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Pinball Mania Developer: Spidersoft
Publisher: 21st Century
grade

Reviewed: 1997 

- The pinball

A usual 2D scrolling game with nothing new. The feeling is good, but has some slight mistakes, the backhand shoot is not oversensitive but not the best either. The table music on this game is not good, it gets very annoying after a while. The tables layout is not the best either, they are way to high (almost 3 screens).


- The tables

- Tarantula

This table is the most interesting one in the collection, since the layout is most different. I didn't understand the goal behind the table, but it is built up on spiders. The table has nothing new, multiball, jackpots, tunnels... The theme music is something off the most boring I have ever heard.

- Jail break

break the law, decide whatever the prisoner is guilty, stop riots. The table gets boring after a while, since so few things are to bee done, the table is not made wrong, but it doesn't last forever.

Kick Off

Football!! This the only football table available as a pinball game simulator. It could have been really fun if the tables layout had been made a little more hard and tricky. As it is now you your goal is to advance trough a season, that is winning the first prize. Score goals, start matches...

- Jackpot

This table has four main things. Play roulette, higher or lower in cards, roll dices, light the jackpot. Those three first things you do all the time very easy, getting the jackpot is just a matter of lighting 7 letters, much more doesn't happen in the game, of course there are some usual things hidden somewhere in it. In the whole the table is very dead, so little to do that you don't discover the first time you play it


- The feeling

Good feeling, nothing to mark on here.


- The whole

Kind a boring game, lack of things to do on the tables. The tables needs some more work. A game that's not worth getting in the first hand because of the tables, it has good feeling and could have been a ordinary but good pinball.


system requirements

Platform: PC
Operating System: Windows 3.1 or higher (windows required for "Pinball Mania for Windows" not for the original version titled "Pinball Mania") or DOS 3.3 or higher (for the version titled "Pinball Mania")
386/33
3.5 MB free hard disks space
525k free conventional memory
CD-ROM drive
SVGA card

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Screenshots:
  • Tarantula
  • Jail Break
  • Kick Off
  • Jackpot
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