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#113 Bram Stokers Dracula - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday2 hr 13 min listenBy George
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PJ. BSD. Highwayman. Quick discussion Pintastic. Liability and Responsibility of Pinball Techs. What’s up Doc? Pickers and pick-ups: Centaur, Spirit of 76, Grand Prix. BSD gameplay. Mailcall. Bonus...

Highlights

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula was made in April 1993 and approximately 6,800 units were produced
  • BSD is the only pinball game that uses smaller 1 1/8-inch 'lightning' flippers instead of standard flippers
  • The game had pink bubble wrap stuffed inside the ball lock assembly as a previous technician's 'fix' to prevent balls from getting stuck
  • BSD has three multiballs: Mist Multiball, Coffin Multiball, and Asylum Multiball
  • The coffin mechanism in BSD is a virtual lock (not physical) that displays a graphic on the DMD when balls are 'locked'
  • Dracula has a System 11 throwback feel despite being a 1993 WPC-era game
  • The restoration revealed left and right lane switches were reversed, causing erratic gameplay behavior

Notable quotes

You put regular flippers in the game, the game's too easy. So some people want to, you know, if you want to make the game real easy, you put the regular flippers in there, and it's, they're almost like, it definitely makes it challenging to get the sweet spot to go up the ramps and so forth.
Dave
I think he ran out of duct tape. So he had bubble wrap, and that's what he used.
Dave
It's like fine-tuning an engine. It's like a race car. It has to be fine-tuned. Otherwise, it's going to run but not run right.
Dave
This is the same guy. I was like so blown away by his reaction. I was like, this would make it great. At that point, that's better than money to me. That kind of reaction is awesome. But the money doesn't hurt.
Dave
There's a whole thing out on Pinside you can read about it, but that looked like a pretty cool mod. If I owned this game, I would get that.
PJ
The 555 bulbs, there's three of them inside the coffin to light it up, were never touched. They were burnt so bad, they were silver, that I could not take them out. They were like welded to this light socket.
Dave
Be grateful that, A, you've got a guy like Dave who tells you what the story is up front, and he performs and does what he's supposed to. Is he inexpensive? No. But if you want the job done right...
George

Entities

  • Williams· company
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula· game
  • Sidetrack Next Gen· game
  • IFPA· organization
  • Pinside· organization
  • Barry Oursler· person
  • Cryptkeeper· person
  • Dave· person
  • George· person
  • Mark Sprenger· person
  • PJ· person
  • Glimmerhold· venue

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