Visual Pinball
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Visual Pinball ("VP") is a freeware and source available video game engine for pinball tables and similar games such as pachinko machines. It includes a table editor as well as the simulator itself, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It can be used with Visual PinMAME, an emulator for ROM images from real pinball machines.
Developer(s) | Initially Randy Davis, continued by various Open Source contributors |
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Initial release | December 19, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-12-19) |
Stable release | 10.7.3
/ 23 December 2022; 15 months ago (2022-12-23) |
Repository | github |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Type | Pinball |
License | Freeware for non-commercial use with source code available (the original MAME license) |
Website | vpforums |
A huge variety of user-created VP tables are available on the internet. Players can choose between faithful recreations of existing pinball machines, with or without ROM emulation, and original pinball simulations based on licensed or completely original themes. VP's scripting capabilities can also be used to create pinball-like games such as pitch-and-bat baseball, pinball bingo, bowling, cue sports, and pachinko.
VP can be used with common desktop PCs and monitors, but also supports "virtual pinball" cabinets, with various monitors and TVs used to display the playfield and backbox, similar to a real pinball machine. 3D televisions are supported; and recent versions support touch controls for playing on tablet computers and smartphones.
In February 2010, VP's source code was released under a license allowing free non-commercial use.[1]