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Not what you would expect or is it?
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Rating: 2,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User
The graphics for the game are amazing. If you like the old style pinball machines, you'll like it. You don't have a lot of flashing lights or bumpers, there is not much control. Frankly, if I wanted to play the old style machine, I would rather locate an arcade with these machines. With a plethora of pinball games out and most of them using more modern style games, I would recommend something more in tune with them. It is definately for the pinball fanatic, if they don't want to play on a real machine. Go figure.
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5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User
Cool game. 7 fun "machines". Great price. Yay!
Great Graphics-- Not Much Fun
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User
This pin ball game has wonderful graphics and sounds, but it is missing an important piece: FUN! There is not much going on and not a lot to do. If you are looking for an addicting game that will entertain you for hours, this is not the game for you!
Arguably one of, if not the best arcade game out there for the PC
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I first came aware of this game when in LA trying to find work in 2002 while living with friends and came across the game when I installed an old hard drive from an old PC into his new one and that's how I became aware of it and loved it.
I liked the older games such as slick chick, knockout was a very fun game and I will agree, although it's been a few years now since I've played the full game that Humpty Dumpty is kind of confusing and not as easy a game to play due to it's design.
What I do love and others have said as well is that this game is a realistic representation of these old pinball games, down to the reflections, action of the balls, flippers, bumpers etc - and not to mention the sound of said games too. Having lived through pinball games over the years, I was thrilled to have stumbled on this game. Sadly, Microsoft seems to have stopped selling this game a few years back.
I just this morning bought a used copy via Amazon for my own enjoyment and I will agree that it would be nice to have versions for Williams and Balley as well.
While the games represented here are not necesarily the best of the best they are quite fun to play and give a decent history/overview of how these games evolved over the years begining with Baffle Ball in 1931.
Sadly, the heyday of the pinball machine is over but thanks to games like that one can keep the memories at least alive in the virtual world, if not in the real world.
Kudos to MS for coming up with this game.
Excellent execution - why only Gottlieb?
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User
As a fan of pinball my hat is off to Microsoft for giving us such a quality pinball game that is based on tables that actually existed.
The physics are very close while the graphics and sound are spot-on (which is no small feat given the size of this ROM). Kudos on the execution Microsoft.
My only beef is that Microsoft chose to use only Gottlieb machines. Gottlieb tables have a place in pinball history but do not represent pinball at it's best. While there are only about 5 Gottlieb machines I would ever pay a quarter to play, there are at least 20 Williams or Bally machines apiece.
The early Gottlieb machines were top notch, Knock out and Slick Chick are included and rightfully so. However, Gottlieb machines migrated to a point beyond challenging in their table designs with very few exceptions. When Columbia bought Gottlieb in the late 70s, their games finally began to refocus on the player instead of the vendor. It proved to be too little too late because Bally and Williams continued to build machines that were arguably more fun.
Microsoft PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE see fit to continue this project and include some really great Bally and Williams machines from the 70s and 80s for us nostalgic folks!
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