Eight Ball Deluxe

The game is the successor to the popular Eight Ball pinball machine from 1977. In Eight Ball Deluxe, Bally added more rules, complicated shot combinations, and speech synthesis. The pinball machine is still very popular today and was followed by the pinball machine Eight Ball Champ in 1985. Eight Ball Deluxe has two sets of drop targets, one set for the billiard balls 1–7 and 9–15, and four in line drop targets for bonus multiplier. Behind the 1–7 drop targets are stand up targets that spell out 'Deluxe'. Completing these will light one letter in a different 'Deluxe' spelled out on the backglass. If the player spells the last letter of 'Deluxe' on the backglass, the game gives three free games. This feature stays in memory even when the machine is turned off. == Reception ==

The table won AMOA Game of the Year award in 1983. ==Digital versions==

Eight Ball Deluxe was released as digital version in 1993 for MS-DOS and Macintosh, co-developed by Amtex and LittleWing and published by the former. The game was a best seller in Macintosh gaming world and was a 1993 Best Simulation Game Finalist of the Software Publishers Association (USA) awards. Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Eight Ball Deluxe "accurately recreates the art, sounds and digitized speech of the original ... gorgeous, playable and realistic", and was the "connoisseur's choice" among four reviewed games. PC Magazine said "This is the best pinball game around", with "absolutely authentic" ball physics. Eight Ball Deluxe was also available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for PC, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Android from August 2016, until its delisting on June 30, 2018. ==See also==