Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection

Classic pinball games come back to life in this great retro collection.

When pinball enthusiasts talk about the way a shot "feels," they're actually talking about tiny variables within the game, like how far the plunger can be drawn back, or how lanes line up with the flippers, or the size of the ball gutters. For short, they refer to this as "kinetics," and that's reason the original Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection caught everyone's attention. ...

The Williams Collection is the most realistic-looking and most realistic-playing pinball game on the planet

"Decades before videogames grabbed hold of the market, there was pinball. Even through the evolution of game technologies and the move towards the virtual, pinball managed to hold on with advancements of its own. It's tough to bring these experiences home due to their use of, well, real objects and gravity, but developers have certainly tried over the years turning the experience into a videogame one. Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection is the latest effort, and honestly it's easy some of the best virtual pinball experiences I've ever played and it comes extremely close to the same fun you'd get on the actual machines."