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A great program that plays pinball machines exactly like the real thing but on your pc.

What’s a poor boy to do? Everywhere one looks, there are all sorts of new fangled video games with graphics that are photorealistic and music and sounds that are larger than life. They’ve left the arcades, too. Well, that is an arcade anymore, anyway? They used to be big, mysterious, and dark places all aglow with video screens and sounded like a hell-bent carnival from the future. Now they’re usually a hole in the wall at the local mall with a handful of overpriced games that aren’t really too good. Much like in the mid ’80s, it appears that home gaming has taken precedence over the arcade experience. And of course, there are all those game emulators for your home computer that allows you to play all the great classics. So who needs an arcade?
A loaded question, to be sure. But what if you’re a pinball freak? That beautiful game invented ages ago, way before anyone ever dreamed of putting a game on a video screen? At least in the US, pinball was the game that always echoed our culture’s current tastes, attitudes, and fantasies With its often fanciful and beautiful back glass artwork and table illustrations, the pinball machine would beckon many from the dark corners of an arcade. The thing about pinball was it was always about the whole machine, not just the game play. A pinball enthusiast becomes part of the game, gripping on to the table, moving it, shaking it, almost making love to it in an odd way. And when you are in the “pinball zone”, you’re truly one with the machine.
Kids these days may seriously not have the pleasure of experiencing the whole wonderful mystery of why pinball carries a far greater pleasure than any video game I can name. For those shrinking arcades in the mall are usually lucky to have any pinball machines in them, and when they do, I find that I’m usually the only one playing them. What the hell happened to the once great industry? Video game revolutions come and go, but pinball was supposed to be forever.
And let’s face it, video game pinball has always been only a fraction of the experience of the real thing. There have been rare exceptions to this, but for the most part, programmers just don’t know how to get the feel of pinball down in their video game creations. Plus, all too often, video game pinball misses the whole point. The games usually have multiple screens and roaming creatures that crawl across the tables and all sorts of stuff that just isn’t pinball. You just don’t mess with a tried and true formula. Perfect it, yes. But you don’t mutate it. It’s exactly why people hated New Coke. It’s exactly why the XFL failed.
But at one point in the last decade, Microsoft put out a stunning collection of video pinball called Microsoft Pinball Arcade. The fascinating thing about this set was that it replicated actual pinball table classics like Haunted House from Gottlieb, Cue Ball Wizard, and even included extremely classic tables from much earlier decades, such as the fantastic Slick Chick, and the game that started it all, Baffle Ball. These games were the actual tables, not just video recreations. Plus the game had as close to real pinball feel as one could get without actually being there. This was a revelatory collection, and one that would make any pinball freak want more.
But there wasn’t any more. Why not? Does pinball just not sell for the computers just like it doesn’t make it in the arcades anymore? Frustrating, to say the least. But then, I discovered that Microsoft and any other company didn’t need to bother. It took a few years, but it finally happened. I finally found the crown jewel of PC pinball gaming.

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