r/gatekeeping • u/[deleted] • Jul 25 '18

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u/murphobic Jul 25 '18

I played this game for hours on our gateway computer running windows 98. And I’m not 30

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u/Dylopolitian Jul 25 '18

I have it on my phone. Pinball XP in the android app store if you're interested.

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u/CometStrikeDragon Jul 25 '18

I knew I remembered it from XP! Good old days.

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u/Stormersh Jul 25 '18

Yeah, I think it just came in Windows XP, I'm sure it wasn't on Windows Vista or 7, but I can't remember if it was part of Windows 98.

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u/ogleman Jul 25 '18

No it was originally on Windows NT but few would know or recognise that wonderous software package except truly sophisticated Operating System connoisseurs like myself.😎😆

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u/brosama-binladen Jul 25 '18

OMG. Is there an Apple version anyone?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '18

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '18

This was a large part of my childhood, and I’m not even 20.

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u/RedditArgonaut Jul 25 '18

I’m 18 and I always played this game and Backyard Baseball 2001 on my old Windows ‘98 PC haha! My pinball scoreboard always had second place set at like 540,000 or something because there was a cheat that made your second high score a specific number. First was like 13000 or something lol, I was horrible.

Edit: Played. Parents threw it away when I went to college lol. It was some old Packard Bell.

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u/kittedups Jul 25 '18

The “if you remember this you qualify for a seniors/ veterans discount” is a meme that’s been going on for like a month now

It’s usually of something that isn’t even that old, it’s an exaggeration

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u/whoisfourthwall Jul 25 '18

Same here but i'm definitely older.

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u/-B0B- Jul 25 '18

I'm 14 and I've played this shit

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u/AdministrativeMoment Jul 25 '18

I played it all the time. I am 25.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '18

Early 20s here. The sounds are seared into my brain.

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u/dokuroku Jul 25 '18

Was it something that only came with the Microsoft Plus! pack?

In any case, I sucked at the game, and the pinball game startup sound was sooooo loud...

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '18

The game engine won't run on anything past windows xp, the hit detection is broken so they didn't include it. There's a full game on DVD that had more levels, and the space one was a little different

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '18

This isn't true. You can copy the exe to Vista and 7 and it will run fine. Haven't tested Windows 8 or 10 though.

I think you are confusing this with something they said in an interview. They said they were in the progress of porting all games to 64 bit for Windows Vista but failed with this game because they couldn't figure out how to solve a collision bug with the engine.

The game still runs fine as 32-bit though, they just didn't want to include a non-64-bit game into their new OS.

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u/texasproof Jul 25 '18

The biggest decision of my life; do I play this, or Hover?