UltraPin is a virtual pinball machine, which is to say it’s not really a pinball machine at all: all the action is contained within a standard enough video game, with the cabinet and controls in otherwise authentic shape. The table itself is a big LCD display.

Something vaguely similar this was tried at the end of the pinball era, but cancelled when it wasn’t immediately a massive success. The taste of sour grapes for all but the bean-counters, in other words. I can’t wait for a go of this latest monster, even if it seems, on the face of it, like just another serving of overbaked nostalgia.

Those of you suspicious of the very notion should know that pinball video games, when not being garbage included for free with the operating system, are often addictive beyond all reason. Pinball Dreams, anyone?

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