Medieval Madness Pinball Tutorial

Instructional pinball tutorial filmed at PAPA Headquarters.
www.papa.org

[@roostercastille3376]

dude casually wrecked all my illusions about being decent at that machine

[@Meachumz]

Me and you both. I'm thinking about never playing it again. Hahahaha

[@FingarB]

Meeeh! Come'on guys! If you can learn yourself to save bricks from the castle shot for the most of the time, you'll be able to get up to a hundred million no problem!

[@roflmows]

really? O.o no offense, i'm saying this in a friendly way, but i regularly score 350-400 million points at my local bar. i never considered that "good"...i had nothing to compare it to. maybe it's time i start entering tournaments? o.0

[@Zerbey]

Nah, this is one of the most forgiving tables there is. I'm no pinball wizard but I can get a decent score almost every time.

[@BlueZirnitra]

@@roflmows his last 2 balls choked hard tbf. If he wasn't teaching on camera and was in the zone it could have been good. It's hard to play well and explain at the same time.

[@tristanwegner]

Coming from Attack from Mars by the same creator Brian Eddy, I felt very quickly at home. The arrangement is very similar, as is the feel and the humor.

[@forrestavery8136]

I love how you beat out my high score of 68m on just your first ball. It's truly a pleasure watching your finesse and general control of the ball. Your tutorials have really helped me step up my game, and win some tournaments too ;)

[@ruggie.74]

My 54m got obliterated. I think I should quit.

[@nagredmoonstriker252]

On the machine from the Pinball Arcade app, the lock shot to the left of the castle entrance can be used during Royal Madness to replace whichever of the uncompleted shots is farthest to your left (catapult, then joust, then peasants, then damsel), except that you still have to knock down the trolls yourself.

[@charlesconne7706]

this guy's a pinball wizard

[@newsama]

There has got to be a twist

[@warbot4017]

I could look at rules all day, but I never get more good info, tips & tricks then these videos. My Pinball scores are rising after watching these great insightful videos. thanks for all the help

[@ZergIsUnderpowered]

From a complete beginner this tutorial was absolutely perfect. Thank you for delving into intermediate terms, and then elaborating on them right after. Great great great. Love this game

[@hklinker]

It is many years since I played pinball on a physical machine. In fact, I’ve never played Medieval Madness on an actual machine. I have though played it many times on the Farsight Pinball Arcade. That has been discontinued for new purchases but me and a friend continue to use the many games he bought. It’s occasionally very tricky now. I was cruising along at about 95-million on Medieval Madness (a personal best) when the game just turned off! I had a ball in play and another ball still to play. The other challenge is something we call ‘warp a ball’ …when the ball speed slows down and everything gets a little fuzzy. I come here to see the finer points of these games. Often we just bash away. Here though I can learn where the bigger rewards are, and how to reduce risks and extend play. Thanks for playing, recording and uploading.

[@simcapener6935]

Did they make a software version of medieval madness?

[@hklinker]

As I mentioned above, The Pinball Arcade by Farsight is the only way I’ve played Medieval Madness. It was part of a digital package of games.

[@drowningin]

Played some pinball whenever at mall or movie theater and long time ago the roller rink and arcade, and I always just shot randomly. Never knew there was a method to all the madness

[@Wastedyears91]

Love how he says poor shooting and he’s playing better than 99% of the population lol. If I get 2 minutes out of my quarters it’s worth it

[@Titanic4]

10:47 - what a perfectly synced knocker with the ball hitting castle drawbridge in Medieval Madness...

[@game-azing]

7:52 perfect timing sound with that background sound.

[@troyevanthompson]

best series on youtube. thx Bowen! these are extremely helpful.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

I've rolled up some great scores on this game, playing on the Williams pinball app - thanks to your tutorial! It's become one of my favorite games, mostly because the skill shots can be made.

[@dantescanline]

thanks for this! I'm just getting into pinball and found this machine around the corner from me. great playthrough to watch!

[@purplepeak8575]

This is the only pinball machine that I can think off that drops an f bomb.

[@nagredmoonstriker252]

Try the adult quotes from the "Demolition Man" pinball game.

[@michelleleeaustin6052]

So much fun! Thanks for the lesson. We are lucky to have found this game in Honolulu.

[@Chad-mf5vo]

Great first ball Papa Thanks also for pointing out some of the ball techniques that u were using, great knowledge to soke up and use

[@DrPollo1985]

My God I want your skills bruh....... That ball 1 run was amazing you truly are a wizard.

[@luckychops6553]

Good video, Medieval Madness is bloody awesome!

[@ruggie.74]

You shattered my highscore with only using 1 ball... lol

[@teetstreats5682]

Great video! I wish you went deeper into the blue lights down the middle. Like master of trolls, etc. Thanks for the info!

