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1 Billion Point Game on Dungeons & Dragons Pinball (Pro) on Code 0.93 - New High Score!

Wild Dog Arcade·video·33m 15s·analyzed·Aug 24, 2025
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TL;DR

Wild Dog Arcade hits 1 billion points on D&D Pinball Pro v0.93

Summary

Wild Dog Arcade streamer achieves a 1 billion point score on Dungeons & Dragons Pinball (Pro) running code 0.93. The gameplay showcases the game's RPG mechanics, character progression, dice rolling modes, and recent code updates that added voice callouts and trinket mechanics. The stream includes discussion of D&D's gameplay difficulty, character management, and comparisons to other classic pinball machines.

Key Claims

  • D&D Pinball code 0.93 includes new voice callouts added in latest update

    high confidence · Multiple references to voice work additions: 'they definitely added some more of the voice work in the game' and discussion of character voice callouts by Michael Dorne

  • Trinket system was added to D&D Pinball but doesn't significantly impact gameplay

    high confidence · Direct statement: 'they added this whole trinket mechanism to where you can get trinkets which then appear in your insider connected account. They don't really seem to do a whole lot for the game play'

  • Original D&D Pinball had mechanical outlane closures when qualified

    high confidence · Streamer comparison: 'The original Dungeons and Dragons machine had ones that would close the outlanes when you qualified. It would flip flip them shut'

  • D&D Pinball is challenging for tournament play with difficult one-shot mechanics

    medium confidence · Streamer observation: 'I imagine this game is probably not a big big fun tournament game' and discussion of pressure and difficulty with specific shots

  • Stern is planning Star Wars Pinball as their next cornerstone release

    medium confidence · Speculation during gameplay: 'It's supposed to be Star Wars. That's what the heavy rumor is' regarding Stern's third cornerstone game coming to Expo

Notable Quotes

  • “I broke a billion, baby. I finally did it.”

    Streamer @ Opening/closing — Achievement moment for 1 billion point milestone on D&D Pinball

  • “They basically got to push their latest game obviously, but they're in theory they're supposed to be releasing their third cornerstone here shortly”

    Streamer @ Mid-game discussion — References Stern's roadmap and upcoming announcements, mentions Star Wars as rumored next title

  • “Star Wars. Ching jing jing ching jing money. Yeah, it's just printing money.”

    Co-host/secondary voice @ Mid-game — Commentary on IP licensing strategy and commercial appeal of Star Wars theme

  • “They need to have a wrath dragon topper that's interactive with the game”

    Streamer @ During gameplay — Feedback on D&D Pinball game enhancement wish; references dragon character (Wrath)

  • “I like Data East machines, put a pin pin sound board, run a alternate sound package like G&R so much better”

    Streamer @ Mid-game discussion — Commentary on aftermarket audio upgrades for vintage pinball machines

Entities

Wild Dog ArcadeorganizationDungeons & Dragons PinballgameStern PinballcompanyBlack Knight Sword of RagegameNo FeargameData EastcompanyMichael DornepersonPinball LifecompanyStar Wars PinballgameZen Studios

Signals

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    market_signal: Data East pinball sound board upgrades provide significant quality improvement

    medium · Streamer endorsement: 'If you have a data east machine, put a pin pin sound board, run a alternate sound package like G&R so much better with proper G&R music' and 'It's way better with a pin sound board than playing actual like good music'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: D&D Pinball's difficult one-shot mechanics and tournament viability questioned

    medium · Streamer: 'I imagine this game is probably not a big big fun tournament game' and discusses pressure under tournament conditions affecting shot execution

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Trinket system in D&D Pinball perceived as cosmetic with minimal gameplay impact

    high · Direct assessment: 'They don't really seem to do a whole lot for the game play' and 'seems kind of underwhelming as far as like' gameplay functionality

  • ?

    design_innovation: Community desire for interactive dragon topper mechanic in D&D Pinball

    medium · Streamer suggestion: 'They need to have a wrath dragon topper that's interactive with the game'

  • ?

    code_update: D&D Pinball code 0.93 adds voice callouts and trinket collection mechanics

    high · Multiple direct references to new voice work and trinket system: 'they definitely added some more of the voice work in the game' and 'they added this whole trinket mechanism to where you can get trinkets which then appear in your insider connected account'

Topics

Code Updates and Game EvolutionprimaryD&D Pinball Mechanics and GameplayprimaryStern Pinball Product RoadmapsecondaryVintage Pinball Machines and ComparisonssecondaryAftermarket Pinball Upgrades and MaintenancesecondaryTournament Playability and Game Designmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.78)— Streamer achieves milestone achievement (1 billion points) with celebratory tone. Generally favorable commentary on D&D Pinball gameplay and mechanics, though some frustration with difficult shots and one-shot requirements. Nostalgic appreciation for vintage machines. Mixed feelings about game balance and tournament viability.

