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Behind the Scenes at The Pinball Company Warehouse: St. Louis Championship & Funhouse Pinball
Today we're giving you a behind-the-scenes tour of our Chesterfield, Missouri warehouse. We’re gearing up for the St. Louis Area Pinball Championship (SLAPC) happening from August 9th to 11th, 2024. Catch a sneak peek of the tournament setup featuring games like Iron Maiden, Foo Fighters, Deadpool, and more. Details of the side tournaments are also covered along with a look at Pedretti Gaming's Funhouse Classic Edition Remake fresh out of the box.
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▶ Contact - travis@pinballco.com
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www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=80825
▶ Website - www.thepinballcompany.com/
▶ Contact - travis@pinballco.com
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This ONE Skill Will Instantly Improve Your Pinball Game
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In this video, discover why cradling the ball is my top skill recommended for anyone new to pinball or aiming to elevate their gameplay. Pinball is about managing chaos, and learning to cradle the ball helps slow the game down and effectively control that chaos. ▶ Website - www.thepinballcompany.com/ ▶ Contact - travis@pinballco.com
How To Win Your John Wick Launch Party (UPDATED) - Stern Pinball
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This video explains a general launch party strategy for Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine John Wick. The gameplay featured in this video is on a John Wick Pro model operating on v0.83 code. Key Points: Discussing Ruska Roma Strategy Show full gameplay Ideal for players who want to score the most points Featuring: John Wick Pinball Machine - Pro Model Running on 0.83 Code Order a John Wick ...
Funhouse Pinball Midnight Limited Edition Gameplay - Pedretti Gaming
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This is a video showing Pedretti Gaming's Funhouse Pinball Midnight Limited Edition gameplay. Order a Funhouse pinball machine today! ▶ Website - www.thepinballcompany.com/ ▶ Funhouse Pinball Midnight Limited Edition - bit.ly/4ep6wuw ▶ Pedretti Gaming - www.pinballremakes.com/ ▶ Planetary Pinball - www.planetarypinball.com/ Chapters - 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Gameplay
How To Win Your John Wick Launch Party - Stern Pinball
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This video explains a general launch party strategy for Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine John Wick. The gameplay featured in this video is on a John Wick Pro model operating on v0.83 code. Key Points: Discussing different tactics Discussing preferred Jobs Show full gameplay Ideal for players who want to progress further into the game Featuring: John Wick Pinball Machine - Pro Model Runnin...
Stern Pinball's John Wick Pinball: Hands-On Overview
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This is a video showcase and overview of John Wick Pinball by Stern Pinball provided by The Pinball Company Order a John Wick pinball machine today! ▶ Website - www.thepinballcompany.com/ ▶ Pro Model - bit.ly/3WJ6W8C ▶ Premium Model - bit.ly/3V3VseI ▶ Limited Edition Model - bit.ly/3V6Q2zS Chapters - 00:00 - Intro 00:18 - Opening Discussion 00:48 - John Wick Pinball Machine Reveal 01:01 - John ...
John Wick Pinball First Game Out of Box- Stern Pinball
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This is a video of a full game of John Wick Pinball by Stern Pinball. This gameplay is on a pro and is the first time anyone at The Pinball Company was able to play the game. Key Points: Full gameplay of John Wick Pro by Stern Pinball Discussion of settings when game is out of box Ideal for viewers who want to explore the game Featuring: John Wick Pinball Machine - Pro Model Running on .80 Code...
Funhouse Pinball Remake Teaser Trailer
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Star Wars Pinball Luke Skywalker Strategy - Stern Pinball
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This is a video explaining how to use the character Luke Skywalker on Star Wars Pinball by Stern Pinball. During the gameplay, you will see how to utilize the Luke Skywalker Strategy and some basic tactics to Star Wars Pinball. The gameplay featured in this video is on a Star Wars Premium operating on v1.25 code. Key Points: Discussing what multipliers are Discussing how multipliers work Discus...
