Tilt it!

A little late as usual but it is still June so this will pass as the June editorial. Some things just turned up I could write about so I'll... write about them.

Received an email yesterday about SlamTilt Resurrection (STR), the awaited 3d version of Slamtilt. Seems it is in a late development stage now and nearly finished. And if you didn't already know, it is 21st Centry who will be publishing the pinball!!! Will be fun to play something published under their 21st Cent logo again, been a year or two since they released anything (due to the troubles with the uk part of 21st going out of business and all that). Not that all titles published by 21st have been good (actually I can only say good things about the DI trilogy, the rest of the pinballs they have published except for slamtilt haven't been that fantastic, but 21st is the pinball company! :). 21st is currently looking for an publishing affiliate for STR so they haven't yet set any official publishing dates (a publisher looking for a publisher, I suppose that is quite logically somehow, marketing is a weird game), it will hopefully get out during the 4th quarter of this year though.

There is an official website up for the pinball at slamtiltresurrection.com, it is well worth a visit considering all the xxl screenshots of the pinballs two tables (STR includes two of the four tables in the original slamtilt, the other two will probably be released later on in a separate pinball set). STR features some different 3D (also 2ds) views of the tables, having looked at the screenshots it looks good (no idea about the physics, realism etc)... Haven't seen any demos or so for it yet. Check the news page for a preview of STR (pretty much just facts there).

On account of the TAF simulation it seems (as was posted to the msgboard) that the "Under Development" notice for it has dissapeared once again from digitaleclipse's site. Weird company, don't reply to any emails you send them, put up and take down notices on games under development all the time...

I noticed in david h's "pc pinball rating" post to r.g.p (usenet, he posts a letter now and then in that group with personal reviews of pinball simulations), there were some released pinballs I haven't heard about or written about: Garlic Press Pinball (on the Kids Arcade Pack CD -- GT Value Products/ Wizardworks, this kids' game is part of a MAC-ONLY budget CD) and Zero-G Pinball (some cheap budget game that's been showing up on EBay's auctionweb site). The last one I think is included on one of the pinball shareware collection cds (or maybe it was a separate title) that are sold on the store page (check the heading shareware/demo cds, the person who were selling those cds were out of all his copies last time I check in on his website though). Anyone reading this who ordered any of those shareware/demo pinball cds, I have no idea what were on them, anything unheard of interesting (pinball related)?

Had no debate article related to include this month, anyone want to continue on the classic style theme, or perhaps choose a new subject?

Quarter... Hit, Tilt, Slamtilt... you don't win