Pin-Bot

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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. The photos are of this exact cartridge — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

A robot face stares up from the top of the table, its visor clamped shut until you earn the right to open it. Pin-Bot was one of Williams' most popular pinball machines of the 1980s, and on the NES, Rare turned it into a video pinball game that respects the original table while adding a few tricks no real machine could manage.

The screen keeps your flippers fixed at the bottom while the upper view scrolls to follow the ball around the table. Light the targets in the 5x5 grid in front of the visor and it opens to lock a ball; lock a second and two-ball multiball begins, with scores doubled. Meanwhile you travel the solar system from Pluto toward the Sun by hitting lit targets, with Specials and extra balls waiting along the way, and up to four players can take turns chasing the high score.

Then Rare added the video game twists. As you advance through the levels, enemies invade the table: a blob that eats your ball, planes that drop missiles toward the flippers and snakes that snatch it in the outlanes, and shaking the machine is how you fight them off. Certain bonuses even reshape the ball into a wedge or a cube that moves faster and is harder to control. The music and many sound effects come straight from the real machine, complete with Pin-Bot's synthesized voice, with David Wise among the composers credited.

Reviewers loved it at the time, with Computer and Video Games and Mean Machines both scoring it 90 percent, and it is still a standout among NES pinball games, a clever bridge between Rare's inventive NES work and the classic table that inspired it, with no cabinet-sized floor space required.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1990
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Rare
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Pin-Bot is a conversion of the arcade pinball game by Williams Electronics. The game is played with a split screen; the bottom half of the screen remains on your flippers, while the top half scrolls to follow the ball(s) on the table. In addition to recreating the pinball game's table, lights, and sounds several video game elements have been added, such as monsters that like to eat pinballs. Up to four players can compete against Pin-Bot!

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.

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