Head-to-head Pinball Machines

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
  • We're finally gonna go through and look at all (most*) of the head-to-head pinball machines made over the years to find out what exactly the deal is with these tables.
    there's actually a good variety of tables to look at, so stick around :)
    Seagull Arc

ความคิดเห็น • 73

  • @Notester82
    @Notester82 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Oh my goooosh, even if some of the head-to-head tables didn't do so well, stuff like Gottlieb's Challenger and Williams' Joust were cool to see! The shifting playfield in the former is a fun concept and I like how the success of Joust (the arcade game) helped with Williams deciding what to theme their eventual head-to-head table on.
    Neat video! Also the sorta back-to-back jokes made during the segment on Weche were gooood ;u;

  • @Blas4ublasphemy
    @Blas4ublasphemy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    A head to head Medieval Madness where you are smashing each others castle down would have been awesome...

    • @rachelwindsor850
      @rachelwindsor850 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh my god yes, that sounds awesome actually.

  • @prof.schreiber8925
    @prof.schreiber8925 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've played a PacMan head to head table at my local Round 1 arcade

  • @TampaTec
    @TampaTec 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Most under rated channel.

  • @Furluge
    @Furluge 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I haven't watched yet, but if I could just say, man, I wish someone would make another one of these. Those Joust pinball machines were fun and they're just small enough I might actually be able to fit it in my house.

    • @trainwreck1827
      @trainwreck1827 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i yet to find and play one every year at expo, maybe some year I'll leave with one lol

  • @chadwickjdillon
    @chadwickjdillon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    God I love this channel.
    A rabbithole if ever there was one.
    Tilting versus pinball?
    Awesome.

  • @quasarulas3968
    @quasarulas3968 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This concept seems like a goldmine of untapped potential. Especially with multiballs involved trying to overwhelm your opponent. Imagine all the different features they would be able to implement these days.
    I’d love to see at least one or two new games come out with this approach. I know the risk would be huge for people who just want a traditional pin and would increase costs but as a novelty I think it’s been so underdeveloped that it could be a real breath of fresh air for some of the more stagnant straight forward games. Sadly like film market risk and returns being as fragile as they are mean things like this can’t afford to gamble on innovations.

    • @Blas4ublasphemy
      @Blas4ublasphemy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Crossfire was a similar board game and immensely popular.

  • @47drift
    @47drift 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Really surprised not to see the Pac-Man head to head pinball game. I play it all the time at my local Round One. I think it's been there for two or three years now.

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I completely missed that one my b. I'll have to talk about it in a follow up at some point. Thanks for pointing that out :)

  • @jodyjohnson265
    @jodyjohnson265 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I've seen a couple homebrew head to head pins and it's an interesting element concept for pinball.

  • @Smakificator
    @Smakificator 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The rapid pace of information on your channel really is awesome. Please keep these videos coming!

  • @TampaTec
    @TampaTec 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like to see another pinball company video. There's a new pinball company coming later this year. Tiltbob pinball has original theme pin called Road Trip might release later this Year and got rights to Little Shop of Horrors pin recently according to Knapp arcade. Tiltbob pinball seems to have the most promise because Bob Nies won best homebrew pinball design at Texas pinball festival 2022 for Elf pin. Elf pin was a lot of fun.

  • @moritzlotze206
    @moritzlotze206 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thats really cool. That VEB LUCKENWALDER METALLWARENFABRIK flipper is great, to answer your question, it is an old east german head to head pinball. I was still born in the GDR, so technically, the state I was born does not exist anymore haha. I did not know they even built a pin and was always wondering about that. VEB stands for Volkseigener Betrieb, meaning peoples owned Company, which in the gdr every company was, kind of ironic, because VEB meant pretty much that the state owned the company. It was made in Luckenwalde, a town 20 miles outside Berlin by a metal works factory. Now i want to get my hands on the maybe only east german pinballtable ever made, so interesting. Thanks for the video

  • @askjacob
    @askjacob 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I owned an AG Soccerball for quite a few years. I omly got it because I had never seen anyhting like it. As far as hardware, they were quite well built. As far as a game - well, there were issues. Originally designed as a single ball game, but for some reason was shipped to have 2 balls installed to make it "more fun" - but 2 ball soccer makes no sense. It works just fine with only 1 ball as designed so that is how I always had it. It also was time based which has always been a tough sell to pinball players. At least when time was up you got to keep playing until a goal was scored. It also looked too "pinball" to attract non-pinball players... so kinda missed both markets. By the way, the cab was a standard pin size, not longer or larger. I did end up moving it on after many years because the biggest issue is where to put it in a games room - you can't just back it up to a wall like other pins/games so it kind of has to lurk out in the middle, and I just never really had a space that that would work in...

