Jaguar Cartridge, Pinball Fantasies, $53 at Electronics Boutique in the La Jolla UTC mall San Diego county, California
Before reading the rest of this review, it's important to know that I don't like pinball games. Nevertheless, I bought this game because I thought it would be fun, and I needed a new game before Defender 2000 came out.
Graphics:
Amazing! Crystal clear, with no fuzziness whatsoever. The animations
were very good, the physics were very nice with everything happening
just as I expected it, no funny stuff here folks.
Sound:
Real stereo sound! The sound effects were what you would expect out of
a pinball game, and the in-game and out-game music ranged from OK to
excellent.
Gameplay:
I could tell that this was an accurate pinball simulation in that I kept
losing, over and over and over and over again just like with the standup
pinball machines. However, after an hour of playing, I started scoring a
few more points, started keeping the ball out of the hole longer,
making more bonus points, making more point multipliers. When you're
not pumping in quarters for an hour and losing constantly it gets to be
a LOT of fun when you get better at it! I particularly liked the
Speed Devils board and the Bones'n'Ghouls (someone correct me if I
got this one wrong) board because of the atmosphere, for lack of anything
else to call it.
Overall:
Everything about this game was great! Graphics, most of the sound, and
gameplay. Thank goodness there's a 3 day weekend coming up so that I
can spend some quality pinball time. :) If you like pinball, you won't
regret purchasing this one. Even if you don't like pinball like yours
truly, it was still a FUN game, and I'm still going to spend some quality
time with it, in between solving Battlemorph and mastering the other
characters in Primal Rage of course.
-- Keith C. Estanol / [email protected]