Hello everybody. Does everyone remember the 3DO demo disk that came packaged with the 3DO FZ-1? You do. Splendid. Does everyone remember the rather awful 3DO car demo? Yes? Good. How about the photoCD demo? Remember that? O.K., then. What about the Pinball demo? Oh-boy it was crap wasn't it? It sure was.
Guess what - They turned it into a full game. Why they did this is beyond me.
I've played a fair bit of pinball. I loved the Adams Family pinball table, the Starwars pinball table but my all time favourite was the Twilight Zone pinball table. I was pretty good too.
Real Pinball should have been taken to the trading standards commission. As Real Pinball is by no means anything like real pinball. Unless, out there, in the really-real world, there is a pinball table with no features, a ball that has been rolled in syrup and flippers that respond half a second after you pressed the damn button. Real Pinball has five table just like this.
My recommendation is this. If you cannot find a real pinball table, then play a Digital Illusions pinball game on a Commodore Amiga or a PlayStation. Avoid Real Pinball on the 3DO like one might avoid a tramp selling copies of the Big Issue. Basically avoid eye contact, walk faster and focus on an invisible dog walking two feet in front of you.
Proof positive that Japanese developers, in this case Japan Dataworks, can make awful, shameful, manky, sorry games.
Rarer than Shock Wave less rare than Creature Shock.
3DO Kid.
LOL, I am just about to get Metroid Pinball on the DS, but this almost makes me want to get an old 3D0 again (had the original - pretty good at the time, spesh Need for Speed).