Pinball

Pro Pinball Trilogy

pinball

compilation

digital pinball

pinball flippers

Dreamcast

Pro Pinball Trilogy collects together three games from the Pro Pinball series on one disc.

Kiss Pinball

licensed game

celebrity tie-in

rock music

tie-in

PlayStation

The storyline for KISS Pinball revolves around the band battling the Dark Lord and claiming the "Kissneth" as their own. Your objectives include getting past security to snag an autograph, lighting "PASS" to access backstage, collecting weapons, shooting a spinner to upgrade record sales, hitting the Statue of Liberty repeatedly to reveal the Destroyer Skull to start 3-ball, spelling "MAYHEM" to light video mode, collecting lost souls, discovering hidden power-ups, locking balls with Gene's tongue and much more. 
 
Your perspective is directly above each table. You can see approximately one-third of the playfield at a time with the screen scrolling to follow the course of the ball. Each table has the standard two-flipper layout, with the ability to nudge the table up, left, and right to influence ball movement. But be careful not to "tilt" the machine!

Action

Science fiction

Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island

Unreal Engine

Single player

Multiplayer

dinosaurs

caveman

high score

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Bird view / Isometric

It starts when you receive a note and map from your long lost grandfather, along with the promise of the adventure of a lifetime. You'll encounter dinosaurs, volcanoes, and man-eating sharks, as well as a tribe of cavemen to save. Your mission is to save the Forgotten Island.

There are 9 interconnected tables included for you to conquer. They have to be unlocked during the game and offer 2 or 3 settings per table. In comparison to most other pinball simulations the goals on a table are mostly not to get a high score but to solve missions like chasing away sharks. Also unusual are the 3D graphics: instead of a static top-down view the camera follows the pinball ball.

Comedy

Super Robot Pinball

anime

super robot

Game Boy Color

All of the action of the Super Robot Wars series has been condensed into pinball form.

3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride

rumble cartridge

All the bells, whistles, and sirens of the pinball games of yesteryear come to the portable system with 3D ULTRA PINBALL: Thrill Ride. This colorful title takes all the fast action of pinball and combines it with features that only a videogame can provide. The full-sized table features multiple screens of action, with all of the staples of pinball intact. Bumpers, ramps, stoppers, and flippers litter the table, along with a variety of special bonus chutes that will take you to one of several special pinball challenges. 3D ULTRA PINBALL is highlighted by brightly colored graphics, with excellent detail on the board and its various parts. The game also features realistic ball physics and gameplay elements, so don’t bump too hard or you’ll get a "TILT"! 3D ULTRA PINBALL: Thrill Ride will test your skills and push your reflexes to their limits.

Pinball!

Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000

Ralph Baer, who created the original Magnavox Odyssey unit and helped get Odyssey 2 the green light, once tinkered with designing Odyssey 2 games. One such game was Pinball!, which allowed players to build their own tables by positioning O-shaped bumpers onscreen. Baer never completed it, but in 2000 he authorized the creation of 30 cartridges, which were sold at Classic Gaming Expo 2000.

Mega Pinball

Mega Pinball is a budget label, three table, single-player, mouse controlled game. The three tables are shown on a rotating clothes-rack affair: Dragon Slayer, Crystal Tower and Monsters Rhapsody. The mouse is used to navigate the game's menus while the keyboard is the default controller while playing the game. While playing the game send messages to the player, These scroll right/left across the bottom of the screen and left right across the top of the screen, in both cases the text is pushed across the screen by a tractor. There is no in-game music but there are wacky sound effects. The action keys can be redefined.

The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling

Racing

Sport

bowling

prehistoric

cartoon character

e3 2000

Prehistoric times, beware -- The Flintstones have invaded the bowling alley! Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, and Dino are taking advantage of a newly transformed Bedrock. That pesky alien Gazoo is always up to no good; now he's turned the entire town into massive bowling lanes complete with obtruding hazards and lots of rock!

