| Pinball Construction Set | |
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| Developer(s) | BudgeCo |
| Publisher(s) | BudgeCo, Electronic Arts & Ariolasoft (Europe) |
| Designer(s) | Bill Budge |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari 800, Commodore 64, Apple Macintosh, DOS (booter) |
| Release date | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Pinball simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media | 5¼" disk |
| Input methods | Keyboard and joystick |
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Description
Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of computer games—the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. With PCS, users can construct their own virtual pinball arcade machine, by dropping controls onto a table. Pinball is a type of coin-operated Arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more Metal balls on a playfield inside a Glass An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in businesses such as Restaurants Pubs Video arcades and Family Entertainment In Computer Graphical user interfaces drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of Clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different Controls included bumpers, flippers, spinners and other standard pinball paraphernalia. Pinball is a type of coin-operated Arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more Metal balls on a playfield inside a Glass Paraphernalia is a term of art from older Law. Paraphernalia was the separate property of a married woman such as Clothing and Jewelry "appropriate Attributes such as gravity and the physics model could also be modified. Gravitation is a natural Phenomenon by which objects with Mass attract one another Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Users could save their creations and develop custom artwork to go along with them. Tables could be saved on floppy disks and freely traded. A floppy disk is an increasingly Obsolete data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin flexible ("floppy" Magnetic storage medium encased
History
Budge originally published and distributed this game via his publishing "company" (really just him and his sister), BudgeCo. BudgeCo was a Video game developer and publisher of the early 1980s In the more competitive publishing era of the 1980s, however, he willingly allowed EA to publish his game when they approached him in 1983, since he didn't really want to be an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome
Budge was inspired to program the game after developing Raster Blaster, the first pinball game for the Apple II. Raster Blaster is a 1981 computer Pinball game for the Apple II resembling the classic Firepower table He encountered many hurdles in trying to develop an open-ended pinball development tool, mostly because of the Apple's relatively limited processing power and graphics capabilities.
Pinball Construction Set was ported to the numerous home computers of the era, including the Commodore 64 and as a PC booter. See also Software portability In Computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created A home computer was a class of Personal computer entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s A PC booter, or booter, is a type of Software for Home computer era (early 1980s to early 1990s Personal computers that was loaded and executed PCS went on to sell over an astounding 300,000 copies in all platforms. EA followed with Music Construction Set, Adventure Construction Set and Racing Destruction Set all from different authors. Music Construction Set ( MCS) is a Music composition notation program. Adventure Construction Set (ACS is a program used to construct Ultima -type games written by graphic Adventure game pioneer Stuart Smith Racing Destruction Set is a Car racing and Motocross Computer game that was published in 1985 by Electronic Arts.
Reception
Computer Gaming World considered the game quite revolutionary, and easy to understand because of its representative icons and drag-and-drop method of constructing a table. Computer Gaming World ( CGW) was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication The nine-page manual was considered "overkill", since Pinball Construction Set required no programming knowledge; CGW reported that an eight-year-old had no problems creating his own tables. [1]
Legacy
In 1993, Budge went on to port his game to the Sega Genesis under the name Virtual Pinball. The is a 16-bit Video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988 North America in 1989 and the PAL region in 1990
Awards
Pinball Construction Set is an inductee in GameSpy's Hall of Fame. GameSpy, also known as GameSpy Industries, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game websites and provides online video game-related [2]
In 2008, Pinball Construction Set was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for "User Generated Content/Game Modification". A Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS for outstanding achievement in technical or Bill Budge accepted the award. [3]
See also
References
- ^ Besndard, John (May-June 1983), “Pinball Construction Set”, Computer Gaming World: 12, 43
- ^ GameSpy Hall of Fame from GameSpy
- ^ 2008 Tech Emmy Winners from Kotaku. Adventure Construction Set (ACS is a program used to construct Ultima -type games written by graphic Adventure game pioneer Stuart Smith Music Construction Set ( MCS) is a Music composition notation program. Racing Destruction Set is a Car racing and Motocross Computer game that was published in 1985 by Electronic Arts. The Incredible Machine (aka TIM) is a series of computer games that were originally designed and coded by Kevin Ryan and produced by Jeff Tunnell, Computer Gaming World ( CGW) was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication GameSpy, also known as GameSpy Industries, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game websites and provides online video game-related com
External links
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