In my review of TILT, the pinball documentary, you may recall I said that George Gomez made me want to design pinball tables. Some, however, are completely new creations. The more complex tables like Addams Family and Medieval Madness don't seem to be there, but Pinbot, High Speed, and many others are faithfully recreated. Many tables are recreations of actual classic pinball tables from manufacturers like Bally, Gottlieb, and Willams. I personally found that camera-scrolling with the ball was more exciting and gives you a nice view of the table details (F4 is my favorite view setting). There are many camera views to choose from, and you can either follow the ball's movement, or keep a static view of the whole table. The shift keys work as the flippers, and enter launches the ball. Then just launch the table, press '5' to add credits, and '1' to start. It's light years ahead of anything I've seen before.Īll you have to do is download and install the Future Pinball program, and then browse the collection of over 300 tables and download whatever you'd like into the tables folder within the Future Pinball directory. Future Pinball is just about as close to the real thing as a computer could get. Luckily, I caved and decided to check it out. If I'm going to play pinball, I said to myself, I want the physical aspects of the ball rolling around the table, and the clacking of actual flippers.

I have seen video pinball before and really just not liked it. In the last couple issues, the were adamant about the coolness of a MAME-like pinball emulator project from Australia that's been around for a few years now called Future Pinball. Now that I'm going to have a game room, I smartly subscribed to GameRoom magazine (great magazine so far).

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