Mame pinball game suggestions

[dkubarek]

I want to put a few pinball games on my cab that aren't adult oriented. Anyone want to plug their favorite?

[protokatie]

Seconded! A few days ago I was trying to find some cab friendly pin games and didnt want to use pinMAME/etc. Did any company ever make a video arcade only pinball sim (out in the wild that is)? Or would we have to use something like pinMAME or PC-released games to do this?

[mrclean]

just based off downloads:

Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 3 (Data East) Table  16,898 Jul 13, 2003
Joep/Pingod
 Batman Forever
Batman Forever (Sega) Table  16,985 Mar 07, 2006
pingod
 Alien Poker
Alien Poker (Williams) Table  17,120 Oct 21, 2004
Kristian/Tom Scutt/Gaston
 Simpsons
Simpsons (Data East) Table  18,147 Mar 02, 2005
Mungo/Guittar/Jive
 Fish Tales
Fish Tales (Williams) Table  18,279 Dec 05, 2003
PacDude/PE668/AJ/ Dorsola
 Cirqus Voltaire (Pinball Ken)
Cirqus Voltaire (Pinball Ken) (Bally) Table  18,384 Jun 10, 2007
Ian Boffin/wpcmame/ PD/PK
 Indiana Jones (Redux)
Indiana Jones (Redux) (Williams) Table  18,840 Mar 24, 2007
Destruk/BlueTex/ Jive/PD/PK
 Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (Sega) Table  19,416 Jan 17, 2005
El Condor, Biffman
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Williams) Table  21,381 Nov 22, 2002
Sellenoff/AJ/Colosusmania
 Star Wars
 No Votes 22,682 May 16, 2001
Geoffrey
 Tales of the Arabian Nights
Tales of the Arabian Nights (Williams) Table  22,781 Jan 12, 2006
Kristian/Freylis/Fuseball/ PD/PK/wpcmame/ Guittar
 South Park
South Park (Sega) Table  23,763 Nov 22, 2006
Aurian - Rook mod - Mrschultz mod
 Theatre of Magic
Theatre of Magic (Bally) Table  23,815 Jan 17, 2006
Fuseball/Sacha/PacDude
 Medieval Madness
Medieval Madness by Williams 1997. Williams WPC-95 MPU. Lead design by Brian Eddy. Table originally by Joxer, Zany and Rock. Modified extensively by sacha (aka macho). Rebuilt by Pinball Ken.  24,414 Feb 28, 2006
Pinball Ken/macho/Joxer
 Twilight Zone
Twilight Zone (Bally) Table  25,057 Jun 02, 2005
PacDude / Wpcmame / Gerson Agena / Dorsola / Metallik / Tom Haukap / Others
 Back to the Future
Back to the Future (Data East) Table  28,553 Jan 01, 2005
AJ/Sellenoff/Destruk/ Skalar/Jive
 Attack from Mars
Attack from Mars (Bally) Table  33,535 Oct 28, 2007
Ian Boffin / BubleHEAD / PacDude
 Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Williams) Table  34,958 Jun 11, 2006
Destruk/Bluetex/Sellenoff/ RHemp/PD/Pinball Ken
 Addams Family
Addams Family (Bally) Table  59,332 Sep 09, 2007

[Loafmeister]

Mrclean: they're referring to Mame pinball games:

Should be verified but I think Time Scanner is "safe" of adult content.  Also Video Pinball (Atari 1979) but don't expect much graphics wise.

If you like video pinball, you can also run some of the console emulators that had pretty decent pinball games such as the TG16 (Alien Crush) and Genesis (Dragon Fury).  The Amiga computer can provide one of the best series via emulation: the Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusion series (the best versions were the Amiga version IMHO).  On the PC side, nothing beats the Pro-Pinball series, though to run properly on XP, you need to update some of the executable.

I have to agree with mrclean's post though, my first impulse is to nominate Visual Pinball/Vpinmame as the standard for pinball playing on an arcade cab. Lot's of fun and with thousands of tables available, lots of variety too. If you're concerned with the legalities of emulation, there are lots of original tables available for Visual Pinball that are just great fun, lots of flash and deserve to be experienced.

Finally, Future Pinball is another option, a "next gen" pinball simulator that's very pretty and very playable. IMHO the physics aren't quite as goodas Visual Pinball but the games are still fun to play.