Pinball Construction Set

Pinball Construction Set
Pinball Construction Set
	"Album cover" box
Developer(s)	BudgeCo
Publisher(s)	BudgeCo NA: Electronic Arts; EU: Ariolasoft;
Designer(s)	Bill Budge
Platform(s)	Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Mac
Release	1982: Apple; 1983: Apple (EA), Atari, C64; 1985: IBM PC; November 1985: Mac
Genre(s)	Pinball, game creation system
Mode(s)	Single-player

Pinball Construction Set is a video game by Bill Budge written for the Apple II.^[2] It was originally published in 1982 through Budge's own company, BudgeCo, then was released by Electronic Arts in 1983 along with ports to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64.

The game created a new genre of video games: the construction set. Users can build and play their own virtual pinball machine by dropping bumpers, flippers, spinners, and other parts onto a table. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model can be modified. Tables can be saved to floppy disks and freely traded; Pinball Construction Set is not needed to play them.^[3]

Versions were released for the IBM PC compatibles (as a self-booting disk) and Mac in 1985. EA followed Pinball Construction Set with Music Construction Set, Adventure Construction Set, and Racing Destruction Set all from different authors.

^ "1985 Index" (PDF). Computer Entertainer. Vol. 4, no. 10. January 1986. p. 6.
^ Cite error: The named reference softline198211 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference davies198405 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[CE1985-1] "1985 Index" (PDF). Computer Entertainer. Vol. 4, no. 10. January 1986. p. 6.

[softline198211-2] Cite error: The named reference softline198211 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[davies198405-3] Cite error: The named reference davies198405 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1]

[2]

[3]