Transcript

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Get your I broke a billion, baby. I finally did it. I know. The dragon was like, "Wait, what? You are just shy. Are you kidding me?" 980 million. Are you kidding me? A few moments later. Like, what are you talking about, cat? And he's like, "Oh, look." Oh, he did. He did. start. Slow start. All right, this is my last reset and then we'll just do whatever I got. Oh my god, here we go again. Already got to use the shield already here. Critical hit. Okay. Or your weapons drawn. Stinking off a few arrows before you can attack. No, you can't play as a Ewok dwarf. You're a dwarf. Well, Ewoks are just u just dwarf Wookies. Yeah, they are. There you go. Stick to the plan. You're being attacked. Watch it. That's my fire breather. That's your fire breather. I'm sorry, buddy. I didn't mean to step on it. Oh, I remembered. Yay. I actually had a shield, too, I could use, which is good. Ah, come on. That helped right there. By the way, I love a thr battle. Wasn't trying to do that. I see the dragon is now lit. Let me see if I can hit that target. Oh, I'm I'm pretty sure that we'll see whatever that remaster is. Nuts. Uh because they they basically got to, you know, push their latest game obviously, but they're in theory they're supposed to be releasing their third cornerstone here shortly. Um, so we definitely that will be at Expo and then they usually surprise everybody at Expo Saturday with the remake, a remaster. So hopefully we'll see both of those here soon. Yeah, it's supposed to be Star Wars. That's what the heavy rumor is. Kind of wish they did something else, but you know, it's just like, oh, Star Wars. Bradlee Ching jing jing Bradlee Ching jing money. Yeah, it's just printing money. Yeah, I think I saw the pictures of the palm copper. It looked It looks really cool. Um, we just don't have room for toppers. There we go. Now, we don't have room for toppers because, you know, this is a joist right there. And h if we just had another 6 in on in the ceiling, we could have toppers all day long. But this portion of the basement is under the sunken living room, so it's only 7 and 1/2 ft ceilings. I don't know who ever thought sunken living rooms are a good idea. They're just dumb. There we go. Finally got a good trip hazard for our kids. Yeah. bodies are scattered about the encampment shows up. I'm eating nothing again. There we go. Down to two and down. Down to one. One rather. Impressive. Okay, there we go. Woo! 200 already. Sweet. All right. Uh, where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Let's take on the lizard people. You see a caravan of wagons. So, Kong third party topper. Oh, you were talking about that earlier. Yeah. 750. Cherries on top. Cherries on top. Expensive cherries. Where did I put that box? My brain fart. I was like, "Oh, there they are." Oh, I want to get that extra ball. So, this is a This is a box that has all kinds of replacement rubbers. So, we've all different kinds of colors and stuff like that. So, we've been doing some more flipper rubber work. So, I got a whole box of these to play with and change out if I want. God dang it. I was ordering pinball life, so I ordered a bunch of stuff. Although, I did forget to order one of the things I've been meaning to order from that. Finally, a hit. A hit. Cobalt. Holes in the joist. No thanks. We had two toppers down here. Uh the data east Jurassic Park one would not fit. Uh the Rick and Morty one that came with the game would fit if I had the game exactly positioned between the joists because of the way it was shaped. It would fit up in there. But then we had literally added a game and everything had to shift and then there was no combination that worked. So it came off while we owned it. It was sitting off to the side. And then of course obviously when we So I stuck it. Let's see. You stuck it. Oh, is it gonna come back down? I just wasted my shield though. You don't hit it out of anger. No, I didn't. I just reacted and I didn't realize that the airball is going to do this now. Stupid. But there we go. Go down. Go down. There you go. All right. down the hall and see. Now give me more shield cuz I wasted my shield. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can go in and I can like build a new subfloor and raise it up and make it even, which, you know, I would probably do at some point cuz I'm pretty sure it would be a metric fortune uh to actually properly lift all the joistices joists in this room, which would be ideal. There we go. Finally got that extra ball. But yeah, that's some uh let's take out the old floor, support all the walls with posts and and raise up everything. That would be a Oh, I didn't do it right. Dang it. Didn't release the ball correctly. All right, let me try this again. Oh, not that way. Ah, okay. Here we go. No. No. It's It's having a I'm going to miss my shots. Well, it's like the one shot. One shot. One shot. Damn it. And then that just happens late. Cuz I'm thinking about the shot. The one shot, you know. Yeah. One shot. It doesn't like one shot. No, I don't. Damn it. Imagine this game is probably not a big big fun tournament game. Rush, you're coming back to haunt me. Rush is like that, too. It's like one shot only. You can't do anything else. Pretty good. My brain explodes. All right, I have an extra pressure. He I know it is. Ed folds under the pressure. That's why I don't do well in I wouldn't do well in tournaments, but maybe I have to get used to it. I don't know. Oh, look at that shot. I can't think of any that have per that permanently attached to that uh a lot of times they're either for just special models. Oh, you are going to die. You're so nice, Dragon. Yeah. Well, that won't be a problem because we're not going to be buying the Tommy. Oh boy. Not a big fan of that game. There we go. Oh, abandoned farm. Sure. Oh, the D and D with latest update is is I dispatched a few. It's got the bug bug fixes. We haven't got far enough. We did reset all of our characters progress, so we haven't got any of the trinkets. Although I that seems kind of underwhelming as far as like Yeah, I know it's like D and D lore. You collect things, trinkets, and stuff like that. Shitty, but it doesn't seem like it's does much for a pinball machine. Cool, Tommy. I kind of missed that pin. It's been a little while since I played that the data east one. It's way better with a pin sound board than playing actual like good music. Okay, let's go. I mean, that's across the board with data east. If you have a data east machine, put a pin pin sound board, run a alternate sound package like G&R so much better with proper G&R music. It's not over yet. Yeah. Yeah. This this definitely seems like a game that can be a lovehate relationship with it. And Ed's in the I think he's hating it like mode right now. Oh, that was close. I mean, this is kind of more my style of game play, too. So, you like to be precise. I like to hit things where we go. How you doing? Oh, here we go. How's it going, Black Knight? Sword of Rage has got a really cool top. Yeah, I do like that one. Ooh, that was close. Huh. Okay, there we go. That made me Oh, wait. I got to go this way. Shoot. Hey, Tauruses. Oh, you love it. Oh, dragon's laid at least. Dragon. More dragons. Oh, I can't time it. Oh, man. All right. Level two dragons. jackpot. Yeah. I mean, Black Knight Sord Rage is a a brutal machine. So, if you if you want that, you definitely uh you are. No, Dragon, you're going to die. It's like no fear on steroids. I don't want to kill you, dragon, cuz you're cool. But if it's between you and me, you're going down. No, I have no shield. Oh crap. Okay. Uh oh. Yeah, we like no fear. We had We own one for a while. We control the balls. We had one that was in really good shape. Okay. Celebration. Good. The guy we bought the uh No Fear from was selling it because he uh he bought a Black Knight soda rage. So he's like, "Well, I don't need two of these kind of machines. How the hell did I miss that? Damn it." There we go. Got it. Well, Jason, we are in the Detroit suburbs. Oh, almost. That was hard to do that. Not easy. Yeah, Red Lancer. It's It's, you know, it's very wash, rinse, repeat. Oh, nice. That's a hard target to hit with multiple. Love the cheesy call outs and then the talking skull was a great great mech. Wish Wish we had a mech like that in a modern game. Not quite screw anything. I guess you kind of have that with the Foo Fighters topper with the uh Fubot, but still not the same because it's not right in front of you. Maybe we'll just do dragon again. I want to get into that. Oh, look. It's lit again. Okay. Nope. Scratch. Oh, well, I got that. Wow. Random random bouncing multiball. More dragons. More multiballs. Is about to begin. Uhoh. Hey, look again. It It was just It just talked when you know the voice call outs and stuff. He He uh he talked. That was all he did. There was a There was a shot underneath him, but it wasn't like you shoot a shoot a ball in his mouth to shut him up or anything, you know. I got on the list for the uh Stumbler Mimic. I wasn't a big fan of the tinies. Uh, stylistically wasn't it didn't look didn't look that cohesive with the art package a little bit for me. Nice. Oh, damn it. I got I like lost another ball while I was trying to do that. It's fun to try though. Yeah, there's they definitely added some more of the voice work in the game. I'm sure there's more to come yet, too. Oh, back down the middle. Oh, good. I didn't realize I had the sound the town celebration. Ah, almost. There we go. Got the back end on that one. Woo! That's really satisfying right there. Oh, strike one. Okay, good. Dragon. Okay. Yeah, this game the latest code update added some more of the voice call outs. Ah, I got distracted by that other fall. Oh, nuts. Oh well. And back to this original stupid thing I can't do yet. Have one shot I'm supposed to make here to defeat this guy. And I'm still in this mode trying to do it. Nope. The high elf is down. Oh, he's got one hit left. No. No. We got to get rid of him. Let's see. No, not quite. I was going to say if you have it on your upper right, if you hit the upper left ramp, it'll feed it to the left flipper, which then lines you up for that shot. But yeah. Okay. Oh, nuts. That was it. Finish off the north. You I got it though. Oh, I failed. Oh, mess. You failed. I had one hit. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Oh well. That was a long game already. Holy moly. Oh, you mean with the owl bear? Yeah, I'm not Yeah, I'm not I'm I don't really want that snowy snowy scene. It Come on. Critical hit. Critical hit. Okay. Undead cultist. Undead cultist. Undead cultist. There. I did something. You hit one of them. Okay. Oh. Okay. Oh, yeah. There's a It's a big list. Um. Yeah. Got that. I mean, the biggest other than like some like just improvements like we're adding the voice call outs and stuff like they they added this whole trinket mechanism to where you can get trinkets which then appear in your insider connected account. They don't really seem to do a whole lot for the game play. No, cuz they're not like magic items that give you boosts in stats. Go in. Nope. There you go. Yay. You got them all. Oh, I did. Yeah. Cool. Where do we go now? The middle. No, other places that are lit. Flip it. Nasty. Yeah, that is for sure. They They need to have a wrath dragon topper that's interactive with the game. You are definitely going to die. No, I'm not. Ouch. My ears. I need to shut that off. All right. Where do I go? Replay. No. Oh, it's the center. Okay. Got it. Double scoring. Almost had it. Nope. Where do I go? It's not over yet. Okay, I got that. Oh, it's a center again. It's back. Yep. Did it go away earlier or am I just like Oh, well, it went away now. Yeah, but I have an extra ball. What was my uh like personal best in this game? Did you update your score? Uh Streamlabs is not updated, is it? I don't know. Oh, well, we'll check later. I'm probably going to be at my personal best again. I'm ready to go. [Music] Not if I do that jump, though. Hold on. I have to go to the center. Uh-oh. We can still do it. Yeah, it did. It didn't update the uh Streamlabs. Wasn't uh it was he didn't beat my score by much, so that gives you a gauge. Okay, treasure is lit. They have been busy building something. Let's search the place. Red Lancer is reminding you to use the shield. Remember the shield. Yeah, I had it and then I don't know where it went. It Why did it go away? I had it on. That's weird. Oh well, that doesn't help. The shield doesn't help. That [ __ ] What the heck? Yeah, the I don't know why it does that sometimes on the outlanes. Yeah, wrath is the name of the dragon. Oh, I know. I remember the shield. I know, but it didn't help me. That now I'm on ball three already. Yeah. I don't know what my personal best is. I guess we'll find out. It's not far up mine. You barely beat mine. Yeah. Is that what I was? So, I've still got Okay, I still got time to go. Got it. All sades on. Okay. Oh no. It's a tight shot. Unfortunately, it doesn't help when I'm like, "Oh, okay. Got to refocus. [Music] Come on, man. I'm not the ball. Take a breath. I'm at nothing right now. No Firewing. They just added call outs. So, it is still voiced by Michael Dorne. Okay, there we go. Come on. Get out of there. Yeah. God, you're trying to do the sling sling death spiral. It is trying, man. Shows up unexpectedly. I saw you sneak in and caught up as fast as I could. As you exit the stairs, you see an old All right, I still have power. We can do this. Opening a portal. They sworn to the level three attacking you. Okay, got the treasure chest. Yay. Good. Got some gold. Okay. Oh, extra ball lit. Nice shot. Watch it. My fire breather. Okay, back in there. [Music] Okay, you only got one left orbit guy to get. I got an extra ball, though. Yay. Extra ball. All right. It's always down to one hit, too. How you doing? How's it going? No. Bring me one steel long sword. I will protect the serving wench. Got it. No. No. God damn it. All right. Well, at least I got the extra ball. You got the extra ball. And I have a new personal best, so I'll take it. Hey, Cat. How's it going? I'm getting a workout. And here. I thought I wasn't going to sweat tonight. Undead are attacking you. Um. Oh, well. The original Dungeons and Dragons machine had ones that would close the outlanes when you qualified. It would flip flip them shut. Uh but as far as like user selectable outlanes, I don't think so. They had Magnus is kind of a way to do that. So on the Black Knight series and stuff, uh Tales of Grab Knights had a uh Magnus like feature and so did uh Theater of Magic. Oh, they're they're still okay. Got it. Got that one. You like these undead cultists. This