Here we go! Thursday evening, Dead Flip (Twitch, , ) went up to Benton, Wisconsin to visit and stream both Total Nuclear Annihilation and The Jetsons. Below are Five Things that were seen/heard/learned during the portion of the Twitch stream.
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General Info: Total Nuclear Annihilation was created by Scott Danesi (website here) and is being manufactured by Spooky Pinball. The game was built like an early ’80s solid state game but with up to date displays and components to have a retro-futuristic feel. The artwork was revealed a few weeks ago, and this stream was the first time we saw the game in action with the new artwork.
Over-analyzing pinball machines is what we do, and it is completely fine to have differing opinions on what you like vs. what other people like. But if you don’t like the light show on this game you’re crazy! 🙂
Here is the evidence:
Time to move on, we could spend all day on the light show.
Jack Danger of Dead Flip explains some of the rules in a few different clips:
Check out the Danesi Lock in action in this clip. Also, check out the chaos that can happen on this machine in this multiball clip.
Instead of a blinking ball save light, this machine has a countdown display so you can see exactly how much time is left until the ball save ends (example here). It looks great and fits the theme really well. That display also shows when you have an extra ball by displaying Eb (see it here).
The beacon on the top of the machine goes off when the reactor status is “crucial”, check it out here.
Banger Jay was left hanging when Charlie didn’t see a high five attempt. Banger Jay then immediately put a deposit down on a game.
To end the evening, Scott Danesi got to reactor number four after destroying the first three (one, two, three). With that he put over 2 million points and a Grand Champion score, beating Jack Danger’s GC score from earlier in the evening.
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