What is Full Tilt! Pinball (Space Cadet, Skulduggery, Dragon's Keep)?

Full Tilt! Pinball is Maxis' first pinball simulation game. This one includes 3 boards: Space Cadet, Skulduggery, and Dragon’s Keep. Each featuring the usual amount of bumpers, targets, ramps, etc as well as a big payoff for the successful completion of each table, such as slaying a dragon on Dragon's Keep, or creating a black hole on Space Cadet.

Did you know that the Space Cadet was the full version of a demo game that was bundled by Microsoft as a pack-in game with Windows 98 through XP?

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Bing! Ping! Pa-ching! If you want a realistic Mac pinball game, look no farther than Full Tilt! Pinball. Full Tilt! includes three pinball tables each of which can be used by a single player or four players who take turns. In some situations, the game lets you have multiple balls in play at once and you can tilt if you nudge the table too hard.

Mastering Full Tilt!’s controls is simple. Put the ball into play by pulling the plunger back with the space bar, controlling the left and right flip- pers with the “2” and “/” keys, respectively. You can even nudge the machine from the left, right or bottom using the three nudge keys, but be careful not to tilt. All of the keyboard commands are user-definable.

Full Tilt! looks, feels and sounds just like real pinball. Its playfield tilts away from you slightly, unlike the artificial direct overhead views of the LittleWing games such as Eight Ball Deluxe and Loony Labyrinth. The balls race around convincingly under the spell of gravity, mass and inertia whether they are ricocheting off bumpers, dropping targets, sliding down ramps or colliding with flippers. Get the smoothest game by running Full Tilt! alone; ball movement is jumpy when other programs are open, no matter how much memory is installed. All this action is accompanied by real pinball sounds, digitized voices and background music; each can be turned off separately.

Space Cadet provides the simplest table, with two flippers and only one elevated platform. Dragon's Keep and Skulduggery have three and four flippers, respectively, multiple elevated platforms and wire ramps that transport the ball over the playfield. It takes a while to figure out how to earn bonus points since the table elements are not described in the manual, and Balloon Help doesn't work. (Real-life pinball games don’t come with instructions,either.) Fortunately, free, unlimited technical support is available via a toll call.

I’ve played all of the pinball games available for the Macintosh, and none of them comes close to matching Full Tilt! in ease-of-use, game- play, realism or fun.

Linzmayer, Owen W. (September 1996). Full Tilt Pinball. MacAddict. (pg. 62).

 

Download Full Tilt! Pinball (Space Cadet, Skulduggery, Dragon's Keep) for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• MC68030 processor
• 8 MB RAM
• 8-bit color display
• 2X CD-ROM drive
• System 7.0

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II