pinball reincarnated in digital format
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November 3rd, 2006 post a comment (1) stumble it! by: technabob
At this week’s Pinball Expo in Chicago, a little company called Global VR showed off their UltraPin pinball machine which brings back the feel of old pinball machines, but updates the concept for the 21st century.
The UltraPin is a digital pinball machine where the play field has been replaced with a 32-inch flat-panel monitor, and feedback system that lets you bump and tilt the machine like a traditional mechanical pinball machine, directly affecting gameplay in the digital realm. The cool part is that they’ve loaded the machine with emulations of classic pinball games including Attack from Mars, Sorcerer, Strikes & Spares, F-14 Tomcat, Medieval Madness and Xenon. They’re also selling six-packs of additional machines (including my some of my all time favorites, Black Knight 2000 and Firepower) which can be loaded onto the machine. The UltraPin runs about $6500.
More pictures can be seen here.
[via Retrothing]
November 3rd, 2006 post a comment (1) stumble it! by: technabob
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1. Joe B | November 9th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
The game software is still in an beta state so it is so it is missing a few things and has a few bugs in it. But it was cool to see and play.
Also the emulation is the same vpinmame version that you can download with the time out and splash screens removed.
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