Pinball Fantasies

Description

After the success of Pinball Dreams on several systems, a sequel featuring four new tables was created. The gameplay is much the same as the first game, with realistic physics, multi-player options and a high score table to aim for. The tables are Partyland, Speed Devils, Billion Dollar Gameshow and Stones 'n' Bones, taking in a funfair, racing cars, a tacky game-show, and a graveyard. Each one has a range of ramps, combos, light sequences and targets to shoot, as well as general themes which are less influenced by real tables than those in Pinball Dreams.

Alternate Titles

• "Pinball Fantasies Deluxe" -- PlayStation title
• "Pinball Dreaming: Pinball Fantasies" -- iPhone title
• "ピンボールファンタジーズデラックス" -- Japanese PSX spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• 21st Century Entertainment Pinball series
• Digital Illusions Pinball series

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User Reviews

The ultimate pinball simulation.	DOS	Mickey Gabel (347)
Perfect conversion of a perfect game, this is the best pinball EVER.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4466)
The first pinball game that is really playable	DOS	IJan (1980)
great pinball	DOS	alain martinaut (2)

The Press Says

High Score	DOS	Apr 16, 1994	5 out of 5	100
Amiga Power	Amiga CD32	Dec, 1993	91 out of 100	91
Amiga Computing	Amiga CD32	Dec, 1993	90 out of 100	90
CU Amiga	Amiga CD32	Sep, 1993	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Format	Amiga CD32	Nov, 1993	85 out of 100	85
Svenska Hemdatornytt	Amiga	Nov, 1992	85 out of 100	85
Svenska Hemdatornytt	DOS	Mar, 1994		83
Amiga Format	Amiga	Mar, 1994	8 out of 10	80
Abandonia	DOS	Feb 12, 2005	4 out of 5	80
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	Game Boy	Feb, 1995	4 out of 10	40

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Trivia

Award Winner: PC Gamer's Best Arcade Game of 1994

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"Pinball Fantasies was released first for Amiga late 1992, and was the much acclaimed sequel to Pinball Dreams. It featured a spiced up version of the effects system created for Pinball Dreams, the ability for three flippers on a table and the new up-sized dot-matrix display. There was both a normal Amiga version (32 colors) and a retouched AGA version with 256 colors. (The 256 color version was the one appearing on the PC)"

--excerpt taken from Digital Illusions web site.

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"Party Land, Speed Devils, Billion Dollar (aka Billion Dollar Gameshow), and Stones -n- Bones were first released as Pinball Fantasies and later joined by the four tables of Pinball Mania and rereleased as Pinball Fantasies Deluxe. Then, in late 1996, 21st Century repackaged twenty of their tables, including Pinball Fantasies, as Pinball Gold.

Pinball Fantasies was originally released on the Amiga, and according to some reports, it was an incomplete, buggy game because Digital Illusions rushed to get it out in time for Christmas. The PC version is free of just about all these bugs, though there remains one major rules oversight (no multiball)."

-- excerpt taken from Erik Mooney's FAQ, Rules Sheet and Strategy Guide to Pinball Fantasies