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Rob Zombie Beta Pinball Gameplay - Spooky Pinball VideoCast #3 (podcast 128) (ADULT MODE LANGUAGE)

Spooky Pinball·video·47m 21s·held·Nov 1, 2020
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TL;DR

Rob Zombie pinball gameplay with Halloween code update featuring new Sid Haig dialogue and design retrospective.

Summary

Spooky Pinball releases gameplay footage and discussion of Rob Zombie pinball in adult mode, featuring the game's designers playing while discussing a new code update dropping on Halloween with added Sid Haig dialogue. The episode showcases gameplay mechanics, design philosophy, and retrospective reflections on the game's five-year history, including design decisions and the evolution from the unlicensed 'Pinball Zombies from Beyond the Grave' prototype.

Key Claims

  • A new Rob Zombie pinball code update was released on October 31st with new speech content, mode cleanup, and expanded mode features

    high confidence · Spooky Pinball hosts state update dropped by the first of the month (after October 31st recording)

  • Rob Zombie music was also dropping around the same time as the code update (October 30th timeframe)

    medium confidence · Hosts mention Rob Zombie posted on social media about new music coming in 7 days, but acknowledge uncertainty about whether it's a teaser, single, or full album

  • Rob Zombie's Spookshow International (Standard Edition) game was originally in development as 'Pinball Zombies from Beyond the Grave' before the license was secured

    high confidence · Designer states: 'I was working on this as pinball zombies from beyond the grave' and explains America's Most Haunted poor sales led to pursuing Rob Zombie's Spookshow International (Standard Edition) license

  • Only one 'Pinball Zombies from Beyond the Grave' prototype exists and is now sitting in the Spooky Pinball graveyard

    high confidence · Designer confirms 'There's only one of those games, and it's sitting in the graveyard'

  • The game's upper playfield design is a regretted decision; designer acknowledges if redoing it today it would be a lower playfield instead

    high confidence · Designer: 'if you could go back and redo it...it would be a lower playfield'

  • A backup upper playfield design by Dennis Norton featured a center hole that dropped the ball down instead of feeding back to the flipper

    high confidence · Designer explains the alternative concept that was rejected in favor of flipper-feed design

  • Rob Zombie's dialogue and energy were central to the game's quality; he was very involved in decision-making about content standards

    high confidence · Hosts discuss Rob's strong engagement with project, demanding no 'lame and boring' content and wanting cursing and horror aesthetics

  • Rob Zombie's Spookshow International (Standard Edition) game dialogue is considered the best voice work across all Spooky Pinball titles, including Rick and Morty

Notable Quotes

  • “We just lost 50 listeners and 110 viewers right there.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 4:37 — Joking about the game's poor initial reputation affecting audience, sets tone for discussion of game's legacy issues

  • “Every time the rules get deeper in this game, I give you just a tiny bit more credit. Just a tiny bit.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 5:15 — Acknowledges the game's initial shallow rules and ongoing improvements through code updates

  • “It would be a lower playfield...you know honestly i i gave a template of this thing uh the upper playfield to dennis norton and he had kind of come up with the design and i came up with a design and i probably should have gone with his”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 16:25 — Designer regrets the upper playfield design choice, core design criticism

  • “I think the dialogue call outs in this game are probably the best of all of our games including rick and morty”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 12:39 — High praise for Rob Zombie voice work relative to other Spooky titles

  • “Rob was ridiculous through the roof like he really cared about this project...he wanted cursing he wanted nudity in a badass horror metal game and that's what he got”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 13:01 — Explains the unique positioning of the game as adult-oriented horror pinball

  • “Because we were out of time and broke. And money.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 26:40 — Reveals budget and timeline constraints affected game's scope and final voice cast

Entities

Spooky PinballcompanyRob ZombiepersonSid HaigpersonSherry Moon ZombiepersonDavid Van EspersonBen (Fosmo)person[name withheld pending review]personBill MoseleypersonAmerica's Most Hauntedgame

Signals

  • ?

    code_update: Rob Zombie pinball code update released on October 31st featuring new Sid Haig dialogue, mode cleanup, and expanded rule depth

    high · Hosts announce 'on October 31st, there's going to be a brand new Rob Zombie pinball code update' with 'a bunch of new speech in there, there's some mode cleanup, and there's some modes that didn't have a lot going on before that have more going on'

  • ?

    product_concern: Designers acknowledge the upper playfield is a regretted design decision that would be changed if game were redesigned today

    high · Designer states 'if you could go back and redo it...it would be a lower playfield' and expresses regret about not selecting Dennis Norton's alternative design

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Game difficulty, particularly side-to-side shots and pop bumpers, was intentionally designed to be challenging per Rob Zombie's request for a punishing experience

    high · Designer: 'I get tired of losing to my son...it kind of evens the playing field' and later 'we want this to be punishing. That was something Rob wanted'

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Rob Zombie was David Van Asper's first game working with Spooky Pinball as animator/artist

    high · Host notes 'This was David David Van Es' first game with us, too' and David confirms 'It is, yeah'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Video mode animations for Rob Zombie had to be downscaled from intended 720p HD to 128x32 pixels due to hardware constraints, requiring significant customization

    high · David Van Asper explains technical challenges: 'I was originally going to do this on 720p HD...we had to go back to 128 by 32, I think it is, pixels'

