

Pinball FX2 and Pinball Arcade are favored on Steam, with Zen Pinball being the premier choice for consoles.

It’s been twenty years since the first Pro Pinball game though, and the genre is now dominated by two or three franchises that have all released a ton of tables to choose from and play. Two newcomers appeared on the scene that propelled the pinball genre into the 3D realm, Tilt! and the Pro Pinball series – and the latter has now been re-introduced with an ‘ultra’ version. Once Pinball Illusions (the final game in the series) came out, it was the mid-nineties. The main difference was in the quality of the animation as well as the audiovisual delivery of pinball, which was far better than games had done up to that point. After some crude attempts in the mid to late eighties, the genre took a leap forward with Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies – which kept with the trend of using a top-down, scrolling 2D overview of a pinball table. The pinball videogame genre has evolved with leaps and bounds when you look at the past 30 years or so. Pro Pinball Ultra is here, with a new version of the classic Timeshock table that was built from the ground up.
