1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, I'm welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant, Doo Doo doo doo, 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: and there's Jerry Doo and this is stuff you should 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: know the podcast. What is that? Oh? Yeah, I thought 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: you're making pinball pings and no bells and whistles. No 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: sounds like Vegas. Vegas like one big pinball machine. It 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: is that you've been to walk through those casinos. Yeah, 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: you just made my neck muscles tight. Now, man, I 10 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: hate Vegas. I like Vegas. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to live in Vegas or 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: like go to Vegas every weekend or anything like that. 13 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: But going to Vegas once a year, once every couple 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: of years, that's fine with me. Yeah, not for me. 15 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I've been a bunch and I'm just I'm done. 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: Oh you're one with Vegas. That's what you're saying that 17 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: I don't see any reason to go back. I guarantee 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: somebody you want to see will have some sort of 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: residency out there, and you will be back in Vegas. 20 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: When I'm like sixty. Yeah, like pavement will have a 21 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: residence valleys. That's exactly I think, what's going to happen. Well, 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: then you'll find me in living in Vegas, my friend. 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, see I got you back on 24 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: the Vegas train. But that sound. Yeah, it's like a 25 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: million pinball machines that take your money faster than pinball machines. Yeah, 26 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: and that was an early worry about pinball. Actually, as 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: we will soon see because I say, chuck, let's dive 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: right into the history of pinballs. So pinball machines actually 29 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 1: find their lineage back in the nineteenth century. There were 30 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: um things called or what were they? I want to 31 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: say Bagat machines, but that's not correct. The table, Yes, 32 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: the Bagatel table, thank you. Um. They were basically a 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: cross between pool and pinball. He used a pool que 34 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: and everything, and they sucked and nobody liked him. I 35 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: think it looks pretty cool, does it? It looks I'm 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: boring to me? Well, I mean it's if you're used 37 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: to modern gaming, is not gonna thrill you, but look 38 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: kind of neat. So the Bagatel table was there, it 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: was in place, and in the thirties a guy named 40 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: monte Redgrave came along like, you can't not say that 41 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: guy's name like that. Um. He came along and said, 42 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: you know what, people just invented a spring. How did 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 1: you say his name? Again? Montague, like he's on lad 44 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: on um um and uh. He came along and said, 45 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: somebody invented a spring recently. I'm gonna add it to 46 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: this bagatel table make it less sucky. And then all 47 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: of a sudden we have the the what did he 48 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: call it, the ball shooter, which makes sense, that's what 49 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: you call it. And now we had the first introduced 50 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: mechanism of pinballs. Things are starting to take shape a 51 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: little bit here. Yeah, but you didn't stick a coin 52 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 1: in the game. What you would do is kind of 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: like pool tables these days at a bar. You would 54 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: go up to the keeper of the balls and say, 55 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: here's some money, give me my balls, and let me 56 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: go play the game on the bagotel table. Yeah, and 57 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: he would go, you know it sucks, don't you, And 58 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: you would say, yes, but it's the eighteen thirties. Yeah, 59 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: and if I play really well, then I can win 60 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: free drinks and cigarettes. And they said, exactly, can you 61 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: see a little twelve year old, winning cigarettes and then 62 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: going back to play more bagatell Sure, so this is 63 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: the way it went for many decades. People were miserable 64 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: until the nineteen thirties, and there was this enormous explosion 65 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: of innovation and pool table re um in the thirties. Yeah, 66 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: like just almost everything that you think of and you 67 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: think of a pool, a pool um. We've been saying. 68 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: I've been saying pool table just for the last like minute. 69 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: Why didn't you correct me? I thought you were talking 70 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: about bull tall I'm talking about pinball. Anyway. In the 71 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: thirties there was a huge explosion in pinball, pinball or yeah, 72 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: and um, everything that you think of when when you 73 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: think of a pinball machine, almost all of it came 74 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: about in the thirties. Coin operation, the back glass, the 75 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: thing that has like a kiss or Hugh heff neuron 76 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: it or something like that stands up off of the 77 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: playing field. The table um electric well, I guess an 78 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: electric current running through it, legs um, the tilt mechanism, bumpers, 79 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: uh sounds yeah, score keeping. And then first, of course 80 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: I think I said bumpers, did I not? I don't know. Maybe, 81 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: And then most of all, most wortaintly chuck was. The 82 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: thirties led to a huge surge in popularity because you 83 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: had the Great Depression and pinballs were cheap entertainment that 84 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: were wide, widely available. You notice the one thing we 85 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: didn't say though and all that innovation, what flippers, Because 86 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: still up until nineteen seven, you just bumped the thing 87 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: to make the ball move. Yeah, there were no flippers, 88 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: which seems very counterintuitive to pinball. And the flippers really 89 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: changed things. They fundamentally changed pinball, not just in the 90 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: way you play, but in pinball is a game because 91 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: before flippers, it was a game of chance. It was 92 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: the same thing as playing like um high low. Basically 93 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: like you had no way really of manipulating the movement 94 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: of the ball. Well you shake them sheen, you could 95 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: without tilting. I mean that's what you did. Yeah, that 96 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: was how you did it. Even still it the amount 97 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: of skill it took was minute compared to the skill 98 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: that could be used. Once flippers were introduced, pinball wizardry 99 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: and it became a game of skill. Um. And then 100 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: but before that, the like I said, things were popular. 