Tales of the Arabian Nights is a 1996 pinball machine produced by Williams. The game is based on the stories of One Thousand and One Nights and features a blue jinn. The marketing slogan is "Your Wish is Granted".[1]
Description
Players can experience 7 Tales of the Arabian Nights that includes a travel around the ancient city of Baghdad, flying with the magic carpet and battling the evil genie. Rubbing the magic lamp conjure good genies that help to rescue the princess. The game uses a vertical magnet diverter that grabs the ball and hurls it back at the player for more suspense as an industry first. The game also includes spikes that rise up and save the ball when the shooting stars are summoned.[2]
Digital versions
Tales of the Arabian Nights was available for free as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms during the first six years of its availability, before FarSight Studios lost the license to make digital versions of Williams pinball tables and delisted on June 30, 2018. It is one of three dot-matrix tables exclusively available in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of FarSight's Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection. Prior to these two games, it was included in the 2001 computer game Williams Pinball Classics.[3]
The table was released for Pinball FX 3 as part of the volume 5 of Zen Studios' curation of Williams tables, which began in the fall of 2018 after Zen Studios acquired the license for digital Williams tables; with a remastered version released for Pinball FX on May 26, 2022
It was also released in several mobile games, including Zen Studios Williams Pinball mobile app for iOS and Android