1985 was the year one verion of the Amiga was developed to its end and first sold on the market. The Amiga was the a1000, don't ask me why the a1000 was before a500. It took some time for the Amiga to become what all Amiga users remember it as, which probably is that the Amiga was the computer most people used 85 -90 (the PC wasn't very widely used).

In 1987 the Amiga reached out to the homes in a big scale, everyone started getting Amigas. It was because of the release of the a500. After the a500 the Amigas name just grew and grew, games continued coming. Some pinball was released, but not in any bigger scales or any better for that part. But then seven years after the Amiga first hitted the market....

Digitall Illusions, Pinball Dreams (1992)

1992, remember that year. It was and still is the year Pinball Dreams was released. When it arrived in March everyone who had thought pinballs only could be played in the real life changed their mind. Digitall Illusions had released Pinball Dreams!

Pinball Dreams had the best feeling you had ever feld in a pinball simulation and the tables where most unique. The layout and graphics were better then in any other pinball simulation before.

In short Pinball Dreams was a new and unique pinball game. It made new standards in the making of pinball simulations. After dreams and the later fantasies (see below) many pinballs came out using 2D Scrolling (2DS) tables. Many tried to imitate and clone the table layout in their own personal way. Few developers succeded in that, most releases were sadly enough rather mediocre, but some succeded excellently. Also to mention is that it was 21st Century who marketed the game. Back then there was only one 21st Century company, later on their was a US and a UK part, now there is only the US part left. The UK divison which published dreams had some troubles and went out of business.

After Pinball Dreams was released Digital Illusions (DI) made their next hit only half a year later in September, it was Pinball Fantasies. Pinball Fantasies was and still is one of the best Pinball Simulations. It had such perfect feeling and challenging layout that it reached top lists all over the world and stayed their long. What had been so great about PD was the feeling, graphics and scrolling table. Fantasies had all that, just ten times more of it.

3 year later after the relase of dreams and fantasies came the third pinball in DI's famous pinball trilogy. The game that many people love, and as many people disslike, Pinball Illusions (1995). The graphics, sound and feeling had improved quite a bit. The same time it was released for the Amiga it was released for the PC. Things change, the pc was on the way to take over the computer market.

Other Pinballs for the Amiga

I don't know much about the other pinball that came for the Amiga but some I know of are: