I haven’t been more excited for a game coming out than I am right now! The Pinball and Pinball Remote is a very unique combination of pinball for the Mac and iPhone/iPod touch/iPad that allows you to play pinball on your computer using your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad as the flippers/ball launcher.
Both The Pinball and Pinball Remote are free and gives you the ability to play Wild West Pinball for free as well. The Deep and Jungle Style Pinball are in-app purchases for $2.99 each.
The following is a screen shot from my Mac as the Wild West Pinball table is being flown over (click the thumbnail image for the fill sized image):
Once The Pinball is launched on the Mac, go over to your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and launch Pinball Remote. Once you have selected a table to play and pressed the play button, you are presented with this screen:
The screen shows two very dark blue buttons (left and right paddle buttons) and a slider in the middle for the ball launcher. The button above the slider is the pause button. You can quit the game, adjust settings, etc… from there.
The performance is astounding and the tables are gorgeous! I loved the original pinball games: The Deep Pinball, Wild West Pinball, and Jungle Style Pinball for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad. Each only costing $0.99. They were easy to afford and a lot of fun to play. Now, they are even more exciting simply because they are running on a full blown computer. The best part is that since you use the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad as a remote to play the tables, you don’t have to be sitting at your computer to play. So hooking up a MacBook to an home entertainment system and playing on a 42″ LCD television is going to be totally outrageous!
I can’t recommend this game enough! It’s easily worth “FREE”, but it’s also completely worth the $5.98 for the other two tables!
Dave M.
