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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 7: The Stern Inside(r) Scoop with Tom Graf

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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 7: The Stern Inside(r) Scoop with Tom Graf Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie This episode we talk about Tom's experience playing Godzilla and...

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Highlights

  • Godzilla has three spinners in the game and requires spinning the Mechagodzilla spinner multiple times to charge it, then hitting targets to light all three shots
  • Tom looped the upper flipper five times in one game, triggering an achievement that displays at end of ball with a chime
  • Insider Connected changed XP scaling from 'half XP on home machines' to 'full XP at home, double XP on verified location machines' after community feedback
  • All six current Insider Connected games cap at maximum 2,000 experience points total (1,000 from home achievements, 2,000 from location verified)
  • Some achievements are exclusive to Premium/LE models; Jurassic Park has topper-exclusive achievements, Turtles has Glider Mode achievements not available on Pro
  • Turtles Premium/LE Glider Mode has reliability issues and breaks down frequently enough that owners have had to replace it multiple times
  • The final Jurassic Park achievement 'When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth' (wizard mode completion) is worth only 5 achievement points despite being extremely difficult
  • Insider Connected wording suggests exclusive game content/DLC is planned but not launching at initial release
  • District 82 borrowed Godzilla from Dave Oshufsky, owner of an escape room, for a week to allow community play
  • Godzilla's upper loop shot is comparable to Iron Maiden's but somewhat harder; Tom ranks it between Avengers and Jurassic Park in terms of shot difficulty across Keith Elwin games

Notable quotes

“The whole bar just was like, holy cow, he did it, guys.”
Tom Graf
“I had an LE and my damn glider broke down like every other day. I probably replaced it at least three times.”
Tom Graf
“It's all how you want to look at it, right? I think that version of it is so much better than telling people at home you get half of the XP.”
Joel
“If you get an LE, you should have access to everything that's ever on that pen, and it shouldn't cost you an extra dime.”
Joel
“There are achievements that are exclusive to a premium LE model, and there's no achievements that we're aware of, at least as of this podcast, that's exclusive to a pro model.”
Joel
“It doesn't pop up until the end of your ball. What? I bet it popped up right when you did it.”
Travis / Joel
“I would say it's similar to Iron Maiden, but probably maybe a little harder.”
Tom Graf
“I'm a completionist, but at the same time, it's nice to know that there has to be a little bit of an effort made.”
Tom Graf
“To me, if they're going to do something like that, because, again, we don't know this for sure. It's just the way that the wording is. It indicates that it's highly probable this will happen.”
Joel
“I know I get called a stern shill a lot. You look at my emails, I get called all the time.”
Tom Graf

Entities

  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Godzilla· game
  • Jurassic Park· game
  • Turtles· game
  • District 82· location
  • Tappers· location
  • Triple Drain Podcast· media
  • Stern Army· organization
  • Craig Bobby· person
  • Dave Oshufsky· person
  • Dennis Creasel· person
  • Dwight Sullivan· person
  • George Fisher (Don't Panic Flip)· person
  • Joel· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Laser Lose· person
  • Mark Silk· person
  • Matt McCarty· person
  • Raymond Davidson· person
  • Tom Graf· person
  • Travis· person
  • Travis Murray· person
  • Insider Connected· product

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