Unbelievable and embarrassing…
That someone would spend so much time recreating so much of this original game but wouldn’t spend the necessary effort into making sure the game was actually functional. If you make a pinball game, then PLEASE make sure you make the flippers and the flipper physics work well and consistently! That aside, make the flippers work, period! In my game, the right flipper just plain freezes up completely, or lags by SECONDS - completely unplayable. The flippers are also completely inconsistent and the same launch will produce completely different results (many of them looking plain unrealistic).
Just so frustrating to be teased by something that looks and sounds like the perfect original, but instead just leaves you annoyed, frustrated and unsatisfied.
Please please fix this perfect wonderful little game!
Just so frustrating to be teased by something that looks and sounds like the perfect original, but instead just leaves you annoyed, frustrated and unsatisfied.
Please please fix this perfect wonderful little game!
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A bit disappointing
I’ll start out by saying that of course it’s gonna be hard to measure up to the expectations that come with nostalgia. The game does great in some areas. The noises are the same, the layout of the board is the same, the game’s mechanics work similarly. It’s good to play when you’ve got a few minutes.
That being said, the game leaves much to be desired in some areas. Whenever the game would normally award you an extra ball, you get nothing here. Text comes up saying that you got an extra ball but you never get one. Games are limited to 2 balls, or 3 if you watch an ad. The physics that this game uses is a little different than the original. The ball can get stuck in some places, the most frequent seeming to be by the black hole under the ramp on the left. When this happens the game just spawns a new ball at the top of the board.
My main thing is with the 2 ball limit with no way to get extras through gameplay. This really limits how far you can take the game, and when you can lose a ball through no fault of your own, the extra balls are an especially important mechanic.
That being said, the game leaves much to be desired in some areas. Whenever the game would normally award you an extra ball, you get nothing here. Text comes up saying that you got an extra ball but you never get one. Games are limited to 2 balls, or 3 if you watch an ad. The physics that this game uses is a little different than the original. The ball can get stuck in some places, the most frequent seeming to be by the black hole under the ramp on the left. When this happens the game just spawns a new ball at the top of the board.
My main thing is with the 2 ball limit with no way to get extras through gameplay. This really limits how far you can take the game, and when you can lose a ball through no fault of your own, the extra balls are an especially important mechanic.
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How do you manage to mess up pinball?
As a pinball lover and above average player, I can tell you with certainty this game is not designed correctly. The flippers and overall ball physics are far from as they should be. The biggest problem with the game is the overly common occurrence of the ball falling right down the middle and leaving you hopeless, losing without a chance. Sure, it happens in pinball, but not anywhere near as common as this game is designed to make it out to be. I don’t know if it’s due to the size of the flippers or if the game is just designed to set the player up for failure, but seems like a failure from the development team of this app more than anything.
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A fantastic throwback! (With some room for small improvements from here)
An excellent and very playable version of this classic. I love this so much! Everything looks and feels great, much like I remember. Reasonable in-app purchase to support the dev, none of that nickel and dime business.
As for the small improvement opportunities:
Landscape mode option would be fantastic, split screen for iPad with another app would go a long way towards restoring the original’s real intended purpose of being played on the side while you’r being “productive” with a spreadsheet or something.
Support for Magic Keyboard input. Mapping flippers to Z and ? While launching ball with SPACE would make this completely perfect!
As for the small improvement opportunities:
Landscape mode option would be fantastic, split screen for iPad with another app would go a long way towards restoring the original’s real intended purpose of being played on the side while you’r being “productive” with a spreadsheet or something.
Support for Magic Keyboard input. Mapping flippers to Z and ? While launching ball with SPACE would make this completely perfect!
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Good game
This is an awesome game back in the day when it was on windows. But there are some noticeable issues like the ball seems heavy & sluggish & when you hit the ball into the ramp on the right side sometime it doesn’t shoot out but instead it just resets the ball at the top also at times the ball will perfectly fall directly in the center & you can’t even stop it with the flippers, I’ve lost plenty of high scoring game because of this issue. Also the two far left & right shoots behind the flipper should be removed
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