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One silent and a Couple Noisy Games of Looney Tunes Pinball

Bug's Scream and Stream·video·29m 4s·held·Feb 23, 2024
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TL;DR

Bug streams Looney Tunes Pinball gameplay, highlighting mode variety and discussing code design improvements.

Summary

Bug from Bug's Scream and Stream plays Looney Tunes Pinball by Spooky Pinball, showcasing gameplay across multiple modes including Anvil Multiball, What's Opera Doc, Planet X, and Marvin modes. The stream demonstrates the game's rule complexity, audio callouts, and playfield flow while discussing code differences between TCM (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and the Looney Tunes Collectors Edition, mentioning feedback from Sterling Plays Pinball about potential quality-of-life improvements.

Key Claims

  • The code between Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes Collectors Edition is fundamentally different—mode rules, how you start modes, how you qualify the backboard lock mechanism are all completely different

    high confidence · Bug directly states this when asked about code differences between TCM and CE versions

  • Sterling from Sterling Plays Pinball suggested adding visual hints (film reel previews) to show players which mode they're working towards, since modes are currently completely randomized

    high confidence · Bug credits Sterling for this feedback during live gameplay commentary

  • Bug never personally met Python Angela but his dad and Ben Heck were around him towards the end

    high confidence · Bug responds to chat question about Python Angela

  • Marvin mode difficulty is adjustable in the menu; Bug has his set to around 20-30 spins while the default is approximately 15 spins

    high confidence · Bug mentions adjustability during Marvin mode gameplay

  • The scoring multiplier under the upper left flipper can be increased up to 8x by repeatedly shooting that shot

    medium confidence · Bug states 'I think all the way up to 8' when explaining multiplier mechanics

Notable Quotes

  • “The fundamentals of how you even start modes are different. All the modes' rules, completely different. Down to even how you qualify the backboard lock mechanism and everything. All completely different between the two.”

    Bug@ 8:35 — Clarifies significant code divergence between TCM and Looney Tunes CE despite being same manufacturer

  • “This is a really... You're kind of starting at the top, I think.”

    Bug@ 13:07 — Endorsement of Looney Tunes as an excellent entry point for first-time Spooky Pinball players

  • “There's so many different callouts for so many of these sections that are just so gosh darn funny.”

    Bug@ 22:26 — Highlights audio/callout quality as a standout feature of the game

  • “Once you find the shots in this game, it's an absolute flow monster. You'll be crushing it.”

    Bug@ 12:32 — Assessment of Looney Tunes' playfield flow and shot accessibility

Entities

BugpersonLooney Tunes PinballgameSpooky PinballcompanySterling Plays PinballpersonTee'd Off Pinball PursuitorganizationTexas Chainsaw Massacre PinballgameBug's Scream and StreamorganizationPinball Zombies from Beyond the GravegamePapa Dukeperson

Signals

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    competitive_signal: Multiplier shots under upper left flipper are identified as crucial strategy for tournament-level play in Looney Tunes, with variable difficulty settings affecting competitive viability

    medium · Bug mentions strategy importance and adjustable difficulty: 'Very crucial strategy for the tournament ramps or similar playfield features, I bet, on this game'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Looney Tunes Pinball heavily features character-specific callouts and voice lines across different modes, with emphasis on audio quality and comedic voiceover work

    high · Repeated emphasis on audio callouts throughout stream: 'There's so many different callouts for so many of these sections that are just so gosh darn funny' and 'I'm trying to not talk over the callout specifically'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Sterling from Sterling Plays Pinball suggests adding visual mode previews (film reel clips) to indicate which mode players are working towards, as current randomized selection leaves players uninformed until mode starts

    high · Bug directly credits Sterling: 'he was saying that when you collect film reels, it should be showing you a clip-it of what mode you're working towards. Which I think is a really great idea.'

