Silverball Studios

Silverball Studios, formerly known as Fuse Games, is a British video game developer best known for developing pinball games for Nintendo.

Silverball Studios
IndustryInteractive entertainment
FateMerged and Folded into Barnstorm Games
Founded2002 (as Fuse Games)
2009 (as Silverball Studios)
FounderAdrian Barritt
Richard Horrocks
HeadquartersBurford, Oxfordshire, England
ParentBarnstorm Games
Websitesilverballstudios.com

History

The company was founded in 2002 by Adrian Barritt and Richard Horrocks, makers of the award-winning Pro Pinball series of computer games. As an idea to show what they were capable of, they developed a Mario pinball demo and pitched the idea to Nintendo, who then hired the company to make Super Mario Ball for the Game Boy Advance. The whole game was made by just five people.[1] Later, Fuse Games developed Nintendo DS games, the most notable being Metroid Prime Pinball, a pinball adaptation of the Nintendo GameCube game Metroid Prime.[2] The studio also became the only developer outside Japan to create a Touch! Generations game, with Active Health with Carol Vorderman.[3] In 2009, the company nearly went bankrupt after completing Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon for DSiWare, but reformed as Silverball Studios.[4] The company attempted to revive the Pro Pinball series through Kickstarter in 2012.[5][6] The project's goal was unsuccessful,[7] and the company eventually merged with developer and publisher Barnstorm Games.[8] Afterwards, the Kickstarter was revived in 2013, but was limited to the single table Timeshock!. This campaign reached its goal and the Ultra Edition of Pro-Pinball: Timeshock! was released for several platforms.[9][10]

Games

Game Boy Advance
  • Mario Pinball Land (2004)

Nintendo DS
  • Metroid Prime Pinball (2005)
  • Active Health with Carol Vorderman (2009)
  • Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon (2009)
  • Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2010)

Wii
  • Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2010)

iPhone
  • Mensa Brain Test (2010)
  • Frogger Pinball (2011)

Nintendo 3DS
  • BearShark: The Game (2013)

Windows/Xbox 360 Arcade
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References
  1. Fuse Games on Mario Pinball
  2. Harris, Craig (2005-05-18). "E3 2005: Metroid Prime Hunters Creator Interview". IGN. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
  4. Silverball opens following Fuse closure Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
  6. http://www.develop-online.net/news/silverball-crowdfunding-involves-the-consumer/0112875
  7. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1790321238/pro-pinball-revived-and-remastered
  10. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/500643708/pro-pinball-timeshock-the-ultra-edition-0
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