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: Get this um. In the early thirties there were a 102 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: hundred and forty five companies making pinball machines, and the 103 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: field became so competitive and ruthless that by the mid thirties, 104 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: like five years later, there were fourteen. Yeah, and most 105 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: of those were based in Chicago, which became sort of 106 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: the pinball capital of the world. And I've never been there, 107 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: but I bet you anything, Chicago still has a lot 108 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: of a lot more pinball machines than elsewhere, you know. 109 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: I was trying to think of like this, researching this 110 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: made me want to go play pinball, like researching sushi. 111 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: Maybe we want to go eat sushi. And I was thinking, like, 112 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: I have no idea where to go to play pinball, 113 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: you know, and we'll go to my brother's house. Does 114 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: he have one? He's got three? Oh, I love your 115 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: brother even more now, dude. He built a whole game room, 116 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: of course, because that's what my brother does. What does 117 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: he have he has? Uh F he has a Tomcat 118 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: F four team, which is the rip off of top Gun. 119 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: He said, there's a lot. There were a lot of 120 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: rip off games for a while, of movies and actual 121 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: movie time games. Uh. He has black Hole, but not 122 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: the movie. Another rip off game. I would love that. 123 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: Uh And those are both kind of old school. And 124 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: then he has a Jurassic Park, which is uh newer. 125 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: I think didn't they have like a t rex that 126 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: comes down and eat your ball? I can't remember. I 127 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: feel like all three of them. But yeah, and he 128 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: also kicked this. He took an old um video game 129 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: like stand up video game console and removed all the guts, 130 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: got a computer screen and um computer and hooked it 131 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: up in there too, where you can play all the 132 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: old school games, you know, those programs they have now, 133 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: and change the screen vertically so it just looks like 134 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: a regular arcade game. And you can go up and 135 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: play Frogger and Space Invaders and Scott Bite me over 136 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: and it's all free. That's so awesome. Man. He's like, 137 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: um Ricky Schroeder and silver Spoons or something. But growing up, yeah, 138 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: pretty much. Um. And I think the reason why I 139 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: don't play more pinball over there is because, um, we're 140 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: always playing ping pong. Yeah that's a game of skill, 141 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: and I love ping pong. But I'll try and get 142 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: in a pinball game. Man. I want to play some 143 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: pinball so bad. Let's just go out to Roswell dude, Okay, 144 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: do it right? Now. Uh, and I if I, if 145 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: I collected pinches, it would definitely be mid mid seventies 146 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: and mid eighties. From me, I would think, yeah, you know, 147 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: all the bells and whistles and all that, the new 148 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,719 Speaker 1: fangled bells and whistles. They're fine, that's cool. But I 149 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 1: like a not so old that it's like electro mechanical, 150 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: but not so new that it's like nothing. But like, um, 151 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: you know, plasma screens and stuff like that. Well, we're 152 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: in the middle. Sure, I'm the same way. My favorite 153 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: game of all time pinball wise, um, favorite game ever, gallagha, 154 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: but favorite game pinball wise was Adams Family Pinball. And 155 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: then I learned in this article that is the top 156 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: selling game of all time from yeah, I think it 157 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: was either Bally or Williams put that one out and 158 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: they sold more than twenty thou units of it. Dude, 159 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: it's awesome and it didn't surprise me. And like, I 160 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,599 Speaker 1: have no iffinity for the Adams Family, but it's the 161 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: best pinball game I've ever played. And when I saw 162 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: it was number one, I was like, well, of course 163 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: it is, because it's the best one. You don't like 164 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: the Adams Family, No, I mean, I like it fine, 165 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: but I don't. I didn't play it because of the movie. 166 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 1: I played it because it was an awesome pinball game. 167 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: And they had one of them all not them all 168 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: the bowling alley near me in Athens Bowling Alley. That's 169 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: where I could probably go find a pinball machine. Huh yeah, 170 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: or maybe not. Sadly, I'm starting a quest, all right, 171 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: um so telling you let's go to my brother's house 172 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: because we can have a scotch okay. Uh So. Anyway, 173 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: seven is when they finally invented the flipper. D Gottlieb 174 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: Company introduced a game called Humpty Dumpty, and that was 175 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: where what most people say that the first modern game 176 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: came about. It took at the level flippers, all the 177 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: innovations of the thirties and out of flippers and boom 178 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: you've got pinball, not pool table pinball pretty much, although 179 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: the flippers weren't the same. It was the nineteen fifties 180 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: the same person and came up with spot bowler, and 181 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: that was the first modern arrangement of flippers, right, and 182 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: they were longer with that introduction or else a little 183 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: later on. The first flippers they introduced were Um, they 184 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: were shorter. Yeah, and they didn't face this. They faced 185 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: in reverse of the way they face now. It was weird. 186 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: It was like they were working it out beta pretty much. 187 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: So it's funny that they introduced flippers in because by 188 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: the time flippers came around, pinball was illegal and most 189 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: of the major cities in the United States, Um, and 190 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,599 Speaker 1: have been for several years. I never I think I 191 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: had heard this once and forgotten it. But pinball was 192 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: totally outlawed because they equated it to gambling because it 193 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: was not a game of skill, which and I guess 194 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: because you got prizes. Yeah. Um. Mayor Lea guardia Um, 195 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: who you will remember from the Burlesque podcast, was a 196 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: bit of a moralist, although he was a wet politician. 197 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: He was in favor of repealing prohibition. He hated pinball, 198 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: hated it. He he thought it was a mafia racket. 199 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: He thought that it robbed the quote pockets of school children, 200 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: the forms of nickels and dimes came to them as 201 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: lunch money. And he got an outlawed in New York. 202 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: And once it was outlawed, he ordered like really dramatic raids. Yeah. 203 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: Right after Pearl Harbor. He said, you know what we 204 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: need to do. The Japanese have just bombed us. We 205 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: need to get rid of these pinball machines. And so 206 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: let's go round him up, uh like in a raid style. 