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Post by KeeperBvK on Nov 22, 2010 15:40:19 GMT -5
My personal favorite is actually Mile High Pinball on the N-Gage, so anybody owning an N-Gage: Please raise your hand.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Nov 22, 2010 20:01:56 GMT -5
The Pro Pinball Trilogy is also available for the Dreamcast... I totally forgot I had that game in my collection... although, it doesn't contain the Saturn game Pro Pinball: The Web. You could take the DC version for a spin if you can find an image of the game somewhere and grab the latest version of nullDC. It's a fantastic emulator and despite some minor graphical glitches, makes your DC games look better than you ever thought possible, at very, very fast framerates. The Pro Pinball Trilogy is seriously worth tracking down
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Post by Feynman on Nov 22, 2010 21:13:33 GMT -5
www.futurepinball.com/ This is a pinball-building program, but it comes with tables you can use its engine to run. I can't quite get it to work right though :/ It needs a hell of a lot of horsepower. If you don't have a dedicated graphics card (like a GeForce 6-series or higher), don't even bother. =P On the other hand, its spiritual predecessor, Visual Pinball, still has a strong community with a lot of recreated and unique original tables. Er... I hate be that guy, but at this point in time, you have to be running a pretty ancient rig for Future Pinball's requirements to be considered high. Anyhow, Future Pinball is definitely my favorite game of video pinball... it's about as perfect as you can possibly hope to get.
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Post by Weasel on Nov 22, 2010 21:20:36 GMT -5
Er... I hate be that guy, but at this point in time, you have to be running a pretty ancient rig for Future Pinball's requirements to be considered high. Tell that to Sotenga, Atma, and anybody that wants to run it on a netbook.
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Post by Feynman on Nov 22, 2010 21:57:39 GMT -5
Netbooks aren't designed to be gaming devices. Saying a game won't run on a Netbook is like saying a sedan can't haul as much as a pickup truck... it's incredibly obvious and doesn't really need to be pointed out.
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Post by Weasel on Nov 23, 2010 3:23:52 GMT -5
Netbooks aren't designed to be gaming devices. Saying a game won't run on a Netbook is like saying a sedan can't haul as much as a pickup truck... it's incredibly obvious and doesn't really need to be pointed out. But not everybody can afford the latest and greatest, so it needs to be said. We're not all rich bastards who can afford stuff like that, and I'm sure many forumers are running on second-hand hardware. I'm pretty sure, for example, Atma's machine (I forget the specs) would have serious trouble with Future Pinball. And before you get all "get a job" on me, bear in mind that some portions of the world are going through pretty severe unemployment rates.
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Nov 23, 2010 11:26:26 GMT -5
I think it's implied that anyone who wants to buy a netbook isn't going to do so with gaming in mind. At least gaming that isn't limited to flash games and crap like Farmville.
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Post by Feynman on Nov 23, 2010 12:00:56 GMT -5
Netbooks aren't designed to be gaming devices. Saying a game won't run on a Netbook is like saying a sedan can't haul as much as a pickup truck... it's incredibly obvious and doesn't really need to be pointed out. But not everybody can afford the latest and greatest, so it needs to be said. We're not all rich bastards who can afford stuff like that, and I'm sure many forumers are running on second-hand hardware. I'm pretty sure, for example, Atma's machine (I forget the specs) would have serious trouble with Future Pinball. And before you get all "get a job" on me, bear in mind that some portions of the world are going through pretty severe unemployment rates. I'm not trying to make this into an elitist 'rich bastard' thing. All I'm saying is, if you own a gaming rig that's current within the past 6 years or so, it shouldn't have any real problems running Future Pinball. Any rig that DOES have problems running Future Pinball is either really old, or if it's a newer machine or a device like a netbook, it wasn't purchased for gaming purposes to begin with.
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Post by brianc on Nov 23, 2010 16:56:40 GMT -5
Rollerball for NES (from the makers of Revenge of the Gator and Kirby's Pinball Land, also great games and on Gameboy if you care to check them out) The same people? Really? Why is this a surprise? The former two were published and designed by HAL and the latter is a Kirby game, a game designed by with a character created by HAL. Revenge of the Gator and Rollerball even share some of the same sound effects.
