Microsoft Pinball Arcade

{{Short description|1998 video game}}

{{For|the pinball game included in several Windows releases|Full Tilt! Pinball#3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet}}

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{{Infobox video game

|title = Microsoft Pinball Arcade

|image = MicrosoftPinballArcade.jpg

|caption = Cover art for the Windows version

|developer = {{ubl|Microsoft|Saffire (GBC)}}

|publisher = {{ubl|Microsoft Home|Classified Games (GBC, US)|Cryo Interactive (GBC, PAL)}}

|designer =

|engine =

|released = {{Start date|1998|12|15}}

|genre = Pinball

|modes = Single-player, multiplayer

|platforms = Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color

}}

Microsoft Pinball Arcade is a pinball video game from Microsoft. It was released on December 15, 1998, for Microsoft Windows and in 2001 for the Game Boy Color. The game is a collection of seven real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb. These include: Baffle Ball (1931), Humpty Dumpty (1947), Knock Out (1950), Slick Chick (1963), Spirit of 76 (1975), Haunted House (1982), and Cue Ball Wizard (1992).

The Game Boy Color version features scaled-down graphics, due to hardware limitations. It also excludes the Humpty Dumpty and Cue Ball Wizard tables. A free trial version of the computer game is also available, with Haunted House as the only playable table up to a limited point on the score. This game was designed for Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0, but it can also natively run on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11 without the need to apply compatibility mode. It included an AVI introduction video clip and a few WAV files for special added sound effects, such as Human talking voice and a Moose call.