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[–] 53 points 7 months ago (17 children)

Unironically the best digital pinball game, it was the right balance between fun and difficult.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I tried running it again recently. Have they patched out the infinite ricochet loops you can get going? The physics feel a little different

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    The original game was 16 bit and won't run on modern systems. It had to be remade. If you want the real thing you'll need a VM running XP.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Damn. Is that why? I thought modern os had compossibility settings for running old stuff. Let me double check where I got this thing

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    64-bit machines are not able to run 8-bit and 16-bit code while 64-bit mode is active. You can install a 32-bit OS, where this works, but if you want the advantage of 64 bits, you lose those very old (DOS and pre-DOS) programs.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    I don’t know if it’s un ironic because, at the time (and for a long time), it was the only digital pinball game worth mentioning. All of the others weren’t really very serious. This was the first attempt to really make a serious digital pinball game. And it was fucking amazing. I spent a lot of time playing it.

    It might’ve been a year before I could last more than five minutes playing it

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    That’s not true, I got a shareware Pinball game many years before that ran on DOS which had several tables that were all distinct from each other, better graphics, but if I wanted to unlock everything I had to give a complete stranger my credit card number or send a money order to a physical address.

    3D Space Cadet Pinball is popular because it was given to every Windows user for free.

    Hilariously (Sadly) the full version of the game failed. The one table demo that we all know was immensely more successful.

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