Ted Nugent Pinball Machine By Stern - The Motor City Madman Approved!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's video games back with another really cool arcade game today that we thought we'd film a video of This is actually a pinball machine but those are in arcades too so it counts as an arcade game right you can see all of our arcade games at Lions arcade.com today we are going to look at a game we just got finished this is Stern pinballs 197 78 nent pinball so that can only mean one thing yes folks if you've never seen it Ted nent had a pinball machine look at this glorious work of art here this is a Stern Pinball came around by buying Chicago Coin in the late 70s and then uh they released Chicago coin's last couple pinballs that they that Chicago Coin was working on and then um started making Solid State Games digital games which was the all the rage you know at the time 1978 and all and valy made a Kiss Pinball Machine and Stern made the nent pinball machine the kiss one sold a lot better but the nent one's pretty cool so I'll show you a little bit of the cabinet AR this thing actually sold pretty well we run into them quite often that is Ted's favorite guitar which is a Gibson he was famous for playing is still famous for playing TNT so had a really cool back glass that picture it's kind of stylized but that's a he had a his Weekend Warriors album had that on the cover of it that is him playing a guitar that is also a gun boy I don't get much cooler than that so we went through this one and got it working pretty good the play Field's pretty cool I like the artwork on it this is Stern's kind of standard art on the on the um apron here and then you've got nice looking guitar are there in the center of the Playfield we've got three teds here doing their thing all right and you can see that the guitar neck goes all the way up through the pop bumpers which have a little bit of rasat tads on them to make them look cooler I wonder why just the left two D hm H things that make you go H and then up at the top so it's got all the Plastics were pretty simple they just put names of his songs and albums on it so at the top it says Weekend Warriors which was his new album at the time so that the back glass is the Weekend Warriors album cover then here you've got strangle hold if you guys haven't heard strangle hold go ahead and stop my video I give you permission and go check out strangle hold here on YouTube it does not get any cooler than strangle hold if you like guitar songs that's the one then over here you've got Cat Scratch Fever I'm sure everybody's heard that that plastic there's cracked a little bit sometimes whenever you've got a plastic right over the drop targets the ball will hit it so violently that it'll you know hit the target at the same the plastic at the same time and crack so a lot of a lot of times on Old machines the Plastics over the uh drop Target will be crack and unfortunately nobody has taken the time to make new Ted nent pinball Plastics which is a travesty I think and then here on the spinner of course it says TNT one thing about Spinners every company did them kind of different but after a while they figured out that as the thing spin it does kind of a flip book typee of thing so if you put something on the back of it like on this one it's just a circle as it spins it kind of makes this little effect where you see both things like on an old children's flip book so I'll do it for you pretty cool huh oh I just noticed too look they put the uh the um little explosion behind it too so wow that's a pretty uh that's pretty well thought out I kudos to you Mr designer so not only do you see the TNT in the circle but you see the explosion on the Playfield behind it it's kind of neat let's see how it looks from the front see if we can get it to line up a little better I guess that's how they meant it all right so cool so there is the Playfield so over here it says freefor all which was another one of his albums and then Gonzo which was a live album I think I think that's just one of his things he says that a lot or something and this was one of Stern's games that didn't have Chimes anymore it had a sound board but unfortunately in 1978 just like on the Kiss Pinball Machine they couldn't make anything that sounded even close to a rock guitar so it's just beeps and boops and stuff like that at the time it was fairly Advanced 1978 this is before the speech U any company was putting out games of speech or anything like that in it and they certainly couldn't play part of one of his songs or anything so it just beeps and boops and stuff like that which is a shame cuz man this thing would be awesome if it was playing some of his stuff so that is nent what I'll do is I'll get the tripod and I'll set it up and we'll film a couple games of it see what you guys think all right and that is what it looks like with the lights off one thing about these videos that I film we don't have the glass on it so there's no reflection but what that does is it makes all of the flippers and the coils and the kickers and everything really loud because they're not muffled by the glass like they usually are usually you can't hear them quite as much much as you can with the glass off so ignore that I've turned the sound way up so I hope it's not too loud but um it'll give you an idea of how it sounds