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5 excellent playable 2D tables on this CD.A shame it´s only 2D but at least no scrolling. Lots of fun with animated moving targets. |
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points | points | points | points | points |
| Win/DOS | win9x | |||||
| year of release/ producer | 1997 from Wildfire studios CD-titel: Balls of Steel |
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| scrolling %/% screen |
no, adjustable to 100/50 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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| 2D/3D | 2D | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| configuration | no settings changeable tilt right/left are the keys y/- |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # of balls | 5 | what a shame | ||||
| multiball | yes, Darkside with several MB´s | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| restart | ok | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| physics | very good physics | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 |
| graphics | nice animated targets | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| difficulty | Barbarian: the tasks are difficult to start Darkside: good games possible Duke Nukem: most difficult pinsim of all Firestorm: almost to many targets and objects to hit Mutation: again good to play |
5 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| fun | Duke Nukem: laboriously to start the tasks Mutation: some nice tasks to complete |
13 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 18 |
| layout / gameplay | very imaginative playfields | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| specials | after reaching a certain score the 5th ball follows a 1 minute "powerball" the levels of difficulty can be set at beginning Barbarian: video, animated targets and a second playfield-level Darkside: 3 videos and moving animated targets Duke Nukem: animated targets and a playing at night! Firestorm: skillshot and split playfield Mutation: skillshot |
8 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| tilt/nudging | ok | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| comments | very interseting tables! | |||||
| purchase | sometimes in auctions, rare in shops | sometimes | ||||
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points
(max of 111) |
reached score | 80 | 90 | 78 | 81 | 86 |
| personel highscore | 362.609.080 | 732.167.570 | 533.481.998 | 422.231.400 | 611.163.210 | |