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Timehunters Pinball grade

Reviewed: 1997 

- The pinball

A sort of interesting, yet not so good pinball. The layout of the tables is nonscrolling and divided into two areas. The layout and theme is rather interesting giving the pinball a interesting look, but then there's the feeling which if It had been better could have made this a rather good but not so ordinary pinball.


- The tables

- Timehunter

The table is rather enjoyable with its strange layout, ramps twisting 90degrees and so. You are placed in the time of dinosaurs and are supposedly to go on a Timehunt, whatever that means, hunting dinosaurs? The goal is to reach the right area of the table a number of times and start some different modes. To get there you must at first light the word Timehunters, and then you can access the left area trough a ramp which will open up to there. There is nothing special about the table, it has its main goal and not much ells. You can of course start a few modes or get extra balls when on the left side. The only thing that makes it stand out is it's theme and ofcourse the layout is a little different compared to other unordinary pinballs. In all this table can be looked at as fun for a while but it will probably not become one you want to get back to that much.


- The feeling

Sigh... well the feeling is not so good. Compared to the feeling you want from a pinball this one doesn't meet those expections you regularly have. You can easily play the table and get around but when you want to start hit things and start modes it gets though. The two most irritating bugs with the feeling is that you can hardly aim since the ball usually slows down to much before it reaches the target, and therefore you miss. The second is as mentioned the ball movements, some pinballs have balls that accelerate to much and some have programmed the ball so it moves realistic and is easy to control the movements of, in this pinball the ball slows down all the time which results in that you can hardly control the ball movements as much as you would want. This thins pulls down the feeling rather much, but as mentioned you can still get around playing the table even though it will get though when you want to hit something since the ball must be tilted and flipped in some strange ways to give the right results.


- The whole

Maybe a pinball younger ones can find joy in playing, because of it's glittering layout. This is no pinball simulator, it is more a pinball game that you don't play since it has good feeling and a deep layout and theme, if you play it is more for the joy of exploring the tables theme. I said you don't play it for the deep theme and I mean it, but you can play it for the theme, see the difference? I wouldn't recommend this pinball to any person who has some expections for a pinball simulator, since this pinball hardly fills any of the expectations you probably have.


system requirements

Platform: PC
Operating System: DOS

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  • Timehunter
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