shot aka like elvira or stuff like that okay i knew i know i know let's go let's go let's go all right oh man Okay, okay, okay, easy, easy Um, this is backhandable And light my ships Okay, that That was heartbreaking right there I'm trying to get the timing on that correct Alright, I'm not gonna be like I'm gonna show y'all how to play, um, blood machines But I am, I have kind of Owned that little backhand right there Light my ships, oh, shoot Still no, still no, still no.
7:23
I want to get these kind of lit. Now, double scoring also. Astro. Mackie said he wanted it to be an actual skill shot. Yes. So did, who said that too? Steve Ritchie. Steve Ritchie got mad because skill shots weren't skill shots anymore.
7:43
And he's got, frack me. This is the only really dangerous outlay right here. this is the only dangerous outlay oh okay how do you like double scoring how do you get a double scoring I thought it was because if you hit mystery and super spinner and then hit double scoring you get it I don't know how so tell me how here's a skill shot boom mima lock is ready a mima lock is a cross lock right that would be the mima lock got it One of the most fun things about this game Is the fact that it It actually did come It came with a card Let's see double scoring is a scavenge award From the drop target Oh Okay Drop all the drops get scavenge lit I'm going to assume that's what you mean Attention Incoming raid to the pinball theater Fliptronic What is happening Yo, what's up Scott?
8:51
That's so awesome That's a Scott Denise sound What's up baby? Fliptronic, thank you for the raid I'm telling you right now Scott, if you have
9:16
So Scott, if you have any pull with like any company, you got to get this game built. This game here has to actually see the light of day.
9:35
This is called Blood Machines. This is by a group of guys. I think you might be familiar with them, Scott. and I'm mentioning Scott because Scott's the only real apparent like actual actually have created a pinball machine there may be somebody else in the chat that I'm not sure of but anyway heavy package this is by these guys the pin workshop original table based on the movie from 2019 blood machines this wow this is this can actually live in real life this game this shot here that that right there just blows my mind i need we need to make that happen i don't know if you guys if you made it happen will it actually happen as a um as such a thin rail like two rails there i'm not sure that that would go out the factory with two rails maybe a habit trail right but but i'm not sure it would be freaking awesome if it would if it if it worked as just two rails two thin rails uh wait let me go back and see so astro nasty was telling me hi man is this real yes becca it's no it's not real sorry um the pink wall is a playfield multiplier it's exactly like the battering ram on game of game of thrones okay uh didn't finish that hey raiders did you try it yeah terry i did i yes i can i can't stop playing this in vr seriously with 10.71 it's sick although i do have a question about 10.71 though scott knew about this table like six months ago oh okay cool yo this is ridiculous oh scott knew about the table six months ago but man who didn't wait actually Manu didn't know. Manu was in the Discord.
11:33
What's up, Brian? Forget it, Astro. Don't listen to me. I am in the Discord. I know. I am in the Discord.
11:43
And this is the latest version from the Discord. From what you told me to do yesterday. This is the latest version. Brian, how you doing, buddy?
11:57
Let's start a mission. Oh, let's start a mission. Okay, let's maybe start a mission. Let's scavenge. Maybe we'll scavenge. No. Start a mission. Drain. Good idea.
12:08
Okay. Tabasco Man, what's happening? I need to play this game. I have yet to load it. This game is ridiculous. Yeah, it would be a big redesign, but damn, it's a really cool game. Yeah.
12:23
Sorry I missed Friday. I was exhausted and fell asleep by midnight. Well, Brian, feel happy that we're starting an hour early from now on so we start at 8 p.m pacific instead of 7 instead of 9 p.m pacific 8 p.m pacific so at least you can get one or two theaters in this week hard to get to hawaii fliptronic edit it'll be a fliptronic edit you guys i'm happy i'm always happy to get a fliptronic edit that means i don't have to do anything have i watched any new no i haven't watched any of the new uh mystery pinball theater 2000 um i'm sorry hard to get to hawaii yeah physically it would need occasional supports and or connected third wire on top. Yeah, that would be neat. A third wire. A man who knows all but doesn't recall.
