New release: Pinball Gold Pack

Hearing about these slightly lame versions of great pinball games is disappointing. I would hope that GOG remedies this, but I don't know the first thing about how they would go about releasing Amiga versions of things.

Niiice pack ... but I WANT MY PSYCHO PINBALL !!

Okay: while you guys dig deep for the publishing rights, I'll drown my anticipation in pure nostalgia by getting this pack ;)

Steelwheel ftw!

thekittster: Indeed, that would be very nice.

The thing that annoys me the about this compilation (having spent some time with it now) is that with Dreams being a really poor port, the only games worth playing are Fantasies and Illusions. The Spidersoft-games are utter crap.

Now, Fantasies especially is REALLY worth playing. But I'm worried that if new players don't happen to try that one first, the bad first impressions will make it easy to dismiss the whole pack as a waste of money.

I normally wouldn't say this, but in this case, less is better. GOG should have ditched Dreams 2 and Mania. Dreams 1 is at least important from a historical point of view, and has some great music, but again - people who want to have a go at that one should buy it on PSN (and a better version of Fantasies is there too, the only good one missing is Illusions).

Or better, as mentioned, GOG should have ditched the Spidersoft games and included SlamTilt. Like Illusions, it's a bit too keen on wasting your time on the scoreboard minigames, but otherwise it's a really great pinball game.

Nyaaa ... What's with Evil Genius?

There are way too many pinball games on this website.
We need more minigolf games. In particular, that one released by Sierra, where each course had it's own voice over.
We also need dungeon keeper.

Purchased this yesterday..... it's awesome!

Right. Insta-freaking-buy.

There'll always be not enough pinball games until Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island is on here. :)

There was a pinball game I had way back when whose title I forget, but it involved launching a rocket as a table goal, and there were three tables between which you could warp, as well as each table having one or two small platform tables and some separate mini-game tables like the rocket launch one . . . It didn't have great ball physics or anything, but it was a blast. With that absolutely stellar description I'm sure it's clear and GOG should license it immediately :-P

. . . I really should see if I can dig it up again.

I've never been into pinball games because I prefer the real deal, but I just might have to look into these ones, for no other reason than that I really like the look of the artwork on the tables. The artwork of some of the classic games is a big reason why I like them. Too bad this release doesn't come with any extras.

Oh, ok. I don't think I ever got a multiball, I just wanted to check how everything was working on each game. Maybe someone else can confirm if it works properly or not.

can someone please explain to me why there isn't any bonus content at all?

there are so many games here...are you really saying you couldnt find any extra goodies for any of them?

God damn them for not making pinball wallpapers!!!!!!

omg, you're absolutely right, i shouldn't have omitted evil genius:

number of pinball or evil genius games on gog - 8
number of dungeon keeper games on gog - 0

;)

Hihi can anyone tell me whether this game includes controller support?

Why would you want controller support in a pinball game? And that's coming from someone who enjoys playing FPS's with a controller.

Regardless, it's not supported natively, but it should be an easy task to set up something like Xpadder or Joy2Key so that you can use your controller. There's not a lot of keys in the around eight in total. Two for the flippers, one for add player, one for the escape button (quit table/game), two for yes and no, one for shoot ball, and one for tilt. Should be fairly simple.

Actually, there is controller support in DOSBox. By default, in the DOSBox<VARIES BY GAME>.conf file there is a section called [joystick] and the value to be set (at least to start) is joystick=auto. Once in the game, hitting CTRL-F1 will bring up a key mapper program that you can use to map keyboard keys to your controller.

Also, on a different note, I found that on my 7 year old tablet PC, I still had to set/change the following to: fulldouble=false and machine=vgaonly in order to get, at least, the Pinball Fantasies table working well.

I hate using keyboard with pinball games as a controller makes me feel like I'm actually playing a pin with the trigger buttons simulating the flippers. I never play virtual pins with the keyboard. It just feels so wrong to me.

Thanks mcgamer. Your answer worked out fine. Yippee!

Just bought it yesterday as I loved to play Pinball Dreams 1 and Pinball Fantasies on the Amiga. The music is great - Stones'n'Bones is a classic spooky table I still love to play for hours! I don't mind that other - worse - pinball games are included. It's "for free"! I'm just a bit diappointed that the graphics on my 2,5 GHz CPU / 8GB RAM / 512 MB nVidia GT9400 computer are far less smooth than on my Amiga 1000 many years ago ...

But there are many more good pinball games out there. So, please don't stop releasing good pinball games, GOG.com team!