Pinball Fantasies: Encore!, the classic pinball game remade

Hall of fame

You get a high score locally, the game asks SEND ONLINE (Y OR N) after your initials. A recording of the game is sent. The server replays it to validate and prevent cheating. Each score shows the initials typed for it and unique tag of your game.

Download a recording (RPL) and drop it on the game to watch it.

Download

Unzip and run, nothing to install. The first time:

  • Windows: when it says "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.
  • macOS: when it says the app can't be opened, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
  • Linux: ./install.sh adds it to your app menu (optional).

Looking up the latest version…

About

A native remake of Pinball Fantasies, the 1994 PC release, for macOS, Windows and Linux.

It runs on an engine of its own, written from scratch from the original game's code: the physics, the table rules, the dot matrix and the music. It reads the original game's own files, and nothing is emulated. All four tables play as the original does, apart from a few small changes made on purpose, under either the 1994 pictures or remastered ones.

  • The original rules and physics, on an engine written from the game's own code and checked against it frame by frame.
  • The whole table on one screen, even on a wide screen turned on its side.
  • Remastered artwork, every table redrawn at high resolution, not upscaled, with its lamps still working. F10 switches between it and the original pixels at any time.
  • A CRT look with scanlines and glow, on F9.
  • Online high scores, every one replayed by the server from a recording of the game before it counts.
  • Free and open: the code under GPL-3.0, the new artwork under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Stones 'n' Bones pinball table in Pinball Fantasies, with the remastered HD artwork The Stones 'n' Bones pinball table in Pinball Fantasies, as it looked in 1994 1994 REMASTERED

Dev team

Pedro holding Aurora, in pixel art
PEDRO & AURORA

Hi, I'm Pedro. This is a hobby project that I've been building with AI (code and image generation). I stitch and align every image myself, decide how things look, sound and feel, Claude writes most of the code, and then we go back and forth over all the little details until the ball moves exactly like it did in 1994.

Most of it gets made in the gaps between everything else, especially during the naps of my baby daughter, the real boss of the project, who decides when development starts and mostly, when it stops.

If you played Pinball Fantasies back then, I hope this feels a bit like coming home. And if you didn't, welcome to Party Land.