![]() ![]() Tap some buttons to page through an on-screen menu and pick a game, then use a real, physical plunger to launch the ball and side-of-cabinet buttons to work the flippers. Put it all together, plug it in, and a monitor lights up across the top to display virtual, pre-installed pinball tables. While I would definitely recommend that savvier virtual pinball fans choose AtGames' product between these two options, that recommendation comes with a few crucial asterisks-along with the fact that less-picky players (particularly families) may be better off sticking with Arcade1Up. You want expandability? You want more options by default? The $600-and-up AtGames Legends Pinball delivers. And after a recent testing period, I'm glad they reached out. Soon after, I got a friendly email from rival manufacturer AtGames that pointed to its own virtual pinball product. ![]() ![]() But its great virtual table selection and solid physical construction were marred by enough issues to make it a tough sell to anyone beyond families. Still, I saw its potential as a moddable machine, whether to add more virtual tables or to use its $600 base as a cheap path to a dreamy homemade system. I don't have the cash or space for a fleet of classic pinball machines, however, so I like the idea of a single system that emulates dozens of tables while maintaining the genre's physicality-staples like flipper buttons, nudge options, and a plunger.įurther Reading Arcade1Up pinball cabinet review: Fine for families, interesting for moddersLast month, this led me to test the Arcade1Up Williams Pinball table, and I was left amused, if not charmed. But pinball's orientation, form factor, and tactile nature have always precluded it from feeling authentic when virtualized on something like an Xbox. When I play classics like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong on a console, I generally feel like it's the same experience as standing up with chunky joysticks (your mileage may vary, in which case, there are tons of products for you). Yet while stand-up arcade multi-cabinets have rarely gotten me excited, virtual pinball is another story. A replica arcade experience seems like a great antidote for any nerd going stir-crazy in a pandemic. If you'd told me at the beginning of 2021 that I'd review not one but two virtual pinball options for the home, I would have nodded and said, sure, that sounds entirely unsurprising. ![]()
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