[@nitorishogiplayer3465]

Love all these tutorials you've been making

[@rickproctor9621]

Years later and just saw this for the first time. Helluva game, you have some skill. Are you still playing? I’m just south of you right across WV state line.

[@stephenwilliams163]

There never was nor ever will be a better pinball table than Mideval Madness

[@bikerguy5829]

Eight Ball Deluxe is way better than this game

[@stephenwilliams163]

@@bikerguy5829 I'd claim blasphemy, but I've never actually had a chance to play Eight Ball Deluxe

[@matjailbrek]

You are such an amazing player !

[@petervankan1]

Excellent, thanks. Great skill and helpful commentary. You got my all time high score with one ball. Kudo's from a former Rotterdam champion.

[@bubba101010]

It’s not mentioned in this video: to enable the super skill shot opportunity you need to engage and hold the left flipper up before you plunge the ball. As is seen done here on the launch of the first ball.

[@FranekAIC]

Yeah, right. I try to destroy as many castles as posible with ball 1 and ball 2 which I beggin via super skill shot. My ball 3 is for multiball which grows end of ball bonus quickly. Super skill shot is 100 000 points plus 1 million hurry up. But regular skill shot is 50 000 points plus 6X bonus! His first ball would bring more score with regular skill shot. That would be 13 million bonus or more instead of 11 million bonus. Play super skill shot and go for the castles. Go for regular skill shot and play as many multiballs as possible.

[@JaggedToothTackle]

Just joined the pinball members only club in town -- love this game but I only do descent like 1/3 balls it seems. I'll be watching a ton of your videos now -- this tutorial was great and hope to be a way better player

[@rodrigohaym]

Great video and great ball 1!

[@saeklin]

No machine is as rewarding as wailing on the castle in MM.

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

oh i learnt something for sure, often i go for the trolls first and then do the multi balls, so i can get the full madness. but yes the risk of them draining your ball is exponentially high so doesn't seem worth it. thank you.

[@jpielak]

Should let the game audio play. That’s Tina Feys voice on there.

[@singtomeofautumnleaves]

Bowen just beat my highest score on this machine on his first ball and i own it lol. brilliant mate, thank you :)

[@fleejay806]

You are a pinball master sir

[@Xhyron]

I used to play this a ton at our local arcade from 99-02 and stumbled upon a ‘bug’ that allowed you to get castle hits without firing the ball at the gate…. I don’t know if this was unique to our machine at the arcade or if it could be replicated elsewhere. Considering what you needed to do, it is probably repeatable on other MM machines, but I have only ever played on the one….and this place kept their machines in tip-top condition. If I exploited the bug I could put up scores in the 350 million range without much effort, which subsequently led me to not use the bug ever again!

[@zaphod77]

Probably a messed up wire. this is a physical problem. on some games you can get points just by flipping because of a fault like this. or the gate could be registering when you nudge? either way it shouldn't work, and doesn't on most.

[@Xhyron]

@@zaphod77 Yes! That about sums it up.. When I gave the machine a smack(nudge) or two near either of the flipper buttons to manipulate the trajectory of my ball, this is when from time to time, the game would register an erroneous drawbridge/gate hit.. It was not a guarantee and you had to nudge it just right for the hit to register. I was able to take the gates down quite easily doing this and only needed to sink the kill shot after the gate had been raised. Needless to say the novelty of this ran out relatively quickly and I stopped doing it as to actually have a challenge when I played. Still, even with that bug, Medieval Madness and The Addams Family were two amazing machines. My two favorites by far that are still fun to play to this day.

[@pinfarmer]

When I unboxed my MM I got 110 mil on my 6th game. I average around 60 mil since. Didn’t realize it was actually a good score!

[@cheesehead6710]

I will not feel as bad, maybe be less mad even, when I have bad balls now, having watched your ball 2 and 3. Thank you!

[@maman89]

Your catches are insane, recently downloaded pinball arcade and got whopped by arabia nights. Medieval madness is great for practicing.

[@BlueZirnitra]

That first live catch was so clean it looked like it disobeyed physics.

[@ValosarX]

This was pretty amazing play! I think this is a good example of how thinking about something else (like recording a video) can free your baser mind to play the game by pure instinct ; P It seems like after that first ball you started thinking too much about the game and lost the primal magic lol. Thanks for sharing this!

[@BenDowswell]

But the real question is....WHY "AJK"?!?!

[@PureSolace]

What a great first ball!

[@zachgilchrist669]

my 10 year old son put up a 204 mil the other day. the following week they reset the high score. 😥

[@OneBlurredEdge]

Played this one on Pinball FX3. Digital is my best bet based on where I live. So far I've gotten 163 million as my high score. Hope someday to play a physical version.

[@brianritchey7597]

My local bar has this and it won't lock the ball next to the castle and the castle won't get destroyed. Is this mean there are bad sensors that need fixed??

