A few weeks ago, I was catching up on an older episode of the Android Faithful podcast when host Ron Richards mentioned a new Android game that’d been ported from Windows by an indie dev — the famous 3D Pinball Space Cadet. A few hours later, as I was browsing Twitter/X, I came across a viral post by one of the developers who worked on the original Space Cadet Windows port from the original Full Tilt! Pinball title. It felt like a sign that I should break my no-games-on-my-phone rule and install this oldie but goodie.

I grabbed the Space Cadet Pinball APK, installed it, and was immediately taken back in time to 1999, sitting in front of my first PC, starting Windows 98, and discovering it came with a few games pre-installed. 3D Pinball Space Cadet was one of those games, and it quickly be

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