How to BOOST Your JAWS Pinball Scores (Full Premium Gameplay Commentary, Code v.87)
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This is a video explaining how to close beaches, boost points, and under the Hasselhoff Strategy concepts on Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine JAWS. The gameplay featured in this video is on a JAWS Premium operating on v0.87 code. Key Points: Discussing how to close beaches and hurry-up boosts Discussing the Hasselhoff Strategy Discussing preferred Encounters Show full gameplay Ideal for p...
How To Win Your JAWS Launch Party - Stern Pinball
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This is a video explaining different launch party strategies for Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine JAWS. The gameplay featured in this video is on a JAWS Pro model operating on v0.85 code. Key Points: Tournament Calendar - www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/full.php Discussing different tactics Discussing billboards on the playfield Discussing preferred Encounters Show full gameplay Ideal for pl...
JAWS Pinball Gear Explained - How It Works
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This is a video explaining how the Gear feature works on Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine JAWS. The gameplay featured on this video is on a JAWS Pro model operating on v0.85 code. Key Points: Discussing what the Gear awards are Discussing how to qualify the Gear awards Discussing how the Gear Cash Out works Ideal for players who want to progress further into the game Featuring: JAWS Pinba...
How To Play JAWS Pinball - Gameplay Strategy Guide (Pro Model, .84 Code)
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This is a video with gameplay on Stern Pinball's newest pinball machine JAWS, with an explanation of what is happening. This video offers an easy to follow strategy to help players understand Ball 1 strategies on JAWS. The gameplay featured on this video is on a JAWS Pro model operating on v0.84 code. Key Points: Discussing the basics of the game Discussing an easy to understand Ball 1 opener I...
Godzilla Pinball Endgame Strategy - Stern Pinball (Part 2)
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This is Part 2 of a Stern Pinball Godzilla strategy guide. In this video, a tier 2 Kaiju Battle is shown, with an explanation of what is happening. This video offers an easy to follow strategy to help players understand an endgame strategy on Godzilla. The gameplay featured in this video is on a Godzilla Premium model operating on v1.08 code. Key Points: Discussing how to play the GZ & Anguirus...
Godzilla Pinball Gigan Strategy - Stern Pinball (Part 1)
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This is Part 1 for a Stern Pinball Godzilla strategy guide. In this video, the Gigan Strategy is shown, with an explanation of what is happening. This video offers an easy to follow strategy to help players understand early to mid-game strategies on Godzilla. The gameplay featured on this video is on a Godzilla Premium model operating on v1.08 code. Key Points: Discussing how to play the Gigan ...
James Bond Pinball Villain Modes Explained - Stern Pinball
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James Bond Pinball Simplified: Ball 1 Strategies - Stern Pinball
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Venom Pinball UPDATED Launch Party Strategy (Premium Model, 0.93 Code)
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Venom Pinball Peter Parker All Day Strategy (Pro Model, .92 Code) - Great For Beginners!
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How To Win Your Venom Pinball Launch Party
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How To Win Your Venom Pinball Launch Party
Jurassic Park Pinball Raptor Tri-Ball Audio FX (Gameplay, No Commentary)
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Stern Pinball Venom v0.91 Gameplay w/ Commentary - 28 Billion Point Game
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Stern Pinball Jurassic Park Audio FX and Video Showcase (Full Gameplay, No Commentary)
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Stern Pinball Venom Limited Edition Art Showcase - Zombie Yeti
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How do you get the drop targets to reset? I keep finding myself in situations where I’m trying to get my barrel lit for the 2nd multiball but all the targets are down.
Thank you for the tips just got my LE machine a week ago and i love it so fast so these tips will help me get better Cheers Brad
Pinball is about managing chaos. Poetic.
Great video. I recently became a fan of Venom. Also the new badges helped. I've been playing this game more than just once or twice every cpl week. I now play it several times I go to my local arcade. Again, great video.
Cradling is Def very important but the one thing that really opened the game up for me and improved my control: NOT FLIPPING. Bounce passing, ski pass, dead flip etc. Most beginners don’t realize that you don’t have to flip at the ball every time.
Bought my Pirates LE JJP from the pinball company. Traded a Sopranos towards it. Great to work with. Think they no longer sell JJP
Can only tourney participants attend?
