Play ‘ball.
We enjoy a little flippin’ and tiltin’ around these parts and November 30th, 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of HAL Laboratory’s Game Boy Kirby spin-off, Kirby’s Pinball Land. It was the developer’s third pinball game for a Nintendo system following fellow Game Boy title Revenge of the ‘Gator and the NES port of Rollerball, and its engine would go on to power Jupiter Corps’ excellent Pokémon Pinball six years later.
Looking back, Nintendo has a surprisingly rich history of pinball-based games, having developed and/or published a total of 14 by our count — including a couple of curios that you may have forgotten had a direct Nintendo connection. As a loose tie-in to this Kirby anniversary, we’re looking back at every Nintendo-published pinball game ever released — as ranked by you.
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