Apple II and C64 also had Midnight Magic. It's a shame I never got to play that as I believe both my Atari and my C64 was taken out when a bolt of lightning struck our house and fried many electronics in the house in 1985 :( We ended up with a NES as a replacement
I liked Video Pinball okay when I was 6 or 7 years old. I would play it some but wasn't that into it. However, I probably lost the better part of a year of my life to Midnight Magic! I LOVED that game! I had never heard of Bumper Bash until today.
There are Atari compatible joysticks such as the Hyperkin Trooper 2 that have 2 fire buttons. With the Stella emulator you can set the left button to the left paddle paddle button and ditto for the right. Works great for Bumper Bash. The Hyperkin Trooper 2 also has 4 more buttons. 2 on the front and 2 on the back. Set the left and right top buttons for stick left/right and one of the front buttons to fire and you're set to go with Video Pinball and Midnight Magic. Or, with a utility such as Joy2Key you can leave the Stella settings mostly default and set up profiles for each of the pinball games. For bumper you will need to assign 2 keyboard keys to the paddle buttons for Joy2Key to trigger. ( I used O & P ) and map the front left button to Fire. This works for Midnight but for Video Pinball you will need to disable the default fire button.
That is very good to know! I was able to load the hacked rom on to a programable cart and was able to play it on my original hardware using the paddles which was very cool
Oh man...I played pinball at my town's pizza joints well before there were widespread video games; I do own Video Pinball and Midnight Magic (which I had played a version of for the C64 called David's Midnight Magic), but never heard of Bumper Bash before I saw this video...I will have to keep an eye out for that, thanks. But interestingly, I also have an Atari console that came out in late 1977 called Video Pinball. This was a dedicated console that had two versions of pinball that had flippers that looks like big logs :); but it also had two buttons, one on each side that was meant to simulate flipper buttons. It also had a couple of basketball variants, as well as a version of Breakout, which is why the unit also had a spinner controller on top. Surprisingly fun.
I did see some photos of the Video Pinball you are talking about it's a pretty cool unit and to think it was the forerunner of all those plug and play games. We didn't have any pinball games at any of the local places but they did have a US Marshal Mechanical shooting game my brother and I played at the laundromat all the time. As far as I can tell Bumper Bash was a Canadian Atari game and it maybe very rare to find a copy. I had a C64 but I didn't have David's Midnight Magic and that is a shame as well
I hadn't seen it before I saw it being talked about in the thread on Atari Age Atari Age lists it as a 9 of 10 on the rare scale and gives a description of "A pinball game, this one seems to have been sold predominately in Canada, as were some of the other Spectravision games." you can see more here atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=59
Nice overview of the 2600 pinball games. Have you ever covered the dedicated Atari Video Pinball console? RIP to Nukey Shay, he did a lot for the Atari community.
Thank you! I never got to play the dedicated Atari pinball machine I've seen some pictures of them. I didn't know Nukey Shay had pasted away. that is a great loss to the community. The hacked mod was amazing!
Kirby's Pinball Land on the Gameboy was my first experience in video pinball. I played that game so much on road trips as a kid. I also fondly remember Space Cadet Pinball on Windows.
Great video. I had no idea about last game you mentioned so I will try to pick that one up. I used to love Pinball machines and this place that had many arcade machines when I was a kid had upward of 30 machines and when I went back they had gotten rid of most of them and maybe 3 were left. So sad.
Thanks! Bumper bash I think was a Canadian Atari game with a limited release it maybe very hard to find Arcades anymore are not what they used to be. Most newer arcades are just ticket redemption type of phone app games. I'm not saying they are bad but it misses some the of majesty the 70, 80's and 90's arcade games. There was a really cool Arcade at Indiana Beach but the last time I was there almost all the old games were gone. It was very sad as well. One of my bucket list items is to go to The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago you pay for entry and everything is on free play
The artwork shown on the box for Midnight Magic actually depicts the table from the computer game Dave's Midnight Magic, which is a beloved video pinball game on the C64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit. Personally, I always found it kind of boring as there's almost nothing to hit on the lower half of the table and only one bumper on the top half. People seemed to love it though. I thought the Atari 2600 version was much better.
It was a great find indeed. It was so awesome to play it with the paddles and I easily increased my score. Another poster @jeremiahthomas8140 said Nukey Shay had passed away.
Pinball is actually making a comeback and there are new companies making pinball games. I ama place near me that has tons of pinball games and some arcade games. You pay a set fee to get in for an hour and everything (except the charity pinball games in the front) are on free play. Just recently played Baby Pacman, the arcade game/pinball game combo.
