Play Store 3D Pinball Space Cadet Download
From the article:
If you grew up in the Windows XP era, than you probably spent hours playing its iconic free game, “3D Pinball Space Cadet.” Now, “Space Cadet” pinball has been ported to Android, and it’s completely free.
One of the many things that Windows XP will be remembered for is the pinball game that essentially everyone who ever used the operating system played at some point or another. The game has been immortalized many times, and now it’s available on Android.
Developer Kyle Sylvertre used a decompiled version of Space Cadet Pinball from k4zmu2a on GitHub to bring the game to the Google Play Store for Android users. The game is optimized for touchscreens with the left and right sides of the display acting as the triggers, and you can also tap the far right side to use the ball launcher. The game runs in portrait mode, supports 18 languages, integrates with Google Play Games for a leaderboard, and is less than 5MB in size.
And it’s all completely free too.
There are no ads or in-app purchases here, as the developer “just wanted to see it on Android with a Google Play leaderboard.” On that note, cheats are disabled to keep the integrity of that leaderboard, but the developer hints that cheats might come back with an option to turn off the leaderboard.
In any case, it’s a nice hit of nostalgia. Drop your high score in the comments below.
For Linux folks, it’s also available on FlatHub.
I’ve installed it on my steam deck and mapped the triggers to the left and right… uh… flappy things?
It works really well, and whenever people see it they’re like whoaaaaa I remember that!!
I don’t remember this game. I was pretty young back then tho
It was great to see that after all these years, and countless hours playing it, I still absolutely suck at it.
How can you do this to me?! I have a family, bro! Now nothing will get done!
Strange, I played this one a year ago on Android. I guess it was a port, but it was damn near the same thing. It’s called “Space Pinball”.
Be warned, there’s an ad supported version under a very similar name in the PlayStore. It’s worse in every way and has some permissions that it shouldn’t be asking for.
Other platforms you can run it on:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
- PS Vita
- Nintendo Switch
- webOS TV
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Wii U
- PlayStation 2
- Sega Dreamcast
- MorphOS
- AmigaOS 4
The GitHub version still has the cheats intact.
What are cheats? Tilting the table?
Which GitHub version?
It seems like the reason that cheats were removed is because of public leaderboards
Makes sense, but personally I don’t care about leader boards, so I’d rather have the functionality in tact.
I think that game was actually supposed to be a demo for a bigger pinball game right?
Nah, it was an old maxis game, part of full tilt pinball, Dave brought it over for all of us to enjoy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThxdvEajK8g&pp=ygUVRGF2ZSdzIGdhcmFnZSBwaW5iYWxs
He has done a decent amount of vids on the game if you look through his channel
Iirc was a 3 pack pinball game
Yo this is T I G H T
It’s not “completely free;” it’s just pirated proprietary software that Microsoft hasn’t bothered to take down yet.
The definition of Free Software (a.k.a. “open source”) is having the legal right to read, modify, and redistribute the source code, not merely the technical capability.
Microsoft doesn’t own it, they didn’t program it. They paid a license fee to the developer to include it in Windows XP.
Whatever – whoever holds the copyright hasn’t bothered to take it down yet. Point is, even if it’s abandonware it’s not legitimately “free.”
(Also, I’m technically correct anyway: Microsoft owns GitHub, so it’d be the one acting on the copyright holder’s DMCA request. 😛)
Also, I’m technically correct anyway: Microsoft owns GitHub, so it’d be the one acting on the copyright holder’s DMCA request.
Despite what Take Two would like you to believe, reverse-engineering software isn’t illegal unless it’s for circumvention of security measures (oversimplified). Distributing copyrighted assets, on the other hand, is. Since the GitHub repo doesn’t include the game assets, the only legal DMCA takedown that could be made here is against the Play Store app, in which case, Google would be handling it.
All that said, there doesn’t even seem to be a repo for this. There’s a different port done by someone else (fexed) last updated over two years ago, but this particular port seems to be closed source. Last update on Play Store was yesterday, but the last time any fork of the main repo was updated was last month.
You do know the code is copyrighted too, right? Reverse engineering isn’t the issue here; uploading the result to GitHub is.
EA (through Maxis) likely still owns this as it was part of their Full Tilt Pinball game. I can totally see EA pursuing this just because of their inner evil.
Well that was an instant yes please
No tilt?
The Fexed Github project has tilt controls (and better gravity sim if I’m not trippin’, I know one of the projects had gravity issues and the play store version feels too floaty)
Yes tilt
