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Chatting with YouTuber "CoolToy"

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 5m·analyzed·Sep 22, 2021
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TL;DR

Manu interviews CoolToy about his multi-genre YouTube channel, arcade/pinball collections, and physical machine purchasing decisions.

Summary

Manu hosts CoolToy, a multi-genre YouTube content creator known for arcade, pinball, and collectibles content, on Mystery Pinball Theater 3000. They discuss CoolToy's diverse channel focus, his extensive virtual pinball and arcade cabinet collection, and his considerations for purchasing a physical pinball machine (top three: Jurassic Park, Stranger Things, TMNT). The conversation touches on the newly announced Stern Godzilla machine, pricing concerns in the modern pinball market, and the virtual pinball community.

Key Claims

  • The Simpsons arcade one-up cabinet costs $800 but the game can be beaten in approximately 32 minutes

    high confidence · CoolToy discussing why consumers should carefully evaluate the purchase decision for arcade one-up cabinets

  • Stern's Godzilla machine pricing is higher than expected and higher than typical Stern pricing

    high confidence · CoolToy expressing surprise at the price point announcement for Godzilla

  • The Stern Jurassic Park Premium/LE versions cost approximately $1,200 more than the Pro model for the moving T-Rex and Raptor lock pit features

    medium confidence · CoolToy discussing the price differential and hesitation about upgrading from Pro to Premium/LE on Jurassic Park

  • Community response on Pinside to the Godzilla announcement was overwhelmingly negative regarding the artwork aesthetic

    medium confidence · Manu citing negative reception on Pinside forums regarding Godzilla table design

  • Jersey Jack Pinball machines are priced higher than Stern but Stern has recently adjusted prices to be more competitive

    medium confidence · CoolToy comparing Jersey Jack and Stern pricing trends

  • CoolToy owns multiple virtual pinball cabinets including AtGames, two Arcade 1-Up pinball machines, Marvel and Star Wars Arcade 1-Up cabinets, two Sharpens, and Well-Played Toys machines

    high confidence · CoolToy directly listing his virtual pinball cabinet collection during interview

  • There was speculation that today's announcement might be Back to the Future pinball instead of Godzilla

    medium confidence · CoolToy explaining why he delayed purchasing a physical machine, waiting for the announcement to confirm it wasn't Back to the Future

  • Keith Elwin designed the Godzilla machine and Jeremy Packer created the artwork

    high confidence · Manu and CoolToy discussing the Godzilla reveal, crediting Elwin and Packer

Notable Quotes

  • “YouTube, you're supposedly, according to the know-it-alls and the experts, is find that one niche that you're good at, you're passionate about, and then just beat it into the ground like a dead horse. Talk about nothing else. I like a lot of things.”

    CoolToy@ 7:03 — Articulates CoolToy's philosophy of diverse content creation vs YouTube algorithm recommendations for niche focus

  • “I wish I could say I was able to like contribute more, because you have people like you and Nail Buster and all these things like, Jon Hey, here's this amazing front end or, Jon Hey, here's Batman 66 and a faithful recreation, like I don't have that talent or ability to like provide as much.”

    CoolToy@ 25:34 — Shows CoolToy's awareness of his role in the virtual pinball community as a content promoter rather than technical contributor

  • “I just can't find myself willing to buy a Stern Jurassic Park without that moving dino it just feels empty with T-Rex just being stagnant there but like do I really want to spend $1,200 extra for a moving T-Rex and a Raptor lock pit.”

    CoolToy@ 35:42 — Illustrates pricing pressure and consumer hesitation on premium pinball machine upgrades

  • “The salt in my wallet, these new prices, they were even higher than I was expecting”

    CoolToy@ 35:14 — Direct criticism of Godzilla pricing relative to expectations

  • “there's so many people that aren't aware of the advancements in technology and you know, software and just everything that a virtual pinball machine can do these days. I think people just natively think, oh, virtual pinball, so you mean like Space Cadet on the Windows, right?”

    CoolToy@ 26:02 — Highlights gap between public perception and actual capabilities of modern virtual pinball

Entities

CoolToypersonManu SmithpersonSurrealpersonKeith ElwinpersonJeremy PackerpersonStern PinballcompanyJersey Jack PinballcompanyArcade 1-UpcompanyAtGamescompanyWell-Played Toyscompany

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: CoolToy active in virtual pinball community; uses platform to promote awareness of technology advancements and community projects

    high · CoolToy describing his role: 'All I can kind of do is like, do my best to kind of like, spread the love and appreciation and the uh, just the knowledge that this is out there'; mentions being part of CoolToy Discord

  • ?

    community_signal: Virtual pinball community characterized as supportive and helpful with strong IP respect norms

    medium · CoolToy: 'The community, I've always found in the virtual pinball community has been very helpful and very supportive as long as you obey the rules and respect other people's IPs'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Community and content creators negative on Godzilla artwork aesthetic and design choices

    high · Manu: 'I saw a lot on Pinside today was everybody hated the the look of the Godzilla table'; 'it was a resounding hate I saw in the message boards today'; CoolToy agrees and notes it's a 'weird choice'

  • $

    market_signal: Jersey Jack Pinball pricing has traditionally been higher than Stern, but Stern recently adjusted prices upward to competitive parity

    medium · CoolToy: 'They were even higher price point than Stern was, but now Stern has adjusted their prices. They're more akin on a level playing field.'