I was fortunate enough to have played a Baby Pacman arcade sometime back. It's a pretty bold hybrid of a pinball/Arcade game especially for how old it is. The pinball game Safecracker was similar to Baby Pacman in the aspect that once you broke inside the bank you then played a "board game" on the backglass to try and get into the vault. it was one of my favorites the late 90's ~00's. I went to a similar place in Columbus, OH called Level One Bar & Arcade. All the arcades was set on free play or had a button to add quarters and all the pinball machines was .25 to play. One of the things on my bucket list is visiting Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. The Arcade is $25 to enter and play all day with almost 900 arcade games on free play including a few prototype arcade games such as Primal Rage II.
The graphics were not important as good gameplay. If the game sucked graphics made no difference. Most games today are all graphics but no substance. Then games like Fallout that are fan favorites get pushed aside for almost 2 decades and gimmicky multiplayer version is pushed that wasnt the sa e formula as the success of yesterday
This is very true we had a 5.25 floppy disk of solitaire with a typewriter generated label that we bought at a book store for my dad's old 286 pc and it was just done with ascii text to draw the cards but was one the the best solitaire games we ever played. Game play is always at the heart of what makes game. if its no good it doesn't matter how much polish you put on it. I do enjoy a great remake of a game that the developers put their heart and soul into like Black Mesa where they re-imagined the original Half-life into HL2 engine
@@TheDI I've only played Video Pinball. I was just looking at adding Midnight Magic to the collection CIB. This off-topic from pinball, but you mentioned your dad's 286 PC. I had an IBM PS2 50Z with the 286 chip and I was still using it in engineering school around 1992 (I skipped the 386 era). We had to write code from scratch in a fluid dynamics course to model fluid flow and performance of nozzle. The program took over 23 hours to run on the 286. I happened to get a Zeos 486 via mail order, and the code ran in less than 17 minutes! All of my friends wanted to borrow my PC.
I never realized Midnight Magic had an official 2600 release. It is one of my fav Atari XE games.
It was a late release (red box) in 1986.
Apple II and C64 also had Midnight Magic. It's a shame I never got to play that as I believe both my Atari and my C64 was taken out when a bolt of lightning struck our house and fried many electronics in the house in 1985 :(
We ended up with a NES as a replacement
I liked Video Pinball okay when I was 6 or 7 years old. I would play it some but wasn't that into it. However, I probably lost the better part of a year of my life to Midnight Magic! I LOVED that game! I had never heard of Bumper Bash until today.
There are Atari compatible joysticks such as the Hyperkin Trooper 2 that have 2 fire buttons. With the Stella emulator you can set the left button to the left paddle paddle button and ditto for the right. Works great for Bumper Bash. The Hyperkin Trooper 2 also has 4 more buttons. 2 on the front and 2 on the back. Set the left and right top buttons for stick left/right and one of the front buttons to fire and you're set to go with Video Pinball and Midnight Magic.
Or, with a utility such as Joy2Key you can leave the Stella settings mostly default and set up profiles for each of the pinball games. For bumper you will need to assign 2 keyboard keys to the paddle buttons for Joy2Key to trigger. ( I used O & P ) and map the front left button to Fire. This works for Midnight but for Video Pinball you will need to disable the default fire button.
That is very good to know!
I was able to load the hacked rom on to a programable cart and was able to play it on my original hardware using the paddles which was very cool
I played the Atari version and kind of remember keeping the ball in one of the vertical channels using the nudge factor.
yeah, that increased your score by a boat ton!
Oh man...I played pinball at my town's pizza joints well before there were widespread video games; I do own Video Pinball and Midnight Magic (which I had played a version of for the C64 called David's Midnight Magic), but never heard of Bumper Bash before I saw this video...I will have to keep an eye out for that, thanks.
But interestingly, I also have an Atari console that came out in late 1977 called Video Pinball. This was a dedicated console that had two versions of pinball that had flippers that looks like big logs :); but it also had two buttons, one on each side that was meant to simulate flipper buttons. It also had a couple of basketball variants, as well as a version of Breakout, which is why the unit also had a spinner controller on top. Surprisingly fun.
I did see some photos of the Video Pinball you are talking about it's a pretty cool unit and to think it was the forerunner of all those plug and play games. We didn't have any pinball games at any of the local places but they did have a US Marshal Mechanical shooting game my brother and I played at the laundromat all the time.
