April 4th 2012 6:22 am PT

Arcade: Pinball Arcade

Pinball ArcadeContent: Pinball Arcade
Price: 800 Microsoft Token
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: Real pinball for your Xbox 360! The all-time greatest pinball tables from Williams®, Bally®, Stern Pinball™, and Gottlieb® are now together in one game. Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail. The four table launch collection includes Tales of the Arabian Nights®, Ripley’s Believe It or Not®, Theatre of Magic®, and Black Hole™. Over the next few years, downloadable classics like Monster Bash®, Medieval Madness®, Creature from the Black Lagoon®, Funhouse®, Attack from Mars®, Black Knight®, Space Shuttle®, Pin•Bot®, Circus Voltaire®, Big Shot®, (and many others!) will be added along with online tournaments and additional modes to challenge yourself and compete against your friends. The Pinball Arcade is the most realistic and comprehensive pinball game ever created. Please support us in our efforts to preserve these tables and join the indelible part of Americana that is pinball!

Add the free game trial to your Xbox 360 download queue

Arcade, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2012/04/04/arcade-pinball-arcade/

  • http://twitter.com/HTLoneWolf HTLoneWolf

    1st!

    • http://sevenupdate.com sevenalive

      ….In a comment system that is sorted newest to oldest. Congratulations on being first, nobody cares and soon nobody will even be able to feed your attention whoring.

      • http://twitter.com/xIx_ANTI_xIx Tomasz Szczepanski

        So true ;)

  • Anonymous

    What is Microsoft TOKEN?

    • http://www.facebook.com/joe.wienclaw Joe Wienclaw

      i wondered that myself when they introduced Kinect

      • ElektroDragon

        Nicely done, sir!

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T7LOQAEEWPFE7UBMQGVCTNELQI huck

       what token are u refering to?
      dlc for southpark maybe ? :)

  • http://twitter.com/Venturin62 Ven Turin

    When is DLC available? I want Bride of Pinbot!

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/4JXLUBEYV2KUE2YRHVTGH74XNQ T S

       rumors point to early may for the bride

  • http://twitter.com/TheJoelFisch Joel Fischer

    A nice compliment to Zen’s Pinball FX 2 (which aren’t real tables, like these). I love Pinball FX 2, so I’ll definitely try this out. I hope the physics are well done, that’s what makes or breaks most pinball games for me.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DG26H7M7IX3ZSE3OIBBEQ4AX7M R G

    would kill for the addams family table

    • Anonymous

      Or Star Trek TNG

      • http://www.facebook.com/kuulamiles Kuula Miles

        You mean this one? :) (its at Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas)

  • http://twitter.com/Morbidsoul40 Rick Schumaker

    Tales of the Arabian Nights and Theatre of Magic are two of my all time favorites (Along with Addams Family, which isn’t listed unfortunately). I held high scores on those two machines for a long time at the coney by my place. 

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/4JXLUBEYV2KUE2YRHVTGH74XNQ T S

       addams family will depend on how hard it is to license not only the movie but all the likenesses of the actors included in the artwork…but farsight is getting inundated with requests for that particular table…so we’ll see…

  • C F

    would love to see rct & monopoly tables from stern. especially RCT as i never got a chance to try it eventhough the only one ive seen in the last few years was in the window of a chuck e cheese.

    • http://twitter.com/Morbidsoul40 Rick Schumaker

      RCT was ok. The table played extremely fast and I thought they could have done so much more with the ramp rails than they did. I believe there is a version of it on Virtual Pinball if you ever wanted to try it on your pc.

  • Martin van den Broek

    Over the next few years? They have quite the expectations…

  • Anonymous

    Is there really a need for ANOTHER pinball game?  =  

    • Anonymous

      Big difference between the real tables Pinball Arcade provides and FX2′s.  What’s that bring the total to…like two pinball games on XBLA?  Yes, that’s far too many…we are in much higher need of more tower defense, twin stick shooters, and FPS games.

      • Anonymous

         Wow, you really took one sentence and ran with it didn’t you?  I get that there’s a difference in the tables.  Can’t we have real tables in FX2?  Is that not possible?  I guess not?  =

        Also too, there’s been FX1, FX2, a disc based game released for the 360 and at least 2 for the original Xbox.  ALL have been horrible (IMHO) except for the Pinball FX series.