  • ?

    community_signal: Content creator CoolToy emerging as significant voice in multi-genre nerd/arcade/pinball content space with substantial YouTube audience

    high · Manu actively recruited CoolToy for guest appearance; multiple chat members mentioned jumping from CoolToy's live streams to this one; CoolToy has substantial video library on pinball, arcade, and collectibles

Transcript

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0:00
Welcome to Mystery Pinball Theater's YouTube Channel. 3000 on your Tuesday VPN night. My name is Manu and I am honored tonight to not give a crap what game we're playing because I have a special guest. That's right. What? No bubbly? No. I am sorry that I don't have the bubbly tonight. My new favorite Twitch stream. Oh, Wow, Evil Peach is...
0:59
Okay. Hello, welcome, Baldist Geek. I love that opening. Now, I have a special guest. Let's get right to it tonight. We are talking to the man, the myth, the legend,
1:13
Cool Toy in the Huzzah! Thanks, sir. I appreciate that overzealous, overkind introduction. I appreciate it, Mononay. Thank you so much, man. It's my pleasure to be here. I am validated as a content creator now. Check that off.
1:31
Yeah. How are you doing, CoolToy? I'm doing well, man. I'm actually very anxious to do this. This is like the highlight of my evening, so to speak. There we go. So here's the part.
1:50
Here's the part, CoolToy. Hello, Lynn. What's up? How are you? Timing. Who is it? Oh, yeah. What's up, Hawkeyes? How are you? The myth, the man, the legend. Cool toy.
Godzillagame
Jurassic Parkgame
Stranger Thingsgame
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesgame
Batman 66game
Lynn Denverperson
Terry Reddperson
Nail Busterperson
Wolfo Knowsperson
Mystery Pinball Theater 3000organization
  • $

    market_signal: Stern Godzilla pricing significantly higher than expected; general concern about escalating pinball machine prices

    high · CoolToy: 'The salt in my wallet, these new prices, they were even higher than I was expecting'; discussion of $1,200+ Premium/LE upgrades on Jurassic Park

  • ?

    announcement: Stern announced Godzilla pinball machine designed by Keith Elwin with artwork by Jeremy Packer

    high · Direct discussion of Godzilla trailer/sizzle reel reveal; both hosts viewed and discussed the announcement

  • ?

    product_strategy: Evidence of Back to the Future pinball in rumor/speculation stage; not yet officially announced

    medium · CoolToy waiting for announcement because there was '10% hope that it was maybe going to be back in the future'; delayed physical machine purchase pending confirmation

  • ?

    technology_signal: Virtual pinball machine technology advancing with full LCD screen implementations (Batman 66) replacing older DMD-only systems

    medium · Manu noting his cabinet is 'very antiquated as far as some of the concerns. I have a 4x4x1 or whatever, I just have a DMD slot. Because when I built my cabinet, it was about dot matrix display. That's it. Now they're all built with full LCDs'