207 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: Let's smash him with sledgehammers. Let's dump him in the river. 208 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: What they did, they dumped them in the river after 209 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: they smashed them. That's a very New York nineteen forties 210 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: thing to do. Exactly. I bet you there's still pinball 211 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: machines down there, if anyone's brave enough to get into 212 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: the East River. I don't think they are. We should 213 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: say also give a shout out to Popular Mechanics, who, um, 214 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: we're working off in part really awesome article. They came 215 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: up with eleven things you didn't know about pinball history. 216 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: Um So, from the forties until the mid nineteen seventies, 217 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: if you wanted to play pinball in New York City 218 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: and Chicago and l A most cities in the US, 219 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: it was illegal. Um you had to go to a 220 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: pornography shop basically and go behind the curtain and play pimball. 221 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: Is that weird? It's the weirdest thing we've ever said 222 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: on this show. Until the mid nineteen seventies, and like 223 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: there were still raids and pimball operators. Little five year 224 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: old Chuck, Yeah, I would have been dropped off at 225 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: a porn shop to play pinball, which I'm sure your 226 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: parents would have been happy to do. Well they did, 227 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: and I played pinball. I didn't look at nudy people. 228 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: Did you really know what I was gonna say? Man, 229 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: he just blew my mind. No, no, And get this, 230 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: The city of Oakland, Oakland, CALIFORNIAWN, just this past July 231 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: overturned an eighty year ban on pinball. Free the pinballers. Yeah, 232 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: good for them. Yeah, so pinball's band people are still 233 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: playing it like crazy. Um And apparently the manufacturers realized 234 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: this as well, because they're still innovating and adding and 235 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: making new games and machines and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. 236 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: Well this is after World War Two, that where things 237 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: really slowed down, obviously because of the war effort. Pointball 238 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: was big. Dent was put in pinball manufacturing too. Yeah, 239 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: like everything else. And then after the fifties it took 240 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: off again, and it also became kind of a symbol 241 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: of rebellious youth. In this popular mechanic starticle points out 242 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: like the Fons played a lot of pinball. I never 243 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 1: considered that from Tommy Um, from the Who's Tommy the 244 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: Pinball Wizard? And Tommy both kind of rebellious, like stick 245 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: it in your ear LaGuardia. Yeah. I mean, it seems 246 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: silly now to think about that. But when Tommy came out, 247 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: it was illegal, so pinball was sort of uh yeah, 248 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: I guess it was just the rebels. Yeah, you're anti 249 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: authoritarian if you played pinball, it was just an image 250 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. And then the Great Simpsons quote side show, 251 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: Bob said television is ruined more young minds than pinball 252 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: and syphilis combined. That one flew right over my head 253 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: when I heard it the first time. I just thought, oh, 254 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: that's silly pinball, right, But I didn't think about like 255 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: moral turpitude. Yeah. I didn't get that one either, but 256 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: I do know. So luckily, pinball was still widely available, 257 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: albeit in the backs of pornography shops UM. And the 258 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: reason we say luckily is because somewhere along the way, 259 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: a young man in I think in his early twenties 260 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: named Roger Sharp, who is a magazine editor, UM, was 261 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: called upon to save the pinball World at a New 262 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: York City council meeting. Yeah, they finally said, hey, City council, 263 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: can we get a hearing on pinball machines? You guys 264 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: are being ridict because it's a bicentennial of this country 265 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: and we need pinball. It's as American as America gets 266 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: as pornography. So they said, sure, we'll have a hearing. 267 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: Because their intent was to prove that it was a 268 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: game of skill and not chance, which was the whole 269 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: rub in the first place. They brought in there a 270 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: pinball wizard. Game of chance is gambling? Sure, LaGuardia had 271 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: a point, well sort of. I still don't get it. 272 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: But this law was obsolete because they added footperson now 273 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: as a game of skill, but the law was still 274 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: around basically. So they brought in their pinball wizard Sharp 275 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: and um. They brought two machines because if one broke down, 276 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: they wanted to have a backup, and some jerk councilman 277 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: when he went to play the game, said no, no, no, 278 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: no no, why don't you play the their game, the 279 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: backup one. Yeah, the backup game. And Sharp started sweating 280 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: because he was like, oh, I'm not very good at 281 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, he never played it before. I'm a 282 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: master at this one, but he was a pinball wizard, 283 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: so I believed in him. Yeah. Well I didn't know 284 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: what happened, did you. Did you see the the documentary 285 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: Special Windlet. No, Oh my god, it has footage of this. 286 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: It's amazing, amazing documentary. All about pinball, I mean all 287 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: about pimball is not so awesome documentary there is that's 288 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: about a specific moment in history and pinball. I haven't 289 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: seen that one, but it sounds pretty good too. But 290 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: see Special Winlet amazing um and see Tilt two. It's 291 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: what's the deal? So um. Roger Sharp's playing, he's not 292 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: really impressing anybody, and things are kind of going bad, 293 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: and he decides to do a Babe Ruth call. He 294 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: pulls back the plunger and before he releases it, he goes, 295 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: I'm going up the middle aisle here. Yeah, And just 296 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: so you know, if you've never seen a pinball game, 297 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: you you pull the plunger, it's shoots the ball up 298 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: the right hand side through a trough and then it 299 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: spits it out at the top. And what he was 300 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: trying to prove is where I'm going to spit it out, 301 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: and where it's going to start it's descent back to me, 302 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: It's going to be in a very specific place in 303 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: the center of the board, not on the left, not 304 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: on the right, right up the middle. And um, he 305 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: did it. And apparently right afterwards the city council was like, okay, 306 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: we'll repeal it, like it's obviously a game of skill, 307 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: like Roger Sharp single handedly, well double handedly because he 308 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: was using the flippers. Um, save pinball from illegality. I 309 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: wonder if they said, yeah, fine, good lord, just it's legal. 