Journalist Tool

Kineticist

  • HDashboard
  • IItems
  • ↓Ingest
  • SSources
  • KBeats
  • BBriefs
  • RIntel
  • QSearch
  • NName Review
  • +Health

v0.1.0

← Back to items

Apollo 13 (Sega 1995) at the Pacific Pinball Museum

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 9m·analyzed·Feb 16, 2020
View original
Export .md

Analysis

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · $0.024

TL;DR

Mystery Pinball Theater streams Apollo 13 at Pacific Pinball Museum with museum operator David V.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 visits Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, California for an extended gameplay stream of Apollo 13 (Sega 1995). The host explores the museum's history, architecture, and collection with David V, an operator, discussing wood vs. metal rails, clear pinball machines, and the museum's origin story. Multiple gameplay sessions showcase Apollo 13's unique 13-ball multiball mechanic and quirky ruleset.

Key Claims

  • Pacific Pinball Museum has 90 machines on display with hundreds more in storage

    high confidence · David V (museum operator) stating the museum collection size during tour

  • Wood rails were standard on pinball machines until approximately 1960, when manufacturers switched to metal rails and metal legs

    high confidence · David V explaining historical pinball machine construction changes

  • Pacific Pinball Museum was founded by Michael, an artist/musician, approximately 15-16 years ago (early 2000s) with an initial focus on kinetic art

    medium confidence · David V recounting the museum's origin story, noting some details were secondhand

  • Apollo 13 clear pinball machine uses proprietary plastic material (acrylic or polycarbonate unknown) and is heavier than standard machines

    medium confidence · David V discussing clear machine construction, acknowledged as uncertain about exact specifications

  • Pacific Pinball Expos were held from 2007 to 2012 seeking larger venue space

    high confidence · David V discussing expo history and collection growth limitations

  • Apollo 13 was recently brought back to the museum after a previous stay ended due to mechanical issues

    high confidence · Host and David V discussing Apollo 13's return timeline

  • Pacific Pinball Museum operates on a free-play admission model after originally using coin mechanisms

    high confidence · David V explaining model change due to arcade regulations questioning coin operation

  • Museum staff conducts maintenance work on machines every Monday night

    high confidence · David V mentioning Monday repair schedule

Notable Quotes

  • “This is the spot. This is the mecca.”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host@ 37:20 — Host's strong endorsement of Pacific Pinball Museum as premier pinball destination

  • “You can make more and you can't... I can imagine. People have, but I don't know what they use.”

    David V@ 5:11 — Discussing proprietary nature of clear machine plastic construction

  • “I mostly got involved through the Pacific Pinball Expos that were put on between 2007... I went to part of the last day. Oh my God, people still do pinball. I was blown away.”

    David V@ 8:18 — Recounting personal discovery of vibrant pinball community through museum's expos

  • “Hopefully I'll stumble into it. I don't know.”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host@ 9:39 — Host expressing unfamiliarity with Apollo 13 rules, setting up exploratory gameplay

  • “I have a fear of the ball hitting me. It hops, man. It hits that glass. Crack. You know how hard that glass gets hit? That's going right in my eye, man.”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host@ 10:32 — Humorous but genuine concern about playing without playfield glass, recurring joke throughout stream

  • “When he said 13 balls, I didn't think 13 multi-balls.”

    Chat/viewer@ 15:01 — Reaction to discovering Apollo 13's signature 13-ball multiball mechanic

Entities

Pacific Pinball MuseumorganizationDavid VpersonMichaelpersonApollo 13gameSegacompanyAlameda, CalifornialocationMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationBerkeley Macperson

Signals

  • ?

    event_signal: Pacific Pinball Museum is actively hosting content creators for gameplay streaming and community engagement

    high · Host explicitly invited to museum during closed hours; David V cooperative and informative; chat interaction and sponsorship mentions (Pindigo)

  • ?

    community_signal: Pacific Pinball Museum demonstrating strong community commitment through education (Michael's vision of kinetic art), free-play accessibility model, and weekly repair/maintenance nights

    high · David V detailed museum founding as art project, free-play admission model, Monday night fix-it sessions mentioned

  • ?

    product_concern: Apollo 13 exhibits mechanical issues including frequent ball drains during 13-ball multiball, overly aggressive plunger mechanism, and flipper ergonomics problems

    medium · Host repeatedly drains multiple balls during 13-ball multiball; struggles with tight shots and ramps; comments on flipper angle being 'so high'; machine previously left museum due to maintenance issues

Transcript

youtube_groq_whisper · $0.207

0:00
We have pinball time. Now they didn't hear the L. Oh, I hear you. They'll hear this stuff now. Here we are. Hello and welcome to MPT3K. I am here at, this is awesome, at Pacific Pinball. Is it still Pacific Pinball? Pacific Pinball Museum. Pacific Pinball Museum in beautiful Alameda. Did I say that wrong? Alameda?
0:32
Alameda? Alameda. I don't know where I am. I'm just so excited to be here. The Pacific Pinball Museum out here in Alameda, California. If you've never been here, I know I talk about Free Go Watch. I know I talk about Out of Orbit. I know I talk about all those other places, but this is the spot. This is the mecca. And what I'm going to do for the stream, you're just going to see the plate. But if you check out the stream later on YouTube, I'm going to upload. I'm going to walk around. David, come on over here. Come on over here. So this is David. David V, one of the operators here at the Pacific Pinball Museum. He's the one that's allowing me to be here now.
1:10
It's closed. As long as you behave, we can keep this going. Oh, behave, baby. So it's closed currently. So you know how excited I am right now. I mean, there's just tons of pinball machines. We are in the, we are in the kind of the... We call this the modern room. The modern room. So as you can see, there's pins behind. Actually, David's fire. Fire! I'm coming back here to do fire. There's a fire here.
1:38

“There's no way this is never going to be in a tournament.”

