You could actually make fun of this game for it's production being so on and off. Well it's on again. This time from Cryptic Studios. Check out the trailer.
This is what your brand new pinball machine looks like when you get it straight from the factory. They even give you handy instructions on how to set it up. I’m going to read them this time because last time, when I pulled Indiana Jones out of the box, it had these pads on it and I dropped it on the cement floor about that far. That’s not supposed to happen.
Pinball machines here now are 75 cents to play. The Indiana Jones game is 75 cents to play. I was told that the Crazy Flipper Fingers who are a gang of pinball players – they call themselves a gang - they boycotted some of the places that charged 75 cents and got them to change it.
Most of the time, I film these all on my own. Maybe you don’t know it but I’ll hold the camera with one hand and face it back at myself. Everybody’s like, “How’s that cameraman keep that so study?” Well, it’s just me holding it so not a camera man. Anyway, it’s the first time I’ve used a cameraman in a long time.
For tournament games, Indian Jones has tournament play on it; this has tournament play on it as well. They did at first, put over here on Spiderman if you want to come over here, this one’s tournament play too. This one, actually we can put the sign down, but right here there’s a button for tournament play. They quit putting them up here and started putting them on the front, which I think is a much better solution rather than having it up here. Looked rather strange especially if you weren’t going to do tournament play.
Tournament play actually hooks up online, allows you to compete against other people; also allows you to play for cash. There are some places that do that. Some places it’s against the law; it’s considered gambling. It just all depends on where you’re at and whether or not that’s an ability. I know I’ve been to a few places where they do pay out. Pay outs tend to be under $20 or so because not that many people are willing to pay.
Comes with two sets of keys. One is for the coin door; the other is to hang inside the coin door and are used for the back glass.
You want to be very careful with the glass. It’s made to take an impact straight on to it but if you hit it on a corner the whole thing will shatter.
Nathan: Everyone’s just on break right now?
Adam: I’m not on break, heading coming back from lunch, just wanted to look at the … Take a look at the …
Michael: I’m on break, haven’t had one in awhile.
Nathan: Oh that’s awesome! No, no, I don’t want to be on camera but that’s awesome.
That would be Nathan, manager at TrustWho, cracking the whip. That’s what he gets paid to do.
This is the pendulum, goes inside and it’s what makes it tilt when you’re too rough with the machine. It doesn’t come set up already probably because it’s sliding all around the place. Just a little lead, actually this one feels like ferrite or something, its kinda light. Stick this in and make sure it’s not touching the sides. If it’s touching the sides then it won’t swing properly.
Half a mile of wire, actually over half a mile of wire in every machine. This is all done up on an assembly line. Sometime when I get down to Stern again I’ll do a factory tour and show everybody how it’s done.
There’s a rumbler you can put in some of these. It’s an extra add-on that makes the machine vibrate whenever you hit special stuff. They’re not automatically installed; you have to actually buy those at Stern.
I’ll have the pinball league over this Wednesday and everybody’s going to be wanting to play this.
Pinballs.
I gotta find my level.
Legs are all the same length. Down at the bottom here, you just adjust these out in order to change the slant of the machine. Basically, to get it level.
Now comes the fun part.
I bought this without even having played the game.
So, let me tell you a little something about myself. Maybe you didn’t know this. I really like pinball. Can you tell?
I have several machines here. It’s really just a hobby. I was thinking about opening like a barcade or something like that. That may still happen one day but for right now, I’ve got all these machines here.
How many of you would be interested in hearing a little bit of something about pinball machines? Do you guys play them at all? I know that I play every day. I really like it because it’s a short game, you can play 10 or 15 minutes and move on. Go back to work or whatever. It’s never the same way twice. In the computer games you can follow the patterns and stuff like that; just doesn’t happen with the pinball machines.
I’ve become pretty good at pinball and we’ve thought about doing videos about different machines. I seem to end up with the latest machines all the time and I can share some tips with you about how to really improve your game.
I have on order all the machines that are being made this year, which is three of them. I got Dark Knight which is for the Batman movie – it actually arrives in a couple of days. Then, there’s 24 and CSI coming out this year as well.
I got all these different machines. Like Spiderman here, everybody asks the question, “How do I get superhero?” The answer is, you don’t. It actually doesn’t work. Even with the latest software version, Spiderman’s superhero mode does not work. Waiting for another software update.
