# Get in you beauty! (pinball based)

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 12, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-in-you-beauty-pinball-based/652698 "2013-03-12T12:39:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-in-you-beauty-pinball-based/652698/21 "2013-03-27T14:23:30Z")

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This is a direct Hulu link :[Special When Lit : A Pinball Documentary](http://www.hulu.com/watch/243423).

It’s really cool.

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**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-in-you-beauty-pinball-based/652698/22 "2013-03-27T16:57:57Z")

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> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> Gorgar was, and always will be, my favorite pinball machine. I used to rook money out of my mom’s purse to play it (and Missile Command) when I was a shitheaded kid.

Williams Pinball Classics on the Xbox360 (and other consoles) is really excellent, Gorgar plays extremely well. Sorcerer is a firm favourite as well but I was sad that Comet was not included.

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**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-in-you-beauty-pinball-based/652698/23 "2013-03-29T17:17:52Z")

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I’m surprised nobody has mentioned (IMO) the two major pinball simulators for PCs, Visual Pinball and Future Pinball. If anybody remembers the old Electronic Arts Pinball Construction Set, imagine that on steroids. Both have quite a few tables available.

Note that neither can play newer games, and by “newer”, I mean “pretty much anything made after 1990”, but there is an “expansion” to Visual Pinball called VPinMAME that lets you play newer ones. (However, this requires you to download each game’s ROM chip (and you are “supposed to” only download ROMs for games where you already own them), and the newest games - I think anything from Family Guy on - won’t be available because of a change in the way Stern makes ROMs available.)

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