Pokemon Pinball (GB)

THE GAME Pokemon Pinball is a good pinball game for anyone. You don't need to like Pokemon as the pinball will keep you entertained for hours. Everyone knows what pinball is, but if there is anyone that doesn't I will explain it anyway. You simply have two flippers situated at the bottom of the screen, and 1 or two near the top. You bash the ball around with the flippers to hit the objects and gain points. The idea of the Pokemon Pinball game is to bash the ball to certain areas of the pinball table to enable you to catch the 150 Pokemon. To be able to capture a Pokemon, you have to hit the ball around the top of the table 3 times. Then a ...  Read the complete review

Well I guess htis is one craze which is kind of dying down a little now(and not before time) but there are still some rather excellent games out there as a result of it. Pokemon, love it or hate it, did result in some rather good(if cutesy) Gameboy games which followed in the Zelda style RPG vein. Maybe they weren't really for us adults and yes, I did get bored stiff after a few hours of doing much of the same, but kids loved them and well, you rarely see a review which rates them below 9/10. Of course, there were the spin- offs from these games and Pokemon Pinball is one of them. Perhaps more surprisingly is that despite how games developers usually try to cash in ...  Read the complete review

Pokemon Pinball may not have the long-running roleplay element of other Pokemon games, but this latest Pokemon release is certainly no pushover and it has a surprisingly high number of goof features. The game has two tables, called red and blue. The aim is to catch all 150 Pokemon, hardly original, but the way you catch them is very original. It's much more complicated than just clicking on 'Hydro Pump' and Clicking on 'throw Pokeball'. First you have to fire the ball through a bank on the right of the pinball table. That will make an arrow light up. When you have lit up 2 or 3 arrows (3 arrows means you go for a rarer Pokemon) you ...  Read the complete review

It’s the original pinball game *and* catching pocket monsters (Pokémon) at the same time. I don’t claim to be any kind of games expert, but having bought a Game Boy Color, the first game I bought to go with it I thought, might as well be “colourful”. I bought Pokémon Blue, and completely exhausted that, and recently purchased Pinball, yet another “colourful” game. Better value than the original Pokémon Game Boy game I think – you get both red and blue cartridge Pokémon on one Game Boy game. There are two games to play on the cartridge - “the red table” and “the blue table”, and also, various ...  Read the complete review

I don't really enjoy pinball games. In real life, they're okay, but stick them on a a computer, and you lose the loud noises, the constant stream of passers by and the the heavy feel of the machine. You could try playing in a city centre using loudspeakers but then you might as well play a real pinball game. I don't even like real pinball that much either - it's too limited and there's too little control. The only time I'd play would be as a group. It's infinitely more fun that way. Obviously then, to make a good pinball game on any console, you need to make quite a few changes to make it more enjoyable to play on your own. ...  Read the complete review