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VPX download link: Spider-Man Vault Edition by VPin Workshop

Okay so there's multiple editions of Stern's Spider-Man pinball table, and different versions of Spider-Man they are based on, and I am not the one to keep track of them. Here's what I do know: the pinball table has tons of flow and I love to play it.

I saw "Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire Is Upside Down" when I was in high school. I never read the comics. @FlannelKat informs me that the 2007 version of the table is based on Tobey Maguire and the 2016 version of the table is based on the comics. Also she is excited about callouts by J. K. Simmons. I don't know who that is.

I enjoyed Moxy Früvous's a cappella cover of the Spider-Man theme song when I was a teen. I didn't know it was the theme song, I thought they just had a song about Spider-Man. That has nothing to do with anything in this pinball table, sadly.

I'm possibly supposed to refer to one of the Spider-Men as being "Amazing". The pinball table is amazing but I believe it's not named The Amazing Spider-Man. That's a different pinball table from 1980.


The 2007 table and the 2016 table run on different ROMs with mostly the same rules, and different playfields with mostly the same layout. VPin Workshop's virtual version has their own table art that isn't the same as either edition but is more like the 2016 edition. Also, you can run it with either ROM! But if you run it with the 2007 ROM, the shots on the table are named the wrong things, because the ROM will depict events from the movie and the table art refers to events from the comic.

(The left image on this post is VPin Workshop's virtual playfield, and the right image is the physically existing playfield of Stern's 2016 edition.)

Confused yet? Because I am, even after my wife's fact-check.

Anyway, VPin Workshop made a satisfying and physically realistic virtual version of the Spider-Man pinball table(s). They changed the art, for whatever reason, and their new art looks good.

Spider-Man pinball is fun. Bring me pinballs of Spider-Man.


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