Pinball Arcade Big Shot Highscore
Channel: David Floyd
Date: 2021-06-28

I find "Pinball Arcade" to be the most outstanding pinball simulation on any platform, with it's superb graphics and gameplay, since it features real tables as opposed to tables being only programmed for the computer.

Be that as it may, it's not without flaws, since a lot of the 100 tables originally programmed were lost, as the Williams licenses went to Zen Studios. Additionally there is no online multiplayer (but you can help yourself out by alternately hosting Share Play), and finally you'll encounter some bugs and glitches, where your highscore isn't saved properly or the program just terminates with an error message displayed (all that doesn't happen too often, though).

Finally, if you decide to purchase the Pinball Arcade Season 1 & 2 discs on PS4 and to get all other table packs digitally, you'll end up having 75 of the finest pinball tables around, namely:

Al's Garage Band Goes on a World Tour
Attack from Mars
Big Buck Hunter
Big Shot
Black Hole
Black Knight
Black Rose
Bone Busters
Cactus Canyon
Cactus Jacks

Centaur
Centigrade 37
Central Park
Circus Voltaire
Class of 1812
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Cue Ball Wizard
Doctor Who: Master of Time
Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray
El Dorado

El Dorado City of Gold
Elvira and the Party Monsters
Fish Tales
Flight 2000
Frank Thomas Big Hurt
Frankenstein
Firepower
FunHouse
Genie
Ghostbusters Premium

Gladiators
Goin Nuts
Gorgar
Harley Davidson
Haunted House
High Roller Casino
Hurricane
Jacks Open
Junk Yard
Last Action Hero

Lights Camera Action
Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
Medieval Madness
Monster Bash
Mustang Premium
No Good Gofers
Phantom of the Opera
Pin Bot
Pistol Poker
Red & Teds Road Show

Rescue 911
Ripleys Believe It Or Not
Safe Cracker
Scared Stiff
Space Shuttle
Space Station
Starship Troopers
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek Vengeance Premium
Tales of the Arabian Nights

Taxi
Teed Off
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Theatre of Magic
The Champion Pub
The Getaway: High Speed II
The Machine: Bride of Pin Bot
The Party Zone
TX Sector
Twilight Zone

Victory
Whirlwind
White Water
Whoa Nelly Big Juicy Melons
Wipeout

Some of the best tables ever released like Tales of the Arabian Nights or Medieval Madness are only available through its release on disc, since the lost licenses didn't affect already released printed mediums.

So, here's to you, some of my finest highscores, where I had a lot of fun. They aren't world rank (since world rank players play on a single table for weeks, while pausing the game when they go to sleep), but I think you'll have as much fun watching them as I had playing them.

It might be childish, but in a way when you play pinball for real, insert coins and only have 3 balls, you want to play as long as possible while triggering as much events, sounds and multi balls as possible, and that's exactly what I did, but, of course, digitally.

One look at the future of pinball gaming: "Pinball FX" by Zen Studios, who acquired the Williams licenses, is set to release in 2021 on next-gen consoles like the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, also on Nintendo Switch. I really hope they learned from their failures with regards to the already existing "Pinball FX3", with the balls moving way too fast (I never was able to get even close to highscores of the same tables I own on "Pinball Arcade"), lacking an invite friends option and finally it's crude, bad taste loading screens instead of the original ad flyers.

In the meantime enjoy this playlist of "Pinball Arcade" highscores, which are dedicated to the pure joy of playing pinball on console. More highscores from different tables will follow, so stay tuned...