    • 2:10
    I guess let's get this one over with, too. Thank you, Surreal, who is my mod. Jory Rocks is here. Mr. Hardluck is here. More interruptions. that was fine i don't know how many people watch wrestling but uh it reminds me like the royal rumble when somebody runs in every 30 seconds to a minute yeah and mr hard luck is a wrestler mr hard luck is an actual wrestler right well there you go perfect i followed so bass tone 18 says i followed cool toys vids to help get my arcade one-up table all modded yes uh you're welcome slash i'm sorry because i i may or may not have helped you in that situation your wife probably hates you now so thank you terry for yeah cool the video of cool toys a little delay compared to the voice but that that's things that we work out you know it'll be fine cool his uh when this goes up on youtube i will sync that perfectly streaming is hard okay it's Harder than people think. A lot of people think it's just, you know, you hit the record, you stand in front of the camera, you do your little dance, you smile, you wave, and then everybody just, you know, applauds and pats you on the back. But no, there's a lot of pre-stream stuff that goes into the mix a lot of times, for sure. There is. And if anybody knows about that, it's going to be cool toy.
    3:40
    Let's see. Hi, everyone. Oh, my God. They're starting to come in really fast now. Okay. I was just, yeah, Hawkeyes, I was watching the Cruisin' Stream 2, and that is the only time I ever thought, maybe I might buy a Switch. Maybe.
    3:56
    It was pretty cool. So let's just get into it. It was helpful. I branched out on a few options. Nail Buster says, hey, cool toy. What about me, Nail Buster?
    4:08
    It's okay. He's used to me. Yeah. so uh it's bad enough just being a talking head then add pinduple playing into it yeah so here's the thing i was um i was sitting on my couch i was just telling cool toy this earlier sitting on my couch watching the the youtubers that i watch and it dawned on me that one of the youtubes that i watch is cool toy and i went i have i what did i say i forgot what i said I have a heart and blood and feelings and saliva maybe Cool Toy does too so maybe I can reach out to him and see if he'd be interested in entertaining the idea of being on the stream for about an hour it was super easy I found your email on the YouTube and I just shouted out and you were like let's do this and I'm like, oh my god, I'm completely fanboyed. I completely fanboyed. You're too kind. But yeah, when you reached out, I was excited too, because like I told you previously, I lurk on Twitch all the time. I watch your streams, watch a lot of other people's streams. So I was very familiar with you already. So I was like, all right, absolutely.
    5:27
    Manu's great. His content's awesome. He does a great job. He puts a lot of production effort into his streams. Go on, go on. Absolutely. Go on. I was about to say, if you want to just sit there as I preach longer, I can. Go on, go on. Sing your praises in the key of your choice. In the key of your choice. But here's the thing.
    5:51
    What's up, Technologic? The YouTubes. I did not. Oh, my God. Did I say the YouTube? I sure hope I didn't say the YouTube Technologic.
    6:05
    Don't clip that. ego pumping so let's see you did you old fuck okay thanks terry all right so here's what we're doing tonight we're going to play a little pinball me i i'm going to play pinball i don't know why i get so frustrated at that i'm going to play a little pinball cool toy is here um but what i was saying was i'm watching my youtubers and i reached out to cool toy to see now here's the thing um so you do you do a little bit of virtual pinball but you do a lot of other video game related content like an enormous amount can you say some of the stuff that you get your channel uh focus on uh focus is probably the wrong word because that's one thing my channel lacks is focus. YouTube, you're supposed to, supposedly, according to the know-it-alls and the experts, is find that one niche that you're good at, you're passionate about, and then just beat it into the ground like a dead horse. Talk about nothing else. I like a lot of things. I like arcade games. I like console games. I like pinball. I like toys. I like movies, TVs, comic books. I mean, if it's nerd-related, I'm probably a big fan and a collector of it. So I talk about a little bit of everything. Sometimes it's an arcade game this day. Next day it's pinball. Next day it's an action figure.
    7:34
    It's, you know, viewer's choice sometimes what I'm going to talk about. I try to be a little bit cognizant and aware of what I talk about and try not to, like, stack too many similar things together on purpose because then I just feel like a broken record and I feel like I'm advertising for a company I don't work for. So I like to try to break up the monotony with some variety. he said terry red's like he focuses on toys okay toys i mean it's in the name yeah yeah uh but i i get that there's a lot of people that are like subscribe to me or follow me for one specific thing right and they're probably like why is this guy talking about plastic toys i'm here for the arcade one-up stuff or the pinball stuff or whatever it was like and this grown man sitting there talking about a plastic doll and i'm like well well but that's sorry that's the thing that So I was onboarded through your – the algorithm picked up that I liked watching pinballers and pinball streamers. And so I jumped into your content viewing your AtGames remake sort of when you took the AtGames cabinet and made – was it The Simpsons? Yeah, Simpsons Pinball Party. Yeah, and I was immediately like, wait a minute, this guy has good cameras and great sound and color and he does digital pushes? Who is this guy? Right, because we all don't have a slider in our house, do we?
    9:05
    Cool toy knows what I'm talking about. Exactly, yep. But that's the technique. Good old slow zoom. That old slow zoom. You're wondering, like, wow, I'm getting intimate with this dude, and I don't even know why.
    9:21
    It's not a doll, Mom. It's an action figure. Yeah, it's got kung fu grip. It's collectible. Yeah. Lynn in Denver shakes a fist at Kool Toy and points at her filled-up console room, wall of arcade one-up cabinets, and soul MVSX and smiles. Coolto, what is an MVSX? So that is the Neo Geo Big Red Cabinet that you might be familiar with, probably seen in a pizza joint.
    9:53
    They basically made like an arcade one-up style one where it's three-quarters scale, but it's basically all the Neo Geo games. It looks like a big red machine, only it's smaller. Do you have one of those? Same kind of thing as arcade. I do. I have way too many things I don't need. You have all of the – what company makes the three-quarter scale arcade cabinets?
    10:19
    So the three-quarter scale is Arcade 1-Up, and then there's quarter scale and sixth scale. There's so many companies doing similar things. Right. What's the smaller ones? You have the whole collection of – so one of – I'm never going to get to play this pinball machine, by the way, guys. I'm going to jump over all your questions And just ask my own Now if you have questions for CoolToy Just throw them in chat He's logged in to the Twitch chat also So he can see your questions too In fact let's do this real quick For people who are not familiar With CoolToy and the content I'm about to flex Pinbot open internet Oh wow look at that Yeah, see? That's why I was talking about that high-level production stuff.
    11:09
    Mr. Hardluck is with me, right? All right, anyway. Nice. So this is the channel. Let me see. What did I say? Arcade1Up makes a line of countercades, which we have three of them. Countercades. Oh, those are cool.
    11:27
    They are. If you've got space issues and like if the three-quarter scale cabinet is even still too big or too pricey for you or whatever, they offer smaller versions that you can stick on a bar top or something like that. Let's see.
    11:41
    So I got to admit, I did this. I searched on your channel for Batman 66. And I saw a live stream where you actually streamed Batman 66 for a little bit. and I was like a giddy little girl.
    12:01
