It's like everyone forgot how hard it was to sell AMH for Spooky and that was with it done at ship time. Those who supported the company from the start get first crack I think that's fair. No idea yet if I'll be in for one like many need to see more first. Good thing is if anyone has actually paid attention Spooky isn't taking money, they have said the gane is re-designed, and currently none of us know anything so get some patience sit back and wait. If it interests you email Spooky their communication is great and let them know. If you know an AMH owner and they aren't in ask if they can order for you. Mostly just calm down and enjoy pinball and be happy we have three companies shipping games.

Charlie thank you. I was contacted via email today by Kayte just saying hold tight for a day or two because response has been insane. Therefore I'm just holding on hopefully was able to get in on LE but if not so be it.

I'm with you I love the balls it's taken for Spooky to do all of this. My $ is my way of showing it. The fact that spooky responds by rewarding AMH buyers is great business!

Just a thought but in actuality you could have AMH LE if you went with original art package. It was a choice is my understanding.

Yep they tease us they are cruel.

Great work Charlie and company, I'm looking very forward to building on my nice little spooky pinball collection.

Hilarious! I've got side by side comparisons to back that up!

That is great to hear. Will it be like AMH shipping with complete code but future additions and bug fixes?

I think it's a great model and will keep me a repeat spooky customer. Thanks. -Tommy

I'm very curious

I'm spending my 45 minutes of prep time at school just watching this thread hoping for the next bit of reveal and all Charlie does is tease, so cruel. Can't wait to see more!

So exciting.

I'm guessing that just like AMH they will have an on/off option in the settings, but the (s) intrigues me, when was the last game to come out that had more than one video mode? Baywatch?

Someone is going to need to get it moved from facebook to youtube and/or pinside quickly for me because no facebooking allowed at work.

I think both backglasses look great, hope I can get in on LE, but regardless I'm in, game looks unique and fun. Like the idea of a mode selection that can be seen in the video and the art speaks for itself.

I definitely have to second this one, I've always thought that would be a great feature on AMH as well letting me know champion scores for each of the ghost battles and multiballs. Great suggestion and thank you Fawzma for taking it into consideration!

I'm 52 standard so they have at least made it that far down the list.

Love the way you guys do business

Very jealous that you guys got to play it today! Glad to hear positive reports, looking forward to the stream in a few weeks!

Could be. I know a few early AMH adopters who weren't satisfied with the game and it left their collections quickly, but not a vocal majority of that your absolutely correct.

Spinner is a good idea, and upper playfield is a good unique location.

Yep, you should have gotten an email about this last week. I was refunded very quickly after email and just waiting for the money to go from my paypal back to my bank to redeposit it with them. Your game is safe they assured everyone in the email.

That is awesome news

It usually available on twitch immediately following the stream

I can't get it to play on twitch and I'm officially sad.

Thx you I'll give it a shot

So last night at my local arcade we were having a party to celebrate their 4th anniversary in business. A new person shows up and is just kind of asking some questions about pinball playing, machine maintenance, and then specifically spooky pinball and if they are reputable. The owner of the arcade sends the gentleman my way since I have an AMH. Turns out the guy doesn't really play pinball, or at least hasn't until very recently, and this will be the first game he owns, he is just a huge Rob Zombie fan. Wasn't familiar with pinside, or the spooky pinball podcast, I should have asked how the hell he heard about the game. His # was in the late 200's, but it just amazed me that someone that wasn't massively into pinball knew about the title and got in on it so early. Anyway I thought it was an interesting adventure, turns out there will be at least 2 Rob Zombies in the town of Lafayette, IN and mine will be going on location for at least a little bit at Main Street Amusements whenever it arrives (Spooky you should perhaps organize a trophy of sorts for public location launch tournaments, similar to how Stern does upon releasing a new title), and I know for sure that makes at least 4 RZ coming to the state of Indiana. Hopefully by next year the code will be at a point where tournament mode is solid enough for it to be used in the IFPA State Championships as I think its great to throw in those unexpected titles that will kick a player's ass and make the whole tourney run faster. Anyway team Spooky keep up the great work.

