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Topic: Balls of Steel (game)


  
  Balls of Steel for PC video game review and cheats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It used to be several years ago that tons of these games were released, usually with crude 320x200 pixel-scrolling graphics, with poor physics in ball movement, and with uninspired copycat graphics on the tables.
The ball physics are the best I have seen in a computer pinball game, with both rebound angle and speed changes following the laws of motion perfectly.
This is truly a game for all ages, and to facilitate that, one of the options is a "parental lock" which eliminates some of the racier language in the game.
www.gamezilla.com /review.aspx?review=6940   (924 words)

  
 Balls of Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Balls of steel may refer to more than one thing
Balls of Steel (TV), a Channel 4 comedy series
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balls_of_Steel   (100 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Balls of Steel Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Their focus on developing quality games in each respective genre, and their refusal to release a title that was not cutting-edge in some respect, has led the company to cancel more games than they have released, much to the chagrin of enthusiastic fans.
In recent years, the two-dimensional, scrolling pinball game has given way to a tilted, isometric perspective that is much closer to the real-world, arcade experience.
Pinball games have become pinball simulations, and with each successive release, I expected the company to announce it had canceled its pet project, Balls of Steel, a classic, scrolling pinball game in every sense of the term.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=bos_rev&page=1   (531 words)

  
 Martin Mathis' Pinball Simulation Reviews: Balls Of Steel
Ball physics are fairly realistic but have more of an arcade than a simulation feel inspite of what the product claims.
Generally, the balls don't drain that easily but once they are headed for the drains there is little you can do other than keeping kickbacks lit.
Overall, Balls Of Steel doesn't leave a bad impression but it doesn't knock me off my socks either.
www.lastbandit.com /pbr_bos.shtml   (682 words)

  
 Sprinkling Can free download. Sprinkling Can is a funny 3d shaded Arkanoid-like game, in which you have to destroy ice ...
Sprinkling Can is a funny 3d shaded Arkanoid-like game, in which you have to destroy ice cubes with steel balls, using a cola can by way of bat.
Happily, balls are cold, because of ice, and every time a ball hits the can it takes away a little heat.
Radia is a fast-paced arkanoid game, where you take control of a circular paddle in an frantic attempt to destroy 95% of the level.
www.freedownloadscenter.com /Games/Arcade_Style_Games/Sprinkling_Can.html   (492 words)

  
 CNN - PC pinball - Mar. 10, 1998
Controlling the silver ball is fairly intuitive when using the keyboard or mouse, including access to all flippers, plus various ways to "nudge" the table at different angles.
Balls of Steel (ahem) was developed by Australia's Wildfire Studios and Pinball Wizards (a division of Apogee Software), and was published by GT Interactive this past December.
Unlike other pinball games, the default setting has "scrolling" enabled, meaning the player only sees about a third of the entire table at one time as it scrolls up or down as needed.
edition.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9803/10/pc_pinball   (1129 words)

  
 3D Realms Site: Balls of Steel
Balls of Steel is realistic, first and foremost, with real physics behind the ball movement and table obstacles.
There are 5 tables that comprise the entire Balls of Steel package (with a sixth available separately).
Please note that the patches available here will patch either v1.0, v1.1, or v1.2 of Balls of Steel, but you must apply the shareware patch to the shareware game, or the registered patch to the registered game.
www.3drealms.com /balls   (435 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Discovery
In Balls of Steel (ahem), there are five tables to choose from - Mutation, Barbarian, Firestorm, Darkside and Duke Nukem - with many customizable gameplay options and fairly realistic table physics.
Unlike other pinball computer games, the default setting has scrolling enabled, meaning the player only sees about a third of the entire table at one time as it scrolls up or down.
There is only one small quibble with the game - there's no way to control the plunger power in the ball launch, so the ball always enters through the same gate at the top, unless you shake the table a bit.
www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/06/13/52.asp   (658 words)

  
 3D Realms News
Venom Games in the UK are handling the 360 port, and a little of the work that is going into the 360 version is covered here as well.
I have continued to be a part of the game industry as it has matured at a frightening pace over the last fifteen years, and these days, one needs be a lot more focused to find a niche among the mega-teams it now takes to create a competitive, cross-platform title.
The game is absolutely incredible to look at, packed with all kinds of scintillating effects, moody shadows, detailed shading, and giant chunks of all sorts of fascinating anachronistic technology.
www.pinballwizards.com   (8708 words)

