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Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey (Mac OS Classic)

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Jules Verne predicted so many aspects of our modern world—lunar modules, electric submarines, steampunk—but he never foresaw his own novels being pastiched in the medium of computer-simulated pinball.

Or if he did, he kept it to himself.

Flags#

This needs some investigation.
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Specifically: Is this used on the European CD?

The US version's installer contains an unused language selection dialog that uses flags instead of ordinary buttons. It can be made to appear, fully functional, if the data from DITL 132 is transplanted into DITL 128.

Used

Unused

Internet Functionality#

Fantastic Journey lacked the online play of its predecessor Big Race USA, but retained the relevant dialogs. One of them still carries the title of the earlier game.