为何Microsoft从Windows删除3D Pinball（以及如何将其恢复）

Forget Solitaire and Minesweeper. The best game ever included with Windows was a virtual pinball table. With blinking lights and arcade sounds, 3D Pinball for Windows seemed like magic back in 1995, and is surprisingly playable even today.

忘记纸牌和扫雷 。 Windows附带的最好的游戏是虚拟弹球桌。 带有闪烁的灯光和街机声音，Windows的3D Pinball早在1995年就看起来像是魔术，即使在今天，它仍然可以令人惊讶地播放。

But don’t check your Start menu: Microsoft hasn’t included Space Cadet Pinball in any release since Windows XP, and unlike Microsoft Paint, it’s probably not going to see a Windows Store reboot anytime soon.

但是不要检查“开始”菜单：自Windows XP以来，Microsoft尚未在任何发行版中添加Space Cadet Pinball，并且与Microsoft Paint不同 ，它可能不会很快恢复Windows Store的运行。

Why isn’t this game bundled with Windows anymore? And is there any way to bring it back yourself? Let’s take a little walk down memory lane, before we show you a way to rip this game from an official Microsoft download.

为什么该游戏不再与Windows捆绑在一起？ 有什么办法可以把它带回来吗？ 让我们走一段记忆的路，然后向您展示一种从Microsoft官方下载中窃取此游戏的方法。

为什么从Windows Vista中删除弹球 (Why Pinball Was Dropped From Windows Vista)

“3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet” is the most 90s Microsoft name possible. It’s unnecessarily long, includes the biggest buzzword in gaming circa 1995—3D!—and jams the words “for Windows” in there just to remind you which operating system you’re using. But despite the Extremely Microsoft Name, the game itself didn’t come from Redmond.

“适用于Windows的3D Pinball – Space Cadet”是90年代微软可能使用的名称。 它的长度不必要地长，包括大约1995年游戏中最大的流行词-3D ！，并在其中插入“ for Windows”一词只是为了提醒您您使用的是哪个操作系统。 但是，尽管拥有极其微软的名字，但游戏本身并非来自雷德蒙德。

No, Microsoft commissioned Texas-based developer Cinematronics to build 3D Pinball, which was intended to show off the gaming capabilities of Windows 95 in a world where most PC developers were sticking with DOS.

不，微软委托德克萨斯州的开发商Cinematronics来构建3D Pinball，该产品旨在在大多数PC开发人员都使用DOS的世界中展示Windows 95的游戏功能。

Development of 3D Pinball was hectic, as this Daily Dot article outlines, but the team was able to pull it off. Microsoft included the game in “Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95,” a separate $50 CD that also included the precursor to Internet Explorer. The game was later bundled wit