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Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
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List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $12.17
You Save: $17.82 (59%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(based on 84 reviews)
Sales Rank: 146
Category: Video Games

Publisher: Crave Entertainment
Studio: Crave Entertainment
Brand: Crave Entertainment
Label: Crave Entertainment
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0

MPN: Unknown
UPC: 650008400014
EAN: 0650008400014
ASIN: B000QJLQCQ

Release Date: February 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Multiplayer for up to four players
  • Bonus content: unlockable extra game features can be earned throughout the game

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Pinball Hall of Fame includes 10 classic Williams' pinball tables from the '70s, '80s and '90s! Features unlockable bonus extra game features that the player can earn throughout the game, editable table controls such as Tilt, custom pinballs, more balls per play, table art gallery, 4-player multiplayer mode and much more!


Customer Reviews:   Read 79 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Cool Game - Recommend for all Ages!   August 26, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This game is totally awesome. Our friends came by on a Friday night and ate pizza and beer, and played this pinball game for hours. You can also have a Williams Challenge which gives you extra credits. The Tournament was great also. I'm glad I purchased this game. The Graphics and Music are the best quality. I really enjoyed the FunHouse game the most.


5 out of 5 stars fantastic fun!   August 25, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

we purchased this game a few weeks ago and have not been able to stop playing. especially "funhouse". if we never used our wii for anything else, it was worth getting the console just to be able to play this pinball game. make sure you do get the nunchucks. it's a whole lot more fun to be able to use both hands when playing--it feels like you're at an actual machine. and be careful not to tilt!


5 out of 5 stars surprisingly, my favorite wii game so far   August 23, 2008
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

When I saw this game about Williams pinball I had to pick it up and look, yet I almost didn't buy it because I didn't fall in love with pinball until High Speed and this didn't have any of my favorite tables in it. But due to a half-off your 2nd purchase offer, this was only ten bucks, and now I can say I would've gladly paid 50 bucks for it.

Little annoyances, like pulling the plunger with your left thumb when it's actually on the right, get forgotten after you've played a few times. Being so much like the real thing was surprising, the attention to detail astounding (you even hear the pinball clink when it hits metal). In trying to represent what was originally a real, physical, non-video game, the limitations of the Wii graphics stand out more than any other game, yet it still looks great. The actual game-play was, to me, almost indistinguishable from the real thing. The "camera" angle moves around the table effectively. And, these are still some good, fun tables.

If I had this much fun (and part of the fun is in the astonishment of how realistically this game mimics real pinball) playing games I didn't particularly like, I can't wait until they come out with my all-time favorites like Police Force, Addams Family, and the greatest one of all, Star Trek: The Next Generation. If you like pinball at all, buy this.



4 out of 5 stars Nearly perfect simulations   August 11, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I've played a *lot* of pinball and have owned a number of games. The games included in this Wii title are pretty good reproductions of their "real" counterparts all of which I have played on many occasions. The one flaw in this game is the occasionally incorrect ball action. That is, balls sometimes behave in an unnaturally excited manner - moving much faster off the slingshots, pop bumpers, and posts than you would ever see on a real game. This, combined with the somewhat sluggish response of the flippers, can result in balls zipping past the flippers or into the outlanes in an unnatural way. As mentioned, the flippers are ever so slightly sluggish - not quite as responsive as those on a real game. This delay between pushing the buttons on the wiimote and nunchuck and the activation of the flippers is probably about 0.05 seconds more than on a real machine. It's just enough to be noticeable and a bit distracting if you are an experienced pinball player. You can adjust to this pretty quickly, however. Aside from these minor quibbles, the simulation is impressive - complete with very good instructions on all of the games, several viewing modes and angles for each game, and fun playing modes. You can jostle the game with each hand independently using the motion sensors on the Wiimote and nunchuck - very satisfying and natural. The use of the joystick on the nunchuck to pull back the plunger to launch balls with controlled force was a great choice. It's a great equivalent to the spring action on a real machine. It's great to see these classic games so faithfully reproduced on the Wii. I recommend the game to anyone who enjoys or is curious about pinball. I'd love to see more releases featuring other great games such as Addams Family, Twilight Zone, Theater of Magic, and so on. After all, they have the physics engine pretty well dialed in already - just need to fix some of the hyper-ball bugs!


5 out of 5 stars Old times relived!   August 8, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This game is such a joy to play. Reminds me of the old arcades. The one feature I wish they would have added was a backdoor to unlock every table within the game. Other than that, if you like pinball you will love this game.

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