3D Pinball for Windows (1995)

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40 points | by mushstory 4 hours ago ago

18 comments

  • binaryturtle 38 minutes ago

    I never really got into the 3D pinballs, for some reason those are less fun, maybe because visually they are harder to read?

    I always preferred the "2D" pinballs, with Pinball Dreams and Slam Tilt my two favourites. I still play those from time to time.

  • maximeago 30 minutes ago

    I remember that it was a lot easier if I had 10 instances of Winamp running at the same time, it was not just that time slowed, the physics was different. Was this ported?

  • rimworld 38 minutes ago

    getting: Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to execute 'drawImage' on 'CanvasRenderingContext2D': The image argument is a canvas element with a width or height of 0. at start_freeze_frame (space-cadet-menus.js:140:18) at MutationObserver.<anonymous> (space-cadet-menus.js:429:3)

  • raytracer1 40 minutes ago

    Remind me my computer lesson of primary school

  • hootz 41 minutes ago

    Did it always have this music? I don't remember it having music.

    • vunderba 11 minutes ago

      Definitely did - that MIDI file is etched into everyone's soul who played Space Cadet but this was early days, maybe it's possible the win9x machine you played on didn't have a sound card?

      EDIT: From what others have said it sounds like it's off by default. It's been decades so I don't remember.

    • Jordan-117 11 minutes ago

      Apparently it did, but it was turned off by default since it could have a performance impact on slower machines.

    • recursive 6 minutes ago

      Yes. It's original.

  • timvdalen 2 hours ago

    After all this time, I still don't know how to select a mission, or what missions are

    • unregistereddev an hour ago

      There's a set of lights in the lower left-hand edge and on the very upper right-hand edge. When it's time to select a mission look for the yellow arrow near those lights. Hitting the lights lets you select a mission. Sending the ball up the ramp confirms the mission. I don't quite remember what the missions were - typically "hit some combination of things" - but they were worth a lot of extra points and/or an extra ball.

    • Nzen an hour ago

      I am of the impression that the mission is defined by having the pin ball hit the places where the blue arrow points within a set amount of time.

      It's a bit of a shame that Microsoft only licensed Space Cadet Pinball from Cinematronics for Windows 95 and XP [0].

      [0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=10...

    • stavros an hour ago

      Where did you see missions?

  • Skywalker13 an hour ago
  • mushstory 2 hours ago

    space bar - shoot ball

    z / - press it

    x . - shaking

    • harrouet an hour ago

      Exactly what I was looking for for my non-US keyboard :)

  • ourmandave 2 hours ago

    People have build IRL Space Cadet pinball machines.

  • zenmaster10665 2 hours ago

    oh man i love this game thanks...why no scoreboard tho?!