13:09
Captain 12, thank you for the sub! What's up, bud? House Huntress! House Huntress, you didn't see, I said, House Huntress, I said hello in Fliptronic stream, but you didn't see it.
13:28
He's back! No skill shot. Oh, you said hello first? Well then. Ah! Okay, here we go. We need to start a mission or something. We need to actually play some pinball. Astro, don't go away. I still got you here. While I got you, I'm going to ask you some stuff.
14:08
Best news all week? All right. What's up, Sammy? Hard ticket minus 15 minutes of booth. Thank you, Fliptronic.
14:20
Thank you, Fliptronic. what's up fiends all right um what's up jillian you know what's funny i watched one video by todd tucky by tnt amusements and youtube sends me all the videos so i've been watching like a video by todd every single day i watched the twilight zone video one that was like two years ago or something like that um okay so rtx 3070 okay yeah so professionals in the chat fliptronic is the proud owner of an amazing v-pin cab now and fliptronic is looking for a rig uh computer to put it in please let fliptronic know exactly the specs to run a 4k screen very well with very minimal lag please Spindrift is good But that's because I'm out of bubbly Scott We had spindrift at your house But bubbly That's like next level An easy way to get missions Is to backhand them from Oh really? I can forward flip that I'm actually better forward flipping that Might be a little too much Todd See ya Scott Thanks a lot bud um hi man times four todd is a character but his videos are great resources yeah todd is great yeah uh vp fiends got you wait fiends no come on you guys be be for real what's up surreal what's up buddy guys be i missed the skill shot damn it guys be for real tell can i do the skill shot second time no and it comes all the way around that's cool I'm better than this vote limo ha very nice surreal I like those hemo I like those emotes well let's see what I can do on a two ball game got my skill shot got my 500k
16:38
12 for something. So let's see. Let me see. This is good because the machine tells you how to play it.
16:48
Ah, Shialem. Poof. Do it again. Hup. Get up. You ain't going to get up. Hup. Ah, heartbreak. That's not such a heartbreak right there. When you miss that.
17:08
Do I need 11 now? Do I need 11? No no no I keep thinking that top flipper Alright let do a mission Heart of Steel. So Heart of Steel is... Pops. Which is crazy hard.
17:31
Heart of Steel is hard. Why not spinners? Guys, why Pops? Why Pops? Oh, first question. Astro. So if I shoot the mission scoop Will you guys add more time?
17:48
Just do it once But if I shoot the mission scoop Will you guys add more time to my mode?
17:58
Press and hold R for rules Oh, okay You can say no A couple of missions have time adding things Aw, damn it Alright, I don't have the right Get up there Gimme, gimme pops Gimme pops, gimme pops, gimme pops, gimme pops You barely fell You crack me I don't have the tilt cam set up Mission failed Frack I don't have the tilt cam set up Okay Next question Um Press R Press and hold R for the rules They might help Is it more than just what's on the scorecard?
19:04
No, I have that actually printed out. Astro, I actually have that printed out over here. I was going to actually put it on my game.
19:16
Let's see. Okay, a couple of missions have the editing, not the pop-up number one. Okay, you got me tilted. Mission fail. You almost have Tracy Multiball.
19:25
Tracy Multiball is that one right there. Right? Have I checked my butthole? Not right now. Do I need a verified phone number to check? Alright. I almost have Tracy multiball.
19:55
Resurrection's easy. Resurrection's loops. I can do resurrection. Well, maybe. So that's that pink... That's the pink, um...
20:11
Damn it. Oh, I don't know how to use this weapon here. I suck at that weapon, dude! I suck at that weapon so bad. No, no, no.
20:29
15 loops. All I need is 15 more. 7, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. It flung out. Shoot. That's me tilting the game.
20:41
Alright, so we got resurrection done. Up and over. Give me some more of these. More of these.
20:54
Once I got them all, do I need any more? I'm not looking at chat. You're probably answering all my freaking questions I backhanded it, nice What's this? This is another hard mode Ah, not that one Chase? No, Chase is not that hard Chase could be easier But it's not super hard Hang on, I got 54 seconds I'm sorry, chat Especially Astro, if you're trying to help me right now I'm working on it bro And my phone is going off I don't know why my phone is going off One shot Get it get it Oh you suck so much Give me that shot I got 28 seconds to make that Shot
21:56
You... Holy smokes, that was insane. And I got saved by the kickback. I got seven seconds to make this shot.