Another fun one is Frankenstein here. Frankenstein, he actually will throw the balls at you. Don’t know if you can see his little hands up there. Kind of exciting.
F-14 Tomcat; this one is a little bit older machine and it’s a classic. It’s in the top 100 of the most favorite machines voted by people on the Internet Pinball Database. This one is actually really hard but if you figure out how to do it, I can with one quarter, leave about ten credits on it about thirty minutes later. It’s a lot of fun and if you find one you can get a lot of play out of it. If you know how to play it, you can win the free games real easy. So, if you find one, you can play it.
Now, Indiana Jones. This is my latest pinball machine. This was made for the movie. It’s got a lot of the stuff – like it’s got the ark up here, it’s got the chalice, it’s got the, forgot what it’s called but it’s from Temple of Doom – the round Chankara stone I think is what it’s called. This one is a lot of fun. It’s got eight ball multi-ball and I’ve figured out how to get five extra balls in one game.
This spot right here that is for Dark Knight when it arrives in a couple of days. Then there’s the old classic, Swords of Fury.
Anyway, if you’re interested in hearing more about pinball how about you reply and let me know. If you are, we’ll actually do some contact.
It has been officially announced that the special beta for the Murloc cards will be for Wrath of the Lich King. They will be doing multiple rounds of beta invites. The first set of invites will go out August 1st. Shattered Crystal has just a few of these cards left. Get them now because soon they will be sold out.
MD: Hello, I’m Markee Dragon and this is my friend, Paigan who I believe is one of the oldest players in the World of Warcraft at 75, almost 76 years old.
Paigan: 18th of this month.
MD: What server do you play on?
Paigan: Muradin server
MD: Muradin?
Paigan: M-U-R-A-D-I-N
MD: OK and you’re in the Wolf Pack Guild, right?
Paigan: Yes, that is two words.
MD: The hunter, what kind of animal you got?
Paigan: actually, I got three. I’ve got the tiger that is an elf, so he’s got a tiger. I picked up a winter wolf. Recently, with the help of the guild, I got a white lion.
MD: White lion?
Paigan: Got a white lion in Winterspring.
MD: Winterspring. What is so special about this lion?
Paigan: According to what I’ve been told by the guild master, it has the highest DPS of any animal in the game.
MD: For those people that don’t know the …
Paigan: DPS, Damage Per Second.
MD: Ok
Paigan: It’s the way we rate the amount of damage an individual or weapon can do.
MD: I don’t play enough anymore to know whether or not having this white lion is a big achievement.
Paigan: Well, it’s supposed to be. Although, one of the guys in the guild was trying to get it. It’s a quest. You’ve got to complete a quest. On the second quest you go out and kill this female white lion but you’ve got to kill a bunch of local animals first. Drop a particular piece of meat that you put on a rock which attracts her, and then she comes out, she attacks you, you kill her, you complete the quest. Just before she dies, her mate comes out, a white male lion. The trick is to tame him.
MD: So you tame him and you kill her?
Paigan: Well, you got to kill her first.
MD: Ok
Paigan: And he’s nasty.
MD: If she doesn’t kill you first.
Paigan: This is true. You can’t tame a pet if you have a pet with you.
MD: So, you’re already at a disadvantage because you don’t have a pet with you.
Paigan: You gotta put your pet up.
MD: I know you like to play solo a lot. Are you able to do this solo?
Paigan: As far as I know, I don’t think it’s ever been done with a character up to 60 level. When you get in your higher levels, possibly. What we did, several hunters in the guild got together, we all got the quest. We tamed him several times. Basically, you leave your pet, tame a local animal as a pet, have it attack the female lion when she comes out and don’t do anything.
MD: Let it get killed?
Paigan: It’s gonna die, but once you’ve attacked it, it’s your prey. Then the other members of your guild … we don’t form a party, they’re all individuals playing together … they kill her off. The white lion comes out, one of the other hunters drop a freeze trap on him and you start taming him. Of course, taming him is gonna take longer than the freeze trap. So, a series of freeze traps directly in front of him so as he breaks out of one, he steps into another one. By the time he’s out of the last freeze trap, he’s your pet.
MD: Very nice. Taking that pet around with your hunter is like a badge of honor.
Paigan: Well, maybe. I haven’t had anybody comment on it but then I haven’t played him that much recently.