Yeah I remember Rob shared it online, so I'm guessing it hit his twitter, facebook, website etc....allowing fans to get in which is cool, I'm sure it will lead them to being fans of pinball as well. Just didn't expect to find it in my little town. Be cool to get them both in one place sometime and have people battle it out.

No problem it's worth the trip. I love less than 5 minutes from there. Open door policy at my house anytime you want to come play hit me up.

I just posted this week about how I met someone who is purely a fan of RZ and doesn't even play pinball or know about Pinside who got in so I'm sure others did as well.

I've played lots and enjoyed it. Put up what was the GC, not sure if it will hold.

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I think a clear plastic like was created for sparky on Metallica covering the living dead girl area from left side of ramp over to lower pop would work great and solve majority of problems.

Single player. Ball stuck on top of plastic between the two pops on left and the wire form ramp. Saw it happen two times on games I was playing and once just watching someone else's. Never saw a ball search trough related issue.

Also random code idea I saw several times an inner orbit shot be made when the drop target was still up. I think you should add in a sneak shot award or value for making that shot with the drop target up, like dirty pool on afm or sneak in bonus on cftbl. Thanks for all of your hard work.

Yeah that could make sense for at least part of the ball drain bug, but there were several occurrences of the ball draining from an outlane and chop being completed awarding a ball save but not actually saving the ball and instead just advancing to the next player so I know for sure a switch was being hit during those.

Fawzma, thanks for putting so much into the game and taking the feedback. I hope it continues to be done constructively for you guys and know that a lot of us pinheads are just trying to help, hope we don't come off as too big of jerks and that we show appreciation.

I enjoyed the game. I probably played around 15 games over the weekend, maybe 20. Because the game was so brutal ball times were very short, and even if the line was long you didn't have to wait that long. Especially compared to Ghostbusters, TBL, Hobbit, and Full Throttle which all seemed to be much longer playing games with more safe shots.

I liked that while selecting your mode you could see which shots were lit on the playfield for that mode. However that being said it didn't at all explain what to do, perhaps some info on the mode select screen could be added or would help with that. I found it easier to shoot the center ramp from the right flipper instead of the left even though it looks that it aligned to be shot with left side.

As I mentioned before I think a clear plastic mod, similar to the clear plastic mod for sparky on Metallica, will need to be made to go over the area of the living dead girl targets and the single drop target because most of my airballs came from that area, including two popping up on top of a plastic and getting wedged in between that and the wireform leading to a ball stick.

The game was brutally fast, but I think as more skilled players get on it and it makes its way into some tournament play you are going to see a game that isn't about flow but instead all about control, pace, and accuracy. There is not a lot of shooting on the fly in this game. The only time I was really successful at all with shooting on the fly was after lock shots coming from the inner loop after knocking down the drop target, the pop up post allowed for a nice drop to the right flipper and an immediate feed back into the inner loop for the next lock, I also had some success going right orbit to center ramp, but I certainly wouldn't want to try that over and over.

I enjoyed the upper playfield, and as Charlie and company described upon its release it looks a little bare and simple but it was fun, and if you get into a decent rhythm you will do well up there. I saw it used for a mode all its own, and also as multiplier of jackpots for other mods.
I'll be very curious on the rules for a wizard mode, although much like AMH I'm guessing most players will never see it. If people think AMH is tough this game will destroy them.

The only thing I found truly bothersome were the red plastic inlane ball guides and the rubbers from pinball life, both of these are things that won't be hard to change out for owners who like me don't like their feel. I assume the inlane guides are a standard part I could find made in metal, and if not I'm sure cliffy will be up for the mod challenge. Shots are tight and challenging. Looking forward to getting much more time on it.

So yep, pretty psyched to have my very own super air ball fix haha thanks as always guys for taking customer feedback! -Tommy Skinner

Mine will be at MSA on occasion just FYI

Not that my opinion matters, but I did see them in person at Texas and thought they all looked nice.

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Yep thanks for the clarification.

