Rating: 
Summary: An interesting collection.
Review: This collection is recommended only for true pinball nuts and people experienced in tweaking their computers to get games running. This collection is from various different makers, and thus each set of games installs differently. Most run okay in Windows, but some seem to prefer DOS. My least favorites of the bunch are from 21st Century. They have 2D scrolling tables, which make for disorienting gameplay.
However, there are som real gems here too. The ten or so tables from Redoubt Software are as good as anything I've seen lately, and are in full 3D. It's well worth the money just to be able to try the tables from Redoubt. Great sound effects and even video clips abound.
Redoubt is also responsible for the excellent "Williams Pinball Classics", which was just recently released.
Rating: 
Summary: a major disappointment
Review: This is a very low quality collection of pinball games. I have a top-of-the-line computer (1.2 GHz cpu, 256 M ram, etc) and some of these games, each with its own installation program, had trouble installing and running. Some froze up my machine to the point I had to power cycle. The games seem to be a collection of several independently-developed pinball games from different companies, thrown together on a set of 3 or 4 CDs, each with different setup routines and user interfaces. Get one game figured out and you have no assurance that you'll know how to run the next one (assuming it will run!). Only one of the games, "Creep Night" by Sierra, was worth keeping on my machine, but even it isn't up to their usual standard of quality in terms of graphics and game play, and it also has locked up my machine once or twice. If you see this product in the store, don't be fooled by the fancy box! After 30 minutes I wished I had my money back.
Rating:
Summary: Terrible Pinball games!
Review: This set of pinball games is terrible. The flippers are sluggish, the graphics are dark and hard to see. The 3D effect of the tables is poor, and makes play confusing. The box claims 27 tables, but there are not 27 DIFFERENT tables - there seem to be about 15 different tables, and the rest are just duplicate tables on another CD. If you like the graphics and feel and play of the Space Cadet pinball table that comes with Windows, don't buy this. It's not even close.
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