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Worms Pinball

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Worms Pinball
Worms Pinball cover
Developers
Team17
Publishers
Retail MicroProse
Digital Team17
Release dates
Windows April 30, 1998[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Pinball
Series Worms
Worms Pinball on IGDB
Worms Pinball on MobyGames
Worms Pinball on Wikipedia
Worms 1995
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Worms Pinball 1998
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Worms World Party 2001
Worms Blast 2002
Worms 3D 2003
Worms Forts: Under Siege 2004
Worms 4: Mayhem 2005
Worms Reloaded 2010
Worms Crazy Golf 2011
Worms Ultimate Mayhem 2011
Worms Revolution 2012
Worms Clan Wars 2013
Worms 3 2014
Worms World Party Remastered 2015
Worms W.M.D 2016
Worms Rumble 2020

Worms Pinball is a singleplayer bird's-eye view pinball game in the Worms series.

The game was originally released as Addiction Pinball and had two tables: World Rally (based on World Rally Fever: Born on the Road) and Worms (based on the franchise of the same name).

Digital releases are renamed to Worms Pinball with only the latter table present.

General information

Dream17 Softography
Steam Community Discussions
Pinball Maniac entry

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Developer website
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows

Demo

A free demo (as Addiction Pinball) is available.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions The game does not contain microtransactions.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70660/pfx/[Note 2]
Run pincfg.exe in <path-to-game> in order to change any settings.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70660/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

External options menu
External options menu
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480, 800x600 & 1024x768 only
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Capped at 60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Italian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 95, NT 4.0 SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Gamespot - Addiction Pinball - last accessed on May 2023