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🔴LIVE - The Hobbit by Jersey Jack Pinball!

Flip n Out Pinball (Live Streams)·video·2h 7m·analyzed·Dec 4, 2025
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TL;DR

Flip n Out streams Hobbit gameplay, praising depth while noting long play time limits casual appeal.

Summary

Flip n Out Pinball hosts a live stream gameplay session of Jersey Jack Pinball's Hobbit (2014), a wide-body game featuring journey-based rule set with five quadrants, 32 distinct modes, mini wizard modes, and a dragon multiball endgame. Hosts Joel and Ryan demonstrate the game's complex mode system, mechanics (beast multiball, lock shots, orbits), and discuss its long play time, excellent audio design by David Deal, and difficulty in attracting casual players due to complexity. Technical challenges with monitor setup forced unconventional screen placement, but direct capture provided clear video feed.

Key Claims

  • Hobbit was released in 2014, before JJP redesigned their cabinet

    high confidence · Joel states: 'this game came out in 2014. Yeah. So this was before JJP had, like, redesigned their entire cabinet.'

  • Hobbit features 32 modes that all feel very different

    high confidence · Joel states: 'And you learn, like, oh, this is a good one, this is a bad one... there's, what, is it 32 modes in this game? And they actually all feel very different.'

  • The game's audio design is by David Deal

    high confidence · Joel references: 'David Deal, baby!' when discussing audio quality.

  • Hobbit is significantly longer playing than Munsters, limiting casual appeal

    high confidence · Joel states: 'This is slightly longer playing game than Munsters. Jared and I would have already played about five games of Munsters.' He also notes selling his previous Hobbit because 'if I had 10 minutes to go play a game of pinball this is not the game to play.'

  • Many players dislike Hobbit due to not understanding its complexity

    medium confidence · Joel notes: 'I think a lot of people, they don't, they don't understand this game. So being that they don't understand it, they don't like it.'

  • The Walking Dead pinball may not be fully approved/licensed yet

    medium confidence · Joel says: 'The Walking Dead, I don't think they have license or approval yet. So, they were shipping, but I don't think it's fully approved yet. Is the vibe I'm getting, yeah.'

  • Hobbit is a wide-body game, making transport more difficult

    high confidence · Joel notes: 'If you didn't know, this is a wide body, so moving this game is a little harder than...' and 'This game is so heavy.'

Notable Quotes

  • “It's a fun game. It's a fun game. Godzilla is not the game.”

    Joel (host)@ 65:26 — Joking about his shirt choice not matching Hobbit theme due to lack of dragon-themed apparel

  • “If I had 10 minutes to go play a game of pinball this is not the game to play”

    Joel (host)@ 24:10 — Key insight into why he sold his previous Hobbit — play time too long for casual sessions

  • “I think a lot of people, they don't, they don't understand this game. So being that they don't understand it, they don't like it.”

    Joel (host)@ 28:40 — Identifies complexity as barrier to casual player enjoyment of Hobbit

  • “It looks like there's nothing going on in this fight. There's so much going on.”

    Joel (host)@ 28:47 — Contrasts visual appearance with actual rule depth; addresses perception problem

  • “This is an advanced move here. It's called push the button a bunch.”

    Joel (host)@ 32:49 — Humorous moment when testing the L target/switch during gameplay

Entities

HobbitgameJersey Jack PinballcompanyJoel (Zach implied)personRyanpersonJaredpersonDavid DealpersonFlip n Out PinballorganizationThe Walking Deadgame

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Stream format includes chat interaction, giveaway announcements (for reaching specific milestones like second/third mini wizard modes or defeating Smaug), and responsive commentary addressing viewer questions.

    high · Multiple references to chat questions; giveaway planning; addressing why Joel doesn't walk, why they stream Hobbit, King Kong tutorial comments

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Hobbit demonstrates JJP's design strength in separating gameplay into distinct quadrants with different mechanics (beast multiball, lock shots, spinner orbits, dwarf targets, Smaug multiball), creating layered complexity that appeals to engaged players but confuses casual players.

    high · Joel's detailed breakdown of five quadrants and 32 modes; statement that 'they don't understand it, they don't like it'

  • ?

    licensing_signal: The Walking Dead pinball status unclear; Joel speculates game was shipping but may lack full licensing/approval, suggesting possible back-and-forth with licensor or delays in compliance.

    low · Joel: 'The Walking Dead, I don't think they have license or approval yet. So, they were shipping, but I don't think it's fully approved yet. Is the vibe I'm getting, yeah.'

  • $

    market_signal: Long play time of Hobbit positions it as collector/enthusiast game rather than location/casual game; this explains both its cult following among deep players and its unpopularity with casual audiences.

    high · Joel's repeated emphasis on play length; selling his previous Hobbit because 10-minute casual players need faster games; comparison to Munsters (5 games of Munsters in time for 1-2 Hobbit games)

  • ?

Transcript

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0:00
Thank you. Oh man, check, check, check. Hello everybody. Hello. Hopefully everybody's here. Yes. Well, what can I say? Tonight has already been quite the night. Quite the night. and we haven't even started.
1:03
Jared is out of town. Jared's out of town. Bizarro Jared is here. My good friend Ryan is here. He's ready to play some pinball. And believe it or not, we're playing a game I was trying to check up on chat. I don't think anybody's guessed it. I don't think anybody's guessed this game, what we're playing tonight.
1:20
This is actually a game that I have owned. I've owned it in the past. And what's funny is the one that I owned, Ryan also owned. Ask him to. Yeah. And so it's a fun game. It's a fun game. Godzilla is not the game. You know, I tried to pick a shirt that that would somewhat fit. And, you know, there are you'll see once we reveal the game, it's kind of a stretch, kind of. But, yeah, yes, we are going to play the only J.J. J.B. Hobbit. We're going to play J.J. J.B. Hobbit tonight. Let's go. Yes, we're both pretty excited about this. You know, Godzilla, lizard creature breathing fire. That was the closest thing. I don't have any dragon shirts. I don't have any Lord of the Rings shirts.
2:10
But, yeah, we're going to play some Hobbit tonight. Zach actually got this one in on trade, and he had to do some repair work to it, and we got here. I had to tweak some stuff to it, so we got it all dialed in. And then the one thing I forgot is this game came out in 2014. Yeah. So this was before JJP had, like, redesigned their entire cabinet. So when I went to set up the stream, you know, 35, 40 minutes ago, I quickly found out the monitor is not HDMI.
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community_signal: Hosts demonstrate deep knowledge of Hobbit rules and modes, suggesting significant personal play time and/or study; capable of real-time rule explanation and mode strategy during gameplay.

high · Joel's continuous, detailed explanation of mode mechanics, quadrant progression, mini wizard modes, shot sequences throughout stream

  • ?

    product_concern: Hobbit's playfield ergonomics require careful tuning; hosts had to adjust leg levelers to 6.2-6.9 degrees and troubleshoot L target registration during live play, suggesting manufacturing or design tolerances may be tight.

    medium · Detailed discussion of pitch angles; switch testing to verify L target; question about whether target 'needs a little' adjustment

