@~This is Issue 21's 'Something different...' review. If you've
@~taken a slight break from adventuring, why not write in and tell
@~us about it?

       Pinball Dreams - 21st Century Entertainment RRP œ25.99
                (Pinball simulator for Amiga)

                  Reviewed by Steve McLaren

And now for something entirely different from adventuring. What do
you do when you are stuck on all your adventures? Start another
one and have a dozen adventures going? No, not me. Since I live
@+down by the seaside ~(lucky you - Sue) +I have enjoyed playing
the pinball machines in arcades and became quite addicted to them.

And since I read about Pinball Dreams, I just had to buy it and
see for myself, and it is amazing. You can select any table from
four options, they have it all there - amazing tunes while you
play and all the noises and speech on some of the tables. It has
good scrolling up and down the table. It is not slow at all. Once
the session hots up the action becomes fast and furious and you
have to be quick on the flippers to keep the ball in session.

Let me take you through the pinball tables. Now, my favourite is
Beat Box. It has a good strong funky beat and you have dollar
targets plus star rollovers, ball trap - all sorts of weird and
wonderful things to shoot at and get a fantastic score.

The next table I like playing is Nightmare. It has a very haunting
tune, could have been written for Ozzy Osbourne. The song sounds
really familiar to me. This is the hardest table to score on but
once you get into it there is no stopping from reaching the
ultimate goal. And this has speech on it as well as all the other
goodies.

The third table is Steel Wheels, coming from a western theme. It
is a very enjoyable table - gunshots ringing in your ear, the whip
cracking, sounds of a train coming down the track and the guard
saying "All aboard" - just great.

And now for the fourth table. This one is just very basic and is
the easiest table. It is still enjoyable but this one I play the
least of and it is called Ignition, a space age table with all the
sounds of launching your rocket and all other things going on.

I find this game very addictive. Once I start to play I find I
cannot stop for hours on end and to get the highest score on the
table takes some doing. So go on and have some fun and buy Pinball
Dreams, you won't regret it. Oh, I forgot to mention the main tune
on loading, I have never heard anything better than this tune to
come from the Amiga. It is just amazing and is really good.

Gameplay 10/10
Music    10/10
Sounds   10/10
Speech    8/10
Overall score 92%

@~Pinball Dreams is available through Special Reserve at the
@~reduced price of œ16.49.