Pro Pinball: Big Race USA (1998) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pro Pinball: Big Race USA

A whirlwind frenzy of color, sound, and adrenaline-pumping action. Take an exciting ride across the USA for your chance to compete in the big race and win hoards of cash. But watch out for the police car on…

87 31 December 1998

What Pro Pinball: Big Race USA is

Pro Pinball: Big Race USA is a pinball game developed by Cunning Development and released in 1998. It was published by Empire Interactive. It is available on PlayStation, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pro Pinball: Big Race USA is an action video game developed by Cunning Developments, published by Empire Interactive and distributed by Take-Two Interactive for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation. It is the third game in the Pro Pinball series, and is themed around travelling around the United States in a car, similar to the Williams physical table Red & Ted's Road Show.

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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.

How it was received

Pro Pinball: Big Race USA holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 94% of the 64 rated pinball games in our database, which average 75. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Pro Pinball: Big Race USA launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

Cheats and codes

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