Neon Nights Pinball

Neon Nights Pinball

MikeFulton Sep 7, 2024 @ 10:09pm
Horribly mediocre table design.
I bought this game some time back but never played it much because it doesn't support controllers and the keyboard mapping sucked and there was no way to edit it. But I recently discovered the JOY2KEY utility which lets you map controllers to keypresses. I took a minute to setup a map and then played a few games.

To call this mediocre is really giving it too much credit. Mediocre actually means average, perhaps "boringly average" -- but this table design is not average. It would have to improve a lot to get to that point. It's really just plain bad.

It's like a beginner's first effort with a table building tool got released as a game.

The main problem is simply that the table design simply doesn't have much of anything you want to aim at for any reason, and there's mostly nothing to hit.. Most of the table is wide open and just plain empty. There are no bumpers, no roll-overs, no spinners. There are a couple of drop targets but that's about it.

Mostly there's just a whole lotta nuthin'

There seems to be strong evidence that the developer abandoned this game shortly after it came out.