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Balls of Steel

You’ll flip out over the coolest, fastest, most innovative quicksilver ball-basher in the known universe! Across five savage, fully-animated tables, from the ricochet riot of Firestorm to the intense overload…

12 December 1997

Balls of Steel is a pinball developed by Wildfire Studios, released 12 December 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Balls of Steel is

Balls of Steel is a pinball game developed by Wildfire Studios and released in 1997. It was published by 3D Realms. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You’ll flip out over the coolest, fastest, most innovative quicksilver ball-basher in the known universe! Across five savage, fully-animated tables, from the ricochet riot of Firestorm to the intense overload of Duke Nukem, Balls of Steel delivers all the authentic gravitational pyrotechnics of real pinball. View all the tables at once or get close for some whiplash scrolling action! Go gonzo with the 5 ball multi-ball mayhem! Squash scampering aliens to bloody oblivion! Hit rails, flippers, pops, sinkholes, targets, magnetic flippers, ramps, the 'cyclotron' ball accelerator -- every conceivable pinball feature in all its glory! Its authentic pinball action -- whiplash fast and…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Balls of Steel launched on 12 December 1997, within three weeks of Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing and Time Crisis II.

Released around the same time: Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II.

Official trailer

Gameplay video thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Balls of Steel come out?
Balls of Steel was released on 12 December 1997 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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