Transcript

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0:30
Thank you. I don't know. Thank you. I'm sorry. Greetings, Spooky Pinball Podcast listeners, and welcome to episode 126 of the Spooky Pinball Podcast, or at this point, pretty much videocast, slowly getting there. You might be wondering what the heck's going on if you're watching this, and we're celebrating some Halloween spooky time here with some actual Rob Zombie gameplay. Whoa, not that game. Nobody likes that game. It's just the upper play field. The rest of it's fine, man. Hey, hey, hey. I enjoy playing this game a lot. I just can't play it with my kids. We just lost 50 listeners and 110 viewers right there. Rob Zombie. Ugh.
4:44
Well, maybe we can keep them enticed. Why else are we playing this besides the fact that it's Halloween and it's a cool, spooky game? Because for, I don't know what update this would be on, but on October 31st, there's going to be a brand new Rob Zombie pinball code update. Whoa! Which by the time you're hearing this, which would be the first, it's already dropped. So there's a bunch of new speech in there, there's some mode cleanup, and there's some modes that didn't have a lot going on before that have more going on. Every time the rules get deeper in this game, I give you just a tiny bit more credit. Just a tiny bit. And just don't forget, Rob Zombie's also dropping his album. 7 yeah well I don't know if it'll be the whole album but if you follow his social media he says in 7 days there will be new Rob Zombie music but that was a few days ago by now so yeah like October 30th is it yeah they're I don't know if it's going to be a teaser or a song or the whole record we don't know I'd ask our friends in Rob's band but I don't want to get in trouble so well it's just nice to have Code Drop on Halloween with some music from Rob Zombie dropping all in the same day. I can't say we timed that pretty well. Yeah, man. All on purpose. And to me, personally, the biggest plus in this is a lot of Sid Haig dialogue winning this game that wasn't in there before, and to kind of have our friend Sid saying and doing a little bit more in this game, especially after losing him here in the last year, it was pretty damn cool to hear more of Sid. More Sid Haig is always a good thing. Of course. So for anybody on the audio side, we're still going to talk about the game and whatnot and just reminisce while we play here. But this might definitely be an episode you want to listen to EM Dungeon and Danny Peck. But head over to YouTube and watch this episode. I think it'll be a really good time. We're doing it in a streaming format in case you haven't seen that yet. And also let's warn anybody. Typically we keep the Spooky Pinball Podcast a family-friendly show, right, young man? Yes. And now that you're 18, we can put this game on adult mode. It's in adult mode. It's potty time. Oh, sorry. Whoa. It's not that adult. Whoa. But, yeah, so if you're listening and you've got little ones in the car with you or something, you might want to skip ahead a bit or maybe just wait and listen to it by yourself. There's going to be some adult language not coming from us but coming from you. We're sure everybody listens to this with their family at dinnertime. I really hope not. All right. So we'll cut to EM Dungeon and Danny Peck in between games here. But, yeah, let's get started here and play some games. Let's do this. Hopefully this all works out. This is adult mode.

medium confidence · Hosts debate whether Rob Zombie or Rick and Morty has superior dialogue; one host states 'I really think zombie...it's going to take it away from me'

  • The game features voice acting from Sherry Moon Zombie, Rob Zombie, and Sid Haig; the designers feel guilty Bill Moseley and Otis (character) were not included due to time and budget constraints

    high confidence · Hosts explain voice cast limitations: 'Because we were out of time and broke. And money.'

  • American Witch is described as the most challenging mode in the game, followed by Thousand Corpses

    medium confidence · Host states: 'I would say the most challenging mode in this game is still probably American Witch' with acknowledgment that Thousand Corpses is 'pretty tough'

  • “I remember when we sat down and worked out all the rules for this, it was like we want this to be punishing. That was something Rob wanted. He didn't want this to be straight up easy.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 24:43 — Explains design philosophy behind difficult mode design and Rob Zombie's direct influence

  • “We don't have enough video modes in our games anymore.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 27:45 — Reflects on design philosophy shift; acknowledges video modes as valued feature

  • “This is literally Rob Zombie's Spookshow International (Standard Edition) right now.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 28:48 — Humorous commentary on rapid ball drain/feed during cascading pop bumper sequences

  • “I feel like this is really the true R-rated pinball machine that's ever been created.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 15:14 — Positioning of Rob Zombie as uniquely adult-oriented in pinball market

    • Pinball Zombies from Beyond the Grave
    game
    Rick and Mortygame
    Matt (Back Alley Creations)person
    Ryan (CGC)person
    Spooky Lukeperson
    Pinball Lifecompany
    Scott Danesiperson
    IFPAorganization
    Alice Coopergame
    [name withheld pending review]game
    Jersey Jack Pinballcompany
  • ?

    community_signal: Rob Zombie game has inspired significant aftermarket mod community, including Living Dead Girl crypt mods with infinity mirrors that hosts acknowledge are superior to factory design

    high · Hosts discuss mod culture: 'The Living Dead Girl Crypt with the infinity mirrors and everything is absolutely awesome...there's some incredible Rob Zombie mods. And, yeah, that one is honestly better than what we could do at the time'

  • ?

