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Pinball Construction Set
Pinball Construction Set ("PCS") is a video game by Bill Budge published by Electronic Arts. It was developed for the Apple II and ported to the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 in 1983. "Pinball Construction Set" created a new genre of video games—the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. Users can construct their own virtual pinball machine by dropping bumpers, flippers, spinners and other pinball paraphernalia onto a table. Attributes such as gravity and the physics
readers named the game the ninth most-popular Apple and Atari program of 1983. "Computer Gaming World" in 1996 declared "Pinball Construction Set" the 50th-best computer game ever released, and ranked it #1 in the magazine's list of the most innovative computer games. "Pinball Construction Set" is an inductee in "GameSpy"'s Hall of Fame. In 2008, "Pinball Construction Set" was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for "User Generated Content/Game Modification"