Pro-Pinball: Timeshock

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Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004C8S0
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,934 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

I do not know exactly what time you presently inhabit, so I cannot tell in what dark age of prescience you dwell, but you probably don't even know that time is crystalline. It flows from the future and crystallizes at the door of the present. The future is fluid and changeable; the past is solid and cannot be altered. But it can be shattered. And my work on the fluid future threatens to destroy the solid past. I have created a shock wave of anti-time that is traveling back to the dawn of history. The wave has almost reached your time. We must return to the beginning of time and bring together the crystal fragments from the future to create a counter-shock wave. My time machine is crude, the best I could do in the circumstances, but it needs two to pilot and navigate. My copilot has... gone, and I am stuck in this time.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Realistic Pinball Simulation Yet!, February 3, 2000

By	David Wolf (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

I'm a pinball fan, and I've spent the last few months trying every computer pinball game I could get my hands on. Most of them are terrible, with poor ball and flipper physics, choppy animation, etc. A couple are okay, but still aren't that fun to play.

And then there is Timeshock. The physics is very realistic, and it feels like you are playing on a real table. Furthermore, the table is very well designed, with a seemingly limitless supply of challenges for even the most skilled pinball aficionado. The other pinball games pale by comparison. It is the sweetest pinball simulation around.

Bottom line, if you are going to buy ANY computer pinball game out there, buy this one. I tired of the rest within a day or two. Timeshock has kept me coming back every day for several months, and it still has many challenges I haven't beaten. I love this game!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game for pinball enthusiasts, July 6, 2000

By	keviny01 - See all my reviews

Owning this game is like owning an actual pinball machine. The table graphics, the ball movement simulation, and the various mechanical sounds on the table are incredibly realistic. The internal record-keeping, table settings & features, and testing modes of the table can be accessed or adjusted just as you would a real machine. Even the manual resembles a real pinball machine's operation manual. And of course you get great gameplay, since the table design is terrfic.

Casual gamers beware. This is HARD game to play. Missions and quests are lengthy, and subquests are abundant, including a video game mode on the matrix display which I've never passed 2nd level. This is also, I think, the hardest game in the Pro Pinball series. You can make it easier by adjusting table settings such as giving yourself extra balls and so on, but you won't be able to do those unless you've completed several hours of gameplay.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple perfection., March 29, 2000

By	have clue -- will travel (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

Timeshock! is as good as video pinball can get. It's as simple as that.

Beautiful graphics that'll make you think they photographed a real machine (ah, if a real Timeshock only existed!) Hordes of modes, bonuses and hidden features. Near-perfect ball physics. Lots of targets to shoot at. Fun for the novice, and configurable so that novices can practice and improve, but still challenging for the wizards among us. What more can I say? It's on a par with the classic tables from Williams, and that's something I never thought I'd say about video pinball.

(This game is difficult at first, but persevere. It feels so much like a real machine that if you're not good at the real ones, a sim this complex can be daunting -- but the rewards are WELL worth it.)