Play It Pinball

American Arcade

Puzzle

PlayStation 2

Play It Pinball is classic American pinball like you’ve never seen it before. Relive the games everybody was playing in the classic era of pinball with each table beautifully crafted to capture the atmosphere of 1950’s Americana. Features include 11 themed tables including Surf King, Western Sheriff, Baseball and Horror, hidden tables released as you rack up those high scores, and the option to choose your own viewpoint and table angle. Released only in Europe and Japan.

Worms Pinball

Simulator

Arcade

mission based

steam

digital distribution

First person

The Worms crew returns, and this time they’ve got balls! The classic Worms Pinball sends the cute little pink guys spinning across one of the most realistic pinball tables ever created. Battle with honour through the mystic art of Worms Kung-Fu or hang at high noon with the grizzliest, pinkest cowboys this side of Texas. Only Worms™ Pinball offers an action packed pinball simulation of pure wormage! Worms Pinball leaves nothing to the imagination. The table sports 3D LED displayed sub-games and parallel objectives, transparent ramps, user-controllable moving gadgets, moving mechanical parts and wild sound effects and music. The table contains over 150 animated parts and thousands of frames of rendered FMV animation for the LED display. It’s got tilt functions, hit combinations as well as drop and dead catches, bounce and flip passes, bang backs, death saves, magnetic fields and countless other exciting features. The depth of gameplay, variety of action and sophisticated table rules ensures that Worms Pinball will have all gamers, not just hard-core pinheads, hooked.

Kids

Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey

steampunk

gog.com

Roll up! Roll up! Travel back to Victorian times with five steam-powered adventures. Use your flippers to tunnel to the Earth's core, journey to the ocean depths, fly through the tallest mountains and steam to a mysterious island to stop the evil General Yagov! Marvel at the most accurate ever ball physics! Balls that really spin, slide, roll and jump! Gasp in awe at the complexity of the table design, featuring bumpers, ramps, drop targets, magnets and more!

Music

music and rhythm

Odyssey

Ski is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.2 and uses stick on ski markers with an overlay.

Non-fiction

Star Wars Episode I

Star Wars Episode I - Pinball

Pinball 2000

games based on movies

Star Wars Episode I is a 1999 pinball game designed by John Popadiuk and released by Williams and the second (and last) machine to use the Pinball 2000 hardware platform. It is based in the Star Wars film The Phantom Menace.

Pokémon Pinball

Pokemon Pinball

Shooter

evolution

pikachu

pokemon

spin-off

bonus stage

super game boy enhancement

one-handed gameplay

rhydon

rhyhorn

clefable

parasect

drowzee

fictional currencies

game boy printer support

oddly-shaped cartridge

e3 1999

There are two tables in the game, red and blue. Each table has its own details and gameplay elements.

Each table has different "locations" that you play, which determine which Pokémon are available for capture. A subset of available locations are displayed slot-machine style in the beginning of a game, and pressing A will select your starting location and launch the first ball into play. After that, each table has its own mechanism for advancing to the next location, including the locations not available at the start of the game.

"Catch Mode," when activated, starts a 2 minute window of opportunity where you can attempt to capture a Pokémon. Once you activate "catch mode," you must hit the pop bumpers 6 times. Each hit unlocks 1/6 of an image of the Pokémon currently up for capture. Once the image is complete, the Pokémon appears on the table, where it must be hit 4 times with the ball to capture it.

"Evolution Mode," when activated, starts a 2 minute window of opportunity where you select a captured Pokémon (from the current game in progress only) and attempt to evolve it into another form. This is the only way to add the evolved form to your Pokédex. Once you select a Pokémon, you must hit targets on the playfield. There are up to 6 targets, but only 3 of them have items in them you need to evolve a Pokémon. The others create a time-wasting sequence before you can hit targets again. If you hit a target with an item, the item appears on the playfield and must be collected with the ball. Once you've collected 3 items, the hole in the center of the board opens up. Sinking the ball in the hole successfully evolves the Pokémon.

Sci-Fi Pinball

Aliens, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Predator, and The Fly — four of the hottest sci-fi franchises in any universe make for the coolest pinball challenge ever. Rack up your score as over 100 movie clips and sound bites let you relive your favorite scenes. Make daring skill shots and flip your way to 11 minigames that test your skill to the limits. Watch playing fields morph and shift as you climb to higher levels. Which world will you conquer first?

Stake out vampires as you search for the Invisible Girl! Take your best shot and discover the mausoleum’s secret passage. Beware of zombies!

Fantasy

Horror

Hollywood Pinball

language selection

Hollywood Pinball is an Action game, developed by Tarantula Studios and published by Starfish, which was released in 1999.

Best of Sierra Nr. 7

This is the July/August 1998 issue (Volume 7) of the Best of Sierra series. 
 
This issue contains these two games: 
 
- 3-D Ultra Pinball 
- Casino De Luxe

Pro Pinball: Big Race USA

driving-simulator

motorsports

A whirlwind frenzy of color, sound, and adrenaline-pumping action. Take an exciting ride across the USA for your chance to compete in the big race and win hoards of cash. But watch out for the police car on your tail. Packed with more features than your local multiplex, Big Race USA brings a whole new dimension of mind-boggling realism to your PlayStation. 
 
If you've always wanted a pinball machine but just didn't have the money, you'll be delighted at the real-life pinball physics now available on the PlayStation. The PRO PINBALL series strikes again, this time with an auto-themed trek across the country. All of the realistic touches of arcade pinball are present from the bumpers right down to the click of the flippers. You can adjust the camera three different ways to view the table from any angle you desire, and you can even take a gander at a pre-game slideshow that details the table's layout. It's easy to change the table rules, switch the screen position, tweak the graphics and sound, and choose a difficulty level: Extra Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, or Extra Hard. There's also a custom difficulty level that allows you to adjust any of the game's settings to provide extra challenges or assistance for yourself. Add in magnetic ball saving, multiball, and other bonuses and you've got yourself one heck of a cross-country journey. Pinball wizards and videogamers alike will revel in the thorough attention to detail and creativity in PRO PINBALL: Big Race USA.

Addiction Pinball

minigames

minigame collection

Addiction Pinball features two fully featured pinball tables based on other Team17 games Worm's and Ralley Fever. There are a variety of different minigames that can be played on the Pinball screen which are triggered through different events on the Pinball table.

Pinball Power

Pinball: Golden Logres

SuperLite 1500 Series: Pinball: Golden Logres

Golden Logres is set in the ruined kingdom of Logres after the Last Battle. King Arthur, seriously wounded in the battle, has been taken to Glass Island -- the Island of the Dead -- to await his revival. Arthur's guardian wizard, Merlin, has been confined by the witch Nimue. As the game begins, no one remains but Sir Bedivere, the last surviving knight -- and you!

The purpose of the game is to revive the 11 Knights of the Round Table and restore the Kingdom of Logres. To achieve this glorious goal, you must complete ten missions, running through three separate tables!

ParanoiaScape

Screaming Mad George's ParanoiaScape

Paranoia Scape is a first person action pinball game that features the designs and sounds of Screaming Mad George. The gameplay is about going around each creepy stage of the game using the ball to destroy the enemies.

Trouble in Mega-City One: An unidentified perpetrator has taken hostages, including the mayor. Attempts to apprehend him have already led to the loss of 17 Judges. He states that only one man is allowed to come near: Judge Dredd. There's obviously some history between them. It's time for the toughest lawman of them all to move in and dispense justice via his Lawgiver gun.

Judge Dredd

rail shooter

cyberpunk

death

futuristic

psone classics

comic book character

video mode

Arcade rail-shooter game that used a Light Gun. Dredd must save the mayor, who is being held hostage by a former judge. Live-action cutscenes were played at the conclusion to each stage. Completing the game unlocked the final cutscene where Dredd resolves the crisis.