    design_innovation: Rob Zombie features a notable CHOP ball save mechanic with distinctive animation that hosts describe as 'the best ball save ever'

    medium · Host notes 'Oh, yeah. I mean the animation. It's notorious. The best ball save ever' and suggests it may never be replicated

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Hosts expressing renewed pride and satisfaction with Rob Zombie game after five years, noting improved rules depth and acknowledging design strengths despite early criticisms

    medium · Host: 'honestly, I haven't played this game much, but watching and playing this game, I'm extremely proud of it. I think we did a really good job'

  • ?

    historical_signal: Unlicensed 'Pinball Zombies from Beyond the Grave' prototype preserved in Spooky Pinball's 'graveyard' collection as historical artifact

    high · Designer states 'There's only one of those games, and it's sitting in the graveyard' when explaining the fate of the original concept

  • ?

    licensing_signal: America's Most Haunted's poor commercial performance was the direct catalyst for pursuing Rob Zombie IP license

    high · Designer explains: 'it became obvious after struggling to sell America's Most Haunted that we needed a license and huge Rob Zombie fans'

  • ?

    manufacturing_signal: Spooky Pinball has begun producing limited butter cabinet variants; Rob Zombie has both a standard and butter cabinet version

    medium · Host notes 'We started experimenting with the butter cabinets again on this game. So we made one for Rob and made one for me. And man, they look good'

  • ?

    content_signal: Rob Zombie code update release on October 31st coordinated with new Rob Zombie music release, creating synchronized media event

    medium · Hosts note timing coincidence: 'it's nice to have Code Drop on Halloween with some music from Rob Zombie dropping all in the same day' though uncertainty remains about album vs single status

