When Windows 98 came out, it oddly did not come with 3D Pinball. The very next year Cinematronics was bought by Maxis, another game developing company, that eventually got acquired by Electronic Arts another year later.Īs for Pinball, the game became so popular that it was ported from Windows 95 to Windows NT 4.0 for the 1996 release. For Cinematronics, a small software company then, it meant exposure to millions of Windows users and thousands of developers.
The game was originally developed by a game developing company called Cinematronics, who sold licensing rights of the game to Microsoft for inclusion in Microsoft Plus for Windows 95.
When Windows 95 came out, one of the features of the new operating system was that it provided a great platform for gaming, and lots of developers were clamoring for a piece of the action. Remember Window’s 3D Space Cadet Pinball game? Better known as simply Pinball, the game was introduced in Windows 95 via the Microsoft Plus pack, an add-on for the operating system that included games and content from third-party companies.
