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Martin Mathis' - Pro Pinball: The Web

Martin Mathis' Pinball Simulation Reviews: Pro Pinball: The Web by Empire Interactive/Interplay/Cunning Development (DOS/Win95 CD-ROM) Single-table package with a futuristic biker theme employing 90's-style ramps and targets. Non-scrolling fullscreen 3D view at three different view angles (plus choice of score display) and resolutions up to 1024x768 using delightfully rendered graphics in 256 or 32768 colors. Max. 4 players, 3 balls per game, 3-way table nudges (most realistic ones I've seen so far), keys not configurable (there go my already cracked CTRL caps). The lack of the usual configurable table parameters (speed, number of balls) is proper for a fair highscore contest and realistic as you would not walk up to a coin-op machine either and change its settings. State-of-the-art dot-matrix display and animations and excellent sound effects and various CD-quality soundtracks. Video mode. Records a variety of highscores: All-time, daily, buy-in and number of combo and loop shots. Awards replays on end-digits and highscores in the form of continues (max. 9 at a time) for buy-in competition. The publisher encourages and publishes highscore submissions using an authenticity code but does not offer prizes. The Web has been available in Europe for over a year and is finally distributed in the USA by Interplay. It is heavily mission-based (hit specific targets under time pressure) and your goal (other than staying alive) is to collect these tokens called "spheres". Completion of all missions leads to a high scoring, ultimate showdown mode whose scoring is dependent on the number of spheres. After that you start over but you get higher awards each time around and your tokens accumulate. The Web is currently the closest you can get to an actual pinball machine. Yet the ball physics, though very good, are not perfect, particularly a certain lack of flipper finesse and the way the ball often bounces from the sling shots. The table is generally hard to defend (outlanes) but makes up by making a lo

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