"The Pinball Arcade is a new digital platform released this week for XBLA that’s meant to represent actual, real life pinball tables in digital form, developed by FarSight Studios. FarSight has been putting out video game pinball titles for a while now, and were behind the Williams, Bally’s, and Gottlieb collections that were featured on a number of platforms over the past few years. The Pinball Arcade comes off as a culmination of their efforts up to this point, and promises to be a serious contender for the best version of video game pinball you’re likely to ever see."
The Pinball Arcade originally appeared on the Switch eShop last month. The thing is, it was only up for an incredibly short period. FarSight Studios had it removed due to a licensing issue. A month later, The Pinball Arcade is back up on the eShop – presumably for good.
FarSight Studios have announced that over 50 of their current tables will be pulled from the Pinball Arcade on June 30th due to a licensing deal ending.
Ok. So they might as well just take the game out of the retail and digital stores, because they are esentially killing it’s appeal by not renewing the licenses. Wow. Well, hopefully Williams and Midway do their own digital games. Id even pay $5000 plus for a full sized digital pinball machine that includes all of the classic tables. Just as long as it’s 4K. Which I think is FarSights biggest issue..
Not keeping up to date with new tables and the newer consoles and taking advantage of 4K, to help sharpen up the visuals. Which, really, would’ve just taken a resolution boost and 16xAF, maybe add some ambient occlusion to make the table some feel more three dimensional.
You should only worry about this if you've never played pinball fx. 😋
The Nintendo Switch will soon be home to a variety of pinball titles and the latest joining them is The Pinball Arcade. The Pinball Arcade news channel just arrived in Europe but the game has yet to get an official release date.
Cool, another pinball game is always welcomed.and hopefully, ps3 and x360 have a lot of power under the hood, which gives us wonderful tables , with 0 aliasing, perfect colors and textures, and great animations. On Last gen, a few years ago, a pinball was still a pinball, right. But today, we can have some great lifelike tables, that look even better than the original.
For those who like playing pinball, they should buy Zen pinball, as soon as possible.
The game costs less than 10$, and comes with 5 great tables. Tesla is one of my favourites. Mars is cool, too.and if you want more stuff, you can buy some great tables, for less than 2$ each one. The price is totally ridiculous, for what you get, on a 60mb package. You can have a tribute to street fighter, ninja gaiden sigma,etc, paranormal is also excellent.
There are a lot of stuff, for the price you pay.great stuff, really. Though, there are 2 things I don't like: even with the tutorials, its hard to know what and where you are supposed to go, grab, click, visit, what it the next goal, what I need to do first, etc. Even YouTube won't help a lot.
Another thing I don't like, is when I'm playing local multiplayer, for example, with another guy, when I lose the ball and its my friend who s gonna play, I have to give him my gamepad. Why, Zen studios, if you read me, why can't the second player use a second gamepad, if available? If were both on our own sofa, with our beer, its just so stupid and uncomfortable, to give him the gamepad, get it back, give him, get it back,etc. It's frustating.
Marvel pinball, another pinball game, is great, too. Wolverine table is a great experience. And each table is really really cheap.
Pinball arcade: I will pick it , for sure.