Pinball Emulators and Pinball Arcade Games for Android

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Pinball Emulators and Pinball Arcade Games for Android

Post by Admin » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:33 pm

While Android is not the most popular OS for Pinball Games and Pinball Emulators, there is something that uses Android that would make an awesome platform for a Pinball emulator. And that device is the Nvidia SHIELD.

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The SHIELD Android TV box and gaming system offers more power and performance than many older PCs that ran some great virtual pinball emulators like PINMAME back in the day.

The PINMAME emulator is really cool because it let you add original ROMs files, some table graphics and you would have very realistic playing pinball machine that worked and sounded very much like the original machine.

Some of our favorite pinball games that were really fun to play on a PC pinball emulator were:

  • Medieval Madness
  • Fun House
  • Cactus Canyon
  • Indiana Jones
  • Twilight Zone
  • Attack From Mars
  • Adams Family
  • White Water
  • Circus Voltaire
  • Tales of Arabian Nights
  • Theater of Magic
  • Congo
  • Fish Tales


Real pinball machines with some of these titles can easily hit over ten grand in today's market.

There are over a hundred different classic pinball machines you could play on your PC.

This even spun off an entire industry of life like virtual pinball machines using this same technology. Which was built into a realistic pinball style cabinet.

With great sounding speakers, a couple of flat panel monitors for the playing field and back screen. Like these seen here on eBay.

You could play all your favorite games and not buy or need to maintain a large collection of pinball machines.


Pinball Emulator Controllers X-Arcade APKs

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Playing virtual pinball on a computer monitor or large TV screen can be a blast. And they even make special controllers for pinball emulators. X-Arcade makes several models and these are some of the best you can find. Like these

If you are handy with tools, they even sell the switches and parts needed to build your own custom pinball controller. If you own one of the original versions of the Nvidia SHIELD or SHIELD Pro, most already came with a game controller that can be used wirelessly.

Android Pinball Games

Even if you don't want to go to the trouble to install a realistic pinball emulator like you would have with PINMAME, a couple pinball arcade games are available to download for Android.

Because Android is mostly used as a phone OS, the number of Pinball games is much more limited than what you would find for Windows and even macOS.

But since we want to use the SHIELD to play some good old-fashioned pinball, here are some that will work on Android you can download right now.

1. Pinball Arcade offers 35 real pinball tables. It's free to use with 3 games.
This expansive digital arcade features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from ©Stern Pinball, Gottlieb® and Alvin G. & Co™ together in one app. Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail.
Rated 9.0 on IGN!
This is the best app to get. And while the newer version will no longer come with Bally or Williams Games. If you already purchased some tables you get to keep them. This is every bit as nice as a PinMame or the Visual Pinball Sim and the graphics and game play is awesome. If using the controller on the SHIELD you will need to set both to Mode B. You do this from the setup menu from a pinball machine not the global settings. Once set up, they stick and will be the same for every pinball machine you play from then on.

2. MAME4droid is the Android Pinball emulator you want if you want to look for ROMs online to play the classic Bally and Williams tables. The best place to find ROMs, tables or complete media packs for MAME is here. Or from the Pinball Database

3. Pinball Deluxe Reloaded is also another great arcade style game for Android. While it's obviously not as realistic as a pinball emulator. It still can be a lot of fun and has a nice selection of games to chose from.

4. ZEN Pinball includes the Sorcerer's Lair table completely Free. To unlock more tables you will need to buy them. The cool thing is they are constantly adding new Pinball games and have some newer games like Marvel Comics, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, South Park and more. This app runs great on the Nvidia SHIELD with the game controller.

5. Use a Windows Emulator to Run Visual Pinball. This is another option that would let you access another great Pinball Emulator. If you use WINE which is not exactly an emulator but will allow you to run Windows Apps on your Android device. You will want to download the wine-3.0-arm.apk

Just make sure you have plenty of storage and are using USB Stick or SD Card if your device supports it. Pinball emulators and associated ROMs, Table Graphics and sound files can take up a lot of room.

These are all some great options for playing both the classics and also newer pinball games on Android with the Nvidia SHIELD.



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