another thing about these early Stern games they had this the stern SB 100 soundboard in it and it just makes beeps and boops stuff like that well the thing is you can tune the things there's these little knobs in there you can turn to make them higher pitched or lower pitched but there's no record anywhere that I know of or that I've been able to find of what you should tune it to like should this note be a c should this note be an e so if you look at videos of of these early Stern games some of them you'll hear and the the Chimes will be or not the Chimes the the sound effects will be real low and some of them it'll be really high because nobody knows how you're supposed to tune them and unless we can find like a a really early video of playing somebody playing one or something I don't know how we're going to be able to figure out if they're supposed to be high or low cuz you hear both some people say they remember them high some people say they remember them low so uh maybe back in the day everybody tuned them different so I guess it doesn't really matter but all right we'll play a game and you can see what you think this is Sterns nent 1978 baby check that out I got the lucky bounce off of the uh the post between the flippers when you get that saucer up there you get a collect the bonus normally you just collect the bonus at the end of the ball each ball I was trying to let it just there's a you can't quite see it in the camera but there's a post right in the middle here and so I was trying to let it just bounce off the post back up that's a dangerous game to play oh and again to be fair to stern I know the sound ain't as cool as you would think from a nent game but uh nothing was any better at the time really I'm sure some people reply and say yes there there was but not really I mean I guess some of the Williams stuff was but B Sur wasn't doing that much better oh man we'll try another one score was 78,000 that's not very good yeah get that bonus up here uh-oh oh oh the beeps were quicker than the lights I kind of like it oh let's read the instructions maybe I'll get a better score says pop bumper scores a th000 now I may I hope I got that set right with the dip switches but it says pop bumper scores a th000 top in the center rollover score 100 and it lights the top right and left lanes for 9,000 so that would be this there's a little button right here and there's another one up at the top rollovers stationary Target scores 5,000 and likes to return Lanes that's this bad boy all the way up here ball kickout hole scores the lit value H oh they're saying okay so yeah so whenever you get the uh uh saucer up there you get the lit value I guess which would be the bonus it lets you get the because it says collect bonus all right upper three Bank drop targets down score 6,000 and they multiply the bonus by the lit value that's pretty cool so up at the top there there's a green light lit right now that says two times and then there's a three times and a five times so if you get all three of those you get 6,000 points and it'll give you double triple or five times whatever the bonus score is every fourth turn on the spinner advances the bonus so if you make that sucker Spin and the lights go all the way up it makes your bonus start walking up the bonus ladder on the guitar there spinner lights when bonus reaches 10,000 so if you get the 10,000 lit it lights up the spinner so that that says spinner scores 1,000 when lit so every time it flips around it gives you a th000 points left side three Bank drop Target down scores 10,000 points those are those over there the other one did 6,000 remember it says the second time it's down it lights the extra ball Lane so the extra ball Lane would be H oh I think the I do not see the extra ball Lane there is a shot if you look behind that flipper if you lift that flipper by using this flipper you you can actually shoot the ball past it back into the return Lane which kind of a hard shot uh maximum one extra ball per ball in play special scores one replay and then whenever you tilt it it disqualifies the ball in play only so basically hit as many targets as possible boy that's a good one up there oh man was robbed I always forget that flippers up there I want to try to make that weird shot behind it oh oh they got me all right one last game folks they didn't even give me a free ball come on now if you don't score any points they're supposed to give you a free ball actually they did give me a free ball sweet oh come on now all right there it is folks so there you have it 1978 Sterns nent by the time you see this video uncle Ted here the Detroit City madman probably won't be here anymore because these things usually sell pretty quick but maybe we'll have something else that you're interested in you can check out our website lions arcade.com and see all the games we have in at the moment we usually have a lot more arcade games than pinball machines but we do get pinball machines um or you can stop by and see us in person we have a shop we're open every day except Sunday and we're open from 11:00 to 8: we're in downtown Rock Hill South Carolina which is about 15 minutes south of Charlotte North Carolina and stop by we've got a showroom here we got all kinds of stuff usually 40 or 50 games at a time so we'll see you soon we'll bring you another cool video right away