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host@ 15:16 — Commentary on Apollo 13's chaotic 13-ball multiball being unsuitable for competitive play

  • “We're fine. We're all fine here. We're fine.”

    Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host@ 40:52 — Repeated catchphrase during tense 13-ball multiball sequences (Alien reference)

    • Pindigo
    product
    Andreperson
    Johnny Pinballperson
    Brian O'Neillperson
    So this is all the stuff, Pinbot, Indiana Jones. We've got a Minivan, we've got a Monopoly, we've got a Ripley. So this is sort of the room we'll put Solid State or newer games in. So the DMDs are in here. we'll look at the other room later, but it's got electromechanicals and we also have sort of special exhibition rooms where we showcase an artist or a theme of a game or something like that. Yeah, the EMs are right there.
    2:03
    What's the difference between what is a wood rail? That's the one thing I never understood. What is a wood rail? So, until about 1960, the games were made where the The heart, it's not hardware if it's wood, but what is on the edge of the glass is wood, and it's a rail. It's a wood rail. Oh, okay. Not these metal. These are metal rails.
    2:31
    I guess that's as simple as that. It's as simple as that. The material on the edge of the glass is wood instead of metal. It's a wood rail. The older ones also have wooden legs. Oh, okay. And then they switched to metal legs, and then they switched out the rail to metal rails.
    2:50
    Because it's easy to manufacture the metal stuff when it is. You know, it may have a little bit to do with durability. It may also have to do with the availability of the metal. During the war, they wouldn't have been able to get metal. But they weren't making games during the war. So World War II we're talking about. But yeah, games were just, there was a lot of wood. And I don't know why they switched to metal. I want to bring this up. Tell me if you guys can hear us okay in the chat. Well, today, so besides playing a little bit, I chose the most ridiculous game I can think of to start. Yeah. And I've already seen a problem. We have a ball stuck. Oh. I think it's just on the switch. It's in the switch. All right. Well, that's fine. We're going to play a little bit. I haven't told them yet what the game is. Oh. All right.
    3:42
    What's up? They don't see the play field. Z-Third. Not yet. The Most Ridiculous Game by Sega. Any guesses? Just throw them in the chat. But I won't bear the lead too far. We're going to walk around a little bit. Like I said, on YouTube later, when I upload this, I'm going to edit in some of the stuff of David and I walking around the museum because you've got to see some of the things here. There's multiple rooms. There's a party room. There's the EM room we talked about. There's other rooms. What is the clear one? Like Michael made that clear see-through pinball. So we have a couple of different clear pinball machines. The one that's showed here today, it's an EM version of the Valley Freedom. Right. But we also have a solid state version in a clear cabinet. And the original one was a Surf Champ, and we have that one. Surf Champ. And it's all acrylic?
    4:32
    You know, it's a clear plastic material. Zether already guessed. They're using, oh, he guessed which one. All right. Apollo 13, yes. They looked at different plastics that could withstand the weight.
    4:52
    So the clear pinball machine is heavier than a regular pinball machine because it takes more plastic than wood to support the weight. I'm not sure exactly how much heavier it is. So I don't know if it's acrylic or polycarbonate. I don't know exactly what it is. And in fact, it's probably proprietary. We wouldn't tell you. because you can make more and you can't. I can imagine. People have, but I don't know what they use. Yeah. Can you say just real quick a little bit about Michael who started this kind of thing? So Michael, he started this about 15 years, 15, 16 years ago. I wanted them to put a since on the window because it's been long enough. Right, since. Then I would be able to remember the year, but it's somewhere in the early 2000s. And, you know, he is an artist, musician, and he wanted to do kinetic art. He wanted to kind of do kinetic art, like moving art. And then he had the idea, well, I could take a pinball machine and I could change the theme and I could make art with the pinball machine. And then he got some machines and he went, these are already exactly what I wanted and now I want them to just work perfectly. And he was inspired by some other local pinballers. I don't know if you guys have ever talked about Berkeley Mac, but he's got a private space, and we don't announce where it is. But he saw that and was inspired by that. Went out, got a bunch of pinball machines. This was before I was involved, so it's all I've heard these stories. And he ended up renting a storefront, which is now a room that we don't have pinball machines in, of all things. But he ended up renting this storefront, and they just have a coffee can out. for donations, and they would open on the weekend nights. I remember hearing about it then and thinking, well, Alameda's too far away. Of course, I'm here all the time now, but I never quite got there. But those were all electromechanical, and he just had a can out. And then at some point, I think he had them here on CoinPlay, and there were some arcade rules that came under question, so the model got changed, all the coin mechanisms were taken out. Oh, wow. And they went to the model we have today where you pay one fee to get in. Everything's on free play. In and out privileges for the whole day. So it's a great way to get a lot of practice in because you can. Yeah, you pay that one price and you can just. You know, you want to work on that dangerous shot. You can spend the whole day, you know, as long as no one else is waiting for that machine. Right. Work on that dangerous shot.
    7:30