    • 7:30
    All right, I'll go first since I'm just kind of up here. You missed the triple skill shot. I don't even try for it. You didn't get any of it. Why not? Because it's impossible. Okay, so, Dad. It's not impossible. I watched one of you do it twice in one game this week. Actually, I've done it about four or five times now. So I'm going to do my best to actually try and conduct an interview while playing. Something I've never done before, technically. Wow, you're like Bud Danger. Uh-huh.
    7:55
    So you get done with America's Most Haunted. How long before you had the license to rob zombie did you already have this layout in your head?
    8:07
    Actually, I was working on this as pinball zombies from beyond the grave. You're in trouble there. I'll jump in while you talk. I was working on Pinball Zombies from Beyond the Grave while we were doing AMH, and, of course, AMH was a long, hard road.
    8:25
    Yeah, David's cheating there. This is good. Oh, I see what you're doing. If you don't hit anything, just try to do it again. It'll let you do that once, and then it'll take that away from you. But, yeah, it became obvious after struggling to sell America's Most Haunted that we needed a license and huge Rob Zombie fans. So it was probably half to three-quarters of the way through AMH that we walked in to deal with Rob Zombie and started making a lot of changes to the game.
    8:52
    And where's Pinball Zombies today? Because I know a lot of people still ask, what are you doing, Pinball Zombies? There's only one of those games, and it's sitting in the graveyard. You just missed that shot. It's sitting in the graveyard. It's still in there. All right, you're up now. All right. Trade places here. Switching over to the other mic. Trading Places Pinball? What? Trading Places. Jimmy Lee Curtis. No. Dan Eckroyd. Eddie Murphy. We can't afford any of those. No, they're all so expensive. I'm going to hit the triple skill shot just to show you how easy it is. I've done it maybe twice in my entire life. Maybe not. Really? That's sad, really. So quick math here. How many years ago was Zombie? It would have been five now, right? Yeah. Five years ago.
    9:33
    All right, so basically what I'm trying to do, and failing miserably here, I'm going go for the living dead girl targets right there which i just nailed because they're super easy but i'm trying to get the ball a lot you gotta so what are a thousand corpses are there any key features in this game that you wish would have made it that didn't make it from like say pinball zombies because i remember there were some unique ideas on pinball zombies that i know didn't make it um or should i not ask this question no it's perfectly fine we had a uh back turn i it's hard Talk and play at the same time. How did Jack Danger do it?
    10:08
    We had a zombie on the backboard in Pinball Zombies that would chase the cheerleader from the crypt until it caught her. All right, so the ramp is jackpots, and I'm trying to hit the purple targets here to beat this mode.
    10:24
    There we go. Oh, did you see that timing? That was close. Anyway. Yeah, that was one of the things. And we did have physical ball locks, but Ben had convinced me early on that programming with physical ball locks was going to suck, so that went away.
    10:40
    Hang on, he wasn't even programming. I just beat the mode. I just know he was going to program it at that point. No, I'd asked him to do that, but he was not. Fosmo was going to program it, but Ben still convinced me that Fosmo was going to struggle.
    10:55
    Oh, he just tilted it out. I think you might have gotten cheated there. That didn't look like it was your fault. I was working the machine fairly hard. All right, why don't you turn the glasses with me here? Gosh darn it, I was having a good ball, too. I completely beat Living Dead Girl.
    11:14
    Oh, okay, we're going to wait a second here. We might cheat a little and lower that tilt, Bob. I know I tightened it up this week because I knew you were going to be playing it, and I didn't want you to make me look bad. What are you trying to say? I'm going to the mode where I don't need to shake the game at all because I'm terrified now. All right, so let's talk about the suffer play field, Dad. You should try hitting the ball with the flipper this time. There you go. He's got a second time. So basically you've got to collect the fried chicken and gasoline. You're in what mode with Captain Spalding? All right, so I got one. And then you got to bash the gate three times to beat him Ooh this is getting sketchier by the second It not as easy as it looks Two more
    11:55
    One more. Okay, I got one more. Nope. Oh, no! You didn't do it. See, it ain't that easy. I know if I restart the mode, though, it should hold my place, right? No, I don't think it does. Let's find out if I can hit that left orbit again. and trust me people I understand that this is not the greatest upper playfield in the history of pinball that's an L Alice Cooper that game where you're like well actually I can do upper playfields man but you know what for a first attempt and a first effort Rob Zombie is a fun game the speech is ridiculously good me and David were actually talking about that recently and we think that the dialogue call outs in this game are probably the best of all of our games including rick and morty even really i agree i i think zombie i think it's going to take it away from me on this one david oh will it yeah well yep no i i really think uh in my opinion it's my favorite because yeah his energy is rob was ridiculous through the roof like he really cared about this project as you know as he talked to you a lot about what could not fly and what will be okay yeah he didn't want anything lame and boring he wanted uh which is understandable he wanted cursing he wanted nudity in a badass horror metal game and that's what he got and that's exactly what all right so right now david is trying to spam those purple cross targets of the living dead girl center of the playfield and basically you got to bash each target two times that adds another ball every time you do and you get to five balls, you beat the living dead girl. And the ramp is Jackbox.
    13:43
    Oh, still alive. Whoa, man. I was ripped off on that one. And what kind of gets this game a bad rap and makes it... Go ahead, swap places. Unlike everything else out there is the side-to-side shots. There's a lot of swing shots and pop bumpers in this thing, and it makes it tougher to play, which is... Quite substantially. Kind of the intent, because I get tired of losing to my son and Bowen and people like them, and it kind of evens the playing field a little bit. Hey, you're still in the lead. Yeah, I mean, he's hoping to prove this right. Now, and I had said, you and I have been talking about doing a head-to-head livestream tournament lately, where we're going to go through every single spooky game and see who really is the spooky pinball playing champion. And I've said multiple times, this is the game you should probably kick my butt on the most. I sure hope so. Oh, see, because I have extra ball lit right now, which means I am not doing well. Yeah, that means you haven't started a mode or done nothing. I started one, I just didn't finish it. It's kind of like Crypt. There you go. All right. Sorry. Okay, that's going to happen. Oh, look at that ball save. Oh, yeah. I mean the animation. It's notorious. The best ball save ever. All right, now this is going to be a hard shot. It might be. Probably would never be anything like that again in pinball. No.