    • 2:46
    And basically my entire idea of capturing everything was thrown right out the window. Right out the window. So it's been a mad dash for the last 40 minutes. So the good news is I have direct capture here. You guys have this beautiful screen to look at. But you know what Ryan and I don't have? We don't have a screen to look at. I can only do it. So I put the monitor, I put the screen on the prompter. So if you see us, like, intently staring into your soul while we play, it's because that's where the monitor is. So the back box is completely off right now. And, yeah, we're going to see what it's like playing pinball, where instead of looking here, you have to look there. So we're going to give it a shot. But, hey, we're going to have a fun time tonight. If anybody hasn't played Hobbit, it is a long-playing game, but it's a journey. It's an adventure. I hope you guys enjoy the audio because the audio package is unbelievably good.
    3:46
    And, yeah, third flicker at all. Yeah. Yeah, Hobbit's third flipper is one of the best. There was a guy on Twitch that that was his name. That third flipper gets used very rarely. Not a lot. Very rarely.
    4:00
    Trying to take a shot at the kick-ass shot for the extra ball. Yeah. The capture ball. There's a few, yeah. So it's what you're going to see. So the back box right now is essentially completely dead to us because we have the speakers unplugged to do direct capture, and we have the video. So, like, we could take the whole head box off. It basically is how we're playing. Okay, two and a half. So, yes, over and under two and a half. How many games are we going to play today? I actually had that thought. Yeah. Yeah, over and under, like, yeah, two and a half was my number. Yeah. Okay.
    4:32
    Well, let's. I'm guessing we'll be a little more ragged than that. We'll be over. Okay. We got a two-player game. Ryan, go ahead. Start us off. Oh, sure. He hasn't touched the game. Yep. It's been a few years probably since you played one. It's been so long. Yeah. We'll do it live. I will explain whatever I can.
    4:56
    Essentially, the key to the game is you want to get to the mini wizard boats. And to get to those, I mean, go ahead and play. But there are five quadrants. I don't know if you call them quadrants if it's five. But basically, JJT's really good at separating things like that. Like how, like what to do in each area. So this bottom left area is based on the orc, or the, what's it called, the beast, beast multiball. So beast multiball is what he's doing right there. If he goes over an inlane, so that's the orc. The orc thing will pop up, and that's what he hit. So if he goes over like this inlane, this guy will pop up. So there's, basically there's four different beasts. And once he's done all four beasts, he starts a multiple. Hedgehog, I heard if you press the start button now, the player one is on. You know what? No, that's the third. I see what you did, player. I see what you did.
    5:53
    So there we go. So Warp just popped up because he did this outlaying, and that's Warp. So that's how he can get this bottom left quadrant filled out, is all he has to do is play beast multiple. ball. The upper left quadrant where it says shoot right lock is you have to spell lock by these rollovers and then you lock the ball on the right ramp. Once you've done that three times that's how you start dragging multi-ball.
    6:23
    So let's see if I can hit these lock targets here. Oh wow. I was way over them. Sick. Sick. That's alright. Way over them again. and I didn't get it. Nope.
    6:37
    So I did not get any of that skill shock. Basically, you want to hit the beasts when they pop up, especially the ones... All right. I've qualified a book mode. There we go. Hit that. Recover.
    6:57
    All right. So I've got two beasts. You can see the two arrows. And I can start a mode on the right ramp. It says mode right here. But if I don't like the mode and I can see the mode right here over on this little book, I can turn the page of the book by hitting the left ramp.
    7:14
    There you go. And I turned it to a worse mode. I picked a harder mode. You got a good one there, actually. The other one was? Yeah. So there's like 32 modes in this game. And, yeah. So the mode is all about this. Once you beat any mode, it's going to be up there in that middle section. So, multi-ball, beast multi-ball, dragon multi-ball, that's your mode. This upper right one is the easiest one. It's just spinner rips on the orbits. So, are we there? Huh? We're getting over our 2.5 or whatever. Trying to find some spots there. We'll figure it out. Let's see if I can get an easy lock.
    8:01
    You want to start this mode during the top left corner of the mode grid. Oh, yeah. Where you were. If you care about points and progress.
    8:16
    So I can lock a ball on the right, which I totally missed. Or you can hit the middle button. There's a, what? If you wanted to start a mode on the right, you can hit the red button. Oh, I can turn off the lock. There's a tilt-bob in this game, guys. There you go. Just going to trade it in brand new. Get your trade. Oh, for a brand new game. Yeah, reach out to Zachary. All right. We're getting, you know, game on. He's talking about this. There's this big honeycomb pattern. That's showing all the different modes in the game right there.
    8:50
    So this mode would be fire and water if he starts it, but he has his lock lit. Let's get the lock. There we go. Let's lock them all. There's a lock. This is an easy mode. And I know this resurgence of Sauron. This is an easy mode.
    9:06
    Did we get an orbit? Nope. So it just changed the mode. Oh, not an orbit. Nope. Oh, an orbit. Okay, so another thing he has is this, the fact that the orbits are flashing green. You can lock a ball before you start a mode. So you basically have like a mini multi-ball in the mode.
    9:36
    Sure. There we go. So he has started a mode. Shoot drop targets. It is cool that the little book always tells you what to do.
    9:47
    Tell me the things. I can't find them. Shoot drop targets. All right. So I'm guessing the ones on the left. There you go. And then the dwarf targets. Oh, you just literally have to hit one of them.
    10:00
    One's on the right. Nice. And one's on the left. There we go. And left, right. Nice. Five seconds. There it is. He beat the mode. So being that he beat the mode, what you're going to see is that little piece right there. That shows that he has completed that section of the screen. So at this point, all he needs is this creature, which I think is a spider.
    10:37
    Oh, he's starting another mode. You need spider. So basically, he needs to go through an in lane and then hit that.
    10:44
    And then where's he at? You can see right here in the middle, he has two locks towards his dragon must evolve. So basically he has to only hit this L and that'll qualify Locke for Dragon multiple. The Smowled. Smowled multiple. We don't have chat in our normal spot, so reading chat's going to be a little bit more challenging.
    11:10
    Do you think Stern will ever rematch for Lord of the Rings? Oh, you gotta look up there. Yeah. Okay, so this is the mode that he's in. This is not Smaug multi-ball.
    11:27
    But I think you can start. There you go. You need to still hit that hill. Oh, he's got. What am I doing for this move? Flashing the shots. Oh, sorry. Two flashing shots. Yeah. So a lot of them. That's why you have a wall.
    11:46
    Got more time for the mode. Lord of the Rings remastered with extra mode. That would, I mean, Lord of the Rings would be pretty awesome.
    12:08
    We had a ton of Jared I had a ton of time for. When you're in the Beast multiball, you basically, you shoot the Beast. I mean, it's that simple. You're giving me balls.
    12:19
    I'll take it. Yep. If you didn't know, this is a wide body, so moving this game is a little harder than...
    12:30
    Okay, that was the one quadrant I haven't said. Down here, there are 11 dwarves? 11? So it's basically hitting all the major shots. So there's three drops, there's five shots here, there's another three over here, and then you have to get both Orbits, Thorn up the middle. You basically collect all the dwarves. So that's how you get that. So he currently, being that he's started the Beast Multi-Ball, he's done three of the five quadrants.
    13:05
    So the only one he, the only, when he gets out of this Multi-Ball, his Snog Multi-Ball is going to be lit, but he still needs to hit some Orbits. which are hard to do when there's a bunch of pieces everywhere.
    13:26
    This isn't The Walking Dead. No. The Walking Dead, I don't think they have license or approval yet. So, they were shipping, but I don't think it's fully approved yet. Is the vibe I'm getting, yeah. There you go. Proof for what? I don't know if you are Zach has his how's he at his we'll get it eventually alright so extra ball is lit at either of the gobble holes there's one there and then the one on the right is I'm back we'll get it oh there was another he's bouncing So the extra ball on the left is easier to hit, but there's drops.
    14:29
    There we go. Okay, he's hitting up Orbit, so all he has left to do, he's got to hit the L and lock. Somehow he just keeps rolling everywhere but it.
    14:44
    For real, he just needs to roll over that spot right there. That's all he has to do. He's a clone of the Hive. Sneak in. Oh.
