YOU GIVE TO ME RIDE

[prog]

I now officially agree wth mmcirvin and 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.

Comments

[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

GORRRRRGARRRRRR

[prog.livejournal.com]

ME, GOT, YOU

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

I wish that the simulation would not always say GORGAR BEAT YE at the very very end, regardless of whether you won a game or not. You can get it to say YE BEAT GORGAR, but the other line always seems to be said at the last, to my recollection. Or maybe it is simply Gorgar's wishful thinking.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Ha, I thought it was saying "GORGAR! FEED ME!" As in, "gimme another delicious quarter".

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

I used to think it was saying GORGAR FEED YE / YE FEED GORGAR, when I heard it in an arcade. I never really understood for sure what was supposed to be going on, but never questioned it.