22:15
Oh my god. Oh my god! Don't watch. Stop watching. Stop. Good night, everybody.
22:40
Where's the video? The video didn't play. all right nice one though fiends you are the video dude you had two multi you had two multi balls almost qualified all right i'm gonna go back and see if uh astro said anything i really need okay you have tracy it's in the scorecard lol uh kudos to vpw for showing constraint on the design sometimes less is more play field is easy to read some play fields too much frog agreed um okay now you you light all of them then you have to shoot them to make them solid oh okay then you collect oh dude thank you all right think of think of bo jackson oh man so listen um um modes are worth a lot like if you finish a mode the last time i finished a mode i finished the mode i got like three three million every time you finish your mode that adds to your bonus so if you can finish a couple of modes in ball one you keep getting bonus for ball two and ball three is that not correct astro i think that's correct right i'm sorry guys i'm diving deep if you're gonna if you're looking for like manu personality tonight you're not gonna get it you're gonna get me figuring this game out because this game is freaking great all right let's go let's go let's go i got another okay my okay so so i don't get an add a ball not an add a ball i don't get added ball time yeah man it was still traumatizing playing here oh terry no i didn't i didn't play the hell room I played regular Minimal room I played the minimal room I didn't play the hell room I didn't even load up the hell room What's up Grimmy Um Betrayal is You guys gotta see the cement Oh this is the combos Oh this one sucks This one sucks I am terrible I actually did this once I'm bad at combos This one can kiss my butt Okay That's okay Here's the strat Qualify a multiball Start a mission And then the multiball So get all your inserts Late before you start missions I know how to light The little ships. I don't know how to light the crosses.
25:51
The crosses qualify missions. The crosses qualify missions. Pop bumpers. Oh, pop bumpers give me crosses.
26:03
Pop bumpers, Mima. I need to watch this movie. We're riffing this movie, by the way. I have the movie now.
26:09
I have the movie. It is in the Riff Theater queue. It will be a movie we riff Uh In a little while Shit Damn it I just wasted my kickback on that
26:36
This feels like a game Like a A meaty game Um Okay Bumpers, light crosses Right, and the sky loop lights The pentagons Mima multiball is getting three balls In the fun hole Under the I just said that, huh? I just said that I stopped short There we go I put it in the hole In the hole Astro In the cutout Oh, I wasn't supposed to do that. Portal room is cool. If you see this in VR, it freaks you out.
27:19
So portal room is a lower play field. How do you guys determine where the ball comes out? Ah, that sucks. I got too involved. What was that, fiends? In the hole.
27:39
What's up, Pinsomniac? Good to see you, bud. Or good to be seen by you. Good to be seen by you. So I have a lot of crosses. I need chips.
28:05
Woo. Ha. Wait. What are we shooting for? It's... Ah, damn it. Nope! It's not gonna happen. There we go. Hoo!
28:23
Hoo! Ah! Oh my god! What the frack? I got a ball save, though. That's cool. Alright. Astro, when I light, um, Lago, what does that do for me? Oh, he has a multiball.
28:40
When I light Lago, what does that do for me? So I'm going to shoot the flashing lights, kids. Because I don't know really what I'm doing. So let's shoot flashing lights. There's another flashing light. Let's see if I can get it. I'm going to shoot... Oh, that was terrible. I still got it. Okay, good. I got it again. Keep shooting flashing lights Manu. Get up there! No don't come back. Give me the jackpots baby. Get. Ahhhh. Oh he came back. Kick back. Oh!
29:30
Ha! Okay, that doesn't do it for me. Air defense! Almost air defense. Not quite. Alright, Manu, think. Think for a second. Oh! Think for a second. stop stop stop flipping get that ah damn it all right this thing is hard to use look at that let's go um let's see i missed all of chat and you guys couldn't forgive me tonight right um mima you're in the game though smog coined the phrase fun hole in that second we adopted it got any black tea i told my wife that nick i told my wife that she was like okay um tracy's ready start a mission and then shoot the center i love how i never noticed what what a v-pin until something cool happens like that mini playfield transition. Yeah, that was cool.
