Comments on: ZEN Pinball coming to PSN next Thursday

By: Volpone

Volpone — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:31:39 +0000

I also want to congratulate you all and thank you for your hard work. Great game. Loving each of the four tables! And loving the impressive array of customization options.

I do, however, want to reiterate that there do seem to be some problems with highscore tracking. Not only do my scores and my friends’ scores not track properly, but every time I exit and restart the game, the game forgets my prior highscores.

While it’s gratifying to feel like each time I play I’m setting a new highscore, it’s frustrating that my and my friends’ scores aren’t being saved from session to session.

By: bassmonkeee

bassmonkeee — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:02:59 +0000

Is there a problem with the scores saving in Zen Pinball? There is some confusion amongst a group of us whether the high scores of you, those on your friends list, etc, are supposed to be saved after logging out of the network. Can you explain how the high score system works?

I love the game, and I’m looking forward to more tables. Maybe a few more view options, too.

By: Pinhead_x

Pinhead_x — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:42:59 +0000

I confirm the bug mentioned above. It happens all the time when I try to play online with 4 player. everything freezes.

By: NxP3

NxP3 — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:52:49 +0000

First I want to say thanks for putting out a demo. This shows that you believe that your game is good and people would actually buy it after they tried it. Not like some games developers who know that their games are such crap that they don’t even dare to show a demo. As soon as I played the demo, I bought it right away. Though I do have some complaints.

I thought that 1 of the 4 pinball was kind of weak. I hope that if you do have more tables, it’s reasonably priced and that we get to try it before we buy it. I rather have some good ones than a collections of just OK ones.

second, there seem to be a bug that causes me to hard reset my ps3. It has happened a few times already, I don’t remember turning off my ps3 this many times for a game. Once you pass the first few screen it just blanks out and playing the music, never taking you to the start up menu screen. After that it won’t respond to any buttons, I have to shut down the ps3. This is annoying, I hope you patch it real soon.

By: Zsolt Kigyossy

Zsolt Kigyossy — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:16:47 +0000

There are two categories: Williams / Bally original tables (like Medieval Madness), and tables based on Intellectual Property they also licensed (like Addams Family) to be used for a pinball table.

Taking the present status of Midway / WMS, the legal situation is really compex even of those original tables, but to get the right to recreate those licensed tables (Addams Family, Indiana Jones, TZ etc etc etc.) is almost impossible.

Which is a shame – we would work for free to recreate those tables for you :o))

@116 – What an expert pinball collection!! I personally also like Addams Family, STTNG and even some of the newer Stern pinballs (we have Fish Tales and TZ in the office for reference).

By: Pinhead_x

Pinhead_x — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:10:55 +0000

Just wanted to say that this game is AWESOME guys. Great JOB! Great price. you got yourselves a satisfied customer.

By: JimInPT

JimInPT — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:18:34 +0000

@112: Williams/Bally are the same company; have been for quite a few years. I own Twilight Zone, Cirqus Voltaire, Tales of the Arabian Nights and Revenge from Mars – for real. All in mint condition, so you can bet I’m ready for some PS3 pinball too! Love dem pins.

Naturally, I left town for a week just hours before Zen Pin was released. :-(

@114: Savage Moon DLC is coming in June along with a rework of the original 12 levels; search the Forum for all the details.

By: Bildo818

Bildo818 — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:13:18 +0000

I just had to post after reading more info here. Lets break this down:

$9.99
Trophy support
Video Chat support
Save/Load option
multiple camera/sixaxis control
DEMO available

GREAT JOB ZEN!!! Day 1 purchase for me. Another great addition to the PSN. Other dev’s take note! Video chat is something that is awesome and take note of this because the PS3 users want this sort of stuff!

By: xStatiCa

xStatiCa — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:11:38 +0000

Day one purchase for me. I love pinball games. I just hope future tables will be released(for a decent price of course). I really hate that Savage Moon hasn’t had any new levels to download so I hope more PSN games start to get the DLC love.

By: Keebzerz

Keebzerz — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:49:23 +0000

Even if they can’t license a game, I’d kill for 1 or 2 pre-80′s classic-INSPIRED electro-mechanical tables. For what it’s worth, these 4 tables look overall more interesting than the 3 that originally shipped with Pinball FX (the DLC tables were great though).