Silver Ball Century ep. 57 - Early 1990 - Feel the Power

It is the nineties, and there is time for pinball. Not that much time, though, because this episode I want to make sure to raid into the UFO 50 Bingo playoff match between my wife FlannelKat and my good friend SaberaMesia. We're hitting five games tonight, set up with the nudgeable pinball controller like we have been for the last few streams. Whirlwind is the standout classic of this episode, a defining example of early-90s gameplay, and it is . The gimmick on a physical Williams machine is that there is a fan on the topper of the machine which blows air on you, particularly intensely when you're in multiball. We'll make something work when playing it virtually. "Feel the Power" was Williams' slogan at the time, and they announce it when the fan comes on for multiball. Phantom of the Opera is a game that's grown on me. It's clearly riding on the success of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, while not being licensed from it at all. Data East based the theme on the public-domain book,…