Microsoft Pinball Arcade

Microsoft Pinball Arcade
Cover art for the Windows version
Developers
Publishers
PlatformsMicrosoft Windows, Game Boy Color
ReleasePC: December 15, 1998
GBC: 2001
GenrePinball
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Microsoft Pinball Arcade is a pinball video game from Microsoft. It was released on December 15, 1998, for Microsoft Windows and in 2001 for the Game Boy Color. The game is a collection of seven real pinball tables licensed from Gottlieb. These include one from each decade: Baffle Ball (1931), Humpty Dumpty (1947), Knock Out (1950), Slick Chick (1963), Spirit of 76 (1975), Haunted House (1982), and Cue Ball Wizard (1992).

This game was designed for Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0. The resolution of the PC version could be set up to 1024x768.

A free trial PC version was released, with Haunted House as the only playable table up to a limited score.

The Game Boy Color version features five tables, excluding Humpty Dumpty and Cue Ball Wizard.