Transcript

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0:00
You We have something pretty tonight we have pinball zombies Thank you. Welcome to the Acme Factory. Let's get started.
1:14
You missed. Be very quiet. I'm hunting rabbits. Ooh, two flashing shots. That's quite the rabbit. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
2:49
Get the rabbit. I will do it with my spewing magic helmet. And two. That was the wabber That's clean More down, lots of dough Cross your eyes and dot the T's Use a calculator, use two calculators I hate to break it to you, man, but you missed.
3:55
One more little bit of luck for Anvil Monkey Ball. I'd better hide or that bad old Pudding Cat's going to get me.
4:55
Oh my god. I am the hurry up who's lit the crate, Don. Rabbit O' Groton, a gelatin under full cover. Oh, to rule, to rule. Barbecue duck meat with boiled duck filled with mayonnaise. Yummy, yummy. Chicken fried rabbit with cocktail sauce. Braves in heaven.
Ben Heck
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Python Angelaperson
MGCevent
Texas Pinball Festivalevent
Rick and Morty Pinballgame
5:57
Shoot the lambs. Duck season. That bird is an unmitigated fabrication. It's rabbit season. Duck season. Rabbit season.
6:28
Rabbit season. Let me double check this photo. And here are the initials. Oh phooey That all folks That's all I can handle. I gotta start yappin'. Oh my goodness.
7:29
Wow. How's everybody doing tonight? Good to see you. Welcome to the Bug Screamin' Stream. Little inside joke there. I was advised maybe to shut up for a game or all of them. them tonight. I wanted to just share some more general gameplay with you guys so you could hear the audio. Oh, I want to start stacking some multiballs. I didn't get any multiballs that game. Let's do it. You know, low-key, I think Porky has some of the funniest lines in this game.
8:02
Oh, I'm going for the secret skill shot there. Absolutely blew it. See if I can still grab it. Come on! Nope, missed it. Too bad.
8:14
All right. Left spinner rips to qualify Marvin. I have it set up pretty hard on the left there, so it might be a little tough. We'll see.
8:25
One spin! We got one spin! What's the difference? Code difference between TCM and Looney? Honest to God, all of it. The fundamentals of how you even start modes are different. All the modes' rules, completely different.
8:43
Down to even how you qualify the backboard lock mechanism and everything. All completely different between the two games.
8:50
All right, to answer that anvil lock question, I guess to demonstrate, I just lit the hurry up at the crate there. So now we've got to go to the center. Collect it. We'll also start a mode. I believe cash an item? Ah, Gossamer.
9:05
That lovely guy right there. That's the magnet on the coin door. Good news for you Gossamer fans at TPF, you're gonna love it. Struggling with my spinner right now. So the hair raising hair mode. I love that. raising hair mode, you shoot the ramps, which lights your spinner, and then you want to get as many spins as possible. You can chain them together. If you get very few spins, Daffy will actually mock you for doing so. I have a TNT add-a-ball lit underneath my upper flipper there. That was a pretty good rip.
9:59
This left ramp here is also going to lock an anvil ball. There we go. just let's go Multi-ball would be good to collect just like that. Add me that TNT ball. Get it. Let's not. Oh.
11:10
I just need my orbit, man. There we go. And left ramp! Yeah, boy! One more. There it is. Oh, I set my drink too far away.
12:06
Thank you, 6.5 degrees. Any first-time chatters tonight? We always love hearing from new people. Hope I can get my shots to flow like bug. You will. As soon as you find the shots in this game, it's an absolute flow monster. You'll be crushing it.
12:39
So check that out. It happened kind of quick there. I had an item lit. So I had my item that I collected from the conveyor belt. It was a 2x value on my anvil hurry up. And I hit my action button to cash that in really quick there as I was hitting my hurry up in the center. That's what is to do with your action button and extra flipper button feature over on the side here.
13:01
Okay, I went to play this at MGC. I've never played a spooky game. You've never played any spooky games. This is a great one to start with. This is a really great one to start with. You're kind of starting at the top, I think. I'll say it.
13:16
All right. We have Anvil Frenzy lit. I don't want to collect it until I'm in a mode, though. So let's get in a mode. Ooh, ball save. There it is.
13:31
All right. Up the center you go. It's opera. The modes are completely randomized, like Rick and Morty.
13:44
Sterling from Sterling Plays Pinball. We all know Sterling. Hell of a tournament player. Was giving us some really good advice this week when he came by the shop to play. and he was saying that when you collect film reels, it should be showing you a clip-it of what mode you're working towards. Which I think is a really great idea. I'd love to add something like that in. Because right now, it's completely random, and you won't know what it is until you start it.
14:07
So it'd be kind of cool to just have a little hint as to like, ah, that's the mode I'm working towards. We want anvil multiball during this, so we're going to go grab it.
14:17
Just like that. I will do it with my steel and magic helmet. All right. I love the anvil multiball music. Don't fall. So in What's Opera Doc, I am working my way through each of the, I am completely spacing on what they're called, movements, acts, acts of the opera. The first one being collecting a lot of orange shots. Oh, I thought I could sneak that one back in there. Nice. Oh, it wasn't lit, though. Shoot the lit shots instead of the unlit shots. That's the move.
15:32
All right. There we go. There's one. All right. So we've moved on to act two. It's all at the left ramp. So we shoot the left ramp to... Okay, so the timer's already actuated.
15:48
We want to shoot the left ramp as many times as possible. In this mode, this is where the points are. You will blow it up if you can start just spamming that, which we had a good start there. Let's keep that going. Come on.
