Full Tilt! Pinball

Genre:

Other

Year:

1996

Developer:

Cinematronics

Publisher:

Maxis Software

Perspective:

Top-down

Theme:

Pinball

Releases:

Windows (1996), Macintosh (1996), Windows 3.x (1996)

Also known as:

Pinball 95

Full Tilt! Pinball includes three boards: Dragon’s Keep - Medieval Fantasy theme; Skulduggery - Pirate theme; Space Cadet - Space ship commander theme. Each board features the usual amount of bumpers, targets, ramps, etc. as well as a big payoff for the successful completion of each table, such as slaying a dragon in Dragon's Keep, or creating a black hole in Space Cadet. Different sounds and music are incorporated for the individual tables. On each table, there are displays on the side that show the players' score, ball number, player number, a display for various information and a table-specific image. The most famous table is of course Space Cadet, because Microsoft bundled 3D Pinball for Windows (a version of the Space Cadet table) with Microsoft Windows. It was originally packaged with Microsoft Plus! 95 and later included in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP. This version of Pinball, developed by David Plummer at Microsoft, was a port of the game using the original art and sound, developed in C for cross-platform support. The look and feel of Full Tilt! Pinball and 3D Pinball are similar, with a few exceptions: The latter contains only the Space Cadet table and only supports 640×480-pixel resolution