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I bought this game and it was so stupid!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Pokemon Pinball just because of Pikachu. The box has Pikachu on it and it looks stupid. Anything with Pikachu or a Poke Ball is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo stupid and this game has Pikachu sitting in a Poke Ball. That is even stupider. I thought Pikachu disliked Poke Balls. He didn't seem to care about being in a Poke Ball in Red and Blue or in this game he shouldn't be in a Poke Ball either. I hate Pikachu and Pikachu is on the box for this game! He isn't on the stinking rumble cartridge thank god. I played and Pikachu was on the start screen. I closed my eyes and picked Game Start. I picked a table and started in Viridian Forest. I found a Pokemon in Catch Em Mode. It was Pikachu! I took out the game and sold it! The Pokedex is the worst and Pikachu isn't only on the box and start up screen, he is also in the game itself. I sold this game because of Pikachu and I hate it and always will!

It [DISAPPOINTED]!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: July 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I bought it it worked for like 10 mins. I couldnt even figer out how to work it. It came with BAD instructions. It even takes batteries. DONT GET IT!!!!

NO GOOD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I think that the game is not that fun because all that you do is just flip the ball up and down on the screen.

Fun but...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a pinball sim, this games falls way short. I hoped that the programers would have been able to come up with a better physics model for the game then what they included. Many targets were too difficult to hit due to the balls tendency to only go in a handful of trajectories no matter where on the flipper the ball was or the speed at which the ball was going. The rumble option ended up being annoying at best. Thank god it can be turned off or yo can pull out the battery).

I love playing pinball, but I set this down after the first day.

3.5 stars - a good pinball game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The video games in the Pokemon franchise are very hit or miss. For every Pokemon Gold or Pokemon Silver, there's a Pokemon Snap or Hey You Pikachu to bring the series back down. In 1999, Nintendo decided to try their hand at something a little different with the Pokemon characters - a pinball game. Is this one of the hits in the series, or one of the misses? Read on for my review.

PROS:
-Perhaps the greatest thing about this game is that you don't have to be a Pokemon fan to enjoy it.
-The game contains a good deal more depth than your average pinball game.
-There is an element of Pokemon capturing, which makes this a very interesting game.
-There are two different tables, one of which has monsters not found on the other and vice versa
-There are a number of bonus events as well.

CONS:
-Let's face the facts, no pinball game can hold your attention forever.
-The rumble feature doesn't contribute anything to the game.
-There are only TWO tables - more would have been nice.
-Since this is a Pokemon game, many hardcore gamers may be reluctant to try it.

OVERALL:
Overall this is a good pinball game, and one of the hits in the Pokemon series. If you've got a Game Boy, this here is a game worth checking out. It's nothing revolutionary, but it's sure to kill some time for you.

Pretty Good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is very changing yet fun. It had choices of red or blue. Blue usually has more common pokemon and red has more rare pokemon. I prefer this game over red, bleu and gold and silver

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Now I love pokémon as much as the next person, but this installment in the series is somewhat disappointing. When I first got it, I had good expectations of it and it seemed to be quite entertaining. But give it some time and you'll see that' it's not all it's cracked up to be. The layouts of the two tables in the game are the worst ones I have ever seen! Mainly because every slope and tunnel AIMS STRAIGHT DOWN THE GUTTER! And due to the severe lack of objects to hit, you'll often be flipping the ball onto empty walls. The pinball itself is too chunky and NEVER goes where you want it too. Now don't get me wrong! I have played other pinball games before and have immediately got to grips with the physics of the controls. But this ball seems too have a mind of it's own! And not only that, the sheer size of it causes a weird glitch in the game that often makes the ball get stuck IN the flipper then suddenly darts off all over the place! Sometimes the ball even goes through the flippers, which is extremely frustrating if you're on an all-time high score. Even worse, the built-in rumble pack is so hideously strong that you'll undoubtedly drop your Gameboy just as you're about to catch a Mew.

On the plus side though, the urge to catch and train every last pokémon makes this game strangely compulsive to play. But spare yourself the obsession and don't play in the first place! With an abysmal table layout, a ball that defies the law of physics, and a special tilt feature that does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, pokémon pinball is a sorry chapter in pokémon history. With so many better pinball games out there, it would be a poor choice to pick this one.

fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i want ot get into the pokemon thing a liitle bit but dint want to get the reguar game. this game is fun and entertaining. the red table is hard a never score that good with it.

Hear Me Out!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 25
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon Pinball some times is fun and some times is not...how so? Well, see, it makes you feel very wanting to play it and when you do, it makes you fell bored again. so that's why I gave it 4 stars. although it should be 4.5 because you can try to guess wat pokemonn you're about to catch like that show "who's that pokemon?"

Great fun with only one drawback.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: January 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge pinball fanatic. I own four actual full-size tables and all the PC versions I could find. I basically went out and bought a color Gameboy just so I could see what this game was like. First off, I'll say it it great fun. The ball physics are great, and the ball even spins, affecting the play. There are two different tables to choose from and both are fun. The Rumble Pack that comes with it is kinda cool too, but not in a huge way. However there is one thing that just jumped out at me the first time I played it. I had assumed that this was a scrolling-type game, meaning the screen would scroll up and down on the table due to screen size restictions. I much prefer games that do not scroll, but rather, show the entire table -- but due to the small screen size of the Game Boy, I would have been content with a scroller. But this game does neither of the two. Instead, when the ball goes to the top half of the table, the screen blanks for a split second, and then the top half of the table is shown. There is no scrolling. It either shows just the top or just the bottom. I found this extremely annoying at first, as it is impossible to line up your shots this way, but after some getting used to, I found I pretty much could memorize the table and shoot that way, knowing approximately where I was shooting the ball to. All in all, considering the small screen it plays on, it could be a lot worse. In fact, I have seen a lot worse on the full-size PC screen. So if you can adjust to the jarring screen-switching, you'll have a ball. I think most people will find that adjustment pretty easy. All other aspects of the game are first-rate with a high fun factor. Recommended.

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