  
 Balls of Steel on CD-ROM from CDAccess.com
Each table is a flawless amalgam of animation, sounds, and flashing lights; the missions and submodes propel players forward, urging them to play just one more game; and the nearly impeccable ball physics lend credibility to the game as a semi-serious simulation.
Yet through it all, the game never fails to entertain and surprise, and with five tables and a worldwide scoreboard to subjugate, players will be pumping away for a long time."
Balls of Steel brings outstanding art and animation, youthful enthusiasm, and consummate gameplay to the table, and executes the concept with raging brilliance.
www.cdaccess.com /html/pc/ballsofs.htm   (542 words)

  
 Birkball - Table Sport with Simultaneous and Continuous Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Players can pick up steel balls anywhere on the table, but if they touch a target ball, it is a point.
Players launch steel balls and target balls down their chutes only by the force of gravity.
Several games later and after giving up our pool table to keep playing Birkball, we are definitely hooked.
www.birkball.com   (695 words)

  
 Sprinkling Can free download by Abbemelasoft: Sprinkling Can is a funny 3d shaded Arkanoid-like game. The object is to ...
The object is to destroy ice cubes with steel balls, using a cola can by way of bat.
Each game level has its own theme and needs a different strategy to be passed.
Game never ends, because you can download additional levels for free or create your own levels with the included easy to use Level Editor and exchange them with your friends!
www.softpile.com /Games/Arcade/Review_17122_index.html   (227 words)

  
 Wildfire Studios - Balls of Steel: Creature Attack!
Lock balls in the slurping, sucking egg tube for 3-ball.
Balls of Steel is a scorchingly hot, highly addictive pinball game that assaults the senses with terrific table graphics and animations, and ear-shattering sound effects.
Wildfire Studios, a small Australian software company, has dared to develop Balls of Steel … and they have managed to blow the socks off the competition.
www.wildfire.com.au /content/standard.asp?name=BOS_CA   (276 words)

  
 3D Realms Site: Balls of Steel
Balls of Steel has two methods of gameplay.
You can click here to learn about the various tables that comprise Balls of Steel.
GameWeek, the leading non-consumer game industry publication, just arrived and has a glowing review of Balls of Steel.
www.3drealms.com /balls/index.html   (435 words)

  
 Balls of Steel - The Game Beat ... Games . Online . Puzzles . Magazines - SearchBeat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Games Domain Review: Balls of Steel - Contains a review and other information on the game.
PC Hotgames.com: Balls of Steel - Includes screen shots and a review.
Gamespot: Balls of Steel - Contains a review of the game.
www.searchbeat.com /Games/VideoGames/Genres/Recreation/Pinball/BallsofSteel   (176 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Balls Of Steel at Epinions.com
PC pinball games feel more like computer games than they could.
I think Balls of Steel could have emulated the pinball experience a bit better.
The physics of Balls of Steel leave much to be desired.
www.epinions.com /content_12822351492   (265 words)

  
 Balls of Steel review
My wait for Apogee's Balls of Steel has seemed like an eternity.
Balls of Steel is easily the worst computer pinball game since
the plunger until the ball came in contact with a flipper.
moonbasetycho.tripod.com /balls_of_steel_review.htm   (672 words)

  
 Smartass.org | Bytes | Balls of Steel
Balls of Steel has a lot to offer fans of real pinball.
The scrolling feature allows you to follow the ball and see the backgrounds of each table in decent detail.
For most of the game, you end up hitting the same four or five bumpers and tricks, wondering when you get to see the cool stuff.
www.smartass.org /archive/Bytes/BallsOfSteel.html   (376 words)

  
 The Tower of Pin - MsgBoard (Subject)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Recently purchases Pinball Madness 2 including Balls of Steel.
Game installation goes fine until point of clicking on "play" at which point, monitor goes gray and computer locks up.
My question is how can I obtain VESA drivers so that Balls of Steel game will work.
www.pcpinball.com /msgboard/msg.phtml?post_id=738   (164 words)

  
 3D Realms Site: Games
This game, set sometime in the early 21st century, begins in a ravaged LA, which was overtaken by aliens.
Selected games from our past have been released into freeware, which means that you are free to download the full, registered versions of them.
These games are: Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Rise of the Triad.
www.3drealms.com /catalog/balls   (1917 words)

  
 Balls of Steel for PC - Balls of Steel PC Game - Balls of Steel Computer Game
The best pinball games have hidden levels, animated beasties, and plenty of surprises.
Use this patch to upgrade the full version of Balls of Steel to v1.2 Download »
Posted Jun 7, 2004 8:33 am PT Tell the world what you think of Balls of Steel.
www.gamespot.com /196693   (175 words)

  
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 Balls of Steel for PC - Balls of Steel PC Game - Balls of Steel Computer Game
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While it doesn't have the ultrarealism of a game such as Pro Pinball: Timeshock, Addiction Pinball offers more sensory gratification.
Pro Pinball is one of the most realistic pinball simulations in the computer gaming circuit.
www.gamespot.com /pc/puzzle/ballsofsteel/similar.html   (183 words)

  
 Cheat Codes Club - Balls Of Steel cheats Cheat Codes
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 The Tower of Pin - Files (Demos: Balls of Steel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lots of limits in the shareware (more demo), but the table is fully enjoyable until the 30th game when it all starts to get irritating.
Tournament mode gives three balls per game - the other modes allow up to five balls per game, as well as enabling extra balls, Powerball mode, and end-of-game matching.
The more games (games = each time you start the table from the main menu, you can then play as much as you want and quit to the main menu, starting the the table again will count as a another game) you play the more the shareware version will limit itself.
www.pcpinball.com /files/demos/pc/bosd.html   (311 words)

  
 Infogrames Support
For more information, please refer to 3D Realms' Balls of Steel page or Wildfire Studios.
If you changed the directory your game is installed to you will have to navigate to that directory on the “Locate Balls of Steel” screen, and then click "Open".
Ball dumping from cyclotron dish during Mutation 3-ball improved.
www.atari.com /us/support/faq/ballsofsteeldownloads_pc.asp   (475 words)

  
 Bjørn Stærk blog - Europe's balls of steel
In this particular case it obviously helped to have "balls of steel", and it hasn't happened often that the US president has been forced to make such a humiliating U-turn.
I don't agree with the steel tarrifs, but we should be increasing them and adding new ones to punish the EU in general for having the arrogance to interfere in a US election.
Where the steel tarrif problems came from was almost solely internal: steel is a manufacturing and union concern, and Bush was trying to buy off intense union backlash in the next election.
www.bearstrong.net /warblog/000564.html   (7595 words)

  
 Kaboom! Cola 1.30a - The object of the game is to destroy all the ice cubes with steel balls, usin... Download   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cola 1.30a - The object of the game is to destroy all the ice cubes with steel balls, usin...
The object of the game is to destroy all the ice cubes with steel balls, using a cola can by way of bat.
If the balls reach the bottom of the playground or two or more balls collide, you lose them.
www.alltheshareware.com /Kaboom-Cola-Software-53445.html   (509 words)

  
 Balls of Steel Patch - gamexperts.com
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The official Imperium Galactica III site now offers a new 442.9 MB movie trailer for download of this space combat strategy game that is nearing completion at Philos Entertainment.
www.gamexperts.com /?patch_id=76   (303 words)

  
 Balls of Steel Review
I would like to be able to say how well Balls of Steel enhances the genre, with its Duke Nukem 3D tie-in, its several tables (in the registered version) — but I can't.
On top of that the ball is unconvincing in both appearance and dynamics, moving at uneven speeds off the flippers and when it bounces off the bumpers.
What was worse about the demo version I played was the amount of messing about with my monitor the game insisted on doing, with dire warnings that its testing program might damage the monitor or cause the computer to hang, encouraging me to turn the screen off until the rather unnerving beeps had finished.
www.fortunecity.com /village/wongfoo/110/pinball/steel.htm   (179 words)

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