The Limited Edition of Jersey Jack Pinball’s Dialed In! is the top-tier expression of Pat Lawlor’s modern masterpiece — the witty, gadget-obsessed disaster comedy set in the fictional town of Quantum Explosives Disposal. The LE adds premium finishes and trim to a machine already bursting with innovation: a backbox camera that photographs you and flashes your image onto a 27-inch LCD, genuine Bluetooth so you can flip the flippers from your own phone, and a shaker motor that hammers home every catastrophe.
The scoring revolves around your smartphone and the disasters menacing the town. You charge the phone by hitting the “Mick on a Stick” mascot, then shoot the scoop to start a mode, using the flipper buttons to scroll the disaster selection on the phone screen. The signature feature is the Big Bang: build it up before starting modes, and hitting it mid-mode instantly completes whatever’s running. The deep play centers on the elusive SIM cards, which grant permanent mode multipliers — three of them push your modes to a lucrative 4X.
There’s a wealth of clever strategy, from “overcharging” the phone past 100% by hammering the QED target, to a slick trick where a clean shot up the middle Theatre, with the upper-right flipper held out, rolls the ball right into the Light Big Bang target almost every time. Funny, inventive, and stuffed with personality, the Dialed In! LE is Lawlor’s genius in its most lavish form — a brilliant machine that rewards a thinking player from the first emergency call to the last. For collectors who want the definitive version of a modern classic, this is the one.