''Extreme Pinball'' is a 1995 pinball video game published by Electronic Arts for DOS and

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. It was the first game developed by Digital Extremes, though founder James Schmalz had also previously created ''

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'', '' Silverball'' and ''

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'' in 1993. It was released via

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in 2010. All the music tracks for this game were made by Robert A. Allen.

Reception

''Extreme Pinball'' received generally negative reviews. Reviewing the PlayStation version, Rich Leadbetter of ''Maximum'' commented that "the tables on offer in ''Extreme Pinball'' are just too dull. Take a look at the latest pinball tables and you see very flashy, licensed affairs with lashings of special effects and sampled sounds... all of which you won't find in ''Extreme Pinball''". He also criticized the prominent borders in the PAL conversion. A brief review in ''

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'' stated "Neither as fast nor as polished as '' Last Gladiators'' for the Saturn, ''Extreme Pinball'' is strangely reminiscent of ''

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'' for the

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or the old ''Time Cruise'' for the TurboGrafx-16. Not a lot of 32-bit technology went into this standard game, and not a lot of fun comes out of it".

References

External links

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