Customer Reviews

3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride

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I have played this pinball game for years and gave my disk to a family member so I had to buy a new disk.
This is the best pinball game that I have played. The graphics are good and the games within the game are good. You always have another challenge to go to.

This game is the best thing ever! Its fun and very addicting! I could play it for hours on end. I would suggest it as a gift for kid or adult!

Thrillride is hard to see. You don't know where your ball is a lot of the time. It doesn't go to other game boards like other Sierra pinball games. Wish I'd known that before I bought it.

Pinball simulations are pretty common nowadays, but back in 1995, whereas there were few, 3D Ultra Pinball was the game that remained golden in the Windows 95 market. Some years later, Thrillride makes the series's reputation even better.

Unlike the other games, you only get to play one table, but that one table is extremely fun and there are multiple activities to do, like the Thrill Zone, a bonus area for smacking the ball against roller coasters, and the Fun Zone, where you hit a kissing tower and make it go up as high as possible.

The graphics are amazing. The game looks and plays like real pinball. I also love the music. It is very catchy and fits well with the fast-paced and lighthearted action that's going on in-game. The voice clips may be cheesy, but everything else makes up for it.

Things get extremely intense with the multiball (Of course), where you have to keep an eye on every onscreen ball as they fly off everywhere!

But overall, this is a must-have for pinball fans. Don't miss out on it.

First off, this game definitely runs on XP.

3DUPT has superb pinball physics, looks even better on widescreen displays, has a wide range of shots and screens, and good 3-ball multiball.

I've played this game for several hundred hours. I will play one game for days at a time. You can pause the game, remove the CD, minimize the icon and use the computer for other things, which is great.

Highly configurable. Note that the score wraps around 4.3B points. Another scoring bug is the bonus multiplier that only goes up to 1024 times, no idea if it increases beyond that or maxes out at that. Also, when your bonus score exceeds 4.3B it will show "%1" for your bonus, but I believe it does add it correctly.

If you like pinball and want a good version for the PC, this specific pin is the very best IMHO.

BTW, my best time (although time and score can be meaningless if you "milk" the game -- shoot the same shot repeatedly) for one non-milked ball (not counting any extra balls earned) is 5 hours, achieved several times. In my best one ball "game" my total bonus was 8.9 billion, bonus multiplier was 915 times, the jackpot was increased to 22.7M, and I earned 141 Thrill Points, 58 Brass Rings, 152 Ride Photos and 5 Lights Out (the maximum possible before the creatures come out of the snack shop and effectively end the ball). Note that milking the jackpot shots would not increase bonus multiplier, jackpot size, TP, BR, RP or LO anyway.

I luv Pinball Games. This 1 is fun, but not my favorite. Everyone has a different opinion on computer games, so you may luv it. Great graphics!

On my XP system, this ancient software (1999) will not fully install. The install simply fails (it really does not start) or then tells me that I need a new disc or some other nonsense.

Worthless.