273 · Rollerball
Rollerball is a pinball simulation for one to four players.
There are two different game variations included. The first is Skyscraper, which is a four screen tall pinball table where each player competes individually for the highest score. The second is called Matchplay. In this game two players compete against each other to see who can reduce his opponents score to zero first. Each player has a set of flippers and a ball in play, and points are awarded or taken away by hitting the various targets in the playfield.
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Show notes
- The action packed pinball game with the distinctly American touch
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- That American touch includes ZERO American game designers. This is HAL labs with Satoru Iwata
- The American touch is the ESB and the Statue of Liberty
- Why all the Pinball suddenly? Back to back months after YEARS of no pinball (Pinball launch game WAS made by HAL)
- That American touch includes ZERO American game designers. This is HAL labs with Satoru Iwata
- Overview
- Composed of four screens, which, by proportion, would be about as long as two standard pinball tables if it were a real table.
- Gameplay
- On the main menu it looks like 2 modes are locked
- The layout
- Is there a lot going on?
- The longer table makes for longer play
- Pinball Physics
- Pinball vs Video Game
- Match Play
- 2 Player mode, smaller screen, The first player to lose all his or her points loses.
- In the Japanese version, the left player's animal is an elephant, and the right player's is a giraffe. In the English version, the giraffe was changed to a donkey, likely in reference to the Republican and Democratic U.S. political parties.
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- HAL wouldn’t stop making pinball games
- Kirby’s Pinball land
- Pokemon Pinball
- Revenge of the Gator
- I’m sure there are more
- Kirby’s Pinball land
- HAL wouldn’t stop making pinball games
- EGL
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