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- THIS WEEK IN PINBALL – 1/30/23: Scooby-Doo Gameplay Reveal, Your Year In Review, Inside Details on Weird Al, and MORE
THIS WEEK IN PINBALL – 1/30/23: Scooby-Doo Gameplay Reveal, Your Year In Review, Inside Details on Weird Al, and MORE
Scooby-Doo by Spooky Pinball Gameplay Reveal
The Scooby-Doo design team, Bug, “The Real” Spooky Luke, Spooky DJ, and Luke Peters show off some Scooby-Doo gameplay. They discuss the following about their latest game:
Picking a character to start the game. That character will be favored in the callouts.
Skillshot is a flashing red shot that can moved by the flippers before plunge.
Blinking white shots are for collecting clues to qualify your cases.
Shoot the right scoop to start a case.
Bravery meter
After completing the case shots you have an unmasking hurry-up shot, but there is also a trap shot that multiplies that hurry-up.
Show off the bookcase diverter/flipper
Each character has three shots to qualify a character jackpot for that character.
Left/Right spinners fill up your gas tank for Mystery Machine Multiball
Center drain drop target up with dog tags
Every case/monster has their own custom made song.
Side modes within each mode add difficulty
You can lock in a mode by hitting the launch button
Mystery Machine Multiball
Captain Cutler Multiball
They play through multiple modes
Stern Insider Connected Year in Review and Achievement Percentage Complete
Stern Insider Connected have added a couple of fun new features. The 2022 Year In Review shows your playing stats for all of your Insider Connected games during 2022. It includes the top titles you played and your high scores for each, your achievements, your score trend per ball, and how you rate on the average with all other insider connected users.
They also added achievement percentage completed charts to each achievement so that you can see how difficult getting that achievement is.
Stephen Silver In-depth on Weird Al via Wormhole Pinball
Stephen Silver from Multimorphic gives us some details about Weird Al’s Museum of Natural Hilarity, the latest P3 game. He talks about the following items with Wormhole Pinball.
Magnet assist on the right ramp
Ease of play for Weird Al
Bologna slapping and hand fart sounds by Scott Danesi
Working with Weird Al on the callouts
2 P3 releases are planned for 2023
Third party development on the P3
TWIPY 2022 Memorial Submissions
We would like to remember those folks that passed in 2022 that made a significant impact on the hobby of pinball. Please let us know of anyone you would like us to include in the TWIPY 2022 Memorial video that we will show during the TWIPYs Live at the Texas Pinball Festival.
2nd Annual Pinball Degenerates Awards (The DeGENies)
The PiNbALL DeGENeRaTES Facebook page will be recognizing the most degenerate pinball folks from around the world! Get ready for surprises, fun and special guests as well as fantastic PD merch will also be given out to members in chat if they can answer skill-testing pinball questions!
This year’s DeGENie Award categories are:
Most Degenerate Pinball TattooMost Degenerate Ball SaveMost Degenerate Pinball TrollMost Degenerate Pinball VehicleMost Degenerate Pinball DIY TopperMost Degenerate PublicationMost Degenerate HomebrewMost Degenerate Pinball StreamerMost Degenerate Pinball StanceMost Degenerate Pinball CollectionMost Degenerate Pinball ScoreMost Degenerate Pinball RestorationMost Degenerate Pinball OperatorMost Degenerate Pinball EventMost Degenerate Pinball CommentatorMost Degenerate Pinball ArtistPinball Degenerate of The Year
Winners will be announced LIVE! on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5th at 4PM Eastern via Facebook live on the PiNbALL DeGENeRaTES page.
Make sure to check out the Latest Games and Rumors page.
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