Microsoft Pinball Arcade (1998) - installing and playing on Windows 98 (PCem) - The Retro Experience

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(English below) Gameplay de Microsoft Pinball Arcade, simulador de pinballs reales desarrollado por Microsoft y lanzado en 1998 para PC y posteriormente para Game Boy Color. El juego incluye recreaciones de 7 pinballs de diferentes épocas de la famosa marca Gottlieb, y buscaba realismo en el aspecto visual y las físicas. En este gameplay muestro el juego instalándolo en un PC emulado en PCem con Windows 98 y juego una o varias partidas a cada una de las mesas.

En mi opinión el juego está bien, aunque la mayoría de las mesas son más algo curioso que realmente divertidas de jugar, solo las dos últimas, Haunted House y Cue Ball Wizard son las que tienen más atractivo al ser las más complejas. Los gráficos prerenderizados no están mal a la hora de representar fielmente las mesas, pero las físicas, por mucho que se buscaran el realismo, no terminan de gustarme del todo, la bola hace cosas raras en ocasiones. Además, el framerate es demasiado bajo y cuesta seguir la bola, esto por lo que sé es del juego, no de la emulación.

Las primeras mesas resulta que tienen música de fondo licenciadas, por lo tanto con copyright, así que he tenido que usar la función de YouTube de silenciar la música conservando los efectos de sonido (esas mesas no tenían música en la realidad de todas formas), por eso el audio se oye un poco raro.

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Gameplay of Microsoft Pinball Arcade, a real pinball simulator developed by Microsoft and released in 1998 for PC and later for Game Boy Color. The game includes recreations of 7 pinballs from different periods of the famous Gottlieb brand, and sought realism in the visual aspect and physics. In this gameplay I show the game installing it on a PC emulated on PCem with Windows 98 and I play one or several credits to each one of the tables.

In my opinion the game is ok, although most of the tables are more something curious than really fun to play, only the last two, Haunted House and Cue Ball Wizard are the most complex. The prerendered graphics are good when it comes to represent the tables, but the physics, as much as they were looking for realism, I don't like them at all, the ball does strange things sometimes. In addition, the framerate is too low and it is difficult to follow the ball, this as I understand is a game thing, not of the emulation.

The first tables have licensed background music, therefore with copyright, so I had to use the YouTube function to mute the music while preserving the sound effects (those tables had no music in reality anyway), so the audio sounds a little weird.

00:00 installation
01:15 the game




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