        • http://profile.yahoo.com/4JXLUBEYV2KUE2YRHVTGH74XNQ T S

           pinball fx cant do real tables as they dont own the licenses to do so

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UNMQ7FSEMXKO4ZOB2PKWCURFKE John Giles

      That would be close to saying “Is there really a need for another shooter?  We already have Halo.”   The answer is simply, “Yes”.  We do need more.  It creates competition, which can only serve to make companies try harder to earn our disposable dollars by creating better and better products.  And for people who love pinball games, then the more the better :-)

      • Anonymous

        Yes and no. I’m not sure the Halo comparison is a good one–pinball games have much less variance from title to title than the average shooter–usually, anyhow.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UNMQ7FSEMXKO4ZOB2PKWCURFKE John Giles

    The Williams collection is already out on disc (Pinball Hall of Fame: The William’s Collection), but there are about half of the ones listed that aren’t on that disc.  Wise of them to only put one of the games from that collection as one of the starting games for it (Tales of the Arabian Nights).  I love pinball games and will pick this up because of the non-William’s tables that are already on the disc.  Pinball is a very underrepresented genre, and it’s nice to see it getting some more attention.  I love the Pinball FX titles, so this can only add to the already impressive lineup of pinball games available.   But if you don’t have the Pinball Hall of Fame, pick it up, I found it for $20 and it includes 13 tables.

    • Anonymous

      The physics on Tales needed some tweaking anyway, so I don’t mind as much that one being a repeat (plus there’s that dumb Harem Multiball glitch they fixed).  PHOF was very very good with physics for the older 80′s tables like Pinbot, but the same physics don’t work as well with newer tables, since newer tables play faster than the 80′s ones.

  • http://twitter.com/EdgeKun Ed Powell

    If this title includes Black Knight 2000 (be it included or DLC) they get a purchase from me. Otherwise I’ll be sticking with FX2.

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/4JXLUBEYV2KUE2YRHVTGH74XNQ T S

       they want to make bk 2000 accd to an employee  at farsight…just a matter of when at this point

  • http://engadgetsucks.wordpress.com/ Don’t Really Care

    No, 
    Pinball Hall of Fame: The William’s Collection is EXCELLENT and a game I will never part with.  I prefer it over Pinball FX.  You don’t know until you’ve played Medieval Madness.

  • http://engadgetsucks.wordpress.com/ Don’t Really Care

    Yeah, I love Pinball Hall of Fame: The William’s Collection too, but like John below says… that this will have other, non-Williams tables makes it REAL attractive.

    And Pinball FX is fun and all, but I want to play Guns N Roses pinball or World Cup ’94… those tables were SICK as all get out.  Hopefully this collection means we’ll get to see some of those later.

    • Anonymous

      G’n'R was a Data East table.   Which went on to be Sega Pinball, then Sega sold the pinball company to Stern.   But it would be extremely unlikely that a licensed property would make it.

  • ElektroDragon

    Should have been 400 with DLC tables establishing their revenue stream, especially in light of the fact that three other Pinball games exist, one retail, two XBLA, that are much more fleshed out.  As a new entry this can’t compete with those at the same price level as FX1/FX2.  But I guess they were not thinking at all so might be sadly be doomed to fail.

  • http://twitter.com/Ganon255 Ganon255

    The physics don’t feel right. I still like it though.

    • http://twitter.com/Morbidsoul40 Rick Schumaker

      This x1000. The physics are waaaay off on some of the tables, and there were also a hand full of bugs I found right away (Genie magnet not grabbing the ball correctly is a bad one). I’ll pass on this and keep playing Epic Quest instead.

  • Sean Willmore

    Is this going to be like Game Room where lots of titles are promised and then never delivered?

    • Anonymous

      Unlikely, because it’s not a Microsoft pet project designed around the idea of taking nigh-shareware titles from three companies, sprinkling on a little Konami for variety, and letting the company forced to work with that lineup take the fall for it all.

      Pinball Arcade will be on pretty much everything out there, 360, PS3/Vita, iPad, etc – so if they abandon the project mid-way they’ll get flak from everywhere.

      But at the same time, you have to wonder if supporting all the major systems might stretch their resources a bit thin when it comes to optimizing each version of it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gbetters Gary Betters

    They don’t have to offer the bad games like black night,pinbott,gorgar,and a few others.They aren’t very good of fun.Some are great fun tho.
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Britton-Dicks/100000589037960 Britton Dicks

     jsut dl’d it and loved it. Not as good as Pinball FX2, but still great.

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