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SDTM: Houdini Presented By..... The Great Bonedini

Straight Down the Middle·video·1h 14m·analyzed·Sep 22, 2018
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TL;DR

Matt Scott showcases Houdini pinball with detailed rules tutorial and praises designer Joe Balzer's shot integration philosophy.

Summary

Matt Scott streams an extended gameplay session on his newly acquired Houdini pinball machine by American Pinball, providing detailed rule explanations, mode breakdowns, and enthusiastic praise for the game's design philosophy. He highlights the color-coded playfield system, the thematic integration of shots with game modes, and plans a multi-week strategy for attacking specific rule modes. Scott expresses high confidence in the upcoming Oktoberfest game from the same designer and discusses potential seminar plans for Pinball Expo.

Key Claims

  • Houdini has five film modes and ten stage modes

    high confidence · Matt Scott explicitly states 'five film modes to go through there's ten stage modes five film modes' during gameplay

  • The game is color-coded: red for stage stuff, blue for film modes, pink for combos, and teal for jail hurry ups

    high confidence · Matt Scott describes the color-coding system: 'everything is color-coded all the stage stuff is red all the film modes are blue your combos are pink I believe and then what does it maybe like a teal color on your hurry up'

  • Matt Scott has had Houdini in his possession for one week

    high confidence · Multiple statements including 'I've had it for a week now I got it I picked it up last Friday'

  • Matt Scott's family enjoys playing Houdini, including his wife scoring 507,000 points

    high confidence · 'the wife was down here playing it before the stream man she put up five hundred and seven thousand on one of her games like she think they love it like when a family loves that my kids love it like that's this thick their new favorite game'

  • Houdini has achieved a Golden Cue score of 1,700,000+ on a test stream

    high confidence · 'I did it on one of my test dreams I got a Golden Cue 1,700,000'

  • The stage alley shot is difficult but tight shots are learnable and satisfying across the playfield

    high confidence · 'tight shots and then Jill made it such a workable machine down here at the flipper area' and 'tight but makeable but it's true man like honestly I played maybe 15 games on this and I had the shot swear that I felt like they were like most other games'

  • Matt Scott has high expectations for Oktoberfest based on Houdini's design quality

    high confidence · 'I'm actually super excited about Oktoberfest especially since after having this in the house I've actually got big hopes very high hopes for Oktoberfest like I think it's gonna be Papa Duke damn cool'

  • Joe Balzer is the designer of Houdini and is working on Oktoberfest

Notable Quotes

  • “I can't say enough about it like I'm blown away by the damn thing honestly”

    Matt Scott@ 4:59 — Sets the positive tone for the stream and his overall assessment of Houdini

  • “this game really like ropes you in like there's a film mode called waterwheel and you're having to shoot the spinner as the water wheel so you feel like you're shooting the water wheel”

    Matt Scott@ 24:35 — Explains the thematic integration philosophy that makes Houdini special compared to other pinball games

  • “It's a tough shooter but at the same time it is very controllable very very controlled”

    Matt Scott@ 10:45 — Addresses concerns about shot difficulty while emphasizing playability

  • “This is a game that you you have to own you got to buy it you have to own this and have it in the house to completely appreciate it”

    Matt Scott@ 27:37 — Strong endorsement emphasizing the need for ownership to fully understand the game

  • “Joe Balcer it's just bosses just like I'm freaking weird genius of of just shots everywhere you know that's the way Simpson is”

    Matt Scott@ 42:10 — Praises designer Joe Balzer's signature style of shot placement and integration

  • “Houdini has taken the cake for me man like I loved it before but like I'm just like even my family loves it”

    Matt Scott@ 28:04 — Demonstrates broad appeal of the game across family members, not just hardcore players

Entities

Matt ScottpersonJoe BalzerpersonJon HeypersonHoudinigameOktoberfestgameAmerican PinballcompanyStraight Down The MiddleorganizationZach Sharpeperson

Signals

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    community_signal: Matt Scott implementing community voting mechanism for future stream content direction via Facebook poll

    medium · 'I'll post something on our Facebook and I'll let you all decide what we go forward next week instead of just points and just playing we're either going to try to attack as many stage modes as we can or we're going to try to attack as many film modes'

