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Pinball Science is a video game published in 1998 on Windows by Dorling Kindersley. It's an educational and puzzle game, set in a pinball theme.
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Pinball Science is just about as fun as edutainment pinball can be. There's three different pinball boards, with a little bit of customizability on where you put the specific components. The animation and sound design in this game is pretty cute, and the game uses mammoths as a mascot, which is pretty charming.
As this is an edutainment game, you have to answer basic physics questions to unlock the pinball table parts, which is... I dunno. It works to give the game some educational content, but it's pretty heavy-handed to make you do a pop quiz to play the game, even if it's cute about the presentation. (Of course, it also includes mini-encyclopedia entries for anything it asks, so you can look up the answers if you don't know -- an effective way to teach kids how to research.) Once you've finished all three boards' objectives, you can just play the game as a pinball game.
Its actual gameplay isn't anything too special, so I don't know that it'd be especially entertaining for an adult, but to me as a kid in the late '90s, this was a pretty fun game, especially for one I could play at school.
As this is an edutainment game, you have to answer basic physics questions to unlock the pinball table parts, which is... I dunno. It works to give the game some educational content, but it's pretty heavy-handed to make you do a pop quiz to play the game, even if it's cute about the presentation. (Of course, it also includes mini-encyclopedia entries for anything it asks, so you can look up the answers if you don't know -- an effective way to teach kids how to research.) Once you've finished all three boards' objectives, you can just play the game as a pinball game.
Its actual gameplay isn't anything too special, so I don't know that it'd be especially entertaining for an adult, but to me as a kid in the late '90s, this was a pretty fun game, especially for one I could play at school.