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Review for Pinball Fantasies on Super Nintendo.
Taken from Nintendo Magazine System 29 - February 1995 (UK)
You can find this issue in full here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/nintendomagazinesystem1.html
#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#SNES
#pinball
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games
There is something comforting about a pinball game. Every generation of gaming has a version.
I fondly remember the Pokemon pinball game, and Sonic Spinball specifically.
It's pure gaming comfort food for me.
I can get lost in them when things are bad and just forget about anything and focus on the pretty lights and sounds. π
Truth be told, I didn't know what to play first on my PS5. So as games were installing and downloading, I updated the PS4 version of Pinball FX to the PS5 one and turned on ray-tracing.
It's so pretty this way, such a nice step up from the PS4 version. Specifically the Williams tables;
@Dennis5891 @OutofPrintArchive I apologise for the somewhat shameless pluggery, and you're very welcome to tell me to pound sand. HOWEVER: you may well get a kick out of this mini-documentary series I made about pinball video games. https://youtu.be/BfcQwuH9FSY
@lunarloony@dosgame.club @Dennis5891@mstdn.games @OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I see you have SlamTilt and Crush games in there. Iβll assume itβs legit. Queued!
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza @Dennis5891@mstdn.games @OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games Yeah dude. I should also mention it's in three parts (plus some bonus addenda) so if you think something's missing, it might not be!
@lunarloony@dosgame.club @Dennis5891@mstdn.games @OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I checked them all to verify ahead of time ;)
@lunarloony@dosgame.club @Dennis5891@mstdn.games
Oh not at all!
Looking forward to watching it! π
Iβm watching the Persona 2024 live tour in Yokohama right now, but Iβve just put it in my queu.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I hope you enjoy!
@lunarloony@dosgame.club
Just finished the concert.
From the first glance, I'm positive that I will.
But I'm a little exhausted right now, so I'm gonna get some food and save these for when I do another scanning session tomorrow afternoon. :)
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games It's surprising how downgraded it looks compared to the A500 version. It's not just simplified color palette, but completely redrawn graphics.
@apzpins@mstdn.games
Ports back in the day were so much more interesting as we got wildly different versions of games a lot of the time.
Compared to now, where games are basically exactly the same with just some minor technical differences.
I know it's unrealistic, but I wish it was more like the old days.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I still have less good memories of being super stoked about some cool game coming to something I own and then the immense disappointment when the port was really lame compared to the original running on better hardware. Or the "port" sharing nothing but the name, like some of late PS2 games "ported" from PS3.
I wonder what's the story behind SNES' Pinball Fantasies? The hardware obviously wasn't the issue. Lack of access to the source material?