If only you had the old Star Trek pin ball I remember that one as well
Such a shame I am a pro at star wars pine ball but you are just to far for me anyway I now a place where I can get plenty of free time and keep my training up tell you come to Texas so waiting on you my friend I would like to see if my skills are any good or not bye 👋
Lots of games that I haven’t heard of that look like so much fun!
Can't wait! thanks for all the hard work SLAPC team!
Will the tourney be streamed??
No stream this year unfortunately, but hopeful to line something up for next year.
Very fun video and always great to see Jack*Bot, the GOAT of the Pin*Bot trilogy. The tournament sounds great but I'm not surprised to know Dominic did not extend me an invite. I guess our match up will have to wait until October. Thanks for the fun warehouse walk.
Incredible thank you for sharing
Excellent set up Travis! Thanks to everyone for working so hard to get things ready for us Pinheads😎 Looking forward to this weekend. We'll see you Friday🏆
First to comment… Great video Travis! I wish you a fun tooooeeernement. 😜
Sou técnico de pimball desde 1980
Missing your glitter stickers, Big Shot & 1/3 of your playfield lights are out.
Along with cradling... I employ the dead bounce whenever possible. Slowing the ball down, taking the energy out it as much as possible, ...can lead to quicker cradles. This goes along with what you said Travis about resisting the urge to just hit the ball always. dead bounce develops the trust of not hitting that ball, and letting it bounce over to the other flipper, and often a cradle can come out of that, or maybe just an easier shot as the ball is now moving slower
A great video for everyone. Thanks Travis!
This is my first machine I have owned. I am having issues hitting the right ramp consistently. I can hit all other ramps and targets repeatedly and on demand. Inconsistently I can hit the right ramp from the right flipper but with more consistency then the left flipper. From stalled on the left flipper is it possible to hit the right ramp without hitting the shark tower or the pop bumper? Or am I missing some trick?
Yep, you can hit it. Just keep at!
Been winning this machine regularly with this strategy. Thanks!!
If this is #1, then #2 would have to be to have some understanding of the game you're playing. Too many casual players don't know what they're supposed to be shooting at most of the time. Have a plan.
Good stuff 🔥! I like this as a good first goal to focus on. By telling someone to practice cradling, you are giving them an easy to understand goal to work towards. It's less about the end-goal (actually having the ball cradled) and much more about what you will learn in the process of getting it there. You will find that you won't be looking at targets anymore, you'll be paying more attention to the ball's location, its behavior, and how you react to it in the lower third of the playfield. Pair this goal with watching "pinball skills" videos and you've got a good recipe for getting better. Over time, you will eventually learn that you have more control than you think you have, giving you the confidence and ability to better keep the ball in play. The best part about the skills you learn in the bottom third, is that they translate well from table to table.
In order to cradle, the ball needs to slow down. What helped me with that is just letting the ball dead bounce. If you don’t take that immediate hit on a speeding ball, you’ll be surprised how often you’ll get a manageable ball on the other flipper.
Control control you must have control!
Thank you. I appreciate it will definitely start doing it
First thing I tell people that are learning to play pinball is only flip one flipper at a time, there first thought is if I flip both flippers then the ball will never go down. I then show them why it doesn't work that way.
I would love to hear Travis (or even all of Triple Drain) discuss what pinball game or games they would suggest for improving your pinball skills. And ideally, what pinball games are best for first time home buyers.
I would say Pat Lawlor and Steve Ritchie games Pat Lawlor games are great for figuring out weird layouts and how to navigate them, and it works on other games. I've been playing a lot of Addams Family lately and tried taking the left loop a couple times, even though it's a kind of risky shot. But recently I've noticed as I got more comfortable with this shot, so did I get more comfortable doing the right ramp on Road Show. I haven't played Iron Maiden in a while, but I'm sure I'll be better at hitting the left ramp now too, since it's a similiar shot (Dead End in Twilight Zone too, but why would you shot for that?) Steve Ritchie games has these tight shots that you would have to hit exactly, otherwise the ball goes straight down the middle (No Fear, Terminator 2) Once you figure them out and get comfortable doing them, you'll see yourself playing better at A LOT of games. Attack From Mars is a great game to improve at flipper skills in general, it has a open playfield and the ramps feeds the ball back to the flippers. If you want to get good at flipper skills and techniques fast, you'll have to stand at this game for hours
This is great advice. I’m still new to pinball and working on getting my scores up. I would love to see more videos like this.
more Jaws strategie videos 🥹
Very sound advice Travis. Thank you. Is that Elvira a prototype?
