Pinball Fantasies App Reviews

Loved this game when i was a kid; ported perfectly to the iphone platform. Excellent, a real must buy!!!

Dont be deterred by the naysayers. This is a great conversion of a great pinball classic. Of course the graphics arent going to be as snazzy as other pinball games that have been built from scratch for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Some people just cant appreciate a good game of pinball. Frankly, I much prefer them with 2D graphics as they are much easier on the eye. Most 3D tables try to overcomplicate things or they try to hide less than stellar table designs behind their glitz. Ill take a fun game of pinball over an up-to-the-latest-minute title any day of the week.

A great and fun pinball game with 4 tables. All of them are colorful, full of action, and simple to play with easy to figure out objectives. I played this a lot on my Amiga and always enjoyed it. Worth the price!

Im addicted! I have every pinball app available and these games are the best! Both applications are great gaming, but my favorite is the Stones and Bones table, cant put it down! Please Cowboys can we have more???? I would love another four tables! Hanna7801

Why there is no 5 ball option ?

Great game perhaps more tables eventually please?

The lack of the 5 ball option isnt really a true port. The game sometimes slows down waaay to much and then when speeds up you cant save yourself. Please add the 5 ball option in, Im sure Im not the only one asking for this. On the good side, it truley does have the feel of the original, and even though the graphics are outdated it is still fun to play. I was hoping for more options at a $6 cost, but hopefully that will be in updates. *edit* cmon guys, even with the upgrade still no 5 ball option? I still give it 4 outta 5 but that option needs to be in the game.

This is my favorite pinball game, with Pinball Dreams coming in right behind it. All the tables are distinctly fun, I can get lost for hours on any one of them. I love the retro graphics and sounds. This really is a high quality port and worth the money. Now bring on Illusions!

Excellent rendition of the original games!

The pinball is fairly entertaining, but if you want a true pinball experience then purchase monster pinball it way more realistic. The flow of the pinball is not fluid. I would have preferred one pinball game that was more realistic than 4 games the come somewhat close to a true pinball game. If you like pinball you will like this game but for myself who is a pinball fanatic it just missed the mark. I do have to say that the tables are really nice but it seems animated and fake. Monster pinball feels like I am playing a miniature pinball table in my hands. I guess if I had not downloaded monster pinball first than this would have gotten five stars. But after playing monster I couldnt feel right giving this 5 stars

This is a classic I cant precise how many hours (ok, days... better: weeks) I spent playing on a PC 486 DX2 66 MHz - which was already a perfect port since the original game was launched for the Amiga. The port to iPhone is absolutely incredible. I must say the taller screen made the iPhone ever a better platform for this game. The animation flows smooth, seems better than on the original version. The music and SFX remains exactly as the original - which is fundamental, since it plays a considerable part on the fun. (and it is amazing how people knew how to make incredible music for games on that time with that few kilobytes). Note: There is music all the time during gameplay - and yet, the whole game is just 4 Megs! (long live to MOD Amiga sound format!) The price is definitely higher than the average iPhone game - but considering I never paid for the PC version that came to me from a friend... who copied from a friend... it is more than fair. Even if you never played the original game (so, not emotionally attached as I am) it certainly provides addictive hours of distraction. Buy!

This game makes me feel like a kid again! I have years of experience on the pc from the 90s and this app hits it on the nose! All the people who are knocking on the graphics dont realize its a perfect port of the original. Would you complain about the graphics on a comodore emulator? The only lacking point is the missing 5 ball feature. Listen to your fans cowboy! 5 balls would put me in heaven!

Pinball Fantasies was one of the best (if not THE best) pinball games on the Amiga, and even now it holds up fairly well. The only downside is the price, but you do get four levels, which helps balance things out. Good choice for pinball lovers!!

I have been playing this on one platform or another since it came out. My life is incomplete with out PARTYLAND! Just loaded it on the new iPad and it is wonderful. Easy control, bright fun graphics... the minor pixelation actually makes it look DOS-like and doesnt compromise the looks at all, same great annoy-the-family music. I had to have this because of my history with the game, but I can understand that others might find it a bit pricey on the scale of the iPhone apps, but compared to iPad apps it is quite competitive. Dont think you can miss with this title.... four tables after all.

*edit* Where the heck is the 5-ball option?!? Common, guys! Update it, please! Four stars because of that and the lack of other cheats from original. My friend and I were reminiscing about being 12 years old and wasting hour upon hour taking turns playing this game in DOS. We both flipped out when we heard someone made an app for it. It is exactly how I remember it: wicked fun! The controls arent as easy to use as it was on a keyboard, but I think Ill get used to it eventually. Tapping a flat screen is not like a pinball machine afterall. Since the files my friend found in his archives no longer seemed to work in Windows 7, this is a sweet gift from the nerd app building community. $6.99 is a bit pricey for such an ancient game, but for my nostalgia, it was worth it. Still holds up over all these years too.

Im ecstatic to have one of the best computer pinball gakes ever made on my iPad. Thanks!

I absolutely love this game, even more now that Stones n Bones doesnt have that drain glitch anymore.

I bought this because I played it endlessly on the PC a very long time ago. Although there are better graphics in newer pinball games, nothing can beat Pinball Fantasies for sheer authenticity, gameplay, and downright fun! The graphics are super colorful and match the table appropriate music. This is just as fun as I remember and I can already tell that these tables will have much more replay value for me than the other iPad titles that I own. This is especially true for Party Land, which is a masterpiece. Take the time to learn the skillshots that light up various parts of the table. This game is more than a bit of nostalgia ... its a very well designed game overall and stands the test of time. Ive seen that Pinball Dreams is also available. Heres to hoping that the other titles from 21st Century (the original developer) also become available for the iPad someday (Pinball Illusions, Pinball Mania, and others)!

This Amiga/PC classic remains the best pinball game I have ever played to this day. Every table is fantastic, but Stones & Bones is my favorite of the four.

My favorite game when I was younger. Still the best!