/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4392874
>I've got balls of STEEL

Digital machines just can't recreate the real thing. Once you get yourself a good table, the digital stuff just won't do.

I did *substantial* work on this Firepower, and I've got it about 95%. It's so well designed, as most Steve Ritchie tables are, the replay value is through the roof. I play this 10x as much as all of my other games combined.

I really don't get pinball. Someone redpill me on it

>>4392874
This and Jaki Crush on pce are best shit

>>4394535
>pick out a good table
>READ THE FUCKING RULES
>UNDERSTAND THE FUCKING RULES
>YES, EVERY INDIVIDUAL PINBALL TABLE HAS SPECIFIC RULES
>Get a roll of quarters
>Enjoy

Necronomicon for Saturn. Played it for the first time today. Excellent game

I can play this forever

>>4394520
Agreed. In the last two years a few different retro-centric arcades with substantial pinball opened in my area, and now the only times I play the simulations is to learn the rules on games I'm unfamiliar with.

Do you have any other tables? If not, Firepower is a great choice for a single game, very balanced.

>>4392894

This game needs a Visual Pinball X recreation, an old one for VP7? seems to exist but I can't find it.

>>4392894
this cracka know what's up.

>>4394520
$4 per table Vs $1500+ for a single table

Hmm... I can't quite put my finger on why digital seems like the better option?

>>4392894
Where do I get this?

REMINDER THAT PINBALL IS THE BEST GENRE OF GAMES

>tfw no Visual Pinball equivalent for OS X

Feels bad man.

>>4394535
Its the precursor to videogames. Predates them by decades and is a total sensory experience. Pulsing lights, loud as fuck music, gorgeous art, rumble and slamming of metal balls, pinging bumpers and it's blazing fast in real life. Coupled with cool themes and deep rulesets that are easy to get into but difficult to master. Very addictive and you WANT that top score where as in other videogames who gives a fuck about the tip score really?

>>4396476
Cause youre a cheap cunt

I still can't find a real table that addicts me like Pokemon Pinball for the GameBoy. I don't even really care for Pokemon but I have hours upon hours clocked in that game.

>>4395008
No, Firepower is my first table so far. Got it for $850 off of CL, and wound up replacing all of the boards in it, chasing down gremlins. I put a Rottendog MPU and power supply in it, and a Swemmer sound board. It's good for another 30 years now!

I actually wouldn't mind tackling an EM table next, but my Holy Grail is an Addams' Family. Can't afford one of those fuckers, though.

If I had an EM, this SS Firepower, and a nice DMD, I'd be set.

>>4396613
I wanna play games so i bought a mac

>>4396691
Have you played the other Pinball games by HAL on gameboy?

>>4396725
The gator one is cool. Kirby feels oddly depressing, dunno why.

>>4396685
>What bro you won't even buy Ghostbusters LE for $9000 you're so fucking cheap bro lmao

>>4396718
If you could find one, Grand Prix is the best EM ever, IMO. Highly recommended.

FAVORITE TABLE?

>>4396924
Swords of Fury.

>>4396590
You're gonna have to torrent it, Balls of Steel pinball has been removed from gog and steam for awhile, you also need a loader

I like games that have unique visual effects in multiball, like Atlantis, Fire!, and Space Station. I fucking love Space Station and its dumb slingshots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxo1HbVfNQ

>>4396859
>for amusement only

No sir, I am going to use it for paving my driveway.

>>4397291
You do know the real meaning of that warning, right?

>>4397293
No, I do not.

>>4397294
It means no gambling. Play for fun, not money.

>>4397297
Oh. I did not know that. Thank you.

>>4397270
Space Station has fantastic music. It's not in this video, but it does the same thing as Swords of Fury where each ball locked adds a new layer/melody line to the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYxjEAXrLho

>>4392874
Pic related is greatest pinball game of all time.

>>4397397
Great game, but it's a little too easy to get to the final match with Germany.

Digital

>>4397305
The mid-late 80s was a great time for pinball music that integrated with gameplay. There'd be little details like proper transitions between songs or different ball drain tunes depending on the song playing. Banzai Run is a personal favorite. The music does a fantastic job at building tension in the final stages.

I personally love Japanese history and culture. Are there and "Yooooooo~ kun kun" themed pinball machines?

>>4397568
Yes, but not from any of the big US companies. The closet you'd get from the big names are a few martial arts themed games like Bally's Black Belt and Stern's Dragonfist. The Williams game Road Kings was originally going to be called/themed Samurai instead. There's also Bushido from the Spanish company Inder, and Kabuki from Data East, a reskin of Tommy given to Namco's chairman as a sympathy for his cancer.

However, Sega (the real one, not "Data East 2") produced several EM pinball games in Japan, many with distinctly Japanese themes. This is one of the most fascinating areas of pinball for me that I would love to know more about, but the only way to play any of them would be to get to Japan. There are some game museums there that feature them. Check the videos on this channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3iIF7FtbIM

>>4396590

>google
>"balls of steel abandonware"
>then
>"balls of steel loader"

One gets you the iso and the 2nd gets you the tool that will run it on newer Windows.

>>4397397


>Pic related is greatest pinball game of all time.

Decent.

Greatest of all time? Best one I played = pic related

>pinball FX 3 release today delayed until December sometime

NOooooooooooo

>>4396718
>but my Holy Grail is an Addams' Family.
found the fucking pleb.

>>4397423
fantastic journey is my fav digi table, big race is great though and timeshock ultra on steam is incredible to.

>>4398145
There's a guy in my town that has a *completely* restored Space Shuttle. It's goddamned amazing, and after the restoration, he hasn't even played it. He says it's just too pretty. And the kicker? It's signed by 3 actual Shuttle Astronauts!

It's cool though, because the guy owns Ksarcade DOT net, and he has about a dozen and a half other tables in his house that he can play.

>>4398268
>pleb

>>4397579
Looks like I better go to glorious Nippon to try out some pinball games.

>>4397116
LIONMAN!

>>4398392
>MLP
fag

>>4398145
Space Shuttle is excellent, but this is the best System 9 game.

Williams was so good at the Dungeons and Dragons heavy metal medieval fantasy aesthetic.

>>4394520
I never understand this attitude. I own my own machine and I still enjoy digital pinball just as much if not more than ever. Yea, TPA isn't great, but VPX and PM5 are fucking amazing even still.

>>4394671
I know that feel. I highly recommend the Vs. version if you've played the NES one to death.

>>4399050
>Yea, TPA isn't great, but VPX and PM5 are fucking amazing even still.
Pro pinball is great to,ppl who need the table to also exist irl are fucking weird tbqh.

>>4394520
I play both and adapt because its all pinball, good players will play anything it's always the all show no go gimmick fags that go all elitist and they're always shit to for some reason.

>>4399050
Vs. Pinball is awesome. I love how it has the repeating background noise like the early solid-state games.