Take a Break! Pinball

Take a Break! Pinball

Developer(s)	Dynamix, Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s)	Sierra On-Line
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	1993
Genre(s)	Pinball
Mode(s)	Single-playerMultiplayer
Distribution	3.5" floppy disk and CD-ROM

Take a Break! Pinball was a 1993 pinball computer game collection by Dynamix/Sierra On-line. It contained several individual boards based on various Dynamix or Sierra series such as King's Quest, Space Quest, Willy Beamish, Leisure Suit Larry, and Nova 9: Return of Gir Draxon. It is the second game in the Take a Break! series of casual Windows games. It was designed for Windows 3.x.^[1]

Boards

Quest for Daventry

This board is based on King's Quest V. The game follows the narrative of the adventure game with objectives based on locations and encounters from that game. As objectives are completed on the board, new locations are opened up on the map. On this board, there was a bug that made the ball invisible after entering the Endless Desert Temple Stone Wall Trap. This was later patched with an updated DLL file.^[2]

Planet Pinball

Three boards based on Space Quest IV.^[3]

Larry's Big Score

This board is based on Larry 5. It was later released as a stand alone game in the early Leisure Suit Larry collections.

Flipped Out Willy

This board is based on the The Adventures of Willy Beamish.

Draxon

Two boards based on Nova 9.

Reception

Interactive Entertainment CD ROM Magazine criticized the colorful graphics on the some boards, saying that they made it "nearly impossible to keep your eye on the ball". They said that "taken as a serious pinball simulation, it falls short in more than one area".^[4]