30:58
Yeah, the mini playfield is cool. It's just Miro's kind of layout metallic-ish. Oh, I mean, you could say that almost about anything, right?
31:06
Lago gives you kickbacks. Okay, good. Thank you. There are two kickback inserts. I got two kickbacks once, so Lago gives me kickbacks. So, control your Lago. The only thing you gotta worry about is this right out lane. right out lane. Uncle Ecstasy, what's up? That's the only one you gotta worry about. It's that right out lane.
31:31
Damn it! Ooh! You got to be joking me! I tried to do the drop catch out of the scoop and it didn't do it. Ramp seven. Loops. Mm, that's a terrible bonus. That is a terrible bonus.
31:49
No, think. Only blinky lights. love this game man one of my favorite mornings ever even but it feels super great oh man yeah yeah no we don't have black tea uh all right then can you bring me some lipton that i can do keep doing your job lady keep doing your job
32:21
That is a scary scoop I got Tracy so far Wow Can that shit come out faster I mean can that thing come out faster Uh oh Two ball saves Yay Look at that Astro I got the ball save double happening the double ball save.
32:54
We need to control our Lagos. I'm just going to let that bounce. Let's do a mission. Let's show you guys some more missions. The missions are really cool.
33:09
What the frack? That comes out so fast. Mission! Hey, thank you for the... Whatever that was. Ah, wasted my kickback.
33:26
Bobo! Bobo Subman, what's up, bud? Mission. Got it. Portal Worm. Okay, once again for Portal Worm. Did you see this little creepy, like... Creepy person show up?
33:46
Astro. Saved both balls. Astro, how the heck are you supposed to shoot three sets of targets that are not facing the flippers? I have done it, though. But holy smokes.
34:12
Oh, well. I guess like that. Yo word of advice If that gets caught in that loop put the flippers down
34:41
There you go. 14 months, Bobo. Jeez. Thank you so much. That rocket shot gives you a 10-second ball save because we were nice.
34:52
It wasn't even Lipton. Sometimes I wish I understood what was happening. Hey, RZ, I mean, this game follows a lot of the standard rules of pinball. Like, it is, for all intents and purposes, a pinball machine I would love to flip in real life. I mean, come on. Because they blast through the other side. Okay.
35:16
Yeah, flipping that drop. Flipping that drop, yeah. Let me see if I can micro do this. Yeah, you're right, Astro. Okay. Heart of Steel is Pops again, and it's the one that I hate!
35:38
When you play this game in VR, too, and I don't want to keep telling you about VR, because this is what you would call the pancake.
35:46
Hey, Astro, what are your initials? What are your initials, bro? This is what we call the pancake version, right? It's pretty freaking amazing. but when you're in VR you get to see some of the detail really that's going in that's going in you really get to see the detail of the work that was involved in here oh oh Astro check it out shoot shoot shoot bullet bullet gun Astro uh on when you enter names start the next letter on the letter you just finished you guys they did that in goonies does that make sense so if i go m poop the next letter should be an m it should start on the next letter then p then t so i don't have to start from a again that's all i mean that's an easy one i think you guys can handle that um i i have you checked your butthole Well, why did that one work?
37:06
Let's see. I'm sorry to make you work for it. Don't be that guy. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Another question. another question during ball staging Joe Hill oh god machines for blood Joe we're gonna rip this movie at some point blood machines 2019 movie we're gonna rip it I haven't watched it yet but I own it now.
37:45
Mano, can you only do so many flips per day or he gets the beatings? Mano can only do so many flips per day.
38:00
When you guys have modes running, right, and the timer's going, when the ball is staged, whenever the ball is staged in a pinball machine, Not whenever, I'm going to say If we're talking about old Bally Williams games Anything on the table Any countdown Never gets interrupted On newer sterns If you hit a pop bumper Or the ball is staged in any way It freezes the counter What was your choice?
