Every time pinball is mentioned as a possible candidate for some Saturday-afternoon game playing, eyes start to glaze over, and the unopened Microsoft Entertainment Pack that you got for Christmas last year starts looking more inviting. But the fact is, a good PC pinball simulation can be a great deal of fun, and Addiction Pinball is almost as good as any pinball sim around. The game comes with two tables, both of which are based on other Team17 games. This device works well because the basic gameplay of the originals - Worms 2 and World Rally Fever - provides a good setup for the tables' strategy. On the Worms table, the object is to score kills and complete missions by using specific combinations of shots to the various ramps. Here, hitting a specific ramp at a specified time is more important than scoring points. The Rally Fever table provides a more repetitive strategy where the duplication of certain ramp shots is the key to winning. While it doesn't have the ultrarealism of a game such
