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I'm always surprised at the nostalgia for Space Cadet Pinball. Perhaps it was just chance that I grew up playing what seemed like a much better pinball game (
by eterm 5mo ago
I'm always surprised at the nostalgia for Space Cadet Pinball.
Perhaps it was just chance that I grew up playing what seemed like a much better pinball game ( Hyper-3D Pinball, aka Tilt!* ), but I was always underwhelmed by Space Cadet Pinball on windows.
In reality they're both pretty similar, I just happened to play a lot of one before the other, but the full screen DOS experience was much richer than what felt like a much more flat and less 3D windows experience.
You can see some Hyper-3D Pinball / Tilt! gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ufwSkB0XQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ufwSkB0XQ
* Not to be confused with "Full Tilt!", from which space cadet pinball comes from.
- MetaWhirledPeas 5mo agoYeah the Pro Pinball series cstarted arriving around the same time as Windows 95. I guess people liked the Windows game because it was just a few clicks away.
- peddling-brink 5mo agoSome of us only had pinball. My parents didn’t buy games, so I got what was included.
- ahartmetz 5mo agoPinball Dreams first on a friend's Amiga and then my PC for me, later Pro Pinball. Space Cadet was hopeless garbage in comparison. Space Cadet had a boring table, much worse graphics and sound, and terrible ball physics. I still applaud the Linux version for its hack value :)
- ahartmetz 5mo agoAfter watching a video, it seems like I misremembered the ball physics, but the rest seems more or less correct. The sound effects sound really cheap, the music... exists, and in the lower center of the table, there is... uh, a star-shaped gradient thing? That is usually where the most elaborate graphics of the table are! Like a cool spaceship or the space cadet or evil aliens or whatever.
- the__alchemist 5mo agoI was a fan of "3D Ultra Pinball". You have to keep smacking that glider!
- CWuestefeld 5mo agoThis was referenced at the bottom of the linked article. And yeah, I'm a big fan, too. I still have the CDs for it, and it still runs in Windows 11!
- andrepd 5mo agoIt's really no surprise: it's a game that was pre-installed on hundreds of millions of computers. That's it. For people of a certain age it's very very likely they have played it, at least a bit.
- tosti 5mo agoI loved playing Epic Pinball and especially the music. Exactly the kind of sound I enjoy. I collected mod files on floppies as a kid. Other pinball games are bland and boring to me.
- prmoustache 5mo agoHonestly my favorite pinball game of all time is not at all realistic: Devil Crush (I think it was called Devil Crash in the USA). It has been released on both the pcengine and the megadrive. For some reason I tend to prefer the pcengine more despite the graphics quality being a bit below, probably because of the more "dirty" sounding soundtrack. This is my main occupation when I am flying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7iC8z6q8s&t=7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7iC8z6q8s&t=7
- SubiculumCode 5mo agoDefine better.
- alex1138 5mo agoIt had a "plot". You "upgraded weapons" ...also it was what you played when you had no internet