Pinball Hall of Fame The Williams Collection
Pending
4 Stars Pinball Hall of Fame
Great graphic’s, fun games, many different one’s to pick from, you do not have to play the same one over and over. If you like pinball games this is a good one.
4 Stars excellent game awsome graphics
This game is very nice the graphic’s is awesome very well design u can choose many type of pinball machines feels like youre in a real pinball arcade place. i recommended it if u are a big fan of pinball this is a true collection.
5 Stars Arcade Pinball With No Waiting Lines!!!!!!!
In one word, WOW! Having just got a PSP for Christmas and while on the hunt for games I came across this one just by chance. I read raving reviews and was hyped to play, though I still had my doubts. My doubt was that I had a sneaking suspicion that pinball on the PSP would be pretty much the same as every other video pinball game I’ve ever played. Great fun though horribly inacurate. Let me tell you now this is not like all the others I’ve played.
Graphics, sound, and physics are all melted together to the verge of perfection. Yes, the PSP’s screen is limited here and at times it is difficult to track where your ball is, however this is not the fault of the game. The game dose a decent job of zooming in on bumpers and rails while paning out in time to focus on the flippers. The camera movements feel natural and dont throw you off at all. The physics are on as well with no unnatural floating or bumping. Sound effects accompany perfectly with the sound of a metal pinball rolling down the board while picking up speed is dead on. Seriously, it’s that good.
Now The Games!
Those same chills I used to get as a kid from making a pinball board flash multicolored lights and making that reverberating rumble sound have been brought back. Load screens feature the original back glass graphics that bring back memories for me. The games span from 1970 to the early 1990’s and offer a good variaty of boards from simple bumper and fliper to elaborate rails and chutes with a whole gag bag of lights and sounds.
The main screen is also set in an arcade which is a nice touch.
To put it blunt, if you like pinball, get this. Yes, it can take a toll on your eyes after a while. So what, put on a pair of glasses. Where else can you relive the glory days of pinball while driving to Florida.
5 Stars Much cheaper than owning the real thing!
I love pinball! My brother and I have 2, a Funhouse and a Whirlwind. They’re in his basement and once in a while I get the chance to go over there and play them. With the PSP version I can play them anytime! I would love to get a PinBot, High Speed, Fish Tales, Addams Family, Twilight Zone, ST: TNG, etc… but there’s no way I can afford all of them. At the very least I can play Pinbot and other classics on my PSP. Did I mention that I love pinball?
Mark
4 Stars Pinball Games
If you grew up when pinball machines were everywhere then this game is for you …it will bring back memories…I love this game…I am a big fan of pinball games and can’t wait for more old time pinball machines to be turned into games…
Pinball Hall of Fame The Gottlieb Collection
Pinball Hall of Fame – The Gottlieb Collection lets you Relive the days when the pinball table was king. It resurrects seven of Gottlieb’s greatest pinball machines spanning the 60 years of arcade pinball’s golden age. The game play, visuals and sound effects are so authentic, you’ll feel like you’re in a real arcade.
2 Stars A Mediocre Sim Filled With Careless Gliches
I was never much of a Gottlieb fan when trolling the arcade with a fat pocketful of quarters. I found their machines to be an exercise in frustration, with their lazy board angles, weak kickbacks, and exceptionally wide spaces between flippers. When the machines were in anything but tip-top condition (which very few actually were), frustration could easily lead to a smoldering anger as the balls seemed to naturally be drawn to the gutters while you had nothing to respond with except anemic flippers and a bruised hip to send the offending machine smashing against the back wall. “The Gottlieb Collection” by Crave Entertainment not only has helped me relive these unfortunate experiences of a misspent youth, they have compounded these frustrations by providing a product so full of glitches that I have relegated it to the back of my video game collection. It’s all there in unfortunate detail; the anemic flippers, sleepy kickbacks, and quarter-cheating gutters that had me steering clear of these devious machines in the arcade. As if this wasn’t enough, Crave has magnanimously added virtual balls that magically pass through flippers, bumpers, and targets along with becoming eternally ensconced in holes that will not release even after a tilt, forcing you to reset the game. These are only a few examples of why beta testing is so important before releasing a product for retail. I gazed at my Playstation 2 in wonderment as the multiball feature in “Tee’d Off” was reduced to a sputtering, frame-skipping, inaccurate mess. It had served me so well during all of the GTA mayhem….was the processor finally on its last legs? Did anyone at Crave Entertainment double check the game coding before sending the DVD out? It is a shame, because the emulations really do show a potential for fun. I only ask that I be given a semblance of body english without an over eager tilt (the way these machines truly are played in the arcade), and for the flippers and bumpers to become solid once again.
I would pass on this collection, but by all means, purchase “The Williams Collection”, also by Crave Entertainment. They seemed to have learned from their mistakes and released an exceptional product, one which has me lofting high the “Crave Entertainment” banner and reliving the golden age of pinball once again.
3 Stars Not bad, but not as realistic as you might think
If you aren’t a real-world pinball aficionado, you might not be as aware of the slightly unrealistic physics during gameplay. I’ve played tens of thousands of games of pinball and never have I seen a solid steel ball bounce around like it commonly does in this game. Plus, many of the so-called “pinball games” are actually not pinball, but other types of amusement games. However, this is still a pretty nice package. The newer release, “Williams Pinball Classics” dramatically improves on the gameplay physics, but suffers from bugs that will crash the game while you’re in the middle of it.
This game suffers from a number of serious problems. First and foremost, there are bugs in the code which will cause pinballs to disappear or get stuck and you will lose your game. I didn’t like this in the real world and I can’t imagine the designers intended the software to emulate this behavior – it’s annoying, especially if you’re in the middle of the challenge – kiss an hour’s worth of time goodbye.
