I just thought I would let you know what I will be rambling about in the coming weeks.

Microsoft Pinball Arcade – Review

I’m awaiting delivery of Microsoft Pinball Arcade after buying a copy of eBay for a princely £1.70.

It was released in 1998 and features 7 Gottlieb Tables:

Baffle Ball (1931)
Humpty Dumpty (1947)
Knock Out (1950)
Slick Chick(1963)
Spirit of ‘76 (1976)
Haunted House (1982)
Cue Ball Wizard (1992)

They included the obligatory ‘notable firsts’ such as Baffle Ball, which pretty much launched the pinball industry, Humpty Dumpty was the first pinball machine with electro-mechanical flippers, Spirit of ‘76 which was the first machine to use a microprocessor and Haunted House with the first 3 level playfield.

I’m looking forward to trying it out and seeing how the collection compares to modern pinball sims. I’ll let you know when the video is up on the 1000whenlit youtube channel.

Visual Pinball & Future Pinball Video Guides

Whist both Visual & Future Pinball are quite simple to use, there are a few things that can trip you up. I am currently putting a video guide together to walk people through the installation of each, right through to launching a table and installing a front-end.

Once that is done, I hope to get stuck into the video guides to specific machines and get started on building my custom pinball controller.