Glad to hear you will have some free time coming up to burn on games. One of the - essential, if you ask me

- spices of life they are.
There is another pinball simulator, Visuall Pinball, that is not quite as flash as Future Pinball (doesn't have any dynamic 3d camera chase modes) yet still very good. VP also requires less processing power than FP to run at full tilt. Most alluring is it has tons more tables than FP. In fact, just about every pinball table produced in the 20th century has been recreated for VP. The VP simulator and all the VP tables are available for free at
www.vpforums.org.