Fish Tales Pinball Tutorial

Instructional pinball tutorial filmed at PAPA Headquarters.
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[@willcumming1267]

The only time in my life I've ever felt a deep, existential craving for you to have filmed this vertically.

[@imaramblins]

My ALL time favorite. I played the heck out of the machine at the local bowling alley in my youth.

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

You are lucky :)

[@simonwax7575]

Love this game, but it is brutally hard to play really well. I think its the best theme ever.

[@TheZotmeister]

For a physical table, yes, best theme ever: catch fish, lie about how big they are. If we include digital tables, though, I need to give the nod to Pinball FX2's Biolab table, where a mad scientist is trying to genetically engineer the perfect creature and clone it to take over the world, but all the creature cares about is the cookie jar.

[@seaninlondon4424]

Brutal was the first word I thought of too. It punishes anything less than blistering accuracy, but the rewards are massive. Playing this turns other tables into slow motion.

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

"Fish stretched" "Stories told" Yeah, one of my favorite themes.

[@tylerlane1702]

This is the table that got me really into pinball! They had it at my laundry-mat and I sought out other tables after achieving a highscore on this game.

[@jimdep6542]

That's my kind of a laundry mat that has pinball machines !

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

@@jimdep6542 If I had one of those near me I'd sell my washing machine for pinball money.

[@arturolagunesflores]

i just found out about pinball through Pinball FX3 and this is one of the machines i can play in the game; i love playing it! i never would've known that there was strategy in pinball i just liked seeing the ball bounce super fast with the music in the background lol

[@frankiii9165]

I'm gonna say this is my favourite table ever. I first played it on a pinball club in Barcelona Spain, it was a great experience.

[@NicholasTobolski]

Absolutely love the Fish Tales. Glad that Zen’s preserved this one with Pinball FX. Play it on the Switch myself. Sadly, my local arcade lacks any pinball machines these days. BUT, i’ve talked to the people who order machines, and they told me they’d look into getting something in. Been a longtime viewer on my older channels. Subbed!

[@jahopokemonleaf]

I hope they get something! :3

[@killerdogg6944]

AWESOME game with hours of enjoyment. Just had mine serviced after sitting for almost 2 yrs with a good cleaning and new rubbers and all new LED lights and it's better than ever. So many fun ways 2 score.

[@kamealex]

This game is difficult even in Pinball Arcade, but brutally satisfying too.

[@txemanovelo]

It took me 5 days to get 270,000,000 points on the pinball arcade, I love how difficult this game is! had no idea of the Super Jackpot being 100,000,000! thanx for the tutorial pinball heroes!

[@noahboat580]

Fish tales is just so unique as a pinball board. I dont play pinball well but this board really teaches you how to launch your balls once you got them by the flippers. Even when i play this board on PinballFX3 i still have trouble playing the board

[@Titanic4]

At 1:32 mark there's fishbone fish swimming in the background on the DMD. If you happen to press the cast button at least 10 times while it's displayed, you'll get Russ' Fishbone Bonus for 10 points.

[@Titanic4]

In addition to that, if you happen to start multiball while the skeleton fish is in the background, you can simply trap at least 2 balls on either flipper and spam the cast button.

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

I played this for the first time tonight at Next Level in Hillsboro, OR. I played 17 machines and this was in my top 3. Fast and fun and I love the unique, weird fishing theme. Fish-stretching!

[@TheMusicRoomWA]

The other two were Monster Bash (I'm about to watch your tutorial right now) and Space Jam (which you don't have a tutorial for yet). Have you ever played Space Jam? Would you ever consider doing a tutorial on it?

[@gsdlmj3450]

My all time favorite! I got to play this at a pizza parlor growing up, haven't seen it very much since.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

I've played Fish Tales (on the Williams pinball app) by now 100 times, focusing on the multi-ball. I'm really good at loading the multi-ball, but just like you pointed out, the balls drain quickly (really frustrating) The most difficult thing for me is getting the bonus multiplier. It looks like you're not monitoring the comments!

