Reviewing pinball tables is always a fun task. This one thankfully comes with two, because the first one the eponymous "Ruiner" has these awful cacophonic bomb dropping sounds that made me despise my time with it on headphones.
The other table "Tower" was a ton more enjoyable with it's lack of the aforementioned bombs, and just in general having a much preferable layout of being a vertical three-screen tall table as opposed to a two-screen wide clunker. It also helps that it uses a dark fantasy setting as opposed to the more uncomfortable "uh... what if the cold war actually packed some heat and we put down a little bit of radiation?" type of theme.
Unfortunate that it ain't exactly Devil's Crush or anything, since there isn't any power metal melting your face off and even the graphics are kinda garish. It's kinda embarassing it released in late 1995, because it's really not a great showcase for the system. This would probably be the third time I'd go "NO WONDER ATARI'S DEAD", but I feel I've used that joke enough times that people would just throw fruit at me.
I've effectively run out of things to say about this, so I'm gonna mention something quick. I actually am glad they're re-releasing a bunch of these games on Atari 50 soon. Most of them really didn't impress me, but as always every game deserves to be accessible in some form no matter what it is, because I doubt many people would go through the trouble I did to get Jaguar emulation going just to experience mid that I missed out on. That's a bunch more courageous than Nintendo who to this day would rather cowardly throw Ice Climber at me for the seventh time than let me have easy access to their Virtual Boy library, or dare I say? The F-Zero X Expansion Kit for the 64DD?
No doubt if I mentioned that to them they'd react like I just did an incantation to awaken Azathoth and doom reality to nonexistence.
The other table "Tower" was a ton more enjoyable with it's lack of the aforementioned bombs, and just in general having a much preferable layout of being a vertical three-screen tall table as opposed to a two-screen wide clunker. It also helps that it uses a dark fantasy setting as opposed to the more uncomfortable "uh... what if the cold war actually packed some heat and we put down a little bit of radiation?" type of theme.
Unfortunate that it ain't exactly Devil's Crush or anything, since there isn't any power metal melting your face off and even the graphics are kinda garish. It's kinda embarassing it released in late 1995, because it's really not a great showcase for the system. This would probably be the third time I'd go "NO WONDER ATARI'S DEAD", but I feel I've used that joke enough times that people would just throw fruit at me.
I've effectively run out of things to say about this, so I'm gonna mention something quick. I actually am glad they're re-releasing a bunch of these games on Atari 50 soon. Most of them really didn't impress me, but as always every game deserves to be accessible in some form no matter what it is, because I doubt many people would go through the trouble I did to get Jaguar emulation going just to experience mid that I missed out on. That's a bunch more courageous than Nintendo who to this day would rather cowardly throw Ice Climber at me for the seventh time than let me have easy access to their Virtual Boy library, or dare I say? The F-Zero X Expansion Kit for the 64DD?
No doubt if I mentioned that to them they'd react like I just did an incantation to awaken Azathoth and doom reality to nonexistence.