MICROSOFT PINBALL ARCADE FOR WINDOWS 10 PRO

This is a rather old game and features some classic real tables so I thought that it would be fun to go back and see how virtual pinball was back in the late 90s. So yeah, I suddenly recalled how this game pissed me off, that what I really wanted to play was Whirlwind, and I went and did an internet search that eventually landed me at where I found nirvana for a while.I have played a ton of virtual pinball games over the years and Microsoft Pinball Arcade is one of the more forgotten ones out there. There are shots off to the side down low that were impossible to aim for. Sometimes the ball will actually change direction slightly mid playfield! The flipper physics are basically good for about 30 degrees up the middle. This is the poster child for floaty balls.

It was because of this stupid program I went on the hunt for other pinball and discovered VP. Next I loaded up Cue Ball, and everything came flooding back to me. This has a lower playfield much like Black Hole, but the way they rendered it, it's horribly distracting. I really hope I didn't pay much for this! So I load up Haunted House (cause the first five hold zero interest to me) and right away my love for FarSight has grown exponentially. Starting to remember why it's been sitting in a drawer uninstalled. On the cover of the cd it says 'seven tables that made pinball history' but other than that, nothing telling what tables they speak of.Īfter install, I realize it's all Gotlieb tables. I vaguely remembered owning this, so I through it in and installed it. So I was digging around my old cd rom games and came across Microsoft Pinball Arcade which was published by Atari. The 'other' Pinball Arcade that Atari put out

MICROSOFT PINBALL ARCADE FOR WINDOWS 10 PRO

I wish there was a collection of EMs with physics as good as Pro Pinball. I was hoping for some EMs in Pinball Arcade since the physics are very well done and I would like to play simulated EMs with well done physics. I was hoping Microsoft's Pinball Arcade had decent physics since Future Pinball's physics aren't perfect. I also want to play the EMs with better physics, especially since Gottlieb PHoF's aren't nearly as good as those in Farsight's Pinball Arcade. Anyway, ipdb has a good list of top EMs, so I think there is no good reason why they shouldn't be included. It's also disappointing that Big Shot was the only one announced when Sure Shot exists (which seems to be better, from what I tried). There a tons of great EMs out there, but Farsights collections haven't even touched the best ones, so it's extremely disappointing to see them being treated with the same lack of care here. There were a couple good EMs in the Gottlieb collection, but the Williams Collection only had one mediocore EM.

I find this especially frustrating becuase I feel that EMs are a very important part of pinball and I think the lack of ROM emulation is a silly reason to pass them up, especially since it should make them less demanding in some ways. I would probably be playing them more than Humpty Dumpty or Baffle Ball (which I think is PM rather than EM).įarsight mentioned that they wanted to focus mainly on ROM emulation and that there are no EM tables planned within the next year or so. Actually, the main EMs on it I'm interested in are Slick Chick and Spirit of 76. I mentioned the SS tables by name becuase there are only two of them. By 'It has some EM tables I'm interested in playing, as well as Haunted House and Cue Ball Wizard.', I meant 'It has some EM tables I'm interested in playing, as well as a couple SS tables'.

Microsoft pinball arcade for windows 10