310 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: Get the machines out of here, get this loser out 311 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: of here. But he is not a loser, because he 312 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: is currently still the number five hundred and thirty six 313 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: ranked player in the world. I'm surprised. I thought he 314 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: went on to be. I think at the time he 315 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: was number one, which is why they chose him. He 316 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: probably was, but he's been falling ever since. Man, that's 317 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: another thing in special win let Man, there are some 318 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: like really good pinball players. Well, I've got the list. 319 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: I'll quickly go with the top five, number one in 320 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: the world as of today, two thousand, fourteen August whatever 321 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: it is. Keith Lwyn of the USA is number one. 322 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: U s a Urian ingele Brixton of Swedeness number two, 323 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 1: Swedie din Zack Sharp recognize that name. It sounds vaguely familiar. 324 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: Roger's son. Yeah, he's the number three player in the world. 325 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: That's awesome. Number four Danielle Celestino Axiarty, what was that? 326 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: He's Italian, he's before Jorgan Home is also Swedish. He's 327 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: number five. There's a Canadian at six, a Sweet at seven, 328 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: then eight through twenty save one are all Americans and 329 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: number twenties Josh Sharp. So his sons followed in his footsteps. 330 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: That's great, and are both top twenty ranked players. And 331 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: I bet Josh is supers jealous. Maybe maybe Josh is 332 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: also He's like, I want to be a veterin area, 333 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 1: so I'm paying more attention to that kind of thing. 334 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: Maybe so. Um So, pinball was saved by Roger Sharp, 335 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: and um pinball just kept going on and on. Apparently 336 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: it had its golden day age. It's widely believed between 337 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: ninety eight, but it was also huge in the seventies, 338 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: huge in the eighties, and then video games came along 339 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden pinball was like uh, and 340 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: it started to decline and decline and decline and decline, 341 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 1: and all I think we were down to maybe five 342 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: major pinball machine producers, and by major I mean the 343 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: only ones. Um no, because I mean it's all it 344 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: takes a lot of time and effort to manufacture of 345 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: functioning pinball game. Yeah. So, um, by the nineties there 346 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,160 Speaker 1: were just a couple left. Everybody was selling off their 347 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: pinball divisions and there was a company called Bally Williams, 348 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: which were former competitors that emerged and this is what 349 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: the documentary Tilt is about. They went to their pinball 350 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: division and said, hey, you guys are great in the 351 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: pinball world, but the pinball world sucks. We want more 352 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: money out of you guys. What are you gonna do? 353 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: Is that pinball two thousands? Yes, they came up with 354 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: pinball two thousand. They said, we will give you a 355 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: chance to save yourselves. Figure out what will revive pinball 356 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: for they and they came up with Pinball two thousand. Yeah. 357 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: It's basically a hybrid of video gaming and pinball, where 358 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: you have a kind of a standard pinball set up, 359 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,239 Speaker 1: but a video screen that's interactive as the back um 360 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: backdrop no on the playing field too, so like holograms 361 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: pop up on the on the playing board and like 362 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: run away from the ball and interact with the ball. 363 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: It stinks, though, and no one liked it. Have you 364 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: played it? I haven't played it, but I saw videos 365 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: of it and it didn't look like fun, and no 366 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: one liked it. So the thing is is like this 367 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: one article I read pointed out like it wasn't given 368 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: a chance to flourish, Like the idea was great, and 369 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: the fact that they pulled it off successfully it was 370 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: really something. Well, they built only two games, right, and 371 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: I think each one had a few thousand production run. Um. 372 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: But there was Star Wars episode one, which here's my 373 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 1: theory the reason Pinball two thousand went nowhere charge R Biggs. Yeah, 374 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: the other one was Revenge from Mars and um you 375 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: can still find those used today. Um. But despite the 376 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: fact that Pinball two thousand was created, it was it 377 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: was okay as far as successes go. Um. Bally Williams 378 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: pulled the plug, which left one company stern. Uh. There's 379 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: a guy named Michael Stern, I believe, who inherited his 380 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: father's business and um became the only people making pinball 381 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: machines in the world. Still. No, yeah, man, had we 382 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: been have we been recording this two years ago, we 383 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: would have basically been saying, like, pinball's dead, it's on 384 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: its last leg. There's one company making it. They've started 385 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: to lay off their designers because of the economic crisis. 386 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: Some of those designers went on, some of the Stern 387 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: Vets went on and founded a company called Jersey Jack, 388 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: and for the first time in many many years, there 389 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: are more than one pinball manufacturer. There's too, right, but 390 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: the competition has caused Stern to go back and rehire 391 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: some of the people they laid off, come up with 392 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 1: new designs, and um they are there's a pinball renaissance 393 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: and nascent pinball renaissance just beginning to bud that could happen. Well, 394 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 1: pinball is definitely a sort of an end thing now. Um, 395 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: if you're super cool and you have some money, then 396 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: you might have a pinball machine in your house like 397 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: my brother. Um. It is a Apparently Sterns ratio of 398 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: home sales to commercials sales has risen from thy percent 399 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: to six of their total sales. So the market now 400 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: isn't for arcades, because what are those. The market is 401 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: for the person who has enough money to buy a 402 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: pinball machine. You don't have to Well, yeah, if you 403 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: