The current free update for TAB Austria's Virtual Pinball features new graphics, wild sounds and a hidden Side Game. The brand new V1.1 software version for the world's first digital pinball, the Virtual Pinball, has arrived in time for the autumn season and allows operators and players to more intensively access the advantages of the electronic pinball. The machine features a hidden new game, the Side Game -
pictured, which can be entered by shooting the middle ramp three times.
The aim of the Side Game is for the player to keep the single element, the ball, resembling a pinball - in the half-pipe path. On the way through the half-pipe bonus symbols appear which increase the score.
TAB-Austria have also announced they will release two new games in January 2004 at exhibitions,
IMA in Nuremberg and
ATEI in London. One of the games is cited to be a further pinball game and the second a non-pinball. Both games will be available in one update and can additionally be installed to the existing game, Popstar.