  • ?

    community_signal: Matt Scott streaming extended Houdini content and providing detailed rules tutorials demonstrates community engagement and support for American Pinball's title

    high · Extended stream with detailed rule breakdowns, multiple games played, and commitment to future streaming strategy around the game

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Matt Scott planning multi-week strategy focusing on specific rule objectives (stage modes, film modes, jail hurries, combos) suggests structured approach to competitive play development

    medium · 'the coming Friday's what I'd like to do is try to separate everything I'd like to try to attack just the film modes... try for the the jail house hurry ups the try for the combos used a different Friday for each one'

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    design_philosophy: Joe Balzer's design approach emphasizes thematic shot integration where shots feel purposeful and connected to game modes rather than abstract targets

    high · 'what draws you into this game is that it's granted the modes are different... this game really like ropes you in like there's a film mode called waterwheel and you're having to shoot the spinner as the water wheel so you feel like you're shooting the water wheel'

  • ?

Topics

Houdini gameplay mechanics and rulesprimaryThematic shot integration in pinball designprimaryGame designer Joe Balzer's design philosophyprimaryUpcoming Oktoberfest game anticipationsecondaryPinball Expo 2025 seminar planningsecondaryComparison with other pinball games (Simpsons, Star Wars, Dialed In)secondaryPinball streaming content strategysecondaryCommunity engagement and patronage modelsmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.92)— Matt Scott expresses overwhelming enthusiasm for Houdini throughout the stream. Praise is consistent and detailed across gameplay, design, mechanics, theme integration, and family appeal. Only minor frustrations occur with specific difficult shots, which are framed constructively as learning opportunities rather than criticisms.