    I was so happy. Oh, you guys did an amazing job on it. It's so good. My only thing I can say about it is that I haven't got good at it yet, but it plays exceptionally well. The details, I mean, you guys knocked it out of the park. It's a deep table.
    12:21
    Yeah, so there's a bunch of neat stuff. hey we can watch an ad on uh on hbl max so there's a bunch of neat stuff sorry i'm gonna i just i just messed up his revenue because i just skipped the ad but um oh that's fine you go right ahead so so you do a bunch of these i love that open is ridiculous did you make that i i hate you oh my god i hated making it so don't worry that open was so freaking was that 3d rendered or was it just um yeah it's three i'm sorry i said now i'm geeking out guys i'm sorry but but so here's some of the action figure stuff um top notch um you get 50 off a bard if you want i have no idea what bard is but i mean 50 off started hard to yeah and then um to pass up Oh my god, did you just... What are you doing? Stop it! I'm just making sure he's done his yoga stretches.
    13:28
    This is going to be called the cool broken toy. Oh my god. My parents would always be like, don't mess with that, you're going to break it. You're going to break it. They're always worried about me breaking shit.
    13:42
    This is great because this... I'm just going to highlight a couple more videos just before we get into some more conversation. This is, how do you pronounce it, Polybius? Yep, Polybius. Urban legend. What's the urban legend of Polybius? So the short long of it is back in 1981, supposedly in Portland, Oregon, some men in black government suit types had put a bunch of this Polybius arcade cabinets in local establishments to do some kind of mind control psycho analytical study test type of thing on the unwilling unknowing citizens of the area back in 81 yeah so supposedly they came in got their data mine and research from whatever studies they were conducting and in the middle of the night took all these games and disappeared disappeared really and it's one of those things that like back in the day you probably talk to somebody who knows somebody who had an uncle who had a cousin that played it or owned it it's just and it you know it gets passed on and just the legend and the myth grows and grows and grows all right but there is no actual game and what this is is a usb charger correct yeah it's a usb charger made to kind of spoof that urban legend and um they even put like a little faux game on there that shows a bunch of animated things and it has like subliminal messages like obey stay asleep things you would expect the government to yeah of course try to poison your mind would yeah yeah the government would do that uh surreal says i played that at finn's arcade i think yes yes you did uh well cool guys go check out if you don't know now you know here let me go back go check out cool toys page there is a ton a freaking ton of amazing content in here so if you're into the switch or if you're into arcade look at this look at this wait i'm sorry just one more yeah that's what i'm talking about hey i'm in san francisco this is normal i walk into a denny's and see this happening uh all right here we go let's skip that really quick That's what you get on my stream. This is cool. So this is you on a live stream, which a couple of the people in chat also said they just jumped out of your live stream and came over here to watch playing What are you playing on This one I was at emulator because they just announced like a new arcade one simpsons captain and i was like hey let play the simpsons game to re everybody with it because arcade one-up is asking like 800 for it i'm like just reminder this game only takes like 32 minutes to beat so if you're going to spend 800 on something make sure you really love it oh wow it's that short okay so cool toy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one or Simpsons or The Simpsons which one do you want which one is better the game or the movie the game oh the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one what about over Simpsons yes Simpsons is a more diverse game but I have much more personal fondness for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles okay now my next question is teenage mutant ninja turtles one or two turtles in time oh oh man that's hard turtles in time is a far superior game but it goes back to that like nostalgic pull of the fire we got to save april jump off the rooftop and like i've got teenage mutant turtles one memorized because i spent so much of my allowance right in the arcades trying to beat that game but teenage mutant ninja turtles i will concede or turtles in time is the far superior game in almost every way okay that was a good way of getting out of the answer ah political yeah right here he likes he likes tortas pinbot close internet all right um so uh oh terry's like damn yeah deep table uh i played it while watching his video lol That's cool. So as far as... Oh, thank you for flushing the logo. I'm going to try and play a little bit of Batman right now. And once again, if you have any questions for Cool Toy... Hey!
    18:23
    Fee-fee fiends! If you have any questions for Cool Toy, throw them in the chat. I'm going to keep throwing questions out at Cool Toy. and one thing that I wanted to talk a little bit about is,
    18:42
    well, first let me ask you about the AtGames. What virtual pins do you have currently in the Cool Toy Studio?
    18:53
    So I have the AtGames pinball machine. I have two arcade one-up ones. I have a Marvel and a Star Wars arcade one-up cabinet.
    19:01
    I've got two Sharpens. I've got a well played toys tabletop and a well played toys I guess like three quarter scale version of a virtual pinball machine and then I've got every game imaginable on Steam on my PC so where do you keep all these cabinets though well so fortunately I am a man without children so I have a five bedroom house just me and my wife. So we have spare rooms. The rooms are small. They would be pretty terrible bedrooms, but they work as nice little playrooms for my arcades and pinball and toy collecting hobby addictions. So they're kind of all over the house. Or no. Yeah, they're kind of all over the house. Yeah, they're spread out. That is amazing. Do you want to get rid of any of them? Are any of them totally redundant? I'm talking about just the cabinets. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, like, I have so many things that I don't need because they are essentially obsoleted by another item that is three and a half feet away from them. Right. I have two modded virtual pinball machines that have identical game lineups on it. I mean, there's really no logistical reason why I need it. I just haven't found a reason or need to get rid of one as of yet. Right. I will eventually, but I just haven't done it. Right. Lynn Denver is asking what's the best image front end to use from a mod of an arcade one up for Golden Tee interesting so Lynn are you only wanting to play trackball games because if you've got a modded Golden Tee I'm assuming you're not messing with anything that has a joystick Golden Tee is only trackball. Oh, wow.
    20:59
    So if you're looking to add more games to a cabinet that only has a trackball setup, you're really limiting... Yeah. Centipede, millipede.
    21:11
    Crystal castles, silver strike bowling. See? He just blows me away already. No, no. He just doubled my... I prefer to have dedicated rigs and yeah for all trackball games okay yeah marble madness yeah um i i'm not aware of a like a trackball only pre-made image out there um if you're familiar with wolfo knows he's a big guy in the the pie image community if anybody would know i would definitely recommend looking at the user wolfo knows because he puts a bunch of awesome pie made ready to go images you just download and set them up. He would know better than I if there's a trackball only one. I know a vertical only one, beat-em-up only one, spider, shoot-em-up, all that type of thing, but not just for trackball. I haven't really ever come across anything for that niche specifically.
    22:07
