Classic Game Review: Night Mission
NIGHT MISSION (NM), Sub Logic's addition to the video pinball craze, puts together the best features of the finest pinball games for the Apple.
It has the smooth ball animation of Budgeco RASTER BLASTER (RB), with the complex machine design of DAVID'S MIDNIGHT MAGIC (DMM) by Broderbund, and more features than the other two combined.
NM's graphics are incredibly smooth, especially considering the tremendously high ball speeds, DMM, on the other hand, has a tendency to slide the ball into a path when it shouldn't, or bounce it out before it should.
While NM and RB don't have these problems, RB doesn't have nearly as well-designed a machine as either NM or DMM, making NM a strong contender for the best of Apple pinball games.
DMM has bumpers, roll-overs, multiple-ball play, tilt, up to four players, and a sound switch.
NM contains all of these features, while it adds free games by high score or match, adjustable numbers of balls per game, ball speed, bumper impulse, flipper power, and over 30 others.
The players can adjust the ball speed, tilt power, number of balls per game, bonus count rate, maximum bonus count, and delay before new balls, bumper impulse, sound effects, and power in each flipper separately.
The player also has options which make it easier to place the ball on certain paths, and easier to achieve multi-ball play.
These are only the major adjustments.
There are many others which make the game definitely the most versatile pinball game in history.
But, features are not only things that make NM stand out in the pinball field.
The ball speed is incomparable to that of any other pinball game, computer or real.
While the speed can be set high, it can also be reached in normal play by hitting just a few bumpers in a row, Speed in a game can not be well described, so we will just say that it is definitely faster than anything you've probably seen.
So great is the speed potential, that we advise you to hit your flippers before you think you shall.
This will usually result in perfect timing, as the ball can be quicker than the eye.
NM, as most pinball games, will not keep you constantly excited.
It gets boring eventually, but its sounds and speed keep you interested in it longer than most pinball games.
It has the smooth ball animation of Budgeco RASTER BLASTER (RB), with the complex machine design of DAVID'S MIDNIGHT MAGIC (DMM) by Broderbund, and more features than the other two combined.
NM's graphics are incredibly smooth, especially considering the tremendously high ball speeds, DMM, on the other hand, has a tendency to slide the ball into a path when it shouldn't, or bounce it out before it should.
While NM and RB don't have these problems, RB doesn't have nearly as well-designed a machine as either NM or DMM, making NM a strong contender for the best of Apple pinball games.
DMM has bumpers, roll-overs, multiple-ball play, tilt, up to four players, and a sound switch.
NM contains all of these features, while it adds free games by high score or match, adjustable numbers of balls per game, ball speed, bumper impulse, flipper power, and over 30 others.
The players can adjust the ball speed, tilt power, number of balls per game, bonus count rate, maximum bonus count, and delay before new balls, bumper impulse, sound effects, and power in each flipper separately.
The player also has options which make it easier to place the ball on certain paths, and easier to achieve multi-ball play.
These are only the major adjustments.
There are many others which make the game definitely the most versatile pinball game in history.
But, features are not only things that make NM stand out in the pinball field.
The ball speed is incomparable to that of any other pinball game, computer or real.
While the speed can be set high, it can also be reached in normal play by hitting just a few bumpers in a row, Speed in a game can not be well described, so we will just say that it is definitely faster than anything you've probably seen.
So great is the speed potential, that we advise you to hit your flippers before you think you shall.
This will usually result in perfect timing, as the ball can be quicker than the eye.
NM, as most pinball games, will not keep you constantly excited.
It gets boring eventually, but its sounds and speed keep you interested in it longer than most pinball games.
