Visual Pinball (VPX)

Visual Pinball (“VP”) is a freeware and source available video game engine for pinball tables and similar games such as pachinko machines. It includes a table editor as well as the simulator itself, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It can be used with Visual PinMAME, an emulator for ROM images from real pinball machines.

A huge variety of user-created VP tables are available on the internet. Players can choose between faithful recreations of existing pinball machines, with or without ROM emulation, and original pinball simulations based on licensed or completely original themes. VP’s scripting capabilities can also be used to create pinball-like games such as pitch-and-bat baseball, pinball bingo, bowling, cue sports, and pachinko.

VP can be used with common desktop PCs and monitors, but also supports “virtual pinball” cabinets, with various monitors and TVs used to display the playfield and backbox, similar to a real pinball machine. 3D televisions are supported; and recent versions support touch controls for playing on tablet computers and smartphones.

ref: Wikipedia

There are many ways you can get into digital pinball. The main options are:

1. Run On Your Computer
   You can run Visual Pinball on your desktop computer and use your keyboard to control the flippers and other controls.
2. Entry Level Virtual Pinball Machine
   You can buy an entry level virtual pinball machine such as those from Arcade 1UP and AtGames and then modify them with an external more powerful computer.
3. Full Size Virtual Pinball Machine
   Dive straight in a buy yourself a ready built full size Virtual Pinball machine.

Download Visual Pinball from GitHub: https://github.com/vpinball