Dude. I live and breathe RU-vid, but never comment. I comment probably once a year on RU-vid. This is one of them. Please keep this up. Your direction, editing, tone, personality, character, etc. is nothing short of forthright and commendable. Keep up the great work. You have a subscriber.
My family have had ours for ten years now. It has had its fair share of issues, but nothing we couldn't fix. It has been working without issues for a while. My dog used to love watching the balls move around and he loved the sounds as if you told him "pinball" he would run over and bark. When it would get noisy, he would bark at it. If you pick him up, he will watch the ball. He also would jump on a nearby chair to watch.
Great video! That's my game at 13:02! Adding that 3rd magnet during my restoration was a real pain, but entirely worth it. Shown in that clip is how the 3rd magnet operates during "The Spiral" mode, but the real treat is how it loads a ball onto each magnet and releases them all at the same time for multiball start.
Thanks for the footage haha. Yeah it’s super cool, you were one of the few people that actually demonstrated it. I would love to see how it handles multi ball
@@KevinCarrington I have a video of that as well! It was originally unlisted for use on pinside, but I just made it public. It's not as well filmed as the spiral video. ru-vid.comOvaD6wVxVeM
I've had this in my "to watch" list for ages, and I finally did after ""The Twilight Zone" has started a re-run here in the U.K. Loved playing this one back in the day, and in The Pinball Arcade! Fantastic video! Subbed!
I've owned mine (a "sample" version) since 1995. In 2019 (pre Covid), at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo, it ran for the entire weekend with zero faults aside from a single burned out bulb. Proof positive that once properly repaired and brought "up to snuff", even Twilight Zone can be a reliable game.
@@KevinCarrington That would be incredible, love your addams family video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6GsYoEwdwXM.html here's a link to the effect
One of my favorite tables. Happy to say I used to suck at it in the 90s irl. My wife worked at a socal Golf&stuff that had a wicked pinball collection that had all the Williams and Bally classics. Hope they do Adam’s Family and Star Trek TNG.
I'm lucky enough to have a twin brother who owns one of these pins in his collection, so whenever I get the itch to play one I head to his mancave. Thanks for posting this video and I'll be sure to tell him about it. We're both pinball nuts.
I got myself a twilight zone back in may 2022 for 8,3k with a illuminated apron, color dmd, and so many other mods, it is truly a amazing machine and I will never sell it. I didnt know about the doho Easter egg even though I have over 2k plays on it. This video has like all the others a amazing quality and is very entertaining.
Whoa! As a pinball and video essay enthusiast, this video ticks all the boxes I’ve been wanting in pinball related content. Subbed, and godspeed to 1k 🫡
I went to a local pinball dealer in 2001, and he suggested this machine to me, because it had the most complex rule set at the time. I have had it since, and am glad I took his advice on what machine to buy. I don't have any other machines, but do play some in VR, or with on the PC. I plan on buying or building a virtual pin machine.
IIRC, the red button is a Pat Lawlor signature, found somewhere on every single Lawlor pin. For example, Buzz is holding it in NGG, and the getaway driver holds it in Safe Cracker.
Very few channels provide insight and knowledge to this extent. Most are just copy and paste from wikipedia with low effort and monoline thoughts, churning out videos that are carbon copies of every other channel all in the name of views. Thank you for giving me hope in content creation again, do continue and maintain your quality.
I live in Binghamton ny he grew up here wentbto the same school I did. Abunch of episodes were filmed here along with the movie had its world premiere here . Man I'dove this pin
Great job once again Kevin. I just played this yesterday at FGW. The damn magna-flip power field always frustrates. I feel like you have clarified the goals of play extremely well. I look forward to my next game... and your next Pinball feature:). Keep it up man.
This pinball machine is one of the best memories of my youth. We had one in my little town's arcade, in Italy. It must have been a hacked specimen, or maybe the installer left some dip switches on, because it had some very advantageous features turned on: - during the clock bonus phase, you could max out the 255.000.000 points just by pushing the plunger! Pushing the plunger had the same effect as hitting the needed bumper. - by pressing the start button, you could stack points during the drive-in bonus phase, as if you hit the needed bumper. This way, one could keep winning extraballs and keep playing forever ^_^ Also, when you get the extraball, the machine woule make a resounding *SNAP* noise.
I've had mine since the late 90's. Just a little info for any owner out there...make sure you change the batteries behind the back glass! If they are old and start to leak, they are going to fry the cpu board. There is a replacement that is available without needing batteries.
