Last updated on January 19th, 2026 at 09:41 am
Pinball HD Collection – Simulation Game Review
Pinball HD Collection is a Simulation/Casual/Sports game from BrainVault Games, LLC, first launched in 15th December 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,512+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pinball HD Collection 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.
- Listed by Apple in "Best 10 iPad Apps in 2010"
- Apple Design Awards 2010 winner
- 1st place in US top paid apps during the first sales day
"I really can't see pinball on the iPad getting much better than this."
— David Winograd, TUAW.com
"The experience of holding a pinball table in your hand is great, and with three amazing tables included, you'll have hours of entertainment lined up."
— Tim Rattray, SlideToPlay.com
"With three tables, reliable physics and controls, and gorgeous graphics, it is a pleasure to recommend."
— Levi Buchanan, IGN.com
ABOUT THE GAME
Pinball HD Collection – This game will change your idea of Pinball on the iPad. Each table – Wild West, The Deep, Jungle Style, AC/DC, Slayer, Snow, Da Vinci, Missing In Action, Navy Seals and Platoon – 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" view
• In portrait mode slide up or down your both thumbs to toggle camera view from "flying-table" to "full table".
FEATURES
• 10 pinball tables with unique graphics, instructions, missions system, locations and characters
• Landscape mode shows a full table view. The games can be played in either landscape orientation with the button to the left or right of the screen.
• Portrait mode gives you a flying-table view with the camera panning and zooming over the action. This can only be played when holding the iPad with the button on the bottom. If you activate the screen orientation switch, the game only plays in portrait mode.
• A wonderful 3D engine that does true justice to the graphic capabilities of the iPad.
• 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 iPad. 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.
HOW TO PLAY
Tapping on a game's fly-over screen shows/hides main menu. Tap on Play button to start game on current table.
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 iPad 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.
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• Company site – http://gameprom.com
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pinball HD Collection is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Pinball HD Collection is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pinball HD Collection 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:
Nice! Go snow,davinci,Halloween first. Awesome. Two finger swipe up in play give 3 diff. Views/follow ball.
This is our favorite pinball game and has been for years. As long as they keep updating it, Ill be playing it.
Very good but we feel like the things you have to buy are a little expensive.
Truly happy that Gameprom has continued updating the pinball collection over the years. Absolutely one of our favorites to play whenever we have downtime to enjoy gaming. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys playing Pinball. Youll enjoy this collection for sure. Our favorite is still Wild West, but all the tables are hours of fun.
We love this app, we hope it never goes away.
Smooth ball movement, fun story lines, atmospheric art and music, and exciting game play. Da Vinci is one of the best iOS games ever! Great contraptions moving and operating, and a glorious finish. Also excellent: Jungle Style, and Pirates. Some games are unfinished and buggy, like Vikings and Red Planet, but are still fun to play. You can buy extras to extend game play. As an average Joe player we had to do that to finish. We wonder what happened to the original designers.
Id give it 6 stars if there were more than 5 available to give.
All the games are great. But, AC/DC game is the best.
Great game, really enjoy it as a former pinball wizard, challenging and has some great graphics and fun features too.
Been playing at least 7years on and off.Love the Halloween pinball.The company were one of the first around.
Name we adored , playing in an arcade behind Woolworth super market exactly like NY Times design.
This has very authentic pinball action and always gets us in the Christmas Spirit.
Fun, fun, fun. Skill and experience keep building your score. Some frustrations but that is part of the game; a bit imperfect but challenging and fun, just like life. Play against yourself for constant improvement, not against each game.
Ive been playing this game for years. Overall, its a great pinball app and some tables are better than others. Recently the app freezes after a game is over. Not sure if the game is no longer supported. Is it worth the $ to still download and purchase? Yes to downloading but Id stick with the free table until you know if it works w/your OS.
06AUG2025- we are unable to access any table purchased or otherwise. A window states the table is not on our device and needs to download. When the DL is selected an error states the table can not be downloaded and gives an error Cocoa -1. We submit a report through the App Store, but have not received a response. Is this game still supported? **Having waited a long while for the new table Red Planet, we were excited to see it ready to buy yesterday. That anticipation was followed by disappointment after playing the table for a couple games. The physics aren't quite right, and there are a few glitches we've encountered with the ball disappearing or getting stuck. The layout is clumsy IMO, and the greatest disappointment was the recycled, clunky, sound effects. They are the same outdated wooden sounding effects from DaVinci, the snowball, deep sea, etc etc. We stand by our original review, and we just can't tell you how bummed out we are that red planet is a rotten egg. We This is the best pinball game on the AppStore. Buy the Slayer and Arcade tables, and you have the best tables made. The DiVinci table is good but not great, and the band tables are just okay. Even the war movie tables are descent. The others are all junk.
We really like the game we think it is so fun but on the games you need to buy we feel like you should get some more time not infinite but just some more that would be really nice.
