Pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika pika.

[Screaming and eating sounds]

One part of my ride where I have to make sure I don't get run over by a train. Alright, up and over. Let's go. We don't really have fast trains in this country, so...

That being said, never been run over by a train yet. So how would I know?

That's where we're going… downtown Pittsburgh. Gonna loop around the point, go up the other river, and hit up Coop DeVille, which I believe has Pokémon. That's where Velum is, under the Iron City sign more or less, at the point in Pittsburgh.

Beautiful day, it's a little chilly, very windy, but perfect day for a bike ride and a great day to play pinball.

Classic Game Room review. Let me guess… Bird Week.

Looks particularly nice after the draft, but it's a shame they covered up all of the ---- ---- graffiti. They could have left that.

It's time for Pokémon Pinball. Once more the machine is sitting next to a Jaws machine… there he is, we can do it!

We're gonna need a bigger shark. If we keep feeding it things in every video, like delicious Pokémon, gotta catch them all and then flame broil those suckers. You can make a really nice poke bowl out of them, huh?

Starting the video here with the pro version of Pokémon from Stern, played here at Coop De Ville in Pittsburgh.

Thanks to my friend Doug from Pittsburgh Pinball who runs this game. I didn't even know he was going to be there the day I showed up. He took the glass off for me, which is fun because then I can show you all of the interior details of this machine, which are a lot of fun.

I'm not into Pokémon, but this is a really fun game and it looks great. It would be better if this was based on Bloodsport though. Just imagine if you were playing as Van Damme and instead of collecting Pokémon, you're fighting other fighters from around the world. And instead of the game going “pika pika pika,” it would go “Kumite Kumite!”

To me, take this is what I think about every day.

So what do you do in this game? Well, the really, really, really short version of this review is that you collect Pokémon and then battle them.

You collect a Pokémon by first discovering a Pokémon, and you do that by basically just doing anything—just staying alive in the game. You'll discover Pokémon, and then you collect it through a process.

You have to hit the ball thing on the right, which looks like it came out of the Venom machine. That's called the Pokédex.

You hit that and then you have to hit one of the purple shots. Depending on how far you're in, the purple shots kind of change a bit. But you hit some of the purple shots and then that activates the Poké Ball.

You collect the Pokémon by shooting it into the Poké Ball. On the pro version, it just goes up the left ramp and loops around. On the premium edition, it actually collects the ball and then spits it back out. It's a more interesting feature.

Pokémon caught! There's going to be some good eating tonight. So then you spell battle up there in the middle of the playfield and that lowers the thing's face. Then you smack that and start your multiball.

I'm not sure how many balls Pokémon typically have, but the multiball has three. The multiball is a lot of fun and it's pretty easy to get, but you won't see any good multiball footage until the next part of this video.

The downside of taking the glass off the games is that I'm always distracted.

So my gameplay just sucks because I'm actually thinking about where to shove the GoPro next. In the previous video we got it stuck in hyperspace. In this video we got it stuck inside… never mind. The footage turned out to be positively indecent.

Moving on to part two of this video, I'm back down at Velum Fermentation to play Pokémon Pinball, but the premium edition from Stern.

Each of the Stern releases seems to have three different versions. You've got the pro edition, which is what I shot at Coop. You've got the premium edition, which I'm going to film here. And there's a limited edition.

Let's go check out the premium Pokémon right now.

Now if you look closely at the premium edition you'll notice there are some additional bells and whistles, like the Pikachu figure that looks back and forth. There are some differences on the playfield, different cabinet art, so I should play more or less the same but let's check it out.

I've caught a Pokémon! Woo! Now you see that little Poké Ball thing wobbles back and forth and then spits the ball out.

Now after spending more time with the premium edition of this game, I really prefer it. While it plays more or less the same, the added features make a huge difference—like the magnetic feature that tosses the ball around in the middle of the playfield.

I like the Poké Ball feature better. I'd like it even more if it would light Pokémon on fire so I could stomp on them, but you know… maybe the limited edition does that.

So is this a good pinball machine for players of all ages and skill levels?

Kind of. You can definitely just smack the ball around and have a good time. But in order to actually collect the Pokémon, you do have to hit things in sequence. That can be tricky, but the multiball is pretty easy to get and that's a great way to rack up big points.

The overall feel of the game is festive and totally fun.

So I'll give Stern—and begrudgingly Nintendo—some credit for that.

If you're going to base a pinball machine on a Nintendo property, we really want Metroid. Samus turns into a ball. Come on.

So do I like this game? I do like this game. It's got a slightly different feel than most of the other Stern games as of late. It's fairly easy to hit the ramps, unlike the John Wick machine which is extremely difficult, but also challenging in its own way collecting Pokémon.

Pokémon will stay with you if you have a Stern account, and I noticed that there's a running tally of Pokémon that I've been collecting.

I think that's similar to what they were doing with the Dungeons & Dragons game, but I feel like I gotta collect them all—and by all I mean all of the Pokémon pinball machines.

There's still one missing in this review, and as of this recording I don't know if I can find it… so I might have to go out and play pinball again. What a terrible afternoon that would be on a Thursday.

I have other things to do, but those can wait. Pinball takes priority.

I'm giving you the best tour of Pittsburgh that you could possibly have.

So I'm on the hunt for the Pokémon limited edition pinball machine and I'm going to Verdettos on the North Side. I don't know for sure if they have one, but they typically have most of the new Stern machines in the limited trim.

Verdettos is a fascinating place, it’s like an OG Pittsburgh dive bar.

Let's go check it out. If they have Pokémon, great. If they don't, I guess I'm starting the next video review.

Beneath the watchful eye of Roberto Clemente… let's go play some pinball.

Even more pinball! I choose you! It's the limited edition of Pokémon Pinball.

From Stern, I've completed the Pokémon Pinball trifecta for this video. Way to go me.

There's even more bells and whistles on this one. Different cabinet art, interior artwork, LED lights on the side.

There's all kinds of stuff going on here in the limited edition, although I couldn't get a good game this day to save my life. But I still had tons of fun and I love the back glass art on this one.

The LEDs look great on camera. I'm not totally sold on them when playing though.

Personally, I think the premium edition is the best edition. It's enough.

But the limited is fun just to play a slightly different version.

Verdettos has a whole bunch of machines, so if you're planning a trip to Pittsburgh, put Verdettos on your itinerary along with Coop and Vellum.

Get a complete pinball experience, plus bike riding, beer, and more.

The Pokémon Pinball machine, in conclusion, is a lot of fun. It was really cool to be able to film three different versions of it for this video.

Hit the Pro, hit the Premium, hit the Limited.

Maybe I can do this again. We'll see where the next videos take me, probably to another pinball bar.

Seems to happen a lot. This is what happens when your hobbies are biking, beer, comic books, and pinball.