

To get the most out of Zaccaria Pinball you’ve got to go in with an appreciation for a simpler and more pure type of game. It’s an impressive feature, but the mechanical cleverness isn’t representative of what you’ll be seeing on the rest of the tables. The freebie version comes with a single table, Time Machine, probably because part of the design is a bumper field that rises and falls depending on whether you’re in the “past” or “future”. There are three ways to complete the collection- a single table at a time, pick up the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Memberships one by one to break up the cost, or just go for broke with the Gold Membership to unlock every table at once. Much like The Pinball Arcade, the base game of Zaccaria Pinball is free with one table completely open, and the rest being available on a score-limited mode until unlocked as DLC. Zaccaria Pinball (the game) recreates those tables in digital format, bringing a huge library of tables out of obscurity and straight to the PC screen. Zaccaria Pinball was a manufacturer pumping out tables from the mid-70s to late 80s, and while the design is very much of the time, it’s also nicely refreshing as a contrast to today’s machines. Older pinballs, on the other hand, might have had the occasional license, but tended to be far more open in their designs, with straightforward goals and game modes.
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