Unfortunately, it is the worst kind of multiplayer for a portable console… the pass around kind. There is also a tournament mode, which allows up to four players to compete using standard pinball tournament rules. There is a free play mode, which allows you to practice for the challenge or just beat your own high score. You only get three replays per table and, given the somewhat chaotic nature of pinball, this can be quite difficult. You have to play through all seven tables in chronological order and achieve a target score on each one. There are several different gameplay modes, but the main one is the Williams Challenge. The physics of the metal ball, the mechanical operations of the table, and the sound effects all capture the real thing. The original tables were fully 3D scanned to be as accurate as possible. If you have ever seen these tables in real life, you can appreciate how hard developer Crave Games worked to capture their every detail. Fun fact: the voice of Rudy is none other than Ed Boon! Yes, the co-creator of Mortal Kombat and voice of Scorpion. The 1990 Funhouse (the table that graces the cover) has an interesting “clock” mechanic and a creepy talking ventriloquist dummy head called Rudy that taunts you while you play. Or the unique 1980 Black Knight table, which featured a split board with two sets of flippers. It had a crazy 'human sacrifice to demons' theme and even featured a heart beat sound that sped up the longer you played. You have tables like the 1979 Gorgar - the first commercially available talking pinball machine. Seven of their most popular and innovative tables were selected for the 3DS version, ranging from 1979 to 1990. These tables featured voice (amazing for the time) and interesting set ups that helped them stand out. They produced some of their most iconic tables in response to the new solid state technology used in arcade machines like Space Invaders. Williams is a company that currently builds some of the more interesting slot machines for casinos, but it got its start back in 1947 - the same time that everybody was adding flippers to pinball tables. For those people, there is the Pinball: Hall of Fame series and now The Williams Collection has arrived on the Nintendo 3DS. Pinball slowly lost popularity when made to compete with the new breed of arcade machines like Space Invaders, Galaga, and Pac-man but there are still those who have nostalgia for those tables. Automatic score keeping, sound effects, graphics, levels, extra “lives”, boss battles, and more got their start here. Suddenly those same elements that we relate to video games were being developed for these arcade tables. It started as little more than a game of chance not even having those trademark flippers until the late 1940s, and then electronics happened. Pinball has an interesting place in gaming history. By VGChartz Staff, posted on 26 October 2011 / 4,867 Views
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