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¶ Technical specifications
- Developers: Randy Davis, Open Source contributors
- Release year: 2000
¶ Overview
Visual Pinball (‘VP’) is a free video game engine originally available for pinball tables and similar games such as pachinko machines. It includes a table editor as well as the simulator itself, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It can be used with Visual PinMAME, an emulator for real pinball ROM images.
A wide variety of user-created VP tables are available on the Internet. Players can choose between faithful recreations of existing pinball machines, with or without ROM emulation, and original pinball simulations based on licensed or completely original themes. VP's scripting capabilities can also be used to create pinball-like games such as pitch-and-bat baseball, pinball bingo, bowling, cue sports, and pachinko.
VP can be used with standard desktop PCs and monitors, but it also supports ‘virtual pinball’ cabinets, with different monitors and televisions used to display the playfield and backbox, as in a real pinball machine. 3D televisions are supported, and recent versions support touch controls for playing on tablets and smartphones.
In February 2010, the VP source code was released under a licence allowing free, non-commercial use.