10 Strangest Pinball Video Games

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A competent video game that is able to replicate the physics and feel of pinball can provide a great alternative to making a trip to the arcade to sink all your hard-earned coinage. Also, with pinball entering the virtual world, the limitations of real life need not apply. Take away the rules though, and things start to get a little out of hand. Here are the 10 Strangest Pinball Video Games!
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Simon Pike (@Sim198k)
Video Editor: Anthony Hambling (@anthambling)
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  • @Valkian24
    @Valkian24 Жыл бұрын

    Yoku's Island Express is such an overlooked gem.

  • @CrowTRobot

    @CrowTRobot

    Жыл бұрын

    Haven't even watched it yet and I'm so happy to see this comment. Glad they mentioned it. It deserves so much more love!!

  • @nzcalso

    @nzcalso

    Жыл бұрын

    Yoku's Island Express is great! I liked it so much I gifted it to a few of my friends. :D

  • @charliekirkpatrick695
    @charliekirkpatrick695 Жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, here we go, pub novelty time!

  • @rileypeterson1859
    @rileypeterson1859 Жыл бұрын

    The "Cult of the Bloody Tongue" in the Necronomicon Pinball is actually a cult in the Tabletop game Call of Cthulhu. It's one of the villains in its arguably most famous supplement, Masks of Nyarlathotep, and they worship the titular Nyarlathotep. It makes sense to be in it, since Call of Cthulhu is popular in Japan in a similar way to D&D in America. Neat to see a reference like that.

  • @northcliffe4lyfe
    @northcliffe4lyfe Жыл бұрын

    I spent many hours on Space Cadet in many work places with strict firewalls

  • @pup_hime
    @pup_hime Жыл бұрын

    i'm really surprised Screaming Mad George's ParanoiaScape on the psx didnt make the list

  • @MateusAuri

    @MateusAuri

    Жыл бұрын

    Same! I was so certain that Pataank would be #2, and ParanoiaScape #1...

  • @SlasherMiniFilms
    @SlasherMiniFilms Жыл бұрын

    Ever look at a list and think “oh yeah, Odama’s gonna be on that list.” Yeah, this is that list lmao

  • @matthenzel8930
    @matthenzel89306 сағат бұрын

    Some excellent video pinball games here. Flipnic is so underated. I was surprised to not see any of the Crush/Crash games though (Alien Crush, Devil's Crush, Jaki Crush). Those are my favorites. I think we need a part II to this video! :)

  • @DualDesertEagle
    @DualDesertEagle Жыл бұрын

    While I'm here I thought I'd recommend "PinOut", a multi-stage Pinball top-down scroller. The neon visuals are simple but look nice, each stage (of which there are 7) and the "endless" mode have their own color scheme and music. The game has a timer ticking down and there are white dots placed in each stage which give u 1 second each, aswell as power-ups where u can choose between a pre-selected one and a random one, and finally minigames, most of which are endless as far as I can tell and give u extra time according to ur progress but get pretty hard pretty quick. All of that is removed in "endless" mode, meaning u can no longer collect any extra time and have to get as far as u can on the time u've collected throughout the stages. There are 13 ranks that correspond to certain scores, my personal highscore being 12305 meters, giving me the rank "Mediocre", but don't be fooled by that, "Mediocre" is not only the 2nd-highest achievable rank in the game but also the name of the publisher. and the 2 games I have from them (PinOut and Smash Hit) are *_FAR BETTER_* than just "mediocre".

  • @Sam-gy7nv
    @Sam-gy7nv Жыл бұрын

    I hadn't heard of most of these, but I love playing pinball. This was a great video. I played a ton of Sierra 3d pinball games when I was younger.

  • @captainunderpants200
    @captainunderpants200 Жыл бұрын

    I freaking love Metroid Prime: Pinball on DS. So many hours spent on the loo with that one, So many dead legs. Yoku's Island Express is really clever and fun, too. I really must finish Rollers of the Realm one day. It's also a pretty cool and unique take on pinball. Yes, I really like pinball.

  • @Marc_Araujo
    @Marc_Araujo Жыл бұрын

    Alien Crush and Devil's Crush are at the top for me and Sonic Spinball isn't too bad either.

  • @mr_indie_fan

    @mr_indie_fan

    Жыл бұрын

    Yoku's island express: *bruh*

  • @darthwiizius
    @darthwiizius Жыл бұрын

    Creature in the well is pretty weird too, a third person dungeon crawling pinball ARPG.

