alt Hacker NewsI am of the impression that the mission is defined by having the pin ball hit the places where the blue arrow points within a set amount of time.
It's a bit of a shame that Microsoft only licensed Space Cadet Pinball from Cinematronics for Windows 95 and XP [0].
[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=10...
IIRC, it was a decision based around not porting to 64bit in the newer versions of Windows. I agree it's a shame it didn't move forward... same for a lot of things that were in earlier versions that didn't make the cut.