The popular Windows Pinball game included in Windows for over 10 years was absent from Vista. Here's what happened, and how you can still play it now.

The usual Geek news sites today have featured a blog post entitled, “” The post is interesting but that ain’t why I’ve posted this. Like many others I’ve been using the original XP pinball game in 64-bit Windows since Vista came out without a single issue. Whatever the 64-bit XP problem was must have been worked out by the time Vista rolled out.

Anywho, if you would like the game, I’ve posted a download for you. It comes straight from my XP install. Just unzip it and run PINBALL.EXE. Download (please link to this post and not the file) See: The game runs great in 64-bit Windows 8 (run it in full screen – F4).

Games Crash Bandicoot Ps1. Original folder location: C: Program Files Windows NT pinball Registry location of game info: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Plus! Eric Johnson Hot Licks Pdf on this page. Pinball High scores are in sub-folder SpaceCadet.

Microsoft Windows Pinbal, or 3D Space Cadet Pinball was introduced in Microsoft Plus 95, it then became so popular that it was included in Microsoft Windows NT 4 by default. Microsoft then provided instructions to install it form the Plus 95 CD into Windows 98, it was also included with ME, 2000 and XP. Unfortunately, Microsoft Pinball died a slow and painful death with the release of Windows Vista, or did it? Today I have succesfully ported over all of the files of Microsoft Pinball for Windows XP to Windows Vista And 7 and it is fully functional, below you can see the screenshot of pinball running in Windows 7 and the about box, this is not photoshoped, this is the real deal!