Vista - Pinball

Does anybody know where I can get a real proper pinball game for my PC.
either to buy or download. And I'm not talking about rubbish like Pinball
Master 3D. Thank you

Do a search for "ProPinball" on google, they have some original tables that
look incredible. These are older games, not sure what they released
recently, but I loaded "Time Shock" into Vista Ultimate 32 and it ran no
problems. So detailed you can see the pinball roll/spin, etc.

-a.

"Andlie Coll" <AndlieColl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E696D0DE-6B90-42B4-81CE-1B01F91E3A9A@microsoft.com...
> Does anybody know where I can get a real proper pinball game for my PC.
> either to buy or download. And I'm not talking about rubbish like Pinball
> Master 3D. Thank you
>
>

Thanks Andy much appreciated
"Andy" wrote:

> Do a search for "ProPinball" on google, they have some original tables that
> look incredible. These are older games, not sure what they released
> recently, but I loaded "Time Shock" into Vista Ultimate 32 and it ran no
> problems. So detailed you can see the pinball roll/spin, etc.
>
> -a.
>
> "Andlie Coll" <AndlieColl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E696D0DE-6B90-42B4-81CE-1B01F91E3A9A@microsoft.com...
> > Does anybody know where I can get a real proper pinball game for my PC.
> > either to buy or download. And I'm not talking about rubbish like Pinball
> > Master 3D. Thank you
> >
> >
>

I bought a package called Ultimate Pro Pinball which contains Timeshock, Big
Race USA and Fantastic Journey for $19.99 at Gamestop. These games perform
100% better on Vista then they did on XP. No flippers getting stuck or
anything.

Also, EGames has an excellent pinball game called Pure Pinball Reloaded
which plays very nice if you have a decent enough 3D Accelerator.

Valusoft has Ultimate Pinball Gold and Ultimate Pinball Extreme, pinball
tables created using WildFire's Balls of Steel pinball Engine.

3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride works on Vista.

Trygames,com has a game called Powershot Pinball which was pretty fun and
different from the other kinds of pinball games.

Finally , for a freebie , do a search for Dream Pinball 3D and download a
freebie non -expiring version of the Two Worlds Pinball Table.

Hope this helps some!

"Andy" wrote:

> Do a search for "ProPinball" on google, they have some original tables that
> look incredible. These are older games, not sure what they released
> recently, but I loaded "Time Shock" into Vista Ultimate 32 and it ran no
> problems. So detailed you can see the pinball roll/spin, etc.
>
> -a.
>
> "Andlie Coll" <AndlieColl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E696D0DE-6B90-42B4-81CE-1B01F91E3A9A@microsoft.com...
> > Does anybody know where I can get a real proper pinball game for my PC.
> > either to buy or download. And I'm not talking about rubbish like Pinball
> > Master 3D. Thank you
> >
> >
>

"IceHockeyJason" <IceHockeyJason@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:611AB7AA-92A1-44A7-AE69-678B3F662437@microsoft.com...
>I bought a package called Ultimate Pro Pinball which contains Timeshock,
>Big
> Race USA and Fantastic Journey for $19.99 at Gamestop. These games perform
> 100% better on Vista then they did on XP. No flippers getting stuck or
> anything.
>
> Also, EGames has an excellent pinball game called Pure Pinball Reloaded
> which plays very nice if you have a decent enough 3D Accelerator.
>
> Valusoft has Ultimate Pinball Gold and Ultimate Pinball Extreme, pinball
> tables created using WildFire's Balls of Steel pinball Engine.
>
> 3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride works on Vista.
>
> Trygames,com has a game called Powershot Pinball which was pretty fun and
> different from the other kinds of pinball games.
>
> Finally , for a freebie , do a search for Dream Pinball 3D and download a
> freebie non -expiring version of the Two Worlds Pinball Table.
>
> Hope this helps some!

Gonna start calling you PBW Jason (Pinball Wizard), I'm gonna check out some
of those titles, you got me itchin damn it.

I thought of one other option, There's a version of MAME (Multiple Arcade
Machine Emulator) that emulates Pinball Machine ROMs (Try Googling PinMAME).
Now of course you think, well what's the point in that? It's not like we
have the physical machine to run the emulator on. Well there's another
program that you run on top of the emulator that emulates the pinball field,
with the 2 combined it's like Voltron, you can play just about any "real"
pinball table right on your PC.

This was ages ago that I ran this for a short time, but I got some great
tables going like Adams Family, Dr. Dude, Whirlwind, Black Knight 2K,
Haunted House, Fireball, Phantom of the Opera, Nightmare on Elm St., etc.
Not the best pinball emulator, but the sounds and seeing those classics
brought tears to my eyes. If I had $5k to blow I'd buy a couple old pinball
tables and restore them. Very cool, just too expensive, espically the
classic tables.

-A. "geekin way too hard for 4pm on a Wednesday"

Thanks very much guys for all your help & suggestions. I did buy Timeshock
(circa 1997) yesterday and whilst it is a vast improvement on my earlier
attempts to find a decent game...it's still not quite what I'm looking for.
The reason being and your gonna love this.. about 8yrs ago I bought a 2nd
hand PC and it already had an awesome game installed with it. Now here's the
beauty part of it.. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called
but it had two tables.. one featured a mad scientist (mixing potions etc for
power-ups) and the second featured some cartoon type superheroes which when
activated would appear as 3d images within the gameplay.
Thanks again all.
"Andy" wrote:

> "IceHockeyJason" <IceHockeyJason@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:611AB7AA-92A1-44A7-AE69-678B3F662437@microsoft.com...
> >I bought a package called Ultimate Pro Pinball which contains Timeshock,
> >Big
> > Race USA and Fantastic Journey for $19.99 at Gamestop. These games perform
> > 100% better on Vista then they did on XP. No flippers getting stuck or
> > anything.
> >
> > Also, EGames has an excellent pinball game called Pure Pinball Reloaded
> > which plays very nice if you have a decent enough 3D Accelerator.
> >
> > Valusoft has Ultimate Pinball Gold and Ultimate Pinball Extreme, pinball
> > tables created using WildFire's Balls of Steel pinball Engine.
> >
> > 3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride works on Vista.
> >
> > Trygames,com has a game called Powershot Pinball which was pretty fun and
> > different from the other kinds of pinball games.
> >
> > Finally , for a freebie , do a search for Dream Pinball 3D and download a
> > freebie non -expiring version of the Two Worlds Pinball Table.
> >
> > Hope this helps some!
>
> Gonna start calling you PBW Jason (Pinball Wizard), I'm gonna check out some
> of those titles, you got me itchin damn it.
>
> I thought of one other option, There's a version of MAME (Multiple Arcade
> Machine Emulator) that emulates Pinball Machine ROMs (Try Googling PinMAME).
> Now of course you think, well what's the point in that? It's not like we
> have the physical machine to run the emulator on. Well there's another
> program that you run on top of the emulator that emulates the pinball field,
> with the 2 combined it's like Voltron, you can play just about any "real"
> pinball table right on your PC.
>
> This was ages ago that I ran this for a short time, but I got some great
> tables going like Adams Family, Dr. Dude, Whirlwind, Black Knight 2K,
> Haunted House, Fireball, Phantom of the Opera, Nightmare on Elm St., etc.
> Not the best pinball emulator, but the sounds and seeing those classics
> brought tears to my eyes. If I had $5k to blow I'd buy a couple old pinball
> tables and restore them. Very cool, just too expensive, espically the
> classic tables.
>
> -A. "geekin way too hard for 4pm on a Wednesday"
>
>