Best Pinball game on NES?
I'm in the ich for a Pinball game. I know the original by Nintendo.. and that's it. My favorite video game Pinball has been Devil's Crush on the TurboGfx 16, anything close to that on NES? Besides that I wish there was a Sim City type game... with that it would have covered all of my gaming needs on one console.
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Also Sim City was planned to have a port on NES, I don't think a proto has been discovered yet unfortunately
Rock N Ball
Pinball Quest
Rollerball
Pinbot
High Speed
Pinball (black box)
Ive always been a fan of high speed, that game is intense.
From memory, NSFW.
The physics in Pinball Quest are pretty bad, but I still enjoy the quest mode. I never really got into the regular tables.
I'm not crazy about Rock N Ball, but it's not terrible. There's an annoying glitch that gives you infinite points, which defeats the purpose of playing (it can be activated unintentionally).
Pinball is pretty unremarkable, but certainly playable.
I haven't spent much time with Rollerball or High Speed.
It is GOING to be 8Bit Xmas 2016.
Neat, I had no idea this was going to be a Pinball game.
Pinbot! So so so good!
This. The rest of you must be smoking them jazz cigarettes I've heard so much about.
I'm not crazy about Rock N Ball, but it's not terrible.
I like it for the two player versus modes.
I'm not crazy about Rock N Ball, but it's not terrible.
I like it for the two player versus modes.
Ah, I could see that being a lot of fun. I've only played that mode versus the computer.
Or two players and some alcohol, but that could be true of any game.
I'm in the ich for a Pinball game. I know the original by Nintendo.. and that's it. My favorite video game Pinball has been Devil's Crush on the TurboGfx 16, anything close to that on NES? Besides that I wish there was a Sim City type game... with that it would have covered all of my gaming needs on one console.
Well if you want Simcity on NES, you'll need to befriend Jerry Seinfeld. He still has the only known copy.
Informative video.
From memory, NSFW.
Good grief, does the guy in that video ever breathe! I listened to just the first 1:30, and he'd already said more than my entire college disertation!
Pinbot! So so so good!
This. The rest of you must be smoking them jazz cigarettes I've heard so much about.
Pinbot is just gold, like you my sweet J bear ❤️
As for Black Box pinball, it's okay I guess. Neither good nor bad.
Has to be Rollerball for me. Love the music in that game, plus the board itself is pretty fun. Never really got into Rock'n Ball and Pinball Quest, but I love me some Rollerball. Pin Bot and High Speed are pretty decent. Pinbot's better though IMO.
As for Black Box pinball, it's okay I guess. Neither good nor bad.
Rollerball was fun to learn, but from the high score contests, I think it was within a couple of days of play I managed to get the game into an endless mode of play, since there are so many "zones" it becomes extremely easy to never die.
Pinbot, in any manifestation (real life, NES, or the Wii versions), is a wide-open and challenging table, where almost every shot is high risk.
I think the original Pinball is impressive for a 1984 release. It's still fun. I haven't played any other NES pinball games yet.
There really isn't an outright bad one on the NES. Pinball is a little quaint compared to the others, but still perfectly playable.
I think the original Pinball is impressive for a 1984 release. It's still fun. I haven't played any other NES pinball games yet.
Definitely, timeframe is a good thing to take into account. How often did we see video pinball before that?
Definitely, timeframe is a good thing to take into account. How often did we see video pinball before that?
Pretty slim pickings.
There was Video Pinball on the Atari 2600, which was terrible, Raster Blaster on the Apple II, David's Midnight Magic on various computers, and whatever weird game the pong consoles tried to pass off as "pinball." Can't think of too many others. Intellivision might have had one.
Be fun to hack possibly. create own tables. If your into hacks anyways.
Definitely, timeframe is a good thing to take into account. How often did we see video pinball before that?
Pretty slim pickings.
There was Video Pinball on the Atari 2600, which was terrible, Raster Blaster on the Apple II, David's Midnight Magic on various computers, and whatever weird game the pong consoles tried to pass off as "pinball." Can't think of too many others. Intellivision might have had one.
There's also Pinball Construction Set which I've never played, but looks like one of the best from the era.
1. Pinball Quest I would say is the best over all. It has a few different modes, RPG being the most interesting.
2. Rock N Ball, has a very fun sports mode.
3. Roller Ball, has good sounds and graphics, but is over all a pretty basic pin ball game.
4. High Speed does not have much colour, the graphics are detailed but the over all presentation is shit. It does however have the best controls out of all the pin ball games, which makes sense since it was based on an actual pin ball machine with a back story of its own.
5. Pin Ball. Good controls but over all the most basic pin ball game.
I'm going to play Pin Bot tonight.
Overall I think regular old black box Pinball might be my favorite, even if it's one of the most random ones.
I like Rollerball a lot but oh my god the game never ends. It's way too easy/long for a pinball game where I'm usually looking for a quick fix. Pinbot and High Speed being based on real machines has limited my enjoyment of them since I always get the itch to just play the real games rather than a video imitation of them.
Overall I think regular old black box Pinball might be my favorite, even if it's one of the most random ones.
Good old black box Pinball is beautifully sadistic. You can be at 300k with all three balls and all safeguards in place, and then the game decides that your run is over with nothing you can do about it.
Also.. why does it seem that eggplants are always bad in Japanese games?!
Also.. why does it seem that eggplants are always bad in Japanese games?!
I would also like to know that.
But I do suspect their use in early games was to make use of the purple colour in the limited sprite colour spectrum.