Ruiner Pinball
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| Developer(s) | High Voltage Software |
| Publisher(s) | Atari |
| Platform(s) | Atari Jaguar |
| Release date(s) | 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Pinball |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Ruiner Pinball is a pinball video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by Atari for Atari Jaguar in 1995.
Gameplay
There are two table settings:[1]
- Ruiner: Set during the Cold War in 1962 as a nuclear war begins. The player has to bring down the DEFCON level from level 5 to 1 and launch the attack on an enemy country while defending his own.
- Tower table setting: An adventurer enters a sinister tower to defeat the evil Sorceress. The player has to make her cast three spells to bring down her tower and then escape before it is too late.
Reception
A review by Next Generation gave it only two stars out of five, explaining that the game doesn't play well due to "rigid" animation and unrealistic, unpredictable physics. They added that the game makes good use of the video game format with its multi-tiered tables and animated targets, but that these elements are "superfluous" without good playability.[2]
Atarihq.com rated Ruiner Pinball 5 of 10.[3]
GamePro's brief review described the game as enjoyable but unexceptional, saying that it "looks like a plain old 16-bit pinball game" and offers nothing unusual in its pinball action aside from the unusually large tables.[4] Electric Playground gave Ruiner Pinball a 4/10, calling it "the Latoya Jackson of video pinball games". They elaborated that the gameplay is "boring and tedious" and that the blurry and overly busy visuals cause the ball to be frequently lost against the backgrounds.[5]
The video game has an average critic score at MobyGames of 51%.[6]
References
- ↑ "Atari Jaguar Manuals: Ruiner Pinball (1995)(Atari)". Archive.org. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ↑ "NEXT Generation Issue #15 March 1996". Archive.org. 1996-03-15. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ↑ http://www.atarihq.com/reviews/jaguar/ruiner_pinball.html
- ↑ "ProReview: Ruiner Pinball". GamePro. IDG (90): 68. March 1996.
- ↑ "Ruiner Pinball". Electric Playground. Archived from the original on December 5, 2000.
- ↑ http://www.mobygames.com/game/jaguar/ruiner-pinball/mobyrank