I finished my advent calendar today. It’s a pinball machine. Building this thing made me want to play pinball on the computer. So I bought a copy of Pinball Arcade for the PS4.
I loved playing pinball on my C64 back in the day. With games like David’s Midnight Magic and Night Mission Pinball. And later on the Amiga with Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies. But on the PC with Tristan Pinball and Epic Pinball, my interest in pinball games started to wane.
And although I still boot up Pinball Fantasies now and then, I never play any other pinball games. Maybe that will change now that I have Pinball Arcade on the PS4.
While I like to have physical copies of games for my PS4, this game actually would benefit from being digital. I think having to put in the disc, which I keep some distance away from the console, will prove too big of a barrier for playing it much. But we’ll see. First I’ll have to decide which table I will focus my attention to.
Gameroom Ramblings 
Fascinating, I played a demo of 3D Ultra Pinball many years ago on some shareware disc that came with a PC magazine my father bought. From that era of games that had manic intermittent voice lines over the top of the arcade action (Pang 98 comes to mind) – it had Bill and Ted type voices if I remember, maybe saying “Excellent”. You’ll have to say whether you end up playing the PS4 one. I can’t imagine many people buying a pinball game on PS4, I’d expect it to be top notch.
I’ve come across a big box copy of 3D Ultra Pinball on a local marketplace a couple of times in the last couple of years. But I’ve never felt the urge to buy it. Strange that, because it would fit right into my collection. Probably because I’ve never played it. But that goes for a lot of games in my collection. Maybe I should reconsider and add it to my collection after all.