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#94 Horror Show 2 - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 16 min listenBy George
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This is a first for Dave and George. They talk about Halloween and a bunch of games with a horror theme. Dave sneaks a questionable game into the mix. They review almost 20 games and then pick the...

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Highlights

  • America's Most Haunted was Spooky Pinball's first game, released around 2014
  • Haunted House is a wide-body game with three levels and six to eight flippers
  • The Sega Frankenstein (1995) had 3,000 units produced
  • Vampire by Valley had 799 units produced (George initially misread as 399)
  • Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle was built in 2018 with only 500 units by Spooky
  • Whodunit was made in 1995 by Valley Dynamics
  • WPC-era driver boards from 1990-1995 all share the same basic architecture with MPU, driver board, and opto subsystem
  • A Pinside forum thread about the F115/F116/J112 opto 12-volt supply error has remained unresolved for 3-5 years with multiple posts offering no solution
  • Dr. Shock solved the opto 12-volt supply problem on Whodunit independently without Pinside help, but defers full explanation to Patreon

Notable quotes

“This is a top 11 list. They probably liked Spinal Tap. You know, we go to 11.”
George
“The claw thing always gets broken in that game. It's always broken.”
Dr. Shock
“I think there's six or eight flippers in that game... he's fastidious to say the least, he's the Pintastic tech that keeps those games running.”
Dr. Shock
“We basically gave it a day spa, shopped it out... We basically rebuilt everything.”
Dr. Shock
“I think I rebuilt these things so good and tight that that thing coming back hit that coil stop just right that it sheared them both off. I've never seen it before.”
Dr. Shock
“This game was made in 1995... that's why they're so popular... the 90s DMD games, by comparison, the DMD games in the 90s seem simple.”
Dr. Shock
“This person said, this is very common, and I've never seen anyone post a solution to the problem.”
Dr. Shock
“So I just take a working game... I put the original board set that was working in my game, I put it back in, and guess what? It worked. Checked fuses F-115, F-116. It said the same freaking thing, George.”
Dr. Shock
“Did you solve it? Oh, I solved it, George. By my own little brain, I solved it. Pinside did not help me on this. I figured it out.”
Dr. Shock

Entities

  • Bally· company
  • Data East· company
  • Gottlieb· company
  • Sega· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Valley Dynamics· company
  • Williams Pinball· company
  • Pinbrew Fest· event
  • America's Most Haunted· game
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula· game
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon· game
  • Halloween· game
  • Haunted House· game
  • Monster Bash· game
  • Scared Stiff· game
  • The Addams Family· game
  • The Walking Dead· game
  • Whodunit· game
  • Pinside· organization
  • Dave (Dr. Shock)· person
  • George· person
  • John Day· person
  • Tony Zitzik· person

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