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.

This is basically the NES equivalent of Wii Chess.
It promises the main function of the game, it works, but... that's just it.... it's just Pinball. And it's just one Pinball machine.
Even the 1 Player B Mode is just the same machine but faster.

It's ok, but nothing can beat the chad 3D Pinball Space Cadet.
Though to be fair, it can be addicting to mess around and waste minutes with it.

Pinball goes out what it's set to do which is be Pinball. For 1984 this is a good enough take on the genre. It surprisingly is better than some of the later pinball games seen on the system. This game would also be developed by Iwata which I believe was one of his earliest Nintendo games he worked on.

The pinball table you get to have for the game is fun at the top but I'm not too big of a fan of the bottom section, it just feels a little mismanaged and it's easy to lose balls if you're not too good at the game. It can feel pretty fun to get a big score by doing the many things available on the board.

One of the most interesting parts of the game is the bonus game where you play as Mario trying to help Pauline. Though strangely you can lose a ball here if you don't save Pauline when she falls. Putting Mario on the cover of the US and PAL region boxes for this game probably helped give the game more appeal and made this even more of a highlight for anyone who had tried the game.

Nowadays there's much better ways to play pinball and I'm surprised Nintendo even still rereleases, it even took them like over 3 years just to put it on Switch NSO, Nintendo why?? I can't really say you should go out of your way to play this but I guess I can say it led to some other better Nintendo pinball games that aren't called Super Mario Ball/Mario Pinball Land.

Apesar de primitivo, esse take no gênero de caça-níqueis de pinball da Nintendo utiliza elementos dos primórdios da franquia Mario para dar uma certa direção dentro da mesa.

É difícil, mas é possível salvar a princesa e conduzir ela para a saída, algo bem surpreendente em um gênero focado em fazer o maior número de pontos.

Fácil de aprender, difícil de dominar.

Arguably the first great pinball game on consoles, even though I like Video Pinball as well. While this game is mostly known now for its cameo appearances of Mario and Pauline, it really is an excellent representation of pinball. It features two different sections to make one giant table, giving the game some nice variety. There's lots of charming characters on display, including penguins, seals, and chicks who hatch out of eggs. There's also quite a few objectives to fulfill to get more points, such as collecting a row of Pac-Man like dots, a set of five cards, and even a little slot machine where you have to hit a paddle to stop it. The sound effects can be a little grating at times, but serve their purpose well. And the game has a nice little jingle on the title screen, like a lot of early NES games do. While not the most perfect pinball game ever, Nintendo's own Pinball is still a great way to get your pinball fix at home.