Windows: 486-33 CPU, 8 MB RAM, 2 MB hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM drive, Windows-compatible sound card with DAC, SVGA video card and monitor capable of displaying 256 colors in 640-by-480 pixel resolution, and Windows 95 or Windows 3.1 (separate drivers are included for each of these operating systems).
One could honestly say that without a sound card, the game would be relatively lifeless. One can easily adjust the volume of the background tunes, noises and voices through a well-designed control panel. The audio in the game - both the music and the sound effects - is raucous, addictive and wacky. The moving characters that serve as targets are consistently done in a whimsical cartoon format, adding to the overarching tone of fun rather than fright. The graphics in this game are excellent - much more detailed, textured and vibrant than in most pinball games. The only drawback in the gameplay is that, when a player triggers a complex animation, there is a small pause in the action even on very fast computers. The play itself requires more awareness of everything going on, beyond simply tracking the ball, than do most computer pinball games. For example, using the Microsoft SideWinder Gamepad - as I did - makes the flipper action much more natural than with the keyboard. However, unlike most pinball games, Creep Night allows for joystick/gamepad support as well as keyboard support, and this indeed proves to be very handy. If you accomplish this, a bonus table appears and you face the Goblin King in what is aptly described as a "ghoulish grand finale."Īs with most pinball games, the controls are quite intuitive for moving the flippers and plunger and for nudging the ball on the table. Your mission is to send the creatures packing and conquer the challenges posed in three tables, depicting the castle courtyard, the mad scientist's laboratory and the dungeon catacombs. The plot, which is almost incidental to the game, involves the centennial opening of a vortex to an underground world inhabited by ghosts, gremlins and gargoyles. There is no doubt that this last game represents the best pinball Sierra has ever produced, and indeed Creep Night is among the best computer pinball games available today. Finally, right before l Halloween1996 Sierra released Creep Night, making still further improvements to the game and including original table backgrounds not directly connected to any other Sierra product. In 1995 Sierra began the current series with the highly-successful release of the original 3-D Ultra Pinball, and the graphics background was still based on an existing Sierra game - Outpost - but the graphics, sound, and gameplay were vastly improved. You can see some videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE
You could try it using a sandbox program just in case. There is a download via Gamefabrique HERE, which indicates it's okay with the following operating systems: Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/2000/Vista/WinXP however when I uploaded it to Virus Total it was flaggted by around 50% of the antimalware suites.
The executable version is 437MB in size and is only available in English. The ISO file is 293MB in size and is available in three languages English, French and German. The ISO version will require a CD or DVD to install it to using a buner that can copy ISO files to disk. You can download an ISO, a Win 3.x or a Mac version HERE, plus there's a link on the same page for the games manual. All are not fee to download and all are Windows compatible. If you love pinball games, this one is a must have (the othe 3-D Ultra Piball games are also well worth having. cHowever, it's still one of my all time favorite pinball games. I seem to remember playing it on a monit=or about 14 in size at 800 x 600 resolution. On a large monitor the graphic is very pixilated. When you compare the graphic to the latest pinball games such as Pinball FX and Zaccarina Pinball, it looks really dated. We'd spend hours taking tunrs trying to beat each others scores. I had a lot of fun playing this with friends when it was first released. Released via Sierra On-Line, Inc and created by Dynamix, Inc in 1996.