Last updated on November 21st, 2025 at 03:05 am
Pinball HD Classic Arcade – Sports Game Review
Pinball HD Classic Arcade is a Sports/Casual/Simulation game from BrainVault Games, LLC, first launched in 8th August 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 185+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pinball HD Classic Arcade Stand Out
This unique table features pinball bumpers and targets, plus a color monitor where you can take on a variety of old-school digital minigame challenges – an endless space scroller, plus car racing, missile defense, a block breaker, and more at incrementing skill levels.
Attention! Pinball HD 4 iPhone supports only iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4, and all iPod Touch 3rd gen devices except 8GB model!
Apple Design Award 2010 winner Pinball HD now available for iPhone with MULTIPLAYER FEATURES and RETINA graphics!
Multiplayer help:
- connect both iPhones to one WiFi or via bluetooth
- choose CREATE game on the first device
- choose JOIN to game on the second device
- start playing
- Supports the new Retina Display on the iPhone 4
- Apple Design Awards 2010 winner
- Multiplayer games via Gamecenter
ABOUT THE GAME
Pinball HD for iPhone – This game will change your idea of Pinball on the iPhone. Each table – Wild West, The Deep, and Jungle style – are masterpieces. You'll be stunned with the level of realism. This is a REAL Pinball simulator with stunning 3D graphics both with or without 3D glasses.
IMPORTANT
• Landscape mode – "full table" view
• Portrait mode – "flying-table" and "fixed" views
FEATURES
• 3 pinball tables with unique graphics, instructions, missions system, locations and characters
• Landscape mode shows a full table view.
• Portrait mode gives you a flying-table view with the camera panning and zooming over the action. Also you can pinch your fingers together or apart to toggle camera mode from flying to fixed view.
• A wonderful 3D engine that does true justice to the graphic capabilities of the iPhone and especially iPhone 4.
• Realistic physics.
• Built in help for each table. Tap the circled "I" at the bottom right of each table to get a display detailing instructions and descriptions of the features of each table. Make sure to swipe left and right when viewing since the instructions don't fit on one screen.
• Local and global high scores. Swiping right brings up a table of local high scores and further tapping brings up high scores from copies sold throughout
the world. At the end of each game you are prompted to enter your name and have your score included.
• Unique soundtrack with atmospheric music, sound effects and voices.
• Camera tilt brings dimensionality to the games offering a simulated 3D effect where the image changes depending upon how you tilt the iPhone. Camera tilt only works in landscape mode.
• Stereoscopic imaging option (requires anaglyph eyeglasses). You can choose between red-cyan, green-magenta or yellow-blue lenses.
Controls in game:
• Tap ANYWHERE on the left side of screen to control the left flipper and ANYWHERE on the right side to control the right flipper.
• Shake your iPhone to realistically nudge the pinball table, but not too much or you'll tilt.
• Tap on the "electronic caption" at the top of the screen to pause or resume your game.
Get it now and enjoy the best pinball challenge ever on the iPhone.
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This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pinball HD Classic Arcade is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Pinball HD Classic Arcade is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pinball HD Classic Arcade on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Love this app, best pinball app ever.
We enjoy the graphics enven the ball is graphically done as it rolls around. When it drops in a hole its gone. We have repaired a few old pinball games, Diamond really Lily, jigsaw puzzle. They were both in the movie duddy Kravitz.
The app is a fun pinball game and the developers continue to support it after many years.
The app seems to freeze after each game of pinball and on the deep table the score goes up like an endless gas pump when the ball lands in a certain hole.
We love this game so much and we use to play this when we were younger but we dont see ac dc and slayer on this.
Enjoying all the pinball games.
Great action, visuals and music. The various themes are all different and pull you in every time. Plain fun. Go for it.
This pinball game is awesome crazy. It's very fun and worth your time to download and play. Buying extra game boards are worth it and never boring. Play on.
This is still one of our favorite mobile games. The Pinball themed boards are well thought out worth the money. We recommend this for the great artwork and playability put into these games. A great way to pass the time.
Very addicting but worth every min.
Our 6 yr old sons words: "we like it a lot. It's our favorite game to play. Except Minecraft!".
We haven't had so much fun with a game in a long time. We're an old school guy and this pinball game app is the best for guys like us. Totally recommend this app.
If youre going to make an app cost money, dont put stuff in it that costs more money, we thought that was a given rule. In terms of actual gameplay, its good.
There has finally been an update, but we're not yet sure if our earlier problems have been resolved our not.
This is so excellent. Just like real pinball. Addiction waiting to happen!!! We play this more than any other game. Awesome.
Great pinball game. First game that makes us wish we had an iPad. Bought the new iPod recently and can't stop playing on it! Still playing. That was over 4 years ago. Most consistent game on our iPod and iPhone still.
Killed a lot of time playing this game. Doesn't seem to get old.
Arcade is the cat's meow, pussies. Careful: addicting.
Oodles of great gameplay. Hours of fun for us Pinball Wizards.
Love this game. Our only grip is the quality of game play on the extra tables is low quality. The jungle table is our favorite.
