Some of my friends who are running Vista have asked me where the 3D Space Cadet Pinball (a.k.a. Windows Pinball or 3D Pinball) game is that has been around since the days of Windows 95. Vista includes several games, but no pinball: FreeCell, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Hearts, Minesweeper, Purble Place, Mahjong Titans, Chess Titans, and InkBall.
It’s almost like Microsoft pulling Hover which was from Windows 95, or worse than that is yanking SkiFree and Rodent’s Revenge. Man those were some fun games that ate up a good portion of my childhood.
It looks like Space Cadet Pinball is going to be added to the list of games no longer included with Windows. Don’t shed those tears quite yet because, like many of those classic games, people have made them available for download in other locations. There are two download mirrors below for the pinball game, and it appears to run flawlessly on Vista.
So what other games besides Hover, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge, and now Space Cadet Pinball do you remember from older versions of Windows?
Pinball on Vista Download Location 1 and Download Location 2
Source: Windows X
Windows online checkers, its built into XP. I miss it when using Vista, cause even tho it looks cool, I suck at chess.
Ah gotta love that minesweeper
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Oh yeah, I had forgotten about checkers! That was fun since you could play online against people.
That was hilarious!
Concerning Pinball,where is the pinball.hlp file meant to go?
hey thanks for the pinball , i been looking everywhere for that!!!!!!!! gonna sub to your feed; hope u have some more really neat games. thanks a lot
:lol: 
I liked this info and the like to getting the ol’ pinball, skifree, and rodent’t revenge. However, where can other old windows games like pegged and tictactics be found?
Thanks a bunch !!!
I just checked it out on Vista and it still works. I downloaded the ZIP file, extracted the contents, and ran the Pinball file.
Hi Ryan, I keep trying to open the file and it states it must be a “zip” file to “unzip”. The file I get from the download is ” Pinball_Vista_Final.1.321CO2.EFW file”. My computer doesn’t recognize the file nor does it find an .EXE file. What am I doing wrong? I appreciate your help with this!!!
Thanks a million
I downloaded from Download Location 1, saved to a new folder, and then extracted the files. Clicked on the .exe file and it works great. I really did miss Space Cadet when I got my new Vista computer. Thanks.
F414
Wanted to say thanks for the links to pinball. I have been looking for it all night. My parents bought a new computer with Vista and my Dad was dissapointed there was no pinball. I can’t wait to see his face when I show him tomorrow that I found it for him.
You’re definitely not extracting the contents of the ZIP file if that’s all you’re seeing. Unfortunately there’s not much I can help you with here because it’s all dependent on just unzipping the file.
That’s what we’re here for…helping pinball addicts one at a time.
Hi Ryan
You have been so helpful to others, would be grateful for some help too. Do you know how I can download space cadet pinball to my Mac Computer?
Any help you are able to give, much appreciated.
Rob
Neither of thje download sites for Space Cadet Pinball have the game on them. They have other organizations using the sites now.