Pinball Illusions

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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 were 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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Part of the Following Groups

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

User Reviews

A good pinball game that could've been great if it wasn't so buggy.

DOS

Roedie (5252)

Critic Reviews

Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Sep 27, 1995	92 out of 100	92
Pelit	Amiga	Mar, 1995	91 out of 100	91
CU Amiga	Amiga	Mar, 1995	89 out of 100	89
Amiga Joker	Amiga CD32	May, 1995	89 out of 100	89
Amiga Games	Amiga CD32	Jul, 1995	88 out of 100	88
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Nov, 1994	87 out of 100	87
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Sep, 1995	86 out of 100	86
Play Time	Amiga CD32	Jan, 1995	85 out of 100	85
The DOS Spirit	DOS	Feb 28, 2009	5 out of 6	83
Power Play	DOS	Oct, 1995	75 out of 100	75

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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.

Awards

• Amiga Joker
  • Issue 02/1996 – #3 Best Simulation in 1995 (Readers' Vote)

Information also contributed by Martin Smith and Roedie