Anyone else love pinball but totally suck at it?

I really want to play this now, I love the Miss Piggy table's aesthetics

Resisting my urges to name-drop all of my favourite virtual and real-world pinball tables right now, ahahaha. I also loved Sonic Pinball Party and often bring it up as a good entry point for someone wanting to learn Pinball. MPM looks like charming fun too, and I do have a bit of fondness for the Muppets, so this will be on my ever growing backlog too. Hope you're holding up well in the midst of bad news/work!

@MSX Thank you so much, among other things my dog died, she was nearly 16 but my best friend so still very hard to take. Crazy coincidence you're a pinhead I never meet pinball people here in the UK! Please do, what's your top real table and virtual one?

Losing a pet is always awful, I've experienced that pain and grief myself twice now, but the time with those pets are always worth it. As for pinball, in terms of digital pinball I'm a fan of Digital Pinball: Necronomicon on Saturn, as well as Pinball Fantasies on Amiga (specifically the Amiga version). The physics in those games still are a bit floaty but feel good overall and are ahead of other games of that time.

For modern pinball games, I really like Visual Pinball, especially because of how customisable it is. My favourite physical table is probably Scared Stiff, but I also really like Funhouse as well. Ever since I moved to another city I haven't been able to find any local physical pinball tables, and I've been going into withdrawal!

Added some more gifs (some hidden as they are spoilery).

I have 4 reviews on the go, but instead of doing them I'm starting making gifs for all my old articles. Believe it or not I genuinely don't have too much spare time, it just looks that way.

I actually nearly got the Mac version of Fate of Atlantis, alongside Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max, as I had placed a bid on an auction for a collection of them, but I accidentally slept through the auction's closing time and my bid got sniped. Kicking myself more now for missing out on that auction after reading this!

Yet another gem I hadn't heard of until now that I feel like I'd be really into. Escape Velocity was in my mind the entire time, and then you mentioned it as well! Smaller, more detailed maps have always been my preference over larger, more empty maps, so Hardwar's approach sounds great.

I recommend it, it has a bit of old jank but held up exactly as I remembered, which is shocking!