I would look at the old AMH comparison picture for reference. I got the upgrade on AMH very happy. Well worth it.

Whats the wait open open open, pictures pictures pictures, post post post!

Thanks for sharing. I'm sure these early issues will help spooky sort things out on future games.

Herg, how about #52? Thanks

My birthday being 7/30 that sounds like a good date, thanks man!

AMH was at two a week for a long time and they remained viable. The new facility has room for a second assembly line I believe so just means more pinball for everyone, and limited to no impact on one title over another.

I also think this is a good idea.

You likely need to adjust the amp in the cabinet.

They have been sold out for a very long time unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure all the RZ are coming with backglasses installed, although it wouldn't surprise me if spooky bringing one across the country chose to do a translite for transportation reasons.

Awesomely stated. Ignore user feature of Pinside helps a lot. Thanks for what you guys do.

I thought I was the only one who operated without coin boxes! Awesome, my RZ should be built next week and also plans to go on location as well! Cool so many are getting out in the wild.

All sounds awesome can't wait to pick mine up!

I'm 52 and was contacted last week saying mine was being built this week.

Nah I'll probably go radio silent

Sweet looking forward to checking it out

Thanks for streaming it man, and Fawzma for being in chat to help tutor the gameplay rules.

For dirty pool

Picking up #52 Thursday. Excited. Will be on location at Main Street Amusemens in Lafayette, IN. I also ordered a spare translite as a prize for a launch tournament with info to follow in near future for anyone interested in playingin it.

Waddle good luck with sale. I only know of 1 RZ physically selling at this point and it was a deal between friends at close to cost.

As someone who has a location that I've recently started also I understand using a game to bring in some revenue to open options. Make sense to me as well. Would I pay $13k, no. Doesn't mean someone else won't. Market will decide.

Back to more important things...version 8 for code public release close?

Spooky here I come!

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Loaded and headed to Main Street Amusements! Will be available for play tonight 7-11, and most likely being streamed live from location!

Just streamed a few hours of 4 player games.

http://www.twitch.tv/thisflippinpodcast/v/76810952

I installed version 8, that is what the stream is. Only noticed a few small bugs.

I have no idea but had no major issues. I'm sure waiting won't hurt haha.

Had left flipper fuse blow. Anyone else had same issue?

It seems my upper flipper was sticking. I had upper Playfield off last night to fix a shorted switch and apparently didn't put flipper back perfectly. All is good and fixed now.

Nice where did you get to play it at man?

Cool that's my machine was just curious if there was another in Indiana or not. Glad it played well.

Yes sir.

Anyone else running version 9 yet?

Installed version 9 beta on my RZ last night which is on location in Lafayette, IN. Played about two hours. Really like the change to 1000 corpses lock system. Was able to collect 1000 corpses for the first time since owning the game.

Upper Playfield flipper seemed stronger as well not sure if there was a code change or something but what mode was much more obtainable now.

As it states on the website I did have to adjust two switches due to the increased registration sensitivity in the new code. For me it was the lower left slingshot and the upper right rattle switch. They led to some insanely high scores for a few games.

Curious to see what others think of ver. 9 beta?

Says it has been dealt with, I have had no flipper issues yet on version 9.

Lost a left flipper fuse tonight out of nowhere. Replaced and no more issues. Finally collected 1000 corpses with the new locking system in version 9 on ball one which was nice feeling. Do recommend that once you have collected the 1000 corpses to no longer make that mode available to play. It was lucrative enough that in a competitive setting it would likely be the only thing worth playing for since you could just access it over and over.

Sweet

RZ #52 on location in Lafayette, IN at Main Street Amusements was updated from version 9 to version 10 tonight. Get down there and check it out!

Where did you get the version 11 files?

awesome thank you, I had been checking Fawzma's site. Will get updated tonight at the location then.

unfortunately my RZ and AMH are up for sale, ads are in market place if anyone wants them.

Yeah, life hurts sometimes, my fault, but need to get out and move on for awhile. Will be back on podcast soon.

Speculate.....some old cartoon
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