{"id":19723,"date":"2019-12-30T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19723"},"modified":"2019-12-13T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T01:52:00","slug":"pinball-fx3-williams-pinball-volume-5-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/30\/pinball-fx3-williams-pinball-volume-5-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball Volume 5 (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For many years, Zen Studios has been making original video pinball tables for their Pinball FX and Zen Pinball outlets.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re tackling real life classic pinball machines in video form from the Williams and Bally lineups.\u00a0 Volume 5 of this set includes three more tables, including my all time favorite pinball machine ever!\u00a0 YES!\u00a0 To play them, first you need to download the Pinball FX3 hub (available for most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 And then you can buy and download table sets.<\/p>\n

The Williams tables are handled a bit differently than the other Zen Studios\u2019 originals.\u00a0 First, you can play with either the Pinball FX3 table upgrade system or the original specs from the arcade.\u00a0 And with a push of a button, you can switch visuals to make the tables look like the other Zen Studios tables with extra graphics, or the original way the tables looked in real life.\u00a0 Also when you start a game, you get a full view of the machine with facts and history on each one.\u00a0 In a way, I like this setup and gameplay better than the Zen original tables.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m more familiar with these tables, but I also felt the ball physics were better, too.<\/p>\n

The three tables in this set are from the mid to late 90\u2019s, and most are familiar to me because they were out and new when I was in college and visited a lot more arcades than I do now.\u00a0 The first table I don\u2019t remember as much, though.\u00a0 It\u2019s called Tales of the Arabian Nights.\u00a0 Of course it\u2019s based on the popular fiction stories, but for some reason I don\u2019t have many memories playing it.\u00a0 Although the spinning Aladdin\u2019s lamp on the table seemed familiar to me.\u00a0 When you play in enhanced mode, you can make the ball look like a fireball as you attack the evil genie!<\/p>\n

The next table in the collection is No Good Gophers. \u00a0It has a golf theme with two wisecracking gophers that berate you at every turn.\u00a0 Getting the hole in one shots is a lot of fun and satisfying, though.\u00a0 I remember seeing this table EVERYWHERE back in the day, so it must\u2019ve been very popular.\u00a0 The last table is my absolute favorite pinball machine ever, and that\u2019s Cirqus Voltaire.\u00a0 It has a circus theme, obviously, but I just love the artwork on the table and defeating the ringmaster is a lot of fun and easy to do.\u00a0 Plus one of the ramps has a great big neon light on it (I bet that was really hard to maintain in real life), and I just like neon lights for some reason.\u00a0 Really made the game stand out, and I\u2019m glad it\u2019s on this collection and that I got to review it!<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Pinball FX3 tables are rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Language.\u00a0 Nothing really objectionable on these tables that I could see.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the menus, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Just pure, simple fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many years, Zen Studios has been making original video pinball tables for their Pinball FX and Zen Pinball outlets.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re tackling real life classic pinball machines in video form from the Williams and Bally lineups.\u00a0 Volume 5 of this set includes three more tables, including my all time favorite pinball machine ever!\u00a0 YES!\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}