    15:00
    If he can do, if he can get that L, then he can get multi-ball. And he's bound to fall into the extra ball. Oh, he hit it. I rolled over that. But it didn't. Come on now. I'm watching it now here we go C everywhere but that L this game is fun, I've played it a few times good cinematics, it's amazing cinematics is the game pitched at 4 degrees I knew somebody would ask that I actually increase the leg levelers a lot so it's at like If you measure in the front, it's at like 6.2. If you measure it in the middle, you got to land it right. There you go. It's nice.
    15:46
    It's like 6.4. And then if you measure it in the back, it's like 6.9. Trying to back in the... I'm trying to... Trying to get him moved. I just want to make sure that L is registering if all of a sudden that's not we'd have to test it with the glass but let's see if we can get that we need that L that's a very important there it is now he just has to hit the right ramp and he'd start multi-ball go for it? sure nope There we go. Alright. So now he's been smacked by the multi-ball.
    16:41
    When you're in here, you're bound to hit that extra ball. Okay, what's awesome about this multi-ball is it's... Basically, he wants to hit all their extra balls.
    16:55
    Oh, that's right. You have to hit both arrows. Oh, I forgot about that. It's open on the left, really.
    17:02
    Got it. There we go, they're charged for ball. You're good. So basically, keep hitting the burning targets. This is full right now.
    17:20
    You care about mode, that's random, but... Oh, yeah. Didn't know I started that. Smog is fantastic. It's an amazing moment. So he needs to perfect. So once you end up
    17:42
    in the back box, then you have to hit the target in front of smog. You just did. Okay, he has done everything he needs to do. So to start the mini wizard mode, he has to hit either that shot or that shot. Let's wait for... the ball's stuck right here. Let's wait for that to kick in. There it goes. Yay! Nailed it. Here we go. This is why this game's incredible. And into the fire.
    18:30
    The mose... there's your extra ball. Okay, so you have to stage the party members. So we have to hit the green flashing, or the red ones are the ones that are up. So basically you have to hit all the drops first.
    18:51
    Oh, it's the opposite. You have to hit the green ones? Green, yeah. You have to hit like 15 green. You're at five left.
    19:01
    Oh, your extra ball is still streaming. You got another X-Men code. One more. There we go.
    19:09
    Left ramp for Super Jackpot. How do you like the latest X-Men code? I'm enjoying it a lot. To have... To be incentivized to go for sentinels and have something to shoot for. It's amazing how simple... You're dangling a carrot that I want to go for. Alright, bash four wards. Those are the worst. Bash it! Three more.
    20:01
    Listen to this music, though. It's so good. Two more. It's over. There you go. But that's why this game is so good. Those modes are so intense and so awesome.
    20:27
    So that's the first of three mini wizard modes. So to get to the next one... 8,000 points. Yeah, the points are pretty low in this game. To get to the next... Basically to get to the next mini wizard mode. He's got to do it all over again. Do all five quarters.
    20:48
    I say we double back. I wish I had a lot of... Save killing? You see it on the book, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
    20:58
    Oh, you're thinking about your sneak in your locks? I'm looking at the grid there. Yeah. So it's interesting here. So if he hits the left ramp, it'll change mode on the book. Oh, I missed it. But you have an extra ball. Do you play it at the end? That's the best.
    21:26
    It's amazing how you have this 27-inch monitor. Yeah, yeah. Great. Got to try to see on that fine little screen there. All right. I have not done anything because I've been trying to do...
    21:40
    It's terrible. It's awful. Alright, so let me try to actually boost up the game. The sound in this game is incredible.
    21:53
    David Deal, baby! Come on, Bumble, we're hungry. Oh, dude. The video, the graphics, the sound, it's all incredible.
    22:09
    Oh! Oh. The post helps me and then didn't. So that was a pretty short game for me, but that's fine. Giveaway to 250 viewers. I was trying to think of giveaways. I thought maybe second.
    22:22
    Second mini wizard mode, potentially, or third. And then if either of us defeat Smog, that is such a ridiculous moment. Yeah.
    22:34
    Giveaway a third mini wizard mode. Okay. Nice. Your extra ball is still screaming at you. How many? There's another one there? No, there's another extra ball over there. You don't have any more.
    22:51
    This is an easy mode if you do this. Characters? Yeah, let's go. You just changed it. I forgot. Contracts.
    23:03
    Yeah, let's try it. So I got to pass by that. Then you go right. There you go. Yeah. Shoot, count the ball, or left hole? It's not a good ball for him to shoot. Oh, he has two balls because he hit the ball.
    23:17
    Oh, sick. You can hit the hole in the other side. I was taking my chance to go for the left hole. Are you and Jared not speaking? Oh, Jared. Jared had to travel for work. Yeah. So I invited Ryan over. Center post save. Oh, yeah.
    23:38
    So, I owned this game for like a year. And it looks like you need to hit the right... Oh, you hit the yellow. I see. It's right on the left side. Nailed him. Nice.
    23:54
    I don't know if you beat that mode. You did not beat that mode. the only reason I sold this game is because it is such a long playing game it's like you know if I had 10 minutes to go play a game of pinball this is not the game to play you should have played Dune yeah without hearing finally oh you got to the carousel nice backstabber yeah you have an extra ball on the right pull I want to start right at that yeah right right right nope terrible Jared Jag is Joel did a bite I haven't bought Dune yet that's what I will continue to say it's not out of the question go ahead here. There we go. Radagash, bash the spider. This is a pretty easy move. There we go. Bounce the spider, bash the spider. It's another spider shot. Miss. You got more time though. There you go. So you're at 10%, 30%, you're at 50%. I think you probably have two more hits to the device. There you go. Right hole. Right hole to finish the war, I guess.
    25:40
    There it is. Nice. That's an extra ball, by the way. So that's a mode gun. Nice. How limited is Dune?
    25:51
    Not yet, because it's not out. Okay, so he beat a mode. That's why you see that little thing. What are those things called? They're little arrows. You're working towards the arc instead. The arc instead, yeah. So the only character you haven't hit is that target way over to the bottom right. The flashing purple one.
    26:12
    Oh, okay. There it is. Nailed it. Oh, no, you hit the drop. The drop pops up behind it. Lifted the target behind it. I'd lock a ball.
    26:24
    Oh, he gave it to you. So he just, his mystery award just gave him a... Did you have one extra ball or no, you did not? Yeah, balls to go.
    26:39
    Okay, he's doing well. Everyone wants to know why I don't walk. She should play it twice is why Joel has a... What?
    26:53
    Played what game? Why funny with a motion not getting... I know. Everybody... I know.
    27:03
    I'm just... I'm not, like, financially in a spot to buy a game right now. But if I had to... Oh! That was not how you... Oh, what? Ball save? I guess. I'll take it.
    27:17
    Alright, there's two letters through the lock. What do you need? You just need... That thing... Wow. Did I do that? No. That was a wicked way... You just need the spider.
    27:33
    I drained down the middle and it came up with a sick kickback. Hit that L. Hit that L? Hit the L and lock. No, I can't do that. What? You can do that.
    27:43
    It took me like 15 seconds. Yeah, but you never tried it from a backhand. Yeah, I did. I tried it from everywhere. What do I need? You need an L and then spider. Okay, all right. Spider is the far right. Far right in length, so you can't hit it on purpose. That's why you hope you get it in the multi-ball.
    28:03
    Dude, I swear. Maybe that thing needs a little... It's not 100%. Oh, you just nicked it again. There it is! Okay. Right, right ramp.
    28:21
    There it is. Ballsy ball. Hit it again. I love how the- yes, you can backhand the gobble holes. This is slightly longer playing game than Munsters. Jared and I would have already played about five games of Munsters.
    28:40
    But I think a lot of people, they don't, they don't understand this game. So being that they don't understand it, they don't like it. It looks like there's nothing going on in this fight. There's so much going on.
    28:57
    Shoot one more jackpot. So left hand. There you go. Yep, nice. So this goes in phases. It's like shoot jackpots, then shoot the targets in front of the slog. Shoot jackpots. shoot the target and then it will get to a point where you have to alternate between the small targets and the main targets and that's when things get real exciting
    29:31
    shoot right range oh that's for the most nice of you good job to all of you You have left orbit for uh, I was saying shoot left loop for the...
    29:52