Very cool! Thanks for all your hard work on putting these videos together. I havent explored your channel too much yet. But have you done "Creature from the Black Lagoon" yet?
Back in 94 my girl friend worked at pizza hut , I would go to pick her up a little early so I could play this game in the entrance way. I got really good with it like a half an hour on one quarter
Bro Kev, please do White Water next. A huge fan of your videos. Please keep them coming. Subbed. P.S. I’m huge RU-vid fan, but it is very unusual for me to comment.
Yet another great history retroprective on a pinball machine, Speaking of that blue version of the powerball it would have fitted perfectly on the monocromatic mod of the table, playfield/backglass in black and white edit: could i request Big Bang Bar for a future video?
We’ve got to get a game with the blue powerball! Honestly they could make a whole playfield around it. I’m sure you could create some wild ramps and unique physics with the lighter ball. I just got some personal footage of big bang bar a couple of months ago! It’s definitely a planned video
It was Pat Lawlor who did a great job producing many Pinball Cabinets compared to his previous game, The Addams Family. However, it's a great pinball cabinet. And Fun Fact: It was originally gonna be the first to have Williams DCS sound system, but it recomposed for the YM2151 synth to be the last if anything Chris Granner could have been. The First to have the new DCS Sound was Williams' Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure which Chris Granner also composed it.
I was watching a pinball expo vid where they were talking about how different it was to make music for different boards. I never considered the creative challenges new technology would present
I find it disturbing when a video claims to be discussing the history of a certain machine but then shows several heavily modified machines without acknowledging what should and what should not be mounted in the original set-up.
Here are a few pins that I would love the see you cover Indiana Jones the pinball adventure Scared stiff The shadow Apollo 13 Creatures of the black lagoon
This series of videos is fantastic! I've been obsessed with pinball since working a summer job in an arcade for a couple of summers back in the 80s where they had a Xenon machine which I loved. I hope you continue with these, I'd love to see more. I've neither the money nor the space for real machines but I can at least enjoy the virtual versions. My favourites are Medieval Madness, Attack from Mars and Bride of Pinbot. Top work, sir 👍
I own a near mint Twilght Zone owned it for 20 years. I would agree best pinball ever, Medi Evil Maddness and Addam Family. I was a pinball tech for almost 20 years back in the pinball glory days. I also owned a STNG and Xenon. I maintained 20+ pinball machines plus all the other video games and jukeboxes. Mine was in payment for some work on a few bartop video games from a small opperater. I'll have to get the black light out and check if it a bootleg. I suspect it was as there was some pretty shady sides to the business. I did the clock led mode long time ago so clock is mint. We had 2 TWZ in the field and they got well used and pretty beaten up. Any idea how many of the 15k are still with us?. I might do the full led mod, maybe next time I need to service it. Really cool video, good job and thanks, brings back a few of memories .......
Thank you! Good question I do not know how many surviving machines are out there but that would be a good data point. ipsnd.net has people submit their serial codes, it’s perhaps the closest version we will get to knowing. But only about 8% have been accounted for on there.
Fuck yeah Kevinnnnnnnn, not going to watch it yet but y'know ya boi is going to enjoy this with my dinner of sausages and pasta tonight. Knew clicking 'SUBSCRIBE' was going to pay out eventually :)))))))))))))))))))))))
@@KevinCarrington Forgot to write another message saying I found the video fun and informative, really appreciate your content mate :) However, with that being said. Your Rod Serling impression was bad and my day is ruined.
@@KevinCarrington I got it from a literal dive bar. The bars owner told me it sat in the corner for years, untouched. It had a layer of dirt on the playfield, but I stripped it down and gave it a good cleaning. He wanted it gone so he could buy a Harley Davidson pin. The only drawback was it took a LONG time to get rid of the cigarette smoke odor.
Although a lot were made (based on Lawlor coming off Addams Family's record sales) the game did poorly on location. It didn't become a hit until years later, when the home market started booming. A later code update helped it's popularity in the home market.
It's hard to take this video credibly when right off the bat the overhead narrator mispronounces the last name of the creator and host of The Twilight Zone. It's Serling, not Sterling. Makes it painfully obvious you didn't do enough research.
@@KevinCarrington doesn’t surprise me how toxic that commenter is. You can just tell from the way his comment reads that he’s old and unfortunately I’ve learned that this hobby is cursed with a large online presence of old snobby elitist men who love being condescending
