Ludography
Extreme Pinball cover

1996 · Arcade · Pinball

Extreme Pinball

PlayStation console exclusive

Extreme Pinball was Epic's successor to their hit pinball game Epic Pinball.

Also known as
梦幻弹子球 · Fantasy Pinball
Released
28 March 1996
Platforms
MS-DOSPlayStationPlayStation 3PlayStation Portable
Genres
ArcadePinballPinball machineSimulation
Developers
—
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action
Age ratings
USK 6ACB GESRB E
Languages
English

About

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 Solar Winds, Silverball and Epic Pinball in 1993. It was released via PlayStation Network in 2010.

Keywords

  • playstation network
  • digital distribution
  • psone classics
  • playstation tv support
  • backwards compatibility

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

Three tables were designed by Terry Cumming, including "Rock Fantasy".

All the music tracks for this game were made by Robert A. Allen.

Reception

Extreme Pinball received generally negative reviews. Reviewing the PlayStation version, Rich Leadbetter of Maximum commented that "the tables on offer in Extreme Pinball are just too dull. Take a look at the latest pinball tables and you see very flashy, licensed affairs with lashings of special effects and sampled sounds... all of which you won't find in Extreme Pinball".

He also criticized the prominent borders in the PAL conversion. A brief review in GamePro stated "Neither as fast nor as polished as Last Gladiators for the Saturn, Extreme Pinball is strangely reminiscent of Ruiner Pinball for the Jaguar or the old Time Cruise for the TurboGrafx-16. Not a lot of 32-bit technology went into this standard game, and not a lot of fun comes out of it".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
MS-DOS1 February 1995Europe · North America 1 October 1995
PlayStation28 March 1996North America · Europe 5 April 1996
PlayStation 3Digital Compatibility Release28 January 2010North America
PlayStation PortableDigital Compatibility Release28 January 2010North America

Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update

Title ids and disc serials by release
PlatformTitle IDRegionLatest update
PlayStationNPHJ00284Asia—
NPEF00068Europe—
SLES-00206Europe—
NPUJ00200North America—
SLUS-00200North America—

Box artone per regional release we hold art for

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Collections5 collections

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