    So, you know, he, as other rooms became available, this is sort of a little, it's not really a mini mall. I don't know how to describe this building, but there were multiple businesses in the different rooms that we occupy now. And he just sort of expanded into more and more rooms. Finally, then moving from the back of the building to, you know, having a storefront on Webster Street, which is where all the traffic really is.
    7:58
    And it's growing from there. And, you know, more people got involved. And there's a board of directors. We're a 501c3 nonprofit. it. And a lot of people, I mean, I had heard of the place before, but I mostly got involved through the Pacific Pinball Expos that were put on between 2007. Right here. That's from the t-shirt from the second one. But that was the first one I went to. I went to part of the last day. Oh my God, people still do pinball. I was blown away. And, you Those went on from 2007 to 2012, where we really wanted to focus on finding a bigger space where we can show more than we're even showing here. We have 90 machines here. We have hundreds more in storage that we just can't fit more in here. With the right gigantic space, we could have hundreds of machines out. Yeah. I know you guys got a lot in the till. What do you know about Apollo 13, Dave? Really quick. It has 13 balls.
    9:07
    You know, I don't know the game. You passed the wrong guy. It's got a ridiculous... What's up, Johnny? I sort of spend most of my time on electromechanicals. I work on the modern games when I need to.
    9:21
    This was not one that I worked on in preparation for getting it here. So really, I don't know what to tell you about it. Okay. I don't even know how to get into the 13, but we will discover that as we play. I'm just trying to fix one of those screens here. Hopefully you will.
    9:38
    Hopefully I will. Hopefully you will. Hopefully I'll stumble into it. I don't know. So I have offered to take the glass off for you. No. You don't want the glass off. First of all, how am I going to look with the glass off on my screen? That's going to look... That's sad, right?
    9:55
    You'll have no glare. It would be beautiful. No, but... No, I mean, most of my time is spent fixing machines. I don't play that much. I've got to play when I'm fixing them to make sure the shots are still working or whatever I fix. So I do a lot of playing with the glass off. And even if I don't touch the ball, my game is so much better because the glare is gone. Well, I have two fears I'm going to tell you guys. This is why I don't want to play the glass off. This is why I brought this up.
    10:22
    Oh, really? Yeah. You want to let everybody know that I'm scared of... I have a fear of the ball hitting me.
    10:30
    It hops, man. It hits that glass. Crack. You know how hard that glass gets hit? That's going right in my eye, man. Okay. It's over my mouth.
    10:39
    I've never seen the ball come toward the player. I mean, I've seen it. Actually, all the times I've spent playing, I've never seen the ball get out of the cabinet. I've never seen it get to a back glass or anything. But it's okay. I don't know, man. The glass is here to support you Alright I'll try I'll get it started Oh the other reason is because it gets loud actually Yes Alright let's see what I can do Who's that? We gotta shake that free Go for it You'll shoot your eye out Yeah exactly I'm gonna get out of the shot I can lose an eye Let's see Alright, whoa! That comes out. Is that supposed to come out that hard and fast? It comes out hard, I don't know. I'm gonna go regular game.
    11:35
    You guys let me know if everything looks good, and don't forget you can use color commands or rift commands if you type that. And if you have questions about the museum. And if you have questions about the museum, please let us know, because here's the location. Where's my location button? Right there. Well, if you're interested in coming on down, everything is there, including the website. Don't come now. We're closed on Mondays. Do not come now. I will not let you in. They're closed on Mondays. That's why I'm here, because I'm special. All right.
    12:05
    Fire when ready. Let's just start a mission. I love these Sega flippers. Maybe. I'm not sure if I do.
    12:21
    Thank you, David. You're welcome. Come across the room now. There's a multi-ball shot right there. Come on, you got it.
    12:36
    What are you guys up to? Forgot about the unique plunger. Yeah, the plunger is very unique. It's not even a... I wish I could show you. It's a handle thingy. Oh, shoot spinners. Where's That's a tight shot right there I don't remember seeing an Apollo 13 That actually worked Oh Well this sucks Okay That's it You missed the time shot I did Okay I missed the hurry up So Oh I remember now You gotta hit three balls Up the thing Okay now what Did I get it No.
    13:22
    Did I get it already? Oh, Jesus. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen. Oh, my God. Yeah. I can't do anything with this.
    13:45
    And there's a post up. Yeah, the post came up. What am I supposed to hit? This is insanity. I now think one of those might have hit you in the head if you were at the glass door. Thank you. This is the right game to be scared of the glass door. I didn't hear any glass getting hit.
    14:04
    Oh, jeez. I hit no jackpots. You know what? I'm down to two. Oh, you're getting a trap ball 13. A message. Yeah, good luck. Get into it again. Who said that? Yeah, right. Like, that's going to happen. Oh, well, that was... That was... All right. Well, thank you guys for coming. It's MPT3K. We're done. I thought it was taking all day. I guess it was primed. Maybe it was just primed. Maybe it was one of those things, you know, like... I did see there were a bunch of balls capped. They're still up there.
    14:41
    Oh. So you see how there's a whole bunch of balls capped up there? They're queued up.
    14:46
    All right. That's how you do it. I got to hit that spinner someday. Oh, jeez. How insane was that, guys?
    15:00
    Oh, wow. When he said 13 balls, I didn't think 13 multi-balls. Yeah. That's a nice shot right there. Every time I shoot the shuttle, I get the multi-ball? There's no way This is never going to be in a tournament That's not the shuttle What is that? This is Apollo 13 That's the Saturn rocket That is not a shuttle Someone else is going to know How much of the Saturn rocket that is I'm liking this The lander module Yeah, the lander module Is that a That's an adult No, that's actually part of it Wow, okay Let's do this That's the whole Saturn rocket.
