Take a Break! Pinball
Take a Break! It contained several individual boards based on various Dynamix or Sierra series such as King's Quest, Space Quest, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Leisure Suit Larry, and Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon. It is the second game in the Take a Break!
Take a Break! Pinball
- Date
- 1993
- Genre
- pinball video game
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Take a Break! It contained several individual boards based on various Dynamix or Sierra series such as King's Quest, Space Quest, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Leisure Suit Larry, and Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon. It is the second game in the Take a Break!
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Series of casual Windows games. It was designed for Windows 3.x.
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Take a Break! Pinball • Developer — Dynamix • Publisher — Sierra On-Line • Released — 1993 • Genre — Pinball • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Microsoft Windows
Tables
Tables
All tables are based on Synamix/Sierra IP including Kings Quest, Stellar 7, Willy Beamish and Space Quest.
Quest for Daventry
Quest for Daventry
This table is based on King's Quest V. The game follows the narrative of the adventure game with objectives based on locations and encounters from that game. As objectives are completed on the board, new locations are opened up on the map. On this table, there was a bug that made the ball invisible after entering the Endless Desert Temple Stone Wall Trap. This was later patched with an updated DLL file.
Planet Pinball
Planet Pinball
Three tables are based on Space Quest IV.
Larry's Big Score
Larry's Big Score
A single table is based on Leisure Suit Larry 5'. It was later released as a stand-alone game in the early Leisure Suit Larry collections.
Flipped Out Willy
Flipped Out Willy
This table is based on The Adventures of Willy Beamish.
Draxon
Draxon
Two tables based on Nova 9.
Development
Development
The game uses over 1,000 animations, and 1.5MB of digitized speech and sound effects. A pre-release version was shown at CES in 1993.
History of the object
Dated record
History of the object
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1993
Take a Break! Pinball published.
1993
Take a Break! Pinball is recorded as published in 1993.
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- United States
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Take a Break! Pinball is associated with United States.
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Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1993 liked Take a Break! Pinballs adventure game-like boards, but criticized the high CPU requirements, stating that performance "can be so bad as to be unplayable on a 386, and irritating on a 486". PC Review criticized the game, which ran in a small window that couldn't be resized. The music was described as "not bad", but bearing little resemblance to that used on a real pinball machine. The manual was criticized for lacking important installation information. PC Player praised the table designs and the overall presentation. The animations playing in the window on the right were called a distraction, and only of use to spectators. The jerky movement of the ball was criticized, making the game worse than it could have been. Game Players PC Entertainment criticized several aspects of the game, and noted that when using the mouse to control the flippers it was easy to pause the game by mistake. Com Club found the game to run unpleasantly slow on a 486 PC with sluggish movement of the ball ruining the game; using a Pentium based PC it was playable. The table designs and sound were praised. Interactive Entertainment CD-ROM magazine criticized the colorful graphics on the some tables, saying that they made it "nearly impossible to keep your eye on the ball". They said that "taken as a serious pinball simulation, it falls short in more than one area".
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reference work
- “Take a Break! Pinball”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4050671: Take a Break! Pinball
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Kalata, Kurt. Space Quest VI. Hardcore Gaming 101. September 13, 2017.
- 2.Ray, Barbara. It's Time to Take A Break!. InterAction. V. 2. 38-39. Summer 1992.
- 3.Take a Break! Pinball Updates. Sierra.
- 4.Kalata, Kurt. Leisure Suit Larry (Assorted). Hardcore Gaming 101. January 3, 2010.
- 5.McCrady, Louie. Tips and Hints for Some of Your favorite Dynamix Games!. InterAction. VI. 3. 54-55. Winter 1993.
- 6.Coming up from Sierra Dynamix & Bright Star. InterAction. VI. 1. 19. Spring 1993.
- 7.Lombardi, Chris. Bumper Crop. Computer Gaming World. 113. 110, 112, 114. December 1993. 0744-6667.
- 8.Jones, Cal. Pinball. PC Review. 24. 92-93. October 1993.
- 9.Schneider, Boris. Take-A-Break Pinball. PC Player. 88-89. September 1993.
- 10.Poole, Stephen. EVER SINCE I WAS A YOUNG BOY, I'VE PLAYED THE SILVER BALL. Game Players PC Entertainment. 6. 40. November–December 1993.
- 11.Pajari. Take a Break Pinball. Com Club. 14. C. 30. September 1993.
- 12.IE 2 PC games review - Take a break pinball (1994). YouTube. 22 February 2012.
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