David's Midnight Magic
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David's Midnight Magic is an early computer pinball simulation written by David Snider and released by Brøderbund in 1982. (The game was published in Europe by Ariolasoft). The game was originally released for the Apple II computer platform and was later released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit platforms. Along with Raster Blaster and Night Mission, David's Midnight Magic represented the first wave of home computer pinball simulations available with relatively realistic pinball features.
David's Midnight Magic is closely modeled after the popular real-life pinball table Black Knight, released by Williams in 1980. The computer simulation, unlike Black Knight, contains bright colors such as green, pink, and blue (depending somewhat on the version of the game) in contrast to Black Knight's darker medieval theme. In 1984, Atari released a pinball game called Midnight Magic for the Atari 2600 that plays much differently to the similarly-named David's Midnight Magic.
In 2005, a Visual Pinball recreation of David's Midnight Magic was created called David's Midnight Magic 2005 which is rendered with modern 3D graphics.
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Because the creator put his first name (David) into the title of the game, the creator's brother, Eric Snider, put his own first name into the title of his solitaire game Eric's Ultimate Solitaire which was released years later.
