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F**k Lightning Flippers | Pinball School with Dracula

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Matt and Don talk about that old devil — Bram Stoker’s Dracula…. It was Matt’s first love. Don was its concubine. Games Discussed: William’s Ruth’s Chris’ Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula

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Highlights

  • Dracula was designed with normal-length flippers, not Lightning Flippers
  • A German distributor demanded flippers be shortened after the game was designed to make it harder
  • Lightning Flippers create a quarter-inch bigger gap between flippers
  • Dracula's multiball stacking mechanic allows three multiballs to be active simultaneously with escalating jackpots
  • Dracula's video mode (werewolf gun mode) is the best video mode ever made
  • Fishtales also shipped with Lightning Flippers for the same reason
  • The host played over 1,000 games on his Dracula machine before selling it
  • Dracula is a 1993 WPC game, fairly early in the WPC era before mode-based design became standard

Notable quotes

“I wish I still owned and will own again one day”
Host (primary speaker)
“It's the way that they shipped it because some distributor in Germany wanted to make money. Was like, your games are too easy. And so they agreed after the game was designed.”
Host
“It was designed with normal length flippers. Like it's not supposed to have lightning flippers. That's some dumb ass in Germany guy dude who made that change, not a designer.”
Host
“I swapped those things out as soon as I learned the truth. I swapped them out and never looked back. Night and day.”
Host
“It's like first person DMD view of a gun and you're shooting werewolves coming at you left and right flipper”
Host
“You could die or you could lose ball three, minimal score, because you're setting up for a greater score later.”
Host
“I feel like it's missing from modern games is just those like really big satisfying jackpots.”
Host
“Every time I try to hit something it sends it back or it hits me with something else and I have to like quite literally like counter the game.”
Host
“The game dracula directly addresses you, laughs at you, makes weird eyeballs at you. Very sinister laughing and haunting.”
Host
“I would crank the volume on that thing. It's loud. It's really cool man.”
Host

Entities

  • Williams· company
  • Black Rose· game
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula· game
  • Deadpool· game
  • Fish Tales· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Hook· game
  • Johnny Mnemonic· game
  • The Avengers· game
  • Bash Pinball Podcast· organization
  • German distributor· organization
  • Pinside· organization
  • Berio· person
  • Co-host/Friend· person
  • Hillbilly Pinball Guy· person
  • Host (primary speaker)· person
  • DMD· product
  • Lightning Flippers· product
  • WPC· product
  • Shedcade· venue

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