Android developer Federico Matteoni has posted a ready-made Android port of Microsoft’s 3D Pinball game, which first appeared on computers with Windows 95 27 years ago, in his profile on the GitHub portal. The transferred arcade is based on the original edition Space Cadet. Maxis Software’s Full Tilt pinball) and uses compiled code from another community modder under the pseudonym Iscle.

The presented mobile version of 3D Pinball Space Cadet for Android retains the classic gameplay and is optimized for touch control of smartphones – you can throw the ball and move the left and lower paws by pressing the button to adjust the trigger force. The player can also set a nickname, see the number of points scored and check for updates by following the link to the project pool. All functions are available in settings. The current version at the time of writing – 1.2 (4).

It turned out that Windows XP is the last generation of Windows, for which 3D Pinball Space Cadet is provided by default. Enthusiasts, who did not want to part with a colorful pinball before, implemented the game online with an emulator. There are other third-party ports available today, including Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.