    I know it doesn't matter but... Orbit? Nice. There you go. Now it's man... is it man target? No, you're strong, Molten. Uh, shoot Smog. Okay, right. Nice, shoot the man. Man targets. This is where he hits these drops over here. Man targets. Nice, and then it's going to be Smog targets. Oh, dude, he's in the... that was the final stage of that. I think when you get back into it, I think it picks up where you were.
    30:41
    Okay, uh, Beast, we just... We just need the spider. I don't have a good idea of how the game is going to...
    31:01
    Anybody coming to Cincinnati? Ooh. I know our buddy Derek is. You can try to chast and somehow roll all the way up.
    31:20
    What Ryan needs is he needs to go through this in lane, the far right one. There's nothing that feeds it. It being that nothing feeds it, maybe the mystery will give it some.
    31:35
    The mystery is this area. You can, oh. I mean, that's been a pretty great. I did some stuff. Yeah. You at high score number two Let see that Shad Yeah right It not a very shatsy game here I putting your high score Player one. Today's high score number one. Oh we gotta turn that off. Today's high score?
    32:10
    Oh whoops. I don't know, hopefully that explains a little bit of Hobbit. So first game, first set of games, 30 minutes. Yep, yep. I never doubted you for such a good plan. All right. Hold this for a second. Are you checking the L?
    32:28
    Yeah. I just realized. I don't know why I'm putting this in. It's just today's thing. Yeah, this one's silly.
    32:38
    Whatever. J-A, whatever. I'm just going to check this L real quick. I mean, I think it's okay. Everything's fine. Everything's great.
    32:49
    This is an advanced move here. It's called push the button a bunch. You know, work it. Just push it a bunch.
    33:01
    Let's make sure. If you guys were wondering, this is how you do it. You go to test and switch test. This is what they're here for. And then you do this.
    33:16
    It's just not as. It's working just fine. All right. That's what people tune in for right there. I think the aggressive pushing it a bunch was the trick. Yeah? Yeah. You got it working good now. It's not going to be a problem anymore. Yeah.
    33:31
    He knows his place. 2007. 14. 2014. All right. I want to blow it up now. As much as I enjoy watching you do it, right? It's not as much fun.
    33:47
    No. All right. There we go. That was an extremely informative 15 seconds. Don't see the JJ. There you go. Now you see. Please tell me Hobbit search slipper. Hey, Ray Day. Dude, he is the man if he's here. Okay. Let's, uh... Dude.
    34:09
    Right over top. It totally is. Now it rolls over him. Please give me that ball back. Is that really? Thank you. So, is that how we're starting this off?
    34:23
    Alright, I just want to get into a mode. Alright, where are we at? Um. Come on, Bumblewad Hungry. We don't need to scull over here. Oh, hit the worm. The ones on the outside are the ones that are the hardest to qualify. So you definitely want to take advantage of those. I feel like this is a hard one.
    34:59
    That's an even harder one. Oh, that was the one I wanted. Don't you... You can turn the page just once before it hits the switch. So after you make the left ramp, before you hit a switch, you can flip or re-mode. I just saw that. That was definitely something I never... The ravens of Erebor are returning to the mine tent.
    35:32
    All right, interrogation's a great one. Let's start that mode. I think it's literally you just have to hit that. Such is the nature of the orc. I think it's three bashes and then I cut his head off. And 80% off. That's the mode. That's it? Yep. So there's one mode done. So now let's focus on black and bowels.
    36:19
    Nope. Oh, spider is straight. Too early! No! I'm missing the hard ones. The hard ones are the close ones.
    36:36
    There we go, war. Here we go. I'm way too late. I got to find those shots again, dude. These slippers are just different. Yeah, it's a brand new game. Not like new to us.
    36:53
    Look. Locking on the ball. There we go. I like that we can backhand those, though. Yeah. A mode total of 11,000 points. I know, right?
    37:06
    Isn't that pretty sick? Now I'm flying the... It's all right. Dude, that game did not move at all. So heavy.
    37:25
    This game is so heavy. Getting it down was... crazy. Come on. Here we go. It's backhand and it's getting the ball. There it is. Let's go. Whew! Stop points from the spinner trickle. Just that little, that one spin. Okay. Lot of jackpot shots now.
    37:57
    I think I can... I'm trying for my Orbit shots So that'll lock a ball And I need Orbit Do I have a third ball somewhere?
    38:18
    Or did I lose one? Well, okay Apparently I have to lock one But There we go What do I need? I need two of these and...
    38:35
    There's a lot more I need. There we go. There it is. Dude, how did I not... I've hit you twice! It like grazed his face twice.
    38:50
    Yeah, you gotta hit him more, by the way. Oh. Come on, Warwick, here we go. There it is. And then Spider. Let me get over there and get... I'm still trying...
    39:23
    Trying for my Orbeez shots. That's why I was... And they're way over there. There we go. Set monitor mount on the head until it... Everything makes it so heavy. There's a gazillion drop targets on this game.
    39:44
    I definitely do not want to start a second multi-ball until I've played the Wizard Mode. Because every time you do multi-balls, it makes things harder.
    39:57
    Where am I? Do I have the Arkenstone? No, I still have not traveled. I need to keep traveling. I don't know if there's any way to spot this spider.
    40:17
    Dude, those orbits are so far over. So far over. Well, it looks like we're tearing them up. How are those outer coins clearing?
    40:42
    This is just a right loop. Oh, I have to take a right orbit. Right orbit. Don't just lock it. Dude, the right orbit is so normal.
    41:09
    Okay, spider is lit. There we go. Okay. I've done everything but the Beast Frenzy, and I need Spider.
    41:39
    No, Spider, here we go. No! Of course, it pops up. Danger. One shot away. Well, that sucks. All right. Let me catch up on chat here.
    42:01
    All right. Now that Ryan's warmed up, I think third wizard vote is right there. Drop targets in the game sound like a droid.
    42:11
    There's a lot of, when you're not listening, like if you just hear the game from afar and you don't hear the audio, you hear those drops from setting on a lot. Oh, and you can drill the spider, no problem. Yeah, first try. Easy. Coming through.
    42:28
    I've been very into Black Sword of Rage. Seems to be fair. No, dude, Black Knight Sword of Rage, we would have played eight games by now, and we're on our second game. Yeah.
    42:41
    Drink, right? Yes, that's it. Let's have a little more light. How does one turn end in the hobbit? I'll show you. I can show you very easily how to injure turn and knob it.
    42:58
    Come on, Bumper, we're hungry. All right, so he's done spider. He's basically got both the ones on the left.
    43:06
    I say we double botch. There we go. Oh, nailed it. Nailed it. Oh, come on. Hit the biplane ramp. You've put some time on Jaws, haven't you? Yeah, yeah.
    43:22
    Play a walk. I love Jaws. Oh, sorry, not Jaws. King Kong. No, zero time on King Kong. Really? You haven't played it at all? I've played, like, five games.
    43:44
    Dude, I'm going to start. I just heard another wizard, or another multi-ball. Whatever. Whatever. That's not Jaws, I know.
    43:56
    King Kong is awesome. King Kong is awesome. Definitely want to stream more of. Alright, let's actually...
    44:08
    So, super jackpot shots, there we go. There we go. Oh. Dude. Oh, come on. Dude. That was a bad, that was a bad flipper play right there.
    44:45
    All right. Let's go. Alright. So he is... Yeah, you have not done anything. Oh, there it is. There we go.
    45:05
    I forget what you have to do to light the locks on the Ormids. Do you remember what you do? I don't remember.
    45:17
    He's just got the ward. He's got the macho man. I want to see Zach's walking dead. Soon! Joel's just not past that multi-ball. Maybe, man. I know when I owned the game I got to the final mode multiple times, the final phase of the mode, and I never, never defeated him. Alright, which one of these next?
    45:49
    Two drop targets. There's a lot of them. Well, you got your Orbit. King Kong may take several hours to do the tutorial about. We went through every New York City road, and the options, all the treasure zones. I know, they're not even done. I know. I'm glad I did the tutorial when I did. Oh, that's the word you need right there. Yes, I'm very glad I did the tutorial when I did. Which was kind of a... Let me give you a glimpse of how to get this far in the game. But, the goal was really to make the tutorial to show everything. Wow. Oh, you were close. I didn't realize it was still going. I thought I found out already.
    46:55
    Must have hit the left ramp this time. So there's, what, is it 32 modes in this game? And they actually all feel very different. Like, you learn the modes. Yeah. And you learn, like, oh, this is a good one, this is a bad one. I just wouldn't say Valinor. I don't think Valinor is in this. They use, like, the whole play field, too. Like, there's the modes where it, like, uses the outling kickback to launch a ball to your upper flipper, and you've got to hit it over it to drop targets.