    15:08
    Oh, I'm so close to that extra ball. Maybe I should just get a multiball going and hope for it to hit it. I feel like this is really the true R-rated pinball machine that's ever been created. I mean, I guess we've got Python's Zingy Bingy. Two-production game, I guess. It's not the pornographic game.
    15:30
    Okay. So Buggy, hit the orbit and he can select whatever mode he wants. All right. Now, not to bring it back to the upper play field or anything.
    15:38
    Whoa, dirty pool. If you do that five times, it'll light an extra ball. Nice. Which apparently you need a lot of. Yeah, I can't hit the extra ball shot. Maybe you're lucky the slingshot will hit it for you. That's what I'm hoping for.
    15:51
    There's another one. Ooh, wow. Oh, there it goes. Okay. So let's say... it's been a quite a few years since we've done this game now you've learned a lot we've all learned a lot we're able to do a lot more in general at spooky pinball with our games what does a rob zombie play upper playfield look like now today like if you could go back and redo it um it would be a lower playfield yeah some say there can't be a lower playfield in the upper never mind um you know honestly i i gave a template of this thing uh the upper playfield to dennis norton and he had kind of come up with the design and i came up with a design and i probably should have gone with his everybody's gonna be really mad when they find out you didn't go with the norton honestly it was uh it was very very similar it still fed one flipper uh but it had a hole in the center that dropped it down onto into the the ball instead of feeding it back to the flipper. So I kind of wanted to stay with feeding it back to the flipper. Am I up again? Yes. You're up.
    17:03
    Probably shouldn't sit down on the taser. The audio people hate us right now. Should we just stand here and listen to Rob curse at you? Yes. It's funny.
    17:15
    Oh, we should also mention here that there's a lot of... I just hit the triple skill shot, Bug. the impossible-to-hit triple skill shot. I think you did it two times in a row there, technically. And then you drank right away. I drank with it, yes.
    17:29
    Wow, that's an interesting matching animation. It's magic. It's magical. All right. Well, so that was game number one. How's that? That's a good idea. While he adjusts the tilt... Oh, my goodness. This was really set to screw with Bug. So while he adjusts the tilt, why don't we head over to the EM dungeon, and when we come back, it'll be game number two. But if you're on the video side, you're just going to stay with us while Dad awkwardly adjusts this. Suckers. I awkwardly adjusted it. There you go. All right, so next game. One, two, three. You're going to fess this time.
    18:03
    Who's going first, me? You are. You won the last game. Winner goes first. Oh, yeah, the tallies. Dad won. Me and David, zero. So there are a lot of things. Oh, I just missed the triple. There's a lot of things in this game that were not actually in the game, and a lot of people are probably really jealous of that. Why don't you go through and talk a little bit about some of the mods that are in here.
    18:25
    Uh, hang on, I'm trying to do anything. Actually, he's trying to focus. Actually, tell us what you, uh, I wouldn't say pick out your favorites, because they're all very good. The mods in the game, honestly, and I'm just being brutally honest with myself, what we could afford to do and what we had time to do, uh, the Living Dead Girl crypt is absolutely amazing in this game. I do really like that. Go to Pennside, you'll find, just start looking for Rob Zombie mods. The Living Dead Girl Crypt with the infinity mirrors and everything is absolutely awesome. I don't think you can buy them anymore. I think he stopped making them. I don't know. You're on that side. Go ahead, swap. I tried to keep up, well, it's almost impossible to keep up with. I should say I almost misspoke there, to keep up with all the mods. But, yeah, there's some incredible Rob Zombie mods.
    19:11
    And, yeah, that one is honestly better than what we could do at the time. Right. admittedly it's what you wish we could have oh i'm gonna get hosed on that oh okay that was a generous yeah all right so right now dragula mode shoot the ramp and spell dragula which it's right in the center it's a fairly easy ramp i'm under so much pressure on camera though but it is a timed mode oh yeah i got nine seconds You need to beat this mode so we can go to video mode And show some Oh yeah Oh gosh It's the easiest shot in the game Come on man Yeah I blew it It's cause all the pops and slings do give you the ball back There you go Nice inner loop Alright And also Worthy to mention This was David Van Ness' first game with us, too. It was. It is, yeah. Actually, I mean, honestly, I haven't played this game much, but watching and playing this game, I'm extremely proud of it. I think we did a really good job. The murder ride? Okay, so why don't you explain why that's important to people? I actually don't quite understand the rules for murder ride that well. Well, if you are hitting the number two target, which is a big one-inch target right next to the ramp. Every time you do that, you add a letter to one of the serial killers in the game, which is N.E., Albert Fish, and Dr. Satan, and you have to hit the murder ride to go see them. If you beat all three, then there's a whole new mode in there, and the inner orbit will open up for you for, like, I don't know, a few times, right, David? Yeah, yeah.
    21:03
    I know I hit it, like, eight times the other day, and I was shocked. I don't know why I might be in trouble here. So, yeah.
    21:13
    Oh, no. Hit it. Oh. Man, I have not beat two modes in a row now. And I had range. You just knocked that right out the outline. That was beautiful. That's a good game, though. That was, you know, full mail. You had a good game. That's more than my entire last game score.
    21:29
    Hey, David, here's a question for you. In the animations there, there appears to be both male and female. female instances of stuff, body parts.
    21:43
    Is that going to get us in trouble on YouTube? Oh, you know. I wasn't thinking about that. Or are you going to have to spend some time blurring?
    21:52
    We'll find out if we'll get our first game. Our strike? I don't want to blur it out. I mean, it's pixelated, so. Yeah. And again, people forget this was like the first production game to have a color D&D, so to speak. for us at least. JGP was doing a full LCD, but at that time, everybody else was still doing just a one-color D&D.
