![]() It has a 350+ slide walkthrough on all of the table's nuances and features. It has intensity sliders for ambient and table light. It has its original sales brochure that you can peruse. It has an interesting writeup on the history of the table. After navigating a minimal menu system and surprisingly long loading screen to get a game started, I was shocked and amazed at how realistic it looks and feels. What I didn't realize before I started playing was that this videogame is a licensed product, specifically designed to reproduce real, physical tables. It's the lesser-known, more-generic looking game compared to PBFX3, but I gave it a shot (free? okay.). Recently, Stern showed up on the Nintendo store for free. Days or months later, I would find myself putting money into a pinball table at some bar or arcade, and part of me would wake up. And, every time that happened, I would remember that I'm just tired of pinball. Every time I picked up a pinball videogame, I would stop playing within 15 minutes. I got bored of all of them, and newer digital pinball games weren't doing it for me either. Eventually, the allure of digital pinball wore off. These were all great games, and I really enjoyed them. When I was a teenager, I had Pinball Fantasies, Epic Pinball, and Sonic Spinball. ![]() When I was a pre-teen, I loved Full Tilt! for Windows 3.1. ![]() And, unless you have considerable money to burn, either to buy a table or play at a bar, digital pinball is really the only way to do that. Part of me has always been excited at the idea of being able to play pinball any time. I've always had a love-hate relationship with digital pinball. It's the experience of using that perspective to explore every nook and cranny of a contained ecosystem wrought by unimaginable time and human effort. It's the way a consciousness can inhabit the ball itself just like any other vehicle, giving the player a whole new perspective of the physical world. It's the invisible underbelly how the electronics can tie one plunger into countless flow charts. It's how this tiny, metal ball becomes infused with kinetic energy and rips through its own physics playground packed to the brim with the unexpected. I've found it captivating since I was really little. It's how this tiny, metal ball becomes infused with kinetic I have always loved pinball.
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