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Posted February 22, 2011
It's been quite a while since our last pinball release so we'd like to make up for it by giving you 5 titles for the price of one - the uber-nostalgic Pinball Gold Pack.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/pinball_gold_pack][/url]So, how does the Pinball Gold Pack compare to the other pinball releases on GOG.com? First of all, you get five games - Pinball Dreams 1 and 2, Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Mania, and Pinball Illusions, each featuring four pinball tables. That's twenty tables in total, each with a unique theme. The physics are reasonable, but can hardly be compared to those found in newer, more technologically advanced pinball games, for obvious reasons. There's one thing the Pinball Gold Pack has that its younger cousins don't - the sheer oldschool, nostalgic feeling you get when you play it. The fact that the game used .MOD files for music, in order to save space, might bring a tear to some of you PC veterans' eyes, too. Care to take a trip back in time for less than 10 bucks?
Posted February 22, 2011
That table was also included in Full Tilt pinball. I would like to see here the Full Tilt titles, they were fun games.

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CalamityRanger: There was a pinball game I used to get a kick out of when I was younger. I think it came with Windows. I could be completely wrong but it was space themed and I think you got little "missions" in it. I have no idea if I'm remembering it wrong, or what it was even called but it was the most fun I've ever had with a pinball game. :P
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crazy_dave: You know ... I think I remember that game too. I think I found it on Google ... "3D Pinball: Space Cadet". I'm not sure how I played it since I've never owned a Win-PC (well with the exception of the current Win7 partition on my Mac). I probably played it on school/friend's computer.
Post edited February 22, 2011 by park_84
Posted February 22, 2011
These were amazing games when I played pirated versions of them as a kid. I've had pinball dreams (hyuck hyuck) of the day these would show up on GOG.com.

BRAVO!
Posted February 22, 2011
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crazy_dave: You know ... I think I remember that game too. I think I found it on Google ... "3D Pinball: Space Cadet". I'm not sure how I played it since I've never owned a Win-PC (well with the exception of the current Win7 partition on my Mac). I probably played it on school/friend's computer.
Yup, I just googled it after you said the name and that's most definitely it. Hooray! Thanks a bunch. I had so much fun with this game and normally I'm not much of a pinball fan. I'd definitely like to see this one come to GOG as well, lots of good memories there. :D
Posted February 22, 2011
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CalamityRanger: Yup, I just googled it after you said the name and that's most definitely it. Hooray! Thanks a bunch. I had so much fun with this game and normally I'm not much of a pinball fan. I'd definitely like to see this one come to GOG as well, lots of good memories there. :D
Glad to help :) ... park_84 said in a post above it was part of a larger pinball game too called Full Tilt pinball.
Post edited February 22, 2011 by crazy_dave
Posted February 22, 2011
What's interesting is that this game costs more than I would ever spend on pinball.
Posted February 22, 2011
Post edited February 22, 2011 by thewishingwell
Posted February 22, 2011
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thewishingwell: Q6XS-ML92-4KDA-AF9N
wunderful :) unfortunately, I was too slow
Posted February 22, 2011
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thewishingwell: Let me fill your day with unbridled joy!
Well now! I'll call this a late birthday gift! Give me your e-mail address and I'll return the favor sometime! <3
Posted February 22, 2011
Not really the most exiting release ever on GOG. may buy it mabye not, depending what other releases come up. it is a bit pricey for what it is though.
Posted February 22, 2011
It's just so wonderful to see DICE on here. Hopefully the new publisher is EA and we can get some Battlefield happening...oh yeahhh...
Posted February 22, 2011
a fact:
number of pinball games on gog - 7
number of dungeon keeper games on gog - 0
Posted February 22, 2011
Ah, Pinball Illusions::Stones 'n Bones.
I was building a pinball table based on it in Virtual Pinball
I have abandoned the project long ago because of more pressing matters, but still...:
Great games.
I might pick this one up sometime, probably when it's on offer cause I already paid for these games when they came out.
Posted February 22, 2011
Nice to see another release on gog. Too bad it's not my genre :(
Posted February 22, 2011
This is awesome. I love the DOS era of pinball, this is good stuff right here. Beautiful graphics and music, great physics and tables. :D

So far, everything is working fine. In "The Dream I", I had issues running in full screen, but changing to low-resolution from the menu fixed that. However, I don't know how to access the settings for "The Illusions", and in full screen my monitor does the usual
Out of Range

H. Frequency 35khz
V. Frequency 59.9hz
that it likes to do when it can't display something, and auto-adjust doesn't work when it's like this. On that note, there's no documentation or extras of any kind. Also, this isn't the first time I've seen this, but the games say the flippers are bound as shift, yet they're controlled with the ctrl keys and changing them doesn't let you put them back as shift again.


Overall, this and the Pro Pinball trilogy should more than keep me entertained until Epic Games gets off their collective asses and release Epic Pinball. Who needs new publishers when your old ones are content sitting on a mountain of games, right? ¬_¬
Post edited February 22, 2011 by LordKuruku
Posted February 22, 2011
After buying this, and installing and trying every game, it seems that the PC ports were done by Spidersoft - those incompetent fools who managed to make the way-below-par sequel Pinball Mania. Pinball Fantasies seems to work as it should, and probably Pinball Illusions as well, but Pinball Dreams have some horrible physics that doesn't resemble the Amiga version, and Pinball Dreams II was all Spidersoft (there's no Amiga version of it), and that shows, since the physics are even worse on that one.

This is the second time I've been thoroughly unimpressed by old DOS versions of games I loved and still love playing on my Amiga (the first one being Cannon Fodder). The recent Playstation Minis/PSP and Iphone versions of Pinball Dreams and Fantasies are much much better, as they are based on the Amiga versions.
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