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While it does seem pointlessly stingy not to include Pinball Dreams on a full-price re-release of an old game like this when you've got 650 megabytes of storage space to play with, that's not really a valid criticism of the game itself, so I'll get on with it.

This is the same game as the everyday A500 version, except there are apparently 256 colours on display. You don't, in all honesty, notice them at all unless you look at some of the bumpers really closely, but they're there anyway. The other main addition is a musical one, with a couple of new tunes on the table-selection screens, including an absolutely gorgeous mellow piano number reminiscent of the intro music from Agony which I listened to for hours before I could bring myself to play the game.

The game hasn't been changed at all, except there isn't any disk swapping and the high-score table uses up an awful lot of the CD32's built-in save memory. It's the same weekend-swallowingly compulsive game that it used to be, and it still knocks spots off any other pinball game on this or any other format. If you haven't got it for your Amiga, then don't miss this version.

Almost indistinguishable from the ordinary game and no special use of the CD32 at all, and a bit steeply priced given the format and the age of the game, but still currently the best thing you can play on your CD32.