    What's up, Try to Tilt? How are you? By the way, guys, go follow Try to Tilt. Try to Tilt is starting up a virtual pinball channel and Try to Tilt is a pretty cool person. I have Can we get his name in chat Please Can we get his name In chat please What are you talking about Do you need a link to cool toys YouTube Question mark I have A Oh Wolf and Elves okay gotcha okay got it see i missed the last couple of seconds um yeah i have the farthest i gotten in my office i have this puppy here which i built myself um let's say you're quite proud of it as you should be i i have to be because it took six months of my life to get it on legs put together get it all together yeah and then another 10 10 years of just tinkering and modding um and i have that game that main cabinet over there um which is good enough for me i got one of those front ends i forget what the front end is uh big box yeah right and uh and it plays everything just fine i mean unfortunately for me i have the you know it's just the one controls it's the two joysticks with the six buttons it's one of the old hot rod controllers this is how old this thing is this is a hot rod arcade if anybody in here knows hot rod or remembers them holy smokes you are old it's time to take your multivitamin yeah i thought you were talking to me okay um and yeah and eventually another five months to add mx leds i haven't done that yet no what's up it's a travesty how you doing would love to build a golden t slash silver strike cab I don't see what the appeal in Golden Tee is I've never played it I'm sorry, did I just offend someone? No, that's one of those things I remember when Arcade 1-Up came out with their Golden Tee one There were so many people that said Why? Who's going to play this? It ends up being one of their top selling machines It's like a huge bar Friends around Let's get drunk and hang out Party type of game It's sort of like Big Buck Hunter Yeah, there you go Yeah, and it's kind of status.
    24:41
    Six months, haha, Radiant Silver Ball took over a year from plywood to carcass to finally decorating. So Radiant Silver Ball is Linen Denver's V-Cab that they built also.
    24:54
    Most of the people, I think most of the people in the chat right now have built their cabs. and when you've got people like Terry Redd and Hawkeyes and Nailbuster in the group right now you're talking about a long heritage of pioneers in the V-Cab space how involved are you Cool Toy with the hey what's up Fliptroni we're here with Cool Toy how involved with you are you or do you have time to even go into like the virtual pinball community or like the websites and stuff i do um i wish i could say i was able to like contribute more because you got people like you and nail buster and all these things like hey here's this amazing front end or hey here's batman 66 and a faithful recreation like i don't have that talent or ability to like provide as much all i can kind of do is like do my best to kind of like spread the the love and appreciation and the uh just the knowledge that this right out there because there's so many people that aren't aware of the advancements in technology and you know software and just everything that a virtual pinball machine can do these days i think people just natively think oh virtual pinball so you mean like uh space cadet on the windows right yeah but no but yeah i'm like I mean, you can really, depending on how much money you got, you know, or skills or whatever, you know, you can really do pinball a good justice virtually.
    26:34
    The ability is out there. The people are out there. The knowledge is out there. It's just, you know, you got to go out there, put your foot out there and try and learn and be willing and ask questions. and the community I've always found in the virtual pinball community has been very helpful and very supportive as long as you obey the rules and respect other people's IPs and that type of thing, you're golden it's a great community just ask some of the cats in here I've seen, my cab is very antiquated as far as some of the concerns I have a 4x 4x1 or whatever, I just have a DMD slot.
    27:15
    Because when I built my cab, it was about dot matrix display. That's it. Now they're all built with... That was it. I was on top. Now they have full DMDs, which is full LCDs because of games like Batman 66 and stuff that have full screens and I don't have that.
    27:33
    What's up, Snake? I'm going to catch up with Chad a little bit. So Dondi says, I built my cocktail arcade cab in 1998. what nice why did you just go out and buy a new one then that's when they ah i love you donnie uh tried to tilt says i want to build a cab dedicated to virtual ice cold beer now that we streamed i streamed ice cold have you ever heard of ice cold beer cool today uh the object or a brand the game that's the trick it's oh no i haven't it's it So we'll talk later. But anyway, there's a game that involves a little peg, a little ball, and these two things that you have to put them in the different holes. But Ice Cold Beer is a... They have a virtual version of it now because they have virtual versions of everything almost.
    28:30
    Let's see. Golden Tee, the newer versions are badass and the Android version as well. Hawkeyes and I play the hell out on PC using Android emulator. Huh.
    28:42
    Is there a Golden Tee cabinet now that you can buy? Yeah, there's various different ones. There's the Arcade 1-Up one that has a couple of the older versions on it. It's like Golden Tee Original all the way up until Golden Tee 99. I know there's a company out there that sells a pedestal Golden Tee machine that's like several thousand dollars and a bit overpriced. Yeah. Yeah, there's commercial options out there for Golden Tee. sounds like splud splud cranks just walked into the room man who built his cab back when fire was invented i love you too terry i love you too terry red by the way where's my silent hill oh where's my silent hill baby i want to play it i want to play some silent hill gotta have it um Let me see if I can get this Show you guys a jackpot on this game Got two balls locked One more, wool I gotta show CoolToy that I have some pinball skills I've seen you play You're good I also got my Stormtrooper badge from Lynn in Denver makes these badges for stormtrooper accuracy in pinball. And I got one.
    30:12
    And I probably display it in what we call the murder garage, which is the place where I scream physical pinball. I have a Mandalorian down there right now.
    30:24
    The Stern Mandalorian. In fact, here's a question, if I'm not overstepping someone else's question in chat. how much physical pinball do you play cool toys as much as I can so I don't own a physical pinball machine yet mainly because me and my wife have yet to decide of our top three I was honestly waiting for today's stern announcement to make sure it wasn't some new device hi Joe Hills I warned you, you were going to get interrupted at every moment Oh, that's fine I love the customized intros Those are great So anyway, you guys couldn't decide on which one Yeah There was rumor that today's Godzilla Announcement might also be Back to the Future And if it was Back to the Future That was just going to make me open my wallet So I was waiting to make sure Confirmation that it wasn't It was pretty solid it was going to be Godzilla. I think everybody kind of Yeah, it was I was even like 90% sure that it was Godzilla, 10% but it's that 10% hope that it was maybe going to be back in the future that had me saying, well, don't buy one just yet. Yeah.
    31:45
    And there's also the hang on, let me just address something. Nailbuster, how come I never know about these Puck Packs until I'm streaming though?
    31:55
    Is there really a Puck Pack for this one? because I looked on VPU. I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
    32:05
    Thank you, Mima. How are you? But, cool toy. But if you did get the chance to bring a physical table in, this is the stupidest, hardest question in the world, but I'm going to ask you. Oh, it is. Which one? Or maybe which three? let's say which three yeah so right now our our top three are all the same between me and my wife they're just in different order which is providing the issue um jurassic park stranger things and teenage mutant ninja turtles those are the top three that we are considering currently They available so that part of the solution slash problem
    32:51