    47:26
    They all feel very different. Dude, both outlings. Can I play? this ball please? That would be awesome.
    47:40
    Did you see that ball? Right out lane. Left out lane. Out left out lane. Right out lane. That was that entire ball.
    47:49
    Wow. Joel, what do you think about X-Men accessories they showed off? Pete? You know, as an X-Men owner, I know I'm going to get the topper. I was going to get the topper regardless. Is the topper everything I wanted it to be? At first glance, no.
    48:11
    But, I'll get it. We'll see how it looks like in person. One thing I've definitely seen is, is, is, is, things always look better in person. Like, artwork always looks better in person, so we'll wait and see. My verdict's out on that. Uh, the art blades, it bothers me a little bit that the art is the exact same as the LE. Just because, I mean, mine is oil. but the same art. So I was a little surprised because that's not... No lights there.
    48:40
    There's no lights on it, though. Doesn't your own have some lights? What do you mean? No. I thought they had lights. Is it the same artwork? Same art? I don't know. It's okay. I ordered Ultimate X... What's that? Uncanny. It's like, it's not Ultimate. Penny X-Men Art Blades. Small series bit. Emailed Rebecca Kielflower. I have not watched series bit. I like Kerry Hardy. Don't get me wrong. I like Kerry Hardy a lot. But I just, I don't know. I try to make sure my day is as positive as possible. So when I know a video is just going to be a rant, I typically just don't watch it. It's nothing against Kerry. I just, I like positivity.
    49:27
    I'm with you. Yeah. Nice. Hit the ward. Oh, you haven't beat a mode. This is an easy one.
    49:58
    There we go. Nice, you got the worm. Did you get the worm? Nope, it just fell. There you go, there's the mode done.
    50:17
    Alright, he's also started frenzy, so he's... He's done everything but the multiballs. And he's right ramp away from the multiballs. Oh, nice.
    50:37
    Nice, nice, nice. He keeps getting... He keeps getting a like on... No, honestly, I'm... I'm, like, the last code update, I was really... It really changes how I'm playing the game. Now, it says it's .95, I think. Like, I'm just... I've told myself I don't think those numbers are...
    51:01
    accurate, or I'm hoping they're not. So, I'm hoping for a lot more. You know, there's no Nimrod in the game, there's no Senator Kelly, there's no, there's a bunch of modes that aren't in it yet.
    51:16
    Oh, Master Mode. Master Mode's the other one. So it's like, I think there's a, okay, there we go. Oh, this is a new, that was the last game that you got.
    51:31
    Nice to see this game played and modes getting completed. The local hobbit is super hard. Yeah, this is a tough location, Tim, because this game is meant to be a journey. Like, I want to play a game for 30 minutes. Oh, I'm starting to feel that way on Godzilla. Yeah, when you play Godzilla, all the reflect a lot. You know you're playing a long game.
    52:01
    Right pole. Oh my god. Thank you. There we go. You can beat him in a row. Keep falling forward. There we go. Oh, I have it turned off by the way where you can't stack these multi balls. I like that better. I do too. Yeah. It gets beat pretty much. Yeah. Good, I want this game to be one box and this box better not have any damage. I'm not even as stressed because I keep my games mint. Jobber, that is false. That is false. It's a pretty solid game. Shame of what we're talking about. X-Men, yeah. I'm ready to trade mine for a Deadpool. Deidre, you're saying you want to trade X-Men for Deadpool?
    53:30
    I don't know. I told myself, like, Cactus Canyon. I was like, I cannot sell Cactus Canyon until I get the upgrade kit. Like, I don't want to get rid of it, and then it end up being, like, so much better, and then be like, crap, I got to get that kit back. And now that I have the upgrade kit, like, I don't want to sell Cactus Canyon. So that's kind of the same mentality I have with X-Men, where you just need Warg.
    54:01
    Nice. Oh. Nice. It's the only one you need. Oh. Yeah, I wish there was a way when you're at this point where it knows.
    54:25
    No, you need warp over here. Warp, I am. Warp's over there. Shots it. Yeah, if you can. That's it. Can I already lock another box? Nice.
    54:42
    Once you take them out of the box, the value goes down 3,000. I should know... Oh, wow. Nice job, Ernie. I like X-Men, but this is never going to not have issues. Well, maybe that's one thing. I've, mechanically, I've got mine dialed in. Like, I'm very happy with how mine shoots. Um, and it shoots consistently. Um, now what I heard is, I heard somebody, um, got one of the pros off one of the most recent builds, and apparently that thing, like, shoots amazingly well. So I'm curious what Stern has done different.
    55:26
    Shoot kept the ball or left full. Got it. Come on now. There you go. Right, right. Yellow's target, the boy drops.
    55:43
    Nice. Oh, you whisked it and it drops. Oh, it goes faster. That's right. Nice. Like it? Yeah. That's a very hard mode. very hard Maxman Premium is perfectly dialed in yeah once you get dialed in the game shoots so well dude this is a good size sport for me we gotta turn that off I like the idea for location but and then oh same thing
    56:23
    is this one Okay, let's do that real quick. What is it? Settings. We got to turn off today's high score.
    56:37
    Extra ball score awards. Do you remember where it is? I have no idea. Anybody?
    56:52
    Anybody? um whatever maybe we just deal with it oh here it is high score studies there it is um Keith daily high scores off there we go everything's great okay number two alright this is the game right here totally missed all the time There's the fighter. Missed it. Oh yeah. There it is. Okay. Got it. Okay. Okay. Everything's great. Everything's going so good. Everything's fine. No more of those. That's garbage. That's on me. Double flip. Should have trusted the post. It's a terrible ball one. Whoa, small text in the option. Well, it looks great on a 27-inch monitor.
    57:56
    I remember this mode being super easy. Resurgence of Sauron. I think it's like two shots to the left.
    58:08
    Oh, he's changing the book. I'm trying to qualify. Mode's already qualified. I don't want to. You don't like the easy ones?
    58:20
    Stern confirmed. Ultimate X-Men, Mac fixes on newer ones. No, I just heard somebody say they played one of the newer ones. And I know they changed one of the frames.
    58:33
    He's friendly, all right. Yeah, dude. Did you? Yeah. Yeah, well. Work on your orbits or something. You can get a mode. That's your, this is your. Here we go. There it goes. There's his mode done.
    59:08
    I remember, I mean, this was 2014. I remember the light show on this just blew me away. Like, J.J.P. really has set the bar. Moonwalk Knight. With Wizard of Oz and then this, of what a light showing up in Moonwalk Knight could be.
    59:26
    So he's already got his... You see that? Oh, did it fly off? Moonwalk. Oh, I made the ramp and then Moonwalk said, treat you right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gone. You played this enough.
    59:40
    Come on, Joel. There you go. Oh, Reynolds in the dark. This is like the hardest mode. Oh, yeah. Find the hidden shot. One of them or something.
    59:59
    Shot three more drops. One drop is correct. 20%. You got one more. You got to get one more. Yeah, I just got to keep hitting.
    60:14
    Dude, quit double flipping. If people were watching my games tonight, they would not believe this game's a long play. I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving.
    60:35
    That was... Yeah. It was a great Thanksgiving. Moonwalk, yeah. Stratagast, that's an easy one. You've already done the one, so... What do you need? You need just multi-ball or orbits.
    60:53
    It's your L, man. Since you all know, you can hit it. So... You just got to roll. Okay, that should have... That one should have counted. That's close.
    61:19
    Come on. Roll over. Everybody likes a good roll over, you know? Mm-hmm. Dude, okay, you've hit it. You've hit it a few times.
    61:33
    I'll have to look at what that switch is. This is somebody that didn't have ham last week? No. Turkey, for sure.
    61:43
    I need to do a lot. Last fall, I haven't done anything. There. Right, guys. This is an easy one. We got it. Spider.
    62:00
    I don't have a spider. It's not working. Spider. Dude, hit the spider jolt. Now I'm not holding it. This thing...
    62:27
    I remember this being like the bane of... Sometimes, some of them you can backhand, some of them you can't. I can't backhand.
    62:39
    No! Yeah, there goes that one. Let me see if I can hit this L that Ryan can't. Yeah, it's right there, Ryan. It's all there is to it. Burnt the turkey? Ugh.
    63:09
    Oh, I only need this. And I'll pop that guy up. There we go. What? Dude, I could not have hit him more in the face.
    63:25
    He punched in the face. Good. Okay. All right. What's going on? He hit him in the face again. Oh no We might I think you spoiled by your brand new My brand new game yeah I should have spent more time dialing this in Where's Jared? Homemaking seatbelts? I don't know where... I think Jared is making... He's not making seatbelts. I think he's supporting his customers. Hop up.
