Alright, my name is Joel and I stream on the Flip N Out Pinball YouTube channel. Today I wanted to record a quick tutorial on Stranger Things by Stern Pinball. This happens to be the premium model that I will be playing. The goal is to continue to make these tutorials with games that Zach and Nicole let me stream, but what I will say is I'm not an expert. I will share everything I know about the game, but I guarantee I will forget something, so help me out. Leave a comment below with whatever I forget or whatever you found helpful. I would really appreciate it so we can all learn together it'll be great so let's start with just basic layout shots and layout um your normal two in lane or in lane out lane on both sides nothing crazy you can light a ball save which is that insert you do that by hitting enough of the burn it back shots so from left to right you have this scoop um that is how you activate 2x scoring which you can see that insert there that scoop once there will eject somewhere over here it depends on the game sometimes you might get lucky and it goes all the way around there but that is very much game to game on where that ejects this left shot which looks like an orbit is actually a ramp shot it's it's one of my favorite shots in the game it's incredibly satisfying there's a spinner there which is awesome but what i will tell you is you got to hit that shot clean because otherwise you're going to go about halfway up and it's going to come right back down. The left ramp is a tricky one. In a perfect world, it goes like that, but there is definitely a difference between the pro and premium model. On the premium model, there's the TK lock, which is right back here on the wall. How a ball locks up on that TK lock, which is a magnet, is there's a little ramp that pops up. If the ramp pops up, do not attempt to backhand that ramp. It is not going to happen. That ramp is going to pop up, it's going to go like that, and it's going to come right back down and probably drain. So you need to be aware of whether or not you've lit the lock. To light lock, you have two little stand-ups here. You can see the green inserts right in front of them will let you know whether or not you've hit them. And then this triangle right there will be the solid green. If it's solid green, that means when you hit that ramp, it is going to try to lock the ball with the magnet on the back wall. So if that's the case, don't backhand it. Go at it from the right flipper and it should lock that ball no problem if lock is not lit backhanded all day not a problem if you're playing on a pro backhanded all day it's way safer than going at it with the right flipper but it is very fun to do it's fun to see those balls lock up on the left ramp this shot right here is how you kind of do the mystery your extra ball your demodog attacks it basically hits a stand-up back here and then it hits a saucer and kind of spits out over here so it's a stop shot like it stops the ball and then it spits it out you have four drops in the middle one of them happens to be down right now those are very dangerous avoid hitting them at all costs there are some modes that you have to hit them you have to hit them down to attack the demogorgons but once you hit them down there's actually two targets behind it and then there's a hole and that's how you start the attacks on the demogorgon the ball go this way and then spit out to the left This is the burn it back shot. It's a quick loop. You have to hit that so many times, and that's how you light your first extra ball. That's also how you light 2X scoring, which is this. And that's also, I'm pretty sure, how you light your outland ball save. Right ramp, I find it to be the hardest shot in the game. I cannot backhand it. I've never been able to backhand it on any of the versions of the game I've played. But I do know some people can backhand that shot. It is a nice shot. It feels good when you hit it. But you just got to find it. You got to find that shot. And the right the right shot over here it feels like an orbit, but it's not there's two pop bumpers back here The ball is going to go back there pop around a little bit And that's that shot and then there are targets around the play field and I can it spells. There's one here D E M O And then this one which isn even facing the flipper It right it that direction That is how you spell Demodog That's how you do the Demodog modes. So we will talk about that when we get there. So there's your basic shots and layout. Let's talk about, I'm thinking we're going to go with three M's. I swear I've heard this somewhere else, and if I have, I super apologize. But we're going to go with modes, multiball, and memorable moments or milestones. I don't know if you think of a better alliteration leave it in the comments, but we're gonna just try to remember that together So to start with modes there are 12 modes in the game if you look right here There are six modes there Those are those inserts and six modes there those correspond to season one and season two so all season one over here all Season two over there if you also also look at the inserts Orange inserts on this side yellow inserts on that side So all of season one on the left side all of season two on the right side So to start a mode you're going to hit one of the main shots three times and you can see how many times you've hit It by the inserts in front of the shot. So to explain that a little more We're gonna take a brief intermission here with the skill shot when you start the game You're gonna see that we have a scrolling arrow on the drop targets If you hit the scrolling arrow you plunge into it. Boom. That's one of the skill shots The other skill shot, which is very difficult, is you have to perfectly land the ball over there. There's a third skill shot, the MXV skill shot. I don't know what it is. Leave it in the comments. If you do, that's Mike Vinikour's skill shot. He always hides his skill shot in a bunch of Stern games. So, let's say I did plunge, and I hypothetically landed it perfectly in that scoop. You will see right above me the super skill shot. That's how you start the game. But really what I wanted to show is if you look, we have flashing inserts. That shows on all four of these major shots. We have not hit any of them. So let's go ahead and hit nothing. Let's hit that ramp. What we'll see now is this one's solid. That's indicating we hit it one time. So if I hit that again, we've now hit it two times, which makes that solid. If you want to change your mode, if I hit that ramp one more time, I would be starting Morris Code. If I did it over here with the orange shots, I'd be starting Bullies. So if you want to change your mode you want to hit it back into the pops the pop bumpers are what changed your modes You can see I actually only hit the pop bumper for the yellow side that one did not change So we're gonna play turn up the heat Actually, what I want to show you is by default if you hit the mystery award It will give you a shot. That's only for your first two modes So it gave me that third shot it realized I needed to do that When you're playing a season two modes the mode shots are gonna be yellow When you're playing the Season 1 mode, the mode shots are going to be orange. So they definitely tell you what to do. You can see at the very top of the LCD screen a red progress bar based on shots. The projector on the Pro and Premium also do a really good job telling you what to do or what to hit. Make sure when you're hitting ramps that you scroll the insert lights so you fill them