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Best pinball available - perfect classic tables
posted by Shazbot (BROOKLYN, NY) Mar 9, 2008
Member since Aug 2007
7 out of 11 gamers (64%) found this review helpful
The combination of the truly classic pinballs featured in this game, the graphics that genuinely recreate the atmosphere of the originals and the fantastic ball physics make this the best pinball game on any platform.
Any true enthusiast will have played many of these tables (I have) - Pinbot, Gorgar, Space Shuttle and, my fave, FunHouse. The awesome thing is that this game plays the tables so well if you play on a big screen TV you can almost swear you are on the real thing!
The graphics are done in great style and are true to the original tables. Sound is realistic and reproduces the table noise and machine vocals accurately - a few of these machines were the pioneers of speech chips.
While all the above is great it would all be for nothing if the tables didn't play well but give these guys the Oscar for "Exceptional Ball Physics". The bounces off the corners of bumpers and posts are absolutely perfect and every shot that I can remember is executed in exactly the same way in the game as it was on the real table - the trapdoor shot in Fun House is still moving lightning fast on the second run around. You can make the weird little shots that you can on a real table too - the one from the top of flip(per) which goes vertically up and the one from the tip which goes up the opposite flip(per) lane which is almost always missing from other pinball games.
BEST OF ALL you can make the shot where the ball is almost going down the middle but you skim it with one flip and deflect it enough to hit it with the other hit sligthtly later - JUST LIKE A REAL TABLE and I have NEVER seen this pulled off in any other pinball game.
Finally, as the playfield is larger than the screen the viewpoint has to move around. This has been a problem on other games but again this has been handled wonderfully by great logic and a minimal auto zoom in and out. Even on a multi-ball, multi-level machine like Black Knight it works perfectly.
What can I say? RENT IT! BUY IT! ENJOY
Any true enthusiast will have played many of these tables (I have) - Pinbot, Gorgar, Space Shuttle and, my fave, FunHouse. The awesome thing is that this game plays the tables so well if you play on a big screen TV you can almost swear you are on the real thing!
The graphics are done in great style and are true to the original tables. Sound is realistic and reproduces the table noise and machine vocals accurately - a few of these machines were the pioneers of speech chips.
While all the above is great it would all be for nothing if the tables didn't play well but give these guys the Oscar for "Exceptional Ball Physics". The bounces off the corners of bumpers and posts are absolutely perfect and every shot that I can remember is executed in exactly the same way in the game as it was on the real table - the trapdoor shot in Fun House is still moving lightning fast on the second run around. You can make the weird little shots that you can on a real table too - the one from the top of flip(per) which goes vertically up and the one from the tip which goes up the opposite flip(per) lane which is almost always missing from other pinball games.
BEST OF ALL you can make the shot where the ball is almost going down the middle but you skim it with one flip and deflect it enough to hit it with the other hit sligthtly later - JUST LIKE A REAL TABLE and I have NEVER seen this pulled off in any other pinball game.
Finally, as the playfield is larger than the screen the viewpoint has to move around. This has been a problem on other games but again this has been handled wonderfully by great logic and a minimal auto zoom in and out. Even on a multi-ball, multi-level machine like Black Knight it works perfectly.
What can I say? RENT IT! BUY IT! ENJOY