Transcript

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you guys ready for some Houdini tonight but uh let's see how many people come in real quick I'll give you guys kind of a rundown oh it is me Scott what's up man who are you expecting Chuck I'm gonna try to start streaming back a little more often hey now watch me and I'm gonna throw some games on this Houdini so tonight kind of what uh what I want to do is gonna kind of give you guys an introduction to the game not go for anything in particular just shoot for points GC whatever happens happens and then the coming Friday's what I'd like to do honestly is try to separate everything I'd like to try to attack just the film modes that I would like to maybe just attack the stage modes try for the the jail house hurry ups the try for the combos used a different Friday for each one of those things and then maybe here in a couple weeks try to combine everything and shoot for that mastered master magician mode because I think it's impossible for me to get to but still something worth shooting for yeah yes Scott I've had it for a week now I got it I picked it up LAN I wouldn't picked it up last Friday so it's uh in my possession and it's freaking fantastic man like I can't say enough about it like I'm blown away by the damn thing honestly okay so let's start throwing down some games so I'm still learning the rules they're not nearly as complicated as what I thought they were gonna be so that that's always a great plus when I picked up Simpsons same sort of thing I thought Simpsons was overly complicated but while deep it's not terrible you can learn it so oh thank you Scott thank you for the bits Penn Stadium in the house so I guess what you consider your main objective would be the stage and you can open the stage by shooting the key lane straight between the pops and there's a target back there or you can shoot the stage alley which does a little hook through the pops and to the stage either one of those will open the stage now with that stage Allie and don't hold me to this I think this is right as long as you don't hit the pops it will open the stage but if you touch one of the pops it does not count the key Lane does not matter as long as you hit that key target back there and I think on your first your first stage when you hit it the first time it'll open up thereafter I think it's like three or four shots that you you have to actually hit the stage to open or like I said before one of the other two ways then you shoot inside the stage and you start one the stage mode so pretty simple stuff then you've got film and you can't really see it in this but you can see that that target there it's film4 so you've spell film on there then you'll lock you'll like that that in orbit there and it's there will be a little blue disc everything is color-coded on this game so that is even freaking better because you don't have to like what what kind of modem I am what am i shooting for what am i doing everything is color-coded all the stage stuff is red all the film modes are blue your combos are pink I believe and then what does it maybe like a teal color on your hurry up your Jill hurry up we'll have to see here in a minute when we start one see what those colors are but you'll have a blue film disc here underneath the lock shoot that in orbit and you'll start a film mode your Jail heard of same thing I think you're all started over here you're in this scoop I know combos are I know I say that I'm pretty sure combos are and then there'll be a different corresponding shot other than that but but you'll see once I get into it and start opening it up but do it's fantastic pin let's throw some Game Center you guys got any questions at all freaking hit me up I want to answer them I want to answer them tonight because I'm super pumped about this game see I couldn't open that up there because I didn't get a clean head but there I hit the same first time so my stage is now open ball lock you guys get the get to see the catapult never gets old no Ronald dude it's here it's here it'll be it'll be archived as long as it goes good so I can the main way to shoot the stage is gonna be through that stage alley or you can try to ricochet off up into there which I'm not trying to do and get lucky through the pot and there's a path straight through there Oh Andrew thank you sir thank you and we will man thank you for the bids definitely I'll archive this man so especially like I said if it goes well so try to check it out when you get free we're gonna use this one's just a warm-up kind of tutorial now I'm going to a full-blown some crazy game play so now I'm shooting shots on the right the red shots on the right gosh hey Thank You Chuck I know me and Ray no no [ __ ] what's up Zachary so for everybody just tuning in using this game just kind of a worn up warmup just kind of tell you guys about the game went over the key lane shot how to open the stage through the stage alley how to open the stage kind of went over the film modes and stuff in the beginning next game I'm just gonna play the hell out of it man try to try to throw up the GC so I didn't have my lock lid so it held my ball over there to light my lock I got to shoot that stage alley [Music] which believe it or not I'll tell you this game is a it is a tough shooter but at the same time it is very controllable very very controlled [Music] so they're my lock was lit did not open that stage because again I did not have a clean shot through those bumpers I hit those pops but my lock is lit so there you saw I can meet two more hits on the stage unless I hit that key lane a little [Music] I don't want to use that seance yet I usually try to save my seance for when I open up needle because needle is all switch hits so you got that multiball going around okay so we've got build mode so if I hit that inner that's that alley I'll start a film hey what's up pinch stinging with another hundred bits thank you big stadium you guys go check out pin Stadium man it's amazing stuff I got it last Friday Dell picked it up last Friday oh and our Scott got it last Friday headed for a week now [Music] this boat has a motor okay so I did a little explaining to you guys and for some of you just step it in oh yeah del ah thanks for stopping by for that man you know that uh that means a lot for sure so this game again if you guys see any questions throughout it do Chuck work do it as a fast freaking game it really is your ball times can be kind of long but actual speed of the game I don't know if it's my pitch I got it at or what but it's a quick ass game man so we will I'm gonna go into just a full-blown game here and play the hell out of it this one game if you guys get any questions feel free to let me know Oh pinch David with a more the big bits blowing it up it's rainin ain't no show tonight cause it's raining up in this ah did one Indian needle trick I didn't pay attention it was on there and I'll let you guys I won't skip by these I'll let you guys watch a couple of nimble skips around yeah thank you for