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Doom Pinball James Pickering
Klick&Play
grade

Reviewed: 1997 

- The pinball

doom pinball logoAnother Klick&Play pinball, and as I have said in other reviews of them, they are all as good (meaning as bad). This one has images and sounds from Doom (which I assume you all know what it is), the gameplay is low and so is the table layout and it all in this pinball. I think this is the third pinball I am reviewing that is made with K&P, they have all varied in layout and theme, but they have all had the same low and lousy feeling, I guess the K&P program just isn't designed for making good level pinballs.


- The tables

- Doom

The table is easily described, it is almost a 14inch screen high and half that wide. To the right in the table is the kicker. In the middle a couple of targets and... well the table doesn't consist of much more than a couple of targets and the kicker, oh don't forget the things that randomly appears at the top of the table (hit them for score, can be medkit, ammo pack etc).

There is not so much of an theme here, you simply try to flip the ball and hit those things that appear there at the top. The flippers are two shotguns. When flipping with them they don't act as normal flippers, the just sort of lever, they push the ball up with the flat side of the shotgun.

In all it is a very boring and unplayable table.


- The feeling

The feeling is as usual (when you talk about Klick&Play pinballs) creepingly bad. The ball just bounces around unnaturally and way to fast. Since the flippers don't flip vertically, the just lever and push the ball up, you can't hold the ball.

There is no bigger deal with trying to play and seriously score in this pinball, because all you in the end can do is to flip when the ball seems to be near the flipper, and after that hope it will reach a bumper and from there bounce up to the top.


- The whole

A boring pinball, if it hadn't been freeware and had Doom sounds it would probably have been as interesting as nothing (figuratively speaking, the phenomena "nothing" is interesting, but this pinball is not, why am I writing this). I don't recommend this pinball to any bigger crowd because of the low feeling and poor layout.


system requirements

Platform: PC
Operating System: Windows 3.1 or above

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