Here's the skinny: If you hate pinball, you will hate this game.
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If you love pinball (or even just enjoy a casual affair with it), this is the best $30 you can spend on the Wii. The controls are awesome and the graphics are excellent. You use the B and Z triggers as your flippers. You pull the nunchuck stick back and release to start the ball, only pulling back part way with some of the bonus skill boards. You move the Wiimote and Chuck in ANY direction you want to nudge the table. It feels right.
The other cool things (for old farts like me) is each of the 10 tables are exact replicas of real Williams tables. There were 6 that I remembered playing on as a kid. As you would imagine, they have included info on each table as well as a photo of the retail flyer for each. Of all my multiplayer fare, this is by far the most popular game I have (which is sad, considering I have SSBM). Friends have been coming over and asking to play!
BUT
If you love pinball (or even just enjoy a casual affair with it), this is the best $30 you can spend on the Wii. The controls are awesome and the graphics are excellent. You use the B and Z triggers as your flippers. You pull the nunchuck stick back and release to start the ball, only pulling back part way with some of the bonus skill boards. You move the Wiimote and Chuck in ANY direction you want to nudge the table. It feels right.
The other cool things (for old farts like me) is each of the 10 tables are exact replicas of real Williams tables. There were 6 that I remembered playing on as a kid. As you would imagine, they have included info on each table as well as a photo of the retail flyer for each. Of all my multiplayer fare, this is by far the most popular game I have (which is sad, considering I have SSBM). Friends have been coming over and asking to play!
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Re: Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
Wed, April 23, 2008 - 8:24 PMAwesome. I'm in! -
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Re: Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
Thu, April 24, 2008 - 2:55 PMI got this last week and I love it. I agree you should be a pinball fan to appreciate it.
I still play the Gamecube "Gottlieb Collection", too, which you can find now for less than ten bucks.
www.amazon.com/SVG-PINBAL...pd_bbs_sr_1
It has a lot of the older, analog-style pinball machines from the 60s-70s, plus a few 80s and 90s games.
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