38:33
I can see what the game is programmed to So if I'm in a mode And the countdown is counting And the ball gets staged in here I lose that five seconds I don't get it back so I'm just wondering if you guys that was that was a choice or something that right or if the balls and the pops I don't have a choice I can't flip tables down to be like a day to ease from 90s there you go so it's just gonna walk through it got it I don't know if anybody else understood that but astro knows what I'm talking about so if you're talking about like a day to east or williams table from back in the day they never pause timers it was not this kind of hey we'll be nice to you and let you uh and let you um stop the timer like you know uh but the newer sterns generally speaking will stop timers unless you're talking about something game like guardians which the whole thing is a timer everything's a hurry up you know every mode is a freaking hurry up so they're not going to stop the timers oh that's why we oh wow where am i what am i doing Oh, I'm doing the combos again. I hate this one. Damn it. Brick this halfway through and you're done. Unless you give it a nudge.
39:46
Every choice was based on that theory. That's why the timers are real long, too. Okay, like 90 seconds. Yeah, they are pretty long, actually. Because back then, pinball players weren't little bitches.
39:59
In fairness, the Galaxy was at stake. I think I get it. Kind of like when you couldn't continue in video games. Yeah. Old pins made for arcades. There's quick games making money. Yeah. Newer pins. More catered to home buyers. Probably. Yeah.
40:17
Now, this is why I love that I have you guys here. Because I'm kind of like... When you heard that I had some ideas for the game, I didn't really. Like, I just was like... Woo! I was just like, alright.
40:31
I want to ask the designers. and I should have had you guys in zoom I really should just have you guys in zoom next time ah crap um because it's a lot easier oh cemetery is awesome but holy smokes I cannot get through this mode to save my freaking life the cemetery is oh look at it I'm dead already when this happens in VR it is crazy the whole glass gets frosted is the um what's up game club what's up marty i thought you're too scared to play this game i'm too scared to play it in the vr death room yeah but i'll play it like normal um missions are they deterministic random can i choose a mission or do i just get a random a random mission period is it always a random mission Pop bumpers What do you mean pop bumpers Oh crap Pop bumpers I just pitched it out because I'm trying to read One question I thought I'd get asked And don't Why is the DMD solid colored I don't care Stop texting me Oh my god What? I'm doing a stream. Can't you see I'm doing a... Oh, wait. That's my wife.
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Oh, I didn't mean that. Hello? Where are you? Okay. Sorry, I love you. Can I see? Can I see? Can I see? Can I actually see? Can I see? I was so busted. Look, here's one. Yeah? Here's one. Here's one You see them all? Yeah We're gonna send more to you Yeah We're gonna send five to you Okay, send them all to me I'm streaming right now Send five more to me, I love you Oh, is it?
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Okay Oh my god I, I Wow Can I That's my boy This is cool Did we print this? I printed a printable I'm trying to get a 4x6 And it printed on the 8x8 This is beautiful Oh we got Minnie What?
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Oh my god Thank you Joe that's not what we're here for but thank you joe i love you oh the 10 spot i'm getting texted pictures from my wife and i'm screaming in my office stop texting me what a jerk all right let's go this is astro i blame it on you and you guys on these guys because you guys are making me angry now i love this this is great joe you're of joe joe oh my god oh my god david paisan thank you for subbing for 10 months all right this backhand was working for me there we go now watch ah let's try it again wow ball save so that loop i gotta imagine that that flipper has to be cranked up to 11 in order to um in order to hit that up that ramp change scenes man you got it you got it i will i will all right here we go oh man if you get if you miss miss the timing and you're freaking done okay get your lago get your lago mission resurrection that's loops i can do this give me my three million boom nope nope nope that was an up and over okay here we go and give me some loops flippers down scavenge loops 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 9 uh oh that wasn't it uh oh that was a panic flip lagomi this will be an up and over 9 I got 38 seconds to get 9 loops I locked the ball white shot no don't don't blow me up don't blow me up no now i'm missing it how's tna treating you uh joe by the way there it is three million we got some exciting news about tna coming up soon from what I hear. Mission.
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I know I'm ignoring your actual advice, Astro, but I... Frack me! Don't look at chat. TNA is super fun. Yeah, TNA is great.
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I just love the color. I just love the use of color everywhere. Super vivid and neon-y. Yeah. And if you get this table, do Do the developers and the musicians a favor. Go to Bandcamp, buy the soundtrack, and then throw it on the table. They're not going to give you the soundtrack for this. Just like with Scott's.
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Five bucks is not expensive. Actually, it's five euros, so it's like $5.69 or something like that. But don't ask your buddy to give you the... Don't do that. That's not cool. Don't ask your buddy to give you the soundtrack Right? Don't be like That's why I didn't go like Hey guys, could you give me a soundtrack? No, I'm going to buy it I'm going to listen to it exclusively through this Co-op mode with my kid Yeah, I hear you guys are having fun with co-op mode Not yet No new TNA until I can afford it Soundtrack Yeah I love that TNA has that I love that TNA has that mode you can have up to four Joe have you tried this? have you and your daughter play player one and player three and you play player two and player four that's always fun Cemetery why can't I play two seconds on Cemetery? I want two seconds on Cemetery. I want two seconds. Two seconds on the Cemetery, man.
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I bought the vinyl. Wow. Oh, you bought the vinyl, the TNA vinyl. Yeah, I see pictures in my Instagram of people with the TNA vinyl. Now I'm jealous.
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Now I'm jealous because I have a record player and I love Scott. And now I'm jealous. Yep, thank you for the link, fiends. Buy the frigging thing anyway. We want to see a surge of people. We want to see the Blood Machines OST surge in sales at Bandcamp.
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We're keeping it one player per human, so when my siblings come over, it's a real treat. Oh, okay, you got it. I mean, my turntable will do that.
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I'm also waiting on TNA vinyl to arrive. Oh, nice. I never got the TNA vinyl. You better order yours now. What's up, Scott? Penn Stadium in the who's house. Love you, bro, with the 16 bits. I love the 16 bits. I love that that's yours.
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Well, Scott, Penn Stadium, welcome to Blood Machines, an original table by these guys, the VPN Workshop.
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And it slaps. And maybe one day it'll get built into a real machine. Into a physical machine. Sorry, I didn't mean to say real. It is real. It's just not in physical form right now.
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Carpenter Bert probably sold more OSTs this week than he sold this time. Yeah, exactly. Wait, we can make our voice an intro ad? Joe, I did that for Scott. This was way back when custom sounds... You can do whatever you want. Joe, you can do whatever you want. This was when custom sounds were not...
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Didn't cost anything. That was a long time ago when custom sounds didn't cost anything and I just made them for people. And I was like, wait, this is a service.
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I'm going to charge people for it now. Keep going, keep going. Give me pops, give me pops. Keep giving me pops. Uh-oh. Damn it.
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Joe Hills needs to change mine to the head-on. Head-on. Apply directly to the forehead. Blood Machine looks new. It looks new. It's very cool. It's very cool, bro. It's very cool.
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All right, I think I got one more in me. Let's do this. This is when Manu idolized me. Yeah, back in the day, remember? Now we're just siblings. Now we're not siblings. Are we related, Scott?
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Scott, you're awesome. I got one set of pin stadiums that live at the Pinball Museum in Alameda and one set of pin stadiums that live at Freegal Watch.
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Twinsies! I got a set at Freegal Watch and I got a set at the Pinball Museum. It's the only light, well that's not true, the lights that I use in my garage are hung from the ceiling. But pin stadium lights are the only lights I use on location to light my games.
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And if I can't get my games lit, I'm not streaming. That's actually true. Damn it. That was a good run, though.
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Okay, now Astro says I have to shoot the shot. I have to shoot the shots so that I can... I have to shoot the shot. Okay I going to spend my whole friggin night trying to shoot the shot Twinsies Lights in the murder garage are placed on me
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Yeah, I'm turning into a franchise, Scott. Anywhere I go, I leave a set of... I leave a set of a twin stadium so that I can stream games.