[@Hermaphroditious]

That was some amazing play! Hopefully in a few days I'll be headed to a fish tales cab of my own to try my luck! Wonderful video, keep doing more! Fish Tales is an amazing cabinet.

[@Titanic4]

In this game there's a tiny bug, where when the game gets tilted right before video mode is started, you'll be able to play it normally. After the mode is over, you'll regain control of the flippers despite of game displaying "TILT" on the DMD. Also, the video mode music is playing in the background.

[@skyway73]

Who's here from FX3? 😊

[@TheSniperFox]

skyway73 ME ME ME I came from FX3 too!

[@blackthornep8115]

me too!!!!

[@user-ge8fn4jr5q]

no.

[@o0oSM00THo0o]

The captive ball in fish tales is incredibly tricky to hit in FX3 and often results in a drain through the middle... pretty frustrating

[@doggo5121]

I'm here from williams pinball

[@Alex79uk]

Really useful video thanks - I love this table on Pinball FX3, but I'd love to be able to play the real version some time, never found it yet though! I think a lot of the appeal in this game is the huge numbers, it's so addictive watching them go up and up. My highest score is nowhere near this, I can only just break about a hundred million at the moment but I'm confident I can smash that after watching this! Thanks :)

[@o0oSM00THo0o]

The captive ball is incredibly tricky to hit in FX3 and often results in a drain through the middle... pretty frustrating

[@PsychoJosh]

Last tuesday I went to play Fish Tales at a local bowling alley. It had a color display and regular flippers instead of lightning flippers yet for some reason I still couldn't achieve a huge score on it. I love FT! Really tough yet rewarding table.

[@williamference9221]

The sheer nostalgia from this table

[@KawaiiLukiie]

The table is fun, but also kinda unfair. As mentioned in the game Pinball FX3, the gap between the flippers is more wide then usual. Causing many situation where you're 100% absolute unable to save the ball, regardless of how good you are.

[@Neutro1337]

It's not unfair, it adds a bit more randomness so not always the same player wins ;)

[@Pow3rus]

try Ghostbusters lol

[@Mo_Ketchups]

I’m prolly the only guy whose wife trusts him to go to Vegas alone because she knows I do nothing but play pinball THREE DAYS STRAIGHT at the PHOF Museum! Time to SCHEDULE A TRIP!! 💪

[@Mo_Ketchups]

Thee hardest lane table ever, and the captive ball is a 90% SDTM probability. Also best in its simplicity. What a combo. 😅

[@farafureimu]

I don't think Monster Fish and Jackpot having the same values at first and being collected on the same shot is a coincidence. What better way to win a fishing competition than to catch a monstrously large fish?

[@ehyouman]

This was a great in-depth tutorial thanks!

[@bradl7499]

Wow - They have this one at the local place I go to, but I always over look it due to all the other machines they have. But this looks like a blast and I will play it next time I am there.

[@jimdep6542]

I can't imagine how many quarters it takes to get this good ! Thanks for the excellent video and multitasking, even being able to give instructions and play at the same time. AND without swearing. Amazing.

[@chrisperrien7055]

First time I saw this game, I took that wider gap between the flippers as a deliberate challenge. Was alot of fun making that game heat up, somewhere past about 150-180 million it really got good, past 300 million it was just nutz. I shot for loading up multi-balls. And of course the feeding frenzy. Jackpots just kinda happened, IIRC. Game got so fast ,there wasn't much time to think about them .

[@Zerbey]

Great tutorial, I played Fish Tales all through College also and could get a billion on a good day. Would love to own a real table again some day.

[@danjacobsen7645]

I’ve had this game in my home for about 8 years. Great pinball and will most likely never get rid of it. And I could care less for fishing.

[@playitloud4940]

Found one of these in the wild today (albeit in kinda rough shape). Great game, looking forward to sinking some more coins into it. (Gotta say though: it is without doubt the most stable machine I have ever played. Couldn't nudge it, definitely in no risk of tilting).

[@lifewater989]

Bowen, what's your best game on Fish Tales?

[@screaminr4828]

fish tales is the best pinball of all time .its a real pin players pin ball

[@davidpadgett4013]

I love it

[@SupremeKaiRich]

Gone fishin’, leave a message

[@ryt-is]

I try to get Rock the Boat and Multiball at the same time. Some decent score to be had there, as each ramp and captive ball scores 10 million.

[@retrowrath9374]

The table is brutal for a beginner, I got the multiball but the ball hits the right side coming down almost always goes down the centre to drain in PinballFX3. You do make me want to get better with your videos.

[@cardjunkie]

this is a brilliant table ive a virtual pinball table and this is my go to one out of the 100s i have great tutorial

[@henrytube5333]

I finshed feed frenzy and rock the boat all in ball 1 but in fx3

[@felipefernandez8309]

My favourite one, difficult to find in Chile

[@ellispoo44]

I like this game on Pinball Arcade the more I play it. It is hard at first but very satisfying when you start nailing the shots

[@briank8571]

that's what i said about your mother = D

[@Chris.Davies]

Casters Club is easily shot from the right flipper!

[@Zyndro1]

Thx for the advices: Iplay it on my Nintendo Switch

[@GuntPulp]

*Do you like fish sticks or Kanye West?*

[@juarezvitorinojuba3515]

Joguei muito!! Super jackpoint!!!!!

[@dannyfrankscomedy]

Thanks for this guys. This pin is so frustrating.

[@gabrielgabom]

Que recuerdos jaja!

[@PsychoJosh]

Fish Tales on Pinball FX3 doesn't have a drop target in front of Caster's Club, and neither did the one I played in person at a bowling alley last tuesday. Does that drop target come standard or is it an addition to the table in this video?

[@BeryJensen]

I think minor changes are done by operators or years of abuse they just disconnect some options, dont spend money on fix it.

[@zaphod77]

The drop target is down by default at the beginning of the game. it is only raised in the following cases. 1) you are in multiball and only one ball is left on the field and you are shooting for single or double jackpot. In this case if you drop it it pops back up. 2) you have scored a jackpot, and multiball is over, and you have to hit it to relight the locks. it stays down in this case. This one is set on hard, where even for first multiball, the locks have to be qualified. That's why it's up at game start.

[@Titanic4]

This is feature, which can be set by the operator, or owner. In Pro mode, the target is up most of the time, unlike the Standard mode.

[@ferhound]

13:00 that and the right drain ruins the table in my opinion.

[@yoflo3002]

120 mil on FX3

[@lobsterman5786]

The Best!

[@allenstorm3771]

Damn ur good

[@jeffpedals]

I so want to be good at this game, as I love almost everything about it (minus the shorter flippers). Does anyone make normal length flippers for it as a mod? Not that that would make me great at it. But it could surely help some. I've been thinking that this machine could be the one I purchase one day in real life. But until then I'll keep playing it virtually.

[@zaphod77]

you can swap the flippers with normal yellow williams flippers. This makes the casters club drop target less deadly, but makes the ramps flow worse. its' a tough call. it's easier to do the boat ramp with the lightning flippers.

[@Melodie_Info3]

its boring cause its a pain how easily lose. I play on PC its pretty good

[@aegisofhonor]

Fish Tales is a brutally difficult pin ball game with tons of drain points and extremely tight shots that challenge the very best players. I kinda just don't like this game, I'm not too big on the fishing theme and though there is some good humor, it's too low brow for me to have fun with it and the game punishes you far too much to really have any real fun at all playing.

[@carlanderson1870]

One of my favorite games....it's super easy to replay.

[@mineerthegamer]

Vision821 WOW he doesn't enjoy a pinball machine that's harder than shoving a pineapple up you're ass while trying to blow a guppy, it's like some people enjoy less straining machines that don't make you want to fucking brutalize a small African child. Though I agree on the fishing theme thing quite soulless for not enjoying the fishing theme

[@willcumming1267]

Nope nope nope. This game is TIGHT and extremely fast but few tables have a mechanic as satisfying as the port and starboard figure-eight loops... the multiball sucks, though.... the table is just too busy for it to be worthwhile imo.

[@dmac7406]

This is a hard game esy to loose balls.