3-D Ultra Pinball (video game)

3-D Ultra Pinball is video game released in 1995, and is the first game in 3-D Ultra Pinball video game series.

3-D Ultra Pinball
Developer(s)Dynamix
Publisher(s)Sierra On-Line
Series3-D Ultra Pinball
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Macintosh
Release1995
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The original 3-D Ultra Pinball game was released in 1995. This game is based on the space simulation game Outpost. There are three tables named "Colony", "Command Post", and "Mine". Each table holds a set of five challenges. Smaller "mini-tables" are featured with their own set of flippers. The goal is to build and launch a starship, completing the game's entire course.

Reception

Reviewing the Macintosh version, a Next Generation critic commented that "There is some substance to the argument that pinball is not a game meant for the monitor, but 3-D Ultra Pinball works, and it works very well." He particularly praised the fact that the graphics and physics both include elements not possible on a real pinball table, while remaining "true to the pinball spirit." Despite this, he gave it only two out of five stars.[1] It received a score of 3.5 out of 5 from MacUser.[2]

According to market research firm PC Data, 3-D Ultra Pinball was the 18th-best-selling computer game in the United States for the year 1996.[3] According to Sierra On-Line, its sales surpassed 250,000 copies by the end of March 1996.[4]

Reviews
gollark: "Is giving everyone nuclear weapons an issue? No, if it kills people they are either stupid enough to get killed by it or stupid enough to use nuclear weapons for killings."
gollark: Yes.
gollark: You can apply that to... anything whatsoever?
gollark: I have basically no idea about anything gun-related as they mostly don't exist over here in the UK.
gollark: Interesting solution.

References
  1. "3-D Ultra Pinball". Next Generation. No. 13. Imagine Media. January 1996. p. 168.
  2. LeVitus, Bob (June 1996). "The Game Room". MacUser. Archived from the original on 1999-02-25. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  3. Staff (February 26, 1997). "1996 PC Best Sellers". Next Generation. Archived from the original on 1997-06-06. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  4. Sierra On-Line Form 10-K (Report). Bellevue, Washington. March 31, 1996. pp. 7–9. Archived from the original on April 16, 2018.
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