Pros: Two different pinball tables, where your goal is to set switches to travel to different areas (as depicted by a screen in the middle of the pinball table) to then find new Pokemon by hitting more switches, and then the real game of Pokemon meets Pinball takes place! It's a fun motivator to get yourself good at these two pinball tables, to get to know the mechanics, the timing, to really become a pinball wizard, because you'll want to catch them all!! And you can! Hell, you can even catch Mew! It's a really fun mix of two types of games, and HAL made it work! I actually like this more than Kirby's Pinball Land too! There's even some fun bonus pinball rooms where you get to actually "fight" certain Pokemon in minigame type ways (I tell ya, it's satisfying bonking around a bunch of Digletts with a pinball) ALSO ALSO!! This game has RUMBLE! Yeah! A triple-A battery in the gamepak, and you're bangin around and buzzin, it's fun, heh...

Cons: Considering the pinball tables are vertically oriented, there's screen transitions from the bottom half to the top half as the ball moves from one area to the next... and that, isn't really smooth, it never feels great, it's just something you have to get used to.

What it means to me: I recall having this game during a family vacation/road trip to Colorado, and man, what a perfect game for that. Definitely caught em all by the time I got back home!