> Hey, I just got into pinball emulation, and while I'm primarily a video game
> player, I did play a number of machines that were at my local college bar. One
> of these was Cue Ball Wizard. My friends I played this to death. I was pumped
> to see that Microft has this table emulated in their Microsfot Pinball Arcade
> package.
>
> It intially wowed me and brought back tons of memories, however, I'm now
> severely disappointed in it. Mostly because the flipper physics seem so off as
> to make hitting the main ramp on the table incredibly hard. This ramp is the
> trigger for all sorts of stuff to happen, like mini games on the score window,
> and other stuff, so I have yet to see any of these games that I remember. I
> would hardly consider the table playable because of this.
>
> Anyway, to make a long post short, does anyone know if despite being simulated
> by microsoft, if there are plans for a visual pinball version? I can imagine it
> being extra diffucult to create due to the big cue ball that rolls around in the
> center of the table.

Never heard of any attempt to create this table. Yes the cue ball would be a challenge unless the next VP version supports changing the size of a pinball. Then it might be doable. Also it's a Gottlieb game (Gottlieb sucks!!!) :) so the driver would have to be written & added to VPinMAME.

> Anyone else play MS's version of this table? If so, what was your take on it?

I don't have that much of a problem with the main ramp. Though I agree that the physics of MS Pinball Arcade flippers are questionable at best. Still fun though.

Jay
Hardware/Tech Support Moderator

# of bugs found in Windows so far: