Williams™ Pinball

Name: Williams™ Pinball
Rating: 4.37033 (10642 reviews)

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Williams™ Pinball

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4.4

10.6K ratings

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17+

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ZEN Studios Ltd.

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$0.99 – $99.99

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User Reviews for Williams™ Pinball

Internet issues and gambling

This is a great pinball game with some classic actual tables. Super fun to play and the idea of getting parts to open up other tables is novel and keeps you excited to play the over 20 tables you eventually can open…….Or you can just drop some cash and open them right away if there’s one you’re too excited to wait to get. Now, that being said, the internet cuts out on you quite frequently keeping you from getting some of your daily table parts and even your rewards (can be the coveted, “table parts”. So that’s a pretty big bummer. There’s also a weird gambling interface under “multiplayer “ but it’s pretty gross looking interface and constantly shoves the “PLAY FOR CASH!” button under your nose making you feel like a dirty hole in the wall casino gambler. The only thing missing is the stale cigarette smoke and the coin stained fingers. That’s just not how it’s done. Everyone knows your cash gets slapped on the glass before you bet someone you’re the Wizard of the table.

250andAJwbrkr, Nov 30, 2021

Good tables, takes some work

I like that there are no ads essentially, but if you watch ads you can earn bonuses. You start out with permission for only one table and I am happy with Medieval Madness. You earn experience points as you play that move you up levels. After a week I am on Level 17. It gets harder to advance levels as you work your way up. When you advance a level you get bonuses that can slowly authorize other tables. Doing daily challenges also earns bonuses. After getting enough bonus table parts and tickets you can start doing 5-minute challenges on other tables. So I have gotten to play most of the tables, which are mostly good with unlimited lives. Looking forward to having enough table parts to play on some of the tables for real, but having enough tickets to authorize those will be a problem. Do lots of challenges since extra challenges only cost 20-30 tickets and usually earn 100 or more, plus parts. Getting zen coins is much harder without paying real money. The network often fails to connect and there aren’t a lot of instructions, so I am only giving 4 stars. But the tables are 5 stars without the baggage.

brted, Mar 16, 2021

Anybody Home?

I’m able to play the game now, thank you for the quick response to my last review, and I gotta say, I do enjoy the game. I have qualms with there being two locks on the table upgrades and the grind being a little steep, but it’s nothing I’m not willing to overlook. The tables look fantastic and play well, and I appreciate the detail put into them. What I’m unable to overlook is the load times for everything. My device is pretty fast, and heaven forbid I tap anything because the same “Fetching Data | Please wait.” prompt comes up for anywhere between ten seconds to a minute and a half. Whether that’s for playing a table, winning a challenge, getting rewards for the challenge, tapping to watch an ad, closing the ad when it ends... there is a load time for everything and it brings the game to a screeching halt (especially when it comes up with another prompt that says there was an error connecting to the game server). If the servers were faster, this game would be just about perfect for pinball lovers who are willing to grind. There is so much potential here and all it needs is some touch-ups at this point!

Chirp-T, Nov 21, 2021

Was great until recently - update

I’m a huge pinball nerd. So when I heard about this I got on it right away. There are some great tables and it was a bummer to have to get tons of parts to get 2 stars JUST to play it. But I liked the machines so I kept going. Then, for some reason this morning, it took longer to load than usual. No biggie. The when it did I got the “welcome” and “pick your table” screen. I lost everything. I’ve tried rebooting my phone and the app yet it still just arbitrarily decided to delete it all and want me to start from scratch. Not cool.Get this figured out and fixed and it deserves much more than one star. Until I get at least my progress back it stays as poo.Update: 24 hours later and it all magically returned. Nothing was done differently but the fact it’s back and the app is working pleased me. Aside from this annoyance it really is a decent app with great graphics and sounds. When it’s deleting my stuff? 1 star. When it’s working? 4 stars (losing one star for taking forever or paying thru the nose to unlock tables enough to play)