    15:48
    Yeah. Sorry, it's not a shuttle. It's not a Tuma. Well, I have a... Why do I have another multiball?
    16:05
    You guys, we gotta do that again. We gotta do 13 again. There's a jackpot. Oh! Oh, dang it.
    16:20
    What is... Ah, Pink Ninja Man, what are you doing to me? What is that? Did you clip that? Yes. He clipped it. So he saved it so he can watch it. Oh, okay, cool. Watch the 13 balls later. Thank you, bro.
    16:36
    That's hilarious. Multi-balls ready. Oh! Multi-balls ready. again. Oh, yeah. What ball are you on? I'm on ball three. Thirteen balls all day.
    16:53
    I can't do anything with thirteen stupid balls. Look. Thirteen million. It says turn handle. Turn handle. Is that how it launches? Yeah. It's a turner thingy. Let's see. Start mission.
    17:04
    That's neat. So, David, you've never worked on this machine? I don't think I've even played it. Oh, okay.
    17:14
    All right here we go Now I remember when I used to play this There stuff to do up there Most people just go right for the not shuttle Yeah, that's back at us. The rocket. Let's call that the rocket. Oh, crap. The shuttle was still a few decades away. No, no, no, no!
    17:41
    Yeah, the reaction was priceless. You guys are watching it. Oh, man. Yeah, that's right. Oh, initials.
    17:53
    That's how we roll on MPT3K. I'm an impressive dude. We brought it in a few weeks ago. It hasn't been here very long. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, we've had it here long ago. It left because something broke and we just didn't... It was more than we would fix on a Monday night. We fix the games every Monday night here. And it was just time to come back, so we got it all good. I got a pin to go that.
    18:26
    I'm going to turn that off. I opened my phone and I was looking at boarding groups. Yeah. We were talking about getting a Rise of the Resistance earlier and whatever. Who's that? Matt, 3-0. Oh, what's up, Matt? How's it going, buddy?
    18:40
    We are here. I'm at the Alameda Pinball. And I just put up a killer score. I don't know if it's a killer score. Probably a crappy score. Wait. No, it's kind of a crappy score. Eh. I'm going to pin the go at anyway because they're a sponsor.
    18:57
    Stop. Oh, my God. Wow. Oh, my God. I can't get this. Here, I'll take a video. Pindigo allows you to take a video also. I don't know if you guys knew that.
    19:11
    You can't get the score. Oh, Jesus. Fine. Can somebody write down this? I'll just... Just get it now. No, I'll screen capture it on Twitch. It's just staying up there forever. I know. It's daunting me. As long as you're not trying to take a picture of it. It's haunting me. All right. There was an advanced versus regular. As a novice, but... Come on. Okay. Oh, no. I wouldn't have expected you to pick the novice. I think the novice is the time game.
    19:39
    I know when you're taking... It knows when you're taking a picture, yeah. Zether says, what's your name on Pindigo? I joined recently. So my initials now are MPT, for MPT3K, but when I signed up on Pindigo, my initials were MVP, because I didn't really have an identity, so I was just like, ah, most valuable pinball player. So if you look for me on Pindigo, look for MVP, but it's me.
    20:06
    Umm... doing good. Put up a few old scores of mine. Yeah, okay. So here we go. Start mission. I should have gone for multi-ball countdown.
    20:22
    Now, I was hitting the NADA shuttle a lot before. Now I'm just calling it a NADA shuttle. Ugh! Do you have a flight plan up there? I love that. At least no one's watching you play. Yeah, at least no one... And stuff like that happens. Like everybody, like you guys and the internet. Let's do this. Let's do this. Oh, what? Ball safe. You know, if we take the glass off and a ball hits you in the head, it'll go viral. Oh, it'll look great on the stream, yeah, if I get hit in the face with a friggin' ball. Stop training! Well that first game was good Somebody quick run to IMDB And look up the rules for blast off Oh you have to complete blast off to enable So it was pretty much lit When we came in It was pretty much all lit Alright How do you Let's do Start mission No and I'm not going to look at the card I know there's a card right in front of me That I can look at I'm not gonna look at the front.
    21:34
    Everything is lit. Just like in Black Knight 2K. But I want... Oh, extra ball. Extra ball is lit? Somebody did something.
    21:54
    Oh, Wax is here! Last night a DJ saved my life. What up, Wax? We doing this again? We are doing this again! Oh, it's a regular multiball. It's a regular multiball. Okay, good. It's a regular multiball. It's just a regular multiball. We're okay. We're fine. Somebody wanted me to trap the balls during multi-ball? Check that out, right? There you go. Waxy Wax, what's up baby? I hope you like your intro music because it's staying. Looks like, looks boring with only three balls. Yeah. Oh, oh these flippers are so angled so high. You want to know how to get your blast off letters? Yeah, how do you get blast off letters? You get one just for starting a game.
    23:06
    And since the games here are set to free play, I guess that could be easy. Okay, one blast off letter for starting a game. You're hitting the blast off ramp when the yellow ramp is lit. The lamp is lit at the beginning of every ball.
    23:22
    Oh, the lamp over there. Yep, blast off letter. Got it. Blast off letter right there, people. You get it from a mystery award.
    23:31
    Blast off ramp combo. There are two of these, depending on what position the diverter is in. Ramp, ramp, or ramp. Left orbit, ramp. Any other switch breaks the... Oh, I see. So depending on the diverter, you have to do ramp ramp, or you have to do left orbit ramp. Wait, where's the other ramp? Oh, that ramp? And if you hit anything else in between, it stops the sequence. Ramp can be faked after a weak shot that fails. Okay, yeah, as long as you don't hit that. Am I getting them? Oh, there was the combo right there. Yeah. Ah.
