Rating: 
Summary: Sweet
Review: This game is great. Good graphics. Just like a real pinball machine. Fun to play. I enjoy playing this game. The handling is awsome. Cool tables to play on. I've heard people think this game is the best pinball game ever to be made. I hope that when you buy it you have just as much fun as I had.
Rating: 
Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: This is by far one of if not the best pinball games out there. I know. I wasted plenty of money on many others......Fantastic, Real Tables from yesteryear. When you play some of the olds ones......like knockout and slick chick....they can seem rather difficult and not much to hit. But if you learn how to use your nudge buttons they can be FANTASTIC. And you can set the nudge buttons for CAPS LOCK AND ENTER which make them much easier to use. Def have to use nudge on KNOCKOUT, because to big a gap at bottom. But its a challenge to keep it in play.....after the bar goes down at the bottom learn to try to put the ball in the side holes with your flippers...The ball doesnt move too fast or slow...maybe a little on the slower side but remember this game is and oldie. You can make some shots and control it which you need with this type of table.......Slick chick is great also with lots of targets and plenty of bumpers....I grew up playing the 70's and 80's tables, but i think these are terrific if you put some effort and use your nudge buttons........CUE BALL WIZARD....Love the sound track. They may overdue the saying " Get the ball up the ramp" but still think it is dynamite. I found as i went along to do more bank shots to the back and you score extra balls and games. Also love it when it says " Hurry get the 9-ball" for half a billion.......Microsoft has done a great job....great tables views as if you were standing at the table, unlike most CD PINBALL GAMES I'VE SEEN. Well worth the money.....I would have paid a 100 dollars for it if i had too. I'm just hoping they eventually put out some more......Microsoft are you listening....LOL. BUY IT. If you like PINBALL YOU WILL LOVE IT..........
Rating: 
Summary: Not bad for what it is, but...
Review: This isn't a bad pinball package at all, but it's definitely not the best available (for that, refer to the Pro Pinball series). The games are faithfully rendered on-screen, and look and sound just like the originals. The gameplay itself, on the other hand, can be a bit choppy in places compared to the Pro Pinball engine. Cue Ball Wizard, in particular, is very difficult to play -- the sharp angle at which you view the table doesn't help. (If only they'd allowed you to view the tables from different angles...) The earlier games provide a nifty sense of history for the pinball genre -- but are often not that much fun to play. The novelty may wear off relatively quickly for those used to today's tables. Well worth a look -- and...it's not a bad value just for the nostalgia factor. If you want a great game as well as a history lesson, however, look to the Pro Pinball games.
Rating:
Summary: Microsoft Pinball Arcade
Review: To love this game, your giving up your age. So be it! A fun
trip down memory lane. If you loved the older, slower e.m.
games this is a must have. Great fun. Thanks Bill
Rating:
Summary: Microsoft Pinball Arcade
Review: To love this game, your giving up your age. So be it! A fun
trip down memory lane. If you loved the older, slower e.m.
games this is a must have. Great fun. Thanks Bill
Rating:
Summary: Just Like I Rembered It
Review: When I was a kid, my Dad bought my brother a slightly used pinball machine for us to play. Who would have known "Humpty Dumpty" would be a classic? Starting from age 6 through high school I logged literally thousands of hours playing Humpty Dumpty. So I would consider myself somewhat of an expert on the look and feel of playing that game. Microsoft nailed it right down to the sound of the buzzers and how the balls behave (including being able to sneak the ball backwards up one of the chutes just like the real thing). It is spooky. OK. Its annoying that I can't nudge the way I want to, I keep trying to push on my keyboard. Instead you nudge with keys. But I've been able to tilt the game pretty much the way I used to :-) For a real pinball wizards this might not be the real thing, but it sure feels close to me. And I have a lot of fun playing it.
Rating:
Summary: Just Like I Rembered It
Review: When I was a kid, my Dad bought my brother a slightly used pinball machine for us to play. Who would have known "Humpty Dumpty" would be a classic? Starting from age 6 through high school I logged literally thousands of hours playing Humpty Dumpty. So I would consider myself somewhat of an expert on the look and feel of playing that game. Microsoft nailed it right down to the sound of the buzzers and how the balls behave (including being able to sneak the ball backwards up one of the chutes just like the real thing). It is spooky. OK. Its annoying that I can't nudge the way I want to, I keep trying to push on my keyboard. Instead you nudge with keys. But I've been able to tilt the game pretty much the way I used to :-) For a real pinball wizards this might not be the real thing, but it sure feels close to me. And I have a lot of fun playing it.
Rating:
Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: You would think being able to play on a 1931 pinball table would be pretty cool, wouldn't you? Well, in Microsoft's Pinball Arcade it proves to be pretty bad. None of the pinball tables are really that great. The 1931 pinball table, "Baffle Ball", is certainly baffleing to us, with no real guide as to how to play it, you only can guess on what to do, and the best way to go about scoreing points. Game critics tend to say that the best feature about Pinball Arcade is the sound, and I'll have to agree with them on that, but thats not saying much considering the ball physics of Pinball Arcade are frustrating and unrealistic, and the designs of the tables are unimaginative. All in all, the tables are either too easy, or because of the lack of realism, very difficult. It almost put me to sleep the first few times I played it. The ball drifting around the table makes me sleepy just thinking about it. Buy Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey, it's much much better. Leader...
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