IceHockeyJason said:
I bought a package called Ultimate Pro Pinball which contains Timeshock,
Big
Race USA and Fantastic Journey for $19.99 at Gamestop. These games perform
100% better on Vista then they did on XP. No flippers getting stuck or
anything.
Also, EGames has an excellent pinball game called Pure Pinball Reloaded
which plays very nice if you have a decent enough 3D Accelerator.
Valusoft has Ultimate Pinball Gold and Ultimate Pinball Extreme, pinball
tables created using WildFire's Balls of Steel pinball Engine.
3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride works on Vista.
Trygames,com has a game called Powershot Pinball which was pretty fun and
different from the other kinds of pinball games.
Finally , for a freebie , do a search for Dream Pinball 3D and download a
freebie non -expiring version of the Two Worlds Pinball Table.
Hope this helps some!
Gonna start calling you PBW Jason (Pinball Wizard), I'm gonna check out some
of those titles, you got me itchin damn it.
I thought of one other option, There's a version of MAME (Multiple Arcade
Machine Emulator) that emulates Pinball Machine ROMs (Try Googling PinMAME).
Now of course you think, well what's the point in that? It's not like we
have the physical machine to run the emulator on. Well there's another
program that you run on top of the emulator that emulates the pinball field,
with the 2 combined it's like Voltron, you can play just about any "real"
pinball table right on your PC.
This was ages ago that I ran this for a short time, but I got some great
tables going like Adams Family, Dr. Dude, Whirlwind, Black Knight 2K,
Haunted House, Fireball, Phantom of the Opera, Nightmare on Elm St., etc.
Not the best pinball emulator, but the sounds and seeing those classics
brought tears to my eyes. If I had $5k to blow I'd buy a couple old pinball
tables and restore them. Very cool, just too expensive, espically the
classic tables.
-A. "geekin way too hard for 4pm on a Wednesday"
