Nah, perfection was Pinball Dreams on the Amiga, way superior to everything on PC/Windows for a decade. Which is probably equivalent to about a 100 years if it was a car.
Are we going to have a community that is focused on gaming discussion and another focused on memes and low-effort posts? Or are they going to be combined?
Agreed because I don’t like the OP for being a low effort meme, but also I feel like if there’s a community you’re interested in, just go make it.
Especially as people migrate off of Reddit and Lemmy grows. Anyone coming from Reddit who was interested in games knows there is a demand for a discussion/news based community like r/games
Honestly, a community like /r/games without the power mod approach to what articles can be posted would be really nice.
It's definitely a valid question though, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally "higher-quality", will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.
Yeah, as long as we're using an upvote system, those need to be split so the articles and discussion posts don't get drowned out in a sea of easily-consumed and quickly-upvoted low-content posts. I know I would personally really prefer having a proper feedly-style community with a bunch of articles and discussions than another gaming meme one that could basically be a bot linked to an instagram feed.
so, god knows there's enough games communities across the various larger instances right now but, even so... maybe we should start a /c/gamingdiscussion?
I did play the hell out of this game back in the day, but there was an even older one that only worked in dos mode. I can't remember the name, but I loved that version.
Yes there's one that's as close to a 1:1 recreation of this table as is possible in a physical space, works great especially since the table wasn't really designed with real world physics in mind lol
O can’t remember exactly, but there s a procedure out there to add a non steam game to your deck, then it shows up in the game mode interface. It might have to be added on desktop mode, then it will be avail on steam mode. It’s basically the same hack as getting GOG or Epic launchers into Steam iirc.
I just want to take a moment real quick to highlight that you wrote out the phrase “Ronald Reagan ball skins.”
Isn't there already a remaster? I came around this one from the KDE discovery.
It's not really a remaster, it's an open-source re-implementation. But I guess it could be used as a base for a remaster
Who needs a remaster? This is perfect.
That's a port, not a remaster. Man, that thing made party like it's 1995. Thanks for the link.
I'll let Dave explain: https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g
And here's the blog from the other guy - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803
Hey, Dave!
If only I could be as cool as that Dave.
Best comment here, please remember to boost this post so people can see it!
You can't remaster that which is already perfection
Nah, perfection was Pinball Dreams on the Amiga, way superior to everything on PC/Windows for a decade. Which is probably equivalent to about a 100 years if it was a car.
How about a web version?
https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/
Shit there goes my weekend.
For anyone on Android, you can get the game here
There is also an open source version you can get on Github for android https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android
... and that was the end of my productivity for the day.
Or if you are OSS masochist get this Vector Pinball ;-)
THANK YOU
What is there to remaster?
Are we going to have a community that is focused on gaming discussion and another focused on memes and low-effort posts? Or are they going to be combined?
idk about you but this is a valid question that could be discussed if you werent so full of yourself
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Agreed because I don’t like the OP for being a low effort meme, but also I feel like if there’s a community you’re interested in, just go make it.
Especially as people migrate off of Reddit and Lemmy grows. Anyone coming from Reddit who was interested in games knows there is a demand for a discussion/news based community like r/games
Honestly, a community like /r/games without the power mod approach to what articles can be posted would be really nice.
It's definitely a valid question though, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally "higher-quality", will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.
Yeah, as long as we're using an upvote system, those need to be split so the articles and discussion posts don't get drowned out in a sea of easily-consumed and quickly-upvoted low-content posts. I know I would personally really prefer having a proper feedly-style community with a bunch of articles and discussions than another gaming meme one that could basically be a bot linked to an instagram feed.
so, god knows there's enough games communities across the various larger instances right now but, even so... maybe we should start a /c/gamingdiscussion?
ah yes the gaming v games debate continues on a new platform, very interesting
So many hours spent playing this game when I was a kid.
I still can hear the start-up sound
Wooouuupwoouupwoupwoupwouwoupwoup drrrrrrrrrrr
This was such an OG game. I spent so many hours on this shit
Twas remastered in 2021 in the Microsoft Store my dude. Have fun
I just tried it, and wow, that is really bad actually. Genuinely much worse than finding a download of the original version.
Do you happen to know where I could find an original download?
You can always go check out Dave's garage on YouTube hes got a nice video on it and links to aquire it
https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g
Just google 3d pinball space cadet. The first page of results is full of links.
Looks like that one is from 2013 and last updated in 2015, so what happened to 2021?
Perfection needs no remaster.
It would be soo cool if they open-sourced this game at this point.
.. like why not?
Well lucky for you someone has already done the work! SpaceCadetPinball
Honestly I’m bored enough to open Unity and get to work, but someone’s probably already got a project on GitHub.
Will it have paid day-one DLC? Online leaderboards and rankings? NFTs? Requires constant online connectivity? Battlepass with flipper cosmetics?
Like the crap they slapped onto solitaire? That was ridiculous.
Tell me your joking
Nope. It's now bloated with ads and "premium" features...nothing is sacred.
solitare
One of those things is not like the others. I wouldn’t mind online leaderboards being added.
This took up a significant portion of my time on PC as a kid. No regrets
Careful what you wish for. 2024 EA announces remaster of Zen Pinball.
I did play the hell out of this game back in the day, but there was an even older one that only worked in dos mode. I can't remember the name, but I loved that version.
No need to remaster perfection
Classic computer lab memories
They made a remake for Windows store a while ago, and it was awful
Pinball FX has some fun tables. Not free but a decent modern pinball game.
Don't touch perfection!
Speaking of windows 95, any nostalgia communities yet?
https://lemmy.world/c/nostalgia
Make one, I'll sub.
I'm pretty sure I still have that on a 3.5" floppy somewhere. I also have a 3.5" drive that could read it, but I have nothing I could plug it into.
After they remaster this, they should remaster SkiFree!
There is a windows build exe on my PC that lets you play the OG. I would redirect you to the download site but they look all shady af.
rtx wen
I played a similar table on Virtual Pinball X. It was a lot of fun.
Yes there's one that's as close to a 1:1 recreation of this table as is possible in a physical space, works great especially since the table wasn't really designed with real world physics in mind lol
NGL - this is my 10 minute free time go-to on the SteamDeck
Wait, what? It's on Steam? Why hasn't anybody told me this before?
It's not on Steam, but you can add it as a non steam game and play it with Proton.
How do i do that?
O can’t remember exactly, but there s a procedure out there to add a non steam game to your deck, then it shows up in the game mode interface. It might have to be added on desktop mode, then it will be avail on steam mode. It’s basically the same hack as getting GOG or Epic launchers into Steam iirc.
I'm pretty sure there's a native Linux port now on flathub.
Edit: here's a link https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinball
I downloaded that already. Is they're a way to launch it from Steam on the Deck? Don't want to go to desktop every time.
Me, confusedly mashing buttons then getting angry when I tilt it too much and lose the game. Good times
Let's Nintendo remaster it! Then it's only $60 on the Switch!
Ya know, Zen Pinball is pretty good.
I have this on my android phone
I have spent so much time on this!