Editing Visual Pinball (section)

{{Short description|Free and source available video game engine}}
{{ infobox software
| name                   = Visual Pinball
| screenshot             = [[File:Downscaled_from_4K_Screenshot_VPX10.6_TOTAN.jpg|237px]]
| caption                = Visual Pinball X (10.6, 2019) rendition of [[WMS Industries#Solid state pinball|Williams]]' ''[[Tales of the Arabian Nights (pinball)|Tales of the Arabian Nights]]'' (1996)
| logo = [[File:Visual_Pinball_X_logo.png|64px]]
| developer              = Initially Randy Davis, continued by various Open Source contributors
| released               = {{start date and age|2000|12|19}}
| latest_release_version = 10.8.0
| latest_release_date    = {{Start date and age|2025|01|29|df=yes}}
| operating_system       = [[Microsoft Windows]]
| genre                  = [[Pinball]]
| license                = [[Freeware]] for non-commercial use with source code available (the original [[MAME#License|MAME license]])
| repo                   = {{URL|https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball}}
| website                = {{URL|https://vpforums.org}}
}}

'''Visual Pinball''' ("VP") is a [[freeware]] and [[source available]] [[game engine|video game engine]] for [[pinball]] tables and similar games such as [[pachinko]] machines. It includes a table [[level editor|editor]] as well as the [[Computer simulation|simulator]] itself, and runs on [[Microsoft Windows]]. It can be used with '''Visual PinMAME''', an [[emulator]] for [[ROM image]]s from real pinball machines.

A huge variety of user-created VP tables are available on the internet. Players can choose between faithful recreations of existing pinball machines, with or without ROM emulation, and original pinball simulations based on licensed or completely original themes. VP's scripting capabilities can also be used to create pinball-like games such as pitch-and-bat baseball, pinball bingo, [[bowling]], [[cue sports]], and [[pachinko]].

VP can be used with common desktop [[Personal computer|PCs]] and [[Computer monitor|monitors]], but also supports "virtual pinball" cabinets, with various monitors and [[Television|TVs]] used to display the playfield and backbox, similar to a real pinball machine. [[3D television]]s are supported; and recent versions support touch controls for playing on [[tablet computer]]s and [[smartphone]]s.

In February 2010, VP's [[source code]] was released under a license allowing free non-commercial use.<ref name="source">[https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/blob/master/txt/license.txt Visual Pinball] at [[GitHub]]</ref>