Pinball Video Games in the Twentieth Century

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  @chazmaru9583 · 2 years ago

  Great video. For those wondering, the last game shown is <i>Kyūtenkai: Fantasic Pinball</i> for the Saturn &amp; PlayStation.

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• MA

  @MapleMilk · 2 years ago

  God, I love this channel so much<br>This is the EXACT video that appeals SPECIFICALLY TO ME<br><br><br>The only thing that would appeal to me more is a 3 hour long video essay about Vending Machines<br><br>Thank you, Strange Stranger

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• TE

  @TearyEyesAndersonReacts · 2 years ago

  The first video pinball games were Flipper Pinball {I} and &quot;Flipper Pinball {II}, on the 1977 &quot;Video Pinball&quot; by Atari a multigame system with 7 games. There is basically a bent line, and then you push the button, and a straight line appears, that the ball bounces off. While there were other &quot;Pong&quot; style games on the system, these two only had the flipper style elements. Rather than the sliding bar. The system came with button on either side for the &quot;Flapper&quot; games. AcadeUSA has a pretty good video about the system and its games &quot;Atari C380 Home Video Pinball Console&quot;. The &quot;Flapper I&quot; game features bumpers, spinners, and side targets, while &quot;Flapper II&quot; there is a score gate, and more targets, spinner bars, and pass-through bars. Both games also have a &quot;Paddle Pinball} version with the slider bar instead of the flippers. It also featured two hacky sack style game &quot;Rebound I&quot; {one hoop}, and &quot;Rebound II&quot; {three hoops} games, if you had to knock the sack through a series of hoops. Then the &quot;Breakout/Breakthru&quot; as it is listed on the box, and in the manual. There was a white, and a brown version of the system. The white system seems to have 2 versions of Rebound, while Breakthru, replaces &quot;Rebound I&quot; on the brown verion.

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• JA

  @jayminer · 2 years ago

  This was a fun video to watch. As someone who grew up in Europe with an Amiga the only pinball games I really played was the Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions-series which I dearly loved back then, especially Fantasies. It feels like they were a really big thing around here while Epic Pinball seems to have been the big thing around the same time in the US.<br><br>Very late in the Amigas life (well, it was probably already dead at this time) we got the game Slam Tilt that I also played til death. I remember it as being really great but then I was starving for Amiga games back then and hadn&apos;t really played any of the alternatives.

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• TH

  @Theou_Aegis · 2 years ago

  Rare added obstacles to PinBot also. They weren&apos;t only in High Speed. During multiball, get one ball back into PinBot and then get the other ball up the ramp. The table will change color and an obstacle will be added. The first is an alien cloud that will travel around the solar system, turning into a black hole monster when it reaches the sun. The second obstacle is a steady barrage of homing missiles that will destroy your flippers. I never got past that stage. Also, multiball physics are hilariously broken in that game. Trap one ball on a flipper, then juggle the other ball until it enters the same flippers chute. When the two balls collide, bump the table repeatedly to make the ball bounce back up the chute. If you do it right, and are patient enough, you can easily cheese your score into the mega millions.

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  @ThomasSturm · 2 years ago

  PinBot NES had additions in later stages, as well. Different ball shapes, sprites to hit, a monster that works it&apos;s way around the solar system then will eat your ball and spit it down the hole just like the tornado thing...

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• HE

  @hemangchauhan2864 · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t know how I missed this.<br>Thank you for making this!

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• FR

  @fredhinck9685 · 8 months ago

  Crue Ball on a 55 inch tv with a 550 watt sound bar is incredible. &nbsp;The surround sound is amazing. &nbsp;Coming from a 74 year old.

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• DO

  @doricdream498 · 2 years ago

  I never played the GBC pokemon pinball - in fact, i never actually KNEW there was a gbc pokemon pinball till now! I played the shit out of the gba sequel a lot, though. Ive never been a stickler for physics in pinball games as long as they work fine, but the sequel really is a massive improvement.

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• CA

  @Cam22652 · 2 months ago (edited)

  one of my personal favourites is Addicition Pinball/Worms Pinball developed by Team17 in 1998 just after they finished Worms 2. being the first and last pinball game they ever made, it would surprise you how good the physics are and how good the tables are. The Worms table is included in both revisions, with the original Addiction Pinball including another table themed around World Rally Fever, one of Team17&apos;s other games released in the same time period, albeit being a worse table than Worms. However, the Worms table is excellent. I still find myself coming back to the PC version to break my highscores because of how addictive the table is.

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  @DobbyTheGamer · 2 years ago (edited)

  Great video, but it is worth noting that Pinbot is a &quot;Solid State&quot; table, not an &quot;Electro Mechanical&quot; table. Meaning that it runs off a computer rather than a series of switches and relays. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdR9XOLBnc&amp;t=2125">35:25</a>)

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• BA

  @BagOfMagicFood · 2 years ago

  Heh, I like your inclusion of an LCD pinball handheld! &nbsp;I had just seen a review of Game &amp; Watch Pinball, and yeah, I can&apos;t see how anyone ever thought fitting such a physics-based game into a format with such a small set of ball positions with no overlap would work out well.

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