SlamIt Pinball Big Score

SlamIt Pinball offers just one single table, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and at this point I would have liked to tell you something about how it plays. But the game gave me a challenge I wasn't up to: Some moments into a match the game crashed... every time. Rarely I've experienced such a bug-ridden, broken piece of software. The fact that its release dates back to 2007 and its still in an unplayable state today is a clear hint that the devs abandoned their game. There are even options in the main menu, for example the controller settings, that make the game crash when you click on them. Yes, apparently the game was supposed to have the option to be played with a Xbox 360 controller. But the main feature SlamIt Pinball owes its name to involves the keyboard. Slamming your keyboard in different regions nudges the table in a corresponding direction. This innovative mechanism posed one problem: In Windows some keys and key combinations are assigned to specific functions and by slamming wildly onto your keyboard you are bound to hit one of them. And this is the solution the devs came up with: Starting the game adds an entry to your Windows registry that disables all the functions that could get in the way of playing the game. Closing the game removes that entry. This would actually work if the game wouldn't crash regularly but if the game isn't properly closed through the main menu the registry entry stays. I didn't know about that and after I finally gave up on SlamIt Pinball and uninstalled it I noticed that none of the keys were working, Windows key for the start menu, Ctrl+Alt+Del for the task manager, etc... nothing. Took me quite some time to figure out the cause. Stay away from this utterly broken game and satisfy your pinball needs with Pinball Arcade (if you prefer authentic recreations of real-life tables) or Pinball FX2 (for a diverse selection of fantasy tables) instead.

I picked it up for $0.99 (a while back), and I still want my money back. This is a buggy, broken game that should never have been allowed on Steam. If you are looking for a good pinball game, ANYTHING ELSE would be better than this pile of garbage. [b]Do. Not. Buy.[/b] I should have written this review the moment I gave up on this game, because if this review can stop someone from wasting even a penny on this game, then I've done my job.

This game is broken and has been for years. If you have a controller plugged in to your USB port the game will likely crash on launch. If you play without a controller plugged in the game will work for a while THEN crash. A patch was released years ago which purported to fix these problems but didn't. Not that it matters, since the Steam version isn't patched anyway. The game is a ripoff at any price, save your money for something better like tables for Pinball FX2 or Pinball Arcade.

9/13/2021 - A new perspective on this game, considering many games came out after this: WOW, is all I can say about this creation. Before anyone asks, no, I'm not changing my stance, because of what's happened since, but with a concept like freeform nudging, this is WAY ahead of its time. We have had many different pinball games with great physics, but most of them fall short. Pinball Arcade steers the ball as part of its nudging, FX3 suffers from nudge passing especially on recreations, and mainly, nudging overall is incredibly simplistic with single press, full-strength nudging. Even VPX suffers similarly to FX3. Pro Pinball is an exception with analog-based keyboard nudging, but Slamit takes it a step further, utilizing custom nudges depending on how many keys you pressed and which ones. For a 2009 game that utilizes custom strengths, lights, and other options, the work they poured into this is seriously impressive. Given the current conditions, however, I can't recommend this due to problems on modern-day systems, including choppy framerates (Steam's in-game FPS disagrees somehow...?). This is no fault of the developers, however, and it's a truly tragic tale to be told and why there's no support behind SlamIt. One of the lead devs actually died in a car crash shortly after it released. If you want to get this game for preservation's sake, go for it. Otherwise, steer clear and look for a more enjoyable pinball experience. I hope this project (or the SlamIt nudging system at least) is revived one of these days, in this series or another. http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=7544&page=2

This is a definitive "DO NOT BUY". You can harangue this game into working, but even on modern hardware produced years after this game was released, it will still run at a terrible frame-rate. That is unfortunate, because the table layout and game itself are actually interesting. If you want to play pinball, there are thankfully more options on Steam now. Pinball FX2, Pinball Arcade, and Worms Pinball are all more worthy of your time. Deck update: This was always going to run better under an emulator, and it does generally run pretty well under the proton emulation on the deck.

This game is a buggy, non-working piece of crap. You would get more entertainment burning the money you're considering spending on this.

SlamIt Pinball Big Score would be an OK pinball game if there were no crashes and the controls would work. There isn't much more to tell, really.

I got this on sale for under two bucks and have found that the well-known bugs are indeed difficult to keep playing around. How could I completely resist a crime-themed pinball table--almost like a cross between pinball and PAYDAY! It's a shame this game is bug-ridden and will never be fixed, because the table seems pretty cool. You can play as a cop or a crook, meaning you'll get to try different missions on the table depending on which side you chose. The table looks good and the pinball seems like it might be pretty good. Unfortunately, the more I try it the more bugs I find. Forget portrait mode--the freaking menus will remain in landscape orientation, so you'll have to tilt your head sideways! Forget using a gamepad on this because it seems to be mapped incorrectly and you can't remap the controller at all. The files appear to be encrypted, so forget about trying to fix it that way. Really, this broken game should probably not be sold by any vendor any more.

Это будет самый короткий обзор, потому что я ничего интересного не увидел. Вообщем всем привет, с вами Берникс и это обзор на игру, которая называется Slamit PInball: Big Score. Ну, это обычный пинболл. Я словил ностальгию, когда сыграл в эту игру вспомнив Pinball 3D, в старой винде. Кстати, почему то эту игру вообще хейтят зверски, она же не вылетает там, или не багует. Откуда такая ненависть? Единственный минус который я заметил, это когда вы запускаете игровой пиннбольный автомат, но вы незнаете куда нажать. Я перетыкал все кнопки). Но всё таки я смог немного сыграть в него. Ну что сказать, интересная игра. Я получил её благодаря одному моему другу, который скинул 2 ключа. Если вам будет нечего совсем делать, то эта игра будет просто мастером убивалок времени. Моя оценка этой игре, 10 пинбольных шариков из 10.

Got it a few years ago on sale for really cheap, played it for 10 minutes and erased the game. It's not a fun game and it only has one table, there are far better pinball games out there with alot of tables that playes way better then this old thing. Alot of ppl says you cant even play it more then the 10 min i did because it crashes all the time and that have never been fixed. Dont buy it, dont even except it as a gift. This is by far the worst game on my Library.