something by delt man you guys have a good dinner Carrie how are you buddy I drink about anything tonight having a little Miller Lite [Music] making me work for it tonight okay walk through walls I'm a right shot sinner shot then left shop and the guys if I hit these magic targets and make your boss whirl around with the magnets it'll also spot you spot you a shot okay so now I want to hit the stage or the ramp so now I got a shoot he Lane alley or the oh dude I got a return from beyond it's so great for a ball in the stage I'm still getting that key late shot down not the keel and hit the key Lane pretty good hit the ramp pretty good hit the inner orbit pretty well that stage Alley gives me problems man I was talking to say Zack said stage Ally was his easy shots choose battles too hard oh dude dogfish is a good broom okay so we're gonna go all out we're doing inverted so we're inverted and opposite so they're crossing I wish I could show you guys the flippers in the film oh yeah my arms are too little to cross I can't give it okay so I played this much as you can see on there I got a badge the stage to add a ball then shoot or burst at a ball and everything corresponds to hit the magic target market so that spawns me that ball so now I want to hit the orbits okay so I'm in seance multiball now with that film mode too many Falls and gentlemen my balls up nice ball though it is a really good mood hey yellow bird oh yeah don't go anywhere hey Carrie dude they are tight shots god I hate to say that tight but makeable [ __ ] but it's true man like honestly I played maybe 15 games on this and I had the shot swear that I felt like they were like most other games like I still brick on Star Wars I'll still brick on Simpsons like I don't I just don't think people put enough games on here to to get the feel of it and to shoot it all the shots on this thing are satisfying like that's what's great is they're all sad smile is I put a five hundred thousand five hundred thousand is not it's not a joke on this game and I'm shooting stuff I'm hitting I'm hitting mows I'm completing modes like it's not it's not that bad start another mode another stage ah I might put me into a trunk multiball but see now I can't start a mode you need my most people so it would have been ideal to have started a mode before I went into this multiball [Music] ah hey man that's the truth smell that it is it is coated and freaking fantastic like the modes are all unique and I'll tell you what I was talking to Zack about today - is that what draws you into this game is that it's granted the modes are different like you're shooting different shots different combinations but that happens on a lot of games - and it gets stale but this game really like ropes you in like there's a film mode called waterwheel and you're having to shoot the spinner as the water wheel so you feel like you're shooting the water wheel like the bullet catch you have to shoot that inner orbit to load the gun and then you have to shoot Houdini with another shot so it makes you feel like you were doing something not just hitting a flashing shot and I was thing about that that milk can - I said that milk kids you know it's a simple hook but it feels like the milk can shop like it feels it feels like you're doing something more than just hitting a shot and then the fact to get your multiply you have to hit the ramp and our combo to get that back that you dunks playfield multiplier it adds another element that makes it feel like something different than a Lynch shot man dude it's I don't know this game is it's [ __ ] sick like I can't oh so good there we go see you hit him the thing is is like Joe did those targets show thin and the shots are all stacked that you learn them very quickly because if you're hitting this miss stand up like say the e then you just know that you just need to go a little bit to the right or left to hit to hit that key Stephen Lang [Music] Oh ha hey you know what in seance multiball that is the objective I'll get you in the seance multiball and then I'll let you just go to town on 660 man that's a pretty decent score [Music] I can get there pretty good uh I just couldn't get lined up for my damn I can hit that ramp a couple times a wall girls hitting that ramp repetitively I get letters all the time bastard this is a game that you you have to own you got to buy it you have to own this and have it in the house to completely appreciate it kind of reminds me of Star Wars in that sense you know I didn't appreciate Star Wars until I owned it this even more so III hands-down Star Wars was setting it probably my favorite pen I picked up senses afterward really like Simpsons there's something very special about Simpsons but this this game has taken the cake for me man like I loved it before but like I'm just like even my family loves it the wife was down here playing it before the stream man she put up five hundred and seven thousand on one of her games like she think they love it like when a family loves that my kids love it like that's this thick their new favorite game to like it's not as bad I don't explain it if I could invite every one of you over I would well you know that's the thing too is the tough shots there are like that you can get multi balls you can you know you're not really capped in your your multi balls it's exactly right here our Chuck work it compensates for some of the types tight shots and then Jill made it such a workable machine down here at the flipper area then it you know it's not like Ghostbusters with a bunch of cheek drains in an unfair you know aspect to it I don't know man it's it's different it's different like I think it was ballsy to go this leg hey I'm gonna try to shoot for that there we go okay so here's bullet-catch I was talking about oh no [ __ ] sorry I'm in a film mode then shoot the ramp twice okay so I hit magic shot spotted me and as far as I know you can't backhand more I'll do that one not camp setting go all the way around well there was magic so ah they booed me dude I didn't get it I guess I needed to trigger coming all the way down and hitting that roll over I don't guess he gave it to me when it fell through that to the Pops okay so let's try to open up another stage ah just pops and I won't try to get needle that man I've never had a problem out of mine catapult like it hits spot on every single time so now hit goes you'll see those stay off you'll see these bottom magnets Earl the balls around so we got five film modes to go through there's ten stage modes five film modes okay so if I like that lock start needle and then maybe go into my trunk multiball ah this is a cool boat to the film modes are by far my favorite modes okay so magic shot give me that orbit lit my lock but I need one more of those orbits hey but I completed it hey what's up turbo turbo showed up for all my little test streams I was like a turbo don't show up for the actual stream imma be disappointed hey you know what I'm uh I'm actually super excited about Oktoberfest especially since after having this in