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Post by jorpho on Nov 24, 2010 0:32:53 GMT -5
Not surprising, just intriguing.So it wasn't necessarily precisely the same individuals, then? That's what I thought you meant. (There's no credits for Kirby's Pinball Land that I know of.)
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Post by brianc on Nov 24, 2010 1:26:26 GMT -5
Not surprising, just intriguing.So it wasn't necessarily precisely the same individuals, then? That's what I thought you meant. (There's no credits for Kirby's Pinball Land that I know of.) Thought I meant? Weasel made that comment and he said "makers" which probably didn't imply specific people. I didn't mean to either, but the reply you made was a bit awkward to reply to. I'm not sure about exact staff since Revenge of the Gator also seems to lack credits.
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Post by bioniccommando83 on Nov 25, 2010 2:47:12 GMT -5
I'd have to give a hearty recommendation for 3D-Ultra Pinball Thrillride for the PC. The Mrs. and I used to have a lot of fun playing this and competing for the high score. The main table's decently fun, and some of the extra events add a nice bit of spice to the game.
Nostalgia also recommends Crue Ball for the Genesis which I remember renting every so often back in the day.
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Post by NamelessFragger on Dec 3, 2010 15:12:21 GMT -5
the Saturn has the Pro Pinball games that are absolutely phenomenal... I think they were available on the PC though too, so check those out. I had no idea there was a Saturn release. They're actually avaiable on GOG.com at the moment. They're realistic, but quite difficult. The Windows versions of Pro Pinball - Timeshock!, Big Race USA, and Fantastic Journey are definitely the way to go. Why? They run without a hitch even on Windows 7 64-bit, and they go all the way up to 1600x1200 and look VERY nice at that resolution. Oh, did I mention yet that these are 1997/1998 releases? How often can you say that a game that old still looks gorgeous today? (About the only way that they weren't forward-looking is that they don't have 2560x1600 renders of the tables, nor do they have portrait orientation support.) Unfortunately, GOG's version of Timeshock! is DOS last time I checked, which means a much lower resolution and potential performance iffiness. The Windows version has a redbook audio soundtrack that probably won't play on modern systems, even if the game itself runs. (Big Race USA and Fantastic Journey don't use redbook audio and thus don't have that issue.) The games all FEEL just right, even if they're ball-breakingly hard at times. (Comes with the realism, I suppose.) There's also Sierra's 3D Ultra Pinball series, which swings in the exact opposite direction realism-wise and opts for making pinball tables tailored specifically to computers, down to wide, landscape-orientation tables and all the usual video pinball things you'd never be able to get out of a real pinball table. Also going along these lines, I can vaguely recall the NES take on Pinbot, which also adds a few such liberties compared to the real table. (There are levels of tables you advance through, about the third or so of which introduce these REALLY IRRITATING enemies that DESTROY YOUR FLIPPERS in two shots. No, really.) Oh, and nobody mentioned the Maxis-published Full Tilt Pinball! yet. One of the tables is one I'm sure you'll all be familiar with-the Space Cadet table included since Win9x through XP, except now in 1024x768 and perhaps with a few extra features. The other two tables are new, since I'm sure nobody wanted to re-purchase a table they already had just for higher resolution. (Yes, it also runs in Vista and Win7 64-bit, though the border of the window has a weird graphical glitch. Doesn't really hinder the actual game at all, though.)
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Post by jorpho on Dec 3, 2010 17:02:28 GMT -5
Oh, and nobody mentioned the Maxis-published Full Tilt Pinball! yet. I didn't think it was much worth mentioning, really. Competently done, but nothing particularly special there. There was also a Full Tilt Pinball 2 which is really rather meh. Take-A-Break Pinball got some attention back in the day, I think, but that might only have been because of all the featured Sierra properties - King's Quest, Space Quest, Willy Beamish, Leisure Suit Larry, etc. Some people really, really like Little Wing Pinball's games, but I took a peek at Crystal Caliburn once and was utterly nonplussed.
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Post by Scylla on Dec 27, 2010 22:22:59 GMT -5
Nothing beats Kirby's Pinball Land in my book. Pokemon Pinball is very fun too, though. I actually bothered to get all 151 in that game. That was quite the accomplishment. And even though I'm probably in the minority, I think Sonic Spinball is a really well-made game as long as you make the effort to get used to its feel.
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