Silverball

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Silverball
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Developers
Publishers
Designer James Schmalz
Platform MS-DOS [1]
Release
Genre Sports
Mode Single-player or 2-4 players (hotseat)

Silverball is a 1993 pinball video game developed by Digital Extremes and Epic MegaGames and published by MicroLeague. Silverball was the first set of pinball games created by James Schmalz and paved the way for the development of Epic Pinball .

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Gameplay

The player can alter the angle of the table, and choose to play a three or five ball game. The game includes multiball. [2]

Tables

The shareware version included the "Fantasy" table and nonplayable versions of "Blood", "Snooker Champ", and "Odyssey" in which the plunger does not work. There are also two tables which appear in the later released Silverball Plus 2, as well a bonus table that could be ordered for free when purchasing Silverball directly from Epic MegaGames.[ citation needed ]

TableGame editionNotes
FantasyOriginal SilverballShareware Table
BloodNot playable in Shareware version.
Snooker Champ
Odyssey
DuelSilverball Plus 2Similar design as the Epic Pinball table "Magic".
WarbotSimilar design as the Epic Pinball table "Excalibur".
NovaSilverball InstallmentSimilar music as the Epic Pinball table "Space Journey".

Reception

Computer Gaming World stated that "the ball's action is a bit strange", behaving like rubber instead of steel. The magazine concluded that "Silverball ranks high for those who don't mind the unrealistic ball action". [3]

Pelit found that "surprisingly" fewer bugs were in the shareware version, and that it was better. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Pinball revival". The Age . November 9, 1993. p. 21. Retrieved November 6, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ Rand, Paul (February 1994). "Review - Silverball". Computer And Video Games Magazine. No. 147. p. 93.
  3. ↑ Lombardi, Chris (December 1993). "Bumper Crop". Computer Gaming World. pp. 110–114. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Laaksonen, Kaj (May 1992). "English summary". Pelit. pp. 26, 79.
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