    24:21
    Okay, okay, okay. See, I knew that one did something. So, can we see the diverter? Oh, I see. Darn. So, it's either ramp or... So, I did... So, here's what I did. I did ramp, ramp... Are they telling us it's all... No. So, it's either ramp, ramp, or ref, left, or ref, ramp. Yeah. So, I did ramp, ramp, then it diverted me to that, and I could have got a blast off. So it's lit now. So you hit the ramp first, you'll get one. Oh, hit the ramp first right now. Yeah, it's lit at the beginning of each ball. All right. Should I do multi-ball countdown?
    24:59
    Let's do multi-ball countdown. Mystery might give you one. Oh, mystery gives you one, okay. Multi-ball countdown. Countdown. Hurry up, Rose. Oh, keep going in there. That's a good hole.
    25:12
    13. Oh, damn! Hey! This tilt is too tight. Operator? I'm gonna raise my hand. What, you want your money back?
    25:26
    What is this, Papa? I'm not... Alright. I got it. Oh, that's a lower score, unfortunately. David, you wanna give it a shot? Cause I gotta run to the bathroom. Sure. Okay. David's gonna take over for a minute. He's gonna get 13 multiballs. I'm not gonna talk, I'm just gonna play.
    25:46
    Yeah, I picked novice. I got the ball safe. It's not a rocket ball! That's better than I've been. Uh oh, what did I do? Seems like a regular multiball. I'm just hearing the music I hadn't heard the music before I heard a multi-ball Did it happen? Yeah, but it wasn't 13 ball I got a multi-ball But they were playing Spirit in the Sky Oh, was it really? Yeah Oh, that's awesome Yeah, there's music Like a MIDI version of Spirit in the Sky Yes, yes Okay Okay, you came back just in time. Did I? Yeah, you get another letter. I heard a multiball from the bathroom, and I was excited. I ran.
    28:19
    I washed my hands. Don't worry about it. But I did hear it. Okay, B-L-A-S. B-L-A. So you can put in like $3, $4 in here, and you can finally get the $13. I don't know. Well, try a multi-user game, and then we just miss it. A multi-user game? Well, you know, do a four-player game. Does it do just one light?
    28:41
    Here we go. regular. It's not lighting. I did two. You don't get an S. No, S. We just got S.
    28:53
    I'm going to do Mystery to see if I can get one. Ready? What do you guys think so far of Apollo 13? Actually, oh, I didn't get it. Okay, fine. So watch this. Blast off. I couldn't hit that ramp. I know, they're deceptive right? Oh. It looks like... Nah. I was hitting the ramp with the rocket all the time. See I'm bricking that one. There we go. Go! Woo! What's that? Whacka! Oh no!
    29:37
    Okay, check it out. Boom! It's satisfying when you can hit that combo though. Uh oh! Oh, it's a Chimpler. That's right. That deserves a rip.
    30:00
    Keep the ball, I have a whole bucket full. Oh look, you lit some letters. Wow! Oh, did I light some? Maybe I lit one. Okay, so I lit one. I lit one, and then you lit one, then you lit another one. Shoot. I want the 13-ball. You can have it if it comes up while I'm playing.
    30:29
    Second player got a free letter. Yeah. Oh, wax. Yes. Dude, I can't wait. I'm going to get home and play a little Harry Potter. You are one F away. Sorry. Sorry about that. You are one F away from 13. You realize right now it's going to be lit for you, the ramp. You can light that out. All right. So now is the time I think to do... What? Oh, it changed. It changed, yeah. I just have a countdown multiball. No, they change. Okay. What do you think? What do you think, chat? Should we go start mission mystery or 13?
    31:22
    I'm going to leave it up to you guys to let me know. What's the skill shot? Hit the skill shot. What's the skill shot? You just turn the handle. Are you messing with us, Pink Ninja? Maybe when the ball comes down, you're supposed to hit something. You can stack missing. I mean, get the last letter. Oh, yeah, yeah. Hit the ramp, he's saying. Oh, hit the ramp. Okay. So I can stack. Wait, which ramp?
    31:47
    When the yellow light is on, this ramp gives you a letter. Right. Okay. So launch your ball, hit that ramp, and you'll be ready for 13-ball multi-ball. Then you just got to get the multi-ball. I think you do that by hitting the rock at a bunch of targets. It's only lit on ball launch, no? Yeah, you're right. Okay, I'm going to do start mission.
    32:08
    It's safe. I won it Did I get it? No What was it? It was this one Yes That's the one you said What's wrong with me? Did I get a regular?
    32:28
    Did you get a regular Voguey Ball? I got a regular one You left the 13 for me Thanks I left the 13 for Dave No, no Maybe not Maybe I can still get it Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up.
    32:43
    Get in here, get in here. Trap it, trap it, trap it. That felt good. You got it? Wait. Is it... Did that light the F?
    32:58
    I know, but that got the Super Earth. Okay. That felt good, baby. And I don't mean baby in like a bad way. I'm not trying to be that guy
    33:15
    Oh, I got a jack. I got a pity jackpot Okay, let's calm down with one of these balls no Boy these dirt these Sega flippers are really high. Oh yeah, for a catch. For a cradle.
    33:40
    Blast off. What's up, Al-nanamas? Put the ball in the moon. I'll try. Let's see if I can get the ball in the moon. Oh.
    33:51
    Can you backhand it? No, you can't. Jackpot. Oh, I'm tearing this up. I don't care about the 13. You're going to be putting up initials again. Oh, spoke too soon. I don't know. Okay, right here. Right here. Blast. Oh, I need that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
    34:11
    Oh, there you go. Let's shoot. Just keep hitting the rocket. Everything's under control. We're fine.
    34:23
    Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here. Oh thanks How are you Whoa easy there buddy So that your multi countdown You got four there now Ah I gotta shoot Just hit the rocket four more times Nah! Four, just hit the rocket. And hope it doesn't drain when it comes out.
    34:42
