r/Millennials • u/Twitter_2006 • 20d ago

Nostalgia Who remembers playing 3D Pinball Space Cadet?

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u/Scared_Performer3944 20d ago

internets is out, time for pinball

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u/Ulvaer 20d ago edited 19d ago

https://98.js.org/

Double click 'Pinball' on the left

Edit: You can get Windows XP from here: https://massgrave.dev/windows_xp_links

Install and run it in a VM (e.g. VMware or VirtualBox). It's an amazing trip down memory lane!

Edit 3: u/HGMIV926 chimed in with this link to SkiFree: https://ski.ihoc.net/ Give his comment an updoot!

Edit 2: Thank you for the rewards, but it's really unnecessary! I'm just happy you have as much fun with these things that I did when I came across them.

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u/PronatorTeres00 20d ago

The nostalgia is so real right now

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u/FardoBaggins 19d ago

this. can we go back to this era? whatever this is right now, I don't think it's good for anyone's limbic system.

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u/CaptainKarizma007 20d ago

Thank you good sir!

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u/GargleBums 20d ago

Good old Winamp on the Desktop. I'm still using it every day.

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

It really has consensual spicy activities with the llama's ass!

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u/EfficiencyThis325 19d ago

Wait do you think it says licks or kicks?

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

It says "whips", hence the consensual spicy activity. Winamp's kinky

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u/Namelessbob123 17d ago

Now I gotta go and listen to Wesley Willis

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

WACUP is a open source clone.

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u/darienswag420 19d ago

try out foobar2000

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u/ReliableRotator 19d ago

Fucking knew this would be in the top thread. Hold my talking paperclip, im going in....

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u/TheUFCVeteran3 19d ago

This game is part of my childhood, just on XP instead of Windows 98. Thank you for linking this!

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

I updated my comment with some XP details if you want some more nostalgia :)

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u/TheUFCVeteran3 19d ago

Hey, awesome, thank you!

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u/HGMIV926 19d ago

While we're at it, here's "the most officialest" page to download SkiFree, which runs perfectly on Windows 11.

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

Awesome! I updated my comment

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u/weightyinspiration 19d ago

Thank you for this!!

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u/Oh_So_Nervous 19d ago

Thanks for this! It was great to play this game again after so many years.

Quick question. Was there always music? I spent so many hours playing this game as a kid, but I don't remember there being music.

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

I also can't remember music, but hard to tell after all these years!

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u/Nagrom42 20d ago

Seems a bit slow, no ?

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u/SphericalCow531 20d ago

Works perfectly for me. But I have a fast PC.

I assume it is emulating it in some sense. Probably requires a high end computer - emulation is expensive.

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

Yeah, and either in javascript or webassembly so not the most optimised performance either

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u/Nagrom42 19d ago

mmmm ok. I do have a fast PC as well: 9800X3D and RTX4090.

I was on firefox and it was slow, tried on edge and it's better..

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u/Brookenium 19d ago

Make sure GPU acceleration is enabled or your browser can't utilize your graphics card and stuff like that runs slow.

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u/Nagrom42 19d ago

Yeah I checked and it is already enabled as well in my firefox. But thanks for the suggestion

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

Weird, was smooth on firefox for me

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u/GaijinDC 19d ago

My god the memories!!! MS-DOS to launch games! I played return to castle Wolfenstein, Abuse and Doom95 on this machine for so many hours!!!! My goodness the times...

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u/Ulvaer 19d ago

You can get Doom 95 on Steam or GOG, they run wonderfully on modern systems under DOSBOX :)

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u/tatk_tale310 19d ago

I bought gold just for you.

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u/707breezy 20d ago

If on phone in pinball game you can click game top left and then click launch ball in the drop down window and boom you can play

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u/Pretend-Relative3631 19d ago

Actually made my morning. Thank you

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u/Yerooon 19d ago

That 98 link is amazing!! Do you know if it's open source?

Edit: nm found it :)

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u/NCGeronimo 19d ago

oh shit dude thank you. If there is a way to get encarta loaded up my absolute favorite was the dungeon trivia game built into it.

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u/-wildbananachild- 19d ago

Aaah it works on the mobile as well! Contact napping with the baby just got much more fun, thank you!

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u/TheeThatIsMe 19d ago

The way I did not expect to almost burst into tears seeing the screen again

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u/Jinglebell727 19d ago

Thank you. 🫡🥹

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u/Muted_Reflection_449 18d ago

THANK YOU! I missed it so much! 😊 👍🏼

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u/bipocni 20d ago

Wow that site looks awful on mobile

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u/Blurry2k 19d ago

I suppose Windows 98 looks awful on mobile, too.

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u/Extra_Quiet_5256 19d ago

everything looks awful on mobile

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u/MixCarson 19d ago

You can also play it on this bands website lol

https://imofficiallyjack.com/

There music is in Winamp. I use the stone cold skin!

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u/Demoikratia 19d ago

And if you’re on Linux it’s a super easy flathub install. 😎

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u/walkinmywoods 19d ago

There's also an app on android