    22:18
    That upper playfield is so easy until it isn't. Bad. I'm telling you, I struggle to beat Captain Spaulding in what mode?
    22:30
    Has anybody here actually made it to Hellbound or Demonbound? Yes, I did this week. The glass was not on. I remember, like, code testing Hellbound, but I never actually played my way there.
    22:42
    That's not a damn hard game. Yeah. Am I up? Yes. Good lord. None of us is having a stellar game. No, I'm doing quite well. I'm kicking ass. I'm gonna go the David Van Asper out. I'm the only person who doesn't do this. How much is the skill shot worth? That it's worth, actually... Well, the extra ball is the big reward. Oh, that's right, it likes that traball. And I'll be honest with you, just achieving it, it feels good.
    23:13
    Yeah, it does. I've never done it on purpose, only on accident when I wasn't really paying attention.
    23:18
    Just kind of talking and walk up and you launch it. Oh! All right, so spamming the center ramp there. Obviously I'm rejected on the murder ride because it's not lit yet. But shooting the center ramp now helps because you can get three of the chop letters lit so you can save yourself in an outlay Just like TNA ripped that off of me It gotten easy And also One more
    23:45
    Get up there! Oh, it didn't hit it hard enough. It didn't activate it. I'll get it. There we go. Red hot. All right, so that activates, because I have one of the five shots, I think. It activates the right orbit for red hot... Kitty lovers. Yes.
    24:03
    And I... They're not going to say that, but we are. Right. But if you hit the right orbit now, I will go get Goober a new name tag.
    24:15
    Gary-ober. J-ober. All right, I'm going for the living dead girl. He's playing the safe. Because it's safe. Wallock, no. Yes, it is. I want to see somebody get a thousand corpses on air.
    24:29
    I've got it like five times this week, and I can tell you I haven't beaten it. It's a very challenging mode. I would say the most challenging mode in this game is still probably American Witch, but Thousand Corpses is pretty tough. American Witch is very tough. I remember when we sat down and worked out all the rules for this, it was like we want this to be punishing. That was something Rob wanted. He didn't want this to be straight up easy.
    24:54
    There we go. Some people may be wondering, how come his armor looks different? if they're watching and not listening maybe so there are two games that have the word zombie and not Rob Zombie in the armor and two games this color and two water cabinets one of them is Rob's and one of them is this one and that's why he doesn't have my super awesome armor kit that I did with Spooky Luke which I should have on camera here, but I don't have it on me currently. I'll have to go find it. But be sure to check out all the awesome sidearm that we did for all the old games.
    25:39
    I am. Alright, my turn, I think. Super skill shot on the first try this round. Not even close. Fun Rob Zombie fact, actually. We started experimenting with the butter cabinets again on this game. So we made one for Rob and made one for me. And man, they look good.
    26:02
    They do. That was sketchy. Oh, no. That was awful. I like how she said that in two different ways in the last two dents. Again, part of the new speech back. Can we get this line in version one? Now version two?
    26:25
    Yeah, this game definitely has the most ambitious voice work because it has Sherry Moon Zombie, Rob Zombie, and Sid Haig. Yes. And we feel guilty every time Bill Moseley is at a convention. He's like, well, how come I'm not in it? And we're like, uh... Because we were out of time and broke. And money.
    26:43
    It feels bad. But we potentially could have had the... Otis Riff would, too. He wouldn't have had very many nice things to say, though. I'm gonna do my multiplayer yeah so it's actually worth noting that in a lot of modes when you start that upper playfield you actually wanna even if it's not a mode where you need the upper playfield like Dragula it's worth keeping it up there because it'll help your multiplier quite a bit and it eventually will kick you off the upper playfield you can't just keep it up there forever you can only do it three times You hit each lane three times and it'll kick you out. And most of the modes are timed, so you can only... It's a risk-reward factor. You can only spend so much time up top.
    27:33
    So is David going to get to the video mode? Whose idea was the video mode? I think it was Ben's. And Ben actually did the video mode.
    27:42
    Hit the ramp! That's something we've been lacking. We don't have enough video modes in our games anymore. Well, there's a new very fun speech call-out from Rob Zombie when you get there. Really? Yeah, he kind of makes fun of video modes. Oh, okay. Well, somebody definitely needs to get it. I'll go for Dragula next ball if I can.
    28:02
    I'm going to try for House of a Thousand Corpses. Yeah, let's see. Oh, you already got a ball, too. Yeah, that was a really good throwback. Nobody actually saw it on the audio side, but whatever.
    28:15
    Be sure to watch the video. And this is not Fan Club exclusive, either. This will be available for everybody. we kind of wow. Thank you game. Alright so now the trick is I've got to spam those blue targets because those are the thousand corpses multipliers. The blue targets aren't exactly easy to spam because they're over there. You just hit it once there. They're hittable but This is seven or eight? Seven. Because that is literally the highest amount we can have in our ball trough. This is literally Rump Zombie Kachinko right now.
    28:52
    I'm sure this sounds amazing. This is another... Oh my god, everybody out of the pool. Did you see that? That was evil. You're a quarter of the way there. Wow, Megacorps was lit too and you didn't hit it. Yeah, I hit it now. Does that help? No, probably not.
    29:09
    No, but you did definitely just catch up I'm pretty sure there. You got super pops left. More blurring work for David. Nope. Yeah, actually I probably will, huh? If I can make out what it is from here, I have to blur it out.
    29:24
    All right, let's just, let's beat Living Dead Girls, will we? So, David, from, and this is just me not understanding this, on the animation side, does it make a difference if you're working on a dot matrix or an actual screen? Absolutely. So, I don't remember exactly what the resolution was. This, because I was originally going to do this on 720p HD, and then with the system we're using and everything else, that would not work. So we had to go back to 128 by 32, I think it is, pixels. So everything had to be down-res. I was hoping to do it in HD and then down-res it down to a smaller version. And just the conversion from the animation to the system, it wasn't working that great. So then we had to go in and customize a fair bit of it.
    30:13
    Anyway, you took these, we're talking. I beat this mode and hit the super jackpot in the left orbit. Sunny Gun.
    30:21
