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Pro Pinball in a cabinet
Original Publishing Date (y/m/d): 2005-05-27
Thanks to Toni "PinballBreaker" for posting news about this to the PPPC mailing list.

A spanish company RPRESAS has manufactured some kind of arcade cabinet running Pro Pinball tables! Unfortunately the cabinet doesn't look like a real pinball... which would have been my wet dream come true. ;)

Image on the left from rpresas, image on the right from pinball world.

The description page for the cabinet states:

SENSITIVE PROPINBALL , the first virtual pinball which reflects the player's thrust. Just pushing the machine revive the playing emotions of tradicional pinball, put an end to jams, mechanical breakdowns and his constant maintenance.

So does that mean you can push the whole cabinet to tilt the table? Are the flipper keys pressure sensitive?

The description page for the cabinet proceeds to list the following features of the cabinet:

  • innovative interactive sensor system (patented)
  • innovative design
  • two playfields available with a simple push on one single machine
  • small sized
  • maximum realism due to supreme graphics quality
  • unprecedented realism movements and playing sensations
  • user friendly
  • operator's menu for settings and erifications
  • complete access to all parts
  • tempered dyed glass to avoid
  • ncomfortable light reflection
  • simple, tested along years of experience, electronic
  • high reliability last generation computer based
  • 25” svga high resolution monitor
  • reliable electronic coin selector
  • minimum maintenance required
  • wheels available for moving the machine.

Note that the list says two playfields, from the two screenshots above it looks to me to be fantastic journey (in the left image, note the pyramid of circles and the overall red of the table, so not the web) and perhaps brusa (the right, could be timeshock, but looks too yellowish to me, plus if you zoomin and squint it looks like it might have the outline of the brusa road map on the table, could really use one of those CSI "bitmapping" programs now :)). But those pictures are really really tiny. ;) How stupid of them not to write this information on their page?? Am I just missing it and guessing for no good reason?

I don't get why you go through the trouble of making a cabinet for a pro pinball table and still use such a tiny screen, put the table in a real pinball cabinet with a big monitor shaped to fit the whole cabinet instead. Would be way cooler! Still it's kind of a fun idea and definitively a good initiative, though one thing puzzles me, where have they placed the dmd, on the screen? Oh, come on...