But he did ask me for my inside source, and I said, I ain't telling you. Wow. Already Monday, he already knows every game now. All the conjecture, all the guessing, he knows what all the games are going to be. Well, come on, guys, you know how this works. You have to avoid temptation. You can't even bear to ask such questions. I've never asked that about him. No. And honestly, 99% of the leaks are from outside Stern. I know. And like even, what was it, the Jersey Jack, the Pirates, wasn't it like the fender that made the plier? Yes. Leaked it and that was it, you know, so and they're usually like licensors will just post like on their site Stern Pinball as the licensee and like oh, oh, okay. Yeah. You know, I take these things with a grain of salt anyways. When I hear rumors, I don't ever really commit to them. You know, if you want to see the new game go to Expo. Or Texas. Yeah, I'll be in Texas, guys. Wow, everyone's going to Texas this year. My schedule is busy. I will be a busy, busy boy on the Stern Pro Circuit. My fiancé might not be too happy about my ongoing bills with flying, but I am excited. Oh boy, don't get her too angry. Don't have an ex-fiancé. Not bad. I think she said I can't get married to her until I qualify for Papa, so... You can qualify for Papa D anytime. Ooh! Wow! Actually, they won't let me play. Jesus. So, congratulations, Tim Balls, Tim Sexton. Yes, Timmy. No, now it's Darth Balls. He's graduated. Darth Balls. So, our listeners, when you're out there playing a new Stern game, and if you see TSX in the high score table, that will be Timmy. The only thing I ask, Tim, is a secret flipper code for us. Yeah, they can't do that. It might be tricky. They don't do that sort of thing. They still do flipper codes, right? For one person. Eh, you'd be surprised. Next time you guys hang out with Jason, let him show you some stuff on NextGen. It's cool. I like the one that shows all of Steve Ritchie's games up to that point. Ritchie's the best. Yeah, he's, he's, oh god, can you imagine him? Hey, Tim Balls, program this for me now! Make it better. I want another button. My two buttons! I was so stoked for Tim and I'm super happy for him and he deserves it. I promised myself I wouldn't get all teary eyed on this but you know I'm gonna miss the guy I kind of feel like we came up together we started competing at the same time, have run tournaments together, have been close friends and I'm glad that we get to visit him in Chicago you know I'm going to Expo, I'm going to the circuit so at least get to have some slumber parties there. Oh my! I'm getting teary eyed. You might get both. Luckily in all major competitions I've beaten Tim. Woah. Really? Wow. You have to consult the player card for that one. I took him out in two times, two direct times. In the Connecticut State Championship I took him out in another one two times and we've really faced head to head in a tournament. I beat them both. The top 28 people I've played against the most, I've got winning records against most The names that I don't, Bowden, Zen, Timmy, Levy, and Balberto. Not bad company to be losing to. Nope. Timmy definitely lays waste on the local scene over here, so that might be the one thing I don't miss about him. Bye! Have fun in Chicago with the other guys. The ones. Yeah, good luck beating those guys. So, what do we got next on the schedule here? Going to news? Let's go to news. Piece of news. Piece of news. All the news that's fit to print. So let me go over to This Week in Pinball. Hi Jeff. That's all we use. That's what everyone uses. Hi Jeff. So let's see. This Week in Porn. Oh shoot, I got the wrong website. Traveling with interesting people. Damn, wrong one again. This Week in Photo. God, I'm hitting the wrong ones. This Week in Porn. No. Alright. This is why you guys brought me on. Oh, the porn expert, Craig Pavarelli. I dabble. I've been in several features, Ron. Luckily, my porn company, you know, is still doing very well. And what company is that? Think around my video. If it ain't swanky, it ain't my video. God. Up in the class level as always. We have American Pinball. They bought the rights to the term Oktoberfest. Oh, I saw that. Yeah. That doesn't necessarily mean there's going to be an Oktoberfest pinball, but they just grabbed it. Gary Stern is famous for beer and pinball. Yup. Beer and pinball. So, we got Charlie Emery of Spooky Pinball, who was interviewed on that podcast, the guy who made fun of us. Uh, yeah. You guys, you made fun of you guys? Yeah. Yeah, some pinball profile. Some wacky Canadian up there. Yeah. All these foreign, uh, podcasters are going off a little bit now on us. That's another good friend I'll be seeing this weekend. Hi. Hi, Jeff DeOvis. You made fun of me. Time for another pinball profile. Upstate edition. Yes. So, he interviewed, yeah, Charlie from Spooky Pinball. They were talking about Alice Cooper. Uh, the other thing I found interesting, they were talking about other licenses. Yeah. When I heard things like Friday the 13th, Godzilla, Godzilla