"Big Buck Hunter® PRO Pinball by Stern Pinball, Inc. is a hunting game that delivers a hot new quarry of no-limit fun to players everywhere. Big Buck Hunter® PRO Pinball is based on the hugely successful Big Buck Hunter® arcade video game series by Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix. And like the video games, Big Buck Hunter® PRO Pinball is sure to challenge new hunters, as well as seasoned marksmen.
Big Buck Hunter® PRO Pinball takes you on a hunting adventure. Players are in pursuit of wild game, such as elk, moose and rams, while a motorized big buck moves swiftly across the forest-like playing field. Strike the buck with the pinball and start multiple ball action.
The game features speech by George Petro, narrator of the Big Buck Hunter® series arcade video games. Big Buck Hunter® PRO Pinball also has sounds of the forest and music that makes you feel like you are in the midst of the hunt.
Big Buck Hunter® PRO Pinball is fun for the hunter in everyone."
Visual Pinball now Open Source software
Written by Graham Jupp
Friday, 26 February 2010
Pinball simulation fans are rejoicing (mostly) with the announcement yesterday that Randy Davis has agreed to make his Visual Pinball software Open Source. Where things go from here is anyone's guess however most VP fans agree that the only way is up.
Anyone with some programming skills will now have the chance to make changes to the source themselves and distribute it for the benefit of others. The only caveat is: "The code cannot be sold in a commercial product without a license from Randy and Nanotech Entertainment - for personal use, or free use, it is free." (Destruk).
Destruk has also simultaneously release a new version of VP taking it to V9.0.7 (skipping V9.0.6).
It seem as if the guys at Gameprom will soon be releasing a Mac version of several of their great iPhone pinball games. "The Pinball" will feature the tables: Wild West, The Deep and Jungle Style. As well as an impressive 3d engine the game will also support 3d glasses mode. Even more interesting is that you will be able to control the game with your iPhone/iPod Touch by way of an app called "Pinball Remote". The app even appears to support gestures for controlling the camera view, very cool stuff indeed.
Flame Reaper SE (Future Pinball)
Written by Graham Jupp
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Steve Paradis continues to show his incredible Future Pinball design skills with a fantastic update to Flame Reaper, a tribute to a table originally created by Anthias several years ago now. The table update adds a huge amount of polish to what was already a creative layout.
Pay particular attention to some of the new features such as the Fire Engine painstakingly crafted from surfaces and objects, a ingenious new "sliding gate" feature, the ball elevator and some amazing animated eye candy in the form of smoke and fire effects.
Hot on the tail of Zen Studio's recent PS3 release comes a new table for the Xbox 360, Pinball FX - Excalibur, a medieval themed table with jaw dropping design. Available now on Xbox Live.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 - Zen Pinball (PS3)
Written by Graham Jupp
Thursday, 11 February 2010
The guys at Zen Studios have released a new addon table for their popular Zen Pinball entitled Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (PS3 PSN). As has been the case with their previous table releases, this table features some amazing effects that are just impossible to achieve on a real world pinball table but are sure to be a lot of fun. Im happy to see that Zen are actually promoting their new releases on their website now rather than having us all stumble about in the dark. Check out the video review by Classic Game Room below.
Loch Ness Monster Pinball sells for over US$20k
Written by Graham Jupp
Friday, 29 January 2010
A one of a kind Loch Ness Monster pinball (Gameplan) has gone under the Ebay hammer for a whopping US$20,327.27
The identity of the buyer is yet unknown by the general community but many are hoping this unique table is not locked out of site where no-one but the owner can play it.
Loch Ness Monster, a very rare "one of a kind" prototype pinball machine has appeared on Ebay with a reserve price of US$15000. According to the seller the table was "Designed by Joe Kaminkow and Ed Cebula for Gameplan just before they went out of business. It has arguably the coolest backglass of all time and the rotating monster under the playfield was way ahead of its time."
The sale also includes the designers original sketch book and is sure to attract attention from collectors. Auction ends January 25th 2010.
Its been a while since we have seen an update to VPinmame but it seems the crew have been busy with release V2.2
Changes include:
*** CORE/CPU *** Support for Capcom shaded lamps (using ChangedDMD array) Reduced DE DMD clock to 2 MHz, making games & sounds sync better Reversed EOS switches for F14 Tomcat Corrections for shallow Gottlieb driver prototypes Kiss prototype moved to own source file kissp.c Re-added comments to byvidpin.c Gottlieb 9-segment digits replaced with legible alphanumerics (in DEBUG mode only) Added four more key columns (triggered by Q-Z through R-V combinations, DEBUG only) Added support to compile PinMAME with GCC 4.0, hopefully this will create interest for someone to build a Linux version Replaced void* by genf* for GCC 4.0
*** ROM SUPPORT *** Gottlieb Strikes n' Spares (rev. 1) Gottlieb World Challenge Soccer (disp. rev. 2) Gottlieb Mario Andretti (prototype rev. 4) Sega Wack-a-Doodle-Doo Williams F-14 Tomcat (P-3, P-4) Toptronic unknown game on Gottlieb System 3 hardware (not working?) Sonic Solar Wars [tecnopinball.org] Playmatic Chance [pinball-dreams.com] Williams The Machine: Bride of PinBot (L-3), thanks to Inkochnito Sega X-Files (rev. 2.04), thanks to Inkochnito WMS No Good Gofers (rev. 1.0), thanks to Steve Ellenoffnoff
Bugs in the System
Steve Paradis continues to show his incredible Future Pinball design skills with a fantastic update to Flame Reaper, a tribute to a table originally created by Anthias several years ago now. The table update adds a huge amount of polish to what was already a creative layout.
Loch Ness Monster, a very rare "one of a kind" prototype pinball machine has appeared on Ebay with a reserve price of US$15000. According to the seller the table was "Designed by Joe Kaminkow and Ed Cebula for Gameplan just before they went out of business. It has arguably the coolest backglass of all time and the rotating monster under the playfield was way ahead of its time."