Pinball Dreams
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| Developer(s) | Digital Illusions CE |
| Publisher(s) | 21st Century Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, PC, SNES, Atari Falcon030,[1] Game Boy, Game Gear |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Pinball |
| Mode(s) | 1-8 players |
Pinball Dreams is a Commodore Amiga game from 1992 developed by Digital Illusions CE. It spawned several sequels, Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Dreams 2, Pinball Illusions, Pinball Mania, Pinball World. Dreams, Fantasies and Illusions are the best known, each having come from the same developer stable: Digital Illusions CE.
Slam Tilt is the very last and advanced Amiga game from the same editor.
The ball moved according to reasonably realistic physics, and the game was restricted to using table elements which would also be possible to build in reality. Sound and music were realized with Module files, with this technology several music tracks could be included on the limited space of floppy discs.[1]
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[edit] Tables
Its four tables each had a theme, as do most real life pinball machines. The version of Pinball Dreams bundled with the Amiga 1200 had a bug which rendered most of Beat Box's advanced features non-functional.
- Ignition, themed around a rocket launch, planets, and space exploration.
- The Expert Software Pinball 2000 port of the game renamed this table Rocket.
- Steel Wheel, themed around steam trains and the Old West.
- Beat Box, themed around the music industry, charts, bands and tours.
- Nightmare, themed around a graveyard, ghosts, demons, nightmares and generally evil things. Unlike the other tables in the game, the name of the table in the menu did not reflect the name displayed on the table itself—Graveyard. Some ports of the game (notably the GameTek port to the Game Boy) name this table "Graveyard" in the menu as well.
[edit] Conversions
- Atari Falcon
- Commodore 64: Currently in the making. A preview was released at the Breakpoint demo party in April 2006.
- Game Gear
- GBA: Under the title Pinball Challenge Deluxe, with tables added from Pinball Fantasies
- GP32: Released in October 2002.
- Super NES: A mostly accurate conversion, including all four tables and near-perfect sound. However, the red "blood" under the top bumper in the Nightmare table has been changed to blue. Crosses were also removed.
- PC: A conversion for MS-DOS based systems
- iPhone/iPod Touch: Released in January 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreaming: Pinball Dreams.
- PSP: Released in November 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo.
- PS3: Released in December 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo.
- iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad: Released in July 2011 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreams HD.
[edit] Sequel
An alternate PC only sequel, Pinball Dreams 2, was released in 1995. It was released by 21st Century Entertainment (like Pinball Dreams) but was developed by Spidersoft. It included four tables, including
- Neptune, themed to underwater exploration
- Safari, themed to an African safari
- Revenge of the Robot Warriors, themed to a battle against robots
- Stall turn, themed to aerobatics
[edit] Reception
Pinball Dreams was overall received positive by press reviews, with some of them noting weaknesses in the physical simulation. Reviews of the Amiga version:
- The One Amiga: 4/92: 89%
- Amiga Action 4/92: 87%
- Amiga Power 4/92: 87%
- Amiga Computing 4/92: 86%
- Amiga Joker 3/92: 86%[2]
- Amiga Format 4/92: 84%
- ASM 4/92: 9 von 12[3]
- Powerplay 4/92: 72%[4]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Pinball Dreams - Atari Falcon" (in englisch). fatal-design.com. 2001. http://fatal-design.com/pinball/. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
- ^ Braun, Peter (1992-03-01). "Pinball Dreams: Flipper ist unser bester Freund!" (in german). Amiga Joker. http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=475. Retrieved 2011-02-07. "Eine der besten Flippersimulationen für den Amiga!"
- ^ Rückert, Lars (1992-04-01). "Pinball Mania" (in german). Aktueller Software Markt. pp. 30. http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=4022. Retrieved 2011-02-07. "Gut."
- ^ Gollert, Knut (1992-04-01). "Pinball Dreams: Flipperträume" (in deutsch). PowerPlay. pp. 104. http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=3214. Retrieved 2011-02-07. "Naja."
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