Digital Pinball Tables - TV Tropes
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Good luck finding this at your local arcade.
On this wiki, "Digital Pinball Table" refers to a Pinball game that exists only as software, usually running on Video Game Systems or home computers. Many digital pinballs are characterized by their use of gadgets and gimmicks that cannot exist in a Real Life pinball machine, such as monsters that wander the playfield, teleporting balls, or modes that abruptly change the rules of physics.
While many digital pinballs are created as side projects by video game developers, some companies have found fame focusing on digital pinballs. These include:
- LittleWing, a two-person Japanese software firm and one of the first software houses focusing on digital pinballs. Almost all of their games are original tables, with realistic designs free from the more fantastic elements of other digital pinballs.
- Zen Studios: Creators of the Pinball FX and Zen Pinball series of digital pinball frameworks, with numerous pinball tables licensed from comic book and Science Fiction properties.
- Barnstorm Games (formerly Cunning Developments/Fuse Games/Silverball Studios). With a 3D physics engine that is often praised for its realism, this is the company behind the Pro Pinball series of games, as well as Pinball Spinoffs like Metroid Prime Pinball, Mario Pinball Land, and Frogger Pinball.
- KAZe Co. Ltd., a former Japanese game developer best known for the Sega Saturn pinball titles Last Gladiators and Necronomicon.
Pinball Spinoffs are a popular source of digital pinballs. Also see Physical Pinball Tables and Licensed Pinball Tables. Compare Digital Tabletop Game Adaptation.
Digital pinball tables and games with their own pages:
- 3-D Ultra Pinball
- Balls of Steel
- The Crush Pinball series
- Crüe Ball
- Crystal Caliburn
- Davids Midnight Magic
- Dragons Revenge
- Extreme Pinball
- Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball
- Full Tilt! Pinball (includes "Space Cadet")
- Ghostbusters Pinball
- Golden Logres (also known as Pinball Golden Logres, Pinball Power, and Neo Golden Logres)
- Jinni Zeala
- Judge Dredd Pinball
- Kirby's Pinball Land
- Last Gladiators
- Loony Labyrinth
- Macadam Bumper
- Mario Pinball Land
- Metroid Prime Pinball
- Microsoft Pinball Arcade
- Mile High Pinball
- Obsession Pinball
- Absolute Pinball
- Virtual Pinball (peripheral)
- Odama
- Paranoiascape - a First-Person Pinball game made on acid. It's as huge a Mind Screw as you'd expect.
- Pinball (1984)
- The Pinball Arcade
- Pinball Construction Set
- Pinball Deluxe, which is an entire pinball arcade for mobile phones. featuring the tables The Great Carnival Extravaganza, Space Frontier, BRIX (a table based on Breakout and includes features only viable on a digital cabinet, such as a black hole that takes you between levels and "pins" that are Breakout blocks, physically shattering when hit,) at first, and the DLC packs Wild West, Fastball, Treasure Hunter, The Apparatus, available to purchase, as well as a Bagatelle machine for a bonus mode.
- The Pinball Dreams series:
- The Pinball of the Dead
- Pinball Quest
- Pinball Science: A video game spin-off of The Way Things Work
- PinOut
- Pokémon Pinball
- Power Rangers Zeo: Full Tilt Battle Pinball
- The Pro Pinball series:
- Psycho Pinball
- Raster Blaster
- Revenge of the 'Gator
- Roller Ball
- Rollers Of The Realm
- Ruiner Pinball
- Sega Flipper
- Silverball
- Sonic Pinball Party
- Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
- Star Trek Pinball
- Super Pinball: Behind The Mask
- Super Pinball II: The Amazing Odyssey
- Time Cruise
- Video Pinball: An arcade game from Atari, regarded as the first pinball simulation.
- World Flipper: A gacha pinball action RPG
- Yoku's Island Express: A Metroidvania navigated using pinball mechanics.
- Zaccaria Pinball
- Zen Pinball and Pinball FX tables:
- Aliens vs. Pinball:
- The Avengers
- Back to the Future
- Doom (based on the 2016 game)
- Deadpool
- Plants vs. Zombies Pinball
- Portal
- Sorcerer's Lair
- Spider-Man
- The Walking Dead (based on Telltale Games' adaptation)
Other notable digital pinball tables include:
- 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
- 3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball
- Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island
- Akira Psycho Ball
- Angel Egg
- Battle Pinball
- Black Flaggers
- Bumper Bash
- Demon's Tilt
- Dino Land
- Fairy Tower
- Frogger Pinball
- Galactic Pinball
- Inks
- Monster Fair
- Pac-Man Pinball Advance
- ParanoiaScape
- Pinball Breaker
- Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon
- Pinball World
- Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot
- SlamTilt
- Snowball!
- Take A Break! Pinball
- Time Scanner
- Tristan