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Don't Panic Flip: Episode 13 - Ghostbusters: Hit a Lot of Modes, Mass Hysteria, We Came We Saw

Don't Panic Flip·video·40m 40s·analyzed·Apr 20, 2018
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TL;DR

Jon Hey plays Ghostbusters Premium, explores modes and mechanics, announces upcoming machine trade.

Summary

Jon Hey streams extended gameplay on Ghostbusters Premium Edition, demonstrating various game modes including Spook Central, Mass Hysteria Multiball, Stay Puft, and the mini-wizard mode "We Came We Saw We Kicked Its Ass." He discusses shot difficulty (particularly the nemesis/impossible shot), mode sequencing, and gameplay mechanics while playing multiple games with mixed results (highest score ~1.2 billion). The stream concludes with Jon announcing the Ghostbusters machine will be traded out for a new system arriving soon.

Key Claims

  • Mass Hysteria Multiball only flips the flippers sometimes, not all the time

    high confidence · Jon Hey, discussing Mass Hysteria Multiball behavior during gameplay: 'Found out recently that Mass Hysteria Multiball actually only flips the flippers sometimes. Not all the time.'

  • Button response on Ghostbusters is less sensitive than other Stern Pinball games

    medium confidence · Jon Hey commenting on flipper button responsiveness: 'It seems like they're less sensitive on Ghostbusters than other games' when discussing rapid button flicks not registering

  • This Ghostbusters Premium Edition is Jon Hey's first pinball machine

    high confidence · Jon Hey in opening remarks: 'My first pin' referring to Ghostbusters

  • The Ghostbusters machine will be traded out and replaced with a new system

    high confidence · Jon Hey in opening: 'this will be one of the last streams on Ghostbusters Premium Edition. We have a trade and a new system coming in there. I will surprise you with that, maybe later this weekend, early next week.'

  • Completing Back Off Man mode leads to a mini-wizard mode called 'We Came We Saw We Kicked Its Ass'

    high confidence · Jon Hey describing mode progression: 'if we finish back off man...we get a...we came, we saw, we kicked its ass mini wizard mode'

Notable Quotes

  • “My first pin.”

    Jon Hey@ 0:37 — Establishes that Ghostbusters Premium is Jon's first pinball machine, contextualizing his skill level and perspective

  • “Found out recently that Mass Hysteria Multiball actually only flips the flippers sometimes. Not all the time.”

    Jon Hey@ 28:29 — Describes a specific mechanic behavior in Mass Hysteria Multiball that creates unique challenge/unpredictability

  • “It seems like they're less sensitive on Ghostbusters than other games, so I don't want to do the cool shot right now because I will automatically start Spook Central”

    Jon Hey@ 19:35 — Observations about button sensitivity differences on Ghostbusters vs other Stern games

  • “this will be one of the last streams on Ghostbusters Premium Edition. We have a trade and a new system coming in there.”

    Jon Hey@ 0:00 — Announces upcoming machine change, indicating content transition

  • “This is documenting the journey from shitty pinball player to mediocre.”

    Jon Hey@ 39:52 — Self-aware commentary on the show's purpose and Jon's skill progression

Entities

Jon HeypersonGhostbustersgameDon't Panic FliporganizationStern Pinballcompany

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Streaming content documenting player skill progression on Ghostbusters, engaging community through extended gameplay sessions and rule/mechanic discussion

    high · Don't Panic Flip episode structure focuses on extended play sessions with commentary on rules, mechanics, and strategy

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Nemesis/Impossible shot identified as consistently difficult to execute and land, creating frustration during gameplay

    medium · Jon repeatedly misses nemesis shot throughout stream, comments 'I don't know why I find that shot so difficult' and 'I hit that shot...way more often'

  • ?

    product_concern: Button response sensitivity on Ghostbusters reported as less responsive than other Stern games, requiring careful timing for shot execution

    medium · Jon Hey: 'It seems like they're less sensitive on Ghostbusters than other games...flick them too quickly [and] they don't actually register'

Topics

Ghostbusters game modes and rulesprimaryPinball shot difficulty and executionprimaryGhostbusters Premium Edition gameplay mechanicsprimaryMass Hysteria Multiball behaviorsecondaryButton sensitivity in Stern Pinball machinessecondaryPinball player skill developmentsecondaryMachine acquisition and tradingmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.78)— Jon expresses enthusiasm and enjoyment for Ghostbusters gameplay despite frustrations with shot execution and difficulty. Positive about pinball in general, though self-critical about play quality. Frustration with ball control and shot timing offset by celebration of mode completions and high scores. Closing statement emphasizes satisfaction with the night despite not achieving all goals.

