It’s a scare feature in the settings. No impact to the game other than startling you.

Every...single....time...it goes off in my basement I almost have a heart attack and die. I love it lol. We need more fun things like that in pinball.

I had it happen on location not that long ago and a much younger kid(I imagine he was 6-7 or so) was playing the game next to me and he FREAKED out, ran away from his game and started crying to his Dad. It is ridiculously loud. I love it myself but would be nice to be be able to tone it down a hair if you so chose to.

I thought it was cool maybe the first five times. Now it's disabled thru menu settings. It's just obnoxiously loud and my dog gets up and goes upstairs. If she could flip me off, she would.

Note, do NOT turn the machine off mid-scream. It accomplishes the loud scream by literally changing the volume in the settings, then putting them back when it's done. If you turn it off in the middle, your volume will be maxed out when you turn the machine back on and you'll have to manually reset it.

it seems to do it about once an hour (if enabled). it raises the volume to 10 for that scream no matter what volume level you have the game set to. i agree with Ericc123 -- it's hilarious and unique, but i understand people disabling it after a while in a home setting.

I turn it on if I have someone new to playing come over. It is funny to see their reaction the first time. After that first time, it's something I can do without.

Not a fan of it. Every location I've had it at wants it shut off.

You may just ship your pants. Lol

Mine goes to 11.

First thing I disabled on mine.

Yeah but then you know when it's coming...kind of defeats the whole purpose of haunting/scaring you...whether you think it's cool or not.

I don't think it scares you, when it goes quiet and gives you time to cover your ears everytime before the actual scream.

Almost lost a location because of this scream on GB. I wasn't aware of this feature when first installing the game and it kept going off randomly and the location owner was pissed. It is a cool idea and I'd love this as a feature on a game in my own personal game collection, but I can't have it activated on location. Would be better for operators if the Stern's default factory setting was off, and you had to turn this feature on.

I haven't tried to adjust this yet, but is there any way to set switch this off at certain hours. I like the feature, but I don't need to go off when I sneak downstairs at night to play when others a sleeping. Ideally mine would only go off between the hours of 10am and 8pm, or something like that.

Nope, on or off.

Sounds like a job for the Stern editor (I forget what it's called)... take the sample; re-normalize the volume about 10 octaves down and replace it in the binary.

When I first got this game I left it on out in the family room when I was home alone. It went off when I was 2 rooms away at about 1am. It scared the living shit outta me!

I really enjoy the screaming but can see how it would get annoying in your home after it happens a few times.

The scream tends to go off every 35 or 40 plays. Every time it goes off, it makes the hair on my arms stand. I love it It's fun when unsuspecting guests come over and play. Scared the shit out of a bunch of people

If you’re fast enough on the flippers you can cancel the scream. You have to hit both flippers at the same time, right at the beginning of the sequence, boom no scream. I manage it about 50% of the time. Good luck .

One of my very first games ever playing ghostbusters and the scream happened to me.
It actually startled me. And afterwards I just thought it was really cool.
Then... It really didn't happen too much to me the next few times that I played it.
Now, someone brought a ghostbusters to MGC. After I put up a monster game on it, I moved to the next machine(as its packed and I never camp when its crowded), and a young kid got on the machine after me. I was on the machine next to it as it was free. And the scream occurred.
I watched the whole thing from the corner of my eye.
The kids reaction was priceless. And his father was right behind him, and chuckled at his kids response as well. I think me and him shared a nod and a slight laugh ourselves. Really cool to witness the scream when you know its coming.
Can it get old... Sure... But, can't most things.

Coffee, Jack Daniel's, and sleeping in on Saturday never get old. The scream, on the other hand, got old after a week.

anyone have this one video? I never witnessed it

Here’s one from a DeadFlip stream a few years ago.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SteamyNurturingWatermelonCurseLit

Absolutely hate it. Dumbest thing ever. It's like Stern was just looking for ways to make the game more unpleasant.

Absolutely love it. Coolest thing ever. It's like Stern was just looking for ways to make the game more fun.

Absolutely think it's okay. Okayiest thing ever? It's like Stern was just looking for ways to make games with an optional feature which can be turned off or on based on your own personal taste
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You can't turn it off when one is on location and you are playing a game near it. If hearing loud screams is fun to you then fantastic. Maybe in the next game, they can have random airhorns, police sirens, thunder booms, or other fun sounds to surprise you.

Love it.....Yesterday my wife played and it went off 4 times. She wanted me to disable it, but I won't and it's PRICELESS!

Don't blame you! It's one of the most risque features on a machine. You're either going to love it, or hate it

It's pretty horrible and I cannot believe "on" is the default setting.

Wouldn't be surprised if it has helped cost pinball more than one location.

"Get that thing and everything else like it out of my bar please!"

Yes. Remove fun in my bar at all costs! How dare you draw attention to extremely expensive amusement machines in my bar!

Tons of bars that have machines are like this. I don't get the point of offering up the games, and muting the sound. Counterproductive. It's never an issue at Sunshine, or Jackbar.

Hah, we were playing this at a barcade and that was the only sound you could actually hear.

Good grief. Lighten up Francis.

I am so glad I sold my GB and picked up something else. The screaming got old, but the "ok, who brought the dog", reminded us of when our dog would show up about that time. Coyotes got him and we could just not play the game anymore. Just a personal thing for us, there was a lot about the game I did like before that, like the bumpers being so rewarding.

Different strokes. It is one of my favorites and a long term keeper.

With the new code, it has 2-3 other call outs outside in that mode besides "okay, who brought the dog" btw.

Sorry to hear about your dog. That would suck.

Don't know why they didn't make this with it's own independent volume setting. Seem easy enough and not hard to imagine a vast number of people liking the feature but not at full volume. It would be great for a bar or arcade but almost anywhere else...? I love it before my kids bedtime, hate it after. The first time it happened to me was at night and I had to text neighbors not to call the fuzz!

The screaming was fun at first, but got old fast. One reason I still do not miss that game being here.