Pinball Illusions
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Published by

21st Century Entertainment Ltd.

Developed by

Digital Illusions CE AB

Released

1995

Platforms

Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS

Genre

Action

Perspective

Top-down

Gameplay

Arcade, Pinball

Description

Pinball Illusions is the successor to the Pinball Fantasies, using an upgraded game engine. The tables are Babewatch, Law & Justice, Extreme Sports, and (on PC CD versions) The Vikings. These contain ramps, bonus areas, and combo sequences to set up. All the artwork was produced in true 256 colors from the ground up for AGA Amigas and the PC, rather than originating in 32 colors on older Amigas.

New to this version is multiball: Pinball Illusions supports up to six balls simultaneously, in which case it switches to high-resolution mode. CD versions use CD audio for music.

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Screenshots

Pinball Illusions Amiga CD32 Extreme Sports table.

Pinball Illusions Amiga CD32 Actual title screen.

Pinball Illusions Amiga CD32 Table description.

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Promo Images

Pinball Illusions Magazine Advertisement

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User Reviews

A good pinball game that could've been great if it wasn't so buggy.	DOS	Roedie (5247)

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Critic Reviews

Amiga CD32 Gamer	Amiga CD32	Jan, 1995	96 out of 100	96
Excalibur	Amiga CD32	Mar 16, 1995	92 out of 100	92
Joystick (French)	Amiga	Mar, 1995	90 out of 100	90
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Apr, 1995	88 out of 100	88
Amiga Games	Amiga CD32	Jul, 1995	88 out of 100	88
Play Time	Amiga CD32	Jan, 1995	85 out of 100	85
Score	Amiga	Mar, 1995	85 out of 100	85
Power Play	DOS	Oct, 1995	75 out of 100	75
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Oct, 1995	71 out of 100	71
Génération 4	Amiga	Jan, 1995	63 out of 100	63

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Trivia

Successor

Although Digital Illusions never programmed on the Amiga again, 21st Century released Pinball Mania as a supposed continuation of the series. It was bundled with the Amiga when Escom relaunched it.

Tables

Digital Illusions used the same 4 tables of this game in the PlayStation / Sega Saturn release True Pinball. The difference? On the PlayStation & Saturn the tables were modeled in 3D.

Version differences

The PC CD-ROM version has one more table that was not found in the original Amiga version: The Vikings. This table was removed from the Amiga version at the last minute, as they felt it wasn't of a high enough quality to merit the game needing an extra disk. As both Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies had four tables, as did most other pinball games of the day, this wasn't a popular decision.