UK Machine Record
Stern · 2015 · at 8 UK venues.
The Walking Dead is one of the Stern games that divides players: it looks brutal, plays brutally and expects you to understand what is happening very quickly. John Borg and Lyman F. Sheats Jr. created the original game, and its reputation comes from a ruleset built around risk and reward rather than simply collecting points.
The Prison, Well Walker, crossbow and Bicycle Girl shots give the machine a distinctive identity. The game also asks you to make decisions about how aggressively you want to push towards bigger rewards.
It has become an important UK tournament machine because good players can extract enormous scores from a game that will happily kill an unprepared player almost immediately. If you're only going to remember one thing: don't confuse being busy with making progress.
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Silverball guide · The Walking Dead
Every second walker you kill lights an X above an inlane. Refuse to take it and it climbs, with no ceiling anyone has found. Most of the skill in this machine is deciding what to spend it on.
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Complete a set of drops to light major shots for mode start. Each shot is a different mode.
Bash the well walker many many times to start a multiball
Extend Prison or Well Walker MB by stacking them with Bloodbath MB. Complete the 3 drop targets during BB to restart the ball save timer.
You can stack either Prison or Well with BB. You can also make progress towards both modes in BB, which counts until you start either one.
By deliberately avoiding the inlane shot multiplier, you can build up that multiplier over time. Save it for a high scoring mode or MB.
Always go for the major shots during Clean The Prison Yard. The Prison shot itself is risky and often drains the ball SDTM.
Start 2x playfield for 30 sec by hitting both Prison standups, then shooting Riot. Hit em each twice (before Riot) to make it 40 seconds.
Try to avoid going near the Pop Bumpers as much as possible, Tunnel lane drain is the worst
The sensitivity of the lower jet bumper is critical on this game. If it is sensitive, shake to keep it up there all day, big points.
Always try to predict path of ball as it exits the jet bumper area, the wall there can send the ball SDTM often.
On some machines, aim for left side of Well Walker and ball will rebound into drop target bank, helping you complete drop targets!
After plunge, go for prison to open doors while ball save is active. Good way to start off
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How The Walking Dead was sold to operators — Stern, 2015. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Flyer scan via the Internet Pinball Database. The artwork is Stern’s.
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