Pro Pinball: Timeshock!

Pro Pinball Timeshock

Timeshock! is a 1997 pinball computer game developed by Cunning Developments and published by Empire Interactive. It is the second game in the Pro Pinball series, and is themed around the concept of time travel. 
 
The inclusion of a time machine fixture on the table facilitates the game's time travel theme. At any one time the player is in one of a handful of time zones, the main ones being: The Present Day, The Distant Future, Ancient Rome and The Prehistoric Age. Completion of certain objectives allows the player to travel between time zones (although some must be unlocked first, by means of completing secondary objectives). 
 
Although the basic method of playing is persistent across time zones, the details of particular awards and objectives are themed towards the current time, for example, you might be awarded with a ray gun in the future, whilst in the present day you might be awarded with a magnet. This provides variety, and helps facilitate a wider set of goals.

Balls of Steel

gravity

removed from gog.com

You’ll flip out over the coolest, fastest, most innovative quicksilver ball-basher in the known universe! Across five savage, fully-animated tables, from the ricochet riot of Firestorm to the intense overload of Duke Nukem, Balls of Steel delivers all the authentic gravitational pyrotechnics of real pinball. View all the tables at once or get close for some whiplash scrolling action! Go gonzo with the 5 ball multi-ball mayhem! Squash scampering aliens to bloody oblivion! Hit rails, flippers, pops, sinkholes, targets, magnetic flippers, ramps, the 'cyclotron' ball accelerator -- every conceivable pinball feature in all its glory! Its authentic pinball action -- whiplash fast and finger-burning good! And hey, if it’s good enough for Duke... then it’s good for you!

Balls of Steel is realistic, first and foremost, with real physics behind the ball movement and table obstacles. Each table behaves like you'd expect it to. On top of that, there are many special effects and table animations. Rock out to event-triggered music, and go wild about characters that speak during the gameplay, to you and to each other. Balls of Steel! More tables! More Duke! More balls!

Flying Corps

Flying Corps is a Simulation game, developed by Rowan Software Ltd. and published by Empire Interactive, which was released in 1997.

3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent

3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent have a Jurassic Park-like scenario. It followed a storyline, in which a plane falls on an island where an evil genius, Heckla, has created dinosaurs of other animals and the cavemen who live there. Professor Spector, his assistant Mary, and adventurer Rex Hunter try to escape back to the modern world, rescue Neeka (a tribal woman), and stop Heckla and his army of robots.

It has no challenges, but features 16 tables, divided in 3 "sectors": Jungle, Temple and Chambers (Heckla's Lab).

Slam Tilt

heavy metal

Amiga

The game features four different tables, each with different layouts and features. A large number of sub-games are included, as well as a variety of animations on the LCD panel at the top.

Pro Pinball: The Web

Sega Saturn

Pinball Wizard 2000

editor

Pinball Wizard 2000 is the successor of Kingsoft's Pinball Wizard for the Amiga. This pinball game features five tables:
- Industrial Revolution
- Hattrick
- Rock'n'Roll Heaven
- Prohibition
- Earth Inferno
- Mystic (bonus table).

Angel Egg

angels

Angel Egg is a digital pinball game developed by LittleWing and released in 1996. The game is themed around biblical angels and eggs.

Pinball Hazard

platform exclusive

Full Tilt! Pinball 2

Full Tilt! 2 Pinball

Pinball 97

Full Tilt! Pinball 2 was released in 1996 and features three new tables: Mad Scientist, Alien Daze and Captain Hero.

Airgrave

modern warfare

shoot 'em up

airplane

modern military

AirGrave is an Action game, developed and published by Santos, which was released in Japan in 1996.

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon

Digital Pinball: The Necronomicon

abstract

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon is a pinball video game created for the Sega Saturn by KaZe in 1996. Only released in Japan, this high-resolution 2D game draws much of its graphical and audio inspiration from the metafictional Necronomicon.

