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Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection   Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
Amazon Price: $29.99
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Release Date: February 26, 2008
ESRB: Everyone
Publisher: Crave Entertainment
User Rating: (10 Ratings)
Amazon Customer Rating: (130 Ratings)
User Status: 1 currently playing of 18 owning the game
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BigBadBob
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75 posts
8 Miis
May 24, 2008 at 8:23am
This is a very interesting game. Basically, it is a collection of several old-school pinball games. The controls are very simple, as the A button controls the right flipper, the Z button controls the left flipper, and the analog controls the ball launcher. This is where I found one of the games biggest flaws, in that it unnecessarily required the use of the Wiimote and Nunchuck, and offered no option for different controls. I would assume that holding the Wiimote sideways could easily have sufficed. Aside from the annoying controls, the game is good. One of the only gameplay problems I found was that the ball rolls off the edge of the pinball board (away from the flippers) quite often, so you lose a lot of balls without missing on the flippers. It happens a lot more than it does in actual pinball.

This game is good if you just want to chill out and play pinball. Nothing fancy, just mellow, simple pinball. Its worth a rent.
Spyo
June 14, 2008 at 4:01pm
Liked it alot,,,, But still looking for a pinball machine I use to play in the old days,,,, but a keeper still
Filazafer
June 26, 2008 at 11:47am
The best pinball game ever.
bugashi
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378 posts
8 Miis
August 3, 2008 at 11:12pm

Video pinball games often lack the feel of a real table, to which nothing will ever replace/simulate it at all. Nothing. This game (the Wii version at least) does well, making the motion controls sensitive enough to nudge the table, and making it possible to go full tilt if nudged too hard. Having to earn 100 credits to buy free play mode on half of the tables is a bit pointless, though isn't so much of a grind chore given how earning all table goals also gives free play on any table. The arcade setting, as well as the ambient sounds also add to the sense of playing the original tables in a local arcade. Overall, this is perhaps one of the best video pinball titles out there.