YOU GIVE TO ME RIDE

[prog]

I now officially agree wth mmcirvin and rserocki that Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection is a hot little number and totally worth $20, especially if you spent a lot of time around pinball machines during the 1980s and 1990s. The level of simulation is truly amazing, and evident that true pinball otaku had a hand in creating this disc. The tables look,

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[leahleaf]

GORRRRRGARRRRRR

[prog]

ME, GOT, YOU

[rserocki]

I wish that the simulation would not always say GORGAR BEAT YE at the very very end, regardless of whether you won a game or not. You can get it to say YE BEAT GORGAR, but the other line always seems to be said at the last, to my recollection. Or maybe it is simply Gorgar's wishful thinking.

[prog]

Ha, I thought it was saying "GORGAR! FEED ME!" As in, "gimme another delicious quarter".

[prog]

The lack of HD graphics on the Wii makes the busier tables, like Funhouse and Whirlwind, look a bit muddy when the camera is pulled back to show the whole playfield. But I don't notice it much when I'm concentrating on the ball.

I found myself missing the Whirlwind backglass fan, too!

[dougo]

Sadly, it's not Black Knight 2000.

[dougo]

Huh, Black Knight is actually rated higher than BK2K on IPDB (8.3 vs. 8.2). I never really played either one much, but I always thought BK2K was the one everyone loved.

[dougo]

It's dangerously close to making me actually want a Wii. Cheaper than buying a real Funhouse machine, and doesn't require maintenance! But, no attract mode, which is a serious oversight. "Hey Spunky, play again!"

[dougo]

Oh, and, no fan in Whirlwind. That was so great on hot summer days. They should sell a Wii-controlled fan as an acessory!

[dougo]

Oops, you already said that. AGREE

[rserocki]

If you have a PS2, you could get the PS2 version. Or if you have a PSP, you could get that version. Although I don't think those versions have two pinball machines the Wii does have, Sorceror and Jive Time. At least, the PS2 version does not.

[mmcirvin]

Also, isn't he saying "you give Gorbie ride"?

[rserocki]

My fiancee thought it was you give Gorbie ride. I thought it was You give to me ride.

[mmcirvin]

...The seams in the simulation do sometimes show. Pinbot seems to push the Wii's puny CPU pretty hard. The ball tends to "fall off the table" a lot in that one, which I think is just the ball going so fast that it overwhelms the physics engine's internal frame rate and shoots right through a wall into the void beyond the Matrix. People who played Pinbot a lot in real life also tell me that the "advance planet" target is much harder to hit in the simulation (it's wicked hard), which may be some inherent discreteness in the flippers causing trouble.