would be awesome. I already like the first version of Godzilla, honestly. Well, that's not really Godzilla. See, that's American Godzilla, that doesn't count. Oh, you want Japanese Godzilla? I want Toho Godzilla. Alright. I want all the cool, like, Mechagodzilla, they could have them all on the, like, inserts for them all, it'd be awesome. They could, like, Iron Man, you collect all the different monsters or something, I don't know. That would be cool. And there was a Houdini, I think we talked about this last week, Houdini pinball review. I'm looking forward to that one because we're going to showcase it at Sunshine League. And that's going to be in Texas also, I believe. Ooh, I heard that game's tough. Tight shots. It is tight, especially on the right shot there, the one that leads to the lock. It's very, very narrow. Personally, as frustrating as that could be for a casual player, at the end of the day, Today, forcing yourself to get the timing down and find shots is challenging and fun in its own way and it makes you better. We also have the first picks, actual picks, because they were just using stock photos last time, of Lucy came out. Interesting looking at the playfield. The only real changes are the drummer that tried to hire someone to kill somebody is not there anymore, obviously. And the insert, the huge, hell clear insert is now actually removable. So now there's like a black border around it so you can take it out. I'm excited to see ACDC around more. It's a great game. The fact that Stern is doing these vaults and these repros is awesome because they're coming out with three games a year and then bringing back a game that everybody loves. It's just, you know, the more of those titles you see around the better. Yes, I see they changed the spacing a little bit too because then they removed the drummer. And then the plastics are a little different also. That was one dumb drummer. I didn't even hear about that. You said he has criminal charges? Oh yeah, yeah. Well, he attempted to hire someone to kill somebody. I think the person he attempted to hire was actually undercover. Somehow he got off. Somehow. But it's still... Then he got in trouble for something else and they just dropped him. Those well-known Australians. Cut ties. Goodbye. You had the best gig ever and you blew it twice. He blew it in the 80s. It made me think, like, what if you wanted to not lose to someone in a tournament and you didn't put on a hit on them per se, but you just got someone to distract them enough that they had to leave? Is that the Tanya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan thing? Yeah. Just take out their knee, waaaaah. You smash their hand. Waaaaah. You just smash their hand. Someone should have done that to Tadman. It's happening. There you go. Yes. He can grab it and say, what? Oh god, more deeproot. I'm sick of deeproot already. I am just so sick of it. The five days of deeproot. No. No, I'm not going into the five days of deeproot. We're getting deeprooted already. Deeprooted. Highway, it looks like the third game is not going to be announced for Texas. Really? So we're going to have to wait a little longer to hear about Queen. And now the first two titles are actually the reversible playfield titles in Alien and, um, what was the first one called? Why am I blanking? And I'm blanking too, it's a bet. Full Throttle. Full Throttle, yeah, so those are the two that you could flip over if you own both. You could replace the playfield, yeah. Right, and they're not going to continue that model of the entire same cabinet, are they? They have not said yet. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a conventional sized game, the next one. Yeah, I didn't really play much Alien. It was at Buffalo the last time I was at the Billiards Place and Pocketeer, but it wasn't working. But I do really like Full Throttle. I don't know how everybody else feels about it, but you know, for me it's enjoyable. I don't dislike it. Yeah, sometimes you get those four ball multiballs when you stack and it gets really fun. The Yeah, I, I, honestly, I found a shot better than Alien. Yeah. Probably gonna get hate mailed for that, but. I agree, it does shoot better than Alien. Yeah, I thought it shot better. I try to be open-minded with games, but, you know, my opinions are what they are. Shots aren't good, shots aren't good. We had an interview with Eric, and I'm just gonna say M. Eric M., the designer of Pirates of the Caribbean, I was interviewed on that other podcast that makes fun of us, insults us, and rips us off. Ooh, scandalous. I'm not even sure which one you're talking about. The Head to Head Pinball Podcast. Yes, they do. You gonna go into that, Bruce? How do they rip us off? No. Well, they just, they have a new segment called, uh, Slam, I think it's called Slam the Top 100, where they go, they pick a game out of the Top 100 from, I guess, Pinside, and they go head to head against each other. Hmm, that sounds familiar. That sounds very familiar. Wow. Oh well. Fail. You