Pinball Illusions is a pinball video game developed by Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and published by 21st Century Entertainment in 1995 for the Amiga and MS-DOS. It is a sequel to DICE's Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies. A remake of Pinball Illusions with 3D graphics was released in 1996 as True Pinball.
The Amiga version features three pinball tables, while the CD-ROM release for MS-DOS featured a fourth table, higher resolution, and redbook audio.
Gameplay
Players can choose between playing with 3 or 5 balls, adjust the slope of the table, the maximum number of multiballs allowed, and the number of nudges before tilting. One of the views shows players the entire table on screen. Unlike the two earlier games, it features multiball.
It also had a later 1996 MS-DOS release as one of five games in the Pinball Gold compilation.
Reception
PC Gamer said "The four tables may not be enough variety for some gamers, but this is as good as pinball gets on the PC -- and you don't need quarters, so you won't even have to take a hammer to your piggy bank" Amiga Power enjoyed the multiballs and all three tables, although disliked the music on Extreme Sports.
The game was ranked the 23rd best game of all time by Amiga Power in 1996.
True Pinball
The same four tables were used for True Pinball which released in 1996 on the Sega Saturn and PlayStation.