want a new one, it's gonna cost you, But if 404 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: you want like a vintage one, it's I mean it's 405 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: hundreds still. I mean that's a decent amount of money, 406 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,719 Speaker 1: but the high like the Adams family wants less than 407 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: five thousand. Man, that's the one that you need in 408 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: the house. Yeah. So, um, I think my brother actually 409 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: refurbished his. I think, I think I'm right. I think 410 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: they weren't even working and he was able to fix them. Um. Yeah, 411 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: I imagine you can get him for way less because 412 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: these are like fully refurbished, like polished, ready to go 413 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: one um and a lot of them are starting to 414 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: come from overseas because the demand in intege collectors UM 415 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: items are like is rising so much that like seventy 416 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: of them come from overseas. They're re importing them back 417 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: to America. Well, and it's big in Europe because I mean, 418 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: as evidence from that top ten, h two or three 419 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: of them were European Swede Swedes look at them. So 420 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: we'll get into how pinball actually works right after this. 421 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: All right, So we've talked a lot about the history 422 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: of pinball, which is way more interesting than I thought 423 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: it would be. But um, we haven't talked about the 424 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: game because I assume everybody has played pinball. But if 425 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 1: you haven't, we're gonna break it down. Yeah, and it's 426 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 1: actually it's pretty simple if you really think about it. 427 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: There's two real components to the game. Now ever since 428 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: time before, you seven flippers in the ball. Uh yeah. 429 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: Everything else is just kind of ornamentation or whatever. But 430 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: to play pinball, you need flippers and the ball because 431 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: the point of pinball is too score points using the 432 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: ball bouncing off of obstacles and all that stuff. And 433 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: then to prevent the ball from going down the drain 434 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: using the flippers. That's right there, you got flippers in 435 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: the ball. That's right. You've got your flippers, um, typically 436 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the playfield, which is what it's called, 437 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: directly above the drain on both sides. Um. A lot 438 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: of games you'll see now have other flippers on the 439 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: upper right and upper left that also do fun things, 440 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: um like flip the ball. But you know a lot 441 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: of times the ones at the top will flip it 442 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: into the very special chamber where you can score tons 443 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: of points. We'll get to the scoring here in a minute. Um, 444 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: And you basically want to propel the ball up with 445 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: your little plunger and then all the bumpers and ramps 446 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: are there to score your points. And um, it makes 447 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: a lot of noise, it's a lot of fun, and 448 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: that's beIN ball. Yeah, I mean that's it for me. 449 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: This article on how stuff works pointed out, like you know, 450 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 1: when you're talking about scoring, which we'll talk about later, 451 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,719 Speaker 1: that's like doesn't mean anything to people who are playing pinball, 452 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: most of us, because I'm just trying to keep the 453 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: ball from going down the train. Um. But the way 454 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: that pinball's arranged, as you get better and better at it, 455 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: you'll learn that, Um, there are all sorts of combinations 456 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: and tricks and stuff that you can do to really 457 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: score some points. We'll get to that later on. I 458 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: get ahead of myself. That's right. The ball itself, if 459 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: you want to just talk hardware, it's one and one 460 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: sixteen inches in diameter. It's steel in a ways, about 461 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: two point eight ounces and can reach speeds up the 462 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 1: ninety miles an hour when you see that thing shoot 463 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: out of a one of the little chambers that will 464 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: come back at you. It's going really fast, and that 465 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: is um. Sometimes it will use magnets underneath the table too, 466 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: because since it's a steel ball, you'll sometimes see a 467 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: game that has like a like a spinning disk, like 468 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: a vortex in the center of the table that will 469 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: start at any given moment and it can catch your 470 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: ball and keep your ball there with its magnet just 471 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: sort of spinning in place, which is no good or 472 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: it could be super good, depending on what you're after. Uh. 473 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes they do use a ceramic pinball called the powerball, 474 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: and it is lighter and faster and immune to magnets. 475 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: So a lot of times when you'll have multi ball 476 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: going on, some of those other balls are ceramic, and 477 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: that's when things get crazy. So as the ball is 478 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: going around the table, um, it's hitting the bumpers, it's 479 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: hitting the targets, and they're sending messages to them. Well, 480 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: if it's post seventies six game to the motherboard that's 481 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: keeping track of your score and all that jazz, and 482 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: you've only got the three balls, that's that's a game. Yes, 483 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: But there are circumstances where you can get more which 484 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: will tell later. So Chuck, there's also another component you 485 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: don't have to have to play pinball, but all pinball 486 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: games have it now. It's called the black box. And 487 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: if you look at a pinball table, you've got the 488 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: field right, Yeah, the playfield, which is the board that 489 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: has all of the bumpers and the stuff and the 490 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: flippers and everything on it. And then at a right 491 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: angle to that, coming off of it, you've got what's 492 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 1: called the back glass. And connecting the two is called 493 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: the black box. And this is where all of your 494 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: electronics and your solid state stuff goes. Yeah, your backglass 495 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: is not only gonna have your scoreboard and your information, 496 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: Like they'll say things like aim for the aim for 497 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: the canyon. You know, they'll give you hints and little 498 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: tricks along the way. Look out for the t rex 499 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: look out for the t rex um. But it's also 500 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: to the backglasses where like, if you're walking through your 501 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: arcade in its that's where you're gonna see, That's where 502 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: your attention is gonna go. So that's where you see 503 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: the Playboy models on both sides of you Hefner or 504 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: kiss looking cool so it's it's sort of an advertisement. Hey, 505 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: come put your quarters into me. It's shiny, it's colorful. 