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IGDB / 24377

Pinball Construction Set

1983 65 / 100 Pinball
Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games - the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. Users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by dropping controls onto a table. Controls included bumpers, flippers, spinners and other standard pinball paraphernalia. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model could also be modified. Users could then save their creations and develop cus Show full summary

Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games - the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. Users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by dropping controls onto a table. Controls included bumpers, flippers, spinners and other standard pinball paraphernalia. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model could also be modified. Users could then save their creations and develop custom artwork to go along with them. As Pinball Construction Set itself was not needed to play the tables, they could be freely traded online or on a floppy disk.

World design Nicht eindeutig Game modeMultiplayer

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Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games - the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. Users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by dropping controls onto a table. Controls included bumpers, flippers, spinners and other standard pinball paraphernalia. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model could also be modified. Users could then save their creations and develop custom artwork to go along with them. As Pinball Construction Set itself was not needed to play the tables, they could be freely traded online or on a floppy disk.

Game modeMultiplayer GenrePinball ThemeAction
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Studio & publishing

Developer
Bill Budge
Publisher
Electronic Arts, Comptiq
Franchise
Standalone
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Modi
Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action
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Platform releases

  • PC-8800 Series Aug 01, 1985
  • Atari 8-bit 1983
  • Commodore C64/128/MAX 1983
  • DOS 1985
  • Mac 1986
  • Apple II 1983
  • PC-9800 Series 1985

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