up. If you do a mode perfectly, every mode has like a perfect way to beat the mode. Oh, and now I have to hit over here. Then, whoops. If you happen to complete the mode perfectly, you will get two, what is it, letters? You're going to see it right here. Two drawings. Two drawings. I actually don't know how I'm supposed to do that perfectly. I thought I did. I only got one drawing. So many drawings you get an extra ball and it also goes towards points for the final wizard mode. So I have done one yellow mode. If I hit this shot over here two more times, that's how I start my next mode. So you just slowly work your way through there and get all the modes done Upside down this is a hurry up You can see the uv light kit kicked on upside down number one and the upside down base is is i pretty sure is based off switch hits so to do the upside down this one you have to hit those drop targets super dangerous avoid them at all costs but that is beating the upside down um their upside down will happen randomly throughout the game which is very very cool that's about it for modes all you need to know is um you once you complete three modes extra ball will be lit on the uh on the mystery shot here you can see it's lit boom that's how you get through that otherwise when you get through all four modes like i can't start another mode on this on this ramp that ramp is done once you've done all four modes that's how you start your mini wizard mode which is total isolation which is pretty cool um look down here there are six lights one of them is five-way combo you technically have to do all six lights to get to final showdown so the reason i had five-way combo is because i was just throwing the ball up the ramps um send it back means you've played all six of season one light the fire means you played all six of season two tk multiball let's talk about multiball to do multiball step one you light lock so i've already hit that target so let's hit that one now lock is lit you can see the green arrow you're gonna throw the ball into a target no You're going to throw the ball up. My ramp came up and my ball is now stuck with a magnet on the back wall, which is pretty cool. So to do it again, I by default, it's already lit. But TK TK lock number two, you actually have to relight the lock targets every single time. So the third time that I shoot this shot, it's going to start my multiball. When you're in multiball, you're going to see blue shots. I also started a mode so my orange shot for this one is my mode um let's get that mode so follow the compass actually moves so my orange shot is now over here if you want to change where the compass is you hit your spinner your spinner will change where that orange shot is so I know for this one the way you get two uh letters or two drawings is you never change where the where the orange arrow is um but for this for this um multiball you hit so many blue shots they say jackpot then double jackpots on the left otherwise you can hit this first and then oh that's how it resets that's right otherwise you cash out your jackpot on the left we beat that mode so um there we go we're just hitting blue shots nothing crazy just a multiball to help you get through the modes um that's it for the main tk multiball other things to do in the game well i think that's it yeah tk multiball so other memorable moments let's get through that right up here in the middle this is all dedicated to this bad boy the demogorgon what you have to do is you have to hit down the drops once you've hit down the drops you see that big flashing red arrow and the music's changed if you hit up there come on that's how you start the demogorgon attack so this is your memorable moment you can see the light shows pretty awesome the ramp comes down he's screaming at you um you will see a progress bar right above me uh the the yellow that progress bar is basically hits that you have to do to him so every hit damages him a little bit um if you hit him in the mouth if you bop him perfectly in the mouth, boom, he's gone. I will also tell you your lockdown bar is lit by default, and that's an instant kill. You can only do that one time per game. So if we just look real quick, you don't even have to look at the screen, if you just look at inserts, I one shot away from starting a mode over there I one shot away from starting a mode over there this is the mode that I would start That would be the other mode that I would start Once you do three modes extra ball will be lit Your fourth mode is how you get into total isolation. Other things I wanna show you, Demodog. If you spell D-E-M-O-D-O, the only one I've missed is G, you light Demodog Attack. Demodog Attack, if you hit back there, that's what I just started. Demodog attack is all about target hits. So you want to continue to hit those targets over and over again. This mode is challenging. It basically locks you out from doing pretty much anything else. What I will say is you can work on progress for burn it back shots. That's how you get your extra ball. So you see right there, light three more for extra ball. otherwise you can work on trying to attack the um the demogorgon um or you can actually try to play the mode but as you can see to get back to that oh shot super dangerous um but yeah this is how i i would get into my second demogorgon battle second demogorgon battle is two demogorgons um what i want to show you here is first one i'm just going to hit my lock button boom that killed the first one gone i can only do that once per game though and then i have to bop him a handful of times this is a two ball multiball though so you can start this while in a mode so if you're smart you'll use that to towards your to your advantage to get through the so that was me hitting in the mouth that's two demogorgons gone um that might be about it what i will say is um things to work on would be your five-way combo you got to do all six of these things to get the final showdown so five-way combo uh you got a string five awesome shots together tk lock pretty easy you just got to start at once this one right here send it back means you've played all of season one's mode light the fire means you've played all of season two's mode Demogorgon means you've played all five Demogorgons and then Demodog means you've played all three Demodogs. If you can do all those things, boom, you're good to go. Do be aware of the two times X scoring. That happens when you hit enough burn it back shots. You can start that. It's worth double the points. Otherwise, basically the way you're going to get through the game is you're going to do all four modes, total isolation. Once you're through there, all four modes again, total isolation two and then you're going to do two modes on one side to do a wizard mode two modes on the other side to do a wizard mode that means you've done all all you've done both of those so all 12 modes and then you got to make sure you've hopefully gotten through demodog and the door get demogorgons on the way you will definitely have done tk lock at some point or tk multi-wall and then you got to get that five-way combo it's a very hard game but it's a very fun game it's very immersive i think it's relatively easy to understand i love the inserts because it tells you what to do rather well and um yeah hopefully that explained a lot if i forgot anything or missed anything leave it in the comments um but yeah go enjoy this game both the pro and premium are awesome and i hope you guys have enjoyed the topper up there in the upper corner um so yeah have a great time I'll see you next time.