Super Pinball brings true pinball action to the home. Battle three different playfields while trying to defeat the evil Wizard at the Wizard Amusement Park. You can even tilt the table as you could a real pinball game.
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Exciting if there is nothing else to doMar 17, 2001
Super Pinball Behind the Mask is a basic, easy time passer. The goal is to score an extremely high amount of points(millions) and beat The Joker and the other evil sounding villians. The graphics are pretty good considering it was made in the late 80's early 90's. It is fairly easy to win you just have to be dedicated and hit the little ball with as much force as possible and strike hidden places to get tons of extra points. Give it a try you might like it.
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Pinball on the SNESJul 23, 2009
By Gregory F. Martin Have you ever noticed that there are some games that you get a hold of from some people and when you first get your hands on it you think that you're going to spend a lot of time playing it and then when you bring it home you put it on the shelf way in the back and never actually touch it for years and years? This can be a very dangerous situation for games. What happens when you pick it up and actually decide to play it? What if it ends up sucking and you put it right back where you got it from? What if it ends up being so good that you just forget about the game you were currently working on? Truly a frightening situation.
I encountered such a situation today with this game. Nothing bad happened from playing it but it wasn't powerful enough to deter me from playing my current game. I had promised myself that I would try to spend a little more time with the games that I hardly get a hold of and this was one I'd had my eyes on for a while. I'm not a hardcore pinball fan and I'm no means a professional pinball player but I do enjoy a good game every now and then. And since my chances of ever actually owning a real table are very slim, this is the closest I'll ever get to enjoying pinball.
Talking about pinball games requires that you really break it down into two categories. Pinball games that are digitized, like the ones for home video game consoles or computers, don't belong in the same category as actual pinball tables. Most commonly, digitized pinball games simulate multiple tables with varying degrees of challenge that you wouldn't find in actual tables. Let alone the physics of an actual pinball table usually can't be accurately simulated enough to replace the real thing. So I'm not insulting pinball in any way at all. I'm just talking about this SNES game.
Super Pinball was created primarily by a group of very talented programmers from Japan. Other than that, there's not much background available on it. In fact, if you've never heard of this game, you've probably heard just about as much as I have about it. Super Pinball emulates three tables each with their own theme which is represented by some really intimidatingly drawn characters who look like they'll either eat you in your sleep, steal your children, or look like the knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The game features two playing modes. The first lets you play against four of your friends on one controller or play against the computer in a mode to compete for score. You can't proceed to the next table unless you clear a set score level on one table.
The graphics are astoundingly well for a pinball game on the SNES. The only other real criteria that you could begin to judge this game off of would be a pinball game released on the NES which would automatically not contain the same graphical quality that this game has. The thing that really strikes me about the graphics is that they're very high resolution graphics that still maintain a great deal of detail even for the SNES. On top of that, even the smallest minute detail of graphics, such as those used for the bumpers and other objects in the table, look phenomenal.
The sound effects in the game are your classic pinball sounds. Any sound you can imagine a ball making bouncing off of anything it can bounce off of is featured in the game. Some voice overs are featured as well and they sound really good. They're very clear, distinct, and very recognizable. Surprisingly the background music is one of the most appealing aspects. The music has a very techno-bass-dance feel to it but isn't one of those overwhelming drown-out soundtracks that are in those ignorant anime console games or that stupid Tokyo Extreme Racing for the Dreamcast. That music makes me want to rip my hair out, stuff it in my ears, dip my bald scalp into a vat of motor oil, light it on fire, paint two yellow suns on my nipples, and dance around on shards of glass that sit on a bed of rusted nails.
One thing I really don't like about this game is the single player mode where you have to obtain a certain amount of points in order to proceed to the next table. The amount of points they want to move on is insanely high. The first table wants something in the ballpark of 60,000,000 points before you can move to the next table! I can only imagine what the next table's score would be to get past it. It's probably something like 900,000,000,000 points or something that would result in your playing the game for the next year without ever turning the SNES off.
I think a fair rating for this game would be an 8 out of 10. As far as pinball games go, which seems to have fallen out of the limelight, this one stands out amongst them all. It's a quick-time play but it's worth having for your collection.
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SURPRISINGLY FUN 8 OUT OF 10Feb 10, 2008
By ACEMAN1
"HERE TO PISS YOU OFF"
I have no idea why I have a tendency to like pinball games in video game form. This game by far is my favorite of the pinball video games I own. It's a pretty easy game to rack up points in(When you launch the ball you get hundreds of thousands of points from that one shot). You will undoubtedly get millions of points by the time you lose all three pinballs. The stages you get to compete in are: Jolly Joker, Blackbeard and Ironmen, and Wizard. Despite the fact there are only three stages you'd be surprised at how much entertainment you get out of playing this game and all the points you can get in those stages(I once scored 39 million points when I finished one stage). The music in this game is great as well and will keep you in the mood to play the game as well. Like I said before this is my favorite pinball video game I own, but it isn't perfect. Despite having a finely tuned control scheme that's very responsive, great music, and cool stage designs, the main problem is the lack of stages, but other than that I have a great time playing this game.
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