In my incredible journeys through PINBALL NIGHTMARES, I ended up playing Pataank for the 3DO. The game itself is... bad. It's nearly unplayable, tbh; the idea is "first person pinball" but it doesn't work at all. I'm attaching a video I found online at the bottom see how incomprehensible the game itself is, I can't recommend it at all.
However, there's one thing about the game I DID love, and that's the completely deranged announcer at the beginning of every level screaming the rules of the pinball table at you. I couldn't actually find a good recording of his audio for each level online, so I made my own here. I specifically love the WARNING in the first one and the way he bafflingly says "tornaco" on the disaster city level, but all of them have perfect Big Bill Hells energy. Please listen to them, they're the funniest shit I heard all stream
Here's the video of the game itself, also:
A) very good vocal clips but b) this game really has that early western 3d game energy. japanese devs took a while to figure out what to do with 3d to make really satisfying games but all their early experiments were interesting. a lot of american 3d games however were like "well here's a big empty arena plastered with semi relevant scanned bitmaps and irritating animated textures" and boy howdy is this ever that. it looks like there's really only one or two kinds of thing to interact with, the tables are a very simple arrangement of paper thin walls, and the only attempt at actually applying a theme is "uhhhh well the walls have some gifs we got off a clipart disc"
