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Nintendo Pinball History

Nintendo, well most of you know that it is a console. You connect it to a tv and place the cartridge in the console and everything begins to move. Nintendo 8bit also refered to as NES was the first in the line of Nintendo consoles. The evolution follows: NES, Gameboy, SNES, Virtualboy, and N64.

For the Gameboy there was two famous pinballs, Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies (conversions of the original Amiga versions made by Digital Illusions). For the SNES I think there was one called Super Pinball, but I don't know so much about it.

There are nes emulators that simulate the real console on your computer. But the rom files (the files with games for the emulator) are illegal to use unless you own original games. Some of the NES pinballs are available as rom files you can take home for your emulator, well that is if you own them and just want to play them on your pc or whatever you have!!

Here are some of the pinballs the exist for the nes station. There probably was more (fill me in). These give at least a little Idea of the pinballs that came for it.



NES Pinballs
Pinball
Rollerball
Rock'n'Ball
Pinball Quest
Pin-Bot

Pinball
Just love the name, the c64 had a pinball called pinball, the msx had one too, why shouldn't there be one for nes? Anyway this pinball is kind a neat. Not much today but it has a funny little table with some subtables. Some figures who looks a lot like mario (the red one in super mario bros) appear on the table too.
Screenshot:
Table | Subtable

Rollerball
A looong, or should I say high table. These high tables are always as funny to see in their whole. It is scrolling and it has a few fun moments. There is also a match play feature, you play against a opponent and try to reach a certain score first.
Screenshot:
Table | Match Play

Rock'n'Ball
Wow, I love this one. Well the physics and all are nothing to talk about. But the table themes and all is really fun, not realistic but fun! There are four playing styles.
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- Pinball Quest
Weird pinball featuring four playing modes.
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Pin-Bot
Well, it is a NES pinball, that much I know.