Galactic Pinball

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Galactic Pinball

Developer(s)	Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Virtual Boy
Release date	August 14, 1995
Genre(s)	Pinball
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Kids to Adults (K-A)

Galactic Pinball was a video game for the Virtual Boy. It was a basic pinball game featuring several different boards.

[edit] Boards

Galactic Pinball featured four boards, each with distinguishing elements and targets.

Colony One of the distinguishing features of the Colony board was a mini-game where the user shot down various meteors, using the 3-D feature to give the user an interesting perspective of three dimensional shooting.

UFO In UFO, the board initially starts with a large UFO at the top of the board, which will fly away to reveal triggers that open two holes that players can temporarily get the ball into to access such bonuses as center posts and kickbacks. The max score on this level was 99,999,999 as there was no slot for the 100 million digit. If a player exceded this score, the game would lock up and require restart.

Alien In Alien, after getting the ball into the Alien's Lair, the alien will appear, and can be hit to gain points.

Cosmic Cosmic was a classic pinball board that had a third flipper and a ramp that would access a special area with several bumpers. It also had a rotating sphere that the player could try to enter for bonus points. Samus Aran, protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid series, makes a cameo.

[edit] Trivia

Galactic Pinball is a very common cartridge for Virtual Boy, possibly due to the fact that it is one of the only Virtual Boy games to have a battery-backed save feature, used to save the high score board.