Too often when someone tries to make a pinball sim they create a computer pinball machine game instead of taking a REAL pinball machine and turning it into a computer game. "Balls of Steel" does a great job of mixing both and adding enough "arcade" touches to expand the games in directions that you can't find at your local arcade. Are these based on real pinball machines? No. Do they act/sound like real pinball machines? Sorta. Is it worth it to buy it for $5.99 and try them out? Oh yeah.
Many computer/video games I played for a while and then got bored. Or with games like DOOM or Duke Nukem, I'd play a few levels, find a GOD code and just make myself invinceable and just cruise through the remaining levels just to see how the story (if there was one) turned out. Carmeggeddon was one of those games that I actually finished (along with Half-Life), that was just fun and different and "not the norm" that I found myself going back to it time and and time again. Violent? Yes. Bloody? Yes. (Note, I couldn't play it with my wife around.) Over the top? You betcha! But still a helluva lot of fun. At some point be sure to see "Death Race 2000" - a 1976 film starring Sylvester Stallone.
I have yet to review a game on GOG but was compelled when Pirates Gold! showed up. The reason being is that this was one of the first games I sat with my young son and played. As we played, there was a mission to find your sister or go after buried treasure. We went after the buried treasure but my son said to me "If this was real life...I'd go find my sister." Yes, this is a great game.
