Saturday, September 24, 2011

Windows Space Cadet Pinball

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Anyone else play ?  I've been playing it a long time.  The other day I beat my 32 million high score by quite a bit.  59 million and change.  You gotta be in the groove to score well.

I will tell you my secret strategy is to pay no attention to anything else but put the ball up the right hand side ramp until I've got the Extra Ball lights lit, then plop that sucker into the black hole, and score an extra ball in the right hand save slot.  That is all I pay any attention to doing, outside of keeping the ball in play.

I can tell you this game took a lot of extra balls.  I went out as an Admiral of course.


FWIW, you can move WinXP pinball to Win7 by just copying the entire Pinball directory from WinXP to the Windows 7 directory C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games, resulting in having a C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Pinball directory with the contents from the WinXP machine.

Then navigate to that directory and right click on the silver ball, and select pin to taskbar.

The only other thing to do is ignore 'the election' for another 12 months at least.
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11 comments :

  1. Congrats on your super high score, Kid!
    Have a fun weekend.

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  2. Thanks Bunni :)

    I worked Too hard today in the garden areas.

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  3. Wow, I used to be addicted to this game and never heard a high score higher than mine (23 mil) until now. Well done and thanks for sharing! It's an awesome game.

    http://www.hackwilson.blogspot.com

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  4. ohhhhhhhhhh looks like fun dude..enjoy!!!

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  5. Hack, thank you! I thought there might be some casual addicts to the game out there.

    It is a great game for those quiet times.

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  6. Woman, Thanks. Hope you're having a good one.

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  7. Btw Hack, I've got you on my right sidebar in the Great Reads, though I don't comment a lot, you've got a great blog.

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  8. took a very brief break from 'it all'
    thus- enjoyed reading your last two posts-
    as to the game- guess I'll draw and sculpt - a lot-
    BTW no more Lesser of Two Evils- perry-romney-- NO- I agree w/ you!
    Carol-CS

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  9. Carol-CS, Thank you. To each their own. I think of getting back into painting when I'm retired one day. Too much to do after I get home from work or on the weekends around here to focus on something like the arts.

    I used to paint, gave them all away. I was proud of a a couple of them.
    Enjoy

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  10. I spent a lot of time with that years ago. Now I found minecraft. It is a rather intriguing time vampire.

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  11. Admiral, I've really enjoyed a number of games through the years.

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