''David's Midnight Magic'' is a

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simulation video game written by David Snider for the

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and published by Broderbund in 1982. The game was published in Europe by Ariolasoft. A port to Atari 8-bit computers was released the same year, then the Commodore 64 in 1983. In 1987

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published a cartridge version in the styling of the then-new Atari XEGS.

Gameplay

''David's Midnight Magic'' is closely modeled after the real-life pinball table '' Black Knight'', released by Williams in 1980.

Reception

'' Softline'' stated that ''David's Midnight Magic'' "ratifies Bill Budge's extraordinary program as a programming tour de force", as it was only equal to Budge's '' Raster Blaster'' despite being released nine months later. The magazine concluded that "the fact that 'David'' issecond should not dull the glitter of this effort". ''

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'' stated that ''Midnight Magic'' was a better game than ''Raster Blaster'', but lamented the requirement of removing write protection from the floppy, thus voiding the warranty, in order to save high scores. ''The Commodore 64 Home Companion'' called the game "extraordinarily realistic ... complete with all the features that make pinball so seductive". ''David's Midnight Magic'' won "Computer Game of the Year" at the 4th annual Arkie Awards, where judges described it as "a program that is both an exciting video game and a fairly faithful evocation of pinball mystique".

Legacy

released a pinball game called '' Midnight Magic'' for the Atari 2600 that plays differently from the similarly named ''David's Midnight Magic''. Doug Carlston of Broderbund said in 1983 that Snider earned "somewhere in the six figures" in royalties from ''David's Midnight Magic''. Snider's brother Eric later used his first name in the title of '' Eric's Ultimate Solitaire''. In 2005, a '' Visual Pinball'' recreation of ''David's Midnight Magic'' was created called ''David's Midnight Magic 2005'' which is rendered with

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Gamegrid (Telematch) - interview with David Snider (in German)
1982 video games Apple II games Ariolasoft games Atari 8-bit computer games Broderbund games Commodore 64 games Multiplayer and single-player video games Pinball video games Video games developed in the United States

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