Digital pinball has been through some ups and downs over the years. The Williams pinball tables in The Pinball Arcade were maybe a bit buggy but played great, until the entire library disappeared when the license went to Zen. Zen has continued on through multiple iterations of its Pinball FX series, delivering a ton of tables but being fairly slow on the Williams releases. Demon's Tilt got the sequel Xenotilt, both moving through Early Access to full release, and in all that time Zaccaria Pinball has kept on going through its extended Early Access run. It's been almost ten years since Zaccaria Pinball landed on Steam, and as of today it's finally released its 1.0 version.
Several Dozen Tables Covering the Full History of Pinball
Zaccaria Pinball started as a recreation of the tables designed by a semi-obscure Italian pinball company which had been active from the mid-70s through 1990. For pinball fans that's an incredibly transformative time, with the table layouts and tech going through major changes on practically a yearly basis. The slower-paced, more technical tables of the early 70s transformed into the crowd-pleasers of the 90s, faster and with more targets and gimmicks, and playing them in...
