Original Release: Comad, 1995, Arcade
You’ve seen peep show Qix, shooters, even volleyball … are you ready for strip show pinball?
Hot Pinball (Arcade, Comad, 1995)
Where to Buy: ebay, Arcade-Museum
How to Emulate: coming soon!
Review by: Master-B
Creative arcade smut peddler Comad tries their hand at a strip-off pinball title with Hot Pinball, and while the gameplay is in definite need of certain improvements it’s actually basically solid and not terrible.
The game features four tables, all challenging simply because they’re so short (the screen does not scroll vertically at all). I prefer Round Butt Table myself, but the one with the lady washing herself at the beach does feature random Wilhelm Scream when you lose a ball. The conceit is that each table represents a grouping of five ladies, who seem randomly assembled except for one uniform collection of black women. The table for the black women is also the only one that has an “exit ramp” that lets you immediately see your nudie picture then go back to select another table.
One oddity is that you don’t see your score on-screen as you play, but you get an update after losing each ball. Your final score seems to determine which of the five ladies you see a pic of when you deplete your ball supply, but all of them are naked and attractive so I’m not really sure you can say there’s a “fail state” here. There seems to be no point to the “continue” option either as you don’t retain your score and tables don’t seem to have any sort of clear state.
It’s really almost a decent little pinball game, mostly in need of longer tables (they prolly couldn’t figure out vertical scrolling or didn’t want to budget for it) with better sub-goals and a way to clear each table or get multiple pics out of each one. The gameplay is fundamentally not too bad though.
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