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The Williams Collection Hits a Home RUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: March 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Just to give some history of myself, I belong to a pinball league and we currently have over 40 titles the games include makers from Williams, Bally, Stern and Data East. I never expect a video game to replace the actual thing but for $14 bucks; The Williams Collection is the most realistic video Pinball ever! Two hours of playing this title and I couldent stop playing it. The designers did amazing work; from the artwork to the sound to the light shows.... from what I can tell everything is spot on. The ball physics are as real as real could get without being in front of the real thing. I own an Attack From Mars, like all pinball machines they need lots of care and maintenance. The beauty of a title like this is the pinball machines will never break, no lights to replace, no weak flippers and no playfield ware. I could buy 278 copies of this game for what I paid for my AFM. This is a no brainier; if you love pinball this is the game to get. I hope Crave keeps the ball rolling and brings out a Bally or Data East Collection; Stern would be nice but they are still making pinballs so I doubt that is even an option.

Greatest Pinball Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My family has been in the vending business for more then 30 years. I have played every pinball imaginable and Have a few in my house. This game is the most fun and has the best feel next to playing the real machines. The machines that are offered are the best. Gorgar, Black Knight, Taxi, etc. I have been playing this on my playstation more then my real pinball's. This game is a must for any pinball fan. The games are great and the feel and sound are incredible.

Crave Gets the Highest Marks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In heaven, cars would never need oil changes, the weather would always be balmy and great pinball machines would never have to be shopped out for costly repairs. Well, thanks to the folks at Crave the last one has been made possible for us here on earth. Their "Hall of Fame - the Williams Collection" is everything and more. All of the detail, sound bites and logistics have been painstakingly worked out to the finst detail.

Of course the flagship is "Funhouse", probably the best, craziest, over-the-top pinball machine ever. From Rudy's quips, following eyes and advancing clock--it's all here. And who can forget the classic "Whirlwind" ("the storm is approaching!!")? And I almost fell over when I saw "Taxi"--a game that didn't quite rise to the levels of popularity of, say, "Funhouse", but still ate a lot of my quarters in its day. What's not to love about a game that requires you pick up Dracula, Santa Claus, Pinbot and Mikhail Gorbachev? That's Williams' great, quirky style for ya...

The other games are great, too. "Pinbot", "Black Knight" and "Space Shuttle" all come with their mid-80s creepy Williams-esqe vocoder sound bits. And there're the great classic classics, "Gorgar" and "Firepower".

The ball mechanics are fantastic and lovingly recreated for each machine. The player can change the first-person perspective on the tables to one of several presets, from up close and personal to the playing field to high above it. The illusion of the real games is high--many times during play I would start to worry about the ball slamming into targets and bumpers and how much it would cost me to have them fixed if they broke...until I realized that this was a video game.

So hats off to Crave. And the game is only fifteen dollars. The price of a "Funhouse" video game reproduction alone could easily justify a much higher price. I hope they plan on coming out with more similar anthologies and collections ("High Speed", "Comet", "Theater of Magic" and "Attack from Mars", if you please).

If you're a fan of these games then get your copy (I had to order mine--I couldn't find any on the shelves anywhere here in Las Vegas). In the meantime...I'll be over here, trying to get to midnight to put Rudy to sleep. "Go play on the steps!!"

The absolute Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I grew up playing alot of pinball, so recently I have been searching around for the perfect pinball game. I have found a select few that I was impressed by and I found a whole lot that was not evenworth the time to finish the three balls. However, when I found this one and read of the 8 different machines that are included, I was intreaged.
WOW!!! What a game. I remember playing 6 of the 8 games that are included. Each one is accurate to the slightest detail, and the game play is right on. My favorite ones are Fun House and Whirl Wind, but they are all wonderful and enjoyable to play. I recomendthis game to anyone who even has the slightest interest in pinball or to someone who is just looking for something different then the slew of new games that are somehow all different but in the end, all the same.

