Extreme Pinball
Encyclopedia
Extreme Pinball is a 1995 pinball
video game published by Electronic Arts
for DOS
and PlayStation. It was the first game developed by Digital Extremes
, though founder James Schmalz had also previously created Silverball
and Epic Pinball
in 1993. It was released via PlayStation Network in 2010.
Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...
video game published by Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
for DOS
DOS
DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
and PlayStation. It was the first game developed by Digital Extremes
Digital Extremes
Digital Extremes is a Canadian computer and video game developer founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, specifically noted for its part in the highly successful Unreal series of games...
, though founder James Schmalz had also previously created Silverball
Silverball
Silverball is a 1993 pinball computer game developed by Digital Extremes and Epic Games and published by MicroLeague. It is basically a set of Epic Pinball tables distributed through retail...
and Epic Pinball
Epic Pinball
Epic Pinball is a 1993 pinball video game developed by James Schmalz and published by Epic MegaGames . The initial release pre-dated Schmalz' Digital Extremes name. The game is played seen from a 2D top-down view within a scrollable window with plain raster graphics in 320x240. The music is created...
in 1993. It was released via PlayStation Network in 2010.
External links
- Extreme Pinball review at Computer and Video GamesComputer and video gamesA video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of...