    I'm leaning more towards Stranger Things because I think it's the easier one of the three, my personal opinion. I personally would probably enjoy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My wife, not so much. Jurassic Park, I love, but I also suck at that one. Every time I've played the physical version of that one, I've struggled. I don't know if it's the table not being level or what, but I've struggled because it's I know it's a good shooting table and I've just not been able to hit the even most basic shots on the two times I've played it in person. Yeah. So I will say this. Jurassic Park, and people can disagree with me all you want in the chat, but it's my damn stream. Jurassic Park is a great game to have at home, I think. It's pretty deep, but it's linear enough. It's deep yet linear. It's not like... anyway i'm gonna just put it that way that's a great game to have at home um who's disagreeing with me because i just got a little let me see let me see let me scroll back make sure i'm not catching any smarties uh let's see a good solution promise to get two yeah eu godzilla so flip tronic are you not into gods oh my goodness we've got a godzilla hater We've got a Godzilla hitter Wait wait wait So let's do this If you haven't seen the Godzilla trailer Pinbot open internet Let's take a look It's short We won't turn the sound up But I'll just We don't really need the sound So have you You've seen this right CoolToy I know you've seen it I'm in your discord I know you've seen it By the way, join Cool Toys Discord also.
    34:56
    I mean, I was impressed with the little sizzle reel, so to speak. I mean, the game looks great. Obviously, Keith Elwin needs no anything. I mean, he's Keith Elwin. Everything he touches is gold at this moment. Pretty much.
    35:08
    And I'm already obsessed with Zombie Yeti's artwork style, so that's a win for me too. The salt in my wallet, these new prices, they were even higher than I was expecting so that was a thing there seems to be a big difference between the pro and this yeah and that's one of my issues with Jurassic Park is like I just can't find myself willing to buy a pro Jurassic Park without that moving dino it just feels empty with T-Rex just being stagnant there but like do I really They want to spend $1,200 extra for a moving T-Rex and a Raptor lock pit.
    35:54
    Yeah. There are a bunch of people in chat who also have lots of physical games. I know Fliptronic is one of them who has owned a Jurassic Park and moved on from a Jurassic Park.
    36:09
    Is there anything else in here? No, that's about it. Pinbot, close Internet. um what was i gonna say sorry i'm reading cyborg johnny's comment why why why would they do such great job on artwork and put some dollar general shit that was uh the general consensus i saw a lot on pin side today was everybody hated the the look of the godzilla toy um they just go back to that It was a resounding hate I saw in the message boards today after that announcement dropped.
    36:53
    Yeah. That's a weird choice for a Godzilla toy. Electronic is not in for Godzilla. Lennon Denver says, yeah, I keep having Blue Oyster Cult in my head hearing about this table.
    37:07
    Oh, Godzilla, yeah. What about Jersey Jack? Cool toy. What do you think about Jersey Jack's offerings? They're just as expensive.
    37:18
    Yeah, that's the thing. They were even higher price point than Stern was, but now Stern has adjusted their prices. They're more akin on a level playing field. Adjusted. There are no Jersey Jack machines anywhere near me, at least within a 45-minute drive that I'm aware of. So I've yet to actually get to personally experience a play on a Jersey Jack machine. So that is my unfortunate cross to bear. What state are you in?
    37:49
    Missouri. Okay. So, yeah. So Kansas City and St. Louis, a couple hours drive each way. I can have access to anything and everything that way. But as far as just being able to go eat dinner and go play pinball on a Friday night, I've got very limited options on a short drive from me right now. uh flip tronic says we have had all the elements in the house at some point yeah joe hills it's easier to print art locally than to make plastic parts is my guess oh no there goes tokyo injection molding in china isn't cheap anymore due to freight prices tariffs aren't cheap either stern can afford it it only costs him 400 400 materials and make a game software you're you're on fire uh i'm in columbia well vp fiends check please check your caps check your caps lock bro okay there's place place in columbia that that's a shorter drive for me at least that's a halfway point yeah um it might not be the price availability okay so Jurassic Park, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Stranger Things those are in my opinion two really solid games which one do you hate the most? I knew you were going to ask because I'm the one who you know kind of spurred that here's the thing if you are a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a franchise I was going to guess because that one gets the most hate more than anything and i just got to play this for the first time like uh two and a half weeks ago yeah because i found a pizza joint that was in kansas city while i was up there for a convention and i got to play it and i wasn't overwhelmed with the the actual gameplay um but the theme is what you know hooks me and that's where i'm like well i'm being selfish in that nature because i'm like i'm a teenage mutant turtle kid but i'm like this is also something that my wife enjoys so i'm like i shouldn't go all in on something that's just one fandom for me and not something she also really cares about and that's that's why stranger things and jurassic park are the top two for us right now that's the tricky part of it though if you were buying it for you go for it right um absolutely but the fact that if you have to choose a machine it it and your wife might not be into the turtles so here's the thing i brought batman i brought the actual batman 66 physical table into my garage and my wife loved it and i was like well that is good because every other pinball machine that comes in here has been onboarded with this one that she likes so it's not just the case of i didn't bring in a game that she would hate and then all the other ones she wouldn't give a chance to she has literally played one game on every game that i've rented because i rent games she's played at least one game on every game which i'm like well that's true um yeah absolutely uh stranger things solid game now it started off with very rough code now it's freaking solid i mean if you like attack from mars you'll like stranger things yeah it's basically the same game just reskin yeah but that's not a bad thing and no it's not what about older games?
    41:20
    oh yeah absolutely there was a guy selling a David East Jurassic Park he wanted to trade it popped up in the Facebook marketplace and I tried to get him to sell it to me and he wouldn't even entertain offers he just said nah I'm just looking to trade up to something I'm like well you can trade up to something with cash in your hand yeah but yeah They don't, at least in my neck of the woods, they don't seem to come up too often for Facebook Marketplace or on the Pennside Marketplace or anything like that. If they do, they're typically older, you know, 60s, 70s machines that are beyond my age demographic, so to speak. Just not something I have a personal connection to. I think for you definitely it would be a home use only machine or a new inbox if it's going to be my first one I like to start that way I mean I already know it's an investment I've got a full size arcade machine I already know that it's like owning a car you're going to have to work on it you're going to have to tinker on it it's just part of the love and joy and passion of buying these type of devices. It just comes with the territories. And it's also going to be part of your stream. Like, anything that comes in your house now, you are, oh, I know you. You're a content creator. You're going to think, oh, how can I do, how can I spin this into content? Oh, absolutely. You got to feed the beast. Yeah. You got to feed the beast. Plus, if I'm going to, you know, make that type of financial investment, by God, I got to do something with it.
    43:03
    Let me see if I can catch up with here. Let's see. What are you doing? I'm updating a database where I need caps on. Oh, okay. They were just asking about fiends yelling in chat.