CrazyCaptainLou, Jul 14, 2019

What a money grabbing disappointment

I had just started getting into pinball on my iPad when I found the collection but then realized that I only had a month to pick up the tables I wanted from TPA. I planned to buy all of the Williams and Bally tables from Zen but after seeing how they have set up the tables as a Freemium pay to play concept I was skeptical.I purchased the bundle with the first seven tables and enjoyed being able to play just the table but I quickly noticed that the ball physics going up some of the ramps seem to be off. The ball will almost to the top of the ramp then come back down. This is really evident on Medieval Madness. Also, the ball physics are messed up and the ball sometimes acts like it has a mind of its own. I enjoy the tables that I currently own and actually like the ‘idea’ of the daily challenges but the convoluted pricing structure of the app is absurd. You shouldn’t have to bust out your algebra skills to figure out how much a table cost and then have to grind through countless ads to maximize the table functions. Seeing as I missed the opportunity to acquire most of these tables on the other app, I was hoping to be able to rectify that with the Williams app. With its current pricing structure and difficult to navigate interface I’ll give the app 2 stars.

Da' iPadder, Jun 22, 2019

A disappointment due to poor ad and server stability

I already own most of the tables on Pinball FX, but I wanted a way to play on a vertical display without building a cabinet. Sadly, I had been unable to make much progress beyond my first free table until I upgraded my iPad, so the minimum specs are now woefully out of date, but even on a current gen device...I get frequent 5-10 second delays on a waiting dialog, as it seems the app repeatedly drops the server connection while browsing the challenges. The same table seems to have variable physics behavior from game to game; I’ve seen auto-plunges fail to enter the table, as the ball action gets dampened randomly. And it is a gamble if I try to watch an ad to start a challenge or claim a 4th reward; either the app hangs or crashes outright during some ad loads. Rebooting my iPad doesn’t seem to make a difference.I’m afraid to buy IAP, and I suspect some of the ads I’ve seen were not paid out to the devs due to the bugs. I really do want to pay a little more to unlock extra challenges and physics models, but I don’t feel confident that Williams will let Zen keep the IP license if the game stays in this state. FarSight already lost it due to neglect; I’d hate to see it again.

DLWormwood, May 10, 2020

I like it! But I paid instead of watching endless ads

I decided to buy all the tables at the beginning because I didn’t want to grind through the challenges. Personally, I thought it was worth it. It’s interesting to see Zen’s remastered special effects on the classic tables. And I love the practice mode where you get unlimited ball saves for an hour while you learn the peculiarities of each table. The only real problem I have is that it doesn’t allow me to rotate the screen to landscape mode. I play on an iPad and it’s just easier for me to hold it lengthwise.Another issue I have is the live pinball competitions betting real money. I’m a good player and I’m afraid I’ll get hooked after winning a few bucks from newer players. Then the game’s matching engine will choose some pinball demigod to challenge me and he (or she) will drain my bank account while I shout, “No! Let me try it one more time! I know I can win!” Needless to say, I haven’t jumped into the multiplayer for money option yet.

Es Rey, Mar 29, 2019

Great game ruined by IAP grind

Should have just paid the $30 from the start, to unlock all the tables. Unfortunately, this is a one-time offer, and the game tracks you by your Apple account, so deleting the app doesn’t work to reset this. Without this one-time purchase, you are trapped in an endless IAP grind. You only get to play timed challenges on one table, that quickly gets very boring. It would take weeks of grinding this, and/or spending way, way more than $30 to get less than what I would have gotten if I had just taken that one-time offer up front. A scam, and a really unethical way of running things. I hate micro transactions and IAP and mandatory commercials and in-app “coins” that you have to pay real money for. Zen should be ashamed. Zen Pinball is a great app, you pay once per table and then have the table forever. Williams Pinball should have also been the same way, but they squandered that chance. The final straw is the one-time $30 offer, locked to your Apple account so it’s absolutely final, and if you wait too long it’s forever gone, and you have no choice but to tackle the endless IAP grind. No thanks.

Krellan, May 10, 2019

Fun game, awful bugs!