Transcript

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0:00
Hey guys, this is Don't Panic Flip, and this will be one of the last streams on Ghostbusters Premium. We got a trade and a new system coming in. I will surprise you with that, maybe later this weekend, early next week.
0:30
But let's get some games in, man. Let's get some playtime in with this Ghostbusters, which has been a hell of a good time. My first pin. And let's see what we can get done tonight. All right. Let's give this a go. Let's go.
1:00
on and on strangers dancing. Hey, we'll take it. Wasn't my cleanest. Alright, now we gotta make the far left. Got there. The nemesis shot. I don't know why I find that shot so difficult. Let's see if we can trap here. not what I wanted to do but you know what we'll take it and last shot I bricked it that sucks let's see if we can catch that alright nice and easy backflip finish the mode ball's about to swing down we're starting up spook central this is the way you start a game I like it Some will lose.
2:03
Oh, almost had it right away. Oh, jeez. That took a weird bounce. All right. We got one mode done with the first ball. You typically want to get a little bit more than that.
2:19
Oh. All right. Need some games to figure things out again. I'm playing too much Star Wars. Here we go.
2:48
There it is. All right, first shot on Spook Central opens up the next four shots. So we've got to make left orbit, left ramp, right orbit, and right ramp.
3:01
There's first shot. Missed the nemesis shot, but got it the second time. Jesus. Grr. Got it. Yes, we triggered. Good. That lit storage facility.
3:30
And, of course, the Scolari brothers. Alright, hey. Man, ah! Alright, second ball. Almost made it through, I think, the hardest mode in the game. There's just a lot of shots. and it forces you to hit the impossible shot. Notice I didn't call it the nemesis shot.
3:57
Because it's not the nemesis. I hit that shot. I hit the impossible shot way more often. You know what? Storage facility.
4:07
All right. Got our first ball locked. I guess it's kind of making the assumption that we're going to do good enough to lock some more balls. All right. Oh, my God. Flailing.
4:20
All right, I can't backhand that shot. Oh my gosh, what a hard shot. Here we go. Missed it. Nope. Wow.
4:48
Wow. Oh my god, I just backhanded it. Let's see if we can hit... Extra ball! Okay, start Ghost of the Gozerian. So we've got Ghost of the Gozerian, Storage Facility Lit, and Extra Ball. I don't want to look up at the camera right now because this game just got interesting.
5:14
I missed the Extra Ball. but we did get our second ball lock on storage facility. Okay. One more of those. We really, really want to get that during Gozo the Gozerian.
5:29
That is just a ton of points. All right. Here we go. Extra ball. We can do this. We did. Yes. All right.
5:46
quick sip of water let's not lose it um i guess just backhand the shit out of gozer hope we get it right back to that flipper come on good trap yes another good one come on same thing come on nice and easy into the right flipper We'll just backhand it all day.
6:40
Nice. That's four, I think. I don't know how many of these you got to get. And we got an extra ball. Oh.
7:14
hey cool fun we haven't done this one yet don't cross the streams all right watch this video mode what'd we get we've been slimed i don't know what we got 21 million we caught nine ghosts oh we gotta shoot again yes let's get that extra ball
7:56
we did complete Gozer I missed the extra ball and Topan Spirit Guide really like to get that right now Topan Spirit Guide is essentially the mystery shot we got ourselves a good bonus here come on, fall right into the right flipper let me trap this up come on, come on, come on oh no, don't go down the middle oh no Got the extra ball, Tobin Spirit Guide, and a danger. We got it all there. Let's maybe move it just a little bit. Sorry about the camera there. I'm too afraid to move it. We just endangered the shit out of it. Got our extra ball. I think we're at two extra balls right now.
8:49
And I actually wasn't paying attention to what we just got off the mystery. oh you know what i will take we got a storage facility and a two times multiplier don't know what that was oh no all right so we got some extra balls we got a little bit of time to work with storage facility is still going to be lit i think we lost the two times multiplier start seeing this is important we want to get this to nail stay puff the marshmallow man boom all right first thing we have to do is make one of the shots i guess in a perfect world we would both initiate off the off the right uh ramp left ramp there it is whoo destructor has been chosen and we also lit up at the same time storage facility multiball. This is going to be bountiful, fruitful, uh, I'm trying to think of other adjectives to describe this. Um, it's exciting. I'll give it that.
