Tag: PINBALL

Take a pinball game and strip out the flippers and the noise; you might end up with something quite similar to Hardball Frenzy. You shoot a ball from the top of the board, and there are several targets which you have to hit. Once you hit a target, the ball ricochets off it and bounces on to (hopefully) hit the next one. Once a ball is done bouncing around, it funnels down to the bottom of the ...

Too lazy to make an unattended XP install disc but don't want to stare at nothing but progress bars while it installs? Turns out it's easy to run Pinball, Minesweeper, or Solitaire while the Windows XP setup grinds along. User Boofis on the Whirlpool forums explains: "You just have to wait until the right moment the pinball files are copied. Sometime after where it asks you for the product ...

Ah, good old Pinball. Not as popular as Solitaire, but fun for a few minutes nonetheless. While there's really no good system for cheating at Solitaire (I mean, that's kinda lame, right?), there are apparently several good cheats around for Pinball. ActiveWin's Kristan Kenney has the list of Pinball cheats for you. Are there more? How could there be? From unlimited balls to an instant 1,000,000 ...