I swear they must be running this game’s server on a 1st generation raspberry pi connected via a single T1 line. The endless server bugs, problems and slowness with this app are insufferable and make it almost unplayable. The game is also extremely greedy, demanding hundreds of dollars in micro transactions to progress. In addition, the game does not work properly on modern iPhones. It puts controls and buttons right under the notch, so you cannot see the game display and buttons are out of reach. Sound doesn’t work when closing and reopening the app, and for a while I was unable to do daily challenges due to the countdown timers for refresh being stuck at 18,000 days remaining. Overall, this app is a sloppy, buggy mess. I would strongly advise against spending any money on it at all in its current state, and instead playing Zen’s much better PC game, Pinball FX3.Edit: After MONTHS the developer has still not fixed the issue. This game works correctly maybe 60% of the time if you’re lucky. The bugs on modern iPhones are still present and it seems that no effort has been made to fix them in this shameless cash grab of an app. I’m disappointed.

Lexi-Snep, Oct 01, 2022

Wth is going on with this app?!?!?!!!???

It’s by far my favorite pinball app. I haven’t been playing it for very long. However, I’ve played it long enough to have earned a Ed decent amount of parts, tickets & such. Today I opened it up to play and it’s been completely wiped. All my data, my 1 table, my credits, my tickets, all of it is gone. Every time I open the app I have to choose my first table, as if I’ve never played the game. Once I play the 1 game it says it can’t connect to the server & to try again later. Since all my crap was wiped, I even deleted it & downloaded it again. When I close the app out completely or delete it & then reopen it, I have to start all over again and I get the same message. Err rrIt’s also a bit confusing as to what you need to obtain to completely unlock an additional table, it’s as clear as mud. I thought I had unlocked a 2nd table at a given but nope it wants more stuff b4 I can play it. It would be great if you could make playable tables more obvious & what all needs to be done to make a table eligible for free play would be very nice. Oh, and I agree with one of the previous reviewers, BRING BACK TALES OF ARABIAN!! Or something like that, lol. I just remember enjoying that table for a long time. I was actually looking for it when I came across this app.

RedRocket131, Jul 14, 2019

Description

Williams™ Pinball ushers in a new era of mobile pinball excellence, uniting pinball players around the globe with new multiplayer features! Experience a dazzling collection of classic premium pinball tables such as Fish Tales™, Medieval Madness™, Attack from Mars™, Junk Yard™, The Party Zone™, Black Rose™ and The Getaway High Speed II™ with more tables on the way! Play head-to-head against players for real money and cash prizes, powered by Skillz!

Each table is playable in its original form or in a remastered version featuring newly created 3D interactive characters, side wall art and more, bringing these classic tables to life like never before! Zen’s Pro Physics simulation provides the most authentic pinball experience available. From the makers of Zen Pinball, Marvel Pinball, Star Wars™ Pinball, Aliens vs. Pinball, Bethesda® Pinball and more! FEATURES: - Multiplayer matchups powered by Skillz provide endless competitive play and the chance to win real money and cash prizes in select countries - Daily challenges and competitions - Pro Physics delivers the most realistic mobile pinball experience available - New tables added frequently - Global leaderboards - Single-player challenges - Table customizations PRESS QUOTES Destructoid "The Bally/Williams licence and Zen Studios are truly a match made in heaven" The Sixth Axis "Each of the tables is perfectly recreated here and it’s simply astonishing the level of detail that Zen Studios have achieved" Digitally Downloaded "As with all Zen Studios titles, the physics are spot-on" ZTGD "Any fan of pinball of any skill level should add this to their collection" Universal Monsters © 1992-2019 Universal City Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved. Created and distributed under license from Williams Electronics Games Inc. Bally™ is a trademark of Caesar’s License Company, LLC. Monster Bash™ and Williams™ are trademarks of Williams Electronics Games Inc. Portions © 1992, 1998, 2019 Williams Electronics Games Inc. All rights reserved. Game code © 2018-2019 Zen Studios Ltd. All rights reserved.