the house I've actually got big hopes very high hopes for Oktoberfest like I think it's gonna be pretty damn cool Jill shots are green the center post is fantastic so here's it give me a needle so now with India needle running I'm gonna go for that inner orbit try a starter trunk multipath because this is the mode with switches yeah baby man like I don't know like I think that it's you know beam wise it can go in so many different directions I mean so many different directions you have something key that you're focused around as Oktoberfest but I think that the theme is gonna hit or fail depending on how its implemented and honestly is beautiful and it's well done as as they did Houdini I think Joe and Josh I think that they're going to I honestly think Oktoberfest is gonna be killer like I'm super pumped about it just because of what they did with this you know I mean if this if this wouldn't have been so beautiful and you know designed so well and so much fun I would definitely has had my reservations but I mean look at dialed in everybody like you know an original theme something kind of quirky people still loved it great shooting pin I think Oktoberfest has the potential to beat dialed-in in that department because it's beer it's you know fun it's a carnival it's you know it's got a little bit more theme wise even though it's Oktoberfest he's got a bit more theme-wise going forward then dialed in and I think I think I don't know man I'm excited to see what Joe's done doing with it Yauch I frickin 110 percent agree brother like a built in damn beer tap you put like one of them little mini remember those little mini like Heineken kegs you put a little mini like Heineken keg in it or something and you can actually tap you a beer on the on the coin door or something that it sell it sell all day long there's nobody that wouldn't buy it Oh pissed any of this is okay baby I know they didn't want to make it family friendly but I will I will most certainly agree about the the busty chicks yeah I agree I agree Yellowbird it is it uh I completely agree hey Penn Stadium we appreciate any bits brother any bits yeah turbo freaking agree dude like it can be it can be all over the place baby Phoenix okay let's try to break that 1 million mark that exactly we see 1 million on straight Peter well I did it on one of my test dreams I got a GC 1,700,000 already had a film mode going or that would have queso you know never does it pay attention that so picking you guys can't see it but so I have roving with my flippers I have roving modes in the stage so if I want king of cards and I'm gonna try to shoot and lock it in with that key lane and then I need to be one mode behind oh man wigs wigs that's awesome dude I've only got to meet Joe once and man he was in it he's a really awesome guy kinda had me nervous at first he's just one of those guys but uh then he opened up man he was fantastic absolutely loved talking to it that's awesome that we were so impression you'll see the green lit now that's my Jail hurry up done that Kili [Music] hey you know what man we exact I greet like you know when this game first came out Zack and I both loved it but again having it here has taught me to appreciate his design and do what all these designs are different I mean look at Syd or look at Simpsons versus woz versus this like Joe I don't know if Joe has like other than like shots everywhere I don't know if Joe has like that signature thing you know likes somebody else does you know like it like Borges got his stuff you know everything Steve Ritchie's got his stuff with his flow and everything like Balcer it's just bosses just like I'm freaking weird genius of of just shots everywhere you know that's the way Simpson is it and again like even with Simpsons it's sitting over here that's why I keep pointing over here like I was talking about how the shots feel named and they feel like a purpose they just don't feel like a shot like the milk-can and the different modes like it's like that too like shooting the kwik-e-mart and shooting the garage like all these shots he makes them personable to you which is like the greatest thing I think about his games is that that personal that that aspect of it that makes it feel so personable mm-hmm I agree with wigs and use that for damn sure say look at them shorts I shoot when I walk I like what I want Oh turbo with the bits everybody's on a roll tonight I appreciate everything from everybody I know there's not carry it I got one over here on Star Wars I'm too tight to buy wood so this one came with my Star Wars when I bought it so this one when I got so I've actually got these badass I wish I could show you guys off to post a picture really kick-ass like old-school like theater seats like old wooden ones it's like it fits with your beanie perfect like they're so awesome you know like wrought iron look down on sick they're sick so it's mine my beer caddy for the moment that's one thing I don't know is what the super skill shot is oh nice so we got a on let's do needle trick and try to get into seance beer holder a bit I need all those pit stadium bits up I need a pen stadium beer holder oh I've got I can't see I got Jimmy lights going on I need a s okay there was a just get that s come on ass okay there we go now we're just going to shoot that shoot that scoop before I run out of so now we got all those switches switches with our multiball you wanna go for pops in that spinner you saw how that blew up man the moats are so so lucrative that's why I love going into that mode with a multiball oh that magnetars kicked it up that way Oh tell you I can tear this game oh just my life yes you do you love bird you really do you knew you do sir we always appreciate you and your family both see for fun for all the sport is your Undine news shoot the school okay scoop didn't ring twice let's get into the treasure we can do this one [Music] you know what this stadium means I could talk about that we had a you know in the beginning stuff we didn't like asking for money that's what we started in the shirts and everything I know at patreon you can offer some like special incentives for donating the patreon so we thought about that with like mugs or koozies or even our shirts and stickers and dimmer things maybe even some exclusive content on there so at work we're muddling you know we're throwing it around a little bit to see see what we can do so we're at 388 so with football area we're a ball three let me try to get an extra ball and at least meet our 600 tonight dangerous I want to shoot that stage I think I only need one more shot on the stage so instead of going for the gym oh I'll say instead of going for that key line that go shoot the stage one more time we can do one solid game 400 not bad not bad at all we're not showing them a z3 r01 a - I will film Star Wars one night I will I will I promise before it leaves I'll go through a string of with Star Wars for damn sure you know nice thing about this game man is it's it's not hard to come back give a bad ball it's not it's not