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Microsoft Pinball Arcade could best be described as a playable reference simulation. Not only is it a highly enjoyable game that will give hours upon hours of. Jun 13, 2017 Microsoft 3D Pinball: Space Cadet Description Players accept a mission by hitting 'mission targets' which select which mission they will take, and by going up the 'launch ramp'. Each mission has a set number of things for players to do, such as hitting the 'attack bumpers' (which were a set of four bumpers at the top of the table) eight times.
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Microsoft Pinball Arcade is a pinball video game from Microsoft. It was released on December 15, 1998 for Microsoft Windows and in 2001 for the Game Boy Color.
The game is a collection of seven real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb. These include: Baffle Ball (1931), Humpty Dumpty (1947), Knock Out (1950), Slick Chick (1963), Spirit of 76 (1975), Haunted House (1982), and Cue Ball Wizard (1992).The Game Boy Color version features scaled-down graphics, due to hardware limitations. It also excludes the Humpty Dumpty and Cue Ball Wizard tables. A free trial version of the computer game is also available, with Haunted House as the only playable table.
Take a trip down pinball memory lane.There’s a very cool idea behind Pinball Arcade – it’s a historical pinball game, boasting seven tables used between 1931 and 1992. The game includes some tables with odd flipper configurations and a few weird twists, like the actual cue ball in Cue Ball Wizard and the inset reverse table underneath Haunted House. Spirit of ’76 is actually a terrific basic table, which would have been fun to play.Sadly, the most important element is missing from these tables: the feel of pinball. The pop of the flippers doesn’t seem to have any heft to it and the ball seems to be skidding through syrup. There’s no sense of anything other than a round silver graphic sliding across a flat drab picture of a table.
Even the gaudy colors are kind of washed out, as if they represented a pinball table that had been sitting around for twenty years.The sound effects do a great job of recreating tinny music and mechanical noises (complete with the hum of a held flipper), but they’re in a vacuum without the rolling sounds or clunks of the actual ball movement. The physics of nudging, which are absolutely vital to some of the tables, feel pretty superficial. It would have been nice to have the option to configure the tables, particularly since some of them are inclined to tilt at the first sign of gentle breeze.System Requirements: Pentium 120 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 50 MB HDD, Win95.
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