These include Pinball Construction Set ( 1983 ), ASCII's War Game Construction Kit ( 1983 ), Thunder Force Construction ( 1984 ), Adventure Construction Set ( 1984 ), Garry Kitchen's GameMaker ( 1985 ), Wargame Construction Set ( 1986 ), Shoot ' Em-Up Construction Kit ( 1987 ), Arcade Game Construction Kit ( 1988 ), and most popularly ASCII's RPG Maker engines from 1988 onwards.

and Pinball Construction Set ) were a popular packaging concept by Electronic Arts, which wanted to represent their developers as " rock stars ".

* Pinball Construction Set ( 1983 ) by Bill Budge

Pinball Construction Set ( PCS ) is a video game by Bill Budge published by Electronic Arts.

Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games — the " builder " or " construction set " class of games.

Pinball Construction Set was ported to the numerous home computers of the era, including the Commodore 64 and as a PC booter.

The nine-page manual was considered " overkill ", since Pinball Construction Set required no programming knowledge ; CGW reported that an eight-year-old had no problems creating his own tables.

Pinball Construction Set is an inductee in GameSpys Hall of Fame.

In 2008, Pinball Construction Set was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for " User Generated Content / Game Modification ".

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The program concept was inspired by the 1983 release Pinball Construction Set, and was produced by Don Daglow in parallel with the development of Racing Destruction Set.

* Pinball Construction Set

The Pinball Construction Set gave users a pinball machine to design.

What is noticeable from the Commodore 64's game catalog, is that a rather large selection of all C64 games were programmed non-commercially by average Commodore 64 users, with editors included in some games, e. g. Boulder Dash Construction Kit, Pinball Construction Set, SEUCK, The Quill, GameMaker.

* Adventure Construction Set by Stuart Smith and Racing Destruction Set by Rick Koenig are both released by Electronic Arts and become hits, following on the success of 1982's Pinball Construction Set by Bill Budge.

His two main claims to fame are 1981's Raster Blaster and 1983's Pinball Construction Set.

With EA's distribution, Pinball Construction Set eventually sold 300, 000 copies over all platforms.

Pinball Construction Set is an inductee in GameSpys Hall of Fame.

In 1999, Williams made one last attempt to revitalize pinball sales with its Pinball 2000 machines that integrated pinball with computer graphics on embedded raster-scan displays.

The company was founded in 2002 by Adrian Barritt and Richard Horrocks, makers of the award winning Pro Pinball series of computer games.

Wizard was a product of the Construction Set era of 8-bit home computer games started by Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set.

Raster Blaster was one of the major hits of the " plastic baggies on pegboards " era of computer game stores, and Budge followed it with the seminal Pinball Construction Set ( 1982 ).

Bill Budge, then the best-known computer game designer in North America for his Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set games, urged Tobey to sign a development deal.

Several Sega titles such as Sega SuperStars, Sonic Adventure and Sonic Pinball Party feature minigames themed around the character ( the former of which takes its cue from the main game ).

* Mario Pinball Land, also known as Super Mario Ball, a pinball video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance

A Judge Dredd Pinball game was released for the PC ( DOS ) in 1998.

* Leisure Suit Larry's Sexy Pinball ( 2005 ), a pinball game for mobile phones.

Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball machine.

In the 2003 pinball game ( by Stern Pinball ), Valinor is the game's final " Wizard Mode ".

In the Pinball game in Microsoft Windows, typing in " hidden test " ( with the space ) and pressing Enter will allow the user to drag the pinball around with the mouse.

Visual Pinball is a freeware video game engine for pinball tables and similar games e. g. pachinko machines.

In 1993, Budge went on to port his game to the Sega Genesis under the name Virtual Pinball.

Interplay then launched its own program to publish indie development games, Interplay Discovery, through Discovery they launched their first game in years, Pinball Yeah !, which was followed by Tommy Tronic.

It was followed by Metroid Prime Pinball, a spin-off game developed by Fuse Games and released in 2005 for the Nintendo DS.

Prime Pinball is a virtual pinball game that features the locations and bosses of Prime.

The game was adapted into the video game compilation Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection in 2009.

# Pinball ( Par 3 ): The level begins as a game of pinball, where the player can hit the ball with the flippers after shooting it.

American Technōs also published Super Bowling ( developed by Athena ) and Super Pinball: Behind the Mask ( developed by Meldac / KAZe ) for the Super NES and the helicopter game Strike Point for the PlayStation.

Sonic Advance, like Sonic Advance 2 and Sonic Pinball Party features an extra game called the Tiny Chao Garden, in which players can raise Chao.

* Metroid Prime Pinball, a pinball video game for the Nintendo DS

* Adam Warlock also appears in the video game Marvel Pinball, on the DLC Table Infinity Gauntlet.

The series has featured several spin-offs, including the racing game Kirby Air Ride and pinball game Kirby's Pinball Land.

* Mighty Ducks Pinball Slam: Players " become " a pinball in a gigantic projected pinball game ; by rocking their " duck " back and forth, up to twelve players at a time control their corresponding pinball on the screen, attempting to collect the most points.

The Twin Galaxies ' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records-Arcade Volume, lists history's largest video game contest as the " 1984 March of Dimes International Konami / Centuri Track & Field Challenge ".