One of my favorite underrated Wii games is 2007's Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection. I have said many times on these forums that I believe it is the best pinball simulator ever made, and it was released with a retail price of about $20. The first entry in the Pinball Hall of Fame series was the Gottlieb Collection, released in 2004 for the PS2, Xbox, Gamecube & PSP. I own the PS2 version, but playing with a traditional pad is actually pretty lame. Part of the brilliance of The Williams Collection on Wii was that is really feels like you are playing an actual pinball machine, from arm postion to nudging the table in any direction, it truly feels amazing.

European players were treated to a Wii port of the Gottlieb Collection in 2006, with extra tables and the motion control from The Williams Collection. with the extra tables, it was clearly the definitive version of the game.

At last North American Wii gamers are getting a copy of this great pinball sim in the fall of 2009, tables listed below:

(- included on the PS2 version + unlockable on PS2, * new content)

While I don't think this will be superior to the Williams Collection as the Willaims tables are my all time favorites, but this is still a day 1 purchase for me. Glad they included more tables than the PS2 version.

More info :

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/puzzle/pinballhalloffame/news.html?sid=6211636

Tee'd off?!? I played that for real! I love that game.

I made a thread to hype this up a month or two ago.

I'm hoping that they'll recover the license for the Bally tables from Midway's rotting corpse and bring that next. My local arcade sold it's Twilight Zone table! T_T

Wow, this is good news to me. I loved The Williams Collection. Well, all except stupid Jive Time. lol, seeing all your balls going down the drink before you even touch the flippers. There's a reason they give you 5 balls on that table.

Anyway, I love Virtual Pinball. Its one of my favorite genres, which hardly ever gets touched. And even when it does get attempted, its hit or miss, since most companies tend to just consider pinball games, like board games, to be quick money makers.

Now all they need to do is come out with a Pinball collection of all the other classic pinball tables that people actually remember playing.  Like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Addams Family, Elvira, etc.  Most people from 1990 on only remember playing Pinball in Arcades connected to brand names and frankly, these tables would probably sell more than the 'classic' tables.  If you could put those names on a game and still have it be a Pinball title, it would generate a lot more popularity for the genre, as did Kirby's Pinball and Sonic Spinball back in the days.  I wish Nintendo would go back and work on the Pinball genre again... And no, Metroid Pinball was not the right idea.

Since this is a port with superior controls, I hope they are also working on a Willaims Collection 2. I'd love to see some licensed games surface in one of these (Twilight Zone, Adams Family, Star Wars, etc)