Zen’s tables look fabulous on the Retina display, but controlling flippers with a touchscreen is an atrocity. Where does a guy pitch his pinball tent? Now that the Xbox 360 has been thrown over by a Playstation regime in my house - move over Tony Hawk Ride! - what’s the Zen Pinball platform of choice these days?Īfter the jump, my frank advice for the roving bands of homeless pinball wizards.Īs a wandering Zen pinballer, the first thing I know is that the iPad is not a viable place to play pinball. But what a confusing pursuit these days, with the next-gen systems and the iPad and the sudden ongoing relevance of Nintendo. So pinball is a strictly virtual pursuit for me. Not to mention there’s no room in my garage for a real pinball table thanks to all the plastic instruments and the Tony Hawk Ride skateboard I’m storing out there. Of course, they also have moving parts that fall apart. An actual physical pinball table offers the dumb, loyal, here-and-now consistency of analog objects without EULAs. It won’t be traipsing off into other dimensions or realities, where you have to consider buying it again because maybe it looks better, or maybe that’s where your friends are playing now, or maybe you need to set a high score there because you have the compulsive need to at least get your name on a leaderboard.
One of the advantages of an actual physical pinball table is that it’s always and only going to exist on its original platform: the real-world.
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