    64:07
    Thank you. There's another lock. All right. I need to not move the game, by the way. I have, like, ground clear.
    64:23
    All right. Can I just hit this goblin, please? Hit him in the face. Dude! It did it. Okay. Hit him harder.
    64:43
    Oh. Too slow. Have you seen that? I will be abused. Here we go. That's not true. I hit him. I know. Maybe you hit him too hard. I don't know.
    65:10
    There it is. You just have to hit him. That's all you got to do, right? I just have to hit them. Alright. Let me get a mode going.
    65:26
    There's a mode. It's an easy mode. Right ramp. One time. There it is. I just beat the mode. Alright. So I think I need...
    65:44
    Orbit shots? What's funny is that, like, that whole time we owned that game, right, Ryan? Like, I never had an interest.
    66:11
    No, I haven't. It was a new game back then. Yeah. These beasts have to get out of the way so I can absorb it. There we go.
    66:26
    Who do I... I need to hit that purple drop target. It's the only dwarf I haven't hit. So that means when I get out of this mode, I'm going to be a man. This is going to be a pleasure.
    67:04
    Okay, here we go. Time! Oh, I gotta... Leave the L. Don't move the game tool! Oh, he went down. There we go.
    67:39
    There it is. Okay, that's ball to ball. Woo! Cheers to polishing his magic parts. Great game choice, guys. Dude, this game is awesome. All right, don't tilt out.
    67:57
    I love neck to ball. I don't remember. I think it's like beat remotes or something. It's not control.
    68:11
    You have to like go all the way on the mountain. This audio is so good Oh, my goodness. Got them all. Three, two, one. Yeah. That's a really cool mode. I forgot that's where the one where the dragon's food's down. Yeah. Now I got to hit my scoop to get into my mode. It looks like we're not backhanding it. Oh! There you go. There we go. Mini-rope. There we go. Mini-Wizard vote. No, this is Bizarro Jerk. This is my buddy Ryan. Ah, I love this vote.
    70:08
    Green. Let's get to the tree. All of you. I'll take you to see. Rock it. Ah! Three more green caps.
    70:38
    Nice! Three more. One more. Good job, guys. Off to the rest. There's so many balls. There we go. Change one. Come on.
    70:54
    Yeah! what am i doing here? Warp. Everything is in warp. Here we go. Oh, look at those modes. I love those modes.
    71:47
    $27,000 you got for that. Ha ha ha. Time it. Time it. I do. I hit you in the face. What a great game, dude.
    72:11
    Okay, I don't know what we're going to have to do about that. You know what's the ball? Remember that blue captive bullet? Yeah. You want to bash that for kickback. Oh.
    72:39
    Shoot right forward. I'm going in the lock. There it is. Here's the backhand. That's right. Now a left crank again.
    73:09
    Come on, y'all. Left cramp is an easy shot. And I'm 50. There we go. Right by the way. That was close.
    74:10
    That was close. Spider's right there. It is. I was trying to remember why the music's doing that. It's the multiball.
    74:26
    Which one? When the music does that? Yeah, yeah. What's the Spies and Spiders? I don't remember this one. I think it's not easy.
    74:37
    I remember not liking that one. But go for it. I just can't believe I haven't gotten an extra ball yet.
    75:03
    So the extra ball, I think you have to like, qualify every single move. That's the spider. Okay. And then hit a broken shot. Hit the spider.
    75:22
    Hit the stun gun. All the stun gun targets? Flashing the other targets. Dude. Okay, we're going to beat multiple.
    75:44
    Don't let him help you. Let's do it. We're going to have time. All right, he just got in the road.
    76:07
    Okay, there's another ball. Dang. I'm stuck with all bad moves. Iron water's not bad. Shoot, you didn't loot.
    76:23
    You didn't loot. It's the beast. It's just lutes and rams. Switching back. That was enough. just to get, like, us spin. You're halfway there.
    77:21
    That's a long mode. Yeah. Whew! That was a good ball. That was a great ball three with no extra ball.
    77:33
    Probably I could have done that on, like, ball one. That would have been awesome. Yeah, so I think you have to get the entire grid. Now, sometimes they go away, but, like, you have to have qualified every single mode. To get an extra ball? To get an extra ball. You had two extra balls in the first game. I had a long game, though. Yeah. Because I think you qualified more again. I don't remember the second one, if it's the same thing. Anybody want to Google that for us? How do we get extra balls in The Hobbit? Anybody? It's not easy. No.
    78:07
    All right. Let's talk about Zen balls. How many balls in this game? There's five. Played TNA for the first time. Not in a hurry to buy for what they go for. Dude, TNA is...
    78:24
    Ryan and I have both owned Hobbit, and we both own TNA. Like, they couldn't be on more opposite ends of what a pinball machine is. I mean, we've already shown you, like, this is what Hobbit is. Long, long games. Epic modes. Like, a lot of storytelling. well like oh you're in the same mode I was in yeah I didn't mean to do this nice well TNA's like just fast simple, brutal it's awesome there you go Three, two, one, time's up.
    79:15
    Yeah, you got to go up on that boat. Just to save more time. Cool, cool, cool. Yeah, yeah. So what have we, have we done three games?
    79:29
    I think that was three. Three, and we're at 1120. So we probably have time for one more. Which is crazy.
    79:38
    That was the only one I beat you on Check out this album That right there, that lighting effect Remember the first time I saw that Consider vertical streaming Most people watch on their phones I assume So that would be like this Which means You can't Like I don't know where to put a screen I could try to put a screen right here And I could put our face right here But then you can't read chat you can't do anything else. That's why I've never done that. It's because where do you put everything else?
    80:18
    Yeah, I have to get the iPad out to be able to see anything on this whenever I'm watching. Or on the TV. Yeah, watch it on the TV. That's what I assume a lot of people watch on their computer or TV.
    80:32
    Alright. Let's do it. Here we go. Nope. Got one. What's my mode? No. Oh, I need to use the other flipper.
    80:55
    Save Gimli, why not? Let's do that. Bash fight. Watch on TV with kids. That's awesome that you watch it with your family.
    81:08
    I knew it as soon as it was arcing I'm like I cannot save that ball camera and balls so I can get vertigo every stream oh put it in the ball my kids leave the room when I put this on Hey, that's fair. That's totally understand. Launch the ball.
    81:44
    Oh, here we go. So qualifiers, like hitting over barrels, hitting a certain number of captive balls, completing modes, hitting when lit, traveling drop target, and the two holes to deflect. So there's a bunch of different ways.
    82:00
    Wow. Neither of us had a very good ball one. Try a walk. Gosh. It's alright Everything's fine It almost went right back to the lawn There we go This is an easy run
    82:33
    There we go Did it change the mode? Yeah, you had to flip whenever you were in the wrong. Shoot bumpers? What? You raise... Oh, I have to shoot back there. Yeah, you do. The pop bumpers. You're a liar. I will not be taken again. And it raised. I'm going to close.
    83:09
    To the bumper. Come on, then. That's it. Turn. Turn, then. Yeah. You want to go to the base? I did not beat that move. Oop. I'm going to start another one here.
    83:35
    Two left right. This entire mode is looping the left right. And I can't. That's tough with these frenzies.
    83:58
    I'm trying to look up there to see if I can get one. Great. Here we go. All right. Here it is. Here we go. Got it.
    84:22
    There it is. I need to hit... I'm at orbits now. Nice, third point to orbit. Okay, I think I've done everything but smoke.
    85:27
    All right. We're in a good spot. Oh! Are my locks lit? I'm looking at the C. The C is flashlight. Oh, extra balls lit.
    85:58
    There's two. One more. So I need to get L-O. We all know how great that L is. Come on. Hit the L. Hit the L for the extra ball. The Ravens of Erebor are returning to the mountain.
    86:41
    Let me hit that L. Hit the L for the extra ball. Dude, I rolled over the L. Zach was here tonight. The challenges were 250 viewers, which we did not get.
    86:59
    We have definitely lost some interest, which I understand. Old game plus long player. Or, what was it, second wizard mode? Or third wizard mode. Third wizard mode, I think. I'm not sure.
    87:18
    Will it be in the tutorial? What? Dude, I thought that's only my second lock. I still got to hit L again.
    87:37
    I mean, I would much rather deal with this L than a spider or a worm. It's not as mean. Dude, you got to be, like, slow on it.
    87:53
    I just drilled it again. Drilled it again. Here we go. He likes the backhand. Dude, I just could not have hit that better than it didn't register.
    88:14
    I don't know what to do about that L, man. We should just pull the glass, tap it. It's alright. We'll get out of this.
    88:29