Was surprised we didn't purchase the whole game with all the levels.
Nice game, like all the HD pinball, more fun than most. Your search is over, bast pinball app.
The visuals, the variations, & the playability of the tables make Pinball HD one of the best, if not the best, pinball games on iphone! Good going! Tomek(the original one).
Fun to play when you're need to pass the time waiting on someone.
Overall fun game just wish you got all the machines and not just a few. Must purchase the rest.
Simple games (Wild West) more playable, good control.
Addictive. Solid physics! Recommended.
Great game. We've had it forever on all our devices but it's time for you guy's to make it compatible with Apple TV! Zen pinball has a version for it already and there's is very nice. We've had both of your games for a long time but find ourselves playing and buying more tables from Zen because of the addition of the Apple TV version! Also everything syncs perfectly on all of our devices with there game as well. Apple TV is a must.
This game "ROCKS". Great fun. Great game.
Great feel of Pinball action for a phone! Simply amazing.
We're so glad to get back to the tables.
Update: It tells us when trying to buy the new dream land that it isn't in the App Store.
Super time burner Pay for all the upgrade tables u can skip the Rick band ones.
Excellent ball physics, interesting themes–this is a great pinball app.
We've been playing Pinball HD for a while now, and it never disappoints. It never has crashed on us. The flippers are responsive, and the physics are very realistic. We love this game. We're not exaggerating. Games have come and gone on our devices, but this game is on every iPad we own, and both of our phones. Only drawback we have found is that it's so much fun, don't play if you're waiting for a plane. You might get so absorbed, you miss your flight.
We've been playing this game since they developed it sometimes we can't even put down our phone that's how hook we get on it.
Could play the version of Pinball all day.
Great game lots of fun and amazing detail.
We're a huge pinball fan and this game is, by far, the best pinball game in the App Store.
Love this pinball game! We had it on the original first iPad – ever since.
Like the other reviews say, this game works great, amazing physics.
Love the game feel like a kid again.
Love the street racing game good job.
We really enjoy pinball games, so getting three of them for so cheap is a great deal. Wild West is a little simplistic and the ball just rolls around and doesn't do that much. But The Deep and Jungle Style really step things up with a lot more features on the board and more complex missions and challenges. The instructions are a little lacking, so we started wikis for the The Deep and Jungle Style that might help newcomers. Lately the in-app tables have been going down hill. Da Vinci is amazing and a must once you have gotten tired of the the three built-in tables, but Street Racing doesn't have much to it: no missions, nothing to build towards, and no help whatsoever (the guide is just a screenshot of Fantasy's table). Fantasy is better in that there are a lot of elements, but it feels like a beta. It crashes a lot and it seems to be designed to do more, with mission, a dragon guarding a treasure chest, a castle, but nothing ever happens. The guide is just a screenshot, no actual help other than to tell you the point levels where you get a free ball. They really need to improve these. The demos for Slayer and AC/DC seem okay, but not worth the price of the app all over again for each one. There are some good reviews for Arcade, but based on the demo, it seems kind of lame. Not that much the ball can actually do, though the video games are okay (breakout seems good). Again, doesn't seem worth it. But even $2 isn't bad considering all the quarters you had to dump into real pinball tables at the arcade. The da Vinci table is well worth an in app purchase. It takes these already great games to a new level, literally, as the ball gets hammered into the air, lifted by a magnetic crane, shot out of a cannon, and so forth. There is so much attention to detail that you really probably need an iPad to see everything. It is a beautiful board with a lot of different challenges. There is a wiki for this board as well on wikia. We went ahead and bought the Snow pinball table as an in-app purchase. It is certainly not as strong as da Vinci, but may be worth 99 cents to many. It lacks the complexity of Jungle Style and da Vinci, making it more on par with The Deep. It is easier than the other games to finish. Red Planet is similar, not too incredibly difficuult to accomplish missions and build a spaceship. Halloween has a good look, but not much beyond what you see, so it is similar to Street Racing and Fantasy.
Thanks to how fun and awesome the graphics and boards are we playing this app non-stop. Lol don't even think get new game for handheld we'll play ad much as this.
Fun and challenging-will be playing this a lot. . Still enjoying this game after several years. Well worth the $$$! It is challenging and enjoyable and these new games are excellent. Buy it! The colorful display and challenging game play is lots of fun. Update: just excellent! Well designed, colorful and addictive. Buy it-you'll love it too. It is one amazing game, so CHECK IT OUT! IT'S GREAT.
This game is easy to adapt to and brings a good pinball feel to the game. We enjoy this game a lot.
We really like this set of tables. The attention to detail, and the choice of views. Pretty awesome, we play a lot of games. And we usually have a pinball app. But this we've had for three plus phones. We recommend it. Legit game, not just a cookie cutter app.
Pretty good. Like The Deep pinball machine and Kong the best. Starting to like pirates more.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.42
- Size: 161.47 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, IT
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: BrainVault Games, LLC
Last updated: 15th August 2024 | Genre: Sports, Casual | Developer: BrainVault Games, LLC