  • @TheTenthArt
    @TheTenthArt Жыл бұрын

    I know the Crush series is very famous but I think one of them (Alien Crush, Devil's Crush, Jaki Crush) or even the recent spiritual successor Demon's Tilt deserved to be in this video :)

  • @RetroCabeza

    @RetroCabeza

    Жыл бұрын

    Alien Crush Returns for WiiWare is a nice 3D reboot, if you can play it 👌

  • @TheTenthArt

    @TheTenthArt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RetroCabeza Nice to know! Thanks!!!

  • @Evilriku13

    @Evilriku13

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RetroCabeza its abandonware now

  • @the-engneer
    @the-engneer3 ай бұрын

    Pinball Quest for the NES deserves an honorable mention IMO just because it was so ahead of its time

  • @flashn00b
    @flashn00b3 ай бұрын

    Can confirm that Rollers of the Realm is a pretty neato game that really deserves more attention.

  • @bluetarantulaproductions6179
    @bluetarantulaproductions6179 Жыл бұрын

    Would have added "Crüe Ball" starring Mötley Crüe for Genesis/Mega Drive.

  • @RetroCabeza
    @RetroCabeza Жыл бұрын

    Pinball of the Dead for the GBA deserves to be mentioned. So... there it is.

  • @thepixelempire9290
    @thepixelempire9290 Жыл бұрын

    I love pinball games and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, really enjoyed the vid! 😁 Flipnic looks completely mad and now I want to play it. I wasn't awake Yoku was pinball-driven, I'd always assumed it was a 2D platformer with Yooka-Laylee vibes. It's been sitting on my shelf too long 😊

  • @rafaellima83
    @rafaellima83 Жыл бұрын

    Necronomicon is, for real, one of the best pinball games I ever played. Akira Psycho Ball was made by the same team, the also made Last Gladiator on Sega Saturn which is also a fantastic good pinball game too.

  • @colonicus
    @colonicus Жыл бұрын

    Screaming Mad Georges Paranoiascape? Although probably worth avoiding the nightmare fuel.

  • @Mystemo
    @Mystemo Жыл бұрын

    Pinball Quest for NES and Pinball of the Dead for GBA are a couple of other good options, as well as the "Crush" trilogy.

  • @NikosiaMateas
    @NikosiaMateas Жыл бұрын

    I immediately ordered Flipnic off eBay when I saw it. I needed that in my life.

  • @magusxxx
    @magusxxx Жыл бұрын

    This video reminded me of Myst 3: Exile. In one of the levels you have to make sure balls correctly follow a certain track. At the end you get the big reveal that you're going to travel inside a sphere and zoom around the map as if you're in a pinball.

  • @EquesTron
    @EquesTron Жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised that Senran Kagura: Peach Ball didn't end up on the list.

  • @RenegadePandaZ

    @RenegadePandaZ

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you...

  • @TheGamerFru
    @TheGamerFru Жыл бұрын

    they all look fun except for that number one lol

  • @Purekazu
    @Purekazu Жыл бұрын

    Another great video by one of my favorite channels. I don't think I'm long for this world

  • @billfrantz1638
    @billfrantz1638 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah dude! The video I’ve been waiting for! “That deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean pin ball”🎶🎶🎶

  • @BueiroAbertonoUniverso25
    @BueiroAbertonoUniverso25 Жыл бұрын

    pinball of the dead - GBA Devish crush - Mega drive

  • @coreymartin6363
    @coreymartin6363 Жыл бұрын

    I get that, being British and talking about pinball, there's like a law that you have to mention it, but now I'm going to have the ⅔ of Pinball Wizard that I know stuck in my head all day.

  • @coreymartin6363

    @coreymartin6363

    Жыл бұрын

    Unless you didn't mention it and it's all me...I can't remember. I mean, you had to have, right? (hadto've?...kidding)

  • @MateusAuri

    @MateusAuri

    Жыл бұрын

    it's been stuck in mine ever since I was a young boy

  • @Smoothie_The_Gamecat
    @Smoothie_The_Gamecat20 күн бұрын

    I guess The Pinball of the Dead counts as an honorable mention. But anyway, i missed playing Metroid Prime Pinball.

  • @Patrick-yi7un
    @Patrick-yi7un Жыл бұрын

    I played yokus island express, it's really fun!

  • @triplestar100
    @triplestar100 Жыл бұрын

    OK, I admit all the choices in this vid fit the scale- believe it or not I managed to actually play "Odama" at the videogame store one of my friends works at, and it was hella funny! that said, tho: why in the 9 Circles of HELL "The Crush Trilogy (Alien, Devil's [known in the West as "Dragon's Fury"] and Yokai)" weren't on this vid? do you dames & gents at TripleJump have an explanation, let alone a justifiable excuse, for such omission?

