Oh shit, it's goddamned sons a bitchin' Pinball.
I gotta be honest, I was expecting less from this game but it's actually kinda okay if not still a bit underwhelming. Of course, you only have one table with two screens in this game and that's fine, I'm not gonna expect much from the black box NES games. If you manage to hit the ball into a hole on the lower-half of the table you get to play this odd Breakout mini-game with Mario and Pauline, which of course the boxart for this game used to entice parents into buying for their kids.
After just playing Kirby's Pinball Land, it's pretty hilarious seeing baby chicks in eggs in this game again. It sucks there aren't any Poppy Bro Jrs around to attempt to murder them via a swift kick to the ass.
Either way, one thing that sucks is that there's a lack of in-game music. The stuff you hear at the title screen and when the board changes color is the only thing you hear for the rest of the game. For the most part you're left with only the sounds of the bumpers popping off, and your flippers smacking the ball around. So if you're playing this get ready to pop on some Megadeth, or whatever it is you listen to and go to town. Unless the sounds of 8-bit pinball is just straight up ASMR for you, then maybe this is actually a positive. I don't judge.
This game is fine if you were a kid in the 80s and you couldn't always make it to the arcade or wherever to play a real pinball table, but even then it just feels empty to me. Pinball really needs some showmanship if you get what I mean. Needs some more Poppy Bro Jrs kicking the shit out of chickens or some fucking power metal blaring.
I gotta be honest, I was expecting less from this game but it's actually kinda okay if not still a bit underwhelming. Of course, you only have one table with two screens in this game and that's fine, I'm not gonna expect much from the black box NES games. If you manage to hit the ball into a hole on the lower-half of the table you get to play this odd Breakout mini-game with Mario and Pauline, which of course the boxart for this game used to entice parents into buying for their kids.
After just playing Kirby's Pinball Land, it's pretty hilarious seeing baby chicks in eggs in this game again. It sucks there aren't any Poppy Bro Jrs around to attempt to murder them via a swift kick to the ass.
Either way, one thing that sucks is that there's a lack of in-game music. The stuff you hear at the title screen and when the board changes color is the only thing you hear for the rest of the game. For the most part you're left with only the sounds of the bumpers popping off, and your flippers smacking the ball around. So if you're playing this get ready to pop on some Megadeth, or whatever it is you listen to and go to town. Unless the sounds of 8-bit pinball is just straight up ASMR for you, then maybe this is actually a positive. I don't judge.
This game is fine if you were a kid in the 80s and you couldn't always make it to the arcade or wherever to play a real pinball table, but even then it just feels empty to me. Pinball really needs some showmanship if you get what I mean. Needs some more Poppy Bro Jrs kicking the shit out of chickens or some fucking power metal blaring.