DICE’s first game was built by five friends from the Amiga demo group The Silents in their spare time. What started out as a demo idea soon became a full-fledged pinball simulation published by 21st Century Entertainment with the Amiga as the primary platform. Pinball Dreams captivated gamers and quickly became a cult hit.
See an entire pinball arcade with flashing lights, full digital sound effects and challenging playing fields materialise before your eyes.
The robotic Cyber combines fast action with a complicating factor. Try to launch the ball from the magnet for higher scores.
Enter the world of World War I in Dog Fight. Your mission is to shoot down Fokkers and other planes as you traverse the war torn countryside. Your flippers have gas tanks in them, so don’t use them carelessly!
Spring Break is filled with beach babes, surfer dudes and major wave action. Try to spell the words “spring break” by hitting the beach balls. Once you do, take a trip into the local cafe for bonus scores.
Meltdown is totally nuclear!
Tristan is the first digital pinball game made by Japanese developer LittleWing, released in 1991. It has a light fantasy theme (dragons, swords, etc.).
A sci-fi themed pinball game on the TurboGrafx-16. The pinball can activate time machines which sends it to bonus tables in different time zones.
Time Cruise is a pinball game from FACE with a sci-fi theme and multiple tables. Unlike most pinball games with extended play zones, these tables are to the left and right of the core table, and the pinball can switch between them by passing through connecting tunnels. In addition, the player can power up time machines by hitting several levers with the pinball. Entering a time machine takes the pinball to a number of different time zones, each providing a possible score boost or extra ball.
The hottest pinball game ever has been converted to video! All the action and excitement of the original HIGH SPEED is here - Freeway Frenzy, Ramp Race and Running the Red - plus excellent new features like Lightning Bombs and attacking enemies! It's a real-life adventure. The screen flashes and a siren shrieks when you run the red light! Police car radio messages and original chase music both add to the thrills. Go for the burn - grab the jackpot and get away at HIGH SPEED!
Pinball Magic is an early pinball game by French company Loriciel.
In a nice twist to regular pinball tables, here you have to clear tables by activating all letters, which opens the exit to the next table.
Pinball Jam is a Lynx conversion of two pinball tables: "Elvira and the Party Monsters" (Midway, 1989), and "Police Force" (Williams, 1989). Both feature authentic table layouts, targets, and bonuses; the conversion of Elvira and the Party Monsters also features digitized sound effects, including the voice of Cassandra Peterson (Elvira).
Each table scrolls up and down during gameplay (as opposed to just "snapping" to a new area as the ball reaches it).
Hero Shuugou!! Pinball Party is a pinball game released for the Nintendo Game Boy. The player control the plunger and flippers from a pinball machine to handle the ball and aim for the highest score. There are two main modes, one featured in a 3-tier simple table and another featured in a more complex 3-tier table with different substages.
Enchanted is a Pinball game in which a magician must travel through his space-time ship to different worlds to prevent them from being destroyed by an evil entity that threatened the entire galaxy. With this argument, the player must visit these worlds through different boards, obtaining, of course, the highest score
Nostalgic pinball is back with some very modern concepts! Enjoy seven different games with six different characters such as Twister Tom for Pinball, Rock'n' Roller Billy for Sports Pinball, and more! Team up with your favorite Rock'n' Ball character and reach for higher and higher scores! Pinball is famous in video game history. Challenge your skills against Rock'n' Ball's brand new twists on this popular game!
A pinball video game with an isometric view. Published by Mastertronic, programmed by Steve Walters, with the Amstrad CPC conversion by Bernardin Katic of Activemagic.
While commerically released as 3-D Pinball, it is also referred to as Pinball Power in-game, across all versions.
At the beginning of the game the player is given an incomplete mahjong hand with one missing tile. They are then shown the tile that will complete their hand and locating that tile is the goal of the pinball game. When the tile is found the game ends immediately. The players now completed hand will determine their final score as their score from pinball will be multiplied by the strength of their hand.
It features racing and sci-fi themed tables among others.
Swiss developed Arkanoid style game, with a prehistoric theme. Play is for one or two players simultaneously (including a battle-mode), and options are available for mouse and joystick controls. A comprehensive level editor is also included. The players’ bat here is made out to look like a bone, and the ball is a spherical stone. Level backdrops are randomised pixel-painted scenes featuring different types of Dinosaurs. The bricks to knock out sometimes contain pickups to collect, such as a laser gun, an automatic CPU controlled bat navigation mode, extra life, slow-ball etc. A pickup is immediately activated upon collection, but subsequent ones collected are not if one is active, and clicking the right mouse button will cancel out the current effect for the last pickup collected. A bonus coconut game can be enabled from the main menu, which in turn lets you play this sub-game at predefined intervals during the course of standard play, where you control a caveman holding a pan, and the object is to catch coconuts
Released in 1987, this Spanish pinball game was developed and published by Omikron. Outside the review (and a page ad) on Issue 42 of MSX Extra, listing on MSX Games World and a post on Instagram by MSX Calamar, not much is known about this obscure game.