  • @Mikebumpful
    @Mikebumpful Жыл бұрын

    I miss the «Space Cadet Pinball» included in Windows XP 😢

  • @gustru2078

    @gustru2078

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you know that it is part of a Windows 3.1 game called "Full Tilt!" published by Maxis (same company that made the Sims and Sim City)? Space Cadet only was included with Windows from Windows 95 until XP. Someone at Microsoft tried to port it to x64 but had some issues that forced him to drop the project. As long as you have some basic knowledge of DOSBox, you can easily find Windows 3.1 already pre-installed for it, then all you have to do is mount the ISO or bin/cue for Full Tilt! Pinball and install it from Windows 3.1. The mount command looks like this: imgmount d full_tilt.cue -t cdrom imgmount is the command, "d" is the letter to which you wish to mound the CD (always D, don't use anything else than that letter) full_tilt.cue is the name of the file to mount -t is an argument that lets us specify the type of drive it is going to be cdrom is the type we need to make it work properly within DOSbox. It is also completely unrelated to the drive letters in your computer so it doesn't matter if you already have something that uses "D:" as its drive letter. If your ISO or .cue file has spaces in its filename, I recommend removing or replacing them with underscores or else you'll have to write your filename between quotation marks : imgmount d "full tilt.cue" -t cdrom Alternatively, you can find a download of the Space Cadet table alone (the one that was included in Windows) and then use a wrapper like DGVoodoo that will emulate an old GPU and allow you to keep the 4:3 aspect ratio as well as making the framerate smooth as butter.

  • @PopsicleSponge
    @PopsicleSponge Жыл бұрын

    Metroid prime pinball! I played that whilst on holiday in Bulgaria. Refusing to take my t shirt off whilst sitting by the pool and playing on my DS. I bought that title because it came with a rumble pack that you put into the GBA port on the bottom of your Nintendo DS. I was convinced i had made a savvy purchase. With all titles to surely come with extra rumbly goodness. Turned out to be a crap marketing gimmick.

  • @RenegadePandaZ
    @RenegadePandaZ Жыл бұрын

    I've never been more let down, I thought for sure Senran Kagura Peach Ball would be number 1, but then I realize it's not even on the list?

  • @barrywallace2744

    @barrywallace2744

    Жыл бұрын

    Certainly should be on the list and top as well.

  • @RetroRuss
    @RetroRuss Жыл бұрын

    Flipnic looks fun as hell.

  • @KatyLawson
    @KatyLawson Жыл бұрын

    Hoping for Pinball Pro for the Cybiko Experience on this list!

  • @KRS2000
    @KRS2000 Жыл бұрын

    I spent hours playing Metroid Prime Pinball. I don't know how I did it, but when I did the Omega Pirate stage, I beat it in 37 seconds. I doubt I could do that again. The last actual Pinball machine that I remember playing was Star-Gate. I was on a trip with my dad, and we stopped at a truck stop for about 3 or so hours, and I kept pumping quarters into it. I must have broke the game, because when it told me to shoot the pyramid, I did. The game didn't do anything else after that. The flippers stopped working and I never got the ball back, so I think broke the machine. This was back around the mid 90s. Once that happened, I spent about an hour playing the arcade machine of Cruisin USA. So much better than the N64 port.

  • @hateliedecieve
    @hateliedecieve9 ай бұрын

    Paranoiascape and Demon's Tilt are great titles as well.

  • @swampfoxIX
    @swampfoxIX Жыл бұрын

    Pinball Fx3 is fantastic on Xbox. (you just have to purchase the tables afterwards, either individually or in group packages).

  • @gustru2078

    @gustru2078

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's on PC too but that's just a good pinball game. It doesn't qualify as "weird"

  • @ricahrdb
    @ricahrdb Жыл бұрын

    Loved Metroid Prime Pinball. Played it to death.

  • @Nbflowers1989
    @Nbflowers1989 Жыл бұрын

    LiKe SpIkE for our favorite video game channel!

  • @rileyluce1614
    @rileyluce1614 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, but you missed Paranoiascape!

  • @renesnow3799
    @renesnow3799 Жыл бұрын

    Demon's Tilt is a really good recent pinball game

  • @mr_indie_fan
    @mr_indie_fan Жыл бұрын

    Weird pinball games are the best

  • @jonf5975
    @jonf5975 Жыл бұрын

    rollers of the realm and zombie rollerz are great

  • @Heringgehirn
    @Heringgehirn Жыл бұрын

    Yoku's island express is really good. Even if you are not a big pinball fan. But do those even exist?