over Oh oh there we go let's say I hit my damn Ally shot and then it kicks me out I didn't get it clean now this one's wicked tool but it's tough stage oh this is the roving oh there it goes I haven't really been able to do anything with that mode [Music] at least I got sure that way to hear those shots up say ah I can get fall over to my left flipper gonna box that anymore trying to shoot those shots oh shoot my film bug I usually try to get my film modes out of the way because it inactivate you can't do your rollovers anymore some of them some unwell bounced in a plane off that center post like especially when they get jumbled up Tristan you'll have a few that will bounce off now we got two times play field because of I just hit that milky shot and then immediately combo to the ramp dude when you hit something on this the call-outs are so amazing oh there are they're so lucrative that was sick whoa slow down get a little nervous get in those moans to get going man Thank You Center pose Oh get up in there I'll admit that one was uh that one was luck I just captain I want to go to the key lane so I'm going to go key lane get into another mode brought out at least go into my seance so I've at least got the points not confident in my ability to keep this ball up this time what I've only got two modes done [Music] oh thank you Center posters I don't think we're gonna go GC on this one but still respectable [Music] okay so return from beyond I gotta hit the say on in 30 flips I've only done it once because you'll hit every shot in this damn game I'll try to back in that s like we did before Oh too much and we need seesaw that was my fault then we just need a CNA to pushing up daisies Zach didn't think I'd put up over a million tonight million - it's not bad hey you two one bandage that's for damn sure man well we're super pumped hotel booked me and zacchara trying to iron out plans we're hopefully gonna have some big big big big stuff coming from Expo that we're looking forward to yes yes listen is Act the the Friday afternoon seminar there he's in his own world right now I'm telling you this game is captivating I'm telling you you all saw it you can hit the shots man it's fun it blows you away there's like the modes are freaking exciting it's exhilarating okay let's say let's throw down one more game this will be the let's see if this will be the GC at least at least we got a beat one of my other high scores and get on the leaderboard so this one more okay uh uh one bandit we're doing our seminar it's not just gonna be us talking man we're doing something a little special ours is gonna be interactive we want to make it fun we want to have a good time at our seminar so so expect some some fun stuff and there'll be no free beer unless ten stadiums bringing it wrapped in lights hey hey k dude IB get on ball that ball but you solved in another game I had a terrible first ball and you saw what I come back and did this game bad balls don't matter normally I'll hit that start button hold it in a little bit reset a game all it takes that one ball okay it only takes one ball in all pinball but I'm a little better at this one with one ball nobody wants dirty sanctum yeah on this game if you had anything you'd have a dirty keyhole but there's no dirty key hold the keyhole on this game nice and clean straight in [ __ ] love this game I was loving he's gonna treat me bad my last game I should I should have left it at that 1 million oh definitely should have left it on that last game make a shot for the dirty keyhole let's go for that dirty keyhole unfortunately we need to shoot it straight up the alley and into the hole okay we're doing one more game I'm not leaving on you can't have a million over a million point game and then go into go into that so we're gonna do I'm gonna [ __ ] the plate another one this one oh yes good start at least no matter what as long as I can hit that damn scoop I should come out come out decent easy shot the damn gang I mean you got to worry about seance now finally about outside I don't know how many times you can keep adding time by hitting those orbits oh that was weak usually the magnets don't screw you in this game they're they're actually they function very well for such an erratic behavior oh you missed it bond yeah I mean I'd be pretty good put up a million two hundred and something thousand on it just a little bit ago my GC I was actually doing a test stream on it it's not as good it's kind of hokey I had a kind of shitty your camera's a different set up but because I was just testing everything I hadn't streamed for so long but I put up my GC of like a million seven hundred and seven thousand on a test stream being check out on Twitch I mean I need the posted to our YouTube [Music] we're gonna try to blow it up on this one too we're not off to a great start honestly I think 200 thousands pretty good school it's okay it's a score I think a half a million pretty good I think a million you're playing it well sometimes you got you got a handler very Oh got a handle really easy okay so that's my last game but next week so what we're gonna do next Friday is we're going to and I'll let you guys decide I'll post something on our Facebook and I'll let you all decide what we go forward next week instead of just points and just playing we're either going to attack try to attack as many stage modes as we can or we're going to try to attack as many film modes as we can and then once we've tackled both of those then in the coming weeks then we'll try to get into the the jail hurry ups and the combos but next week like I said I'll let you guys decide we'll do maybe a little like poll or something on Facebook whether we go for the the main stage or we go for the film modes and then again once we get through all that stuff then we'll try to combine it we're here in the next three or four weeks we'll try to go for a master magician and see if we can do with that so come on booze you know the compost combos are a little tough on this man it's just like a two-shot combo but the combos can be tough that's the one I'm most scared of stage I've gotten seven on stage I've gotten seven stage mode so far in the week that I've had this film I don't know maybe three out of the five films so I think film is doable because once I start hitting that ramp I can hit that ramp and then I can just switch my letters on my rollovers or just keep rolling over that roll over spell my film and I can hit that in orbit pretty well so I think film is gonna be our most achievable main stage I honestly think we can do at some point we can get to main stage combos I'm a little worried about the jail hurry ups I think we can do too but we'll see a Scott pink Stadium thank you again for all the bits tonight man think you for stopping in and I want to thank everybody for stopping in it was great talking all you guys that taught those of you that just wanted to watch thank you I hope you get to see me hit that million two on there that's pretty exciting and I'll talk to you guys later love you guys

