Pinball Fantasies - Versions

Versions

  • The original, distributed on three Amiga floppy disks; this runs on all Amiga computers with 1MB of RAM.
  • A special version with a fourth floppy, which allows it to run on 512KB Amigas.
  • An Amiga CD32 version, released in 1993.
  • An improved Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) version for the Amiga 1200 & 4000 was released later (4 floppies).
  • It was later ported to PC 286 computers running DOS. Compared to the substandard port of Pinball Dreams, the Pinball Fantasies port was outstanding in quality. The PC version is notable for offering extremely high-quality, but quiet, music and sound for the simple PC speaker, which was formerly unheard of without a separate sound card. The port ran well even on a 12 MHz 286 and needed only a VGA card. It was fast because it used Mode X and split-screen scrolling to avoid having to redraw the screen every frame. A shareware version was also released, with only the Party Land table available for play.
  • An Atari Jaguar conversion with extra colours, but with slower ball movement.
  • A Super Nintendo version of the game, while it contained all four tables and the same music as the Amiga version (written by composer Olof Gustafsson), suffers from a limited color palette.
  • A version for the original Game Boy, which needed limits on some features due to the Game Boy's lower power.
  • A compilation including the tables from Pinball Mania released as Pinball Fantasies Deluxe for DOS.
  • A compilation including the tables from Pinball Dreams released as Pinball Fantasies Deluxe for PlayStation in Japan.
  • A Game Boy Advance version of the game, under the title Pinball Challenge Deluxe, with tables added from Pinball Dreams.
  • An iOS version was released July 20, 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreaming.
  • A PlayStation Portable version was released October 1, 2009 by Cowboy Rodeo. In December 2009, Sony released a PSP emulator for the PlayStation 3 which made the game playable on the PS3 since December 17, 2009.
  • A Nokia N9 version was released July 20, 2011 by Cowboy Rodeo in the Nokia Store.

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