16:02
Oh, we were doing good there. Had my hair restore lit from collecting a load of carrots. All right, we have our hurry up, our finale shot lit at the center there.
16:23
There we go. Oh, I moved my water. Predicting a Pinside Top 10. You saw it here first. I would love to see that, dude. That can only happen if you guys vote, though. So get out there and vote for us.
16:56
Oh, Robin Hood Daffy. This one's great. How much storage space is available for more code? I don't think it's really a matter of space. I mean, we're still adding a ton to it. There's going to be more episodes and everything.
17:21
Let's see if we can max it out. Okay, so I have all my pink slash purple shots lit, depending on how good your eyesight is.
17:36
And as I hit those, you are stealing the gold. If you hit a gold shot, so you'll see that they're lit gold after I hit it. If you hit a gold shot, you distribute it to the poor. The best thing to do is to steal as much money as you can before you distribute it. to maximize your scoring, which is what I'm doing right now.
18:05
Let's distribute some wealth. Don't. Thank you. No! I've yet to play Fred's mode. Fred's mode's really fun. I love Fred's mode. Following his plan that he makes for you.
18:33
Or that you're making for him. Duh. Sorry. All right. Super skill shot incoming. Uh-oh. Looks like someone needs to work on their head.
18:48
Yeah. Hurry up. It's a little bit crazy, huh? And boom! Get another episode in. And she tweet! Get down, boys! Get down! Stay down!
19:05
Use the woman shot! Is the audio good, or do we want to crank it up some more? Good sir, good sir. Fran, she says we're giving away all Looney Tunes.
19:35
Good, good. We're going out on the ball lock. Oh, dang it! Ooh, that wascally ball got away! You ever talk to Python about Looney Tunes? Oh, like Python Angela? I actually never got to meet Python. I know my dad and Ben Heck were around him quite a bit towards the end there, but I never personally got to meet him. I think my dad said I was too young to meet him. And from everything I've read online, he was right. He was absolutely right. I was too young to meet that man. So.
20:32
Here, what I think I can do to help with the audio as well is turn that off. That should help a little bit.
20:45
Alrighty. Missed you last week, Evil Dead fan. Good to see you again. Alright, super skill shot. About to crush it.
21:02
On the next ball. Next ball. Do we still have time? No. Oh. Alright. What? Pop a couple Red Bulls and a Viagra and drive on down here Franchi Like That is not how to drop catch Drop catch better next time, dude. That's right, App! I got it! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I'm so excited for you guys to get the game in your hands so you can hear all the callouts. There's so many different callouts for so many of these sections that are just so gosh darn funny. I'm trying to not talk over the callout specifically. Oh, I was close there. You missed! Okay, maybe I want to talk over that callout though. It's got a Marvin mode going. Left spinners. There's a whole bunch of them. This is adjustable in the menu so you can make it much easier to go ahead and get your Marvin modes. Like I said, I have mine set up pretty tough right now.
23:26
Left orbit, bro! I think the default setting is more like 15 spins. I think mine's set up for like 20 or 30 or something around there.
23:48
There we are. Big juicy points. There we go. 3, 51, and 3 quarters. Marvin letting us know that we're ready to go. Which one do I have lit? Planet X. Oh, I love this one. This one's really good.
24:14
Has one of my favorite call-outs. I claim this planet in the name of Earth. I claim this planet in the name of Mars. We're claiming shots I'll leave it at that
24:49
You may retire when ready, Crystal What do you know? It disintegrated. Shoot anything!
25:39
As I was saying, Buster, this planet ain't big enough for the two of us, so time to go! And now this planet is killed by a claim for death in the name of the DADDERS OF THE 24TH AND A HALF CENTURY!
25:57
If you really do. Okay, I didn't want to talk over that mode, because there's so, so, so many good callouts in it. Super heavy on the assets in that mode. But essentially there, your shots are lit on the playfield, and you're claiming shots in the name of Earth, while Marvin's claiming shots in the name of Mars, signified by the lights on the playfield. You can see which ones he's claiming, which ones you're claiming.
26:21
Yeah, kind of similar to Get Schwifty, if you're familiar with that, on Rick and Morty, but with Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half century.
26:28
Freaking, yeah, it's super hard to shoot and watch the cartoon at the same time, because that is, like, one of the funniest episodes of Looney Tunes, no doubt. Absolutely love that one. What's up for Duck again? Like I said, right now it's completely randomized, so you might see the same mode a few times.
26:46
I want to get Rabbit Transit tonight. That one's definitely one of my favorites. Oh, that would keep it going.
27:09
by stealing magic helmet. And two. Right ramp. Or left. That works too. Hurry up as little as the crate, Doc. Activate the multiplier. Ah, yes. So, if you shoot underneath that upper left flipper, it activates a scoring multiplier that you start at the in lanes. Now, if you keep shooting underneath that upper flipper, it'll keep increasing what that scoring multiplier is. So right now it's 2x if I roll over that in lane. If I keep hitting underneath there, I can get it up to like, I think all the way up to 8?
27:50
One at a time. Very crucial strategy for the tournament crowd, I bet, on this game. There we go. Let's see. Is there an option to just watch the complete episode? We should consider it.
28:11
I don't know if it'll quite work out that way, but I'd love it to. Alright. Take that. Oh! I just want that center door.
28:40
The nerves are in full force, let me tell you. I want this specific theme playing like when I'm getting ready and brushing my teeth in the morning in fast motion. Be great.