You're welcome. It's not a prototype, but was NIB last summer.
So true - but I tell people, first patience (dead bounce) then control (cradle) - not 100% the same but pretty close to it ;-)
Great advice. 👍
This advice is good for complete beginners, but for everyone else, I'm going to disagree with the video, mostly because this video describes the way I used to play. I am someone who played competitively as a "start and stop" (cradling) player since 2017. I got my friend into pinball during the pandemic, but he always insisted on playing on the fly, no matter how much I tried to tell him to just cradle the ball and slow down. After 2 years of playing together daily, it got to the point where he was competitive and even beating me-- even my league team considers him more consistent than me. Sure, it could be talent (or I could have problems), but my theory is that cradling the ball allows you to play for the game for longer, but does not give you as much practice as playing on the fly. When you play on the fly, you make mistakes at a much faster rate, and learn much faster what to do and not to do intuitively. Because he was insistent on always playing on the fly,-- not only was he able to pick up my flipper and nudging skills by watching me, he was able to practice those skills at a much faster rate than I was able to practice those and overtake my years of experience. And become more accurate in his shots-- even if I used a "quiet eye" or mentally visualized my shots, he's become much more adept at dialing in shots and making critical plays. If I were to give my own advice then, it would be to find a style that's fun for yourself (so you keep playing), then play to master one cool skill you saw someone else do. Eventually you'll be playing towards a Universal Style. When I finally conceded to him and started playing on the fly, it was a revelation.
Indeed, it's all relative when finding ones style. At a high level, there's only a handful of players that can truly play on the fly and excel. Very difficult to do, thus the need to slow things down.
I don't cradle enough on multi balls. I see alot of better players doing this.
Excellent advice Travis! You hit it spot on with "Managing Chaos" Pinball is full of highs and lows. How you control the pace of the game really helps in scoring more and more points every time you play. We'll see you at SLAP in a few weeks! 😎💪🏆
Excellent advice. I notice the pros cradle during multiballs.
This is a skill that's very helpful and comes with plenty of experience. There's also a lot of other fun flipper techniques built in with multiballs. Sounds like that'd be a fun topic to explore.
Good one! We need more basic recommendations like this one for beginners to get people excited for the game 🪩
Great advice! Also, it's cool that you had Jaws a year before it was released.
There’s two possible reasons for this. Either I messed up the date or I’m a time traveler. 😎
Cradling is great advice. Getting the ball to a cradle is the problem. There are a number of skills that are required to really cradle consistently. You mentioned a few if I remember correctly, dead bounce was one. Other skills you need to develop for cradling purposes are micro flips, over unders (Multi-ball), post bounces to slow the ball so you can cradle. My point being people have to develop other skills to be able to consistently and effectively cradle.
Very true. I think the dead bounce is the simplest one to explain and to pull off. It has the additional wow effect when people see how easy you can decrease speed by just doing nothing for a moment :)
Correct. The good thing about a total focus on getting a ball to a cradle is that you'll find yourself developing those other skills because they're necessary to achieve the end game goal. Once you get a baseline understanding, then those specific skills can be further refined.
This is what I always say to people wanting to learn games. Cradle the ball first and then the game can eventually open up for you.
I’m also a competitive foosball player and it’s the same thing. Cradling the ball, slow the game down, learn to control the ball. This is the most important base to build from.
This is seriously great advice. Thanks for the video Travis!
No problem, thanks for watching.
Are the allies useful at all?
As of right now they're not coded into the game yet outside of points.
Great pair of videos 👍
Thanks!
Sou técnico desde 1985 ainda realizo manutenção essa profissão sempre reinicia. Inscrevi em seu canal. André
Gracias, Andre. Eso es genial, ojalá tuviera esa habilidad! Por suerte, tenemos a una excelente técnica, Keri, que se encarga de todos nuestros juegos.