10:03
Alright, here we go. You ready for this I don know that I am but ghosts are everywhere We got a lot of shoot here Come on. Don't get cheap on me, Dotson. Give me all that you have. Let's do this.
10:55
We got add-a-ball. Oh, thank God. And the double shoot-agains. Thank you. Got some shoot-agains. Shoot-agains.
11:51
Oh my gosh. Shoot-again was flashing in my defense. I feel like that was silly. uh all right i don't know what we have yet to wow all right
12:26
i'm guessing we've just got the nemesis shot i missed it Oh, no. Looks like we've got a bunch. Thank God. That was frustrating. Come on. Give it to me safely in the right flipper. That would be great.
12:55
All the way over. Bounce. It's going to... Lose it. Oh my gosh. Ah. Alright. Cracked a billion on our first game. That's not bad.
13:28
It's not bad. How we doing on picture? I feel like we still need to bring it back. There we go. Alright. Give it another go. Uh, this time... I don't think I want to do OK Who Brought the Dog. I think what I want to do is do Spook Librarian and Back Off Men.
13:58
So another way to start modes here is to hit ghost and that's going right down the middle and get Slimer going. Once you get Slimer going, you can choose a mode.
14:16
All right, here we go. Come on, let's hit ghost. There it is. hit the gozerian there's one there's two uh okay that did not initiate the mode
14:50
Sometimes you can save it when it goes down the edge like that. Alright. Man, what does this want me to do?
15:18
God bless America. We started the mode. Okay, you brought the dog. All right, got that one out of the way first. So in order to not automatically start a different mode, we need to complete with the nemesis shot.
15:44
All right, so now we need to hit the left ramp. I can't believe we missed it. I mean, sorry, I can believe it. That's not a true statement.
15:56
What is going on? Yeah, storage facility is lit. We get it. There it is. All right. So now this last shot will enable all modes to choose, and then we have to hit the left scoop in order to trigger on Spook Librarian.
16:23
Nice, we got that 2x bonus. Alright. Man, I thought for a second, maybe... Maybe I had never done that before. Okay, cool. So, I feel like not starting with okay, who brought the dog is somewhat fruitless. We should do that regardless, but just work on finishing it in a way that allows us to choose a mode. This really doesn't matter right now.
16:53
Here we go. Not quite the right shot. That's going right down the drain. All right. That's a lot of scoops.
17:23
Oh, my gosh. What is going on? We got to shoot again, maybe? Nope. I think that's just an awful game. Yeah, that is just a really, really bad game. All right, so we're going to go ahead and start.
17:37
Okay, who brought the dog? We'll finish this mode and end it on the last one. that'll allow us to choose Spook Librarian, assuming we can hit it. You know, hitting what we're going for is not working out all that well for us.
17:58
There we go. Up the left ramp. Good, good. And... nope. Oh, hey, we got a gear award. Did not mean to hit that.
18:33
Come on. Ah! Shit. So we timed out on, okay, who brought the dog. Now we've got to hit the ghost. hit and bash What's-His-Face three times. Slimer. So we're going to give him a second.
18:49
There's one. Here's missed. He dodged it. There's maybe two. I don't know if that counted. That did not.
19:11
that counted and notice how all of the modes are flashing right here now i get to choose so i'm going to pass this over oh flicked it too fast the the buttons if you flick them too quickly don't actually register that you hit them at all uh and that's something that seems fairly common to Stern. It seems like they're less sensitive on Ghostbusters than other games, so I don't want to do the cool dead flip shot right now because I will automatically start Spook Central, so I want to pass it nicely, let it dead flip, and catch it gingerly on the right flipper. There we go, and hit the left scoop. Now we've started Spook Librarian. Spook Librarian is four purple shots. These are all active. I just have to hit, I think, two of those shots. There's one. It's gonna come all the way back around. And let's go left ramp. Good. That was both storage facility and the second shot of the mode I guess maybe it uh three shots Nice We got a shoot again out of that Oh no it was just the two shots now uh what we want to do is hopefully get it back to our right flipper so we can hit that left scoop again if we can hit that no don't go up there yes great now we got back off man that was what we were obviously going for the whole time um what's cool is i think if we finish back off man and i've got to pay attention here. I don't hit this often enough. But if we finish this off, we get a... we came, we saw, we kicked its ass mini wizard mode.