  • @SMthegamer1
    @SMthegamer110 ай бұрын

    Crue Ball was the game of choice for my family

  • @catriamflockentanz
    @catriamflockentanz Жыл бұрын

    9:30 I wonder of at least some of the team behind the flippering insane game are also the one's responsible for Parodius...

  • @Evilriku13
    @Evilriku13 Жыл бұрын

    No mentioning of Devil Crash or Alien Crush? :(

  • @CIVICMINDED
    @CIVICMINDED Жыл бұрын

    "Pataaaaaaaaak..." 🤣

  • @Djordje_Jovanovic
    @Djordje_Jovanovic Жыл бұрын

    Power Rangers ZEO: Full Tilt Battle Pinball should've been on the list.

  • @gustru2078
    @gustru2078 Жыл бұрын

    Austin Powers and KISS Pinball are PC games running on the same engine as Balls of Steel (one of the best pinball games of the late 90's). Forget whatever playstation version of that game and get it on your computer. Everything will look *much* better than this 😂 Along with those 2 games, there is also Dirt Track Racing Pinball and the Devil's island table running on the very same engine as Balls of Steel Edit : Nice suggestions I didn't know about. Got some stuff to try out :)

  • @barrywallace2744

    @barrywallace2744

    Жыл бұрын

    Balls of Steel I believe was Crueball a Pinball game with Motley Crue theme to it.

  • @noahboat580
    @noahboat580 Жыл бұрын

    Theres never enough anime games for the ps2, that never made it in the states. You would need a gen 1 PS3 thats also a test kit if you want to keep it "first-party" in the states, but then you would still want the game from ebay

  • @mondayadams8166
    @mondayadams8166 Жыл бұрын

    Quick, someone do a "every licensed pinball game ranked worst to best"

  • @SuperFromND
    @SuperFromND Жыл бұрын

    flipnic is SO good

  • @-mcpie-6802
    @-mcpie-6802 Жыл бұрын

    I thought ParanoiaScape would be #1. Maybe for the next top 10 I suppose.

  • @smashpro1
    @smashpro1 Жыл бұрын

    I would add ParanoiaScape for PS1 to the list.

  • @bensonsj98
    @bensonsj98 Жыл бұрын

    I honestly can’t tell you the last time I played pinball.

  • @widiwoqm1544
    @widiwoqm1544 Жыл бұрын

    Does a nascar pinball pc game count?

  • @aliensweathands
    @aliensweathands Жыл бұрын

    👽

  • @howmuchdidyoupay
    @howmuchdidyoupay Жыл бұрын

    Space cadet!

  • @SteveMacSticky
    @SteveMacSticky Жыл бұрын

    I have not been keeping up with TJ. Have they achieved their 10000 Facebook followers?

  • @43DRS
    @43DRS Жыл бұрын

    No pinball ….. of the Dead

  • @paulcool4384
    @paulcool4384 Жыл бұрын

    Your nr1 choice sucks but the rest of the selection rocks !

  • @mesquitegirl2013
    @mesquitegirl2013Ай бұрын

    ❤️

  • @FatherTime89
    @FatherTime89 Жыл бұрын

    You could probably do bizarre real world pinball machines. For example there's one called Monster Bash where you try to get the Universal monsters to form a rock band and perform a concert. It's actually pretty fun.

  • @1jencole
    @1jencole Жыл бұрын

    More proof that the 3DO should be actively scrubbed from history! Poor folks that laid down their hard-earned money for that gigantic turd back in the day...yikes!

  • @rneercats4574
    @rneercats4574 Жыл бұрын

    Pinballlll

  • @lwbga666
    @lwbga666 Жыл бұрын

    Whole list is null, how was senran kagura peach ball not on the list, let alone #1? For shame.....

  • @RandomAsFunk
    @RandomAsFunk Жыл бұрын

    How you going to do my yoku island like that, calling it lvls when it’s a metroid vannia game, it’s almost like you guys didn’t even play it

  • @alexhobbs1208

    @alexhobbs1208

    Жыл бұрын

    " open world pinball game "

  • @regalpinion4201
    @regalpinion4201 Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget to set your playback speed back to normal after you're finished with this video.

  • @mrafflin
    @mrafflin Жыл бұрын

    sonic spinball doesn’t exist

  • @shadowgaminguk8624
    @shadowgaminguk8624 Жыл бұрын

    interesting video tho your voice and poor attempt at being a comedian makes it hard to watch

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