Medieval Madness - GamerPET's Guide

Hello gamers,

I am PET. Welcome to my Medieval Madness Guide!
My goal with this video is to help you pick up Pinball Arcade by playing this awesome and friendly pinball table called Medieval Madness. I started playing Pinball Arcade 2 weeks ago and I was a bit confused. What table is good for beginners but still be a good pinball table?

Some guys suggested to play Medieval Mandes... and this is what I did.

Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on this table in real life. Maybe some day... maybe some day...

Anyway, enjoy my guide!

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Intro

I recommend you to watch the video. It's a bit more detailed and I also show you all the raps, bumpers, holes you need to hit.

Medieval Mandess is a pinball table released in June 1997 by Williams. Designed by Brian Eddy, Medieval Madness had a production run of about 4000 units and became an immediate critical and popular success.

My goal with this guide is to help you start playing this table. I will go over the basics and over some easy strategies.

Purpose of this table

In this table the purpose is to “Battle for the Kingdom”.

You do that by getting these six titles: Master of Trolls, Defender of Damsels, Patron of the Peasants, Catapult Ace, Joust Champion and Castle Crusher.

Basically you are like a hero what shoots the cattapulst, saves damsels, fights the trolls, destroy the castles and rally the peasants to riot. For example the "multiball hole" is actually a crack in the wall of the castle. First ball destroys a bit of the wall, second ball destroys more of the wall, 3rd ball get's you inside the castle fighting the knights and if you succeed.... you steal the royal treasure.

Amazing theme on an amazing display!

Skill Shot

First of all let’s talk about the Skill Shot.

There are two ways to launch the ball. The normal way is to just press the button and be sure the ball lands on the lit top lane, which can be changed by pressing the flipper. This earns you some points and a 5x bonus.

The second way is to hold the left flipper and press the launch button, which activates the super skill shot mode. Your job is then to shoot the ball trough one of the four ramps. After the ramp is accomplished, you earn a hurry up, which will make you shot the castle for 1.000.000 points.

This is actually pretty good to do because if you complete 10 Hurry Ups you get an extra ball. It's a good idea to start working on the hurry ups early on. At first I used to prefer the extra 5 x to bonus.

Castle Crusher

There are several strategies you can do in Medieval Madness. One of them is to go for the Castle Crusher. You will have to destroy 6 castles seen in the bottom-middle part of the table.

So for the first castle you will have to shoot the middle lane to lower the bridge of the castle. It only takes 1 shot for the first castle. 2 shots for the second castle and so on. After the bridge is lowered you will have to shoot the castle gate.

The first castle requires 2 shots, the second castle 3 shots and so on. So as you can see it becomes harder and harder. The main reason why it’s harder is because the castle was designed to drain the shots so it’s very easy for the ball to go directly in the middle of the table making you instantly lose the ball. This is the main reason some people do this during multiballs because
if you lose a ball you still have the others.

Master of Trolls

The second title that’s a bit harder to get is the Master of Trolls. In order to activate it you will need to shoot this center yellow troll bumpers 8 times.

After that this troll light will be lit and you will need to shoot the merlin saucer to start the trolls. The reason why trolls are a bit hard is because they are in the middle and it’s very easy to lose control of the ball. So be careful. In order to get the title you will have to destroy 10 trolls so you will have to start the event several times.

Merlin Saucer

Speaking of the Merlin Saucer you can activate merlin magic when this star is lit. Merlin will give you some nice bonuses including the option to immediately start trolls. You can activate Merlin’s Magic by hitting this 3 bumpers on the right side.

Catapult Ace

Catapult Ace is another title you will have to get. You get it by doing 3 catapult slams. To do one slam you will have to hit the ball on the catapult hole until you will be able to chose what thing to shoot at the castle.

Those things give you various points and if you manage to shoot all of them you will be able to start the Barnyard Madness which is another multiball mode.

Patron of Peasants, Defender of Damsels, Joust Champion

The other 3 titles, Patron of Peasants, Defender of Damsels and Joust Champion are a bit easier to get. All you have to do is shoot their corresponding lines 5 times.