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It's like leaving my sweater behind. Ball save, thank you Thank you guys so much How many, I got one more to light This one right here Let's see if we can Shoot Wasted my kickback Actually you can never, I'll get it back right now with Lago Boom Heart of steel, let's do it Okay more pops, I hate pop bumper Loads I hate pop bumper modes Go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go Sometimes it just works out that way Two pops Oh Got it Give me two Boom boom Thank you Exactly two Manu Did you Do you notice the real time ball reflection on the side wall no i'm too busy i'm too busy trying to survive i want to shoot this to light my mission get up there uh-oh damn it oh you couldn't risk that backhand if you want i felt it was worth it so don't listen to the trickster first time in a vpx table awesome uh everybody pay attention to that because that is a really look at that did you see that that is a freaking cool you know what astro here's the thing i didn't notice it probably because it's supposed to be there it's one of those things that you will create as a creator to be uh kind of ignored kind of not noticed right but it's a lot of work to do it the physics is getting better and better it is yeah pent up pentomniac i gotta say if it wasn't for the little bit of micro lag that i have on my um my my cab ah damn it that is the worst thing to do i'm starting off so good because i finished one mission this is why i play this all freaking night my high score is like 60 something my first ball would be like 44 and i frack two balls theater of magic has it on the back wall no uh well theater of magic you're talking about they just put a mirror in theater of magic because the the the um the shots are obscured so they put a mirror up there so you can see it um it's different astro talking about just reflections off of like if if the if the blades here were like kind of reflective they're usually a dark matte finish but you can get mirror blades or you can get kind of i guess reflective blades yeah tom is a straight up mirror yeah right side right not side wall uh but black wall uh on you guys vpw this is a nice check it out one more time you guys will see it watch the ball watch the ball watch the birdie boom did you see it did you miss it did you see it or did you miss it um i'm gonna rush to get this ah some of that i'm gonna rush to get this up on youtube as fast as i can because this game really needs to be played you guys did you consider putting orbital on this maybe it's not your choice maybe you gotta get the scott wickenberg the scott wickenberg like the scotty wick kind of approval to orbital this but orbital would be kind of cool because i don't know you tell me i don't know what the like politics or whatever or how hard it is to use orbital who cares about orbital or whatever but it's pretty cool we have a vpx saturday night with this table saturday night oh scotty's been on vacation for a really long time okay developing a scoring system now any table can go on orbital the thing is most of vpw doesn't believe in score tracking of EPFs. Okay. That's too bad.
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Ha! Did that just say eat S word Dave? I love you guys. I absolutely You guys are my heroes now.
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I didn't say that before. set me free i will set you free but just hang on one minute i love you guys mr hard luck all right let me think about anything else eat dave love terry no it's there it's there it went by quick it went pop pop pop all right astro um can you rattle off some of the people who helped in the chat um um i'm gonna put one more up what's up dalton dewey tap pat dewey tapas that's how i like my tapas dewey i like i like when i go out to eat tapas i like it dewey yaki am i saying that right yaki yeah yaki um everybody else was helping yaki once again murders another game um it brought blood machines into my life uh as a as a as a kind of a as a kind of a player um as a player of a lot of physical pins i found this game to be very easy to follow um i don't need to be up here right now but i want to get some of these while I can.
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I need loops, though. Oh, boy. Very easy to follow. There's a couple of deep things in here. I'm pretty sure you guys put some deeper rules. Some tricks.
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It's bad for me to stream this game because I ignore chat. I'm sorry. Come on Man, I am killing that loop With that orbit But I don't need that orbit right now Shoot, I just blew myself up Let's see Daphine did the layout Daphine did the layout Rules were Apophis Yeah, they seem like Apophis rules They're pretty cool um astro nasty astro nicey for the search shirt we archive pin junior doing uh will didn't do shit let's see i'm getting starship troopers vibes with this really okay cool uh rick for testing of course rick put up 50 billion uh we have high we have We have a live high score system for almost all VPX tables integrated with Dux's score sheet using VPD's ID records.
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Okay, I need to get into that. I know this is something that I know Game Club Central is already doing.
