I love pinball. Love it. I will stop whatever I’m doing if I find a good table and rack up a score into the millions.
For that matter, I also get into digital pinball games. But up until a certain point, they were much different from arcade pinball games. Even Rare’s conversions of High-Speed and Pinbot for the NES, as awesome as they were, were different because of the little obstacles you had to deal with, along with the mini-games.
But then came FarSight Studios and the awesome Pinball Hall of Fame series. It started with the Gottlieb Collection for PS2, PSP and Wii, featuring a number of arcade favorites, wonderfully converted into digital form without missing a beat. They weren’t perfect at the time, but they were darn close.