Legend has it that if you mention pinball on your late night TV
appearance, Stern will send you a pinball machine to unbox. And not just
any pinball machine. This is their
Dungeons and Dragons pinball machine celebrating 50 years of DN D. And I
can't wait to check it out. We got their premium edition. There's three different
trim levels. And look at this
region one. As excited as I am, I do feel a little personally attacked. The
box is too tall for me to cut the top. And really, you got to put that right on
the front. I'm not going to do that.
There's special instructions for how to open these. You're supposed to cut the
front corner.
Is that the right side? Yeah, I think so. Supposed to do the one that says
truck from this side. I saw truck from this side.
Miss the do not. I mean, in fairness to
me, the truck was in the way. We call this a hand truck. I don't know if
that's the terminology elsewhere in the world, but we call it that. New plan,
banana strategy. We got to peel this biz.
Aside from Stern's legendary quality, highlights of this set include,
wow, the artwork, soundtrack, an incredible
cast that includes Michael Dorne as the
dragon, what they're calling the most advanced animatronic to ever be included
in a pinball machine. Not to mention iconic enemies like Zanithar the
Beholder and Gelatinous Cube.
Apparently, the gelatinous cube is electromagnetic. It's like a ball trap.
I don't know. I haven't tried any of this yet, but I'm very excited, too.
Belle, I may need some help. You haven't peeled the only side you need to peel.
Hey, look at that. Comes with legs and
everything. What a value. Oh my goodness. Look at
this setup guide. It's so thick. Oh,
thank goodness. It's just multiple languages. For those of you who are
wondering what makes a pinball machine tech, I didn't realize it either until I
saw one of their machines at CES with the backing off and I was like, damn.
Ah, leg bolts. There they are. Let's go.
Ooh, everything about this thing just screams quality. Look at that like
wrinkled black powder coat finish. I
love it. Also very durable. You can tell
it's built for commercial use. Carefully set the game down on its front legs.
Game is heavy. Two people recommended.
Again, personally attacked. Oh, it's really heavy.
Okay. How the devil are you supposed to put
the back legs on it? Oh, right.
Using supports or two people prop the
rear of the cabinet up to install the rear legs. Oh boy.
Oh my god, it looks so good. Look at the
cube. The gelatinous cube has a mace in it and a skull and a hammer. Remember
kids, lift with your back in a twisting, jerking motion. It's more important to
get every bolt started than to get any bolt completed right now. Wow, you're so
strong. Yeah, you definitely want to have like two friends. Um, if you have a
pinball machine, I mean, if you can afford a pinball machine, you can probably afford two, friends. Okay. You
want to switch? Nope. Nope. I just want that bolt in.
See, now I get why Elijah has this weird father thing with you. I kind of I'm
kind of feeling it right now, too.
That dragon. Oh, sorry. I got distracted. Oh, okay. We got to deal with the cable management. Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry. I got distracted. Okay.
How can they put documentation on top of this play surface? Like I'm going to
even be able to see this. That looks incredible. We've got all these
different class selections, locations, objectives. One of the most appealing
things about this particular game to me is that unlike my 1993 uh quarter
steeler design, uh this one is very
focused on gameplay. And not only can
you achieve a variety of different endings, but they actually even have
like different weekly items and stuff like that. I I have no idea how that
works. Um other than I guess you have to be connected to the internet for that.
Oh, almost certainly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay. We got to bolt this on. Comes with a little treasure box
with more accessories. This is so much fun. I actually treated myself to a
pinball machine for the uh premium lounge at Smash Champs Badmon Center
recently, but because it was an older one. It's a 1993 Twilight Zone machine,
I didn't really get the fun of setting it up myself.
There they are. Oh, they're very, very greasy. I assume
we wipe them down, but you know what? We'll get to those in a minute. No way.
a service and operations manual that actually gives you like pin outs on
everything and whole schematic and everything.
It looks like Stern hasn't forgotten about right to repair. To be clear, they
are still the proprietary manufacturer of a lot of the replacement parts you'll
need, but at least they give you a manual for how to put it all back
together. Have you actually looked at the side art? It's a dragon riding a
dragon. It's so cool. There's like a golden dragon guy versus like a necro
guy with like a Oh, it's like the Black Knight. It's but a flesh wound.
I don't actually D and D. I just think this is really cool and I liked the
movie. Mhm. I I waited until this point in the video to expose myself as a
filthy casual.
It says the first page of the manual tells us how many pinballs to put on the
play surface. Yeah, we have the premium one, which means the dragon actually
shoots more balls of the base version. Really? Maybe it's harder. Does it say
if we should clean our balls before putting them in? Seems like a good idea.
Well, yeah, but they have um like they're all lubed up and I thought maybe
that's to make them not rust. It does make it easier for entry. No, I Why you
got to make it like that? What? It has to be able to slide along the rails and
stuff, right? We'll get to these in a second. First,
we need to install our plumb bob. So, this is just a weight that sits on a
little wire that affects how sensitive the machine is to tilt. So, the higher
up we put it, the more sensitive it is. The lower we put it, the less sensitive
it is. So, um I think tilting is cheating. So, I'm going to put it up
pretty high. And it's touching the side of the ring. We are definitely going to have to level the machine. It is not
level. These are both left hands. You're not
left-handed. I mean, I have one left hand. We're smart. We can figure things
out. Eight balls. There it is. We found it.