    Oh, I hate this game now. Pink Ninja Man. I won't time out, so... Yeah, why don't you drain the ball while you're reading the screen? the spring. That happens a lot. Yeah. Oh. And you're going to cradle all 13. I'm going to cradle all 13. I haven't seen that backhanded yet. Oh. You took back to the machine. 13. Let's do some jackpots before they all show up.
    35:38
    Okay. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Cradled. Oh, now it's just going to reload the top. Cradled nine. Anybody want to take a picture?
    35:48
    Here. Take a picture. I want to do it as a Brian. Brian O'Neill so I can show him how baller I am. You got this! Okay, so hold on. First I'll get... What are you guys saying to each other? Now do a cradle separation. Yeah, yeah. You want to look back here?
    36:09
    All right. We are done. Thank you for showing up to MPT3K. We'll see you later. I keep doing that joke. All right.
    36:20
    I don't know. I think you played the three. Yeah, play the three. Don't give up on me. It's giving them back?
    36:35
    No, it's not giving them back. All right, cradle separation. Here we go. No, no, no. Oh, it's choosing them up there. Yeah, it just loads them.
    36:45
    Two-rex prim ball. I don't think the normal multi-ball strategies will work. Oh! I just lost two! Oh, shia la bouf, I'm down to five. Ugh! Ugh!
    37:04
    I literally lost like four balls in a second. Maybe we should just play. This isn't a strategy that's working. Oh, look at that! No, I want to do it! Alright, now I'm down to like just three cheesy... This is lame. Don't drain it every time. There we go, 13-bolt. Look, it gave me the 13-bolt jackpot!
    37:32
    You guys do this. I wanna see somebody else keep 13-bolt. Look at that, replay! That took a while to get to. That was... I'm not even going to say that was satisfying. It was very weird.
    37:57
    What was your score like? Your first score was 9-13. Oh, my score is worse. You haven't even hit the score yet. How is my score worse? Your 13-ball multi-ball, you drained most of the balls very quickly before you scored anything. I assume that was how you did it. Oh, I don't want to shoot that thing anymore.
    38:19
    I want to shoot that other thing. Let's shoot some other stuff. I think the Earth should rotate. Shoot the moon!
    38:37
    Right there! Ah! I could... Oh my god, I can't hit that wide open ACDC freaking ramp. Shoot the moon, hurry up. 32 million, it's not worth it.
    38:55
    You have to replace some pop-up for soon. Those things really fire. The problem is these flippers. Screw it. I'm not doing it. No, no. I don't care.
    39:13
    Got it! Yes! That spinner is so... That's like a Houdini type friggin tight shot. This is for that. I can imagine someone like Andre just staying on this machine forever. Video mode! Let's do video mode. You see video mode lit? Oh, yeah, yeah.
    39:46
    Man, that's a harder shot to hit than Metallica. Video mode. As you just hit it, first time hit it. That's always the first time. What thrusts? Both flippers, thrusts. Okay, we're playing Lunar Lander. Oh, you have to use the launch. Oh, it's Lunar. Oh, my God. Wait, I'm going the wrong way.
    40:05
    Crap. Oh! I think you were supposed to use the launch to front. Oh, really? Really? Oh, two blippers to go off. Oh, my God. That was hilarious. I forgot I put that sound in there.
    40:31
    Oh, okay. I'm done. Good night, everybody. It's gonna be all hot and sweaty now. That 13 is just dumb. Oh, you beat your first score, though.
    40:48
    And that was only ball two, so you're fine. We're fine. We're all fine here. We're fine. We do not have the power.
    41:04
    Nice. See, you can play it. This is a game that has point inflation like you wouldn't believe. Thrust right to get to a landing site, then do left to stop and bolt to land gently. Was I supposed to use that or the flippers? It said the flippers, right? I thought it said to use this, but I think it said to use both flippers. I don't know. All right. Maybe I'll read it again. I don't even know how I lit mystery, but, I mean, video.
    41:49
    All right, T-Rex, I will try and do what you said next time. Sidecrack, thank you for the follow. Hey, I'm always going to go for the multi-ball. Because I'm that kind of guy. Go! Power Puff Girls, go! Oh, they give me help! This little thing gives me help. See how I'm doing? I'm doing it. second it comes up all right oh yeah from the rocket yeah now doing this doesn't help me to my black note though Oh flippers okay he says did you use the flippers for the video for the video mode yeah all right I was probably hit pressing the wrong flipper this is a fun quirky game orbit let's do an orbit Oh, an orbit to a multiball. Fixed.
    43:03
    Three, two, one. You ever notice that Tom Hanks is not on this back glass? You don't have a camera on the back glass. I know.
    43:17
    But if you've ever seen it... Did he just not want to do the license? Yeah, he was too expensive. Either he was too expensive or he didn't want to do it. I think you're... Should I even play my third ball? Yeah, please do. Just insult it. These turn flippers come way, way, way up.
    43:43
    No, Swizzle, that wasn't the 13 yet. We got to get Blastoff lit again. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, he... Oh! I had Ball Save on and I choked it. I was still involved in it. This is why I never usually touch anything.
    44:01
    Who did something? Don't panic, Flip! That was the Don't Panic, Flip song. I hope you enjoyed that, buddy.
    44:21
    I had to rip one of your videos to get that music, you know. Go for it. No. No? No. No? All right, let's do this. Hey, NoHanks makes it more likely to get an official FX3 version down the road. Possibly. PinkNinjaMan, thank you.
    44:50
    Wait, that clip was for what? Miss the first 13 Oh, if you've missed it, that was the old clip Yeah, we got one, we got one We're going for another one Blast off Now, the trick is not to play 1, 2, 3, 4 Wait, you got two Oh, I got two You had two We got two of them Color teal looks beautiful And You guys shooting? How's it going? Hey, Michael Hey How you doing? Come on in Do you mind? We're on stream right now Oh So this is the owner. No, I'm not the owner. This is the founder of milk. No, I'm just kidding.
