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Microsoft Heart Pinball Microsoft grade

Reviewed: 1997 

- The game

This pinball is a part of a program for kids called "Scholastic's: The magic schoolbus explores the human body", where they can learn all about a humans body (therefore the name, Heart Pinball). But however, it is a pinball so therefore it deserves to be reviewed although it is a very bad one.


- The table

- Heart

One word, it is non playable (in the meaning it is not worth playing). The table is as the heart split in two chambers or if it is ventricles they are called. There is nothing complicated about the table, you can shoot the ball to the left side (according to the rules, by shooting it to the lungs.. eh?). And you can shoot it to the body. That's it, two lanes... you can't do anything else than this. You flip the ball around, it hits something you get score, you get lucky and it goes trough one of the two lanes, you get score. Nothing exciting at all about it.


- The feeling

Just like windows itself!One word, there is none (three words then). The ball usually goes trough the flipper if you don't flip frantic and somehow grab the ball when it is half trough the flipper and push it up. You can't aim, you can't even hold the ball.

You have only got two flippers that you can use and you can only use them at the same time (a.k.a flipping one flips both). Then there is the thing that one flipper is in the left "chamber" and one in the left "chamber" (see screenshot), so in reality you can only play with one. So the feeling is extremely bad.


- The whole

Since this is a part of some kind of educational tool I hope the rest of the program is much better than this pinball. It is certainly not worth getting, not even looking at. Must I motivate why, it should be obvious by now, the table is no fun to play, never ever!


system requirements

Platform: PC
Operating System: Windows 3.1 or above

Also available for: -


Screenshots:
  • Microsoft Heart Pinball
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