Time Cruise Pinball - TurboGrafx-16 Quick Play

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Published on February 23, 2023 10:29:17 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK47bt1JEI

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Time Cruise (1991)

Duration: 13:46

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I played a round of Time Cruise Pinball for the TurboGrafx-16 and thought it was an ok pinball game. There are so many pinball games out there to compete against so this one kind of gets lost. It is neat that there are so many screens to travel back and forth to and the many bonus games you can play but something is missing for me from this game. I would play it again for sure but there are others out there that would be ahead of this one..

A little about the game:

Time Cruise (known as Time Cruise II in Japan) is a science fiction themed pinball video game developed by Face for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 game system, released on November 8, 1991 in Japan and December 1992 in the United States.

Time Cruise's plot centers around Eric, a young scientific genius. Eric learns the secret of time travel by channeling with an intelligent extraterrestrial lifeform. After 8 years of hard work, Eric completes his time travel system (seven buildings with a time-travel pod moving between them at high speeds) and sets off in his shining silver time travel pod to explore the limits of time and space.

The Time Cruise playfield consists of seven screens and scrolls both horizontally and vertically. The player can nudge the table to influence the ball's path, but doing this too many times can cause a tilt condition, resulting in a lost ball. Scattered around the playfield are five different time travel switches. Hitting a switch with the ball activates its corresponding time travel mechanism, and landing the ball in an activated mechanism causes a time warp to take place. These alternate times range from a prehistoric sea floor in 460,000,000 B.C. to an orbiting Mars colony in 2054, and take the form of bonus stages where the player can earn points and extra balls. Occasionally, due to flaws in the time travel system the player will be brought to an alternate dimension (a sixth bonus stage) rather than the time period they intended to warp to. The game ends either when the player loses all of their balls, or when they attain a score of 99,999,999 which causes an ending cut-scene and the game's credits to be displayed.

Developer_Face
Publisher-JP: Face
NA: Turbo Technologies Inc.
Composer-Hiroto Saitō
Nozomu Takahashi
Platform-PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
Release-JP: November 8, 1991
NA: December 1992
Genre - Pinball
Mode - Single-player