20:53
Back off, man. So what do we got to do? Shoot purple shots to sneak up on the librarian ghost. So what are the purple shots? Here they are.
21:05
Waited too long to hit that. Hey, we got rid of the Scolari brothers. Now let's do this again, shall we?
21:22
Nice and easy. We lit extra ball. Back off, man. And we got the extra ball. Boom! Extra ball is lit. I know. We just got the extra ball. that wasn't super helpful but right now we want to hit storage facility i mean if we can hit the left ramp it does a bunch of stuff right uh all right so we're going to attempt again here is a nice little pass. Good. And up the left ramp. So the left ramp, that was a second storage facility, that was a super jackpot, and that was the second shot of the mode.
22:11
All right, looks like we've got two more purple shots, and it's counting down. Or rather, when we hit a shot, it's disappearing.
22:19
All right, that was silly. I should have let it dead flip across. Now we've got a pass. Ugh. All right, that could go... Anyway.
22:37
Running out of time here. Oh, jeez. Here we go. Oh. There it is. Nice. Okay, somehow we completed that mode, and we're in the mini-wizard. Great.
23:04
Let's see. Really? Oh, shitty shoot again. We've got extra ball lit. We definitely want that. So let's see if we can make that happen.
23:23
Wow. Ooh. Here we go. Extra ball. Yes, thank you. And Tobin's Spirit Guide. This is turning out to be a pretty good round. Right? So we've got that mode done. And I think we're on our second ball, if I remember. And we've got two extra balls, I think. maybe one. That just lit the Scolari Brothers. Good. There's our extra ball. The cool thing is after the Scolari Brothers get lit, we get some bonuses, like a super jackpot. There's one. And there's the super jackpot. Super jackpot. Hit the scoop. What have we got to do. We've got to hit ghost to start the next mode. There's one. Come on, fall nicely into my right flipper. There we go. We did not start a mode, which kind of sucks, but let's go ahead and kind of want a mode for storage facility. Whatever. Storage facility multiball. I know, Oh, it's awful.
25:23
It'd be great. You know what I want to do is start that chain of modes up there. This isn't going to get us there.
25:51
Love that sound. love to hear the sound of super jackpot oh wait There's all four. air defense there oh ball. All right, PKE was going at that point. I have no idea how we were doing there. All right, here's one of our two extra balls. I don't know how many we got. Starting the scene is going to start Spook Central. And that's not... Yeah, we gotta start the scene. So we're gonna do the cool thing.
27:51
If we can do it. Nope. Come on, come back, come back. There it is. Yeah, okay. So that's gonna start Spook Central. I mean, we already got one mode done there. I guess let's see if we can do to finish it up. This is the hardest mode of the game.
28:11
Also, we're... It... We're at 80 ghosts, by the way. I think we've got a lot of balls left. I think there's a big chance that we're going to hit Mass Hysteria Multiball.
28:23
Found out recently... We've got to get rid of these guys first, right? Found out recently that Mass Hysteria Multiball actually only flips the flippers sometimes. Not all the time.
28:39
Not the shot we need to make. Tony Scolari, unfortunately, is blocking the shot I do need to make. That's not fair.
28:49
There it is. Super. There we go. Oh, no, we flipped. All right, so we're going to. We're at Mass Hysteria Multiball, and it flipped right away.
29:20
Oh shit, it's normal now. And that ghost was ridiculous. Oh shit, it flipped again! Oh no it didn't, now it unflipped because I'm done. Oh my god, that is ridiculous! I guess I should just always hit them. always at the same time. Alright, looks like we've got three shots to make left. There's one on the mode. We've got a complete Spook Central here.
29:50
That was Radon. Alright, up the ramp. One shot left. The impossible shot. We're going to let that fall gingerly back down to this side, and we'll take our shot. Missed it.
30:15
