I love both Zen Pinball and Pinball Arcade. Pinball Arcade feels more like the real thing (which is great in what its trying to accomplish with simulation), but Zen Pinball is more entertaining with better physics, graphics, and sound. Pinball Arcade- I hope I will see every table ever released by those listed distributors. I WANT TO EVENTUALLY SEE MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET UNLOCKABLE TABLE!!! (play nightmare on elm street theme music)
What other tables are they planning on releasing? I don't know much about pinball though I love playing it, are they going to have any tables based on other properties, like the South Park one or the Super Mario World one, stuff like that? They may not be pinball classics or anything, not that I would know if one was or wasn't, but they're a lot of fun regardless.
All the tables planned for Pinball Arcade are tables that actually existed in arcades over the past four or five decades. I'm not sure how far they'll go back, but I personally really enjoyed Jive Time in PHOF Williams collection...
I'm not associated with Farsight but I gather a couple of things from having followed their series of pinball games: 1) All of these tables will be accurately based on REAL WORLD tables. There was a South Park table as I recall but am not sure if it was considered all of that great or not. 2) What they charge for each table will be based largely (I believe) on licensing costs. I can only imagine if a table either costs way too much to get the rights to, or sadder, they are unable to get the rights to some tables, we'll probably never see them in the series.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Zen Pinball most definitely doesn't have better physics. They are far inferior to Pinball Arcade. Have you ever played a real pinball table? The flippers have proper inertia. The ball has proper bounce. The various materials have a proper elasticity and causes the ball to bounce as well. None of these factors are in Zen Pinball. I'm not bashing Zen as I think they have decent games but I'm not going to let an inaccurate statement go without some criticism. It isn't even subjective in this case.. I'm fairly sure one could make some empirical tests and measure how the ball behaves and come to the same conclusion but I'll just trust my more than 20 years of real pinball playing experience.
Thanks for describing this fantastic pinball. I used to play it here in Germany 30 years ago and it was one of my absoulte favourites.There were so many ways ,specials,to get free games.The gameplay and the artwork are fantastic.Nice to see other people sharing the same passion.
The latter hasn't been mentioned, but Attack From Mars is definitely on the list. Here's the announced upcoming DLC:
The texture issues are odd. It almost feels like something went weird in the rendering or a bug or something. Like, in the Theatre of Magic table, two of the lights toward the bottom have very clear text while the ones in a row just above them are illegible. And many don't just look blurry, they're jagged like poor scaling. Odd. Aside from the Predator balls (most a problem on Ripleys), I think these are pretty great. Black Hole is a wonderful table, as always, as is Arabian Nights. I'll look forward to more. And yeah, I'd love to see the Elm Street table if licensing allows.
Stargate! One of the few good Premier/Gottleib games. I want that. Freddy isn't too bad either. There's so many games we need, not the least of which is Addams Family and Addams Family Gold. I want both of those. The ball is probably the weakest part of this game. On an iPad 2 with the fancy reflections it looks strange. On iPhone 4 without that it looks dull, like a ball that has never been changed out in years. They need to take those things out and put in some new ones. LOL.
Just for the completeness' sake: Landscape view can be obtained by tilting the device in the table choice menu screen, in the table's menu screen with the second "Start" button—but not later (not during gameplay as in other iOS pinball games). Works on iPhone and iPad. Here you have screenshots of the tables Black Hole and Ripley's in landscape orientation. You can choose between three "Cam Angles: Medium (1), High (2) and Low (3)" with a fixed camera or scrolling (up and down with some special events) camera movement (those options are available at any time and in both landscape and portrait orientation). Click image for full iPad 2 pixel resolution. Built-in puzzle: Find all orbs. (There is ONE ball in each image.)
You can switch to landscape (or vice versa) at any time other than after you actually start the game. So not just the game selection screen, but the screen for a particular game as well, just before you actually start playing.
By the way, I really appreciate that this game has a count down before continuing from pause. Wish more games did that.
I want Adam's Family and Funhouse badly! When can we expect new tables and what are they gonna be? Will probably get 'em all! Love it! Keep up the good work!
They need to add HDMI output support to this. Then I just need to find an empty cabinet and mount a monitor in it .....
Medieval Madness® Funhouse® Attack from Mars® Pin•Bot® Circus Voltaire® HUGE fans of these pins. Medieval Madness is probably the most engaging pin of all time. About PinBot: When I was being babysat at someone else's house after school I played PinBot for hours on the NES nearly every time! I loved how that version turned your ball into other shapes and you had to attack moving objects on the board. Pretty much only that and Metroid Pinball were the only non-simulation pinball titles I liked. Just throwing my hat in the ring on comments some other titles I don't know of being announced yet: WOULD LOVE Junkyard Addams Family (Gold, preferred -- good luck getting a real pin to work from) The Getaway: High Speed II (my most played pin in college) Gilligan's Island (played this every time as a kid at a local pizza joint my family went to at least twice a month) The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (man that center ramp is a pita lol) NBA Fastbreak (sadly you'll never afford this one) The Simpsons (NOT Pinball Party) White Water Super Mario Brothers Mushroom World The Champion Pub Star Trek: The Next Generation Not really interested in (but could likely be considered due to popularity): LOTR and Indiana Jones are two tables I probably wouldn't buy because I just could not get into the table. They both seemed to have too many situations where the table was specifically designed to screw you (perfect angle to drop the ball down the center). Twilight Zone just wasn't very interesting to me but hey, it's #1 on http://www.ipdb.org so it's probably coming.
It's not an inaccurate statement at all. Not all people prefer one thing over another. Someone can say Final Fantasy 6 is best in the series, while other people will dispute it. And like I have stated, Pinball Arcade feels more like the real thing. And yes, I have played Pinball machines in the arcades, I lived for more than a half of the pinball lifespan. Pinball Arcade physics are accurate (sluggish, in a sense, but accurate). I just prefer the physics of Zen Pinball.
