Sir, you are absolutely frickin hilarious even when being educational.

I recognized the font in Ben's menus as being the same on the Atari 8-bit series(uppercase).

It had long lines nearly the entire time at Allentown. I snapped a picture early on Friday I think.

AMH-Allentown.JPG

A couple questions which may have been partially answered above. When I played, the DMD was seemed to have some static or something that seemed like a loose connector or some other issue. Also, the sound made noise like a blown speaker. I mentioned it to someone else and he said that both were actually effects that were intentional and part of the games effects.

Is this correct? If yes, it would be a real nega,give for me having interest in the game.

Thanks,
Dave

I believe I heard there was a speaker issue that was resolved during the show by replacing the speaker.

Sound issue Saturday for a few hours - I blew the speaker out by having the thing turned up to the max trying to compete with the video pin guys next to me and Pinovators who had their games cranked (which they have every right to and should since they sell sound products..) It was MY fault the speaker blew not the game...lol... Michael Pupo from Flipper Fidelity came over and fixed it for us and we were back up and running and the sound was great... He even tweaked the amp settings so we didn't have to have it up so loud to compete... During the process we had a wire come loose from a connector and Ray from Wide Area Repair helped with that while I had to man the booth... All in all the game ran 2 days straight non stop to long lines and everyone was happy. This game is still a prototype folks.. this is why they get sent to shows for feedback... Charlie and Ben already tweaked like 5 things I suggested from the show - stupid stuff, nothing major but just to show you in 2 days these guys had no ego and said, yup that's a good idea, and changed things... Just like the cabinet art - the first run that people didn't like in 2 days they had the Blue Ghost cabinet ! What a super way to react isn't it ? Good stuff... These guys are good for pinball and the game was a pleasant suprise for everyone at the show ! We were proud to have it in our booth and proud to be their distributor on the east coast !

Joe Newhart
PinballSTAR Amusements
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+1 would be down for getting my hands on a board as well.

Pingame Journal coverage of the Spooky Pinball booth at MGC...

This is super cool Ben!

Most of that talk went straight over my head ... But it sure looks cool!!

You should have done it in BASIC! Then I'd be sweet.

10 print "game over"
20 goto 10

rd.

I will be picking one up when it's available.

great work Ben

am hoping one day you can do a video explaining the basics of programming of your system…. also would be cool if you could provide some programming templates for the beginners: attract mode, game start, etc so we can then work in rules, end of game, attract mode etc and go then we can go from there.

Am so wanting AMH and a pinheck board set

How long until I can buy one?

I thought the answer was "right now"?

I emailed the Spooky folks yesterday about it. I'm talking about the time between my sending them full payment and shipment.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can buy one right now. Better question is when would you receive it.

This summer

Dumb question... is a DMD the option to display output? There is no way to connect a LCD, correct?

I just have to say how cool this is...kind of like an open source pinball machine. I'm happy to see this going to production. Congrats again to everyone involved!

Here's some decent gameplay footage from Arcade Hunters at Allentown. Unfortunately this was shot while the speaker was blown, but still good stuff.

thanks for sharing, looks great, take my money…..

Looking good, Ben! Any chance of bringing it to Orlando/FPF later this year?

Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to receiving my game hopefully sometime next month. Just curious, has anyone else received their machine other than Pinball Star?

From watching that video it seems like there were a lot of rejects from the right loop - I don't think the jump ramp was made at all. Wonder whether it takes a perfectly clean shot to make the jump ramp or if the flippers were too weak on that machine. Also hoping they decide to change the design on the right scoop.

They have half of my money, LOL, just give me a shipment date!

Will these work in the UK (240v 50hz)?

I'd be surprised if they couldn't make it work, but there's some concern over import rules. You might have to import it yourself, rather than have it shipped.

Biggest difference is the transformer (no problem) and if anything's run off the AC, which would surprise me.

I think the shot was made twice between the 1 min. mark and 1 min 20 sec. Video skips for me when watching. If you fail the jump (fall half way up the ramp), great video of "Character" falling. You fail, you get a video. The video of the fall reminds me of the Hitchcock movie Vertigo.

I don't think so, I just watched it again, the jump is failed at the 2 min mark. Otherwise, all other shots to the jump ramp roll slowly back down the loop. Maybe it was a just a setup issue with that game.

I played one game on AMH at Allentown, and focused on the jump ramp because no one I watched play ahead of me had hit it and people were commenting about how hard it was. I hit it once. It required not only a perfect shot but also a bit of luck on top of that. I'm sure, or at least I hope, they have the ability to set up this game so this shot is easier to make.

Thanks for the feedback Steve. In one of Ben's videos at the beginning of this thread that shot looks a little easier. I think I read that they were going to make tweaks based on feedback from Allentown, maybe this is one of the tweaks they make. To me the game still looks awesome though.

I know I have seen the jump ramp made numerous times in some of the other videos. It seems like one of the best flow-through shots in the game, so I hope they nail it.

I gave chuck some feedback on the jump shot it was entirely too hard to hit at Allentown I am sure they are looking into it

In previous videos making that shot looked trivial and only a miss hit loft or something ala' the secret lock in Theater of Magic would drop. Ben even said as much as he narrated one of them. Maybe they turned the difficulty up on purpose?

Your right, watched again and video was not skipping for me. When the video skipped before, I did not notice it getting kicked out of the morgue, thought the jump was made to go down left side. Went to Benton to the Pub with my Brother today to show him the game. Finally got to fight the Prison Ghost! Fail! On a good note, By the number of skill shots I made, I guess I am good with my balls. The game told me, honest.

Hey Ben,
I wanted to know if Americas Most Haunted will be at Southern Fried Gameroom Expo in Atlanta?
If yes, will it be playable?
Cheers
Taylor

captivate or camtasia should work well for what you want

awesome, look forward to watching and learning

I'll assume that the jump ramp on the one at Allentown was an anomaly, but it definitely wasn't a question of practice. Refer to my previous post. The ball would tend to lose momentum via rattling even on perfectly placed shots. Given that the Hellavator ball trap and right scoop post things are worked out, the jump ramp would be my only concern. If Ben says it works, no doubt the geometry itself is fine, and it would just be a question of a small tweak on the Allentown one if it wasn't done already.

Anyhow, I didn't wait 3 days to post just for the sake of throwing in my jump ramp $.02. I did it because I've come up with a tag line for promotional material for this game.

"Spooky on multiple levels"

Obviously, it would help if you have a Hellavator close-up or magnified section, because... that's the joke.

Not that I'm gunning for the AMH marketing director position, but I was the one who came up with the name (America's Most Haunted) that Ben decided to use, here: (http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ghost-squad/page/5#post-830576).

such a cool game. totally dig playfield.

That was my concern the jump ramp

I'm giddy like a school girl with excitement.

It'd have been a pity if it wasn't in the game (says me, not having played the game, but I like the idea of needing a real good shot to make it!)

Got a chance to play this game today and it was very impressive. All the shots were very doable and I had some fun combos going on here and there, including looping the jump ramp a few times. I liked how the slingshots could give you enough action to hit the bash target bank as well, had a couple instances during ghost minion battles of getting some shots off the slings to zap the ghost. The game gets an A+ for theme integration and the atmosphere it creates, it really nails the ridiculousness of ghost hunting shows. The other highlight I think are the sounds, especially the multi ball song once you beat a boss ghost that is like some cheesy theme song "Gho Gho Gho Ghooost Squad baby".

Hopefully I have business in SW Wisconsin again soon and get another chance to play America's Most Haunted.

I love this game. I Wish Blainebrook would grab one so I could play it on location more often.