    Bobbit is awesome. This is a great game. Once you understand the five... There you go. You just yell. Once you understand the five areas and the five different tasks that you really have to accomplish, once you wrap your head around that, then really you can chip away at this game and just enjoy the journey. It's awesome. Got a new cat that's not afraid of pinball noise and sits on the glass in front of the flippers. Oh, yeah. There was a beast in the way of playing that would be rough.
    89:07
    Glad Zach finally released the Jurassic Park truth. Dude, that tutorial was one of the harder ones I've ever filmed.
    89:15
    I, like, studied up on it. Yeah, that's a tough one. I, like, had to study up for what all to make sure I cover and say, and I said something wrong with the smart missile. I didn't realize that the truck had to be in the specific spot for the smart missile. I don't think that's true. That's what the Internet says.
    89:36
    I think it feels that way. I don't think that's true. But I would say the majority of that tutorial is accurate.
    89:45
    What do you need? You need, I can't see. Did you beat him, Mo? No, you have not beat him, Mo. You haven't done anything. Yeah.
    90:04
    So, no giveaways? Brooklyn, no, there have been no giveaways. Because we haven't accomplished anything tonight.
    90:13
    I would say at this point, if one of us, we have 30 minutes left. If one of us can get to the second, we can get to barrel escape, we'll do a giveaway.
    90:25
    Because what we're finding is there's one of our squitches being a little challenging. And I don't know of a... I've never adjusted one of those squitches. This is horrible.
    90:41
    I mean, I could try real quick. After this, if we end early. They don't do it. I will not fear taking again. They're on your card. The light show looks pretty good on screen though. Looking at that, the light show looks real nice. So Ryan's in ball two.
    91:17
    Yeah, he needs to lock a ball. Give away the 250 viewers. We're not going to get that. We're not going to get that tonight. I know.
    91:30
    Which I get. It's an old game. There you go. Here's the ball lock. One more lock and you're in multiball.
    91:47
    Alright. Let's see if... or I... if he defeats Smog, I think that's giveaway worthy. Is there a stream next week? Yes, there should be a stream next week.
    91:58
    I had a word high priority instant phone me away. Just didn't want to make a trade. Just noticed. You did not miss any giveaway.
    92:37
    from a small island. Nailed it. Super Jackpot. Spider. That goddamn spider. You didn't like that, huh? Spider won't. Why is it so close?
    93:07
    Dude, dude, it rolled over both directions on the L. Did it again? There we go, first try. Just give it a real slow, there we go. Alright, let's get through this multiball and then we got Frank into the pile. Oh, you're playing?
    93:48
    I would love to defeat you. Jackpot! And they blow your worries away. We'll be right back. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
    95:22
    I completed it. I hit my far right. Both of them. That was not how I wanted that to fall apart at the end. Are the lock insert rollovers Yes These are like buttons Yeah So you got to rollover them Yeah like I about to do right here Stream Thunderbirds? Yeah.
    95:55
    So, if you haven't caught on, normally Zach likes it when we stream games he can sell. So, that is not a game he can sell. Yeah, this is a fun mode. You have to shoot the right ramp.
    96:09
    There we go. It's going to load it, it's going to shoot it up to the right flipper, and then he's got to hit the stand-ups in front of, uh, it'll happen. There we go, and... Right ramp, blue flimlamps. Hit the flimlamps, it'll feed that upper flipper, and then you have to take a shot of smog. It's actually a really cool mode, yeah. It's chilling. Duh. Well, try a wobble. That sucks.
    96:44
    All right. Okay, where am I at? I need to hit one of the holes. Which now basically is I need to hit the right one because the left one has drops in front of it.
    97:20
    Come on, hit the right hole. Right there. Dude, I got that figured out. Just the right... Ah! Go to your home.
    97:53
    It's about the right room. That's where I need to go. Sneaking. Right there. Okay, sneaking. Oh, God. Yeah!
    98:21
    No! Give me that ball back, please. Please, thank you. Dude. Oh, my goodness. That should have been in.
    98:39
    How did that not go in? Ah, dude. There we go. Thank God. And into the fire. This was so great. Screenshot.
    99:19
    Five more. Three more. Come on. Left tram. There it is. Still having to work, I know. How many more? One.
    100:59
    Right up the middle. Ten D's. Good morning. Oh, no. Good morning. Oh, no. That's such a... I love those modes, though. Those modes are just freaking epic. The music and everything. It's a lot of fun. It's like something to go for, you know? Like, you know you can do that. Because when you get through that mode, I don't know if there's a fourth stage or if it's victory lapsed. but I don't know do we do anything about that now or do we just try one more game yeah that only took 12 minutes alright we're just gonna say this is the last game of the night no matter what let's say shirt is Ryan dress Ryan let's go you're like a large aren't you yeah I might have a shirt upstairs that's a large we'll have to see alright we're gonna do one more and then call it a night streams are at the park next no we actually have there's another game sitting right there all wrapped up. That's the backup. So, I think that's the game we're going to play tomorrow. Go ahead, bro. You go first.
    102:56
    Get going. Alright, so we either have to defeat Smaug, or we have to get to the second wizard mode. And we have 27 minutes to do it.
    103:09
    We got this. Anything? I will tell you, like, now that I've played now that I just have more experience in the hobby and I've played so many more games like there are things that I remember about this game that I loved that I'm like yep still love that and then there are other things where I'm like huh I don't remember that being like you know I remember being amazed by that but now that there's been whatever 10 years of pinball get Ryan a shirt that says Not Jared.
    103:48
    I think I need to give you just a bizarro Superman. Bizarro. How would I make that look? Bizarro. But I remember when I owned this game, I was like, the audio package of this game is absurd. The lighting is incredible. and I loved how unique the modes feel. Every mode feels totally different.
    104:21
    And now, after 10 years of pinball, there's a lot of games that have really good light shows, really good sound packages, and then there's been other games that have really good modes.
    104:36
    I'm not downplaying how good this game is, but I'm trying to think of, is there a game that has a more immersive, thematic feel? What is it? Oh, you think there's, when it comes to that, like the immersion?
    104:56
    So I thought they nailed it on this one, and it was on Pirates, too. Pirates is very... I've never, I've played like two games of Pirates, ever. Yeah? Yeah. When is it Tapper's I used to play?
    105:14
    That's a long time ago. Still trying to hit that rollover. There we go. All right, easy mode. Easy mode here. Suffer the nature of evil.
    105:49
    You think Harry Potter is close? Harry Potter is pretty good. But, like, it could have been better. Yes. That's just the feeling you get. You're like, they could have... That's my biggest... You could play the movie more. so my biggest issue with Harry Potter is sure yes there's a lot of overlap in this game but Harry Potter it's like the scenes you have to get certain moments in that game where the scene really stands out yeah that's what kills me like they knew how to do it they did it here they did it with pirates but I like the way Harry Potter shoots a lot more yeah oh no Harry Potter is on my list, man. I'm glad we did Harry Potter. It's really...
    106:55
    Hmm. I'm trying to think if it, like... I think at this point if I was to own if I had to choose between this or Harry Potter I'd probably say Harry Potter because Harry Potter does have a more entertaining layout there's so much going on So many shots.
    107:32
    The problem I had when I had this was I had a lot of people tell me they're like, I just have no idea what I'm doing. I told them twice.
    107:43
    And there is. I get it. There's a lot going on in this game. Hobbit is a lot of samey modes. I thought they're pretty unique, personally.
    107:54
    But, um, I don't know. I think... Well, Harry Potter is technically done. No. I need my spider. Ugh.
    108:21
    What do I need? I need lock. L and K. Elton John has showed up Elton John's incredible Ryan was here when we streamed that game I love that Yeah That might be one of my favorite Shooting games It's a Steve Ritchie Greatest hits for sure But it's like perfect Yeah I'm a Steve Ritchie fan
    108:56
    I need my orbit. Yeah, but you have to, like, roll over and go back or something. I would be going for orbit since you have a mode bump on here.
    109:23
    Look at that. I'm trying. really these white bodies man really throws you off it's over there oh I thought that was it what would you say is your favorite JJP uh I mean I used to say I think Potter's part of this now.
    110:03
