Sweet! Wish I could attend.

That is soooo cool!!!!! Can't wait to try one out

Rob

That's great! Congrats to everyone involved!

This is on my list to play. Glad you guys are going to make it.

No idea why people at MGC thumbed it down. Was a great game and wish I had the funds because I think its a keeper. Its not a keeper due to the low production number but for the look and play of it. Great things will come from those gents at Spooky.

From what I read, most at MGC gave it great reviews. Not sure where you saw it was getting a thumbs down.

MGCers gave it lots of thumbs up!

Just curious, what is the advantage of ordering through PinballStar rather than going directly to the source?
I am suprised they have a distributor when they are also selling direct.

Can't wait to try this!

My guess is that Spooky can't be everywhere to showcase machine. It easier to sell a machine if you see it and play it.

Not everyone is blessed to live a couple of hours away from the Spooky world headquarters.

It would be cool if many of these were able to stay local.

I hope they get shipped all over the world. Ben has made a great game and I have to think that after more people play it, the sales willl increase quite a bit.

Distributors have their own customer base that they will promote to. Obviously Pinside is just one (small) part of the pinball world and anyone here would probably just deal with Spooky direct, but otherwise a distributor is going to open up new markets that Spooky would not otherwise easily sell to. especially operators.

JJP sells their machines direct (through pinballsales) but still has distributors, so same difference.

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

I guess in my little world, I hope people order direct through Spooky so hopefully more $$ goes in their pocket so they can build the business.

Everything I heard about the game from MGC was good, aside from the scoop kickout and overpowered slings. Seems like minor stuff, considering. Looking forward to the reviews from A-town!

I was really surprised to see that there this morning.

A happy surprise!

Chris

underpowered slings but those are easily adjustable. Ben and turned them down thinking they were too strong but then was able to easily adjust the power back up.

Hard to argue with that.

What Joe said... if you are in his area, or played his game at Allentown, buy from him. This gives you someone local to work with and a pretty smiling face to answer your questions while I'm buried in the shop building the next guys game.

"Pretty smiling face" is a subjective term... your mileage may vary, see Joe for details. His girlfriend seems to like his face anyway.

Most Haunted was easily the biggest and most pleasant surprise for me at the show.
Really nice and different game.
Congrats.

I was really surprised too....if I weren't committed to MMR this is a very cool machine!!

You could always uncommit to MMR and buy a NEW game that rocks...

I have a deposit on a MMr but started to really consider switching this weekend.

Thanks for bringing the game.. was fun to watch people playing it, never got around to playing it myself.

Got some more games on WOZ though and while it has always been a stunning game to look at, the gameplay seems alot better from last time i played it. Ruby Red looks the best IMHO.

Hobbit should be great... hopefully JJP can bang them after learning from WOZ.

Man you guys got me even more stoked to get mine! (Sending Charlie some Red Bull)

And thanks for bringing THAT! Got some awesome creepy pics of it that my family and friends really got a kick out of on my instagram account!

Was great of Joe to bring the game and let's not forget his girlfriend either she helped out the entire show; you guys rock see you guys at York

Now that is funny, as Derek usually only dumps his own machines, but I am not talking about the physical kind!

Brad

GRC is claiming Ray had to spend 2 hours to fix something on AMH about 7 minutes into the video below, any truth to that?

There should be a seizure warning on that video..ug

The game played great. It is a sure winner. The only thing keeping me from one is the Casper style ghosts. The gameplay, rules, sounds, and playfield toys/layout are great. Should have "realistic ghost (if ghosts are real not claiming either way)/silly ghost" options.

I realize not everyone likes their machines\themes serious. If your cool with Casper, I highly recommend one of these machines.

+1
Art direction could be tighter.
They should've chosen an art style between cartoon and realistic and stick to it (ghosts vs the crew on the backbox vs the playfield).

Any Videos available of game play?

I understand this perspective, but personally I like that they are mixing the realistic with cartoon. It reminds me of Ghostbusters or a lot of other comedy or fantasy type themes. I think Metallica and ACDC Luci also did a great job of adding "cartoon" art.

Photo-real ghosts on a DMD wouldn't look much different than the humans. They also needed personality and to sell the idea that this ISN'T a serious take on ghost hunting / horror theme.

Thanks to Todd Anderson who found a way to trap the ball behind the targets! I am fixing that in the code.

Thanks for bringing the game to Pinfest!

I was able to watch some folks play and observed the following:

- The entrance to the hellavator trap the ball between parts of the ramp. Is this a slope issue?

- The left orbit shot can make the ball disappear - only to be shot out the scoop SDTM a good 10 seconds later while the player is investigating the playfield. Perhaps fire other coils before the scoop during ball search so that the player has a chance to react? I saw it happen twice and neither player had any clue what had happened until the bonus countdown.

All in all I think it looks to be a very promising game once dialed in - I'm excited to play it again.

As someone that has been on both sides, you are totally right! It is always to a mfg advantage to have some distribution, which in effect is free marketing, as long as it is a good distributor that will back up the sale afterwards. I'm sure they are getting a functional discount so that they can match the direct sale pricing and still make a buck. And the distributor may get some trade ins, which is another way to profit. Spooky may not be able to take trades in volume so they can refer those sales to a distributor. Smart of them to have a dealer!

Yeah... we didn't get to play a single game on it before it shipped. Ran all the switch & coil tests, Ben paid the truck driver for his patience who was standing there on a Friday afternoon watching us scramble, wrapped it up... off to Joe it went. (and I don't recommend ANY of this as a formal practice)

But.. it ran all weekend (after the 1 loose wire was found)... couple minor tweaks, and we're all pretty proud of how it performed overall. We took Joe's feedback, made a few upgrades & tweaks on our end, and overall she's pretty solid!

Michael Pupo from Flipper Fidelity has us capping the speakers (like Wms did) to eliminate some clipping issues. I've already "pre-tweaked" the subways and added a post to stop 1 ball trap that came up.

Everything is a learning experience. This was the first time our game went to a show without Ben & myself there to "babysit" and fix issues. You wanna talk about nervous?! We were... a lot.

Getting better at this... and we never stop trying to improve!

AMH looked like a pretty cool game. The times I went to play it, it was either down for repairs or the line was too long.

The artwork was really nice. The PF looked nice too. Loved the jump bridge. Only thing for me was that it looked like there wasn't a whole lot to do or going on in there. BUT, as I said, I didn't play it so I can't properly judge the machine. That's just my take from what I saw.

Tell you what was really disappointing though, the surprising absence of Predator. I was really looking forward to seeing and playing that. The fact that they weren't there was not a good sign.

Ben and Charlie thanks for sending the game out. It was the first thing I saw when I arrived on Friday and I got a couple plays on it that day. My wife and I loved the game! I love that it basically is talking to you the whole time not just when you hit stuff. I think the more call outs the better. Such great humor and the ghost toy is genius. I think it was the highlight of the show for me.

Thanks for the kind words... There was much debate early on with the speech. I think once people play it they understand that Ben is using the entire game like a film script and telling you the story. It's a bit different than what has been done before, but Mr. Heck has won me over. Once he polished it up, it really came out well.

Best line to me... "GHOST, BUSTED!!!... (are we allowed to say that?)".. Lol. Actor Joe Anderson did an awesome job bringing up the team leader character. We were very lucky to get him.

I agree with Mr. Heck I think it makes it that much more fun and unique. I especially like when Mr Ghost Doctor appears and starts rambling. The more you can pack in the humor the better! This may be too geeky but the layout somewhat reminded me of Mariokart when you are playing the ghost house race...

Get back to work Charlie!