This pinball was rumored to have been released last year. I never heard anything more than those rumors. Recently (thanks to Ron Lingle) I found out about LittleWings (the rumored developer) web page at www.littlewing.co.jp. From there you can download a demo of Angle Egg Pinball and demos for most of their other releases.

It seems like Angel Egg was only released in Japan, not in Europe or US. The pinball is available for both Mac and PC! In case you know how to read japanese you might be able to figure out how to order the pinball from LittleWings homepage.

If you want to read more about littlewing and their upcoming pinballs, have a look at the LittleWing article.

Demo Comments

Basile Grammaticos writes about Angel Egg...

The demo is limited to 90 seconds of play. As soon as the game starts one is in presence of the fabulous Littlewing simulator: a very realistic ball motion simulation which is made even better by the round ball (quite unlike some almost polygonal balls other companies are forcing upon us). Of course the simulation does not attain the quality of Pro Pinball but to my opinion it is the second best.

The flippers are very strong, in the same design as Loony Labyrinth, and, given the fine discretisation of the rebound angle, almost every direction is reachable. The only unrealistic part in the simulation is motion on the ramps. Sometimes you feel as if you were in an Escher universe with gravity pulling you uphill.

The table is nicely drawn but again the ramps are at fault: they are cluttering the playing area and you have trouble to follow the ball sometimes. Still the 3D effects are OK and you can feel that even when the ball is invisible the mechanical simulation is proceeding with precision. Finally the sound effects are, well, sound effects: I have never liked them very much in pinballs.

As far as the game is concerned it is a little bit difficult to form a final opinion from the demo alone. Still Angel Egg has one very particular feature: it is multiball game. When you start playing it takes you anything from 10 to 40 seconds to obtain your first multiball and higher multiballs are fast to come. Personally, I feel that multiballs should be the exception since they are incompatible with the precision one needs in a pinball game, but this is only my own feeling. I hasten to say that simulator can handle the multiballs perfectly. I played with 4 or 5 balls on both a 603e at 180 MHz and on a 601 at 100MHz with thousands of colors displays and the simulation was really smooth. And the game is interesting. After an initial learning phase you get really frustrated when the 90 seconds run out and your flippers go dead.

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