Super Pinball by Russco

Super Pinball by Russco is a straightforward computer pinball game that attempts to recreate the noisy, chaotic pleasure of a real machine without requiring a pocket full of coins. The table provides the familiar ingredients: flippers, bumpers, targets, ramps, and a ball that seems to possess a personal vendetta against your high score. The graphics are necessarily simpler than the physical machines that inspired it, but the basic appeal remains intact. You launch the ball, react quickly, keep it alive as long as possible, and watch the score climb whenever you manage a satisfying combination. Like many pinball games of its period, it relies more on immediate gameplay than elaborate presentation. Super Pinball by Russco is therefore best approached as a quick arcade diversion rather than a serious simulation. It captures the essential pleasure of pinball surprisingly well: you are always one lucky bounce away from a great score, and always one unlucky bounce away from watching the ball disappear down the middle.