Comments on: Hyperball-ad http://tleaves.com/2005/01/10/hyperball-ad/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2005/01/10/hyperball-ad/comment-page-1/#comment-840 peterb Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:04:30 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=280#comment-840 Ugh, yeah, Hercules was the epitome of the "sounds better than it is" pinball. I found one on the Jersey Shore -- Point Pleasant, I think? -- and it was slow, lumbering, and completely boring. (For those of you unfamiliar with it, "Hercules" was a double-wide and generally outsized pinball machine by Atari that used a pool cue ball (if I recall correctly?) rather than standard pinballs. I do remember liking some of Atari's other pinball efforts, though, notably "Superman." Ugh, yeah, Hercules was the epitome of the “sounds better than it is” pinball. I found one on the Jersey Shore — Point Pleasant, I think? — and it was slow, lumbering, and completely boring. (For those of you unfamiliar with it, “Hercules” was a double-wide and generally outsized pinball machine by Atari that used a pool cue ball (if I recall correctly?) rather than standard pinballs.

I do remember liking some of Atari’s other pinball efforts, though, notably “Superman.”

]]> By: Adam Rixey http://tleaves.com/2005/01/10/hyperball-ad/comment-page-1/#comment-839 Adam Rixey Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:19:14 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=280#comment-839 By god my new goal is to find and play this game at least once. I hope I'm not as disappointed as I was when I found a working Hercules pinball game at Cedar Point... By god my new goal is to find and play this game at least once.

I hope I’m not as disappointed as I was when I found a working Hercules pinball game at Cedar Point…

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