Second, and perhaps most importantly, as a pinball aficionado, I wax nostalgic for all the old games and many of these I’ve played in real life. And it brings back a lot of memories… bad memories of how profoundly bad many of Gottlieb’s machines were. Some games are simply unenjoyable to play. There is very little skill involved when in at least 1/4 of the games, a significant percentage of the time the ball will drain before you can even get a flipper on it. I don’t blame the programmers. I blame Gottlieb for designing machines that eat money and are only worthy of being in a bar played by drunk people who don’t care. But on the PSP, this becomes an exercise in frustration. The Williams version is dramatically better and shows how superior Williams pinball games are. The developers could have done much better with virtually any pinball company other than Gottlieb. I look forward to Stern and Bally versions — anything is better than the eternally frustrating tables in this game.
Third, the game physics seem to alter depending upon the view. This is not a figment of my imagination. There are some targets I can more or less easily hit depending upon the cam view. This does not happen in the later Williams version. The developers definitely had some problems in this game they fixed in their newer Williams release. Some of the machines, like Tee’d Off are an exercise in frustration to play, as some essential targets to hit in order to complete the table goals seem almost impossible to complete, due to some bizarre program logic that makes the ball go in one extreme direction or another. You cannot execute any reliable ball-flipping accuracy in this game like you can in the Williams version.
If I could take this game back, I would. It has been more frustrating than entertaining and fun. It reminds me of my worst pinball experiences, playing unforgiving tables that required more dumb luck than skill, and malfunctioning machines that ate my quarters. That’s not the type of nostalgia I was hoping for.
5 Stars Best Version of a Good Collection
This is essentially the same game as on the PS2, except it has an extra 3 tables. The best part, though, is that it has a great viewing angle – tilt the PSP vertical, and it fills the screen. It didn’t include very many modern tables (1992’s Teed Off was the most recent), and Victory is about as generic as you can get, but at least they were based on real tables. I might have knocked off a star for the table selection, but, considering how great the rest of the presentation is, and considering there really aren’t any other games out there like this, then this is a must have for pinball fans.
4 Stars just pick it up
listen, if you like pinball, have a psp, and roughly $20 you can’t go wrong with this game.
5 Stars Awesome recreation of classic pinball tables
You can’t beat the value of this game at $20 or less. Take a stroll through an arcade and play some note-for-note replicas of pinball tables ranging from 1932 up to 1996. Excellent all-around. the scrolling gameplay is a sneeze less than perfect, but that’s to be expected on the smaller screen of the PSP, versus playing it on a computer screen or TV. highlights include Black Hole, Tee’d Off, Aces High and Goin’ Nuts (an unreleased game that is a lot of fun). can’t wait until their next release comes out on February 20th, 2008. it will feature Williams’ tables (including Whirlwind, Black Knight, Funhouse, Gorgar, etc).
Pinball Hall of Fame The Williams Collection
Pending
4 Stars Pinball Hall of Fame
Great graphic’s, fun games, many different one’s to pick from, you do not have to play the same one over and over. If you like pinball games this is a good one.
4 Stars excellent game awsome graphics
This game is very nice the graphic’s is awesome very well design u can choose many type of pinball machines feels like youre in a real pinball arcade place. i recommended it if u are a big fan of pinball this is a true collection.
5 Stars Arcade Pinball With No Waiting Lines!!!!!!!
In one word, WOW! Having just got a PSP for Christmas and while on the hunt for games I came across this one just by chance. I read raving reviews and was hyped to play, though I still had my doubts. My doubt was that I had a sneaking suspicion that pinball on the PSP would be pretty much the same as every other video pinball game I’ve ever played. Great fun though horribly inacurate. Let me tell you now this is not like all the others I’ve played.
Graphics, sound, and physics are all melted together to the verge of perfection. Yes, the PSP’s screen is limited here and at times it is difficult to track where your ball is, however this is not the fault of the game. The game dose a decent job of zooming in on bumpers and rails while paning out in time to focus on the flippers. The camera movements feel natural and dont throw you off at all. The physics are on as well with no unnatural floating or bumping. Sound effects accompany perfectly with the sound of a metal pinball rolling down the board while picking up speed is dead on. Seriously, it’s that good.
Now The Games!
Those same chills I used to get as a kid from making a pinball board flash multicolored lights and making that reverberating rumble sound have been brought back. Load screens feature the original back glass graphics that bring back memories for me. The games span from 1970 to the early 1990’s and offer a good variaty of boards from simple bumper and fliper to elaborate rails and chutes with a whole gag bag of lights and sounds.
The main screen is also set in an arcade which is a nice touch.
To put it blunt, if you like pinball, get this. Yes, it can take a toll on your eyes after a while. So what, put on a pair of glasses. Where else can you relive the glory days of pinball while driving to Florida.
5 Stars Much cheaper than owning the real thing!
I love pinball! My brother and I have 2, a Funhouse and a Whirlwind. They’re in his basement and once in a while I get the chance to go over there and play them. With the PSP version I can play them anytime! I would love to get a PinBot, High Speed, Fish Tales, Addams Family, Twilight Zone, ST: TNG, etc… but there’s no way I can afford all of them. At the very least I can play Pinbot and other classics on my PSP. Did I mention that I love pinball?
Mark
4 Stars Pinball Games
If you grew up when pinball machines were everywhere then this game is for you …it will bring back memories…I love this game…I am a big fan of pinball games and can’t wait for more old time pinball machines to be turned into games…
