Taste the rainbow
(You’re thinking of skittles, not pinball, you idiot. And even then, not the right kind of skittles. Still, I suppose at least we should be grateful it wasn’t a Tommy line, like everyone else who’s ever reviewed any kind of pinball-related game at any time in the last 20 years. I mean, do they think it’s THE FIRST TIME ANYONE’S EVER THOUGHT OF IT or something? Jesus. – Ed)
Bargain-alert time, chums. The fantastic Pinball HD is one of the App Store’s top three pinball games, offering as it does three top pinball games. Or at least, one top pinball game* and two pretty okay ones. But anyway. This used to be three separate pinball games played in uncomfortable portrait mode, until the advent of the iPad and then the iPhone 4′s retina display made it possible for it to be all pretty in landscape mode and for developers Gameprom to put all three games into one app. Which would probably have been possible before too if they’d really wanted to, but anyway.
The point we’re trying to make is, Pinball HD is really good, and is now on sale for a ridiculously low 59p (99c) for either the iPad or iPhone 4 versions, which are normally £1.79 ($2.99) and £1.19 ($1.99) respectively. Even though they’re the same game.
Although now that the newest iPod Touches have Retina screens too, we’d imagine it’ll work on those as well. And although there are two separate versions, we’re not sure what happens if you run the iPhone one on the iPad. But we do know that the iPad one definitely WON’T run on the iPhone, so don’t buy that one. Unless you have an iPad, obviously. Unless you have an iPad AND an iPhone, in which case you might as well get the one that’ll run on both. If it will. And definitely DEFINITELY don’t buy the three individual games, which are inexplicably still on sale for 59p each. Man, this got complicated.
* The Deep. Yeah, we made you click the jump just for that.
October 13, 2010 at 2:35 pm
The iPhone/iPod version works fine on older devices without Retina Displays, too, although it’s obviously not as pretty. (Run the iPhone one on the iPad and you get evil pixel-doubling. Blech.)
And, Stu: go and have a lie-down.
October 13, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I might be the only person who prefers the slightly awkward simplicity of the Wild West table. I think I like the music more than the table actually.
October 13, 2010 at 4:20 pm
I prefer bagatelle. What are my options for that, on the iFad, please?
October 13, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I prefer pachinko even more, which is what I was thinking of when I said bagatelle. Doy. Are there any pachinko simulators for the Apple dooDad?
October 13, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I can confirm it works fine on the Touch 4G and looks great with the retina display.
This beats the crap out of Zen Pinball! nice tip
October 13, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Try these:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/boingg-pachinko/id340071843?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kachinko/id310921244?mt=8
October 13, 2010 at 5:15 pm
I really like The Deep. It’s especially lovely on iPad (to the level that any iPad owner who likes pinball but doesn’t have this app is officially a complete idiot).
October 14, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Yes, works great on the Touch 4G. It’s also the first 3D game I’ve seen that uses full retina rez and it’s awesome. Shame I’m not very good at pinball games — though this has big flippers and you don’t lose the ball too often. I totally suck at Pinball Dreams, for example.
Shame I don’t like either orientation though! I hate hate hate games that play in portrait mode if they require both thumbs, because I can’t comfortably hold the dinky iPod touch in my huge hands that way for long. But for this game, landscape mode only offers one fixed table angle which isn’t very satisfactory.