[@QuantumMythics]

The medieval madness I have available to me doesn't let you capture the ball. When you have it come down from the left at the start of the game, you manage to pretty quickly capture the ball. Mine bounces off the left flipper all the way to the top of the dragon ramp! How do you control the ball when the flippers are so rubbery?

[@kristasharp5440]

Was this that nerdy dude from the spec when lit documentary?

[@jdubs1007]

Where outside pittsburgh are u located?

[@SylvieBleicher-c4i]

Nous sommes au début des années 2000 ou les flippers produits par Williams commençaient à décliner progressivement remplacés par Stern !

[@t-roy80]

Thanks m8 - very helpful!

[@Calleisak]

You are insanely good!

[@jamesguralski5156]

nice flipper skills man I love this game the best pin ever

[@harlanmorgan5866]

Thanks for the great video

[@MsArtz]

That moment, when I though I was decent at MM (in Pinball Arcade, not the real machine, which I don't really have a chance of playing, sadly). That said, you are truly a wizard, sir. I also learned quite a lot about the game in general, which was very interesting. Great video! (Random question: Does PAPA have a delegation in Portugal, by any chance?)

[@madzanta]

Really nice first ball

[@ZiggyZoko]

Does Merlin's Magic have fixed rewards when set to tournament mode? I'm assuming that's why it only gave the 1,000,000 points.

[@AposineYT]

12:34 that shot!

[@chrisnack]

Are you using the standard flipper rubber or something else? Seems to catch the balls very nicely. My MMR doesn't catch as well. So curious if that's a difference in the flipper rubber or just plain old skill. Thanks!

[@slobaks]

chrisnack its not bout rubber its bout his skill

[@Cybernutter]

Nice tutorial thanks :) I have been practicing my live catches on my new MMR-LE and can get them but not as smooth as yours :) Could you tell me what the outlanes are set at for MM PAPA comps? are they at default in the middle of the slide adjustment

[@PAPApinball]

+Andrew Cathcart Outlane settings depend on the skill division. In Lower divisions, they are normally in the default middle position. At the world championships division, they are either at their widest setting or removed entirely, depending on how difficult the rest of the game is set up.

[@dr.awkward9075]

Tina Fey is doing the voice of the valley girl damsel. Themoreyouknow

[@daveboddis6331]

Nice tutorial. Thank you.

[@DaveTheTrain]

What i'm struggling to understand is how the ball never goes down an outlane until later in the video. Is that just luck or is he doing something i'm not seeing that stops it? Whenever I play (which is only once or twice a month, so i'm still a newbie) I often lose balls as they bounce on the pin between the in and outlanes.

[@neilpirelli9240]

dont let the ball go sideways too much at any time try to keep it up and down (but not dead centered)

[@Cassdp]

I played the emulator and then could not stop. good video

[@Grak70]

I think my high score on this game is about 28M. Thanks for this great explanation. Off to QuarterWorld I go!

[@JeffreyQProductions]

Pinball God.

[@paulsolfelt8452]

Why do you have the replay counter turned off? you should have won at least two games, one for points and one or two for high score if you get first place, I jut got 101 on my machine the other day, so you did great on the first ball then just fell apart, do you have free balls turned off too?

[@reeseexplains8935]

paul solfelt those are turned off.

[@MrCliftron]

This is a PAPA game, so the machine is setup without a lot of things that you might see in an arcade. If you want to challenge yourself, remove post rubbers and turn off extra balls.

[@paulsolfelt8452]

So they don't allow extra balls in tournaments ? What exactly does papa stand for?

[@reeseexplains8935]

paul solfelt extra balls are off most of the time In tournaments but if they forget to you just plunge and walk away.

[@harryn9306]

I want one so bad

[@Imgema]

And to think most people just randomly hit the flippers and hope for the best

[@roflmows]

not disparaging anyone, but i regularly score 350-400 million at the local bar, pretty frequently win Battle for the Kingdom on ball 1. i never even thought about whether that was "good" or not...i just figured it was decent or average. maybe it's time to start entering tournaments? o.o

[@plowking813]

that 1st ball was godly, 2nd and 3rd balls unlucky

[@scottspencer6036]

Gotta pay the troll toll...

[@BenDowswell]

If you want to get into that...wait - what?!

[@MindstormXL]

The version Ive seen has a colour display instead of just orange for all the DMD sequences is that a mod?

[@mamefan]

Yes

[@supersupersomething]

Epic.

[@guydahm4734]

Tim Kitchen q

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

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[@antonvlasjuk3079]

This is one of the most overrated games on the planet... It is beautiful, and has a lot of gimmicks, and some fun sounds, but someone should work on a rom that reduces castle scoring!! For the money this game costs you can buy 3 pins, or even a Stern premium....