  • @MetaverseAdventures
    @MetaverseAdventures 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love it when a new vid from BralexPinball hits my notifications. It did not disappoint.

  • @5speedfatty
    @5speedfatty 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I encountered an "International Shootout " in the wild once. it was like a high paced fooseball table where you flip the handle around to hit a large rubber ball. and it would fling it at the opponent. it was actually really cool, but i never saw more than 1.

  • @superzario1000
    @superzario1000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    namco recently made a pac man one but i dont think it ever reached full production

  • @CathodeRayKobold
    @CathodeRayKobold 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How about a video on classic Pinball video games? You already mentioned Full Tilt (the source of Space Cadet), but there's also Metroid Prime pinball, Sonic Spinball, Pokemon and Mario pinball for the GBA, or even really old pinball simulators like Pinball Construction Set for the Commodore 64 or just Pinball for the NES.

  • @ethanreynolds4942
    @ethanreynolds4942 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Either I'm having some kinda late night crazy attack or this is seriously one of the funniest and most unique channels I've literally seen in years whaaaaaat.....

  • @jayviescas7703
    @jayviescas7703 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Actually like your presentation but could you at least learn how to pronounce German names correctly? G-O-T-T-L-I-E-B is pronounced Got-leeb not Got-lib.

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't worry I know. Growing up i was the only one I knew who actually liked pinball so I guess I just got really used to saying things my way lol

  • @matthewbarry4464
    @matthewbarry4464 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Having the Joust pinball machine have the same sounds as the video game was pretty easy considering the majority of all Williams machines and video games at that time used the same sound chips.

    • @wolfgangervin2582
      @wolfgangervin2582 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That sound chip is so SATISFYING.

  • @Sinn0100
    @Sinn0100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been a gamer for almost 40 years now and I have never seen one of these before ever. Although I'm not a pinball player so maybe I have and just didn't pay any attention to them. They don't look like new machines or the ones you show didn't....
    Addendum- Our game room is compromised of mostly stand-up arcade cabs from the 1990's. Well...minus Final Fight as he is from 1989.

  • @MRNBricks
    @MRNBricks 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    History of homebrew!

  • @xezerik62
    @xezerik62 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So you are from michigan eh? Me too! Im in roseville. There is an awesome pinball arcade nearby with like 50+ tables called the FreePlayPinballArcade, in Fraser

  • @ExNihiloComesNothing
    @ExNihiloComesNothing 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I dropped everything to watch it.
    JK
    It's OK Baby
    Next. Pinball. Video. WHEN?

  • @ethanreynolds4942
    @ethanreynolds4942 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ummm... Whoa where did this channel come from??? Legit what? Like this is so funny and well made!!?!!

  • @ThomasHelms
    @ThomasHelms 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I knew I had played a Joust; there's one at the Classic Arcade Pinball Museum here in Chattanooga.

  • @OctoberRaven
    @OctoberRaven 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Williams could have had more with crossover. Imagine Rampage pinball

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That would be cool

  • @AfroRyan
    @AfroRyan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video. Thanks for reading my tweets at you since TH-cam likes nuking my comments!

  • @privatekitty6621
    @privatekitty6621 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    goated pinball channel

  • @punkskates2469
    @punkskates2469 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another great video my man, absolutely love your content keep it up

  • @peterturna9558
    @peterturna9558 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What’s up with Japan not having pinball can you do a vid about pinball and Japan

  • @waleswideman1
    @waleswideman1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I made a mechanical grad to head once stored it at my dad's and he left it outside yo be ruined

  • @AgentFlashus
    @AgentFlashus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How about death saves and all the pins that have death save animations 😮

  • @ericcole2540
    @ericcole2540 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I played Joist at the Lyons Classic Pinball in Colorado years ago, not sure if they still have it, great arcade to visit on your way to Rocky Mountain National Park or anytime you’re near Boulder

    • @ericcole2540
      @ericcole2540 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “Joust” 😂
      Love your videos, keep them coming, other topics:
      -Most Beloved Mechs
      -Recent Pinball Companies like Haggis (too soon?), American, Multimorphic
      -Pinball museums/locations with the most/best collection

  • @InfectiousGroovePodcast
    @InfectiousGroovePodcast 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We just went to an arcade near St Augustine Florida and saw the NFL head to head machine. I had no idea anything like that exisited. It was a LOT of fun to play!

