There are many modern successors to the 3D pinball games of yesteryear. The scene may not be part of the official commercial world, but underground pinballers have built massive resources, over the past couple of decades of PC pinball development.
If you want to play your favourite pinball game in 4K, or VR, right-now-today, chances are that you probably can. Not necessarily in the OPs vision of "full nvidia 4090 pizazz", but that'll come, as those standards percolate down through the masses.
Licensing is one of the bugbears, where recreations of actual tables are concerned. Many of the most popular tables contain images, voices, IP, of some pretty huge individuals and companies, and the rights to use each were painstakingly negotiated and carefully limited, originally. Who now will go to Schwarzenegger? to Universal Studios? to the casts of Star Trek and the Addams Family?, and ask "how much?" - nobody without a very fat wallet could even dream to.
This also comes with the less-spoken implication that parts of the semi-anonymous underground modern scene take liberties (and, as such, must stay 'underground') that commercial projects could not.
If you want to play your favourite pinball game in 4K, or VR, right-now-today, chances are that you probably can. Not necessarily in the OPs vision of "full nvidia 4090 pizazz", but that'll come, as those standards percolate down through the masses.
Licensing is one of the bugbears, where recreations of actual tables are concerned. Many of the most popular tables contain images, voices, IP, of some pretty huge individuals and companies, and the rights to use each were painstakingly negotiated and carefully limited, originally. Who now will go to Schwarzenegger? to Universal Studios? to the casts of Star Trek and the Addams Family?, and ask "how much?" - nobody without a very fat wallet could even dream to.
This also comes with the less-spoken implication that parts of the semi-anonymous underground modern scene take liberties (and, as such, must stay 'underground') that commercial projects could not.