for everyone who thought that the flippers on Cue Ball Wizard were strange, or that the ramp shot was too hard to make, i can promise you that those pointy Gottlieb flippers *truly are that clowny in real life.* according to a 2007 interview with Jon Norris, who designed CBW, those flippers' mechanisms tend to deliver most of their power towards the end of the flipper's stroke. so, to hit the ramp shot, it's necessary to let the ball roll further down the flipper, near the tip, to get the right angle and momentum from the flipper's stroke. it's really tricky to get used to that!
I used to play this many times during my childhood, and for the first time ever, after all my childhood years of playing this along with other games, I have never EVER heard such music in all pinball machines (except Haunted House and Cue Ball Wizard) in this game, and never even had the option to turn on music! Like there was an option to turn on music the whole time? Man I feel like I have missed out on Microsoft Pinball Arcade’s music in other machines, mostly because I thought these, except the last two machines, were silent the whole time. 😂😂😂 They may sound interesting, but personally I play it with no music at all unless it’s HH and CBW. However, I noticed the music on the Spirit of ‘76 pinball machine had the intro music that I’ve only heard of. Feels like I like the intro music more. Sounds kinda groovy and catchy
So, there is actually a very good reason for that. The music on the first several machines is all CD audio, meaning the game CD has to be in the drive for you to be able to hear them. If you installed the game fully to your hard drive, it was perfectly playable without the CD in, but since it relies on red book audio for those, they'd be silent. Haunted House and Cue Ball Wizard have their music stored as wave audio files, so those play just fine, CD or not. If you always did play the game with the disc in the drive, there were a number of any possible symptoms, for instance if your computer was made during the days you had to run the CD audio cable from the sound card to the CD drive and the system builder forgot to do so, or it was accidentally turned all the way down. However, playing the first several tables without any music is far more authentic to the actual machines they are based on. They all solely operated off of electromechanical circuitry with no digital chips in sight -- so they wouldn't have had any capacity to play music. I imagine they just threw that in to give the tables *some* ambiance, perhaps as something you might have heard if you played it at, say, a bar or an arcade during its year of release. It is worth mentioning they are all real, licensed songs too -- I wouldn't have known that if TH-cam ContentID didn't pick them up.
I've been looking for that game everywhere, couldn't remember the name of it! Thank you for the video, l had hours of fun with those wonderful Pinball games ! Anyone recognizes Clint Eastwood 's voice in the western theme game? The quiet tone. I would bet it's him 😉 I wish l could find that CD again, but my oldest Windows is XP, and l suppose it wouldn't play (?)
![The QUEST For The ULTIMATE Windows 98 PC [Part 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Vsj5OPjsUA/mqdefault.jpg)
The graphics are so freaking good for the time
And yes that was nothing compared to Pro Pinball.
"Hit the ball up the ramp there"
Still haunts me to this day...
But man, this is a nostalgia overload.
for everyone who thought that the flippers on Cue Ball Wizard were strange, or that the ramp shot was too hard to make, i can promise you that those pointy Gottlieb flippers *truly are that clowny in real life.*
according to a 2007 interview with Jon Norris, who designed CBW, those flippers' mechanisms tend to deliver most of their power towards the end of the flipper's stroke. so, to hit the ramp shot, it's necessary to let the ball roll further down the flipper, near the tip, to get the right angle and momentum from the flipper's stroke. it's really tricky to get used to that!
My childhood😮, surprisingly I still fully remember the intro mudic!
God i haven't played this game in so long I miss it a lot my favorite was the cowboy one and the haunted house
"Hit th' ball up the ramp, there."
(He never hit th' ball up the ramp, there.)
i remember playing this back in the day and being blown away from the graphics
Thank you for making this! I could not remember the name of this until I saw your vid. This is the first really great pinball sim I played, love it.
I used to play this many times during my childhood, and for the first time ever, after all my childhood years of playing this along with other games, I have never EVER heard such music in all pinball machines (except Haunted House and Cue Ball Wizard) in this game, and never even had the option to turn on music! Like there was an option to turn on music the whole time? Man I feel like I have missed out on Microsoft Pinball Arcade’s music in other machines, mostly because I thought these, except the last two machines, were silent the whole time. 😂😂😂
They may sound interesting, but personally I play it with no music at all unless it’s HH and CBW. However, I noticed the music on the Spirit of ‘76 pinball machine had the intro music that I’ve only heard of. Feels like I like the intro music more. Sounds kinda groovy and catchy
So, there is actually a very good reason for that. The music on the first several machines is all CD audio, meaning the game CD has to be in the drive for you to be able to hear them. If you installed the game fully to your hard drive, it was perfectly playable without the CD in, but since it relies on red book audio for those, they'd be silent. Haunted House and Cue Ball Wizard have their music stored as wave audio files, so those play just fine, CD or not. If you always did play the game with the disc in the drive, there were a number of any possible symptoms, for instance if your computer was made during the days you had to run the CD audio cable from the sound card to the CD drive and the system builder forgot to do so, or it was accidentally turned all the way down.
However, playing the first several tables without any music is far more authentic to the actual machines they are based on. They all solely operated off of electromechanical circuitry with no digital chips in sight -- so they wouldn't have had any capacity to play music. I imagine they just threw that in to give the tables *some* ambiance, perhaps as something you might have heard if you played it at, say, a bar or an arcade during its year of release. It is worth mentioning they are all real, licensed songs too -- I wouldn't have known that if TH-cam ContentID didn't pick them up.
Wishing I could play this game again. Got Y2K nostalgia now. Remember! Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99.
I played this endlessly, my brother liked it too
The early to mid 20th century music in this game is so cool! It reminds me of old movies and lyrical music produced from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Hey I found it! Like someone else said, this was very good graphics for the time.
I've been looking for that game everywhere, couldn't remember the name of it! Thank you for the video, l had hours of fun with those wonderful Pinball games ! Anyone recognizes Clint Eastwood 's voice in the western theme game? The quiet tone. I would bet it's him 😉
I wish l could find that CD again, but my oldest Windows is XP, and l suppose it wouldn't play (?)
めちゃくちゃ懐かしい
素晴らしい！今、オレは日本語が勉強しています。それはとても難しいです！でも、好きです。コメントがありがとうございます！
Obviously it's not a very accurate pinball simulation by today's standards, but the pre-rendered 3D graphics are quite charming I have to say.
My childhood. This hit me hard right in the childhood
You and me bro.
I just ordered an original copy of this title from eBay. Can’t wait to fire it up on my retro Windows 98 machine.
I played this game so much as a kid and at night I'd take the CD out of my computer and listen to it in my room hahaha
Thanks a lot for awesome video! 👍
It was so funny to remember the times when we were developing the thing. 😂
Better than Maxis' Full Tilt Pinball 2.
*spamming flippers*
I understand that kind of frustration.
You shoulda shook the machine left-right in "Spirit of 1976", mate. Anytime the ball's bout to drain and your bonus is under 3k.
Where can i buy this?
Monster inc music
Are these based on real pinball machines?
They most certainly are!
All of these pinball machines were by Gottlieb, which went defunct 2 years before this game was made.
@@MrEightThreeOne I loved playing these!
A nice filler video.
I wish to have it on my ipad pro