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Pinball Fantasies is a 1992 pinball video game originally developed by Digital Illusions and published by 21st Century Entertainment in Europe for the Amiga home computers. It is the sequel to Pinball Dreams, which was released earlier in the same year on multiple platforms. In the game, players can choose between any of the four available playfields, both of which have their own thematic and main objectives in order to obtain the highest score possible. Pinball Fantasies was created by the same team who previously developed Pinball Dreams and although it was initially released for the Amiga computers, the title was later ported to other computers and consoles including the Amiga CD32, Atari Jaguar, Game Boy, MS DOS, PlayStation and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, with each one featuring several changes and additions compared to the original version. Upon its release on the Amiga, Pinball Fantasies was met with critical acclaim from video game magazines and garnered praise for several aspects such as the presentation, visuals, audio, gameplay and overall improvements from its predecessor. Other versions of the game were met with a mostly similar positive response from reviewers, with some publications like PC Gamer regarding it as one of the best video games of all time. A follow up, Pinball Illusions, was released in 1995.

Like Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies is an arcade style pinball game featuring four types of pinball tables and each one has their own main objective, gameplay mechanics and thematic. The game has various levels of difficulty and the player can set the number of balls for play, among other gameplay options. In certain versions of the game, high scores and other settings made by the player are automatically kept via the cartridge's internal EEPROM, as well as reset the internal memory of the cartridge to erase saved high scores and personal settings. It was later ported to MS DOS computers by FrontLine Design, offering multiple audio options. It received an OS X build on 23 April 2013 and a Linux build on 19 August 2014 respectively. A compilation including the tables from Pinball Mania was released for DOS as Pinball Fantasies Deluxe. The Super NES port contains all four tables and the same music as the Amiga version, but suffers from a limited color palette. The Jaguar port was also distributed in Japan by Messe Sansao. A PlayStation compilation created by Spidersoft titled Pinball Fantasies Deluxe was published exclusively in Japan by VAP on 25 October 1996, which also includes the Pinball Mania tables but these have to be unlocked first. A Game Boy Advance version of the game, under the title Pinball Challenge Deluxe, with tables added from Pinball Dreams, was released only in Europe by Ubi Soft. Between October and December of the same year, a PlayStation Network version was released by Cowboy Rodeo for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3. A Nokia N9 version was released 20 July 2011 by Cowboy Rodeo in the Nokia Store. In 2012, a 3D/HD rendition was released for iOS by Cowboy Rodeo.

Reception Review scores Publication Scores Amiga CD32 DOS Game Boy SNES Jaguar iOS PSN 4Players 80 / 100 76 / 100 ASM (A1200) 10 / 12 11 / 12 AllGame 2.5/5 Amiga Action 95% 91% Amiga Computing 90% 90% Amiga Dream 88% 91% Amiga Force 96 / 100 Amiga Format 90%8 / 10 85% Amiga Games 84% Amiga Joker 83%(A1200) 84% 83% Amiga Mania 84% Amiga Power 89%(A1200) 91% 90% ACAR 91% 91% AGH 4 / 10 CVG 90 / 100 Consoles + 82% 80% CU Amiga 65% 85% Datormagazin 98% EGM 4 / 10 Eurogamer 9 / 10 Génération 4 76% 90%(DX) 62% Joypad 70% Joystick 85% 86% 85% MAN!AC 68% 70% Mega Fun 68% 74% Micromanía 90 / 100 Next Generation 2/5 Nintendo Player 2/6 TOfAG 86%(A1200) 89% 90% PC Games 90% PC Joker (DX) 85% PC Player 72 / 100(DX) 72 / 100 Play Time 83% 78% 90% Player One 72% 75% 62% Power Play 78% 75%(DX) 60% Score 81% Tilt 17 / 20 Top Secret 10 / 10 Total! 3 (C ) Video Games 61% 68% 72% Awards Publication(s) Award(s) PC Gamer UK (1994) #19 Top 50 PC Games of All Time (DOS) PC Gamer US (1994–1995) #33 Top 40 Games of All Time, Best Arcade Game (DOS)

Pinball Fantasies was a major commercial success, and among its era's highest selling games. GamePro panned the Super NES version. The reviewer remarked that though there is a large number of tables, the scrolling is so jerky that the game is almost unplayable. He further criticized that the graphics are dull and fail to make the ramps and obstacles of the tables stand out from the backgrounds. Next Generation also found the fact that the Super NES version displays less than half of the table at a time to be a problem, in part because of the poor scrolling, but also because "Since a lot of the scoring devices are near the top of the table, it means that most of the time you're shooting blind." In 1994, PC Gamer US named Pinball Fantasies the 33rd best computer game ever. The editors hailed it as "the best and most realistic pinball action ever seen on a PC screen". That same year, PC Gamer UK named it the 19th best computer game of all time. The editors wrote, "[I]f Pinball's your thing, there's currently nothing on the PC (or any home system, for that matter) better than this". In 1995, PC Gamer US presented Pinball Fantasies with its 1994 "Best Arcade Game" award. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Game Boy version a 4 out of 10, citing a lack of excitement in any of the tables, overly simplistic graphics, and annoying sound effects.