Ceiling cat is watching you lift the table
December 17, 2014 12:46 PM   Subscribe

ⓂⒺⓂⒺ ⒷⒶⓁⓁ - the Internet meme-themed pinball machine
posted by a lungful of dragon (27 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
Play it off, keyboard cat.
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:55 PM on December 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


Mahir like free game.
posted by davebush at 1:02 PM on December 17, 2014


Wonder what it would take to fully machine and make a real honest to god brand new meme pinball machine...
posted by symbioid at 1:03 PM on December 17, 2014


Nah, it's more authentic as a repost
posted by rouftop at 1:09 PM on December 17, 2014 [4 favorites]


> Lose the game? Get Rick-Rolled!

You also lose The Game.
posted by The Card Cheat at 1:10 PM on December 17, 2014 [7 favorites]


Business Cat says stop goofing off and get back to work, lunchtime was hours ago.
posted by marienbad at 1:10 PM on December 17, 2014


All they need now is to link it up to a webcam and then have a web page connected to the flippers.

ENTER 1 BITCOIN TO PLAY:

... buffering
... buffering
... buffering
posted by Lanark at 1:45 PM on December 17, 2014 [3 favorites]


I hope there is a later, shitlords! gif whenever you tilt.
posted by furtive at 1:49 PM on December 17, 2014 [2 favorites]


ಠ_ಠ
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:01 PM on December 17, 2014


I want a rainbow stalin pinball table
and a banhammer (and sickle)
posted by symbioid at 2:13 PM on December 17, 2014


ಠ_ಠ
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:01 PM on December 17
[+] [!]


¯\_(ツ)_/¯
posted by gc at 2:14 PM on December 17, 2014


No Dancing Baby? This is a heavily 2010s-centric table.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:19 PM on December 17, 2014


symbioid, if you're curious about a relatively small company breaking into the world of pinball (which for years now has been controlled by one company, Stern), check out Jersey Jack, and their recently released Wizard of Oz table.

Really, it depends on how in depth you want your table to be. There are really three parts of building a pinball table. One is having a theme and the aesthetics that go with it. This, of course, influences the second part, the rules of the game: what are the objectives, are there minigames, balancing the scoring mechanics, etc. The best pinball tables have game mechanics that are novel, but intuitive. The final piece is ensuring that the shots are engineered correctly: can they be accomplished, are they the right difficulty for the point value, does the ball drain too much/too little. All of these, understandably, go together, and balancing them all is a significant challenge, especially given the (at-least until now) prohibitive cost of custom building various targets, ramps and bumpers to make one prototype. Although solid-state machines (like this one) are easier to program than the old electro-mechanical ones, they're still marvelous feats of engineering.
posted by enjoymoreradio at 2:22 PM on December 17, 2014 [7 favorites]


(jfc “classic memes” what are we doing)?
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:27 PM on December 17, 2014 [3 favorites]


No Dancing Baby? This is a heavily 2010s-centric table.

First you hit all the targets to get Mr. T to eat my balls, then that opens up a gate that lets you kill Barney.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 2:31 PM on December 17, 2014 [3 favorites]


THEN IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME BANANA PHONE BADGER BADGER SNAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAKE...
posted by symbioid at 2:48 PM on December 17, 2014 [3 favorites]


Also - I'm not saying I want to drop a decent amount of LSD and stare at the Wizard of Oz table that enjoymoreradio linked, but...

I totally want to drop a decent amount of acid and stare at that table for hours.
posted by symbioid at 2:50 PM on December 17, 2014


Wow, the Wizard of Oz machine looks awesome.

Ruby slippers flippers ha ha I get it. Nice one.
posted by freecellwizard at 3:05 PM on December 17, 2014


When I saw it wasn't a flash game I got kind of disappointed. Then I read the article and now I'm happy again.
posted by ob1quixote at 3:47 PM on December 17, 2014 [2 favorites]


Memes are still a shortcut to funny bone. I lol'd when I saw the Ned Stark warning on the side of the machine.
posted by vicx at 6:17 PM on December 17, 2014


First you hit all the targets to get Mr. T to eat my balls, then that opens up a gate that lets you kill Barney.

I was hoping for Mr T in the outlanes, eating everyone's balls.
posted by Kabanos at 6:42 PM on December 17, 2014 [2 favorites]


The attract mode should definitely include "Hello, my future player. This is what I sound like."
posted by Spatch at 6:56 PM on December 17, 2014


No. No I am not. This is not what I'm doing.
posted by Ceiling Cat at 11:31 PM on December 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


Cool idea, the art is shit, though. Even the pretty bad "Baby Doll" art they removed to make this is better executed, or at least in a more pinball machine appropriate style. The back panel isn't too bad, but the field is horrible, and the sides are pretty bad.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 12:50 AM on December 18, 2014 [1 favorite]


> I hope there is a later, shitlords! gif whenever you tilt.

Well then, did you try (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
posted by ardgedee at 3:55 AM on December 18, 2014 [1 favorite]


I would have preferred that they had instead restored the Baby Doll machine, instead of papering over it with the meme theming. There's literally nothing in an antique pinball machine that counts as lost technology in any sense, so the phrase "destin[ed for] the skip" just reads as "fuck if we know how to fix it, it's too old for us, let's put a LOLCat on it and call it a day."
posted by Strange Interlude at 5:50 AM on December 18, 2014 [1 favorite]


Metafilter: the field is horrible, and the sides are pretty bad.
posted by symbioid at 9:26 AM on December 18, 2014


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