Patron of Peasants can be found here on the left ramp.
Defender of Damsels on the right ramp.
Joust Champion can be hit by shooting the ball on the left or the right orbit.

Multiballs

The most straight forward multi ball is the Castle Multiball. All you have to do is to shot the castle hole on the left of the castle gate 3 times. During the multiball you will get 2 more balls on the table and the purpose is to hit the 2 ramps five times.

Each time a ramp is completed a knight is killed. After all the five knights are killed you will need to shoot the castle hole again in order to receive the royal treasure and light the “extra ball”.

The second multiball is the Barnyward Madness. You get it by shooting all the things in the catapult. It’s not a really rewarding multiball so a lot of the players just skip it.

About the Multiball Madness. Every time you complete a mission, like shooting the catapult or shooting the peasant, damsel, joust ramps 4 times you will lit one of the lights below the Merlin Saucer. If one of those lights is lit and you shoot the Merlin saucer you will start a Multiball Mandess.

This is the thing. If you manage to complete more of those missions before you shoot the merlin saucer, your multiball would give more points. Also, if you only have 1 light lit, you will only get 1 extra ball for the multiball. If you have between 2 or 4 lights lit you will get 2 extra balls for the multiball. If you have all the 5 light lit, that means including the Troll light you will have 3 extra balls meaning in total you will have a 4 ball multiball. During the multiball you can shoot the castle or just shoot the ramps for bonus points. One thing people like to do is shoot the Multiball castle hole on the left of the castle gate for some extra points.

If you manage to lit all the 5 lights and then hit the merlin saucer you will start a Royal Madness. During the Royal Madness you will have to hit all the targets twice. The time is limited so you will have to be very careful.

One of the reasons for wanting a royal madness is that if you complete it you will lit the Extra Ball.

Extra-Balls

This are some of the ways to get extra balls.

• You get an extra ball if you reach 28 milion points.
  
• You get an extra ball after you destroy the second castle.

The first two are the easiest to get!

• You get an extra ball by completing the Royal Madness.
  
• You get an extra ball by completing the castle multiball royal treasure.
  
• You get an extra ball when you complete at least 10 hurry-ups.

Hurry-ups

Speaking of hurry-ups. They occur when a madness is accomplished, after the multiball madness has ended. You will hear the announcer tell you to “Shoot the Castle” and the music will be a bit more alert.

Hurryups usually start at 1 million and they steadily decrease as the time passes.

Just get control of the ball and shoot the castle. It’s not really that hard.

Ending Words

Thank you guys for watching my video/reading my guide.

I really do recommend you to watch the video. It's edited, it has all the information condensed and I try to also show you all the holes/ramps you need to hit. This is also my first pinball tutorial so hopefully my next tutorials will be even better!

Anyway, this are some of my links:

Official Website[www.gamerpet.com]
Official YouTube
Facebook Page[www.facebook.com]

Thank You guys for the support!
See you soon...

[Tinman]

FTG

[Tinman]

Plays like a slot machine, The big jackpot, comes about every 2000 games or 1600 hours whatever comes first. Whoever engineered this game, is evil

[PET]

@Tinman - Try it in PinballFX, maybe it's going to be easier :)

[Tinman]

PET, I have the game from like 6 years ago, it sucks, it is corrupt, I am hard headed, and I am playing no other game but Medieval Madness, until I accomplish the wizard goals. and after every time I get irritated, I am gonna bitch.

[Tinman]

Friggin Hilllaryious, Did he show success, no, this game is corrupted. Damn near impossible to accomplish the goals.

[Tinman]

Very difficult game! You made it sound easy. I doubt if you completed the goals.

[djcrazytrain]

Does the ball bounce off the tower on the real table too? That happens a lot to me when I'm trying to save the damsel.

[PET]

MM is not available anymore in Pinball Arcade.

Try it in Pinball FX.

[BernOut]

where do i download MM please?
All i see in the store is old EM pinnys??

[StatTrak™: 0 BrainCells]

Nice just got 67M. on my first play through after watching your video!