MD: Sounds like a pretty neat pet to have.
Paigan: It’s nice, definitely, because it’s fairly rare that people have them. As far as I know, I have to put that in to be quite honest.
MD: Well, now you know how to do it. Thanks *bleep*.
Paigan: You’re quite welcome. You did it, you used my name again.
Google has introduced this new social hangout that reminds me a bit of Second Life but you can play it through a web browser. We've created a Markee Dragon Lounge. You are welcome to visit and hang out. I'll be logged in for a bit tonight.
www.mywowarmory.com - I don't often mention other sites in my videos. But this one caught my attention and is the answer to buyers, sellers and traders who get all whacked out of shape when they link to the Blizzard Armory.
www.Mywowarmory.com has nameless profiles. What does that mean? It means that your character name and your server is not listed. In our trading forums, amongst some other sites, we see a lot of people that link to the wow armory and while that’s not necessarily a mistake depending on what you’re doing, the wow armory shows your character name and your server and stuff and so it is something that commonly people come back to us and say “oh my god, oh my god, please delete that post! I can’t believe I accidentally linked my armory profile over on the wow site.”
And they are trying to sell their account and of course that is a violation of TOS for Blizzard so they get all nervous about that.
I want to introduce you to www.mywowarmory.com. It’s a place that’s pretty good for profiles. It actually shows you almost the same information that the wow armory has and it’s really easy to use. This is the home page of it. You just put in your character name, you select whether it’s US or Europe and then you select your server name, click your profile and voila! It will show you your profile.
So, this is one of my characters. I am happy to show you one of my characters (kind of like that guy who sells the insurance on your credit report, he shows his social security number and everything). I’m not worried about showing my character. I don’t think anything’s going to happen because I’m showing this.
Anyway, you can see up here: he’s level 59 warrior. Not very impressive but he’s what I got. This page shows all of your equip items. If you hover over any of them, it actually shows you all the details of that item. It shows you some other stuff here, like it shows my leatherworking, my skinning and my health and mana. All those things that are important when you are looking at how to evaluate an account.
Now let’s go to the reputation tab at the top. Under the reputation … I don’t know how valuable reputation information is when you are buying and selling but I suppose if you have some very specific goals you want to meet with the character that could be important. As you can see here, I have not reached exalted with anybody. I have played around in a bunch of different areas, so that’s “some” reputation.
Let’s go to skills. On skills section, it shows you here my leatherworking, my skinning. Got 300 skinning – really like skinning. Then I got secondary skills, I got 300 cooking – I like to eat. Then, all my weapon skills and everything. So, this is pretty good information.
Now, let’s go back to the main page. We’re back on the main page. Here we’ve got the base stats. With these base stats we actually can see my strength and agility and everything. Then, there’s some other items in there, too. Let’s go ahead and look at the drop down menu there. We’ve got melee stats and I can see what my chance to crit is just about 8% and my speed and all that other junk. Spell stats – we’ll skip that one because he’s a warrior, he doesn’t have any spells. My defense – it shows everything here.
So, it’s got all the information that you need. There might be some other little extraneous information you might want to put in there. It’s real easy to link up to it. Down at the bottom of the page there’s a link, there’s a URL, that’s right there. Just copy and paste that into your post and it will automatically make a link back to this profile for everyone to see.
www.Mywowarmory.com is a great way to show off your profile, justify the price you’re asking really easily because it’s just so easy just typing in that little bit of information, hitting get my profile and it comes with all this stuff. It’s going to a make it really easy for you to buy, sell or trade accounts.
I totally recommend it for use in the Markee Dragon forums.
Don't walk. RUN! Go get signed up for a chance to be in the WotLK beta. Here's an official announcement. ----
Today we opened the Wrath of the Lich King Beta Opt-In program, which gives players a chance to win an invitation to the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King beta. For The Burning Crusade beta, we randomly invited players from the entire World of Warcraft community. With the Opt-In, our goal is to strengthen the beta-testing process by inviting only those players who have expressed active interest in participating.
Keep in mind that opting in doesn’t guarantee you’ll be selected for the beta. And players who’ve previously been promised beta access through a promotion or contest (such as by purchasing the Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition notebook) don’t need to worry -- you’ll still be entered into the beta automatically when the time comes.
To opt in to the Wrath of the Lich King beta, visit the link below:
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