NRG Exclusive: Pinball Dreams [Amstrad CPC]

Hey that looks class

Wow, looks and sounds sweet!

Who cares about emulators. This was designed to be played on real hardware and will look and sound a million times better on such a setup. And on your 464 it looks fantastic

Wow fantastic

Wicked, was looking forward to you covering this. It's an incredible conversion of Pinball Dreams in every aspect, graphics, audio, ball physics are all there! Time to break out the Amiga this weekend I think...

where can i buy a copy og this game ?? :)

BG games have done an outstanding port of Pinball Dreams .. everything is there music sounds SFX title screen all four tables totally mind blowing from a 8bit computer and looks stunning running on the CPC ... hope they pull off the rest Pinball Fantasies next ??

Cheers Chris

Amazing game for the humble CPC, well done getting first dibs on it too bud

Amazing what can be achieved on such old hardware. I also love DK Jr. on C-64 from few years back. ALMOST 16-bit quality stuff.

It's an amazing port that seems almost like it hsouldn't exist but somehow it does and really shows what the CPC could actually do. I'd like to see them do an all original game next that is exclusive to CPC that could totally redefine the machine. :)

What percentage does Novabug Action score it then? ;D / Truly an excellent piece of coding... I’ve played the demo!!!

Almost makes me want to play Roland on the Ropes.

This is amazing. I love it, I need a hard copy right now - my CPC demands it!!

Rediculously impressive

This was one of my favourite games on the Amiga, and I have to say they've done a terrific job as you mentioned I cannot see anything missing and the scrolling is silky smooth.

An incredible piece of work!

That looks amazing in full. I wonder if they will follow it up with Pinball Fantasies.

Superb can't wait to play it.

That looks incredible! I've never heard you sound so happy mate :D I love my pinball games (particularly the Pro Pinball series) and this looks like a stonking conversion :)

Amazing but i missed the information where and when it will be released.

Absolutely AMAZING.

Kudos!! I hope the mario concept will bring fast scrolling platformer to Cpc too.

I really hope I can buy this on disc because I will. Looks INCREDIBLE. My 6128 has had a new belt in its drive and is sitting there waiting for this.

wahou an exceptional game that has not lost anything of its spelter in this version Amstrad CPC, very very good video, congratulations for the excusivity ;-)

As so often, the YT-video shows not how smooth the game really is!
It is as smooth as the C64 could be plus better, vivid colors. Music is very nice too.

The good old CPC shows his hidden muscles. Great.

Witness the power of the CPC and bow in front of his greatness!

Well done Nova! Nice job lad!

This really looks like a great conversion indeed, and may even be considered a port given the amount of reverse engineering which went into it.
A few things of note that were missing from the review:
* The top of the screen where the score panel sits is in glorious mid resolution mode (320 pixels wide, 4 colors) which allows for a very fine and realistic display of the 7 segments LCD panel. The rest of the screen sits in low resolution mode (160 pixels wide, 16 colors) which allows for a very colorful playfield.
* It must be noted that the CPCs graphic chip does not natively offer 1 line vertical scrolling, so there is obviously a lot of hardware trickery going on behind the scenes.

Also, I would recommend filming CRT monitors with the lights on otherwise the camera will try (and fail) to calibrate its luminosity settings based on the CRT image (which flickers constantly) instead of the global luminosity of the room. I would bet that the image would look much better then. You can always correct the CRT screen contrast afterward with a post process filter.

I want to check this on a real machine. Looks amazing.

The little system that could, but almost never did

I must consummee

Next week, GTA V

Eat your heart out, xyphoe hahaha 😀

Veeeery nice. Except for it breaks a lot on my Sinclair 464 with DDI5 (+512KB of RAM).

This is incredibly crap compared to the Amiga version. It took so much time to convert to CPC and this is all they can provide? Ridiculous.

I’ve had a lovely day off!
Want to run emulators off Windows 7. 10 can be more jittery...

I wonder what those guys could do with a CPC+.

If they release Pinball Wizards I'll buy a new CPC.

I'm more into C64 and SID music but this is just stunning

amazing for an amstrad.

It's just god damn wizardry