

This is a spooky-themed pinball game. Obstructions appear within the table as you play. Gravestones, ghosts, and undead hands rising from below. Released in 1987, this Spanish pinball game was developed and published by Omikron. Outside the review (and a page ad) on Issue 42 of MSX Extra, listing on MSX Games World and a post on Instagram by MSX Calamar, not much is known about this obscure game.


Pinball / Science fiction / Horror
DICE’s first game was built by five friends from the Amiga demo group The Silents in their spare time. What started out as a demo idea soon became a full-fledged pinball simulation published by 21st Century Entertainment with the Amiga as the primary platform. Pinball Dreams captivated gamers and quickly became a cult hit.

Pinball / Arcade / Action / Fantasy
Devil's Crush (known as Devil Crash in Japan) is a pinball video game developed by NAXAT Soft for the TurboGrafx-16 and released in 1990. The second installment in the Crush Pinball series after Alien Crush, the game has an eerie occult theme with skulls, skeletons, and demons. It was later followed by Jaki Crush and Alien Crush Returns. The game was ported to the Sega Mega Drive, retitled Dragon's Fury (Devil Crash MD in Japan) which was developed by Technosoft. Devil's Crush was later released on the Wii's Virtual Console, with the European release reverting to its original title; however, the pentagram symbols were removed and replaced with 8-sided star.

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon is a pinball video game created for the Sega Saturn by KaZe in 1996. Only released in Japan, this high-resolution 2D game draws much of its graphical and audio inspiration from the metafictional Necronomicon.

Pinball / Arcade / Action / Fantasy
The game is the third in the Crush Pinball series, preceded by Alien Crush and Devil's Crush. It is considered to be very obscure and is often thought to be the forgotten entry in the series. The game features a theme revolving around the mythology of a type of Japanese demon or ogre, called a jaki. A single table is divided into three different sectors; carrying two flippers each. Moving targets must be hit for points along with targets that remain stationary. Shooting the ball into the demon's mouth allows players to access up to six bonus levels.

Paranoia Scape is a first person action pinball game that features the designs and sounds of Screaming Mad George. The gameplay is about going around each creepy stage of the game using the ball to destroy the enemies.

Pinball / Arcade / Action / Fantasy
The game was ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and retitled Dragon's Fury (Devil Crash MD in Japan) by developer Technosoft. The controls are identical, and other than some minor cosmetic alterations there have been no changes to the main table. The higher resolution of this port allows for a status bar to be displayed on the right side of the screen and the visuals are a bit brighter and more washed out due to the limited colors of the hardware. Complete all the hidden stages to beat the game.