Disappointing The first time I heard of pinball on home computers it struck me as weird choice of game to write. I've since come round to the opinion that it can be marvellous fun - if well programmed it can play as well as a conventional machine but add all sorts of animated or zappy screens to play that couldn't possibly be created in real life - all in the comfort of your own home. Unfortunately Pinball Wizard represents a wasted opportunity. As you so often find with average quality software they have done all the hard bits but completely forgotten the small details that can make a game a joy to play. In this case they have got the movement of the ball off perfectly but have let it down by surrounding it with dull pedestrian features. There is only one, boring screen with the absolute minimum of flashing lights etc and only the barest of sound effects. It should, and could, have been full of zaps and pows and all sorts of amazing things happening that would have driven lesser mortals from the room in seconds. Pinball Wizard could have got by as a budget title but for six pounds you could find a lot more worthwhile things to spend your money on, for example going to play sixty games of pinball! Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly (1985)
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