    43:26
    I know where a DEJP sitting in the garage under boxes. next time i'm there for work i'll work with the courage to inquire about it yeah bass tone that's awesome i i i like jurassic park by data east it's keith elwynn hates it but i like it and i i don't care what keith elwynn wants uh don't panic flip what's up tier one thank you thank you bro don't panic flip are you streaming tonight because we could send it right on over right on over this is uh if you're new here we're talking to as i trap up cool toy user he's a content creator on youtube and a streamer which i want to ask a little bit about a youtube streamer and uh just an all-around amazing dude because he's nice enough to talk to me so there you go Oh And MPT Don't Panic Flip just redeemed a t-shirt Are you serious George?
    44:41
    And they redeemed a radio I should have had that happen on your side Thank you Hawkeyes Alright so Let me see I just Nope just got Logging in a new Man who isn't afraid of The Elwyn Doxy Joe you're too smart for me Stop saying smart things Even cool to know what that meant I don't know what that means Have you ever heard of Shart It means fancy meats Shartu What's the word Joe? what's the word joe the word i'm trying to get at it means fancy meats you said it the other night in chat char char meat plate smart things you're gonna ignore me charcuterie charcuterie yeah whatever um it's definitely a word that doesn't get tossed around in missouri so streaming on youtube how long have you been live streaming because we know you're creating you know recorded content how long have you been live streaming on youtube and how has that been going i do it intermittently i probably only do it like once twice a month tops just because i feel like i spend too much time editing and just recording actual normal content that way I like to engage with people as much as possible and that's why I started doing live streaming as much as I possibly can but I've been doing it probably two out of the three years I've been on YouTube just because I personally kind of had an aversion to it because I was like wait it's out of my control there's so many things that can go wrong and not be prepared for and as somebody that like frames shots and has a shot list and that type of thing it sounds horrible yeah it could Just like this Izzy Pinball welcome thank you for the raid With four beautiful people Welcome we're talking I'm talking to Or I guess we are now the collective we Yeah you know the chat Plus Manu Talking to Cool Toy who's a content creator on YouTube and if you don't know Now you know Go check out Cool Toy on YouTube And uh The question we're asking we're talking about Live streaming on YouTube now I am a live streamer on Twitch I do have a YouTube channel It is a separate thing from Pinball And I just mentioned this last week On my stream where I said I'm thinking about streaming on YouTube Is the grass greener? Is that what you're asking? Yeah Well is there monetization on Joe Hills knows about streaming on YouTube? Because also Joe Hills is a streamer on YouTube also. But is the monetization on YouTube is it any higher than your recorded content?
    47:58
    For streaming, not so much. It really kind of depends. I've had streams where I've made more just doing a casual gameplay type of thing, thanks to the kind generosity of followers and people that watch the channel. But overall, just basic ad revenue for a stream no it's less than what you would do for recorded content for the most part unless for whatever reason you had a stream that just takes off I've had a few do that for no rhyme or reason to my knowledge took off and did well like one was I was just playing a He-Man style arcade game that got like 90,000 views you hit that algorithm I don't know yeah something happened and I was like well if I knew I was going to get 90,000 views for a casual me just sitting there playing He-Man video game, I would have done things differently, but that's just the way algorithm type stuff works. You've got to try to put your best foot forward anytime you create any kind of content, whether it's recorded content or live stream, because you don't know what's going to take off. You don't know what's going to be that one thing that somebody notices you for. So you just try to do the best you can and hope for the best Cyborg Johnny asked me where are you from I from originally from New York I live in San Francisco now
    49:16
    Joe Hill says, yeah, I make one fourth of my revenue of YouTube streaming tips. But I've cultivated that for years. And ad revenue on YouTube, I would assume you're saying, Joe, is garbage. Are you saying on YouTube? Was that on YouTube? I think. Because ad revenue on Twitch is really horrible also. So I think across the board, unless you're doing... And VP Fiends makes 90% of his revenue from sadness.
    49:47
    All right. Unless you're doing good numbers on YouTube. Now, we've had on my channel, we've had one video go viral where I did a review of the DJI Osmo 3. The gimbal.
    50:02
    Yep. and it's at 218 000 views now i have i've had people from my old high school call me up and say hey i saw you in a video and they haven't talked to me i haven't heard from them in 20 years and then the next one is you know 200 views um uh i here's how i feel because i haven't streamed on youtube yet live stream but for for youtube and twitch if you're live streaming on twitch you actually have a chance to get money much sooner than correct if you're right if you're you get the money sooner but it's there's a definite cap and it stops at a certain point the only pinball streamer that i am aware of who's a partner right now is dead flip and if you're not doing something ridiculous like i don't know djing copyrighted music all the time or Felicia Day or somebody who's huge,
    51:05
    your discoverability is almost zero on Twitch and your revenue will stop. Whereas on YouTube, you have a longer haul. But it's a long haul. It's not going to happen in the middle of the night.
    51:22
    How long has your channel existed? About three years now. So a little over three. I think I started in May. So, yeah, so three years and some months and change. Sheesh, you're doing quite good for just three years, bro.
    51:38
    Yeah, I mean, it's an accidental success. It's one of those type of things that I didn't intend it to be anything. It was just a fun outlet for something. I mentioned to you, like, I went to school for kind of like electronic media production was the official degree name, but it was basically film, television, and audio type of recording. but I got a boring day job that has nothing to do with the stuff I love which is you know film cinematography that type of stuff so I was like well what if I just I don't know made a YouTube channel use some of that creative outlet that I've never been to use my day-to-day activities and that's why I decided to do a YouTube channel of course everybody's like oh you missed the YouTube boat that was like you know eight years ago yeah you know we'll see I mean everybody missed that initial boat yeah but but there's there's still boats leaving the dock oh absolutely yeah i mean the downside was like i joined youtube in like 2006 i didn't upload a video until like 2019 or something like that so it's like i had the opportunity i just didn't believe in myself or didn't take the initiative to do something about it right right um i also got to mention that Joe does have a different... Joe has kind of a different situation on YouTube in that I think all of Joe's revenue comes from donations and not from YouTube's ad revenue.
    53:03
    And that's a different route you could take also. I don't want to misrepresent you, Joe, if that's correct. You let me know when I'm... One other thing I wanted to address too Is CoolToy and I were talking earlier As I trapped As I expertly trapped these balls I've trapped these balls I mean that was nothing right It took me 10 minutes but I did it Oh wait you can't see it You guys can't see what I'm doing Pixar didn't happen No look look Balls trapped Expertly I'm holding a flipper with my leg um man we don't see your balls a few hundred dollars yeah joe you got it that's right the elwynn thank you it's called the elwynn um is uh i wanted to get i wanted to and we kind of agree both cool toy and i kind of agree about it's it's kind of a long haul to get um successful in whatever way you define success on these platforms whether it be recording content for watching later on youtube or streaming on twitch um and uh i want to ask you uh cool toy what are some of the things like you obviously had to start somewhere right so when you started up streaming or and doing content what were your numbers like and how did you keep going how did you push through it and persevere so the first couple of recorded videos that i uploaded to youtube i think i was maybe maxing out like 100 125 views for maybe you know two three weeks being on there and then they would just kind of stop you know that was it that was that's where they maxed out a little over 100 views and if your number's obsessed and you're like, well, I need thousands of views, I need this, I need that, then you're going to burn yourself out right out of the gate almost immediately. The way I always try to keep a positive look and spin on it was I tried to imagine myself like, look, I'm in a room recording stuff, but like if 125 people are standing in front of me... Oh my god, you do the same thing! Oh my god! Yeah. Oh my god, you do that too! I mean, it's the only logical thing I can make sense of it all. If 125 people are standing in front of me, listen to me with undivided attention, that is daunting for a lot of people, especially with public speaking versions or something like that. So if you think of it that way, that is not a failure. That is a success. Now, to somebody on YouTube that's used to making thousands of views or something like that, sure, that looks like a failure. But to you personally, it's all a matter of perspective.
    55:57
    It's so... This wasn't planned, y'all. this it's so good to hear joe do you is that to say is that i would say i'm i'm referring to joe also because joe's joe's actually i don't know by my merger very successful at both twitch and youtube because the numbers are pretty high whenever joe's a minecraft streamer um and uh so i i feel like yeah i i've told i've had to tell that to myself but i've told that to many people too look imagine you know you've got five people in the chat well you you're in an empty room you have your tray set out with your things you're in a big whole empty room and your tray is set out and good stuff and no one's there and then five people walk in and go hey yeah you feel swarmed at that point so so but but then of course right so so recording stuff though you weren't streaming in the beginning no you're recording it um yeah because youtube even like i forget what the exact number is but like they won't even let you live stream or at least they did initially like you couldn't live stream from like a mobile device unless you had at least a thousand subscribers like there's hurdles they put in place that are very you know negative towards people starting out i mean they just literally make it where you have to crawl your way up the mountain before you can even start the journey. Yeah.
    57:24
    Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm laughing because I'm refusing to look at VP Fiends chat anymore. Fiends, I'm not looking at your stuff anymore. All right?
    57:35
    So, so, but the bottom line is, if you're a new streamer, and now I've attracted everyone's attention to VP Fiends thing. Thank you, Fiends. I love you. You know that. We're like oil and water. We really are.
    58:00
    But I'm going to play this last ball and then we're going to wrap up. But I always want to let people know who start this that if, first of all, define what your success is. Define what is successful for you. And then pursue that. But don't get stopped in the middle because you may be streaming for a week and you may get three people. Or like my channel did back in the day, we would put out a video and we'd get 60 views.
    58:32
    It took us a year to get to a thousand subs. You know what I mean? It exponentially goes up because one friend tells another friend and another friend. Joe says, I streamed to three people for three to four years.
    58:46
    I find that hard to believe, but see? that's everybody starts somewhere everybody starts somewhere yeah a thousand percent thanks for the company whoever decides to just tune in yeah yeah yeah try to tilt i love my peeps from australia uh bo p he's very funny um so let me finish this up let me finish this up but um god i i i it's it's hard to keep my train of thought because i want to ask you so many questions but um the point is right i'm looking i appreciate that you have seen some of my content cool toy i appreciate it but i'm always going to be like looking at you like he's got i i he's got beautiful cameras he's got a beautiful great personality he's got great content boy i wish i was in his shoes and it's that's the thing like everybody at some point in history says that about another human being or another product or another company or something like that comparison is always the thief of joy like you can never i like that hold your hold yourself in other people's regards sorry that's like my miyagi was a jujitsu black belt and i teach people martial arts on the side so i always hear people they're like oh so and so is better than me or they got so much better than me at this and i'm like you can't ever hold yourself to the same standards as everybody else because you're the only person that's walking in your shoes you're the only person that's living your life. You can't know that a person struggles just as they can't know your personal struggles. Everybody's on their own individual path and you have to treat it like your own individual path. Walk on it with blinders. Yeah, you can look outside and look at other people and say, okay, this is what they're doing. This work. I kind of like that. How can I incorporate that type of thing into my thing? But if you're looking at somebody else's success and saying, I need to do that, that is the, you know, the litmus test or the standard I need to hold myself at, then you're always going to set yourself up for failure that is that we got we got we got real oh sorry sorry toys and action figures toys and action figures oh man bro it is so nice to have you on stream i hope at some point down the road we could do this again um absolutely my pleasure i i i and and i'll tell the whole chat this we just kind of met 30 minutes before the stream started and i already feel like you know we we both got the same last name yeah it's it's an uncommon last name i mean there's not a lot of smiths out no it's very rare did i bump into another smith i mean they're manu's everywhere um let me see if i just catch up one or two things or want to split let's see uh try to tilt says i once dreamed almost 300 people that is true that try to tilt and i was there when that happened uh terry ray it was me myself and i for those three people Mima It also takes a while to tune in Tune to any platforms Yeah tune into their audience What is that achievement Somebody being smart I got an achievement of man who's everywhere Achievement unlocked Let's see One had a burnout I'm just trying to see Touch on the things Because we gotta go I do think okay you guys have a nice conversation in there I love that yes I think man I think we're going to end this on comparison is the thief of joy we're going heavy out wow dude I've never heard that but I'm stealing that go for it once again guys the channel is cool toy thank you cool toy for being with us um my pleasure go like subscribe and ring that little bell icon so you can be all the you know i know the whole the whole the spiel the whole spiel um thanks guys for joining me and uh we're gonna find somebody to read and i will see you on thursday i just brain farted like crazy i'll see you on thursday when we're playing the mandalorian premium downstairs in the murder garage hopefully with beginners look merry and I'm going to finally top the score and score a bit. I got to get over 650 million because Neil McCrae is kicking my butt.
    63:33
    Thank you for that. What was that? Thank you for the follow. Use Indeed. Bye. Thank you. In-Ball Theater Stream terminating in 10 seconds
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    Bye.