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MacPinball

MacPinball

3D pinball game with lots of amazing effects and options.

Version:  6.1

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Oh my, they actually want money for this

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Contributed by: Aardy Thursday, January 03 2008 @ 03:28 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Where to start ...

Graphics: very poor, even amateurish. Sound: very poor, sounds like a ZX Spectrum. Ball physics and dynamics: very poor, almost non-existent.

It won't even go full screen on my PowerBook G4 (it tries then gives up and reverts to windowed mode, no error message). No key customisation, so the keys you're given is what you have to use - and it's the arrow keys. Whoever heard of playing pinball one handed?

The table has no background graphics, not even a simulation of the 1950s style scoring wheels, no dot matrix style 1990s screens, no video mode. No background music, extremely amateurish sound effects reminiscent os a 1980s home computer.

If you want ultra-realistic pinball get an OS9 capable Mac and the ProPinball series, nothing touches them for realism, stunning graphics and music specially written straight off the CD Unfortunately they stopped doing Mac software long ago. Littlewing is the next best option and they appear to be the only people doing pinball for the Mac these days.

If you want to marvel at how not to do pinball then by all means pay for this, but don't blame me when you get bored! :-)   
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