506 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: It's been money designing those things, and uh, a lot 507 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: of those have become art. Now they'll remove them and 508 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: frame them and hang them on the wall, which would 509 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: be wicked cool, I think it would be. But I'd 510 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: rather have the actual pinball game. Yeah sure. Um. So, 511 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: like I said, back in the seventies, they they introduced 512 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: solid state electronics. Prior to that, all pinball machines were 513 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: electro mechanical. And at first, when I was researching this, 514 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: I thought like, well, okay, so solid state took over everything. 515 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: That's not the case. Solid state took over basically the 516 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: back class. Everything else is still electro mechanical, or it 517 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: was up until the very very very recent times, although 518 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: they still might be electro mechanical. So, um, when you 519 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: hit a bumper with your ball and it makes it 520 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: like bounce and vibrate and you get some points, that's 521 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: because you set an electrical impulse using an electro mechanical 522 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: assembly to the motherboard, the solid state motherboard that's keeping score. 523 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,959 Speaker 1: So the motherboard is now keeping score. It's um. Now 524 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: they can use digital sounds, so they could add speakers 525 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: to the back glass and all the stuff, but the 526 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: actual function of the the pinball machine while you're playing 527 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: is still electro mechanical. Yeah, that's old school. Uh. And 528 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: there's about a half a mile of wiring in each one. 529 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: And um, if you come over to my brothers, he 530 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: will show you the guts. He has his rigged where 531 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: you can pull down the back back glass look under 532 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: the hood. Yeah, basically, and you know it just looks 533 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: like a huge mess of wires and half as a lot. 534 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. Um does he wear like a chain 535 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: wallet when he works on his pa? I don't know. Maybe. 536 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: Uh So the playfield itself, which is what everything is on, 537 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: is tilted at about six to seven degrees towards you, 538 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: and it is made of wood. And it's also very 539 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: old school, you know, so at some point someone makes 540 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: this like a wood based like cornhole, and it's got 541 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: holes drilled in it, and it's got stuff painted on 542 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: it and a bunch of layers of finish to keep it, 543 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: you know, to protect it and to make that ball go. Yeah, 544 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: but I mean that's basically it. It's pretty simple. Yes, 545 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: some of the very newer ones um I guess from 546 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: the twenty for century replaced the wood playing field with 547 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: um uh, plasma screens or LCD screens. Yeah, but you 548 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: know kids today, no thanks, um. But other than that, 549 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: it's like screws and glue and would it's just it's 550 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: fairly old school. Yeah, and still like entertaining. Pinball's challenging. 551 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: That's why you hate pinball two thousand. Huh it was newfangled, Yeah, totally, like, hey, 552 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: let's take something awesome and make it new for everybody. 553 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: Like I hate that. You know, it's like taking some 554 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: classic drink. Like you're a cocktail guy, so you know, 555 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: let's add you know, let's had some some new oxygen 556 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: eated something to the Manhattan. You're like, no, Manhattan's perfect. 557 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, oxygenated something. I just hate every Like, 558 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: some things are perfect the way they are, and I 559 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: think pinball is one of them. So, Chuck, you approached 560 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: the pin ball machine, you put your quarters in and everything, um, 561 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: and you either so you press the start button or well, 562 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: once you press the start button, a ball should fall 563 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: into the launch lane, which is the at the back 564 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: of the launch lane is the plunger and some of 565 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: the newer games, there's a solenoid which shoots it for 566 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: you like a like a gun handle, trigger and stuff, 567 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: instead of the plunger. Very clever, but again I'm into 568 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: the like the plunger. Um one way or another, you're 569 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: going to launch the ball. The advantage of a solenoid 570 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: that launches it for your with the press of a 571 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: button is that if you are playing a game and 572 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: you're pretty good and the pinball machine decides it wants 573 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: to see what kind of a wizard you are, it 574 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: will send more balls into action. The way it does 575 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: that these days is by using a solenoid. In olden 576 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: days before the solenoid, say the eighties, Um, it's a 577 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: little man inside. Well, you had to pull the plunger 578 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: back yourself, and that meant you had to take your 579 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: finger off of a flip for button. K man, Hey man, 580 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: you better be quick. I kind of forgot about that, 581 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: or you're dead. Yeah, that's why solenoids. That's the advantage 582 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: they have. Yeah, I'll take that umu advancement that passes 583 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: my bar. The solenoid is good. So let's talk about 584 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: actual pinball play after this message. Chuck okay, scoring in pinball, 585 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,239 Speaker 1: like you said earlier, If you're a regular shmo like us, 586 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: we're just trying to keep that ball on the table. 587 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: But if you are a pinball wizard, then that means 588 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 1: you know the game within the game and all the 589 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: combination shots that you're specifically trying to hit in order 590 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: to rack up the big, big big points. This is 591 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: nuts to me. I have to tell you, I didn't 592 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: even know that this existed until Yeah, I knew. I 593 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 1: just you know, like, that's how poor my pinball playing is. Now. 594 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm I'm not any good either, But you you is 595 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: your brother good? So you've seen him, Yeah, he's better 596 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: than me. So they used this um in this article 597 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: to use the example of a game called high Roller Pinball, 598 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 1: and basically imagine this. While you're playing high Roller, um, 599 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: you basically want to knock out some icons that are 600 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: associated with poker. Once you've hit all the icons with 601 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: the ball or something like that, so there're tiles that 602 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: you knock down or whatever. Once