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Pinball Dreams

Digital Illusions' pinball series in the early ninetees were a real hit! They featured beautiful graphics, dynamic and realistic gameplay, all kinds of tables and much more. Pinball freak or not, once you run this game you will be glued to the screen for hours :) You can even tilt the table. There are many "missions" hidden within each table, and new ones open up as you reach higher scores. I played this game oftenly, and I haven't unlocked all the missions, so believe me when I say that there is a lot of potential there :) Of course, I can't neglect the fact that the music and sound effects are simply fabulous! All in all, a mark of 5 for phenomenal graphics (bear in mind that this is 1992.), wonderful SoundBlaster sound effects and music, and generally for being probably one of the best pinball series ever to be published on PC!

Spidersoft have done a great conversion here, especially with the ball movement - it is brilliant and at times frustratingly realistic. For some reason, though, the screen detail is not as impressive as it was on the Amiga, with some cross-hatch shading letting things down ever so slightly in places. And the sound really grates through a Soundblaster Audio card. It is like a Nirvana demo played through a Force 9 gale as heard by a deaf person in a noisy room. In other words, the samples are terrible: noisy and scratchy, and barely audible at normal volume. But still, it is an unmissable game, and one of the best videogame versions of the desktop game ever created.