Hey so I’ve been getting a bit into videogame versions of pinball. Whether it be just normal pinball or games that use pinball mechanics to do other things. Like I had a ton of fun with Yoku’s Island Express. Played through the campaign of Sonic Pinball Party and thought it was ok. I’ve been recommended Pinball FX and Midnight Magic before. Just curious what else is out there worth playing.
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Ah, THIS was pinball.
A YouTuber is building a real version of Space Cadet
I saw that while looking for this one! Very based
The original version is part of Full Tilt! Pinball from 1995. It’s readily available on places like the internet archive!
That’s where I got this one. It doesn’t feel right, like the physics are off
In my opinion, there are two teams making amazing pinball games at the moment.
Zen Studios:
WIZNWAR & FLARB
Cult of PiN looks neat if you’re into Balatro-style mechanics in your pinball.
I really like Pinball Arcade for my own use - i especially love the Theatre of Magic, but they have adapted pretty predatory business tactics and lost the Williams and Bally licences. Shoot me a message if you want a nice link with all 113 tables which skips the bullshit (ca 5 GB download size)
Damn, Yoku’s Island Express would have been my recommendation.
Vector Pinball (Play Store link ) is a decent time waster on mobile.
I keep Vector Pinball on my Android phone for when the urge strikes. It’s open source, available from F-Droid, and gets a new table added roughly once a year.
When a was young, I loved Pinball Construction Set on my Commodore 64. It let you build your own layout (admittedly tedious with a joystick - I don’t think a mouse existed for the C64 at release), and make a standalone playable file out of it. I’ve seen hundreds built by others available for download. I’ve not seriously gone looking, but always been surprised not to see an updated version since. It was available on multiple computers at the time, so you can use your preferred version and emulator (including 8-bit Wonders on F-Droid, which makes it relatively easy to download & play Commodore 8-bit computer games from archive.org). ETA: I don’t think the creations were cross-platform compatible, tho, so if you get into this you may wind up getting multiple versions & emulators.
The FX stuff is VR is super fun
I’ve never played it so I can’t vouch for its quality, but there’s Metroid Prime Pinball.
This is coming out soon (the dev is a friend): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3938260/Bumper_Bout/
I play a lot of Pinball Deluxe Reloaded on android. Lots of different tables and you can get modifiers to make each table play slightly differently to suit your playstyle. Extra tables have a cost, but not expensive and the modifiers can be obtained using tickets you get by playing.
There’s also daily events with leaderboards which are fun.
