Hey so I've been getting a bit into videogame versions of pinball. Whether it be just normal pinball or games that use pinball mechanics to do other things. Like I had a ton of fun with Yoku's Island Express. Played through the campaign of Sonic Pinball Party and thought it was ok. I've been recommended Pinball FX and Midnight Magic before. Just curious what else is out there worth playing.

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I keep Vector Pinball on my Android phone for when the urge strikes. It's open source, available from F-Droid, and gets a new table added roughly once a year.

When a was young, I loved Pinball Construction Set on my Commodore 64. It let you build your own layout (admittedly tedious with a joystick - I don't think a mouse existed for the C64 at release), and make a standalone playable file out of it. I've seen hundreds built by others available for download. I've not seriously gone looking, but always been surprised not to see an updated version since. It was available on multiple computers at the time, so you can use your preferred version and emulator (including 8-bit Wonders on F-Droid, which makes it relatively easy to download & play Commodore 8-bit computer games from archive.org). ETA: I don't think the creations were cross-platform compatible, tho, so if you get into this you may wind up getting multiple versions & emulators.

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