Digital Pinball: Necronomicon

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Digital Pinball: Necronomicon is a Pinball video game created for the Sega Saturn by KaZe in 1996. Only released in Japan, this high-res 2D game draws much of its graphical and audio inspiration from the metafictional Necronomicon. Most video pinball aficionado hold this title in high regard for its overall look and feel as well as its superior playability.

Necronomicon is noteworthy for several reasons. It's one of the few Saturn games to run in interlaced high-resolution. This gives it a much more detailed view of the playfield, and is generally more visually appealing. The physics are incredibly well realized, with accurate ball movements from every target and flipper.

The sound is also exceptional, with a crisp rock soundtrack and a wealth of high-bitrate samples that put the Saturn's soundchip through its paces like few other games did.

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Digital Pinball: Necronomicon contains 3 separate playfields, or tables:

"Arkham Asylum"
"Dreamlands"
"Cult of The Bloody Tongue"

All three tables are playable from the start menu. If a player chooses Realms Mode the he is required to play "Arkham Asylum" until he reaches sufficient progress to move on to the remaining two tables.

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Kaze went on to produce several other pinball games, including Power Rangers Pinball for the Playstation, Akira Psychoball for the Playstation 2, and a series of truly awful Java pins on the Japanese J-Phone/Vodafone network. They never realized the brilliance of Necronomicon again. The closest they ever came was the Saturn prequel, Last Gladiators, which is solid but uninspired in comparison.

Kaze's main business now is web development.