It's the world's first video game to simulate the action and color of pinball... in a compact cabinet size. Through the magic of mirrors, video images of the ball, flippers and drop targets are superimposed on an actual 3-dimensional blacklight playfield.
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Character
Plot-driven, intimate, grave and warm.
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
Who loves it, who doesn't
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“Has Video Pinball aged badly?”
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About the game
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Developer
- Atari
- Publisher
- Atari
- Released
- December 31, 1978
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
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