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The good news is that the community is picking up the slack in commercial pinball sim releases.

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Although, if you like that style of pinball, you can pick up Maxis' Full Tilt! and Full Tilt! 2, which is where the Space Cadet table was lifted from.

If you have a decent 3D card, these newer pinball sims offer the rough equivalent of Balls of Steel level physics, with much better graphics: Pure Pinball 2.0 and Dream Pinball 3D on AmazonĪnd no, the Space Cadet pinball bundled with Windows XP doesn't count.

Addiction Pinball on Amazon Addiction Pinball on eBay.

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Pro Pinball on Amazon Pro Pinball on eBay.

Some of these games are fairly old by now, so they can be difficult to find:

Some of the others in the top 10 are old DOS apps that are painful to get running properly, even in DOSBox. They're all true Windows apps that run fine under Windows XP and Windows Vista, too. I've played most of the tables in the top 25 of the Tower of Pin review rankings, and these three are head and shoulders above the rest. This is probably the purest old-school arcade style pinball I've found. 3D Realms' Balls of Steel is also worthwhile if you're willing to forgo realistic physics entirely in favor of fun.And the two tables are a bit more forgiving as well.

The physics are slighly relaxed, but still quite accurate.

Team 17's Addiction Pinball is a very close second to the Pro Pinball series.

In Big Race USA and Fantastic Journey, you can even cause the ball to pop up off the table and hit the backglass! The physics are reasonable enough in The Web, but starting with Timeshock!, they're impeccable.

Empire Interactive's Pro Pinball series is widely regarded as the best of the best.

If you're a fan, here are three pinball sims you definitely shouldn't miss: And of the few commercial pinball games that were ever released, only a handful can be considered true simulators, with realistic approximations of the complex newtonian physics at work on a pinball playfield. Unfortunately, PC pinball sims are a dying breed. There are some obscure pinball controllers out there, but a garden variety keyboard will do in a pinch. It may not sound like much, but as any Guitar Hero fan will tell you, sometimes the controller makes all the difference. Of course, it helps to have the right controls our SlikStik arcade controller includes the optional pinball kit: two buttons on each side for flipper and nudge, and a single button on the front right for the plunger. Plus, it's easy to take five or ten minutes out for a quick game of pinball. There's something about the completely digital simulation of analog gameplay that fascinates me.

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One of my favorite things to play on Verticade, our full size MAME arcade machine, is pinball simulators.