Power Rangers Zeo - Full Tilt Battle Pinball

Earth is under invasion by aliens and the only folks that can stop the madness are the TV heroes known as the Power Rangers. How are they going to do it? Pinball style! You'll find all of the classic pinball bells and whistles here (ramps, spinners, bumpers, targets, flippers, and more), but the action is pure Power Rangers, taking place over five different 3D play fields. Not only that, the game boldly travels to 15 locations around the globe, including New York, Africa, and Japan. Between each level of play, you'll see an awesome animated sequence that advances the storyline to its next phase. Based on what you see in the clips, you'll have to accomplish certain missions in order to advance to the next stage. Though pinball has been around since the early part of the century, it's never been so vast or explosive. The game's makers even worked in such characters as Zeo Zords, King Mondo, and Queen Madrina, just to make things interesting. Whether you're primarily a fan of the Power Rangers, pinball, or PlayStation games, you won't be disappointed.

Pinball Fantasies Deluxe

Pinball Gold Pack

Pinball Fantasies Deluxe is a compilation of two previously released Digital Illusions pinball titles:

- Pinball Fantasies
- Pinball Mania

True Pinball

greatest hits

True Pinball is a pinball simulation that offers four tables rendered in either 2D or 3D views. Features include different music relating to the theme of each table, authentic sound effects and speech, plus up to six balls in play at once.

Pro-Pinball

Pro Pinball: The Web (Pro Pinball in North America) is a pinball simulation video game developed by Cunning Developments for PlayStation, MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Sega Saturn. It is the first game in the Pro Pinball series.

Kirby no Omochabako: Pinball

Kirby's Toy Box - Pinball

kirby

satellaview

broadcast

japan only

Satellaview

This game is a simple game of pinball, where the player has to launch Kirby into the enemies on the stage to earn points. The hero first has to be shot out of a cannon at whatever power level the player chooses. If Kirby falls down the drain three times, the game ends. As with Kirby's Toy Box - Baseball, the game could be played over and over during the brief period it was broadcast, but could not be played after that time, unless it had already been saved onto. Enemies in this game include King Dedede, Mr. Frosty, Kracko, Co-Kracko, Bounder, Waddle Dee, Crack-Tweet, and Elieel.

Like every other sub-game in Kirby's Toy Box, this game could only be downloaded by the Satellaview during the brief period it was broadcast.

3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night

Pinball with a strong horror motif. In the 3-D Ultra Pinball tradition, many of the effects achieved on these tables could not be reproduced on traditional machines. 
There are even cutaways to mini-video games where you can rack up bonus points. 
Tables can be played individually, or all at once in a campaign to beat them.

Grand Slam

Full Tilt! Pinball

space

Full Tilt! Pinball is a pinball video game developed by Cinematronics and published by Maxis in 1995. It featured pre-rendered 3D graphics and three tables: Space Cadet, Skulduggery, and Dragon's Keep. On each table, there were displays on the side which showed the players' score, ball number, player number, a display for various information and a table-specific image.

Cyborgirl Pinball

Cyborgirl is a standalone release of the Cyborgirl pinball table, originally included in the game Epic Pinball.

Pinball Illusions

Pinball Illusions is the successor to the Pinball Fantasies, using an upgraded game engine. The tables are Babewatch, Law & Justice, Extreme Sports and (on PC CD versions) The Vikings. These contain ramps, bonus areas and combo sequences to set up. All the artwork were produced in true 256 colors from the ground up for AGA Amigas and the PC, rather than originating in 32 colors on older Amigas.

New to this version is multiball: Pinball Illusions supports up to six balls simultaneously, in which case it switches to high resolution mode. CD versions use CD audio for music.

Pinball Fantasies

Game Boy

American Battle Dome

American Battle Dome is a Japan-exclusive Pinball-based video game that was released for the Super Famicom in 1995.

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