{"id":20691,"date":"2020-12-21T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20691"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T13:59:06","slug":"pinball-fx3-williams-pinball-volume-6-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/pinball-fx3-williams-pinball-volume-6-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball Volume 6 (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC, Mobile)"},"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 6 of this set includes three more tables, all from the late 80s.\u00a0 To play them, first you need to download the Pinball FX3 hub (available for most current consoles, PC, and mobile devices, 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.\u00a0 Anyway let\u2019s take a look at the three tables in this volume.<\/p>\n

Funhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first table is the only one I\u2019m familiar with in this set: Funhouse.\u00a0 This table features a ventriloquist dummy named Rudy, and he has a giant head at the top of the table and the eyes move around to follow the ball and his mouth moves as he talks to you.\u00a0 But you can barely hear what he says in this game.\u00a0 Your goal is to go up ramps to make the clock go to midnight, then Rudy will fall asleep and you can shoot the ball in his mouth as he snores.\u00a0 I remember hearing about this game all the time when it first came out, even in video game magazines!\u00a0 And I saw it a lot, too.\u00a0 Even in the last arcade I went to before COVID had it!\u00a0 I bet that dummy head is a pain in the butt to maintain in real life, though!<\/p>\n

Space Station<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next table has a space theme, obviously, with a space shuttle and station.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun and easy to dock balls and start multiplayer, but otherwise this is a fairly generic one.\u00a0 If I saw it back in the day, it certainly didn\u2019t stick out in my mind.<\/p>\n

Dr. Dude and his Excellent Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if since this table was made in 1990, if stuff like Bill and Ted and Wayne\u2019s World had any influence?\u00a0 Anyway, Dr. Dude has invented an \u201cExcellent Ray\u201d that turns people hip and cool.\u00a0 He used it on himself and now he setting up appointments for you!\u00a0 I liked the colorful comic book style and this is probably the most fun table of the three in the set, despite the dumb premise.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember playing this one in arcades either.<\/p>\n

Since all these tables were made in the late 80s and very early 90s, they don\u2019t have things like a dot matrix display or other quality of life features like ball saves, so these tables are a bit harder.\u00a0 I think the last volume<\/strong><\/a> had better tables, but if you like pinball games from the late 80s, you may want to check this set out.<\/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 6 of this set includes three more tables, all from the late 80s.\u00a0 To play them, first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20691","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\/20691","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=20691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20693,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions\/20693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}