Pinball Construction Set
Pinball Construction Set is a video game by Bill Budge written for the Apple II. It was originally published in 1982 through Budge's own company, BudgeCo, then was released by Electronic Arts in 1983 along with ports to the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64.
| Pinball Construction Set | |
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EA's "album cover" box | |
| Developer(s) | BudgeCo |
| Publisher(s) | BudgeCo |
| Designer(s) | Bill Budge |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Macintosh |
| Release | 1982: Apple 1983: Apple (EA), Atari, C64 1985: IBM PC November 1985: Macintosh |
| Genre(s) | Pinball, game creation system |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The game created a new genre of video games: the construction set. Users can build and play their own virtual pinball machine by dropping bumpers, flippers, spinners, and other parts onto a table. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model can be modified. Tables can be saved to floppy disks and freely traded; Pinball Construction Set is not needed to play them.
Versions were released for the IBM PC (as a self-booting disk) and Macintosh in 1985. EA followed Pinball Construction Set with Music Construction Set, Adventure Construction Set, and Racing Destruction Set all from different authors.