You'll have to scroll down a bit, Karen, to actually get at the games..

Shows you how many millions of folks visit here , eh? ;-) that I know every visitor by name.. Hyuk!

Ze Deutsche Beemer Pinballen .. Ya !

I just HAVE to post this.. Even though it's being serious when comparing this game to a BMW.. that's what makes it so funny..and it's probably a good game for the price.. $0.00 ...
And hey, It's way better them the Volksvagen Bora pinball,(a PC game) which has the coolest effects when starting up, and shutting down, but it plays like sh*t...er... are't BMW and VW/Porsche competitors?.. I've owned 2 Porsches, and one AUDI, but never a Beemer, as I'm not a "real" doctor ;-) Doc

Another!

It seems there are a LOT of LEGO Pinball fanatics.. a whole new underground i never knew about .. er.. that's what makes it an underground, i guess..

Check this out! A LEGO pinball machine!

Don't forget to check out the Cassette Cover Art Gallery!!

The Cassette Cover Art Gallery has many hundreds of hard to find, and even extremely rare, cassette cover scans , just for curiosity's sake, or if you need to repair that cassette with a missing sleeve or tape label, and have given up finding a scan anywhere else, you could well find it here..
Also many interesting bits of  cassette trivia, and history, and who knows what else.
It's worth a minute..
See you there!

Tell your friends anemones
And please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 post a link on your blog site too

Pinball Dreams for Mac OSX

Yup.. it exists.. really!...... HERE
Anyone who played PC pinball 20 years ago will remember Pinball Dreams.. it belonged to a group of pinballs that were considered at the time, as good as it got, which included 8 ball deluxe and the other two Amtex pinballs, Pinball fantasies, Epic Pinball etc..
 I hadn't played it for some time until i found the Visual & Future Pinball ports of it, which were, I thought, all that existed for Pinball Dreams, and unfortunately, only on Windows..
That's changed now, however, with the recent release of the Mac version.
And... it's GOOOD...
Without further ado.. here's some screenshots...
first the initial startup screen shows one of the four tables.. here is "Ignition"..

To the top left is the controls info dialog.. for more info there's arrows to scroll between screens..

and the top right of the screen is the settings dialog..

and back to the tables screen.. this next one is the sort of wild west one "Steel Wheel"

next is "Beat Box"

and the last one to choose from is the awesome Nightmare, here called"Graveyard"

After selecting a table, you get this screen... for Graveyard, for example)

although there's options for three modes of display, such as moving and such, I prefer this one where I can see the entire table

And here's another, "Beatbox"

I'd like to mention that the sounds are not only authentic to the original game, but really high resolution too...

And now a shot of "steel Wheel"...

And last but not least of them... "Ignition"..

More later , Folks!

There are really GOOD pinballs out there for OSX..

Why i spent so much effort reviewing the new BAKNO pinball and not also the really top rate pinballs that also exist stumps me.. so i will now resolve that..
Starting with one called Pinball HD..
Back when I first got into computers, a game of this calibre would easily cost 40$.. however, maybe because of the recent "device" trend to sell 'apps' at only a few $, this one also,  unlike the BAKNO one mentioned previously, at from $10 - 20$ , this one only sold for less than 5$..
And what a deal it was...
This is the screen you first see when starting up..

You see there are three different tables "The Deep", "Wild West", and "Jungle Style"
The Deep looks like this..once you have gotten past the introduction (which can be bypassed, and only happens at the start of a new game).
I selected 'resume" after starting the pinball up, even though I hadn't played it in a month, it was right where i had left off back then...

Now I switched to 'Wild West".. which is the simplest table of the three, but still has that exceptionally smooth ballplay that the game boasts..

My favorite, though, has to be the "Jungle Style" table. It has four flippers, as opposed to the 2 of the other tables, and the detail on this table, and amount of bumpers, and other interesting things,  are amazing, ..

That's all for now.. but have a closer look at all the detail of all these tables... until I return with an other review of  one of the other good pins for OSX.. which will be the new port of "Pinball Dreams" to the Mac.. an exceptional job , too..

And PS.. remember, click on any picture for a full screen rendering of the shot, at 1680x1050..

