This one was my favorite pinball game: http://download.cnet.com/Adventure-Pinball-Forgotten-Island/3000-2099_4-10057187.html
I got my mom and aunt hooked on it. I just wish GOG could get it. Would love to see it again!

Anyway, I like the pro pinball series on here!

The Game itself is called "Pinball FX 2" and comes with 7 Tables.
- Mars
- Sorcerer´s Lair
- Epic Quest
- Marvels Avengers
- World War Hulk
- Fear Itself
- Infinity Gauntlet

I thought it was the other way around. PinMAME is the bit that emulates the ROMS, Visual Pinball is the bit that simulates the physical table.
It sounded like you were saying Visual Pinball does the emulation and PinMAME does the table. :P
Oh right yeah, those aren't Microsoft games. It's called Zen Pinball elsewhere, I have it on my 3DS but there are versions for consoles and phones too. Sounds like Microsoft got a licence for the PC version to distribute it with W8. Pity, because it means they're W8 exclusive Metro apps.
They need to be less stingy with their backer rewards...

Absolutely, cheapskates everywhere and then asking me for my money, pah...

To everyone thinking what the hell I was trying to say with my first broken phrase: the game is free to everyone who visit the kickstarter page.

I haven't played any of the pinball games here yet which I will eventually.

I've definitely enjoyed others like Alien Crush and Virtual Pinball.

Also make sure to check out Visual Pinball, the pinball emulator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Pinball

$75 if you want the full game on two platforms? Crazy.
This. Get Visual Pinball and then download Black Knight 2000.

Ah, now I get it, sorry. To be honest I didn't checked the tiers, only heard about the free game. As far as I understand they want to remaster the four old games/tables and create a complete new one. At the moment gog asked for each of the old games/tablets 6$, so the 50$ tier for four remastered and one new game looks kind of fair. About the 75$ I don't know they mean with different platforms, win vs mac vs linux or pc vs portable devices? The first case I would regret because there for me it's standard for indie games to get all pc versions, the second case I also don't like but that seems still standard today.

Yeah, it's $75 if you want Windows and Mac... stingy. Didn't know about the free table, that's new. The $2 tier for the originals is pretty generous though. I guess the generosity and stinginess cancel each other out? :P

The 3D pinball game bundled with Windows XP was actually a demo of a larger package called Full Tilt Pinball that had 3 tables. Astonishingly good. I think the original is 16-bit only though.

The Pinball Gold Pack is certainly worth a look because it effectively pioneered the pinball game genre on computers and represents some of Digital Illusions' earliest work before they wandered over to the Dark Side for cookies. Bear in mind though that GOG's pack is a sloppy and unholy mess. Pinball Illusions is missing music, Pinball Mania is hidden in Pinball Fantasies' start up menu, and the high-res Pinball Dreams Gold version is notably absent.

Someone already mentioned the Pro Pinball games. Excellent stuff, speaks for itself.

Pure Pinball 2.0...meh. Never really got my interest like that.

A bargain bin publisher called eGames published a game simply called Pinball about a decade ago. Pretty much everything this company released was utter crap, but this was a blip of true quality. It was one of the first truly 3D pinball games, required some decent 3D hardware at the time and had full reflection and glass effects that looked incredible for its era. Physics weren't too bad either, and the table design was workable. I still have a copy, and Amazon has a copy going for just a penny if you're interested.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greenstreet-Online-Ltd-eGames-Pinball/dp/B00005RULZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347461732&sr=8-1

This thread has a ton of good recommendations in it for video pinball.

I've just ordered it now. Good thing that was the UK site ;)

I also found Full Tilt; the installer won't run at all under my Windows 7 x64, but the tables themselves will. The only problem is I need a pad and pen handy, because they don't save my scores!