Pinball (1984 video game)

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Pinball
Arcade system
Nintendo VS. System

Pinball

launch game
for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America.

Gameplay

The player controls the paddles of a virtual

flippers
on either screen to deflect the ball to keep it from falling off the bottom of the lower screen.

Pinball has a secondary

Donkey Kong
(1981). The player achieves this by bouncing the ball off Mario's platform and hitting various targets, the destruction of which also earns points. When the blocks under her are all gone, she will drop. Catching her on Mario's platform earns bonus points, but allowing her to hit the ground causes the player to lose.

Re-releases

Pinball was re-released on NES in 1985, and for the

Family Computer Disk System
on May 30, 1989.

The game is

unlockable within the 2001 games Dōbutsu no Mori for Nintendo 64 and Animal Crossing for GameCube. The latter can be played on a Game Boy Advance via a link cable. In 2002, Pinball was re-released for the e-Reader
on the Game Boy Advance.

Pinball was released on

PAL region, and on Wii U on October 24, 2013. It was released on Nintendo Switch Online
on May 26, 2022.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed VS. Pinball in its October 1, 1984 issue as being the twenty-fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: ピンボール, Hepburn: Pinbōru

References

  1. ^ "Flyer Fever - Golf / Pinball (Japan)". Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  2. ^ "Satoru Iwata – 1999 Developer Interview". shmuplations.com. January 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Satoru Iwata – 1999 Developer Interview". Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  4. ^ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 245. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 October 1984. p. 35.

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