See you!

Still tops!

If your running OSX and still haven't heard that Tristan has been ported over to it.. you owe yourself  to check this out... it has the most incredible smooth action of  any pinball i've ever played.. really simple ..only one table.. like all the Little Wing pinballs,.. but when it's this good a table.. who cares?

The Table Editor for Mac Pinball

OK.. i rebooted and it didn't crash on me this time (that seems to be the ticket for the moment)
So I took a few screen shots of the table editor...
Here is the default screen you see on choosing 'editor'

If you want to actually find out how to use it though, you'll need a little help..

And that's just what you get.. a "little' help file.

As it scrolls down, and the window isn't resizeable , in order to see the entire help file, i scrolled down and pasted the rest of the file onto the screen shot, so now you can read the whole help file in one go!

You can move the table around, and change its orientation..

as well as there being several blank templates to choose from

That's all for now.. I have to say.. this is a HUGE improvement over the previous MacPinball aka Pinball...

I actually found myself playing it for half an hour.. just to see all the tables..

Cheers!

A new MacPinball

Well, it used to be called 'MacPinball' but since already the previous release they shortened it to just 'pinball' .. i guess there aren't enough games with that name yet (!)..
And quite frankly.. it sucked..
Here's a shot of it.. after a couple of minutes you pretty much had as much as you could take of it...

There's just nothing to it.. no adjustability.. doesn't even fill the screen.. dull.. i could go on..

Well.. they must have taken letters of criticism (including mine, i might add) to heart..

They completely redid it...

Here is the startup settings dialog .. it's not enabled by default, which is one of the many defaults they got really wrong (more on that later).. but you can enable it by pressing the option key *before* startup..

You'll notice that there is not only the option to choose between windowed and full, but the resolution is selectable also (I chose the maximum for my Mac, which was 1680x1050.. here's what that looks like now..

It scrolls during play.. as shown below..

You can also select camera angles..to give a more full view of the table..

There are apparently, 10 tables to choose from.. here's a few...

Unfortunately, that's all the screen shots I could give you.. there is also a table editor window, where you can *design your own tables!*

.... cool.. but it keeps crashing on me after startup.. the only way I've been able to play it is to re-boot first, and make it the first application I open..

Although I think the problem is actually the recent latest updates to Snow Leopard, after which my computer has become unresponsive and dog slow, and memory management is a joke now, there's little I can do about it..

They *could* adjust the defaults however.. the camera angles are not controlled by the arrow keys, but A,S,Z, & X.. leaving the arrow keys (like a cheap flash pinball) for the flippers.

The shift keys are not assignable, and if you want to use the Z and / for flippers, you must first re-assign the tilt and shake keys, to leave room for the camera keys to be re-assigned, to the shift keys, to then re-assign the z and / for flippers, and then re-assign the arrow keys to the camera angles and then the return for the launch...

Ouch.!!!!

 It took me HALF AN HOUR to figure this out..

It still crashes on me now, but when it works, it cycles between table.. instead of just racking up points, you complete a table, and then get to go on to an other table, or stay on the one you're on...

More later....!

Update: Dec 12th..

It is now up to version 8.0.10.. and no longer crasheson startup  (for me).. seems quite stable for me now..they may have had others also have this happening, and  found the problem!

Getting rid of my Worldwide Pinball collection..

I'm sure there's a pinball devotee who'll shell out for one of the *TOP* computer pinball collections in the world..
Amost every country that has ever issued a pinball game is represented, and they're all here.. if it was made, it's in the collection.. I spent thousands .. but I lost count how much...

Leave a comment here if this interests you...

I should also mention that there's more than is pictured.. consisting of just the CDs with no covers.. contained in a couple of CD cases. and a box etc..

One Nifty Alarm Clock!

...and it's a pinball machine too..



Here's the original article

Sorry about the lack of new posts and games...

But I'll try to add something interesting soon..
It's just funny how quickly your priorities can change when your staring the reaper in the face.
I am not even over the hump yet.. i just thought i better say *something* ;-)
....soon...

Well Tristan Is out soon!