Revenge on my Quarters!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Williams Hall of Fame pinball is no doubt the greatest pinball simulator out there. Just $20.00 I spent alone on this will no way re-coup the amount of quarters I dumped into these machines all those years ago. But revenge is mine now.

What everyone has been saying about this is the physics. And well ya, without it being so spot on this game would be nothing. In fact, it is amazing that I still remember the sweet spots from the actual machines and how they would translate to get those awesome shots and this game nailed them dead on!

If you see this game and for one second even contemplated getting it - even it was for the nostalgia of one specific table, don't hesitate and get it. This isn't a game that is going to sell millions of copies and unfortunately when it is done, that will be about it. I scoured all of Toronto looking for this and everntually found one copy. Even the big game retailers like EB Games have no intention on carry this.

The only thing missing is the hand cramps, blisters and a smoky arcade - all of which I can do without these days.
So grab this game, look at pile of quarters and smile knowing in the end you have won.

Outstanding!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I want to say this first before I talk about the game. I am a pinball junky and have been playing the game for 28 years now. I am also visually impaired. Why would I mention my vision problem you may ask, well I feel it helps with the honesty of my review. I have played many different pinballs and for some reason I always come back to Williams machines. They are my favorite machine of the big three. I will also go a bit further and say that with out a doubt Steve Ritchie and his designs and machines are my personal favorite, so also keep that in mind.
This game is the best I have ever played on a console period. I prefer it over the Gotlieb collection simply because the Gotlieb machines are my least favorite pinball company of the big three. The Williams collection is very good. I grew up with these machines and contained in this collection are some of my favorites.
If you are a pinball fan, you must own this game. If you are familiar with these tables they will be easy for you to complete the goals but still the fun factor is top notch. They play like the actual machines themselves. Making some of the skill shots with the plunger however can take some time and practice but you can still make them if you get a bit creative with using some visual cues.....compare the plunger in relation to the front of the cabinet compared to the bottom of the tv screen for example. You can make those shots by doing it that way. Becoming a "pinball wizard" and completing all the table goals is easy if you are a decant player and know the tables.
I only have a few minor complaints, which overall are not that big of a deal. I wish you could select between 3 and 5 ball play. Also when you pick a table to play it would be neat to see the machines power up and boot procedure. To me it just adds that extra touch but is not needed for game play. The only other PC pinball experience that I think you can compare with this is Visual Pinball.
This game is a must have for any pinball fan period. I would love to see Crave come out with a Steve Ritchie collection. They might just do that some day, or at least I can dream. :)

Its the 1980's all over again!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you ever miss-spent your youth in Video arcades in the 80's then this is the game for you!

Pinbot, Taxi, Fun House, Gorgar, Black Knight, Twister, Firepower,Space Shuttle, its all there.

WOW !!! If you are a pinball fan this is a MUST HAVE title !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In the hunt to find more multi-player games for our 60GB PS3, I ran across this title at Wal-Mart. It was a PS2 game that was less than $20, so I wasn't expecting much. I mainly bought it because it was a 4 player game and everyone in the family likes pinball. I didn't realize this was a recently released title for the PS2, the price alone would have fooled me.

WOW did we get a surprise when we started playing. The realism of the tables is outstanding. It is the next best thing to actually playing one. If you are a pinball fan, it will be hard for you to quit playing! I do agree with Spiehler about the feel of the flippers though. It takes some getting used to because they do seem to lag a bit. Aside from that, this is the best value of any game we have purchased yet.

Best Pinball Sim to date!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is without a doubt the best pinball simulation for any platform so far!!
I have some decent games for my pc that microsoft released a few years ago and Redoubt produced a great disk of some Williams classics such as "Creature From The Black Lagoon" that are very good also but these are much more fun to play.
Get this game! You won't be disappointed. Hopefully Crave will produce more of these great classics in the future!!

Just like the arcade

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played a lot of pinball games since I was a kid both real and video games and this is the most fun and realistic bunch of games ever on a disc. There is a nice variety of games and everything feels like the real thing, from the flippers to the ball action, tilt and you name it. If you want some pinball fun get this game!

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