know. Yeah. Just feel flattered boys. Yes, I feel flattered. I feel flattered. And they had a very in-depth interview with Eric and when they got into the rules section, man, I just lost. Yeah, I'm a rules guy and having that many choices confuses me. I'm just, when they started really getting deep into the rules, I just started zoning out. I'll sit you down, I'll explain Star Wars to you in detail in five minutes, but I don't know about five billion choices. What do you think, Bruce? Too complicated? Or just not complicated enough for you? Not compl- as long as there's, they, if they get rid of the button, it'll be a perfect game. You know what I think, Phil? If you give people thousands and thousands of choices, they're still gonna find the two that are the strongest and keep doing them. Yes, of course, just like they do with the... So then you're just wasting coding time. Ah, supposedly they're not. They're gonna... everything's gonna be evened out. Yeah, okay. It's the anti... it's the anti-Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones. They bring that up over and over where you pick like one of two different houses and that's it. Nope, not on this one. It's all gonna be super balanced. The anti-Game of Thrones. Yeah, so people don't pick one or two or three houses, you know, to keep on going. I'm already upset. Well, we are getting one of Pioneers though, so I'll be playing it plenty. The mutants will be on it. Nice. Yeah, it's supposed to be more balanced, and if you're playing a multiplayer game, you can't pick the same character. Yeah, that part I do like. So player one might have an advantage. Yes, exactly. Interesting. Let's see what else we got here. Oh, there was new code for Batman 66. Is it me or do they seem to be coming out very frequently now? Yeah, I think they're finally, they're really knocking them out, I think. Which is good. I haven't got to play it as much as I would like, but it's certainly an improvement. I like that you can continue modes and the mode values have more shots, not just as much about multiball. And I've seen that there's some ways to really make it exponential, which is cool. And then we have Guardians of the Galaxy official toppers are now available from Stern Retailers. Is it a Groot? Is it a Groot topper? Let's see. It says click here for pictures. Let's see what it looks like. No, it's just like the one from four months ago. Yeah, I hope it lights up or something. It's just the character is like in black silhouette. I'm confident that Timmy and crew are going to really progress that game because I think it's got a good platform to be awesome and I like what I see from it so far. They just need to get us to do something other than group and then it's going to have a fun playfield. I really enjoy the layout enough that I think it has a lot of potential. We're assuming Tim's going to be on the Guardians team. He may not. He might just go right for number one. Could be the next game. Well, he did mention the one in that little clippy sign if you noticed. You did, I did. You caught on to that. Yeah, the one. Yes, I did. And the one emailed me. Oh? Okay. He asked me, what days do we record? Hmm. Lost the info. Yes, so maybe we'll get the one on. I'll put it this way. At this current moment, I'm ranked 98th, and by the time this releases, I won't be anymore. Oh my. I'm in the 400s again. Congratulations... Oh. Is that better? Good. Have you gone up? I'm sliding, I'm sliding. I'm sliding, okay, I'm congratulating you. How many points did you get for the pre-tournament at Buffalo that you crushed us all at, Bruce? 14. Well, that's not bad. Nope, not bad at all. I was very happy with it for an upstate. That was pretty good besides going forward. I gotta say, a lot of my New York City brethren and sisters were skeptical of going all that distance to just play in a, you know, two days with a pinball, but I really enjoyed Game On Land. They had great games and they did a good job. The Buffalo guys really did good. Yes, they did. Congrats to Nick and Kevin. They did, and Jamie does a great job keeping those games up to snuff. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get the $7 in credits I have on that pay system to somebody else. When you get back, when you come back. Because they'll probably have that system probably, I bet you, at the BPSO. Oh yeah, that's right. The BPSO? Buffalo Pinball Summer Open. Oh! Let me say, I am flying to Buffalo from now on. I'm driving to Rochester this weekend, but flying to Buffalo is worth it. Well, you can get direct flights, so... Yeah, that's the easy thing. Yeah, I don't know about Rochester. What's your closest... We have direct flights to JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark, so easy. Yeah, I'd never step foot in Newark, so... Ooh, wow. Sometimes it's cheaper. I used to fly to New York City to go in through Newark. I used to sometimes go into Islip. Well here a good airport story When Tim went for his interview the tickets he had were from LaGuardia to Chicago