But not for me.. I'm sorry to say.. i have neither an iPad or iPhone.. and even if i had an iPhone.. pinball on it would strain my gettin' ole eyes.!

But I've got an icon for it.. I've been working on Hi resolution substitutes for all the pinballs out there.. because even the Little Wing pinballs are sometimes lacking in that regard..
After 35 years in the arts , i may as well have *something* to show for it!

Ctazy Pinball gadgets no. #1

Well, I'm adding a new section to my blog.. called 'crazy pinball gadgets'
 I run into enough that either strike me as weird , outside , or just give me a chuckle...!

This first one is under the 'chuckle' category..
Got a friend who loves pinball?..
And does he hit you up for a small loan all the time..
Well here's the answer..
Just slide a bill inside this, and he aint gonna get it unless he makes 3 perfect shots.. it *wont* open until then...!

I found it here

Anybody out there?

Is there anybody out there? Especially in europe.. since i can't seem to complete ANY transactions with germany, and all the pinballs i am looking for are there.. i may need a hand..
Anyone?

Freakshow Pinball

I finally found .. the actual Sims pinball game..!

Yup.. in all my collecting rare pinballs, one of the hardest to find HAS to be the stand-alone sims pinball game that came on one of their cd's..

Although it's posted on most of the online flash game sites, its nice to be able to play it without all those adverts blinking away at you...
Here's a screen shot of it in action..

***************Play It Online**************

Here

or

Here

OK sunday now.. (almost) 16 million and counting...

I think i'm gonna pull the plug.. it'll take a week to get to 100 million.. i'l just let the balls slip by... think my high score ids safe for ever..!

Pirate Pinball Over 11 million points so far..

Let's not get confuscitated now y'all.. it's the Flash pinball, not the 'other' pirates pinball..
as in heare be low...

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so now ya'll.. if you play hard you can get upwards of , like 30 thousand points..
If yer the obsessive type, tho.. and wanna make a , like, "mark" on the world, ya can try for what i did, so far..
After just 2 days straight, of playing Pirate Pinball, i got me 11 million 600 thousand points..
at 9 on saturday night..as so:

Phew!! Who Knowz where its gonna end...!

By...............
Doccus Rockus Maximus

PS...
The 'Secret' see, is the 'Seagull shoot' .. all ya gotta do is bonk a seagull with the pinball, and ya get an extra ball.. i musta got over 50 free balls so far..

pps ...the thing that just *gets* me here.. iz i KNOW it's a virtual bird.. a 'synthetic seagull'.. but they lets out such a yelp when they get bonked by the pinball it just makes me jump
yeah, it really bugs me....but not them, so much.. they just flies off after a yelp anyways.. it's just a virtual pinball, so its gotta be light ;-)
Hey ya know i use to have a couple sorta pet seagulls, well, they just walked into my apartment one day when they were chicks, an plunked themselves on the sofa.. i guess they was lost, but after me leading them out to where 'mum' or whatever was, afterward they always came and visited... every year..
I called em Tom an Jerry..
Dont ask me which was which!

Pirates Pinbal World's Highest Score

Yup. been at it for a couple days already. trying for 100 million.
Here's the proof

OK i know, given, it's a 'flash' pinball, not a real one, and yup i got no life ;-).
But aint NO way anyone's EVER gonna beat me at this score. I DARE YA!!
here's the link.
http://pinballgamesonline.info/full_screen.php?id=4

To all in Japan..

I expressed my sympathies about the earthquake here.. in Japanese. on the day of the disaster... and suddenly  a few weeks later i find the post has been somehow removed..


I do not know what kind of animal would do such a thing.

You still have my thoughts and prayers though...

Money Shot...

Water Water everywhere.. and not a ball to pin...

Tiki!

A new "hot" wheel pinball

i just love the music....

This one is Kool...

Y'know, some of these are just not downloadable, which means the best I can do is put up a link to them.. so - in line with my policy of no ads or junk pages, i always try to find the sites with the least bloat.. such as this one.. it ain't perfect, but it's OK

This is about as good as it gets for flash Pinballs!

Bam! Bam!

Mack Trucks

Wildsnake's Online Game

Hi Gear