Though Pinball FX VR has only been available for a short time, it’s very quickly become a title that I play just about every day. Given that I wasn’t playing the Meta Quest 3 daily prior to Pinball FX VR’s arrival, it’s a pretty impressive achievement to get me into the headset so regularly!

Of course, I am an old school, IRL pinball fan, and since the late 80s I’ve made a point of trying any pinball machine I find in the wild, circumstances permitting of course. So when tables such as the iconic The Addams Family, or The Twilight Zone (one of my favourite tables of all time) were included in the first wave of DLC for Pinball FX VR, I knew I’d be coming back again and again.

Now an astonishing 9 more real world, classic tables have been added to Pinball FX VR, with three DLC packs featuring 3 Williams machines each. Some of which I’m pretty familiar with in real life, and others I’ve played before digitally (either in Pinball Arcade, or earlier versions of Pinball FX, or both!).

Two of the best tables I’ve ever played are included here; the first of those, Attack From Mars, is in Volume 2 alongside The Party Zone and Black Rose, and the superb Theater of Magic is in Volume 3, with the unique Safe Cracker and The Champion Pub.

Two other games I’ve played for real – The Getaway: High Speed II and Medieval Madness – are in Volume 1, accompanied by Junk Yard.

As was the case with the base game and the initial DLC, these tables are stunningly well recreated, and better than that, they’re even enhanced with fancy effects and objects flying in and around the machines. It’s hugely immersive and beautifully done, though there were a few times (a dragon flying near the flippers in Medieval Madness during multiball, or a rocket constantly in the centre of the table in The Party Zone) that this becomes an annoyance, occasionally even a hindrance.

Still, these effects can be turned off for a more authentic, faithful experience, but most of the time these properly enhance the games and their audiovisual splendour.

Though you may want to just pick up the tables you’re familiar with, in my opinion it’s difficult to not just grab them all; especially as they fill up another room in your virtual arcade really nicely.

I did find that the mixed reality option, which allows you to arrange and place pinball tables in your actual room, could be a little twitchy, but I encountered no issues whatsoever when playing in the fully immersive VR mode.

With all of these excellent versions of real tables, I’ve so far resisted picking up the Universal TV tables, and I’ve not touched the base game’s three original tables since getting my hands on the Williams machines. Truth be told, there’s something really special about being able to play classic machines, with timeless designs that hold up perfectly, decades later.

The late 80s, early to mid 90s period felt like a real golden age for pinball design, and just about every single one of my favourite machines ever are from that exact time. So being able to play them in an incredibly immersive way, with what feels like the full size machine right there in front of me, is an absolute dream come true.

Not that I’m impatient or anything, but if you’re listening Zen, I think you should bring us Creature from the Black Lagoon and Monster Bash next. Just an idea!

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