medium confidence · Inferred from context 'I think Joe and Josh I think that they're gonna' and 'I think Oktoberfest is gonna be killer like I'm super pumped about it just because of what they did with this'

  • “I think Oktoberfest has the potential to beat Dialed In in that department because it's beer it's you know fun it's a carnival”

    Matt Scott@ 37:10 — Compares upcoming game to a previous Jersey Jack title, establishing high expectations

  • “I only need one more shot on the stage so instead of going for the gym”

    Matt Scott@ 50:04 — Shows strategic thinking about mode progression during actual play

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    event_signal: Matt Scott and Zach Sharpe planning interactive seminar at Pinball Expo 2025 with special format beyond typical presentation

    medium · 'we're doing a seminar it's not just gonna be us talking man we're doing something a little special ours is gonna be interactive we want to make it fun'

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    product_concern: While overall positive, Matt Scott notes Houdini stage alley shot is consistently difficult despite being learnable, suggesting potential ergonomic consideration

    medium · 'stage Ally was his easy shots choose battles too hard' and repeated mentions of difficulty with stage alley shot throughout gameplay

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    sentiment_shift: Matt Scott's appreciation for Houdini increased after taking ownership and extended play, similar to his experience with Star Wars

    high · 'I can't say enough about it like I'm blown away' and 'This is a game that you you have to own you got to buy it you have to own this and have it in the house to completely appreciate it'