Pro Pinball Timeshock Retail

Pro Pinball: Timeshock brings you a full 3D pinball table on screen. So detailed you'll even
think you can see your reflection in the careening ball and gleaming metal fittings. You'll play
it just like the real thing too, only harder. It's real pinball all right, but what pinball table
ever confronted you with dinosaurs hissing for your blood...or the might of Mount Rushmore
sneering down and daring you to climb up? This is the most complex, rewarding, frustrating,
entertaining, exciting, colorful, fastest, musical and best pinball experience ever. Steel
yourself for the total assault of a multi-layered adventure in vision and sound through four
different time zones. Experience gleaming silicon graphics that test your capabilities to the
limit. You'll discover resolution rising to a shocking 1600x1200 in 16 million colors, with
ingenious animated toys and fiendish games within a game on the dot matrix display.
All this is brought to you by the makers of Pro Pinball
Timeshock! may be the closest thing you'll find to real pinball on the PC.



Past efforts to bring the game of pinball to home computers have been often futile efforts. While
it's true that there have been some entertaining products released, problems such as split
screens and skittish physics have had a hampering effect on realism. Empire Interactive's Pro
Pinball: Timeshock! has none of the problems of its predecessors, and may be the closest thing you'll find to real pinball on the PC.

As the story goes, an experiment in the future failed, releasing a Timeshock. The Timeshock is
headed back toward the dawn of time, intent upon the destruction of everything, and you must stop
it by gathering pieces of the time crystal, scattered throughout four eras. By completing
playfield tasks, and surviving the Time Machine and Time Warp Frenzy, you will race toward the
dawn of time. Create an Anti-Timeshock and save the universe. But Timeshock isn't an adventure
game, it's pinball, and thankfully the plot here doesn't sully the action.
Gameplay is fast and accurate, and anyone who has ever spent time bandying a little silver ball
around a playfield will appreciate Timeshock's attention to the physical properties of pinball.
In Timeshock, the ball behaves as if it were a tangible object, reacting to its three-dimensional
environment with absolute precision. Whether the ball comes off the bumpers or down the ramps, it
adheres to the proper laws of physics, providing the most realistic pinball simulation yet on a
PC. This realism isn't limited to the spinning ball either, because Timeshock beautifully
translates all the elements on a pinball table into a vibrant, three-dimensional arena.

Table design in Timeshock is seamless. Ramps, bumpers, flippers, and chutes are positioned to
work together, and play off each other, fluidly. This critical element comes across strong in
Timeshock, and as your game progresses certain combinations of ramp shots are needed to further
the plot. Tables can be adjusted to any of four views: three varying angles of perspective and
the now-lackluster flat table are just a click away.
All the elements in Timeshock combine just right, delivering a fully realized product that
screams, "Play me." Actually, a digitized voice says that, and in full surround-sound to boot.
Timeshock is the best computer pinball simulation yet, and if you get good enough at it, you can
even brag about your high score by posting it at the Empire web site.