Well, after gameprom finally got Collection back on the App store, we bought the complete Collection HD STRAIGHT AWAY, and then the end-of-game menu broke and the button to return to the main menu stopped working. We deleted and reinstalled the app multiple times but its a bug in the app. And its STILL broken a year later!!!! Sigh The only way to get back to the main menu is to quit the app, double click the home button and flick the app out of memory. Then relaunch. Hilarious sounds on Halloween – especially the tune of fool Newt Gingrich ingredient and You broke the bank up. The designer who came up with that must be a pretty cool Russian.
Love the games with the controller, would like to have some of the original tables and maybe make an app for Apple TV and controller compatibility with other pinball apps. Great game thanks for updating.
Good game but hasnt been updated in years. Doesnt allow us anymore the archive our high scores which is disappointing.
Its been awhile since we last played this, and its a been lot of fun to rediscover it.
Was great. Loved it. Now has a number of bugs for Some reason. Freezes all the time when trying to go back to main menu after game. At least one of the tables (divinci) has rendering glitches.
Great game, but several tables need some attention. For example the Vikings table has some bugs.
We hav owned these tables for years. We get a new IPhone and you want to charge us again. No way.
COCOA-1 error is preventing us from re-downloading the tables we used to have that disappeared. App is no longer usable except with 1 table.
Love playing the app, and the tables have very realistic gameplay. However, we recently purchased the Halloween table, but keep getting a Cocoa error when we try to download it. No response from the developer after two attempts to reach them.
Games basically unplayable now because of bugs.
Ads and you get one pinball machine and have to pay for the rest.
This used to be one of our favorites, but then about a year ago, it started cutting off just as the game ended and our final point would not register in the score history, so the fun we used to have, was no longer there, trying to beat our highest past scores. They tech support has to fix this issue.before we go back to playing regularly again.
Love this game, we play this when im on break during work. Im a pinball addict we started 6 months ago we cant enough of it and this pinball game and the western pinball games are the most accurate pinball games.
We paid the money to unlock all games about 10 years ago, and never had to pay again, even when upgrading our devices. We use it on iPad, and it works perfectly. No adds, no crashes. Sometimes the flying view gets quirky on Arcade, but otherwise its very realistic and fun. Our only concern is that someday itll stop updating and Ill have to delete it.
This plays so much like the old, physical pinball machines.
This pinball game makes it feel like youre playing the real machine. Wish there were more free tables though. Still, its fun.
Why cant we purchase these tables.
Ive had this for years and always return for some quick fun. Still holds up.
Good Game but Most of the bought games are gone.
This game is very fun to play and is one of our favorites.
Ive bought 8 or 9 games over the years, and theyre very good, but we dont get why gameprom hasnt fixed the store to sell us more games?!?!?! Ive reinstalled the games multiple times, and they are in the store to download fix the bug so you can make money.
A little on the slow side,but worth the money, and a lot of fun.
66year old granny and this sure takes us back Love it.
This is one of a few games we regularly goto when we have free time to play. A great collection of pinball tables.
We own an iPad mini and bought the tables that we didn't already own. Our account got charged multiple times but we never got access to the tables we'd bought. We just get about 35 messages saying "cannot connect to iTunes Store". It didn't have any problem connecting to take our money though. We've read about many other people having this problem.
Every time we go to play the tables we purchased and we have to restore them from app. Why? Now we are trying to download them again and it says they are restored but they dont work, says we have to download and now says it doesnt exist to download. Never buying anything from this app again,.
Back in 2008, we got an iPhone (for those in the future, we wrote this in 2021) and we downloaded a free app called Wild West Pinball. We were blown away by it back then, and ever since the app has been getting better. Ive played pinball on PC, Xbox, and PS4, and none have done it as well as this app.
If you like pinball its a lot of fun.
We own quite a few pinball games and these games in Pinball HD are without question the best and most entertaining we have run across yet. Zombie Attack especially stands out as a superb game. Our only criticism would be that the programmers should change the flippers on Da Vinci to white or regular flippers so that we could see them. Being camouflaged makes it especially hard to play the game and not as much fun. That is our only beef. We really wish you would either make that change or make a choice of flippers user configurable.
We really enjoyed this pinball game we very cool and all some we wish they add funhouse pinball and other pinball balls.
Create your very own tabletop pinball machine . Get duo pinball holder to hold iPad ($20), mini Sony Bluetooth speaker ($20), place the iPad into the duo pinball case, plop that on top of a small stool, sit on floor and play mini pinball machine . So realistic.
We can play for hours. Great fun.
All sounds are real sounding and the best of all theres nothing to go bad or repair.
We purchased every table available on PINBALL COLLECTION HD ever since they released them. Recently, we purchased the DUO PINBALL CONTROLLER for the ultimate Pinball experience. A big hearty thanks to OOO GAMEPROM for continued support for the Duo Pinball Controller.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.50
- Size: 309.08 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, IT
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: BrainVault Games, LLC
Last updated: 13th August 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Casual | Developer: BrainVault Games, LLC