Play Store 3D Pinball Space Cadet Download
From the article:
If you grew up in the Windows XP era, than you probably spent hours playing its iconic free game, “3D Pinball Space Cadet.” Now, “Space Cadet” pinball has been ported to Android, and it’s completely free.
One of the many things that Windows XP will be remembered for is the pinball game that essentially everyone who ever used the operating system played at some point or another. The game has been immortalized many times, and now it’s available on Android.
Developer Kyle Sylvertre used a decompiled version of Space Cadet Pinball from k4zmu2a on GitHub to bring the game to the Google Play Store for Android users. The game is optimized for touchscreens with the left and right sides of the display acting as the triggers, and you can also tap the far right side to use the ball launcher. The game runs in portrait mode, supports 18 languages, integrates with Google Play Games for a leaderboard, and is less than 5MB in size.
And it’s all completely free too.
There are no ads or in-app purchases here, as the developer “just wanted to see it on Android with a Google Play leaderboard.” On that note, cheats are disabled to keep the integrity of that leaderboard, but the developer hints that cheats might come back with an option to turn off the leaderboard.
In any case, it’s a nice hit of nostalgia. Drop your high score in the comments below.
If people are interested in digital pinball, there are lots of additional options if you get tired of just playing one table. Pinball FX, Zaccaria pinball, Pinball Deluxe Reloaded, Only Pinball, are just some of the paid options (usually with a free demo table to check out the program.) for digital pinball.
And since this is Lemmy, i will mention that there is a FOSS program called visual pinball, where folks have created digital versions of classic tables, as well as their own original pinball creations.
Just went into a fugue state and got 10 million points this game is as great as I remember
I wasted a lot of time at work playing that back in the late 90s. Downloaded.
Windows XP era? Excuse me? It goes all the way back to Windows 95. The original game by Maxis is even older.
It was only in some kind of dlc pack (what?) for windows. The first real os it was included in was xp. I thought we all agreed not to talk about windows me
It was also Windows 98.
For Linux folks, it’s also available on FlatHub.
I’ve installed it on my steam deck and mapped the triggers to the left and right… uh… flappy things?
It works really well, and whenever people see it they’re like whoaaaaa I remember that!!
I don’t remember this game, but I downloaded it, and it works great! I’ll be killing a lot of time with this.
It was great to see that after all these years, and countless hours playing it, I still absolutely suck at it.
I don’t remember this game. I was pretty young back then tho
How can you do this to me?! I have a family, bro! Now nothing will get done!
Be warned, there’s an ad supported version under a very similar name in the PlayStore. It’s worse in every way and has some permissions that it shouldn’t be asking for.
Other platforms you can run it on:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
- PS Vita
- Nintendo Switch
- webOS TV
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Wii U
- PlayStation 2
- Sega Dreamcast
- MorphOS
- AmigaOS 4
The GitHub version still has the cheats intact.
What are cheats? Tilting the table?
Extra balls, multipliers, God mode(although that’s mostly broken on Android)
They were in the original game as cheat codes you typed in. GitHub Android version just added buttons for them in the settings.
It seems like the reason that cheats were removed is because of public leaderboards
Makes sense, but personally I don’t care about leader boards, so I’d rather have the functionality in tact.
Which GitHub version?
I think that game was actually supposed to be a demo for a bigger pinball game right?
Nah, it was an old maxis game, part of full tilt pinball, Dave brought it over for all of us to enjoy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThxdvEajK8g&pp=ygUVRGF2ZSdzIGdhcmFnZSBwaW5iYWxs
He has done a decent amount of vids on the game if you look through his channel
Iirc was a 3 pack pinball game
Strange, I played this one a year ago on Android. I guess it was a port, but it was damn near the same thing. It’s called “Space Pinball”.
Yo this is T I G H T
