Decided to open my Amiga emulator and play one of my favorites from my teenage years. If you’ve never played this game, you’ll be surprised when you do. 4 tables. It feels surprisingly realistic. The ball moves like on a real pinball table. The music is very late 80s early 90s, of course!

    • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That was my favorite Windows game that came with the OS. I wonder why they removed it? Is it because they wanted to sell it as Full Tilt?

      • beforan@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago

        It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it once that was a mainstream option (Vista onwards).

        I think it’s been fixed or recreated now though?

        Full Tilt! was first published in 1995, comfortably before the inclusion of the Space Cadet table in Windows, which iirc was either '98 or Plus! for '95. I’m confident it wasn’t in any of the vanilla releases of Win 95.

        • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          OK, I wasn’t clear on that. So, Full Tilt! was available before the pinball game was included with Windows. How much work would it have taken Microsoft to adapt their pinball game to 64 bit machines? I mean, come on, what kind of excuse is that? They updated Solitaire and added word games. Silly Microsoft.

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Dreams, Illusions and Fantasies, Three awesome pinball games. I was very jealous of my Amiga friend because of these games. I think I got one of them on my PC because I remember playing a Haunted House table when I was supposed to leave and meet friends. I was an hour late because I was having such a good run, I didn’t want to quit the table mid game!

  • Iunnrais@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Anyone remember a pinball game for windows that had three tables and I think the ball could swap between them during play, and the theme was building a space colony on mars or some other planet? Sorry my description is vague, but I was like 8 years old when I played it. I definitely remember that the tables were wider than they were tall, unusual for a pinball game, as it was designed for the computer screen not an arcade.

    • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’m reading your description and I want to remember this. It sounds like fun. Maybe I played it and I don’t remember? That would make me feel so old. Good thing I drink and smoke to forget.

  • taurentipper@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Never had an Amiga, went from C64 to a 486 something. Could you post a screenshot of one of the tables if its not much trouble?

    • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I’ve come back here because other people replied. I’m sorry I didn’t answer you with a screenshot. You can find screenshots of the game, though, really easy, just do an image search on your favorite search engine. Trust me, this game has been written about online since dial up internet days, which is what you needed to connect an Amiga to the internet back then. Fun fact: the first porno animated gifs downloaded from the internet were probably created and downloaded to Amigas! So, you can easily find these screenshots yourself. If I get around to playing the game again, I’ll try to remember to screenshot something if somehow you can’t find what you’re looking for. Not sure what you’re looking for.