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Play Store 3D Pinball Space Cadet Download

From the article:

If you grew up in the Windows XP era, than you probably spent hours playing its iconic free game, “3D Pinball Space Cadet.” Now, “Space Cadet” pinball has been ported to Android, and it’s completely free.

One of the many things that Windows XP will be remembered for is the pinball game that essentially everyone who ever used the operating system played at some point or another. The game has been immortalized many times, and now it’s available on Android.

Developer Kyle Sylvertre used a decompiled version of Space Cadet Pinball from k4zmu2a on GitHub to bring the game to the Google Play Store for Android users. The game is optimized for touchscreens with the left and right sides of the display acting as the triggers, and you can also tap the far right side to use the ball launcher. The game runs in portrait mode, supports 18 languages, integrates with Google Play Games for a leaderboard, and is less than 5MB in size.

And it’s all completely free too.

There are no ads or in-app purchases here, as the developer “just wanted to see it on Android with a Google Play leaderboard.” On that note, cheats are disabled to keep the integrity of that leaderboard, but the developer hints that cheats might come back with an option to turn off the leaderboard.

In any case, it’s a nice hit of nostalgia. Drop your high score in the comments below.

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[–] FancyLad@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I think it stood for "Medical Communication for Combat Casually care" hence the monikor. Not sure if it integrated with the "blue force tracker" system, as we never really used it during deployment.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

On my second tour of Iraq of a few the yanks gave us this system that's prob still secret so I won't say much about it but it had a screen with a windows app on it and I'f you fucked about wirh it you could get pinball on it we used to have tournaments to see who could get top score at 4am on the Iran boarder between foot patrols fun times

Luke didn't make it, so we made sure to keep him as the top scorer.

Funny what you remember, doom scrolling.

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

RIP Luke, God tier pinball wizard.

[–] Biscuit@ani.social 7 points 2 days ago

Luke, the legend.

o7

[–] FancyLad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mc4 (probably)! I used to be an administrator and the only thing I used it for was as a palm pilot lol

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Not sure what that it is it's a anti friendly fire thing so they could tell who was where if that helps

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I downloaded it from Github a couple years back. https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s on Linux too if anyone’s interested. I was playing it yesterday.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago
[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It won't download for me via Aurora store. I'm guessing Google already kicked it for copyright infringement?

Edit: Disregard above, the app downloaded fine

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just downloaded it without issue on google play.

[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

It was a problem on my end. I just installed it and now I'm pinballing like its 2001!

[–] Saucepain@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

So many hours sunk into this game...

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not an airhead and I don't use the Google Play Store. I don't use Google. Google kills kids.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is it in any way legal?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago
[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I fondly remember playing this back in Elementary. Good times

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

A version of that game has been out since 2019: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azurinteractive.pinball

I was confused because I've had this on my phone for years now.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

FYI: The one you linked is riddeled with trackers and ads, as well as needing more permissions than needed.

vs.

For those interested the full report of the app: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.azurinteractive.pinball/latest/

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah I block everything like that anyway so I never knew lel.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Yer thats good, I just "have" to point these things out in general. I assume most people here on Lemmy know a thing or two already about this :P

[–] dewittlebook@lemdro.id 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The one in the article and linked above does not have ads

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Good point, I block all ads so I never noticed.

[–] bluespin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

According to the store page, that one collects and shares personal data

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is also a complete remake with different physics unfortunately.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Never really noticed a difference tbh, I think it's mostly similar.