How to find Pinball Games on the Net
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Pinball machines as we know them have been available for many years now, lots of you might have played them at the Arcades and grill bars where one could consume hours with mates and attempt to beat the highscore. The early tables, jumping back to 1850 where not coin operated or electricity powered, they didn't have any flippers like we know them these days. When the introduction of electromechanical bells, chimes, bumpers and buzzers in the mid 1930's, the interest of pinball's grew quickly. nHumpty Dumpty from 1947 was the first pinball table to have flippers, this is known as the golden era of pinball. From then on the tables later expanded with features like ramps, multiballs, dot-matrix displays and digital sound effects. The older tables where often quite hard but for 1 game you get 5 balls, where as on later tables you only have 3 balls. Pinball's are not so popular today as the old days. Stern are the only company still making tables and its becoming a rare sight to see a machine. Luckily it is possible to play these tables on a PC, even the tables from 1930's. A lot of tables are emulated. Titles like 4Square, The Simpson's, Balls-a-Poppin and many others are playable. So anyone in the hunt for Pinball games for your computer, look no further. Visual Pinball is free and people recreate or even share their own original tables which are available to download online. It is a fine community. You can also try creating your own pinball table with Visual Pinball.nnIrina Pinball is an original table created with Visual Pinball which tries to catch the charm from the old classic pinball tables while still blending in the modern features as we know today. There are extraballs, skillshots and multiballs. The table has theme of a Russian ice skater and a lot of the music during gameplay is classical music. The goal in this table is to beat the Highscore. This is done by winning the Olympic gold medal, scoring the perfect 6.0. Try a friendly pinball game made for all ages. Discover the inner pinball wizard in you.
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Written by Koral Wilkinson creator of the free pinball Irina Pinball.
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