    45:32
    This is quite a rig. Yeah, thank you. We're here playing a little Apollo 13. Now, I was going to bring in my cam to shoot some photos, but now I'm just embarrassed to bring it on in.
    45:44
    Bring it on in. This is pretty cool, though. Yeah, so we've got people in the chat right now. Oh, you're doing them? We're doing it on Twitch. So this is live streaming now. Guys, this is Michael. Meh. We already told them about you and how the museum started. We talked a little bit about it. Yeah.
    46:02
    So, hey, guys. Well, I used to walk up right and really hunched over today. Because I was at the annex shooting photos with Melissa. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just beat. But I didn't even move those machines. I guess Darson can. So here's the founder. He's the one that, the reason this whole place is here. Where's the camera? It's here. The camera's right there. Oh, there it is. Wow, it's a little dinky one. Oh, is that a GoPro? Yeah. No, they're little dinky cameras, but I can only afford them. And you're Manu? Yes, I'm Manu. We met before? We met at Freego Watch once. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you guys were taking machines over to the academy. Yeah. Cool. That's great. Hey, I'm going to roll. Hey, guys, this is great. I want to talk to Michael for a second. I'm going to roll a quick video that you should watch about this place, and we'll be right back. All right? So check this out.
    46:55
    All right. It started out as a lucky juju pinball, a small little place because there was no place to play pinball. And the more I learned about pinball and how incredible it was in the formation of our culture, I just thought it was a real shame that nobody was doing anything. Our museum is involved with science, art, and history of pinball, along with putting pinball out there for fun. A few years ago, the majority of our customers were, you know, males age 25 to 45. But that's since changed. We started to see a lot more families, a lot more seniors, a lot more women, a lot more groups coming in for team building and just field trips and things like that. So there is definitely a resurgence of the interest in playing the game. And everyone that comes in here has a pinball story. And if they don't have a pinball story that they come in with, they certainly leave with one. If you all come down here, we have all our machines on free play, and we're a 501c3, and we exist purely on our admissions and donations. So being a 501c3, all donations are completely tax-deductible, and we'd love to have you come down here. so that was from play better so that was from uh the zen pinball guys came here once and they did a little thing as i i said earlier i was going to show that uh well no i showed that but i'm going to put in some more stuff. I'm going to walk around a little bit. There's some wood rails in there. It's so awesome. I'll show you guys all that neat stuff. But I got another maybe, yeah, Stern has licenses now. That's right. I got maybe two more games or whatever. We're going to get to that. We're going to get to that 13 ball once again. Welcome aboard Apollo 13. This is what's great about this place, guys. There's all kinds of classic games like this that you wouldn't see on route. This is in Alameda, check it out. Maybe we'll get to video mode again, let's see. Let's do start mission. There we go, turn the handle.
    49:23
    That's a good start. Not, maybe. Okay, that scoop does something, and I don't know what it does. Oh, you little Okay, okay, let's take an orbit TPA seems Deader than normal Deader than a doornail Yeah I bailed out of the Dang it I bailed out of the pinball arcade I couldn't do it anymore TPA seems dead in the door and off new tables I pressure Stern and therefore Data East and Sega I presume Stern will eventually jump to Zen but Zen seems to be running at full capacity with WS tables right now the physics on TPA were okay I mean a lot of people say it was terrible I say it was okay but here's why I bailed out of TPA It's because they didn't support cabinet owners at all. And I have a cab. I have an MBT3K cab. That's what this whole stream is about.
    50:45
    Extra ball. Oh, no. I have a cab that I... That's a tough extra ball to get. Damn, that extra ball is all the way over there. So they didn't support cabinet owners at all, but they said they would. They kept saying, oh, we're going to support cabinet owners. We're going to support cabinet owners.
    51:07
    Like a year went by, they had zero support for cabinet owners, and I just bailed on the whole thing. Actually, I held the app for the rules because they had some of the best rule breakdowns.
    51:22
    Some of the best rule breakdowns I've ever seen for tables. But... All right, let's go for the multi.
    51:33
    Yeah, and they did the Arcoda mess. Oh boy That sucked. No! No! No! Oh, I do have a flight plan. It's just not a good one.
    52:07
    Zen has its partnership with Stern since last year. They're working on who knows what for them. Yeah, and then they did the Arcoda Mess. Pup player does it better probably.
    52:22
    Oh, that was mean. Whoever did that. That was mean. Don't panic flip. The rule sets were great. Yeah, the rules.
    52:35
    The rule walkthrough on all their tables was exquisite. So I knew a lot of pinball players, actual pinball players, that just kept it just to go through the rule sets. Not really to play.
    52:49
    Now that blue ramp, oh, that blue ramp means something. If I can find where that stupid ramp lives. Right there.
    53:09
    Right there. Oh, shut up. Right there. Oh, this tilt is really tight. Holy smokes. This tilt is nasty Alright Multi-ball countdown I'm on B-L-A-S-T-O-F Guys I need one more F We are go Once again for 13 ball play Everybody hold on to your butts Oh, son of a gun Okay, re-hold Hold on to your butts again
    54:20
    Don't give up on a date You butts Oh, you know what? It's an easier backhand Butts! I'm not going to trap this time. I'm just going to flail. I'm going to flail. Flail time.
