THE MAKING OF: PINBALL DREAMS

Back in the Amiga’s heyday, there was a Pinball game that revolutionised » The infamous PartyLand from Pinball Fantasies, inspired by countless the genre and is still heralded by its fanbase. That game is Pinball Dreams, soon followed by the technically superior Pinball Fantasies. Kim Wild chats to Andreas Axelsson about DICE’s acclaimed Pinball trilogy and its subsequent success

In 1988, a group of Swedish teenagers were members of an Amiga demo scene and began experimenting with new technology. Their name was ‘The Silents’ and they went by the acronym TSL, (said to stand for ‘Trans-Atlantic Speed League’). It was this group that pioneered the idea of developing games commercially. “The demo group who we were part of (The Silents, or TSL), spent part of the summer of 1989 in a summer house in the south of Sweden.” explains Andreas about the game’s origins. “One of our Danish members showed some pinball tables he’d been drawing. Olof, Fredrik and I had been thinking about moving away from demos to games, and this was the igniting spark. A pinball game also did seem like a pretty light-weight first game.” IN…

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