is like the second time you've gotten. Is it? Oh, I wasn't even thinking about it. Yeah. The other thing I did, too, is I I I changed my character. The one I haven't even used yet. And uh I'm getting points. So, play that at home. Yep. Get your characters hired up. All right. and you'll get scores. As you defeat the guards, you see a roof. All right. Doing not too bad. Dragon on his He's got his personal best. I'm not expecting that. I wanted Gary to get it. We're rooting for Gary to get a new personal best. I haven't even played yet. I know. He hasn't played yet. What's happened? Uh, okay. Traveling to the west. Traveling somewhere. I don't know why. I don't know where because it doesn't tell me. Well, we're doing a dice game. Let's do it. Yeah. Got to hit the center in order to spin the dice or roll the dice, whatever. You want to add time also. Woo. That was close, wasn't it? Yeah. Oh, that still counted. I'm proud of you. Thank you. I think. And where are you? Ball. There you are. That was weird. [Music] Okay. Nice proper roll. Yep. I'm on a roll. Nice. Good hit there. Amazing. Yeah, if you if you hit the spinner but don't go in the scoop, it does give you points, but it doesn't give you a dice roll. It's only when it lands in the actual scoop. Yeah, I like that was beautiful. Pure luck. That was a thing of beauty right there. [Music] A pinball. All right. Awesome. I'm feeling lucky. Okay, I'm feeling lucky. Oh, there we go. Good. No one goes up against a dragon and wins. Okay. [Music] Getting them dice. [Music] Yeah, it's like a multiplier. And so the the higher the roll, the more points you get. Like there, he got a 17 and he got eight 8 million points. So, not quite. And that's just a value. He didn't hit in the scoop. It's got to go into the scoop to actually roll. Well, it does spin it though. It gives you an extra value. It gives you points, but it doesn't give you a multiplier. Nah, that's true. I made it. you. Oh, you have a danger. I have a danger. Okay. [Music] Okay. Still working on it. Still working on it. Long tiny or long dice game mode. Yeah. Got it. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, baby. Look at that. Almost caught under his I know. That was crazy, right? I love thrilling battle. [Music] Okay, I have to remember one danger. Hey, ultimate one. [Music] Nope. [Music] You've earned my respect. There's a big roll. Okay. Awesome. Yeah. You are going to die. You are going to die. All right. Can he do it? Yes. Okay. And it adds I have a feeling after all of the bonuses I should be getting after this, I should be getting a billion at this point. That was my hope right there. Yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, you can took till you can just take the till bob out, too, if you want to disable everything. It's pretty easy. You unscrew it and then keep the little bar from moving around. Yeah. When we first first got our getaway, we were struggling because we were very newbies at serious pinball. We had the tilt bob off for a little while so we could practice the game. All right, getting closer. I can't believe how long this is lasting. Yeah, it's incredible. I did not know this like was going to take this long. Well, you keep adding time. Oh, is that what I'm doing? Yeah. Every time you're doing the spinner, it's adding time as well. Oh [ __ ] So, if you're effectively hitting that, you're adding more time than it takes to get back there. Yeah. Well, there you go. Finally. Jesus. I think I have an extra vault, don't I? Or do I not? No, that's not it. No, you don't. Okay. Well, I get your phone. I broke a billion, baby. I finally did it. Greetings, Tom Bob. And the dragon was like, "Wait, what? You are just shy." Are you kidding me? 980 million. Are you kidding me? How did I not How did I miss that? It just didn't have the just didn't add up on the bonuses. Oh, what? Yeah. Oh, C, you you were ahead of me in figuring that out. I was like, "What are you talking about, Cat?" And he's like, "Oh, look." Oh, it did. It did. The last the points. It showed the points and it didn't add them up before it went to the other three. That scared me. Holy moly. What's up, Ultimate? How's it going? Great game. Yeah. And now it's time to go to bed. Jesus. Yeah, it did. It didn't add it up, which is kind of like strange. It showed it, but it didn't add it right there before it flipped to another screen. Thank you, EYI. How's it going? All right. Shout out. Yes, that was the first billion on this game for us. So, shout out to Ardor. He's at fourth level. All right, I'm going to take a quick break. Third level.
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rumor_hype: Star Wars Pinball rumored as Stern's next cornerstone release for Expo announcement

medium · Streamer states: 'It's supposed to be Star Wars. That's what the heavy rumor is' regarding Stern's third cornerstone game with promotional artwork 'looked really cool'