Genre: Puzzle Plays: 4
Year: 1993
Publisher: Electronic Arts
A Button
Pull Plunger
B Button
Shake Machine
C Button
Right Flipper
D-pad
Left Flipper
Start Button
Start, Pause
No Tilt
You can't tilt the machine, so be sure to shake all you want to keep the ball from going down the "drain."
A neat pinball sim from Bill Budge, author of the now-legendary Pinball Construction Set.
While it lacks the pizzaz and in-your-face style of other Genesis pinball games, it makes up for that with some deceptively simple yet superbly designed tables for your pinball pleasure. It also has a nice assortment of user options allowing you to change virtually every aspect of the game, which is something the competition sadly lacks.
Directions: First, there are a bunch of options to choose before you start the game. Choose what board you want. There are also a lot of secret boards you can access with cheat codes in the "enter code" section of play mode.
Then choose which background you want to play on. You may also change what the flippers, bumpers, and obstacles theme is.
After you do this, you may choose the music and one or two players. In two player mode, you just take turns playing one ball.
The A button will pull back the plunger. B is used to shake the machine. Shake all you want, because it is impossible to tilt it. The only complaint in the gameplay is the fact that in multiball mode you can't see both balls. The board is so big you can't see the whole thing at once, so the camera will follow your first ball, and you'll lose track of the extra one.