you've hit them all, 603 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: you've unlocked a game within a game. Yeah, and I 604 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: think it starts with poker, and all of a sudden, 605 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: you're playing pinball while you're also playing poker on the 606 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: back class. Yeah, so like you're trying to hit a 607 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: specific thing that will give you a specific card and 608 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: a poker hand, let's say, And like you have to 609 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: be you know, you have to You're trying to do 610 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: this with your flippers game of skill, like we said, right, 611 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: but at the same time, you're still playing your pinball 612 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: game too, right, Well, I mean it's part of the game. 613 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: So like you know, you'll know you've got the cards 614 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 1: up on the backglass and I'll say, all right, I 615 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,720 Speaker 1: gotta hit that bumper to get a king. I'm aiming 616 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: for that king the whole time. Okay, So if your 617 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: brain hasn't melted yet, prepare for the finish. Once poker's done, 618 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: there's like four or five other casino games that you 619 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: play after that, and you play them in succession and 620 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: and as you win them, you get closer and closer 621 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: to this um special play mode called Casino Frenzy. That's 622 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: what it's called in the high Roller Machine. Yeah, that's 623 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: after you've won all the game, the poker games not, 624 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 1: but yeah, all the games, and so you're playing Casino Frenzy, 625 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,760 Speaker 1: and that's what's called a Wizard Award where it's like, Okay, 626 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: this kid's good. Now we're gonna really let them or 627 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: her up their points by playing a special round. And 628 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,279 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the field is like flooded with 629 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: balls and every bumper you hit is worth like hundreds 630 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: of thousands of points and it's just scary and terrified. Yeah, 631 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: multi ball is stressful for a guy like me. Same here, man, 632 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 1: I just try and keep you know what happens to 633 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,879 Speaker 1: me and multi ball is I'll usually lose them all 634 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: pretty quickly. Like I can't even hold onto the one 635 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: because it just it stimulates me too much. I'm like, 636 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: what what happened? Me too? And I'm like, as long 637 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,359 Speaker 1: as I've got one, I'm break even. But with um, 638 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 1: with Wizard Award functions, um, that's when you start to 639 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: earn even more points. But imagine having like three or 640 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: four or five balls on the field and the computer 641 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 1: in the machine is telling you, like, hit this combination 642 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,920 Speaker 1: and we'll give you like twenty million points. And um, 643 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 1: if you're even in Wizard Award ball, you're a pretty 644 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 1: good pinball player, I would imagine for sure. And that's 645 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: just the high roller game. But most games have a 646 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: couple of games within the game that you should look 647 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,839 Speaker 1: out for and um, that's how you get your free game. 648 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: If you've ever uh locked up or been super good 649 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 1: and gotten um, you know, they'll tell you on the 650 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: backglass how much you have to have, like replay value 651 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: thirty million um. And that's what you're shooting for because 652 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: you want to get that free game, not just because 653 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: it's a quarter or whatever, but because it's like a 654 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: big award. You know. It's like entering your name on 655 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,000 Speaker 1: the in the top ten in Galica. Right yeah, Um, 656 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,879 Speaker 1: so I didn't understand this. When you get a free game, 657 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: is that like three free balls or one extra ball? 658 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,799 Speaker 1: I think it's three. I think it's a full free game. 659 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 1: That would make sense. That's why they keeps calling it 660 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: doesn't like reset R. Yeah. You can also fall backwards 661 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,160 Speaker 1: into a free game with something called match where I 662 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:36,800 Speaker 1: had never heard of this. Every once a while, the 663 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 1: computer will just flash like a random number between what 664 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: zero zero and ninety I think, yeah, multiple of ten 665 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,280 Speaker 1: and um, if the last two digits of your score 666 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: at that moment happened to match that number, then you 667 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: win a free game. It's like a little lotto game. 668 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:53,920 Speaker 1: And I think I've gotten a free game that way, 669 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 1: because I remember getting free games before. But being like, 670 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: how did I get a free game? I must, I 671 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,399 Speaker 1: must have hit the mat. You like just turned into 672 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: Christopher walking in the dead zone. I saw that not 673 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: too long ago. That holds up do um. But as 674 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 1: far as replay goes, it says that most machines are 675 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 1: set so you have to be in the top ten 676 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,800 Speaker 1: to get a replay, and you can get a second replay, 677 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 1: but they have it maxed out at a hundred and 678 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:24,600 Speaker 1: fifty of the first, so a double replay is tough. Yeah, 679 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: I mean you're Tommy at that point, or your last 680 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,840 Speaker 1: name is Sharp Yeah, I guess so. Um. And then tilt, chuck, 681 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 1: you know, tilt, it's synonymous with pinball. Tilt is where 682 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: you are being well, basically where you've been punishing the machine. 683 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:45,320 Speaker 1: The machine says enough, hands off, man, and basically, like 684 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,600 Speaker 1: we were saying early pinball machines, Um, the only way 685 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: you can manipulate them before the flippers was to move 686 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 1: the machine. You can bump it. So the tilt mechanism 687 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: has been in place to prevent people from overly cheating 688 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 1: by tilting the machine. By it's really the old timey contraption, 689 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: and I guess it's still in use. It's pretty funny 690 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,839 Speaker 1: how old school it is. Basically, they have like I guess, 691 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:10,839 Speaker 1: like a copper copper wire with a circle on the end, 692 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 1: a ring on the end, and dangling in the ring 693 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: but not touching. It is like a metal ballast, right, 694 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 1: and it's connected to the machine. So as long as 695 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: the ballast is just swinging around freely within the ring, 696 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: you can tilt as much as you like, and a 697 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 1: skilled player knows how to tilt without getting caught, right, 698 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 1: it's part of the game. But once you tilt too 699 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: far and the metal ballast touches the copper ring, a 700 