QWhat
do you get if you cross Pokemon and Pinball?
APokemon
Pinball! (sorry) |
| Now that we have that futile attept of humour
out of the way we can get on with the review (yay!) |
Some of my friends have said that they have played
Pokemon Pinball or seen it and didnt think too
much of it but when I forced them to actually
sit down and play it for more than a minute they quite quickly changed
their minds quite quickly! Pokemon Pinball is one of those games that you
just cannot put down and you constantly find yourself thinking "just one
more quick go" |
Pokemon Pinball utilises the cleverest save game
feature I have seen which is actually quite simple
and left me wondering why I havnt seen it in
this type of game before.When I first got told that you can save your game
(not just the pokedex ) in Pokemon Pinball I must admit I was quite worried
thinking öh great there goes the whole point of pinball (getting a
high score)"thinking that you could keep saving and then if anything went
wrong that you could just start from the last save.When you save the game
you are booted out of the game back to the main menu and the second you
load your save game it gets deleted (insert sadistic laughter) and yes
this is a good thing ok? |
| Another thing you may notice about the game is
that it has a strange lump at the top of the cartridge,this is the in-built
rumble pak (works the same as an n64 rumble pak(ie it rumbles)) which takes
AAA batteries (with one included). The rumble pak is quite strong (don't
worry its not strong enough to send the GB flying out of your grip and
out the 2nd story window!) and does add to the beliveability that you are
actually playing pinball but in the end I found it just a battery-eating-novelty! |
| Another thing you may notice about the game is
that it has a strange lump at the top of the cartridge,this is the in-built
rumble pak (works the same as an n64 rumble pak(ie it rumbles)) which takes
AAA batteries (with one included). The rumble pak is quite strong (don't
worry its not strong enough to send the GB flying out of your grip and
out the 2nd story window!) and does add to the beliveability that you are
actually playing pinball but in the end I found it just a battery-eating-novelty! |
| Another thing you may notice about the game is
that it has a strange lump at the top of the cartridge,this is the in-built
rumble pak (works the same as an n64 rumble pak(ie it rumbles)) which takes
AAA batteries (with one included). The rumble pak is quite strong (don't
worry its not strong enough to send the GB flying out of your grip and
out the 2nd story window!) and does add to the beliveability that you are
actually playing pinball but in the end I found it just a battery-eating-novelty! |
| Do you remember how thick the Pokemon instruction
book was in comparison to normal GB manuels? You would be forgiven to think
that this game would be simple and have a far skinnier book (well it is
pinball after all how complex can it really be?) but you would be wrong
(why do you think the box is so big?) it is about the same size as the
red/blue instruction book (yes its all in english).This is a pretty complex
game for a pinball game,to catch a Pokemon you first have to hit the pokeball
up the right lane untill you light up all the arrows.After lighting up
the arrows you have to get the ball into the Bellsprouts mouth (red table)
and then a shrouded Pokemon image appears (just like in the cartoon)consisting
of six boxes and each time you hit a top bumper (Voltorb) it unsroudes
one square of the Pokemon.When the Pokemon is toatally unshrouded you have
to hit it a few times to catch it,ITS THAT
SIMPLE!!!!(Evolving them is the complex part). |
This game is packing it when it comes to features.Two
of my fav features are the Pikachu-kickback and being able to nudge the
table UPWARDS!! Pikachu-kickback is when a pikachu is in one of the outlanes
(paths that lead below the flippers).The pikachu can be charged up to use
a "thunder-shock"
to send the ball back into play.Nudging the table
upwards is a real-last-resort move that involves the ball being in one
of the outlanes (past the Pikachu) and about to roll "down the drain"as
I call it but just before the ball rolls out of play you lift the opposite
flipper up and press select,sending the ball flying up into the air and
hopefully through the middle of your flippers back into play Brilliant!!!
The only problem with this move is if you try
this move in your local arcade (which we don't have in Blenhiem DOH!) which
usually for some unforseen reason upsets the owner when you lift up the
table DOH! There is one bug in this game however that I feel IT IS MY DUTY
TO MY COUNTRY (or not) to mention,once when I was cranking up a high score
(as I do) the ball flew straight through my flippers which resulted in
my CBG also having a flight (lucky Nintendo things are well made!). |
| Buy it now,you know you want to. |