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Marty, we need to have another hangout so you can tell me all the neat stuff that's happening. The artwork looks good, am I safe here for it? The Hunt! What is the Hunt? I'm not familiar with this mode. Wait. What is this? Did I discover something? Oh maybe this is the mode that I haven't gotten to for a while. What is a ship? Is the ship on top? I need to watch the movie.
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I'm going to kick that. Go for the lights. It still says three ships to go. When are we getting a chopping mall pin?
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Load the gun, hit the lights. Oh, okay. Let's load the gun. If we can. Nope, that's not the gun, Manu. Nope.
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Nope. That shot you were making earlier, Manu, you're not making it now. Nope. Oh my god. I still got a kickback, though.
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I got 20-something seconds. Maybe I can get one shot up there. Nope. No. There we go. Oh, wait. Load the gun. How do you load the gun? Oh, the mission hole. Damn it.
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Damn it. The mission hole. Thank you. Sorry, I didn't know what the gun was. My bad. Yeah, because it kicks up to the Oh, man, this is why I suck as a pinball player.
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Follow the flashing lights. Everything was flashing! This is great. You know what's funny? I went back and played... Let's find the mission hall. I went back and played Goonies. I don't know if any of you guys had anything to do with Goonies. You guys did Goonies, right? I went back and played Goonies. fun game. Still a really fun game. We call it the Fun Hole.
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Goonies is still fun. I mean, not that it would depreciate in fun value. But upon setting up a VPW, I'm sorry, a VPinball 10.71 Can I play this for more than a second now? Oh, there's a magnet in the table? Oh, you guys are mean!
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Stop it! Oh, I actually hit that? There's a magnet in the table? Oh, I shat. That was a dig. That's what we call a dig.
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I'm going to backhand this. I don't care. You can't tell me not to. Boom. You can't tell me not to backhand. The shot. That I want. I got nothing else for you, Astro.
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I got nothing else. This is... This update has color options for the DMD. Oh, great.
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What's that? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Uh, oh, he gets the update? I had to get the update on my own, Marty. Nobody gave me the update. I had to go and download it myself Uphill both ways in a snowstorm Um So uh Zach said he might rent me a table if I drove out there to pick it up Yeah Mr. Hardlock are you talking about Zach from Flippin' Out Get it bro do you know how much it costs To like ship a machine It's like 500 bucks Get your butt out there I have Twilight Zone It's Jay's Jay Adelson At Scorbit I don't have a truck I figured out how to get a truck And a person to help me move it And I gave him some cash And now I have a pinball machine in my house Do it baby It's in the channels Yeah Yep So let's close this up by saying Get to the chopper Call George Yeah call George Yeah Mr. Hartley just call George will drive to wherever you are and pick up the thing. I gave you cash. I want my machine, man.
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Thank you, Wilt and all you guys. This is fabulous. This is freaking. I don't know what any of these means. This is awesome. This little dial here. Guys, there's a little dial here. I'm pointing to it. this is this shows like the bonus or whatever or how many are it's it's a little it's can we make this table what the hell was deep root even doing yeah there's so much freaking talent i love this table i love this table oh i love it like a like i'm gonna just uh try and get a hundred million that's my goal a hundred million and then i can rest thank you guys you guys are awesome Love you. We're going to go raid. Maybe I can take one home for Maximo. Yes, you can. Sure. I think about you.
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High scores from the Discord. Alright. Thank you, Dondi. The doll is what your bonus multiplier is. Yeah. It's so cool.
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Guys, guys, go out. Buy an Oculus Rift. Oculus Quest or whatever. Fire up 10.71. Look at this. oh quick question before i leave is there a way to get 10.7.1 to work with open composite does anybody know that i don't like to load steam i don't want to load steam buy a valve index or or yeah if you have i what the index is only a thousand dollars no idea okay you got it no problem um no problem i'll uh i'll figure it out i think i can figure it up. I don't like to load Steam when I'm playing VR pinball.
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But, you know, it's fine. Alright, love you guys. You guys are great. Blood Machines, try it now. ESD.
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You know what that means. Play in the hell room. Nope! Not playing in the hell room! Thank you. Thanks for watching!