Dont remove your SL install just yet, if you want to play this..
I got this game at the current version (which was, and ATM still is, 1.3) while running OSX 10.6.8.. it ran perfectly, and is a great game with lots of bells and whistles, so its definitely resource intensive. In fact, I really cant say enough about this one, it may well be the best Gameprom has put out yet. The arcade games inside of the pinball are way cool, and every detail is carefully thought out, including super responsive flippers and a perfect handling ball.
Until , that is, I installed Lion. In Lion , the game is pretty much unplayable.. the flippers have a half second delay, the scroll is jerky and slow , and the ball creeps along. Exactly like Pinball HD version 1.8. Version 1.8 was apparently meant to increase ML compatability but it broke Lion compatability, with completely unresponsive flippers and a ball so slow you could go for a coffee before it reached the bottom of the table. I luckily found a copy I had backed up of version 1.7, which works flawlessly, so that was solved, but no possibility to do that with Arcade pinball. I should point out that Zen pinball, Pinball arcade, and all the others run perfectly on my Lion install so the problem is with Arcade pinball. I AM SURE that reverting to version 1.2 would fix the issue, because, like Pinball HD, this is a recent ML compatibility update, but I have been unable to get any kind of response from support. Until such time as I do, I cant give it more than 3 stars because fact is a lot of folks are NOT using Snow Leopard anymore, and I certainly would NEVER recommend it for Lion users. I luckily kept my SL partition, because Lion is horriible, and if I only had it I could no longer do half the things on my mac that I do every day, but thats another issue altogether. I installed it because of some apps minimum requirements only, but I dont want to have to boot between two OSs simply to play a Gameprom pinball.
Its a real shame, because its possibly Gameproms best pinball ever. I think that they should respond to support requests also about this issue.
PS.. I should like to point out, re the other review, that it is not $.99, but $3.99.. if the price went up since the update thats even worse, IMHO...
Doccus Rockus MAximus about Arcade Pinball, v1.3