I don’t know if it’s un ironic because, at the time (and for a long time), it was the only digital pinball game worth mentioning. All of the others weren’t really very serious. This was the first attempt to really make a serious digital pinball game. And it was fucking amazing. I spent a lot of time playing it.
It might’ve been a year before I could last more than five minutes playing it
That’s not true, I got a shareware Pinball game many years before that ran on DOS which had several tables that were all distinct from each other, better graphics, but if I wanted to unlock everything I had to give a complete stranger my credit card number or send a money order to a physical address.
3D Space Cadet Pinball is popular because it was given to every Windows user for free.
Hilariously (Sadly) the full version of the game failed. The one table demo that we all know was immensely more successful.
I don’t know if it’s un ironic because, at the time (and for a long time), it was the only digital pinball game worth mentioning. All of the others weren’t really very serious. This was the first attempt to really make a serious digital pinball game. And it was fucking amazing. I spent a lot of time playing it.
It might’ve been a year before I could last more than five minutes playing it
That’s not true, I got a shareware Pinball game many years before that ran on DOS which had several tables that were all distinct from each other, better graphics, but if I wanted to unlock everything I had to give a complete stranger my credit card number or send a money order to a physical address.
3D Space Cadet Pinball is popular because it was given to every Windows user for free.
Hilariously (Sadly) the full version of the game failed. The one table demo that we all know was immensely more successful.
If it’s the shareware pinball game I think it is, that complete stranger who wanted your credit card number? Tim Sweeney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Pinball
I was able to convince my dad to give them his credit card number over the phone for the full versions of Epic Pinball and One Must Fall 2097.
Huh… TIL
Ther3 was a full version?
I offer you this tome of wisdom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKUhvdjAJY