prog: (galaxians)
prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2008-12-05 01:06 pm

YOU GIVE TO ME RIDE

I now officially agree wth [livejournal.com profile] mmcirvin and [livejournal.com profile] rserocki that Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection is a hot little number and totally worth $20, especially if you spent a lot of time around pinball machines during the 1980s and 1990s. The level of simulation is truly amazing, and evident that true pinball otaku had a hand in creating this disc. The tables look, sound and act exactly as their real-world counterparts, as far as I can tell.

Get the Wii version, if you can; the controls are simple and clever, essentially letting you play "air pinball". My only complaint is that the motions necessary to play pinball well emphasize the Wii controllers' assumption that I have smaller hands than I do. My right trigger finger quickly starts to ache from pulling on the too-small B button repeatedly, and my right palm continually presses the 1 and 2 buttons by accident, which in this game changes the camera angle.

Despite this, I have just played Taxi like 10 times in a row. Still haven't managed to pick up Santa. One day.

[identity profile] dougo.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh, Black Knight is actually rated higher than BK2K on IPDB (8.3 vs. 8.2). I never really played either one much, but I always thought BK2K was the one everyone loved.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Black Knight has the property that it's really, really easy to get multiball. Whether that is a bug or a feature is a matter of taste.