Pac-Man Pinball (Mobile)

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Pac-Man Pinball fails to provide the one thing a virtual pinball game must: accurate ball physics.

Specifications: Genre: Puzzle; Number of players: 1 Player See full specs

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Reviewed by: Avery Score
Reviewed on: 06/02/2005

Pac-Man Pinball is, as you might imagine, a game of pinball with a Pac-Man theme. To improve your score on the game's single table, you'll collect pellets, or pieces of fruit. Unfortunately, the game's physics are really messed up, and its speed is hugely inconsistent across handsets. On high-end phones, the game might have benefited from a frame limiter, as it runs much too fast.

You have to see these physics in action to understand just how crazy they are. Actually, just take our word for it.

Physics are paramount in a pinball game, as you're pretty much just playing with angles and the kinetic transference of energy. Pac-Man Pinball's physics are noticeably problematic from the get-go. The ball seems to momentarily adhere to every surface it meets and then propel itself awkwardly from that surface, as if filled halfway with sloshing water.

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