So I tried playing Pinball Dreams 1 for the first time in forever. But for some reason, the game's controlling way different from what I expected. When I start a new game, the pinball doesn't have any physics at all. Instead, what happens is I end up controlling the pinball with my arrow keys, moving it around the table and only losing a life if I deliberately pilot the pinball into the hole. I don't know if this is some strange one-in-a-million bug or if I inadvertently activated a cheat code while trying to start the game, but it was weird.

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I am having the same issue, happened on both the nightmare and train tables, didn't try any others.

My spec: HP dv6 laptop, Windows 7 x64, 4gb Ram, core i3 2.2ghz.

I'll try this on my XP computer later and see if the same occurs

Same here, I've tried it on both the space and the choo choo train tables. Running XP, I don't think specs are really germane to this particular issue - there's no way an OS is going to completely change the behavior of a game in this fashion. Seems like a debugging mode was accidentally left "enabled", or maybe it's some remnant of copy-protection?

Any solutions?

Figured it out - evidently this cheat mode is enabled using one of the trickiest, most convoluted cheat codes in the history of games:

1). Press "T".

I must have pressed "T" while pressing random keys to figure out the controls, and this is probably what happened to you guys as well. Pressing "T" again will revert things back to normal!