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,280 Speaker 1: current is formed and all of a sudden it sends 701 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 1: that to the motherboard, and the motherboards is tilt. This 702 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 1: is your first warning, and apparently most modern games give 703 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 1: you two warnings, and then the flipper stop working and 704 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,759 Speaker 1: you lose your ball, and that's just losing one ball. 705 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,279 Speaker 1: If you really get upset, if your ball is stuck, 706 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 1: or if you're just having a bad day at the 707 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,720 Speaker 1: office and you pick up the front of the machine 708 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,560 Speaker 1: and slam it down, that's called a slam tilt. And 709 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,480 Speaker 1: they have these little leaf switches inside the machine for 710 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,920 Speaker 1: that and if they touch each other, that means you 711 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,479 Speaker 1: have really taken things too far, and that is shut 712 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,399 Speaker 1: it down. No game, not worth taking your ball. They're saying, 713 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,399 Speaker 1: leave the machine. You're not gonna win any cigarettes doing 714 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 1: that exactly. And that's the uh, that's the slam tilt. 715 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,399 Speaker 1: That's pinball, baby, Yeah, I got nothing else. I don't either. 716 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: This is very exciting. I'm glad we finally did it. 717 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: It's been on my list forever ever since I found 718 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 1: out it was illegal. Yeah, you're like, oh, I I 719 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,279 Speaker 1: gotta get into that. But that was like a couple 720 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: of years ago. I feel like, yeah, when I saw 721 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,920 Speaker 1: a special winlet, nice man, everybody go see that? Is 722 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 1: that on the old Netflix? I believe it is tilt? 723 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,040 Speaker 1: Definitely is all right. I think special Winlet might be 724 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,880 Speaker 1: to add that to the former queue, which they had 725 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 1: to change because Americans are dumb. What do they call 726 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 1: it now? It's not called a list because people are like, 727 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: what's a queue? Really? Why was it spelled like that? 728 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,879 Speaker 1: I hadn't noticed that they did that. Oh my goodness, Yeah, 729 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 1: I've heard. That's the reason. It makes sense to me. 730 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,440 Speaker 1: I can't verify that though. Uh well, if you want 731 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,719 Speaker 1: to learn more about pinball, go check out special when 732 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,640 Speaker 1: let go check out kill check out the popular Mechanics 733 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: article we mentioned eleven things you didn't know about pinball history. 734 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome. And of course check out the article 735 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 1: on how stuff works dot Com. Go to the search 736 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,080 Speaker 1: bar and type in pinball and it will bring up 737 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 1: this article. Since I said search bar, it's time for 738 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:34,400 Speaker 1: listener mail. Yeah, this is via Facebook. Actually, um, in 739 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,719 Speaker 1: regards to our more Gallon's podcast, because one of our 740 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,800 Speaker 1: is it funny? I think it's more Gelan's. But you 741 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,960 Speaker 1: are literally the only person on the planet that calls 742 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:52,480 Speaker 1: it that fine, Um, Tyler Murphy are one of the generals. 743 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 1: And the stuff you should know army and Facebook and 744 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,239 Speaker 1: email friend uh pinged, I guess a doctor end of 745 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,919 Speaker 1: his name, Chris Wells, and I was like, hey, dude, 746 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,120 Speaker 1: check this out. Do you know anything about this? And 747 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,239 Speaker 1: so he commented on there. I was like, hey, this 748 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,880 Speaker 1: is a listener mail. Can I use it? And he 749 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 1: said yes. So he says he's only come across it twice. 750 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,960 Speaker 1: In both cases they brought stuff in, telling me it 751 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,880 Speaker 1: was eggs and bugs, eye along with my med technologists 752 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,799 Speaker 1: reviewed it under a microscope and it was mainly lent 753 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 1: and hair follicles. One had some insight that it was 754 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,960 Speaker 1: not an actual infection and felt relieved. The other was 755 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,560 Speaker 1: very upset that I suggested otherwise, so he kind of 756 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,240 Speaker 1: got both ends of the spectrum. I would never treat 757 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,040 Speaker 1: um with an antiseptic I'm sorry anti parasitic med if 758 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,799 Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a real infection. The risk 759 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: of causing harm versus fixing anything it's too high. Anti 760 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,920 Speaker 1: parasit meds can have all kinds of unwanted effects, from 761 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,040 Speaker 1: kidney and liver impairment, to lowering the threshold procedure to 762 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,680 Speaker 1: potentially being carcinogenic themselves. For every case of monsters inside 763 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,800 Speaker 1: me on TLC that goes undiscovered and later as found 764 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: to truly have a parasitic infection, there are many more 765 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,319 Speaker 1: for there is no physical evidence of infection because they're 766 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 1: simply not one. Uh. You feel really crappy as a 767 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,240 Speaker 1: physician though, when you have to tell someone that everything 768 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: they brought into your office is all dust and lent, 769 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 1: that there is no physical evidence for their ailments. The 770 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,960 Speaker 1: most important thing for a clinician. To remember is that 771 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,800 Speaker 1: even if this is all in their head or imagine 772 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,840 Speaker 1: or however you want to word it, the patient is 773 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,279 Speaker 1: still experiencing it, which is what we pointed out. So 774 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,319 Speaker 1: you need to try and treat the root cause, whether 775 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,320 Speaker 1: it be with continued reassurance in second opinion, within reason, 776 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 1: or cognitive behavioral therapy or other means. And that is 777 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,720 Speaker 1: Chris Wells via our buddy Tyler Murphy. Cool. Thanks guys. 778 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,120 Speaker 1: Who Tyler is a teacher and in the summertime he 779 00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: works at the Big Putt Putt chain Putt Putt. No, 780 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,800 Speaker 1: that's it's like the Big Adventure Land or what I 781 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,880 Speaker 1: can't remember what it's called Hire Pirates Cove. Is that 782 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: a chain? I don't know, it sounds like a chain. Anyway, 783 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,480 Speaker 1: that's what he does. Since it sounds like fun, It's like, man, 784 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,520 Speaker 1: I could totally do that would be yeah. Well, thank 785 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,359 Speaker 1: you very much you guys in uh, anyone else out 786 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,680 Speaker 1: there who has any further clarification on any episode we've 787 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,759 Speaker 1: ever done. We want to hear from you. You can 788 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 1: tweet to us at s Y s K podcast. You 789 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,919 Speaker 1: can join us on Facebook dot com slash You should 790 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,640 Speaker 1: know you can Send us an email to Stuff Podcast 791 00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 1: at Discovery dot com and it's always good. 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