What is Pro Pinball: The Web?

An impressive realism and incredible cool sound effects for this never old pinball game from 1996!
The table and its challenges are accurate and extremely entertaining. Not a single flaw.
Amazing game, it will keep you chained to the screen for delightful hours.

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Used to be two types of folk who went into arcades: those who played those new-fangled, flashy video games and those who went for the real thing — pinball. Although some tables had utterly convoluted layouts, and you couldn’t quite befleve that the ball dropped into the gutter again, it was a more honest experience than chasing pixels.

Well, pinball games have been coming to your local computer screen for a while now, and though it’s not, physically, the real thing, Pro•Pinball is a pretty good way to get a pinball fix at home, and it wreaks far less havoc with your furniture arrangement.

Pro•Pinball has no real installation; no matter how many data flies (and there are more than 120MB of them) you drag onto your hard drive, the CD-ROM must be in the drive to play. (If you have the space, copy the sound files first, then the graphics.) Still, running the game entirely off the CD on a Power Mac 7500, gameplay was smooth and fast, even in “high graphic detail” mode, at 800 x 600-pixel resolution. The realistic sounds and “Rock and Roll, man” music also plays well.

This pinball table is truly modern, complete with digitized voices and multiple “games” such as Bike Race, which play on the virtual dot matrix display (there has to be some sort of irony there). The action stories thrown into the mix on this table make no sense, of course — there’s shooting at terrorists, docking in space, other boyish things — but play is addictive, and it’s a table you really can learn. After half an hour or so, I was able to make shots more consistently, parlay Extra Ball opportunities, and nudge the table (yes, you can nudge, but be careful — you can also tilt).

Although it would be nice to be able to move to a different table, Pro•Pinball plays better than most computer pinball packages and is about as good a game as you’ll get without putting quarters into a slot. In fact, it’s better than many “actual” tables in “actual” arcades. One note, though: This table is titled “The Web,” but there’s no mention of HTML in the whole thing.

Turner, D. D. (March 1997). Pro Pinball. MacAddict. (pg. 80).

Download Pro Pinball: The Web for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS 10.0

Compatibility notes

I played it transforming the .bin file into .iso (just by re-typing the name) and then on Daemon Tools. 
Then with Boxer via DOS.
It works on my pretty new Mac!!!

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Minimum Requirements

• MC68030 processor
• CD-ROM drive
• 640 x 480, 8-bit color display
• System 7.1
   

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II