    54:46
    One. Five, six, four, five. I'm doing zero, nothing. Got a jackpot. Okay, now I'm going to trap, I'm going to trap, I'm going to trap. Oh that's, darn it. That would have been good if it stayed there. Now I'm back at three balls. So now I know why the flippers are up so high, because there's no way to trap 13 balls.
    55:40
    You know what would be great? You know what would be great? If we made a game that had a 13 ball multiball. You know that would be fun right? Yeah, that would be great. Let's make one.
    55:56
    Damn, that was gone. Ah. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Flail. So there is no ball save. Got another replay.
    56:31
    Let's do mystery so we can see if we get that video mode again. Nope, not quite. I really want that video mode.
    56:48
    We're not doing 13 anymore, kids. We're not doing 13 anymore. We're doing orbit. now. Oh crap that would have been nice if I could get the combo.
    57:13
    Oh but oh no don't jump! Whoops. Some Gottlieb premieres have super high flipper angles. Yeah, they do. That's exactly what I was thinking about. The Gottlieb game. Like Hoops. Hoops has super high flipper angles. Q-Ball Wizard, Class of 1812 Teed Off, yeah and Hoops also That's another one of them Alright, one more, I got one more in me Then You know what I'm going to do guys I'm going to break down, I'm going to play a little bit Before I have to go home Alameda is a little far away from where I live So I have a long journey To get home But thank you guys so much for joining me here Remember the Pinball Pacific Pinball Museum This is an older shirt, but man, this place is awesome out here. So much pinball. Sorry about that glare.
    58:32
    Got some nasty glare up at the top. All right. Thank you, bro. This is where we are. Pacific Pinball.
    58:42
    And I'm going to do that because I'm going to turn the color back. Because we always fight. George and I fight for who owns the color. You'll probably just change it. That's fine. Let's go mystery. We want video mode.
    59:00
    Always bonus cold, huh? Okay, let's start that off. It's a great location here. And since... Oh, it scored me the moon. Orbits are lit I'm really curious about the other rules in this game Shoot rocket Alright, we'll take a regular multi-ball It's three balls, come on Or maybe it's four balls
    59:47
    3 balls. Oh, you gotta hit it twice? Now I gotta hit it 5 times? Why is it counting out? Oh, crap. Well, that did nothing. Restart! No! Wow, this tilt is so tight!
    60:17
    What? Mystery. 13 million. Whoa. You know, I gotta tell you, this game is cute, but it's definitely the kind of game you want to play on free play.
    60:43
    I ain't dissing it, but... So check it out. There's all these... So there's all these drop targets, actually.
    60:53
    Can I do links? Found a rule sheet. Thank you. Yes, you can do links. Food. Water. Where's the other ones?
    61:03
    It's like food and water. So I can hit the food target. Ah. Missed the food target. But you can collect food and water.
    61:16
    Can I backhand food? Food! Damn it. I mean, dang it. I got a... I got a... How did I get a ball safe with that?
    61:31
    Food? Maybe? Food! Nope. Food! That was only gonna end in tears. I knew it. Alright, mystery.
    61:52
    Turn the handle. It's literally a handle, guys. Blast off letter. Oh, that's a good one. I'm tempted to go for the blast off again.
    62:08
    But the way to do it is to hit the blue ramp. Oh, video mode's lit. Now... I wonder if you can... can you post on this?
    62:30
    Ah! It's tricky to post. Oh boy. Oh boy. You guys see how tight that friggin' video mode shot is? Got it. All right.
    63:05
    Left flipper fires left thruster. Right flipper fires right thruster. And both flippers fire bottom thruster.
    63:14
    Oh, what did it say about the handle? Let's land in this spot right here. I'm running out of fuel. Crap, crap, crap, crap! We've lost radio contact. We've got a flight plan up there. I just killed all the astronauts. We show an extra ball lit down here. Extra balls lit on the same impossible... Oh, Johnny, stop it. They're fine. It's the movies.
    63:55
    Extra balls lit on the same... Can you copy? Okay, let's do an orbit. Okay, no orbit. No, no, no! Let's do a ramp.
    64:16
    Better effort though, yes, thank you. I feel like if I tried it a couple times I could do it. Extra Ball!
    64:37
    And 60 million! Uh oh. No, no. Well guys, one more ball that's it. Better effort though. Looks like you can use the handle when you get over a pad to stop moving sideways. That's the thing I missed. I was trying to read all of it. So I guess if you use the handle you lock in the... Alright, let's do mystery again. Two orbits. That's a moon hurry up. I hurried up around the moon. Go. Red five. Go. Alrighty then.
    65:51
    Alrighty then. It's been fun. That's going to do it for me here at the Alameda Pinball. Pacific Pinball. Remember, if you subscribe to my YouTube channel... Whoa! No need to flip out. See, that was nice. That wasn't what you were expecting. don't panic flip if you are subscribed to my new YouTube channel which I'm almost at 100 subscribers so I can get a vanity URL so soon it'll be mpt3k but right now it's some crazy number I don't know what it is you'll see the extra footage that I added of me walking around showing off the place a little bit I'll just do a quick couple of minute walk around so you guys can see the rest of the place and thank you so much for joining us here at the Alameda Pinball Pacific Pinball if I don't screw the name up.
    66:47
    I will see you guys next time. And I plan to stream from here a couple more times because this is way cool. And Apollo 13. It's okay. The sacred stone. Oh, this new crazy mother...
    67:07
    I could be learning, you could be learning Cause she was behind the phone doors But I'm not your lady, girl Always be yours, your lady, girl I always be yours, your lady, girl Always be yours We'll be right back. I could be running, you could be running Cause she was behind the phone doors But I'm not Outro Music you