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RE: Balls of Glory Pinball FX3 (PC/PS4) - Is it worth the 5-10 dollars?
I had no clue they made pinball packages like this for the Xbox. I don't know if it is happening as much over there, but over here arcade bars have been and are continuing to be the rage. So a bar will get a ton of old arcade games and pinball tables and allow you to play for free as long as you are drinking. Some of the places always charge for pinball and some of them are free. I think they are concerned that because the ratio of pinball tables to arcade games is so low the tables might get monopolized. It is a pretty cool concept. They even have special days on the weekends where they encourage adults to bring in their kids and play the games.
Although @flipstar has said he has seen a few in the south, i have honestly never seen a pinball machine in this country at all.
The arcades we did have were merely rigged PS4's with timers and even though this is horribly illegal, there are a lot of things that are illegal in Thailand that are done anyway.
The arcades i have been to here seem to focus on the basketball games (like you are physically throwing an actual ball into an actual hoop) and those dance dance revolution type games. Sometimes they will have something with guns and zombies. The arcade at my local mall is massive but they don't have even one pinball machine. Lame!
I have heard of these free places and I would love to go to one. When i was last in NYC i was really excited about going to Dave and Busters only to be really nonplussed about their game choices.
Then i found a pinball only arcade in Manhattan that you paid $15 an hour for unlimited play but they had no food or drinks... wtf?
Yeah, Dave and Busters is kind of lame. I went to one in Columbus a while ago and the games were just meh. Nothing like the old classics that they have at the other places. If you have a machine with Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Super Off-Road you are good in my book. That is pretty awesome about the place in Manhattan, but no food and drinks is a definite downer! Are there still companies actively making tables or is it all just maintenance and repair these days?
You might like Round 1, then. They tend to have a few older fighting games, alongside the more recent stuff.
(You really should try Maximum Tune 5. Just saying)
I've added that to my notes!