    And now he's going to drop both of them so I can make a huge comeback in the next ball. Oh, 10 million. This podcast isn't too short.
    30:30
    Yeah. Brick. All right, so you've only got... You've got one mode beat. You've started a few. We've all started a lot of modes. Yeah, I haven't completed anything. Except for Living Dead Girl. We should have had some warm-up games first.
    30:49
    Woo-hoo! Hang on, you guys did. Oh, that helps. Oh, I'm up to Dr. Satan. So I've collected two serial killer cards.
    31:03
    And what happens when you finish all the serial killer cards? You actually get to start the murder ride. Okay.
    31:09
    Now, is that new to this version of the game, or was that in a previous update? Oh, what should I do here? I'm going to try... I'm going to try Super Beast. That was super easy Yeah, um I believe the mode was there And this is tricky because you gotta Avoid everything Yeah, you gotta hit the ramp only, basically And it hurts you if you hit enough other stuff Which you're definitely doing Yeah, I'm doing everything but what I'm supposed to do Yep Damn I like it when he says you're no lion man How's our time looking, David? We're looking good Alright, good, good Left orbit lightning collect bonus that means i hit the targets there and hit the left orbit let's uh try super beast again i can't do any worse now i wonder how many people who are watching this actually have a signed chicken bucket from sid hegg because for a while there we were taking chicken buckets to sid at conventions for him to sell as a little I failed again. That was awful. Yeah. I think that was one of the cooler things we got to do after the game. Matt from Back Alley Creations and Ryan from CGC now. I'm not going to do that mode again. I suck. They were always kind enough to help us out and make extra chicken buckets for Sid and let him get them out to the fine people at the conventions.
    32:36
    Damn now. so that uh i'm in and basically every lamp is flashing and you have to hit them all every single insert you're actually you've made your way through quite a few of them yeah he keeps missing that drop target yeah i know now all the people yelling pop your top there are actually pinball workers Yeah, those were all our crew of employees about five years ago. You can hear at the end one guy going, oh, that's Seth. And he's still here. He's crazy. And he's still here. I think I'm playing. Nope. Nope, I got four million. I think I was player two.
    33:27
    Yeah, I think I was player two. Okay, catch-up game. Yeah, you suck. What's the problem here? I'm just going to go straight for house. I'm actually surprised. Oh, no. So I figured I would probably have extra ball lit, but apparently it thinks I did just good enough to not deserve it, which is no help to me right now. Actually, I'll go for Dragula and hopefully try and get that video mode available for everybody. He's going to tilt it out.
    33:58
    That's not going to make it. Oh, hey. in Super Beast, you're supposed to hit the ramp five times to get the werewolf to catch the girl.
    34:09
    But if you cheat and use the secret passage underneath the upper playfield from the back, it'll actually start that mode instantaneously for you. Which is cool.
    34:22
    I didn't know that until this week. I was playing it, I did it, and it was sneak attack. The one flow shot? That's okay. You hit one shot at the murder ride, you've collected Dr. Satan. Oh, okay, so we can actually see the murder ride thing. Oh, no! You're not going to do that, though, are you? I thought five million would get me this game. I'm a fucking... David's going to make the comeback instead of me. They say just one ball makes the difference, right? It's a one-ball game.
    34:55
    Are we sacking up for this? Did anybody bring their points? No. Okay. We do not encourage gambling. Oh, and I'm not sure what you're talking about. Oh yeah, never mind. That's right, I'm not talking about... Nothing at all. I have a feeling... David's about to be on a roll. Nope.
    35:19
    Get us the video mode. You wanna do the video mode? Yeah Prove it Not easy It that center ramp over and over Hitting other things doesn screw you over in this mode though That's good. There you go.
    35:39
    So, song choice in this game. Is there a single song, if you could go back to that, you would change out? Because I think we... Let's see, there's What, Demonoid Phenomenon, American Witch, Dead City Radio, Super Beast, House of a Thousand Corpses, and Dracula. And Never Gonna Stop. So that's eight songs.
    35:59
    Never Gonna Stop is in the wizard mode. Which is the song I unfortunately never hear. Which is a bummer, because it's a great song.
    36:08
    I think that was the end of the game. If I came last, then I should get it. You didn't get your name up for $15 million? No, sir. No, I've had some good... Yeah, you might want to look a little closer.
    36:19
    How about $26? Ooh. Come on. Disrespected. That's 22 and second, 22, 7, and third. Oh, look, there you are. You're in fourth. That's cute.
    36:32
    All right, we're going to head over to the Danny Peck segment on the audio side. When we come back, we have one more game. All right. All righty, time for the Pinball Life giveaway, brought to you by Terry, Margaret, Scott Denise, and everybody else at Pinball Life. So this month, we have something. I really like this. This is something I would use at the shop during work. because I am a very unorganized person. I have things kind of scattered about. I know where they are. But if anybody actually walked up and asked me for something, they would never be able to find it, because I'm terrible at organization. So this is something that's very good for people like me, who have absolutely no organizational skills and need to get their act together. What we are giving away is a Slow Blow Fuse Kit. So in the kit, it's kind of like a fishing tackle box. you have one amp two amp two and a half three four all the way through eight amp five fuses each and it's essentially a small tackle box to arrange all your fuses because right now for me like any all the fuses i use they're just kind of scattered about in small cases this is one big case to keep all your stuff together and it's only 30 if you go to the website which you should be saving on that because buying fuses individually is kind of silly. So go to pinballlife.com, check out the Slow Blow Fuse Kit, and we're going to be giving this away to one of you, of course, as long as you email bug at spookypinball.com. Now, I realize my target audience here probably doesn't play a lot of first-person shooters, but I used to play a game where the main character I always played was views in this first person shooter and it got me thinking about video games so i want everybody to email me for the giveaway what you think would be the best uh video game to a pinball machine i don't think we've done this one before now i've played a few custom games like the doom homebrew game very fun i think doom would be a great idea for a game uh there's a lot of cool independent games out there that i think would