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Hello!
I'm considering doing a series of pinball game videos for my YouTube channel - however, I don't have a lot of content right now.

I notice there are a lot of pinball games here, and I was hoping that some of GOG's pinball wizards would be able to point out which of them are the better games.

Here are all the pinball games I have:
Full Tilt
- Space Cadet
- Skulduggery
- The dragon one

3D Ultra Pinball
- Lost Continent

Pro Pinball
- Big Race USA

I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out in this matter. Thanks :)

Heads-up - if you pledge $2 to this project on Kickstarter, you can get Pro Pinball Timeshock and Fantastic Journey. You can also get Big Race USA free ;) Note that you will only get these two tables if the project gets fully funded, as I understand it.
Post edited September 14, 2012 by phlum
You can't go wrong with any of the Pro pinball series. They only offer one table per game, but it's a huge one with lots of stuff in it to complete and neat ball simulation.

My favourite of them is timeshock, the combination of table design and soundtrack are pretty damn awesome. Although as I said all of them are lovely.
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phlum: Hello!
I'm considering doing a series of pinball game videos for my YouTube channel - however, I don't have a lot of content right now, having only two pinball games at my disposal*.

I notice there are a lot of pinball games here, and I was hoping that some of GOG's pinball wizards would be able to point out which of them are the better games.

*Those two games are Microsoft's 3D Pinball that came free with Windows XP; and 3D Ultra Pinball 3: The Lost Continent.

I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out in this matter. Thanks :)
I have many happy memories of playing the games in the 'Pinball Gold Pack' on the Amiga but they ARE getting a bit old - I played them on the Amiga, as I say!
There's always Future Pinball and Visual Pinball, although both of those are more accurately pinball engines. You can download an unholy number of tables for them though. Oh, and both engines and tables are absolutely free.
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Wishbone: There's always Future Pinball and Visual Pinball, although both of those are more accurately pinball engines. You can download an unholy number of tables for them though. Oh, and both engines and tables are absolutely free.
I believe that Visual Pinball is what PinMAME uses to emulate real arcade scoring ROMS with a faithful simulation of the tables
Obviously, if you go the PinMAME route, you are getting into dodgy legal territory with ownership of ROM images as you do with regular MAME, still an interesting project though...
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Fever_Discordia: I have many happy memories of playing the games in the 'Pinball Gold Pack' on the Amiga but they ARE getting a bit old - I played them on the Amiga, as I say!
I don't care if they're dated - why do you think I like GOG so much? ;D
Would you know where to get hold of this?
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Wishbone: There's always Future Pinball and Visual Pinball, although both of those are more accurately pinball engines. You can download an unholy number of tables for them though. Oh, and both engines and tables are absolutely free.
This sounds like material for an entirely separate series. XD Thanks for letting me know about this, I'll get 'em downloaded now.
Dream Pinball is pretty decent, some of the camera angles are odd but thankfully you can swap around to find an angle that suits you.

For a pinball game not here 9but wish was here) Epic Pinball is a good play.
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Fever_Discordia: I have many happy memories of playing the games in the 'Pinball Gold Pack' on the Amiga but they ARE getting a bit old - I played them on the Amiga, as I say!
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phlum: I don't care if they're dated - why do you think I like GOG so much? ;D
Would you know where to get hold of this?
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Wishbone: There's always Future Pinball and Visual Pinball, although both of those are more accurately pinball engines. You can download an unholy number of tables for them though. Oh, and both engines and tables are absolutely free.
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phlum: This sounds like material for an entirely separate series. XD Thanks for letting me know about this, I'll get 'em downloaded now.
Pinball Gold Pack? it's right here on GOG, its a compilation of Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions etc.
Pro Pinball: Big Race USA

the best pinball table ever.
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keeveek: Pro Pinball: Big Race USA

the best pinball table ever.
It's a kick ass pinball game.
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keeveek: Pro Pinball: Big Race USA

the best pinball table ever.
This is the best on gog.com

You should also track down the game Odama on the Gamecube. It's the only voice-activated RTS pinball game I know of.
On Gameboy Advance you should try Pokémon Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire and Bomberman Jetters Game Collection (only in Japanese but if you can read kana; that's OK).

On classic Gameboy, Kirby's Pinball Land is also good.
Windows 8 comes with new Pinball Games from Microsoft, those are really nice :)
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Ubivis: Windows 8 comes with new Pinball Games from Microsoft, those are really nice :)
Interesting...What are they called?
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keeveek: Pro Pinball: Big Race USA

the best pinball table ever.
And because Silverball wants to bring the seriesyou can get Big Race on the kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1790321238/pro-pinball-revived-and-remastered