GameRevolution:
As a symbol for the era of the arcade, there is no better icon than the pinball machine. Any legitimate arcade, then and now, has at least one of these metal and glass boxes-'o'-fun, and if they are really serious, a ginormous room of them. Even if a pinball machine is covered in dust, rusting away in some dank storage garage, the instant you gaze upon it and recognize its familiar shape, you remember the shiny metal sphere, the twitching flippers, the board of rounded triangles and blinking lights, the cacophony of pings, chings, clicks, clangs, bleeps, bloops, blams, and bangs. It's Chicken Soup for the Gamer's Soul.
Gamesta.com gets news from BigBen Interactive that they'll be bringing Pinball Hall of Fame to Nintendo 3DS with The Williams Collection 3D. Remember pinball? Pre-internet days seem so far away now. Time to feel old.
"Ah, pinball. Whenever you'd enter an arcade in the 90's, you would be almost instantly greeted by a whirlwind of various colours and sounds, all vying for your attention. However, one thing that you could almost guarantee is that, even though their presence has diminished over time, you would hear the sounds of the pinball machines, no matter where they were in the arcade. This constant has always reassured me, as I love traditional pinball. Games such as Metroid Prime: Hunters, for instance have tried to capture the feel of Pinball in a more "video game-y" style, but that is not what I wanted. I wanted a way to play my favourite pinball classics again; and Farsight Studios delivered." -- Wiiloveit.com
Gamertell has posted a mixed review of Crave's 3DS game, Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection.
From the review:
"As with the Williams Collection on other devices, you can play the Williams Challenge (achieve the target score on one table in order to progress), Arcade Mode (play any machine you’ve unlocked until you’ve run out of tokens) and Tournament Mode (the format used for most pinball championships). Unlocking all the tables isn’t that difficult but there are fewer tables here than in the console version. You get Gorgar, Black Knight, Space Shuttle, Pinbot, Taxi, Whirlwind and Funhouse."