make great ideas for a game so go ahead email bug at spooky pinball.com what you think would make a great idea for a video game pinball machine and why it can be any video game ever you could dig dug pinball if you wanted or you could say final fantasy 37 because i think that's what they're up to now or whatever so email bug at spooky pinball.com and be sure to check out pinball life.com as they are our amazing sponsor every single month and uh if you don't win go buy the fuse kit for yourself because it's a great deal and it's very good for unorganized people such as myself all right let's get back to it and for the video side we're still here so let's get rolling into game three i'm gonna go last this time so i can really study and see what i'm going against know what i'm chasing there's nothing you're chasing right because I'm going to lead this round well dad won two out of three here so it's a good thing this is a tournament ok so for those of you watching on YouTube and those listening at home you hit that one it got over there and got back to your flipper if you just shoot the pop you will collect the third because the game doesn't you didn't activate any switches or targets so the game doesn't know that you messed up so you can essentially cheat alright dad you're up No way. He's going left. I'm going last, and I'm going to kick your butt on the last ball. I just had this whole speech about chasing.
    40:08
    Oh, no. Two out of three. It was just a hair off. It's not impossible, I'm telling you. Let's see. Let's go house, probably. Target. And that is a risky shot. That's a very risky shot. I'm actually not going to go for it anymore. No, no, you can do it. That's what killed me just then.
    40:30
    throw it up in there for me it's probably gonna oh I was looking in the wrong place it hits your flippers and you just drop it yeah you just drop it
    40:45
    awesome that you can yeah yeah I make crap about it I missed so unlike Rick already well you can actually adjust how much they swear like you can kind of have it at 0-100% swearing, this one's either nothing or all in for adult mode. Oh! You got the first one.
    41:15
    Boy, we're not doing crap in this game. No, this round was bad. I hope everybody on the audio side can hear all the new Sid Heck dialogue.
    41:29
    Get the cluck out. Whoa. Am I up? No, you're up. Well, that was a pitiful round. This whole game has not gone well for anybody. Low score wins. There you go.
    41:42
    Bounce over, you hoser. Backhanded there. That's not too common. Hey, one more and you... Get out of the slings.
    41:56
    Nah, it's two more, because I messed it up the last round. All right. Up to the target. What was that?
    42:06
    I'm trying, Rob. Oh, that would have been nice. Spelling that chop safe is always a good thing. It's probably a safe bet, huh? But I have it here.
    42:18
    Ball two locked. Time to house. One target and one inner loop. I should probably spell chop. Chop save. That was a good deal. All right. Do I go full tournament mode and refuse to hit anything until I spell chop again?
    42:36
    Or am I going to drain because I said that? Be smart. Oh, see, you weren't smart. All right. Not bad. Not bad at all.
    42:45
    Sid liked it. Next round. House is starting. I tried this strategy last ball and it sucked so you do have to beat the auto launch then when you let it just roll down there see the problem is I just if it doesn't hit a switch it won't just automatically but as soon as it hits a switch it will I thought you had to beat your auto launch kind of like total nuclear strategy get up there H Oh. You know, I think this game actually was released just a little bit before his most recent album, the, oh gosh, it's like ten words long, some acid witch celebration.
    43:39
    The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Dispenser. That was, uh... Or is that wrong? The rat regeneration vendor. Yeah, or something like that. But, yeah, this game dropped just a little bit before it, and I kind of wish the timing would have lined up that we could have gotten UFO into this game.
    44:00
    Which would have been a great mode, and we could have had a cool flying saucer in here somewhere, but I'm still very happy with the song layout that we got with this game. Get up!
    44:12
    We haven't done a damn thing this game. This is a terrible way to end this. I'm going to really blow it up next fall. I swear. I hope somebody does. Maybe we can do another game. Apparently I burned it all up in the last game.
    44:25
    I really wanted to see Murder Ride in the video mode. Hopefully in the future we can do just some actual real live streams and not pre-record. We'll do that. And then Dad and I will start our tournament around the spooky shop.
    44:41
    Yeah, so why don't you tell everybody what we're going to do, Bug? uh basically uh if you ever make sure this office is clean sir we're going to start from the very beginning of the spooky pinball chain of games and dad and i are going to have a head-to-head tournament on every single game on live stream we'll do it one game at a time or maybe go from newest or newest or oldest whichever but uh yeah we're going to basically go through every single game and figure out who is the champion player for Spooky. Today it was you, for sure. And then whoever wins that, he's bowling. Yes. I know.
    45:20
    Wow, that was amazing. How did it roll back? You held that fucker up and rolled it right out the outlay. Wow, I refused to end on this. That was awful.
    45:33
    Five minutes? I'm just going to play this. Don't take five minutes. no he can take as long as he needs i have faith in those slingshots i'm gonna get that extra ball shoot for the outlay shoot for the outlay the slingshots will take care of that just like that and i have beat everyone this is ridiculous done podcast over i won by 58 000 points damn right that was awful well hopefully you all enjoyed hanging out with us playing some... Listening to Us Play Pinball on an audio podcast. Oh, boy. Yeah, be sure to check this one out on YouTube. Hey, there are some nuggets in there.
    46:15
    If you found the Spooky Pinball Podcast on Zune, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, or any other podcast hosting directory, be sure to like and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Email me, buggettspookypinball.com, for the Pinball Life giveaway.
    46:28
    Tell us what you think of just this whole livestream setup and whatnot. What can we do better? What can we do different? just let us know how you feel about it. Play better for the most part.
    46:37
    Other than that, I think we should be all good. Yeah, and go out and download the new code and enjoy it. Yes. Kind of hope you guys appreciate that we went back and updated code on a game that was our second one out the door ever. Be sure to download the code update when it is dropped on the 31st and you can watch this as a tour of what not to do when you play your Rob Zombie. So thank you all for joining us and we will see you next time. Bye. Bye-bye.