Pinball Arcade 1.1.5
Device: Mac OS
Category: Games
Price: $9.99, Version: 1.1.4 -> 1.1.5 (iTunes)
Description:
Real pinball for your Mac! FarSight Studios, makers of the best pinball games on iOS, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, 3DS, and Wii, introduces the Pinball Arcade! (This game requires 3D graphics acceleration. Older Macs and Macs without 3D graphics acceleration are not recommended.)You can now play exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Williams®, Bally®, Stern Pinball®, and Gottlieb® together in one game. Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail. The four tables included in the app are Tales of the Arabian Nights™, Ripley's Believe It or Not®, and Theatre of Magic™, and Black Hole™.This update adds the wonderful fast flowing action of Williams'® White Water™ and their mid-80's classic Space Shuttle™. We're sure that you're going to enjoy both of these great Williams' tables.Regular updates have added over 20 classics like Monster Bash™, Twilight Zone®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Creature from the Black Lagoon®, Medieval Madness™, Attack from Mars™, Black Knight™, Space Shuttle®, Bride of Pin•Bot™, Firepower™, Cactus Canyon™, Big Shot™, and other great pinball tables as in-app purchases along with online tournaments and additional modes to challenge yourself and compete against your friends. Our goal is for the Pinball Arcade to become the most realistic and comprehensive pinball game ever created. Please support us in our efforts to preserve these tables and join the indelible part of Americana that is pinball! What reviewers are saying: “Simply one of the best pinball games I’ve ever played” – Touch Arcade “As close to the pinball experience as you will ever get in the palm of your hand” –Pocket Gamer “Pinball doesn’t get any more real or fun on mobile” –Gamezebo “This game is superb along with great presentation” – Inentertainment “an impressive title, and one that is bound to please pinball fans” -148 Apps “Authenticity is the name of the game here, and Farsight has absolutely nailed it” –GameLive.TV “quite impressive… with content this great, it doesn’t need to use the hard sell” -iLounge “a pinball nerd’s dream come true” –App Addict
What's New
----- What's New ----- - Table Pack 15: The Champion Pub and Whirlwind has been added to Season 2. - The location and size of the window now persists when running the app. - Fullscreen mode is now persistent. If the user exits the app in fullscreen mode, it will start in fullscreen mode. Also, the user can press Escape to exit fullscreen mode.----- Table Updates ----- - The Champion Pub (v2) - Whirlwind (v2)----- What's Fixed ----- - The app would crash if ball control was activated, the table was started and exited, and then the Options menu was accessed from the Main Menu. - The transition from completing standard to unlocking wizard goals would sometimes fail. - The transition from completing wizard goals to unlocking additional options would sometimes fail. - Call attendant on Centaur would move the ball from the Queen's Chamber. - The app would crash when scrolling through the tables on the tournament rank menu. - There was a bug being exploited in the tournament leaderboards resulting in unfair scores. - The pro menu on Pin*Bot would ask users to pay even if they already had it unlocked. - Switching the extra ball on some tables would cause sometimes several assets to use additive blending. - Ball skin selection now properly saves when exiting the Extras menu. - Ball skins were highly transparent, making them barely visible. ----- Known Issues ----- - Whirlwind: The lightning texture should be mapped to the bottom of the backboard and not the right side. - Whirlwind: A ramp lifts up at the table fly-by making a mechanical sound. - Whirlwind: various sound issues. - Whirlwind: the Super Cell values aren’t displayed in the HUD. - Playing Whirlwind causes sound and gameplay issues on Dr. Dude, Elvira Party Monsters, Pin*Bot, or Taxi. A workaround is to fully close and reopen the application. - There is an issue when posting scores to Facebook. - The “Sound” option doesn’t get saved. - The background on the “What’s New” and “Our Mission” screens when accessed from the Options menu is black.
Pinball Arcade