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- From: jlassila@judge-dredd.cs.hut.fi (Jussi Lassila)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: PC Pinball?
- Message-ID: <1gci1eINNs3v@sauna.cs.hut.fi>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 11:22:22 GMT
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- >>>Tristan Pinball is fantastic. I picked it up last week and am currently
- >>>seriously addicted! It does require a 386, tho'.
- >>
- >>Yah, but how does it compare to the real thing? are the angles similiar?
- >>ball bounce similiar? to get an idea of what I'm asking, I dunno if anyone
- >>else got 'pinball magic' off of wuarchive, but playing that is very bizarre.
- >>
- >>the ball sticks like _glue_ to the flippers, the ball bounces off strange
- >>angles near the tops of bumps, and the tilt doesn't work very well. Makes
- >>it not a whole lotta fun to play. especially when the exit is hidden
- >>behind a whole lotta stuff, so you have to just get lucky to get it in.
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- >Tristan has the most realistic ball action of any of the pinball games that
- >I have seen. The only complaint I have about it (and only a minor one) is
- >that is sometimes seems a little too easy to tilt it.
-
- Well, I must disagree. The ball does stick like a glue to the flippers, which
- makes it too easy, and when the ball is on top of some bump, it vibrates,
- shakes, waits, and does everything that the real ball would not do. It doesn't
- simulate real flipper quite well IMHO. You should check Pinball
- Dreams/Fantasies on amiga to know what a real simulator can be.
-
- I'm not saying that the Tristan is a poor _game_, I've played it many
- hours, and enjoyed it.
-
- But then again, it is the only bearable flipper available for PC.
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