Date: 6th June, 2015

The future of the Zidware game projects Magic Girl, Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland and Alice in Wonderland has been in doubt recently following game designer John Popadiuk's announcement that he has exhausted his funding without having created a complete game.

A rescue package has been put together by a newly-formed entity called Pintasia, and they have brought the Magic Girl prototype game to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show in Tacoma.

It will be revealed to the public later today, but we can bring you advance preview pictures and gameplay video.

The magic girl translite

The cutout on the left is a motorised pachinko-style feature which rotates while a miniature ball bounces off the pins and scores points.

The Magic Girl playfield

We'll add more detail about each area later, but here is a selection of pictures showing key areas of the game.

The display is mounted on the back panel

The lower part of the playfield

The left slingshot

The left orbit and left ramp entrance

The left ramp return, lion saw and other features

Plastic ramps

The central spiral ramp complete with Magna Flips

The top rollover lanes

This is believed to be a ball levitator

The right side of the playfield

Playfield detail

The skill-shot lane

Progress indicator

More playfield detail

Biff bars behind the flippers

Backbox topper

Here's a video of the game in action. There appeared to be fairly minimal rules implemented so far, but it has some nice lighting effects, and great music and sound effects.

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