So I don't know Japanese or Pachinko, but I was curious how that's like, cause it has quite similar origins to pinball. Anyway, there's that gambling hall and the machines seem to incorporate slots here. I started with 5000 balls and managed to make over 51k out of them. Could play any machine just once, but didn't try all cause they're all the same. The guy at the stairs let me pass to the next floor but the first machine sucked thousands from me and I realized I almost spent two hours watching flickering stuff that doesn't make much sense to me. I'm probably more the hold em guy when it comes to gambling.

Very primitive side scroller, may pick up some time, maybe not

Really hard to put an end to a play. I'm not a pinball wizard, though I experienced something like this in the wild one or two times, once on a Star Trek Next Generation Machine. Here it's probably rather because it's aimed at children. Anyway, first time on a table with an almost 3 billion highscore is more absurd than challenging. Not totally bad though.

Nothing in common with the Amiga game I played as a kid. Don't know if I will ever pick this up again.

I wish this was just Golf sans the RPG elements. Can't tell if it's the character or me struggling with control and it's probably not bad hitting most holes on par with a few birdies and bogeys in the mix on first try (once I actually found a course to play), but all the talking and searching turns me off, when I'm looking for a fun game of the sport. Sure, this ain't a simulation per se, but despite I've played worse, I didn't enjoy it enough to keep it.

Having the direct comparison of the GBC and GBA game, both I never played before, showed clearly the GBA version manages to achieve what the GBC version just suggested an intention for, but didn't even get the physics to work. Pokemon Pinball on the GBA was instantly satisfying. I caught and developed Pokemon on my first ball, played bonus games and bought extras from the shop. Hooked me for two and a half hours straight and I don't feel like I've seen more than a fraction yet. Besides completing the Pokedex though there's not that much variability in the end. It does an ok job triggering pinball events with a Pokemon theme, but I'd prefer doing the catching in a real Pokemon game and having more interesting tables instead (or of course playing a mechanical Pinball machine in the first place). Still a good portable waste of time though, will sure pick it up again.

Don't wanna rate this after 25 minutes, but it feels like it plays as well as somebody once thought it would. As a kid and a giant Pokefan I might have seen that different, I don't know, at the time? I mean, I played the shite out of Revenge of the Gator during my days...

I remember where I left off as a kid and why. It looks simple, but right now my brain hurts. I feel like an idiot.

It's not like those games just didn't age well. I didn't like that kind of gameplay back then and those digital inputs in 2023, for a flightgame, don't make it any better.

This is just awful