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SPEED DEVILS
A fuel-injected paradise for speed racing maniacs
(Adrian's favourite table, in other words. - Sub Ed)
Shift gears, overtake rivals, tune up the car and
accelerate to some downright unbelievable speeds.
There must be something in the conjunction
between fast cars, Swedish programmers and
pinball, I think: the petrolhead theme is revisited in
the later Slamtilt.
that the developers behind such a state of the
art game as Pinball Dreams could improve
upon it. Widespread, then, was the astonishment
when Digital Illusions duly unveiled their
“The feel of the game is much
improved.”
new baby: Pinball Fantasies.
Available in three versions (ECS, AGA and a
special edition for the CD32), Pinball Fantasies
is nothing short of a revelation, and is a great
advance over its predecessor: faster, more
� Neeoww. A textbook overtake,
pinball scoreboard style.
colourful, more varied and more challenging.
The graphics are awesome, particularly in the
AGA version, and the gameplay is equally
high-grade. The layout of the tables is very
close to that of real pinball machines and the
ball mechanics are spot on. If you lose a ball,
it's invariably down to sloppy play or plain old
bad luck rather than sloppy design. Which is
just as it should be.
As in Pinball Dreams, there are four tables.
Each varies in (suitably droll) theme and
layout, meaning each presents a unique
� Time for a tyre change. These ones don't go with my lipstick at all.
� That poor ball's
getting bumped
to all get-out.
challenge. 'Party Land' has
plenty of high-scoring targets
and two bonus modes: one of
these, Happy Hour, is uniquely
not time-limited if activated a
certain way. (Score! As they
reviews
say). 'Speed Devils' is less generous with its
scoring targets, though it does have two multiplier
ramps to Party Land's one. 'Billion
Dollar Gameshow' adds a knife-edge dimension
and throws a spoke in the wheel of high
scoring by wiping out prizes won up to that
point should a ball be lost before the jackpot
is won. 'Stones 'n Bones' has steep target
ramps and one less flipper than the other
tables but three high-score modes. It also features
a pseudo-multiball for jackpot multiplying,
and probably offers the highest scores
overall. The variation in table design greatly
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