Hi Sharren.
The way pinball works is you have a table that inclines away from you. At
the bottom end towards you is the drain, ie, the place where your ball will
go if you don't flip it away, a little like the goal in air hockey. Either
side of the drain are two flippers, which are small flat peaces of metal or
plastic that flick upwards, and can bounce a ball up the table, (though
it'll inevitably roll down).
The table itself is full of mechanical apparatus all designed to change how
the ball moves and get score. There are pads your ball can roll over to
create more score, bumpers to bounce off, spinners that spinn around when
your ball hits them, parts of the table that might lower in order to give
you access to higher scoring areas etc. The object is to bounce your ball
around, making sure it doesn't go down the drain and scoring as much as
possible.
The esp pinball games for the pc from draconis are a wonderful simulation of
pinball and also have great explanations of all the things you can find on
tables, as well as some very funny challenges, I'd highly recommend them.
I've not played the blindfold version for Ios, though I do intend to, sinse
pinball (when you can hear what is happening and track where the ball is
going as in the esp games), is a huge amount of fun.
hth.
Dark.
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