''Midnight Magic'' is a pinball video game written by Glenn Axworthy for the

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and released by

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in 1986, although on-screen it displays a copyright of 1984. In spite of licensing the name from Broderbund, the Atari 2600 version of ''Midnight Magic'' uses a completely different table design from ''

David's Midnight Magic ''David's Midnight Magic'' is a pinball simulation video game written by David Snider for the Apple II and published by Broderbund in 1982. The game was published in Europe by Ariolasoft. A port to the Atari 8-bit family was released the same y ...

'', a pinball simulation published for the

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in 1982.

Gameplay

''Midnight Magic'' uses the

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joystick A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. A joystick, also known as the control column, is the principal cont ...

for activating the flippers and shooting the ball. Moving the joystick controller down pulls the pinball machine plunger back while pressing the joystick button shoots the ball into the playfield. The left and right flippers are activated by moving the joystick controller left or right. Hitting all five drop targets at the top of the table increases the bonus multiplier (2x, 3x, and so on). Extra balls can be earned when hitting the rollover targets at the top left and right corners of the table when the bonus multiplier is activated.AtariAge - Atari 2600 Manuals (HTML) - Midnight Magic (Atari)
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Reception

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'' rated it 81% in 1989.

References

External links

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