Pokemon Pinball is a pinball game based off of the pokemon characters. You catch the pokemon by shooting your ball (a pokeball) up the two sides of the course. The right side lights represents "Catch 'Em Mode" where you catch pokemon and the left side represents "Evolution Mode" where you can evolve your caught pokemon. Two lights on the right gets you access to commmon Pokemon and three lights gives you access to uncommon and rare Pokemon. Rare Pokemon appear less often than uncommon Pokemon. Red and Blue tables have different locations and different Pokemon.