Here we go. Missed it. Yes Last one Oh Oh That sucks yes last one oh that sucks so we completed the mode i think actually we had completed the mode prior to i think it had just timed out wow a 203 million bonus that's not bad so here's our second shoot again let's confirm let's hold this left left flipper yeah this is ball two. We're going to go ahead and start seeing. We're already halfway there. That's not going to do it. Damn it. Nope. Give it a sec. There it is. All right, so we just started Gozer. Got 84 million for starting Gozer. I have no idea what our score is right now. It can't be doing too bad. Are you kidding me? Come on. Let's not waste this ball. Here we go come on all the way around nice good stop we'll take it 17 million all the way around nice all right we're flailing come on come on only a six million bonus that time what's our score only 914 million it's not that big actually award super jackpot i don't know what our super jackpot that. Do we want to keep building up the jackpot? Two times multiplier. Let's go two times multiplier. I don't think we get it. We don't. We just got 10% of the score. Gosh, why can I not catch this now? Hey, storage facility is lit! We gotta shoot again? Come on, we can complete this mode. I would love to complete two chains. I've never done that before. Here we go. Oh my god! Just could not get it going! Alright, two games, two billion pointers. What's on is it? It is only 1230 AM.
33:22
Oh, I didn't even crack a billion. Alright, guys. Last game. We'll do another one tomorrow night. See if we can complete two chains.
33:38
It was three games now that I'm thinking of it, right? Come on. Wow. Airball. Not. Oh, that's going right down the middle. All right.
34:04
It's going to be one of these kind of games. Nope. All the way around. Come on. Come on, man. Let's see if we can backhand this.
34:37
See? If I tap it fast enough, it doesn't move. Nope. There it is. Alright. Nemesis shot. Done. Now we get to choose a mode. Spook Librarian back off man was actually pretty easy.
35:00
So now we're going to pass it to the other side. And hit Spook Librarian. But nope. I accidentally hit the hard shot.
35:16
Heh. That is some funny stuff. That is twice in a row I've hit the nemesis shot. Lighten the shit out of some stuff, though. We got storage facility... lit.
35:36
That's what I get for trying to backhand and be cute about something. Alright. Oh, no, we don't want to start a move.
35:52
That's good. That's always a solid start. Here we go. Come on, Spook Librarian. There it is. Good. Alright, so this is two shots.
36:06
And a back-off man. You know what? My shoulders hurt. I've been hitting the shit out of the side of this.
36:24
All right, not a good game. I said that was our last game, but come on. We've got to start on something decent. Sorry, end on something decent. After two... Well, one billion point game and one 921 million point game. I'm going to say that's close enough. Oh, wow, that didn't trigger.
36:42
And we lost our opportunity to start the mode. This is not the way you want to start this. All right, here we go. Ghost.
36:51
Miss. Brick. Double brick. A shoot again. Wow. Ah. Alright. It's fine. You know what? We had a good night. We made it to Stay Puff. We completed a mode and then continued on past it. So we've had two pretty decent games out of four or five.
37:31
There we go. Started the mode on the second ball. Whoa. There's one shot. stopped it two shots and we did that in the right order if we want to start uh uh spoof librarian right i'm gonna cross over missed flailing end of the game so when i said we were gonna end on a positive game that's not guaranteed. I think we're already on our third ball, and honestly, I do not want to be up that late.
38:19
There we go. There it is. Come on, Spook Librarian! Missed it. Brick. There it is. Okay, so we got Spook Librarian. Two shots. They have to be purple, wow live catch I'm not good enough for that to happen that often so that's still still surprises me and number two there we go and we initiated we got one I did that wrong that's right I was supposed to hit anything other than a shot that it automatically initiates another mode. So this is our third mode. We got one.
39:17
Wow. I mean, I have backhanded that before, so it is possible. Oh my gosh. Flailing. I should be a knight. I'm flailing so often. Or I have a flail. There's... I had something for that. I don't know. Anyway.
39:47
This is Don't Panic, Flip. This is the document... I'm George. And this is documenting the journey from shitty pinball player to mediocre. I am definitely not there yet, as evidenced by the last three games I think we just played.
40:03
Had a couple of decent ones. made our way up the chain. We hit Spooked Librarian, Back Off Man, the Mini Wizard, and then made it up to Goza the Gozarian, and then just struggled to cradle the ball, which I can't tell you how frustrating that is. And we also made it to Stay Puff, although we didn't finish that mode this time. Still, not a bad night. Any night we're playing pinball is great. You guys have a great weekend.
40:35
Thank you.