3-D Ultra Pinball
3-D Ultra Pinball is a series of pinball computer games developed by Sierra Entertainment's Dynamix.
The games try to escape from the traditional, arcade pinball and feature animation, more than one table at once,
and "temporary targets".
3-D Ultra Pinball
The original 3-D Ultra Pinball game was released in 1995. This game is based on the space simulation game, Outpost. There are three tables named Colony, Command Post, and Mine. Each table holds a set of five challenges. Smaller "mini-tables" are featured with their own set of flippers. The goal is to build and launch a Starship completing the game's entire course.3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night
The second game, Creep Night had a horror film set, and 3 different tables :- Castle, fragmented in town, castle area and graveyard. Its challenges are Zombies, Goblins, Runaway, Vortex and Wraith.
- Tower, a mad scientist lab. The challenges are: Rat, Energy Gate, Beast, Goblin, and Dynamo. After finishing all 5 challenges, the "Frankenstein monster" revives and is needed to hit him 5 times.
- Dungeon. The Challenges are: Gobbler, Spiders, Dimension Door, Trapdoor and Skeleton Escape. Like in Tower, after beating them a Catapult appears, and the player must have to hit it some times.
This was also released with several demos of other software titles also by Sierra Online.
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night received a score of 3 out of 5 from MacUser.
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
Lost Continent had a Jurassic Park-like set. It followed a storyline, in which a plane falls on an island where an evil genius, Heckla, has created dinosaurs of other animals and the cavemen who live there. Professor Spector, his assistant Mary, and adventurer Rex Hunter try to escape back to the modern world, rescue tribal woman Neeka and stop Heckla and his army of robots.It has no challenges but features 16 tables, divided in 3 "sectors": Jungle, Temple and Chambers.
3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball
As the title reads, it is a NASCAR-themed pinball, released in 1998.The game only has 3 fields: garage, track and pitstop.
It features several famous NASCAR drivers like Dale Earnhart and Bobby Labonte as playable characters, but the choice affects only audio commentaries and field decorations.