Atari Pinball games?

[JPjuice23]

So I can only think of two.

 

Video Pinball

Midnight magic.

 

Are there any others??? Thanks.

[Nukey Shay]

Bumper Bash

[+save2600]

...and Bumper Bash is pretty good save for a little erratic ball behavior and some weak ball travel math.

 

Midnight Magic is the most playable IMO. Fun to rack up the bonus multiplier and see all the pretty colors cycle.

[Legend]

Not nearly enough in my opinion.

[AtariLeaf]

Not nearly enough in my opinion.

 

+ a million.

 

Anyone working on any homebrew pinball games per chance?

[+FujiSkunk]

There have been a couple of Midnight Magic hacks that might tide you over until some homebrewer gets crackin'. See this and this.

[JPjuice23]

Aw that's disappointing. I really thought they'd be alot more considering Pinball is like the father of videogames. I'd assume it's cause companies thought it would be too hard to recreate the physics of actual pinball on an Atari 2600?? Or maybe they didn't think it would sell that well? Or maybe it was just not something many companies focused on, and that was the only reason.

 

Either way, I'm happy it's more than 2. (Although 3 isn't THAT much better...) Thanks for letting me know guys.

Edited April 12, 2012 by JPjuice23

[AtariLeaf]

 

Either way, I'm happy it's more than 2. (Although 3 isn't THAT much better...) Thanks for letting me know guys.

 

Bumper Bash is a hard one to find and unless you stumble across one cheap, they can be pricey. There's one on ebay that's been there forever for $85. My local gamestore has one with a poor label and they want $80.

 

I'd love to see a 7800 homebrew pinball game.

[Tin_Lunchbox]

Ah, I had heard of Bumper Bash but forgotten about it. I watched online video and it seems appealing but the ball behavior looked a little choppy (could possibly have been the video) and the ball physics are occasionally inexplicable.

 

Midnight Magic is clearly the best, despite that I'm usually a guy who doesn't prefer games that sacrifice the left and right of the screen ("pillar boxing") for authenticity. It's clearly the best "pinball simulation." I'd suspect it has an edge over the others, I'd suspect it has more advanced capacity in hardware and more code.

 

By contrast Atari's original 2600/VCS full-screen Pinball pretty much abandons any notion of simulation, well it does have flippers and pretty good ball physics and smooth ball movement. But as opposed to "simulation" it's an okay-to-better-than-okay "game."

 

Meanwhile Bumper Bash makes it most of the way to simulation, loses something to both its competitors on ball physics and smoothness, but at least has a roundish ball, which neither of the others does.