Pinball Arcade for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Mele 113

  Alll purchased Tables finally Restored!

  Version 7.11 update seemed to take away my original purchased tables, listed as owned, that included: Ripleys, Theater of Magic, Arabian Nights,Black Hole, Bride of Pinbot ….very disapointed, (edit)-e-mailed to supporort …response was, and I quote, "We unfortunately do not have Windows unlocks just yet, but we hope to have them working soon". As a patient man I waited for this new update version 8.0.5 and finally all purchases are now acessable with the addition of Stern tables I owned, also as a bonis 2 new tables" Whoa -Nelly" and "Big Buck Hunter" with Frankenstein as a nice addition ….The wait was worth it, Pinball Arcade is the closest to my 1960’s arcades playstyle of my youth …THANKS

  
  
• By pinball fanatic

  Love it!

  These pinball games are the most fun computer pinball games I’ve played. When there were issues with the High Sierra system upgrade, I missed it so much, they allowed me to access on a different platform. Opened by accident tonight and was delighted to see I had my game back on my Windows. The support team is great. Would recommend to anyone that wants to play realistic pinball games on their computer.

  
  
• By Doug S..

  Good board action….but

  Considering how slim the Pinball genre is on the OS X platform I have to commend the publishers for creating Arcade Pinball. The tables are beautifully rendered and the board phsyics are very good. I'm not sure why they chose the tables they did but most are entertaining. HOWEVER, it's this simple: No matter how many hundreds of hours have been spent creaing the artwork and tweaking the physics engine to it's best possible, the game must provide as a realistic gaming experience as possible. This isn't possible because the only interactive component of the game, the flippers, suffer from terrible lag time. Reading these reviews it is obvious this isn't something isolated to just my PC; it is a problem inherit within the game design! All of the work that has gone into production of this game and because of flipper lag time the game, while I won't call it a flop, it's playability is definitely diminished. $10 is a good chunk of change, relatively speaking, for this type of game yet it fails to ge the job done. Hopefully the publishers are working on a fix for those of us that have purchased this game. Also, it does not appear that their website offers any type of support other then email. I found no message forums. So it's anyone's guess whether or not the publishers are working on this. Anyway, I will not be making any in-app table purchases until I see the severe flipper lag-time issue corrected.

  
  
• By Voyage2k

  How does a software program replicate a physical error?!?!

  The left flipper is stuck. Like literally stuck in the upward position. Apparently on EVERY game. I was playing the Firepower II demo and all of a sudden when I flipped the ball with the left flipper, it stayed up. I cancelled the game, started a new one. Left flipper? Still stuck up. Switched to one of the games I owned, Diner. Load the game and started a new one? THE FLIPPER IS STILL STUCK UP. I sincerely appreciate the authenticity of FarSight to replicate pinball games in all their accuracy, but this is ridiculous. I want to buy these last few Williams/Bally tables, but not if this is going to be one of these easter eggs or something. (BTW, the pricing window says [NULL] where it should give a price for the entire current Season.) I’m very, very disappointed. While other platforms got to play these tables earlier than us Windows folk, now this happens? :(

  
  

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