As far as I can tell Bumper Bash was a Canadian Atari game and it maybe very rare to find a copy.
I had a C64 but I didn't have David's Midnight Magic and that is a shame as well
Love pinball! How have I not seen Bumper Bash? Ahhhh, it's super $$$.
I hadn't seen it before I saw it being talked about in the thread on Atari Age
Atari Age lists it as a 9 of 10 on the rare scale and gives a description of "A pinball game, this one seems to have been sold predominately in Canada, as were some of the other Spectravision games."
you can see more here
atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=59
Nice overview of the 2600 pinball games. Have you ever covered the dedicated Atari Video Pinball console? RIP to Nukey Shay, he did a lot for the Atari community.
Thank you! I never got to play the dedicated Atari pinball machine I've seen some pictures of them. I didn't know Nukey Shay had pasted away. that is a great loss to the community. The hacked mod was amazing!
Kirby's Pinball Land on the Gameboy was my first experience in video pinball. I played that game so much on road trips as a kid. I also fondly remember Space Cadet Pinball on Windows.
Great video. I had no idea about last game you mentioned so I will try to pick that one up. I used to love Pinball machines and this place that had many arcade machines when I was a kid had upward of 30 machines and when I went back they had gotten rid of most of them and maybe 3 were left. So sad.
Thanks!
Bumper bash I think was a Canadian Atari game with a limited release it maybe very hard to find
Arcades anymore are not what they used to be. Most newer arcades are just ticket redemption type of phone app games. I'm not saying they are bad but it misses some the of majesty the 70, 80's and 90's arcade games.
There was a really cool Arcade at Indiana Beach but the last time I was there almost all the old games were gone. It was very sad as well. One of my bucket list items is to go to The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago you pay for entry and everything is on free play
The artwork shown on the box for Midnight Magic actually depicts the table from the computer game Dave's Midnight Magic, which is a beloved video pinball game on the C64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit. Personally, I always found it kind of boring as there's almost nothing to hit on the lower half of the table and only one bumper on the top half. People seemed to love it though.
I thought the Atari 2600 version was much better.
Funny. I saw my posts there in Atari age when you were scrolling where I originally asked if someone could do that hack, then nukey did it.
It was a great find indeed. It was so awesome to play it with the paddles and I easily increased my score. Another poster @jeremiahthomas8140 said Nukey Shay had passed away.
Pinball is actually making a comeback and there are new companies making pinball games. I ama place near me that has tons of pinball games and some arcade games. You pay a set fee to get in for an hour and everything (except the charity pinball games in the front) are on free play. Just recently played Baby Pacman, the arcade game/pinball game combo.
I was fortunate enough to have played a Baby Pacman arcade sometime back. It's a pretty bold hybrid of a pinball/Arcade game especially for how old it is. The pinball game Safecracker was similar to Baby Pacman in the aspect that once you broke inside the bank you then played a "board game" on the backglass to try and get into the vault. it was one of my favorites the late 90's ~00's.
I went to a similar place in Columbus, OH called Level One Bar & Arcade. All the arcades was set on free play or had a button to add quarters and all the pinball machines was .25 to play.
One of the things on my bucket list is visiting Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. The Arcade is $25 to enter and play all day with almost 900 arcade games on free play including a few prototype arcade games such as Primal Rage II.
The graphics were not important as good gameplay. If the game sucked graphics made no difference. Most games today are all graphics but no substance. Then games like Fallout that are fan favorites get pushed aside for almost 2 decades and gimmicky multiplayer version is pushed that wasnt the sa e formula as the success of yesterday
This is very true
we had a 5.25 floppy disk of solitaire with a typewriter generated label that we bought at a book store for my dad's old 286 pc and it was just done with ascii text to draw the cards but was one the the best solitaire games we ever played. Game play is always at the heart of what makes game. if its no good it doesn't matter how much polish you put on it. I do enjoy a great remake of a game that the developers put their heart and soul into like Black Mesa where they re-imagined the original Half-life into HL2 engine
@@TheDI I've only played Video Pinball. I was just looking at adding Midnight Magic to the collection CIB. This off-topic from pinball, but you mentioned your dad's 286 PC. I had an IBM PS2 50Z with the 286 chip and I was still using it in engineering school around 1992 (I skipped the 386 era). We had to write code from scratch in a fluid dynamics course to model fluid flow and performance of nozzle. The program took over 23 hours to run on the 286. I happened to get a Zeos 486 via mail order, and the code ran in less than 17 minutes! All of my friends wanted to borrow my PC.