David's Midnight Magic is an early computer pinball simulation written by David Snider and released by Brøderbund in 1982. (The game was published in Europe by Ariolasoft). The game was originally released for the Apple II computer platform and was later released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit platforms. Along with Raster Blaster and Night Mission, David's Midnight Magic represented the first wave of home computer pinball simulations available with relatively realistic pinball features.

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  • David's Midnight Magic is an early computer pinball simulation written by David Snider and released by Brøderbund in 1982. (The game was published in Europe by Ariolasoft). The game was originally released for the Apple II computer platform and was later released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit platforms. Along with Raster Blaster and Night Mission, David's Midnight Magic represented the first wave of home computer pinball simulations available with relatively realistic pinball features. In a review by Computer Gaming World, Midnight Magic was flatly stated as a better game than Raster Blaster. However, the review also lamented the requirement of removing write protection from the floppy, thus voiding the warranty, in order to save high scores. David's Midnight Magic is closely modeled after the popular real-life pinball table Black Knight, released by Williams in 1980. The computer simulation, unlike Black Knight, contains bright colors such as green, pink, and blue (depending somewhat on the version of the game) in contrast to Black Knight's darker medieval theme. Atari released a pinball game called Midnight Magic for the Atari 2600 that plays much differently to the similarly-named David's Midnight Magic. David Snider's brother Eric later used his first name in the title of Eric's Ultimate Solitaire. In 2005, a Visual Pinball recreation of David's Midnight Magic was created called David's Midnight Magic 2005 which is rendered with modern 3D graphics.
  • David's Midnight Magic ist ein frühes Computer-Flipper Simulationsprogramm, für die Homecomputer Apple II, C-64 und Atari. Das Spiel wurde von David Snider geschrieben und von der US-amerikanischen Spielefirma Brøderbund im Jahre 1982 veröffentlicht. In Europa wurde das Spiel von Ariolasoft vertrieben. Neben Raster Blaster und Night Mission gehörte David's Midnight Magic zu der ersten Gruppe der Homecomputer Flipper Simulationen. Im Gegensatz zu vielen Flippern, gibt es hier kein vertikales Scrolling; der Flipper befindet sich in Gänze auf der rechten Bildschirmseite. David's Midnight Magic ist im Design an den realen Flipper Black Knight angelehnt, der 1980 von der US-amerikanischen Firma Williams herausgebracht wurde. Im Jahre 2005 wurde das Spiel David's Midnight Magic 2005 veröffentlicht, das sich an das Original anlehnt, aber mit weitaus besseren Grafiken und 3D-Effekten ausgestattet war. Ein Flipper-Spiel von 1984 mit dem ähnlichen Namen Midnight Magic für Atari 2600 ist unabhängig entwickelt worden und weist starke spielerische Unterschiede auf.
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  • David's Midnight Magic was an early computer pinball simulation.
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  • David Snider
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  • Brøderbund
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  • Midnight Magic (Atari 2600)
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  • David's Midnight Magic is an early computer pinball simulation written by David Snider and released by Brøderbund in 1982. (The game was published in Europe by Ariolasoft). The game was originally released for the Apple II computer platform and was later released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit platforms. Along with Raster Blaster and Night Mission, David's Midnight Magic represented the first wave of home computer pinball simulations available with relatively realistic pinball features.
  • David's Midnight Magic ist ein frühes Computer-Flipper Simulationsprogramm, für die Homecomputer Apple II, C-64 und Atari. Das Spiel wurde von David Snider geschrieben und von der US-amerikanischen Spielefirma Brøderbund im Jahre 1982 veröffentlicht. In Europa wurde das Spiel von Ariolasoft vertrieben. Neben Raster Blaster und Night Mission gehörte David's Midnight Magic zu der ersten Gruppe der Homecomputer Flipper Simulationen.
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