Balls of Steel (video game)
Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and released on September 3, 1997. It is the only game to be published under the Pinball Wizards label, a division of Apogee Software (today known as 3D Realms). When the game was originally released, it was possible to upload high scores to the WorldScores server, for a global ranking. This feature has since been discontinued. Tables. "Balls of Steel" features five original pinball tables: Another table, "Devil's Island", was dropped from the game when Wildfire was given the opportunity by Apogee  to include a Duke Nukem table. "Devil's Island" was later released as a standalone game. Duke Nukem tie-in. The game includes a table based on the Apogee/3D Realms video game "Duke Nukem 3D" including graphics from that game and original voice-overs by Nukem actor Jon St. John. Pinball missions include fighting monsters like octabrains and pig-cops, and using powerups such as jetpacks and the Holoduke, from the Duke Nukem 3D video game. Graphics of a pinball game named "Balls of Steel" appear in "Duke Nukem 3D" itself, in the first level, "Hollywood Holocaust", when Duke encounters  the table. "Balls of Steel" reappears in "Duke Nukem Forever". Reception. "Balls of Steel" was a finalist for "Computer Games Strategy Plus"s 1998 "Classic Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to "Centipede". The editors wrote that "Balls of Steel" "demonstrated that you can do the Bally table on the PC, and do it well."