    I mean, the theme isn't great for me, but Elton John I'd like more than this, I think. I would say...
    110:14
    If I was to own a J.J.P. right now, it would be Harry Potter, I think. Yeah. I genuinely have no idea how we're going to do that hill.
    110:34
    Does this game have a score, but no. This game, I tried to do a Wi-Fi update, and this game doesn't have... It's like the code supports Wi-Fi, but the computer, maybe it just needs a dongle. But I just don't have it.
    110:51
    If I knew flippers on dial, then in a more modern game, that would be a great game. I mean, honestly, like, Toy Story, I really enjoyed the way Toy Story shot. There were just some tweaks that I would do to that game.
    111:07
    Wonka's the only game that I, like, genuinely just can't understand how to play it. And maybe I just need to get one to stream at some point to really grasp the code. But that's one, like, I've had people explain the code to me more than once. And it just didn't, nothing stuck.
    111:28
    So I can understand Dialed In. I understand this game. Brawls is another game that I never really had time for. I never liked that game. Pirates is a game I remember.
    111:41
    I love, hate, you know, electric tubes. So, oh, on Dialed In. Yes, the moving electric guy that you have to hit to charge the phone.
    111:57
    I think I can confidently say if that L was working better, I think we could have got further in the game for sure.
    112:10
    I did not just do that. I'm trying to turn the L. I think I have ball two. Yeah, this is not good. It'll work out. Brave him.
    112:30
    But not the one I need. And the one I need, I just rolled over. There we go. That's all you need. That's all I need. There we go. All right. This game is drastically improved when you change up the flippable warrants and the high-voltage one. My favorite JGP is Avatar. Avatar was... Jerry and I played it at Expo, and Avatar is better than we remember it being.
    113:08
    Maybe it's because I got really focused on... Well, Pandora wasn't in the game when I had it, so... I was just trying to get through modes, And there's ways to, like, flip some arrows and whatnot. I'm trying to.
    113:36
    Oh, I need a hit. Oh. There it is. Captain Vulture, you know him. Dude, I'm all over it. Dude, I can't. I got two balls for whatever reason.
    115:24
    I'm so focused on my... Did you drain that? Yes. Oh, jeez. It's all right. I have two balls to go. All right. I have one. I will say, when I owned Hobbit, I have, like, a parenting moment I regret, which was this game's such a long player that my daughter, we have, like, the walker. So she would be into pinball. Like, I would put the carrier on, and I would have it. She would just be hanging there watching me play. So I had one of those, like, 45-minute-long games. And so for the first, like, ten minutes, she's just taking, you know, washing it. And then she started whining, like, crying like she didn't want to be held anymore. So as soon as I drained the ball, we had, like, one of the plate, plate and kind of sander table walker things. Yeah. So right by the game, I set her down in it. And she played in that for another, like, 15 minutes. So here I am trying to get to the third wizard mode. That was, like, my big goal. And I was getting close. And then she starts, like, whining like she was done with that. and I'm like, hot on the floor. I'm like, come on, I just, please, please just play. Like, please, just play by yourself or, you know. And it's not like she was sitting there, like, screaming her head off or anything. But it was just one of those, like, yes, I feel very selfish right now that I'm playing this game when clearly she wants me to be doing something else. What do I need? Oh, I never got bored. Kids are the worst. Get in the way, Pimple.
    117:04
    Do I need Spider? Ugh. I need Spider. What's the only one I haven't got? I don't know of a good way to get over... Let's try that chest. That was so close. Godzilla's one of those games where I've just like not planned on having a 45 minute game you gotta like drain a ball and come back later like guys, take me dinner let me just get one game in before daytime nope turn the volume down and come back to this one in like two hours Oh, I've tried the shast. I need spider.
    118:06
    I don't know a good way to do it. Coke? Like, now that I... Oh, now that I have this... Seems like that's an oversight in a way. That it's like, I'm limited to progress in this game. So for a rollover that I can't, there's no way to control it.
    118:33
    So unless there's a mystery award that I don't know about. They do that though. They've got like buzz shot and voice stories. They've got all kinds of stuff you can't use for.
    118:49
    You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. I feel like that's like a Jersey Jack thing. like, we have certain shots you have to just like, lock into.
    119:01
    Yeah! Spokeep loops through our problems, we see. There we go. I need to just get out of this mode. I'm almost really okay, I'm good.
    119:25
    Get down. There it is! Godfather is the best? I don't know, I'm checking this way later. Godfather is a hot tank right now.
    119:55
    Hey! I've been to the chase. Run! Hey! All of you! There we go. Got lucky. Get the ward.
    121:25
    Let's go. Oh, I've already got a quarter. Oh, something. You have another one? Yeah. Do you have one more? No, wait. I think I'm done.
    122:49
    There you go. Nice fall. That's you. No, I was player one. Is it me? That's you. Oh, okay. That's a fair one. I have 69,000. You have 558. I need a lot. Come on, ball. Go with what I'm doing.
    123:13
    Just give me the ball back. Turn and click. Thank you. Here we go. There you go. There's a ball locked.
    123:22
    Come on. I don't remember this one. Two left foot. Come on. Dragon! The dragon's swooping by. Oh, that sucks. That's one way to end it.
    124:04
    Oh, I do like this game. All right. Well, thank you for the 100-plus people that stuck with us all night. I really appreciate that.
    124:16
    Ryan, what are your final thoughts on Hobbit? I was thinking the same thing you're thinking. I have, like, fonder memories of it.
    124:28
    It's still a great game. I like playing it. Things have changed a lot in the last ten years since I've played this game, or had a significant time on this game. Yeah. Yeah, well, it's, yeah, ten years ago, there were things about this game that were so much better than every other game on the market. And now I feel like some of those things, being really unique modes, amazing light shows, and amazing audio, I feel like a lot of games have stepped up, have definitely stepped up for sure. I will also say, though, you know, when you play a pinball machine that has mechanical problems, It's frustrating. And so that's where, like, that L target acting weird on us or the orc bash target acting weird on us. And, you know, no fault. I mean, pinball games get played, and it's, you know, Zach dropped this game off today. I had to do some other work on some things to get it really figured out, but I have no doubt that probably 20, 30 minutes worth of work and you can get both those switches fixed.
    125:29
    But, yeah, it's just eye-opening to compare this to a game from the last year or two. Yeah, all the new ones that come through this spot right here. I mean, you think about this next to Evil Dead, another wide body. Right, yeah. You know, another wide body with really unique modes, a great audio package, but it's a more unique shooter and stuff. So I'm not bashing this by any means. If somebody wants to buy this game, reach out to Zach and flip it out. I think it's a fantastic game, and they've done so many things right in this game. And with the right size collection, I don't know of a game that gives you such a journey-type feeling of this long playing, work through the things, when you can really focus and crank up the music and just get locked in. Like, it's such a thematic, thematic game. Easily the most packed game ever made under the play field. Oh, you're talking about this? Yeah, this game has a lot there. But, yeah, you got to make sure with all those mechs, you got to make sure they're all dialed in and working. So any chance we'll do a new tutorial of X-Men with all the changes? Joe Rogers, I should. The problem is, like, what do we do with the old video? Do we just take the old video down?
    126:42
    I don't know. Well, I'll talk to Zach about that and see what his thoughts are. But, no, this was a lot of fun. Thank you so much, Ryan, for coming. Thanks for having me. Thanks for everybody sticking around. I will probably do a tutorial on this because I have the game, so why not? Sure. Which will be fun. But Jared should be back next week. just looking ahead for December I mean we got this week next week the week after and then we got Christmas so New Year's night and so Christmas night and New Year's night and I don't as of right now I don't think we will be streaming either of those so we'll have to play it by ear I don't think the either of our wives would appreciate us streaming New Year's night would be pretty fun though we'll figure it out What's up, Baldrout? Well, hey, I appreciate everybody that was here tonight. Everybody have a great rest of the week. And, yeah, we will definitely be streaming next week, so come say hi. And, yeah, we will see you guys all.