Okay. So the glass should come
forward.
Nice. See? Painless. Dude, look at it. Okay.
Careful. Careful. It's on the teeth. There you go.
Check this out. You can steal gold from the dragon. And apparently the dragon
has an omniirectional impact sensor. Whatever that means. A total of one,
two, three flippers. This is cool. You can activate a shield. See, there's one
ball in here already. Is that just stuck there forever? Uh,
yeah, cuz you hit it into the other sensor, I think. Oh, you wagging.
That's so cool. All right. How do we install these balls? You just drop them
on the play surface lightly. Gently. I mean, it's going to go hard later. And
they just Yeah.
Um, you lost. Something I didn't mention
is apparently there's roglike elements to the progression. So, you can like
character build.
Okay. Oh, setup right. That makes sense.
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Uh, how do I
Damn, those speakers though.
Look at this. Stern knows it. Canada number one.
Nice.
Okay, that might be a bit much though. That does sound great.
Scan your Stern Insider. Go to
Stern Insider connected. All right, let's see if I scan this. Did you just
register this to your personal stern account? Well, I mean, it's going to be mine anyways. You broke mine.
I broke nothing. Oh, sick. Yeah, you
missed it. I turned it on and it just like fired a bunch of balls up. I think
it was preloading them in the dragon,
I think. Oh. Uh-oh.
All right, here we go. Sick. Um, I found this.
Remove shipping material cable ties from playfield bottom side before operation.
Cuz there's these. Yeah, there you go. Wa, buddy.
How far do we need to pull it? I don't know. I could kind of want to check it
out now. Woo. No, it's just the balls. Clippers.
Oh, yeah. There it is. Oh,
do you have the Wow, look at it. Is that
beautiful or what? Look at all these custom boards. Couple
interesting things. Number one is check this out. Boom. Got it. We're good.
Also, there's a loose cotter pin in there somewhere. Bel, can you grab that?
Oh, yeah. I don't know where that came from, but it's in there.
Okay. Cool.
Oh, wait. Um,
needs to go down. Oh, that side can go up. Perfect. Oh, shoot. They're good.
Never mind. No, I don't even I don't even need the wrench. They're loose.
Okay. Uh, how's the bubble doing? We are
all pretty much dead center. Ah, nice. After all that,
perfection. Here we go. We set up automatic software updates. Sync Belle's
account. Oh my god. Impossible play.
Monster play. Dude, there's so many
modes. All randomness removed.
To power it off. Listen to game music. Okay. Normal play.
The mod is hatching a new plan to escape her banishment.
Oh, I get to select a character. Choice. Okay.
Anya, Bray, Curlyoot, Elanir, Weeart, Ardor.
Okay, let's go. Dragon Born Paladin. I mean, he's on the side of the thing,
right? So, player two. All right, let's see if you chose that. Wait, this still
says player one, select character. Oh, I see. I think maybe it's this. It's
flashing. Wait, use right flipper to choose character. Yeah, and the left is
the town. Oh, hold on. Okay, hold on.
There begins the green. It went straight down the What the Pay attention. What
just happened? She saved it and then you dropped it again. But the end of ball
bonus. You still got 30,000 points.
Choose the character. Okay. Do you want to try again? Now you're up.
Okay. Okay. Does Does this choose the character then? Okay. Frey Curlyoot. I I
like Frey Curlyoot. Sure. Go for it. Okay. I'm ready. Oh, we're already doing
better. Cobalt. Nice. I don't like this game. Don't
forget to activate your shield. Dude, we need to be so much better at this to
complete any quests. It's hard to look at the screen and the table. Like, what
just happened? Uh, something. I I heard Michael Dorne, though, so the dragon was
involved. Oh. Oh, I saved my ball. Okay.
Okay, I did that again. Wait, I did. Oh. Oh, it's a good thing we removed that
zip tie. Yeah. Whoa. Oh, I did the thing. Dungeon crawl. Dungeon crawl.
Let's go.
Shoot purple arrows to move forward. Are you going to that ramp or? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm going to try.
Come on. No. No. No. Come on.
You hate to see it.
Okay, wait. Wait. How do we activate the dragon? I think you're Yo, the dragon.
Oh, here it comes. Here it comes. Shield. Shield's up. I got the shield.
Well, we lost. Wait, we lost one. We lost two.
There's more. Wait, but wait, there's more.
Okay, shield's almost down. Shield's almost down.
This is too many. I I got to say this is just too many. No, it's not too many.
It's the right number. Let's go. Shields up. Shields up.
We got this. Okay, we lost a couple We lost a couple lost a couple good men
there. This is just insane.
Battle the dragon. Take that, Michael. The dragon.
Studded armor of Timor increases luck. Uh, okay. I don't know how they do that,
but Oh, the dungeon crawl.
That's not very lucky.
I thought you were going to get that one. So, I didn't activate the shield.
That was stressful. That was just straight up stressful.
Oh, what was that? It didn't Don't type ass into the machine. It's real mad
about that. Okay, I want to play one
more time. Okay, I think I think my reaction time on the shield could get a
little better. I think that that's a pretty cool mechanic. Oh, if you hold
it, you fire a ranged one. How many points did you get on that dragon
multiball? 75 million or something like that. That's crazy.
Shield.
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