Pinball Dreams (USA)
Pinball Dreams is a pinball simulation video game developed by Digital Illusions CE and originally released for the Amiga in 1992. It spawned several sequels, including Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions and Slam Tilt.
The game's four tables each had a theme, as do most real life pinball machines. The version of Pinball Dreams bundled with the Amiga 1200 had a bug which rendered most of Beat Box's advanced features non-functional.
The game's four tables each had a theme, as do most real life pinball machines. The version of Pinball Dreams bundled with the Amiga 1200 had a bug which rendered most of Beat Box's advanced features non-functional.
- "Ignition", themed around a rocket launch, planets, and space exploration. The Expert Software's Pinball 2000 port of the game renamed this table "Rocket".
- "Steel Wheel", themed around steam trains and the Old West.
- "Beat Box", themed around the music industry, charts, bands and tours.
- "Nightmare", themed around a graveyard, ghosts, demons, nightmares and generally evil things. Unlike the other tables in the game, the name of the table in the menu did not reflect the name displayed on the table itself—"Graveyard". Some ports of the game (notably the GameTek port to the Game Boy) name this table "Graveyard" in the menu as well.
Pinball Dreams (USA)
Technical
CPU
- maincpu Z80 (@ 3 Mhz)
Chipset
- Game Gear PSG (@ 3 Mhz)
Display
- Orientation Yoko
- Resolution 160 x 144
- Frequency 59.922738 Hz
Controlers
- Number of players 1
- Number of buttons 2
- Kind of controler joy (8 ways)
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Pinball Dreams (USA) Screenshots
Development
The ball moves according to reasonably realistic physics, and the game was restricted to using table elements which would also be possible to build in reality. Sound and music were realized with Module files, with this technology several music tracks could be included on the limited space of floppy disks.
Ports:
Ports:
- Atari Falcon
- Commodore 64: A preview was released at the Breakpoint demo party in April 2006.
- Game Gear
- Game Boy Advance: Under the title Pinball Challenge Deluxe, with tables added from Pinball Fantasies.
- GP32: Released in October 2002.
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System: A mostly accurate conversion, including all four tables and near-perfect sound. However, the red "blood" under the top bumper in the "Nightmare" table has been changed to blue and the crosses were removed.
- PC: A conversion for DOS based systems.
- iPhone/iPod Touch: Released in January 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreaming: Pinball Dreams.
- PlayStation Network: Released in November 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo.
- iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad: Released in July 2011 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreams HD.
- OS X: Released in August 2011 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreams HD.
Reception
Pinball Dreams was overall received positive by press reviews.
In 1996, Computer Gaming World ranked it as the 119th best game of all time, stating, "Smooth scrolling and great ball physics made this Amiga game a wizard's choice." In 2011, Wirtualna Polska ranked it as the fourth best Amiga game.
In 1996, Computer Gaming World ranked it as the 119th best game of all time, stating, "Smooth scrolling and great ball physics made this Amiga game a wizard's choice." In 2011, Wirtualna Polska ranked it as the fourth best Amiga game.
Pinball Dreams 2
An alternate PC-only sequel, Pinball Dreams 2, was released in 1995 by 21st Century Entertainment (like Pinball Dreams) but was developed by Spidersoft.
It included four tables:
It included four tables:
- "Neptune", themed to underwater exploration.
- "Safari", themed to an African safari.
- "Revenge of the Robot Warriors", themed to a battle against robots.
- "Stall Tturn", themed to aerobatics.
