LGR - Silverball - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Theodore
Looking at those tables, I just KNOW I've played them before, but for the life of me I can't remember when. I still have the Epic Pinball Collection (13 tables on a cd-rom. GREAT) and Extreme Pinball; those could stand to make it to GoG sometime IMO.
Though the Epic Pinball tables remind me of around 1996, when my store got a bunch of shareware titles in boxes for a dollar each. This included Super Android, Cyborgirl and Enigma tables from EP. I bought these before I found the Collection, and they were all on 3 1/2- floppies.
Anyway, I had a lady come in and see these games, and asked about them. She said she just got a -new- computer and wanted to know if she could run them. I asked if she had a 3 1/2- floppy drive, and got a blank stare. -Do you have a hard drive? - Blank stare again.
-Okay, do you have a color monitor? -
Her face lights up. -Yes. It's green. -
Oh, and the -new- computer? It was -new- to her, because her mother found it for her at the local thrift.
It's been a loooong time since I had to work retail.
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Looking at those tables, I just KNOW I've played them before, but for the life of me I can't remember when. I still have the Epic Pinball Collection (13 tables on a cd-rom. GREAT) and Extreme Pinball; those could stand to make it to GoG sometime IMO.
Though the Epic Pinball tables remind me of around 1996, when my store got a bunch of shareware titles in boxes for a dollar each. This included Super Android, Cyborgirl and Enigma tables from EP. I bought these before I found the Collection, and they were all on 3 1/2- floppies.
Anyway, I had a lady come in and see these games, and asked about them. She said she just got a -new- computer and wanted to know if she could run them. I asked if she had a 3 1/2- floppy drive, and got a blank stare. -Do you have a hard drive? - Blank stare again.
-Okay, do you have a color monitor? -
Her face lights up. -Yes. It's green. -
Oh, and the -new- computer? It was -new- to her, because her mother found it for her at the local thrift.
It's been a loooong time since I had to work retail.
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Bright
This came out in 1993 and it ran at silky-smooth 60 frames per second without anyone complaining that it ran faster than their eyes could handle or that it doesn't look cinematic enough.
So what's your excuse, video game industry of today?
None?
Good, maybe you will finally get your bloody priorities straight then.
If I want the best in computer generated graphics I can get running at a sub-60 framerate, I go to the -cinema. -
Okay, enough of my rant, I still have about four and a half minutes to watch.
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This came out in 1993 and it ran at silky-smooth 60 frames per second without anyone complaining that it ran faster than their eyes could handle or that it doesn't look cinematic enough.
So what's your excuse, video game industry of today?
None?
Good, maybe you will finally get your bloody priorities straight then.
If I want the best in computer generated graphics I can get running at a sub-60 framerate, I go to the -cinema. -
Okay, enough of my rant, I still have about four and a half minutes to watch.
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IcySaracen
If you want to fix the buggy nova table in Silverball Plus 2 (for some reason is plays the soundtrack from blood and the menu screen is glitchy) - you need to copy over the nova table. exe file (PIN 3 i think) along with its Sound files and Music files from the shareware version. If anyone not sure what Im saying, leave a comment, and I will send you a full proper working version of Silverball Plus 2 with no glitches with Nova playing the right soundtrack and sounds.
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If you want to fix the buggy nova table in Silverball Plus 2 (for some reason is plays the soundtrack from blood and the menu screen is glitchy) - you need to copy over the nova table. exe file (PIN 3 i think) along with its Sound files and Music files from the shareware version. If anyone not sure what Im saying, leave a comment, and I will send you a full proper working version of Silverball Plus 2 with no glitches with Nova playing the right soundtrack and sounds.
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Maximilien
Man, I lost it at the mint flavored allegory!
PS: I only played Pinball Illusions and Pinball Dreams (Amiga forever \o/, never played Epic pinball or any other PC pinball game. Seems like I have a lot of old goodies to play! (as usual.
PPS: This video reminded me fo your 3D Ultra pinball review. Upon arriving on it's page I found that I forgot to press the Like button (kind of addicted to smash that button for every LGR video I guess. Fixed now. ;-)
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Man, I lost it at the mint flavored allegory!
PS: I only played Pinball Illusions and Pinball Dreams (Amiga forever \o/, never played Epic pinball or any other PC pinball game. Seems like I have a lot of old goodies to play! (as usual.
PPS: This video reminded me fo your 3D Ultra pinball review. Upon arriving on it's page I found that I forgot to press the Like button (kind of addicted to smash that button for every LGR video I guess. Fixed now. ;-)
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Alex
I used to have a pinball game for my Mac back in the day and one of the maps (maybe the only map) had you building a habitat on mars or something. I had 3 different tables (middle, left and right) and you had to tap things in the right order to make entire new structures come down. I wish I knew what it was called or find it again.
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I used to have a pinball game for my Mac back in the day and one of the maps (maybe the only map) had you building a habitat on mars or something. I had 3 different tables (middle, left and right) and you had to tap things in the right order to make entire new structures come down. I wish I knew what it was called or find it again.
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Patrik
The fantasy-themed tables in Silverball used to really suck me in when I played them as a kid. Every light turning on, every fixture animation, every multiplier message would make me feel like the table was telling me a story. Uh, let's just say the 90's were a different time. Kids were more easily entertained.
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The fantasy-themed tables in Silverball used to really suck me in when I played them as a kid. Every light turning on, every fixture animation, every multiplier message would make me feel like the table was telling me a story. Uh, let's just say the 90's were a different time. Kids were more easily entertained.
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DerKork
Now I'm wondering if you could easily recreate the tables in VPinball. And then could possibly work on some of the issues that these tables have (like the vast and empty space where you could easily have a target bank, maybe a multiball hole in -Blood-, a large bumper or maybe a curved surface in Odyssee.
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Now I'm wondering if you could easily recreate the tables in VPinball. And then could possibly work on some of the issues that these tables have (like the vast and empty space where you could easily have a target bank, maybe a multiball hole in -Blood-, a large bumper or maybe a curved surface in Odyssee.
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MrVenom1974
The good days of pinball video games. I loved Pinball Dreams to the death. But Epic Pinball was really nice. I played also Silverball. But it's good to know that this sequel isn't really a sequel. This explains a lot of things. I need to play Extreme Pinball. some day.
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The good days of pinball video games. I loved Pinball Dreams to the death. But Epic Pinball was really nice. I played also Silverball. But it's good to know that this sequel isn't really a sequel. This explains a lot of things. I need to play Extreme Pinball. some day.
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BBHood217
If nothing else, at least the music in Silverball (except Blood and Warbot) was good.
Hmm, here's a weird thought. I wonder if it would be possible to hack Silverball's tables into Epic Pinball, giving the latter a grand total of 20 pinball tables to play.
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If nothing else, at least the music in Silverball (except Blood and Warbot) was good.
Hmm, here's a weird thought. I wonder if it would be possible to hack Silverball's tables into Epic Pinball, giving the latter a grand total of 20 pinball tables to play.
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Gameplay
This is really freakin' cool to see! The tables may not be that great, but its story makes it a really interesting piece to have in your collection. I never new there were more than the 13 tables from Epic Pinball, so this was a treat to see.
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This is really freakin' cool to see! The tables may not be that great, but its story makes it a really interesting piece to have in your collection. I never new there were more than the 13 tables from Epic Pinball, so this was a treat to see.
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