So he rented a vehicle through IBM you know his employer at the time Ooh scandalous Well no he paid for it but he rented it through whatever He rented it drove down to LaGuardia one rental because it was cheaper than paying for parking there Wow. So. Oh my. Yeah. Oh my. So that's it for news, really. I don't have much more. Hey, what about the other new game? Isn't there one missing? Is there one missing? This is a game that's been written totally nuclear. That's been out forever. But everybody's talking about it right now. Yeah, everyone is talking about it. They have a huge hit on their hands with total nuclear annihilation. I think that's coming, it's increasingly apparent. I think they've already at least committed to sell more of these than Spooky has in any of their other games. Good for them and good for Scott. Very much so. I was just casually in the other day and seeing what I could do like to get some Translates signed if and when I get my hands on some if we ever have one in New York City I'd love to do a launch. I uh, I, in the first one to admit, looking at the playfield and the price I was skeptical in the beginning. It looked like it was way too expensive for what we were getting and watching the videos I am intrigued, I'm hungry to play it, it looks awesome, it looks fun. I have shifted and tried to convince the owner of Sunshine and Al, the guy that owns a lot of the games in New York City, to both buy one. I'm hoping we get at least one because it looks awesome. It is awesome. I've played it. And I'll give a shout out to Karl DeAngelo, one of our former guests at IEPinball. Go to twitch.tv slash IEPinball and you can watch. He will be streaming Total Nuclear Annihilation. Um, almost every day it seems, until he blows up reactor number nine. And that would be the first to do it because I asked Scott directly the other day when I was chatting with him, has anyone done it? And he said no. Bowen was the closest the other day. So if Karl gets there, he will be the first. And the stream is the quality you would expect. Oh my god. The best quality ever. I'm a fan of the video, I'm a fan of the sound, so honestly what I did, I played the stream on my home theater system and cranked up the volume. Now I want a TNA. The one time I got to work in the commentary booth on Karl's stuff was Nationals in Vegas. What was that, two years ago? And it was just a treat. I mean, he had the easy click to bring up the players' rankings, best tournament history, faces, pictures. You could do the little squiggly lines like you're Madden. And this was back before everybody else was doing that stuff. And quality is just outstanding. The camera rig is perfect. And I will say I'll do a 180 on this. I now have no issues with the remastered sound. Oh, so you did a 180 flip. I did a 180 flip. After putting it on my uh, my stereo system and cranking that Karl stream, listening to that, got no problems with it. There's so many cool tunes on that game, it's ridiculous. I agree. So what's the, what's the rules on that? I haven't, I've watched it and I think I understand. Okay, here you go. Here are the rules. Ready? This is the greatest rule set ever. This is why I love it. Basically, what it is, is there's three targets that are composed of grid, grid of nine inserts. So you got to complete the grid. Once you complete the grid, the reactor is ready. You hit the scoop, turns the reactor on, you go up to that top area and just hit stuff. And it will bring... To a hundred? To a hundred. It will bring your reactor critical, which will then light one of a few, depending on where you are, random shots. It increases. Like the first reactor will just be one random shot. Then as it gets harder, it will be two, three, four. And you have to hit them all... Pop them from the right. Yeah. You have to hit them to blow up the reactor. And the only other thing really is the multiball, which is you block two balls and you hit the Drop target, releases three of them, and then you try to do the other stuff, usually. But there is jackpots, which is the same shot. You just hit it, set jackpot, double jackpot, triple jackpot, and then a super jackpot. From what I gather, the multiball, you want to use it to short every action. Yes, and they do the old school rule where everything is, if you have two balls in a play, it's double. Three balls in a play, triple. Oh, the reaction value. If you get a super jackpot, you get an add a ball, so you get 4x. So you get 4x the reactor value. Plus the reactor value can be built up with that upper section by hitting the 1, 2, 3 targets, which I did not realize. The thing about the multiball that seemed cool too was you get these long ball saves and the lock mechanism is hittable from both a backhand and a forehand and it's a really cool mechanism. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Keith Elwin, Laser Los, Bowen Kerins, Lyman F. Sheats Jr., orbit ramps, Automated Amusements, Python Anghelo, Joe Kaminkow, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi.