Pinball Arcade Plus

Last updated on June 7th, 2023 at 05:55 am

Pinball Arcade Plus

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Pinball Arcade Plus is one of the best $0.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by FarSight Studios, Pinball Arcade Plus is a Casual game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 9th February 2012 with the latest update 8th January 2020

Whether you are a fan of Casual, Simulation, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.

Rating

226 people have rated 8.1.10

You can download the game Pinball Arcade Plus from APP STORE.

Description

Play over 30 REAL PINBALL machines!

Pinball Arcade is the most realistic and comprehensive pinball simulation ever created!

Play TWO FREE TABLES this month!

This month’s free tables are:

  • Big Buck Hunter™
  • Gladiators™

New table added in this update:

  • Big Buck Hunter™
  • Whoa Nellie™

This expansive digital arcade features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Stern Pinball®, and Gottlieb® together in one app. Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail.

Rated 9.0 on IGN!
G4TV Mobile game of the year.

Updated on 8th January 2020

Notch fix for new devices.

Pinball Arcade Plus Reviews

Dont go just dont feel the same on a switch or ps4 and Xbox because the screen controller more suited for the screen on the iPhone we dont like the other pinball app they are more laggy less tables more money wouldnt even touch them so if you guys go Im done with pinball until we get a virtual pinball arcade cabinets.


We have this application on our PS4 as well and just adore it. However the iOS version (at least for me) seems to slow down to a snails pace seemingly at random. We’ve yet to find a solution to this as sometimes closing and reopening the app works, sometimes it doesnt. Occasionally Ill be playing and Ill get a text. When this happens the game just slows way down. We tried updating the app and the tables but it says its all up to date. Very fun app as we really dig us some pinball and love all of these tables. This is just a tad frustrating.


Although it technically works on iPhone X, XS, and 11/Pro, the dumb and troublesome notch at the top of the screen covers half of the pinball machines video display. This makes it hard or impossible to play the games video modes or to even enter your name for a high score. The controls at the bottom of the screen (like ball launch) dont work well with the new swipe up system in new iPhones without a home button. Half the time we go to launch the ball the app acts like Im trying to switch apps and goes back to the menu, causing an annoying interruption to gameplay several times per game. Also, the real control problem with Pinball on a phone is there really is no good way to nudge the table. This is intuitive on a real table because you are actually holding the table with your fingers on the buttons. On a phone you have to move your fingers to the top of the screen and swipe. It is a long process that you will not be able to do fast enough which will ruin your game as the balls fly down the drains. Furthermore, Apply is constantly changing the screen sizes. The iPhone 11 Pro is dimensionally skinnier than the original iPhones. The game has not been modified to compensate so the sides of the table are cutoff. On some games this can include the drains in certain views. If you cant see the drains, you cant nudge the table in an effort to save your ball. But as we already discussed, the whole nudge feature is flawed anyways. Another downer is Pinball Arcade used to have the rights for many other pinball machine manufacturers but they lost these rights to Zen pinball. So Pinball Arcade no longer sells the best virtual machines. Thankfully, we bought them all before they lost the rights and PA still supports playing them and even redownloading them onto a new device. Other than that, this is by far our favorite game and pinball platform on iOS. It just needs updated for newer phones.


This is a great pinball game for iOS, but recently we upgraded to an iPhone 11 Max and the animated backboard screens are blocked partially at the top of the screen. Hopefully the developer will fix this issue.


Used to be such a great app… Now on IPad all balls are pretty much impossible to see…. PLEASE FIX!!


Pinball Arcade was amazing, youd get to buy new tables ever few months and there was always something awesome to play. Now, there hasnt been anything new table wise in close to a year and old bugs havent been fixed in about that long. We’ve spent several hundred dollars on tables across all systems (iOS, switch, Xbox 360 and steam), Im starting to worry that they might shut down the ability to download those tables.


Great simulations, great games, terrible interface, company REALLY slow to respond to issues. Slow as in YEARS. This app still doesnt support the iPhone X, XR, XS Max or any of the iPhone 11s. It puts critical interface elements at the top of the screen cut off by the notch and others cut off by the bottom of the display (display scaled wrong) The iPhone X was introduced over two years ago. Were still waiting.


We bought several table packs. With our new iPad, it says it restores our purchases, but only 3 of 39 work. Im not paying twice.


Im trying to play bride of pinbot and its on neither… But your Facebook says it is?


Crashes frequently on the iPhone 7 running latest version on this game and running iOS 12.4.1.


We just purchased a new iPad Pro. We were able to load our owned games, but restoring high scores (either local or remote) does nothing. How do we get these back?


Once again, the UI for this game is completely broken on iPhone X and iPhone 11 devices (at least). Cant switch the game to landscape mode and cant even start the games at all on the iPhone 11. We’ve been a long-time fan of this app, but Im afraid its come time to retire it for something better. The developers just dont seem very interested in fixing these problems, it seems. This game has been broken for us ever since we first got an iPhone X. We now have an iPhone 11, and its still broken. Cant recommend this one anymore, Im afraid.


We love the physics and the realistic play in these games. Best iOS game ever.


It is sad that they lost the licenses for many tables and new customers cant buy many, but for those of us who did, the developer continues to make sure the app and tables work great… Im sure their excellence will be rewarded in what ever comes next!


Today we opened up the app to play the AC/DC game which we purchased quite a while ago. It would not complete downloading. We understand removing free games when a license expires but we paid for this! We really would like to hear the response of Pinball Arcade as to how they justify this when what instead on the website indicates that if we paid for a table it is ours permanently. Answer please. We love the graphics and the feel of the games. We appreciate the history given about each game including the creation dates. However we cant give it five stars because a feature we paid extra for now no longer works. There is a set of special balls that were introduced years ago for an additional cost. These include an eight ball, smiley face, two star trek deigns, an eyeball and several brightly colored ones. Since deleting then reinstalling the app the balls are still there but their graphics have all but vanished. They are simply chrome pinball with a faint design available. They stink. If they were free we couldnt complain but since we did purchase them we would really like them returned in full detail as they exist on our other versions of the game. Please fix and update!


Meanwhile the only thing the update description has on iOS is AC/DC table removed from sale. Guess it should have said just tables removed while you werent looking. Unreal how far this app has fallen.


It immediately crashes after the June 12 update. Update: crashes fixed June 14! Thank you.


We’ve bought 51 tables paid for since release. Not had too many issues. Did experience the crash running on an iPhone XS Max, but that was resolved in a few days. Otherwise there is no better simulator for all these historical pinball machines. Still one of our all time favorite games. We play it on iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets. We even play Williams and Gottlieb versions on our PSP 3000. Really enjoy being able to play these tables. Hopefully the app will continue to work.


Better testing needed before release – development team!


There is only one thing about this game that makes us crazy, and it seems to happen often: we get 3-4 tables into a challenge, get a great game going (e.g., extra ball lit, 35+M on Medieval Madness) – and our screen goes black and Im kicked out of the app. Heart-wrenching; please fix. (iPhone 6+, iOS 12.3.1)


The latest update crashes at launch on iPhone X. Rebooting and reinstalling does not correct the issue. Still works fine on our iPad Air 2.


Everything was good until this update. Wont launch on iPhone X.


Wont open after update… Just crashes out to iOS home screen.


Most telling stats – so few updates that people dont even bother to leave reviews. No changes. No new tables. No fixes for the UI issues that have broken. These guys got more of our money than any other game. Im glad we bought the tables we did, but watching this slow death is excruciating .


Once again, the game is unplayable after the most recent update.


The latest update renders the app useless. Please fix.


The app is crashing once we click on the game. Please fix.


In a display of poor management, no quality control and so much more. This latest update will not even run. Screen goes blank.


Great and exciting game but a bunch of legacy tables just got taken and all of our achievements are gone. Can somebody tell us what happened?


We started our table collection with this game many years ago. There is no doubt that this is an incredible collection of simulated, actual historic pinball machines. The main problem with this app has always been its front end user interface. It got so bad at one point we deleted a hundred dollars worth of iaps and quit playing this game all together. We just decided after a year or so now to check back and give it another try. Im very happy to see that the UI has been given enough improvement that at least the actual game has become playable again. (Thank you so much for finally allowing us to mute the main menu theme music!!) Its a real shame they lost their Williams license. Thank god we had purchased all the Williams tables before they removed them from the store. And thank you so much, developers, for keeping them available to re-download for those of us that purchased them! (If only that ownership could be transferred to other platforms, like the PS4!) It is nice to see that they have recreated some really good tables from the companies that they still have licenses with. And that there are some newer, very modern tables being brought into the collection. Just sank nearly another $80 into iaps, rounding out all the new table packs we had missed the last couple years, and upgraded to several Pro tables. (I wish there had been a price to complete the packs, as opposed to paying full price for all the packs which already contained tables we already owned.) All that said, the UI could still really use some improvement. It still has a 1990s PC, low budget clunkiness to it. On our 12.9 inch 2nd gen iPad Pro, there are times when the text on the menu buttons and on the leaderboards is clearly not formatted correctly, and is unreadable. (My screen zoom in iOS settings is at the normal default, btw.) Also, the organization of the tables, HoF boards and Table Goals could be better. Like, maybe add the stars for table goals on each actual table icon so we dont have to open each table to see how many goals we have done. And add a way to sort HoF by score. And maybe add a search field on the main table page (for those of us with 80 tables!) Just some ideas. Thanks, devs, for continuing to improve and develop this outstanding game!


We dont know whats going on but Im getting a message on all our devices saying that this games server is invalid and accessing it may comprise our Personal information because the server may be acting like yours but its not! Whats going on??


We used to not mind this sim thanks to the authentic WMS tables. But we can’t believe after not renewing the license they let Zen Studios come in and buy them up. We’re now looking forward to trying Zen’s new physics engine on the Williams tables.


Everytime we opent the app it tells us the certificate is not valid and the app maybe going to another website not the one it is suppose to. Not secure. DONT BUY IT.


We bought the Stern tables. Now they are in PA, but it dossnt see purchase history and they no longer support SPA. Thanks for stealing $40 and doing nothing like you always do. FOAD xxxooo! Save your money and get Zen Pinaball its a lot better.


Please developer let us play the tables we’ve PAID for.


Excellent app. Brings back memories. Bring on Pinbot. Prices are reasonable. Saves us quarters. Hope they will add Harlem Globetrotters soon.


We love the game but we keep getting messages which say that we may be accessing a server pretending to be Farsight and our personal data could be at risk.


We downloaded the original Pinball Arcade years ago just for the Taxi game. We played the real Taxi pinball machine all the time back in high school, and it was awesome to be able to play it anywhere on mobile now. Really brought back memories. However, we just installed on a new iPad and logged in, and not only is the Taxi machine not listed under our owned tables, it appears to be gone altogether. We went ahead and paid for Pinball Arcade Plus, thinking maybe it was necessary, but Taxi still isn’t there. So our only reason for playing this game is gone, and we have no way to play our favorite machine anymore. Very disappointing.


The tables available in this app are exact replicas of actual tables found in arcades everywhere! And the instructions for each game are provided in a format that is just like having a professional player point out the various features and scoring. We have found this to be extremely helpful for our real world play! At the time of this review, 20 of the available 99 games in this app are actually in the arcade that we frequent. Having access to the detailed instructions definitely gives us an advantage in competitive play. The instructions are organized in such a way that it is easy to get to specific instructions in short order during actual tournament or league play. Customer service is extremely responsive to concerns. We highly recommend this app whether you are only going to play on your device or, and especially if you play real world pinball!


We miss Williams and Bally tables pinballs old.


We started playing this about 6 years ago and still whenever we dont feel like doing anything Pinball Arcade is our favorite app. Definitely coolest Pinball game in the store.


Hi our name is Trenton we love the pinball arcade we have some questions to ask we know some of the the games have pro menu we know that Bally and some Williams games have pro menu we were wondering if the stern pinball tables was going to have the pro menu as well.


We love Pinball Arcade, and we have enjoyed it for several years. Please keep it alive. Please, please, please optimize it for iOS14.


We’ve been using this wonderful pinball arcade app since it was first released -I previously knew about the visual pinball kit for the PC, and it seems that these folks really elevated the idea and perfected many of the tables. The gravity of the ball movement is also very well executed Theres barely a day that goes by where we dont play at least one game of pinball in this app. Im a little surprised there arent hundreds of positive reviews for these pinball tables. We know that there are electronic pinball tables you can buy now in the stores but they are expensive and here you can own them for a fraction of the price.


We love these tables( Im fortunate enough to have most of the legacy machines) and we would love to have these in real life. Unfortunately, we are not all millionaires, but with this awesome app its like the next best thing. We were worried that a fix was not in the near future (as we have the iPhone 11 running iOS 13.3), but today has definitely brightened our new year. Thank you for all the hard work and we just purchased a new pack because of it. Any chance of getting a contract on the new Elvira from Stern? That machine looks like a beast.


Please update for later devices and iOS. Does not work on our 14 with 16.1.1. The screen should not go past the notch and be fitted appropriately, the game works but barely and the screen is too long and the notch covers the score. Thank you guys for trying in the first place!


We love the Pinball Arcade! Since updating to iOS 14, views dont seem to work and the game is unplayable. Hopefully it can be fixed soon?


Our only complaint is that they dont have as many tables as they used to, as they didnt get a license renewal. Im looking forward to the day they get the license back hint hint.


Ever since Apple removed the HOME BUTTON from their iPhones, this app has been impossible to play. Oftentimes, when we touch a flipper or the plunger, the app minimizes, and play resumes in 3… 2… 1… BALL DRAINS! Very annoying! Please fix. Otherwise, a very addictive game albeit a bit expensive for the tables.

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