  • @Frog_Enigma
    @Frog_Enigma 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this is amazing how does it have so few likes

  • @An_average_drummer
    @An_average_drummer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been lucky enough to play Challenger and yeah it's really boring to play.

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't doubt it but the tilting is cool

  • @justimagine2403
    @justimagine2403 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Triple pinball table. Now how about a quad Voltaire with a ringmaster in the middle.

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That sounds epic ngl

  • @eviltom17
    @eviltom17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've never seen one! These are awesome!

  • @Oddzball3
    @Oddzball3 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Id like a more deep dive looking at specific designers

  • @Oddzball3
    @Oddzball3 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love the video

  • @IanJacobyandcompany
    @IanJacobyandcompany 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this rules

  • @S.J.C._Entertainment
    @S.J.C._Entertainment 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should cover home use only pinball machines. that seems like it could be an interesting video.

  • @OVERKILL_PINBALL
    @OVERKILL_PINBALL 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice!

  • @crashthevacuum
    @crashthevacuum 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "That's not even pinball" seems to come up with depressing frequency in these videos.
    Honestly, that Joust table is pretty darn cool, wish I'd seen one of those in reality. I feel like these would do reasonably well in barcades; I'd certainly choose this over Foosball.
    Great video as always

  • @thefordchannel985
    @thefordchannel985 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pinball fans literally only want one thing, and it's a shark that EATS THE BALL! Looking at you Stern.

  • @luviebug5448
    @luviebug5448 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bubbles Pop is the best name for a pinball machine 😂

  • @trainwreck1827
    @trainwreck1827 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What video do I want to see? JPop saga thru Taproot!

  • @kyrrawarren5741
    @kyrrawarren5741 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    MORE PINBALL VIDEOS PLEAASSEEE 😭😭😭

  • @LumpsPinball
    @LumpsPinball 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it's been 5 months... where are you brother?

  • @mikeyfoofoo
    @mikeyfoofoo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Ehhh. It's Ok Baby" LOL

  • @trash_hands
    @trash_hands 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    M O R E V I D E O S P L Z

  • @ExpressoMechanicTV
    @ExpressoMechanicTV 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another great video. Might be interesting to look at the design history of specific machines and who came up with the innovations within them.

  • @Yauu2
    @Yauu2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always nice your videos. Thanks a lot!

  • @requiem1123
    @requiem1123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there a constructive reason why head to head pinball didn't do quite good? All I got from this was that people simply "didn't care enough". Though, the initial tables being bland and poorly marketed could be a factor. But does a 2-player pinball table have any limitations to its gameplay?

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Eh, I would say it was just too weird and/or expensive to produce. A lot of gimmicky pinball machines never did well for one or both of those reasons.

  • @thugnasty1021
    @thugnasty1021 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You are my new favorite channel bro. All of this is awesome. I ran across your stuff while looking for the best mobile pinball machines and you have truly sparked a HUGE new interest for me lol. I honestly never knew there was so much history and artistic value really behind pinball. This is awesome dude. Please keep uploading i love it so much and thank you for really making me gain a new hobby. You should do a video giving the newbies different tips and tricks to use when playing pinball, that would really help a lot of people like me lol.

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks man, im not a pro player by any means (I'm actually pretty bad at pinball) but if you wanna practice up or just play any table you want, i'd recommend looking up vpx. It's probably the best resource for people just getting into pinball

    • @thugnasty1021
      @thugnasty1021 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bralex2670 I didn't think VPX was available for anything mobile like android. Is there a way to get it on android?

    • @bralex2670
      @bralex2670  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't know. I've only ever played it on windows. Wish I could help you out there

    • @thugnasty1021
      @thugnasty1021 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bralex2670 you've already helped me out plenty with the entertainment bro! Can't wait for your next video fr.

  • @jerkfacekilla8106
    @jerkfacekilla8106 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where have you been?! 🤣