Those who think PHOF is bad - take a look at this!

[Nik Barbour]

HAL developed both Kirby Pinball Land and Revenge of the Gator for the Game Boy, so they're kind of related.

Been playing both Kirby pinball, and gyruss tonight.

Kirby's great, but man gyruss is addictive (lost an hour and a half just now).
Never played either before!
Thanks for the tips guys!

 

[Baintz]

I've got that beat OP, this was my introduction to video game pinball, aged about 7. Pinball for the BBC Micro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JKPXpNPlms

At the time I thought it was a fanatastic game. Oh how times have changed...

 

[Fungi]

Wow, look at that gap between the flippers. It's like the current TPA Medievel Madness.

 

[Brian Clark]

That game looks bad, even for 1983. I haven't played BBC micro pinball, but, telling from videos, it doesn't look like it's even close to the quality of David's Midnight Magic, Night Mission Pinball, Intellivision Pinball (these are from 1983), and arcade Video Pinball (late 70s).

 

[c-dub]

When I was a nipper, I had this alternative version of pinball on the BBC Micro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFYP0BvR-M

Spent hours unsuccessfully attempting to construct tables where it was impossible to drain the ball. Needless to say, I didn't get into pinball until much later, when I encountered real live tables in the wild.

 

[Richard B]

That game looks bad, even for 1983. I haven't played BBC micro pinball, but, telling from videos, it doesn't look like it's even close to the quality of David's Midnight Magic, Night Mission Pinball, Intellivision Pinball (these are from 1983), and arcade Video Pinball (late 70s).

That's right, it looks terrible. I used to play Night Mission on my Atari 800. It used the computer itself for sound (like the Apple IIs) allowing it to sound better than it could have otherwise. On this micro pinball page, there are links to other BBC games. Check out Mr. EE, and see if it reminds you of another classic game.

 

[Brian Clark]

That's right, it looks terrible. I used to play Night Mission on my Atari 800. It used the computer itself for sound (like the Apple IIs) allowing it to sound better than it could have otherwise. On this micro pinball page, there are links to other BBC games. Check out Mr. EE, and see if it reminds you of another classic game.

I saw videos of Mr. EE. Looks like a very well done Mr. Do clone.

 

[Matt McIrvin]

In my youth I spent way too much time playing Video Pinball on the Atari 2600, a game that bore very little resemblance to actual pinball:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Videopinball_2600.png

There was no slope at the bottom of the screen, so the ball would spend a lot of time just bouncing around down there. You could use the difficulty switches to add two tiny drain holes at the bottom, but there were no outlanes leading to them.

Later, Atari put out a 2600 pinball game called Midnight Magic (the table layout was nothing like David's Midnight Magic, but I think it was a licensed port). That was actually pretty good, but I didn't encounter it until recently in emulation.

 

[Jay]

That's right, it looks terrible. I used to play Night Mission on my Atari 800. It used the computer itself for sound (like the Apple IIs) allowing it to sound better than it could have otherwise.

Night Mission! That was the first digital pinball I ever played in glorious black-and-white. I remember my excitement when I finally got a 16-color monitor. I liked how configurable NM was, with two full pages of settings. That might be an interesting table to bring into the 3D world.

 

[Sinistar]

I had Pinbot NES , loved it ,(but seeing it again removes the illusion of how good I thought it looked ) I have an old PC Windows 98 game by Fox , SCiFi Pinball featuring tables for Aliens , Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Predator , it does not seem to work on Win 7 , so I will try it on my Windows XP partition. NONE of these old games compare to Pinball Arcade on my Vita or Ps3. I just remembered this pinball sim I had on my Super Nintendo , Jaki Crush was a lesser known sequel to Turbo G 16's Devil Crush and Alien Crush games.
and on that subject : the Playstation US store has both DEVIL and ALIEN Crush for $6.99 a piece

 

[Rooter]

I loved this game growing up. This is the game that got me to like pinball in the first place.

 

[Nik Barbour]

I remember someone at primary school having one of these....

Man, this sucked even by 80's standards.
Still have my Donkey Kong Dual Screen though (first video game I ever bought)!

 

[Dumpstar]

I had a few of these growing up. All pretty rubbish.

 

[Huffster]

Here a collection of videos of what I started with back in the day:

How about this for my first ever video pinball experience:
Atari 2600 pinball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEuNpdB_3E0

Apple II Night Mission pinball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSCVSuxJ0qE

Apple II David's Midnight Magic(Based on Black Knight):
That's right, I should make a comparison video with TPA's version for laughs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1a9Y55NJy0

Apple II Pinball Construction set (AN EA Title!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygfPWkiR18