When I first saw Kirby, I immediately loved this game – sweet and simple, and it really brings some nice innovations to the mechanics. And there were some complaints of motion sickness, which is not hard to imagine.

I guess that this is partly due to the fact that there are all kinds of fancy cosmetic changes but not much innovation in the mechanics. It is beautiful, but the game was not well received. Flipper Crittersīuilt by Zen Studios in 2005 for the DS, this game even has a flying mode in it! Looks just like Momonga. I love this Let’s Play, the guy playing it has some great comments. Like Sonic Spinball, this game is a huge cabinet with a fantasy theme. And it is one of the few good pinball games out there on iOS, definitely recommended! Adventure Pinball Forgotten IslandĪnother open world pinball game, Forgotten Island brings an adventurous vibe to the game. They use the Angry Birds font, but it has zombies. In the list.Īlso check out it’s cousin, Undead Attack on the iPhone. The layout of the levels are true to the cabinet form, but with an added layer of moving enemies and interesting powerups. This Gameboy Advance title is all about bashing zombies in a pinball level. OUCH!Īlso check out this dude’s video, he has been trying to beat the end boss Bowser for over 13 hours. The Mario take on flippering has not much body, but the reason this game made it into the list is because of the huge junkyard-like device that squashes Mario into a ball. I personally don’t like the iPhone release due to the flimsy control scheme. Originally released on the Mega Drive / Genesis, Spinball is an amazing game with some pretty difficult and insanely huge levels. When people see Momonga Pinball Adventures, their #1 reference was Sonic Spinball. Released in 2005 for Playstation 2, I am amazed that this game doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia page. Check out the video, I can’t find the words to describe the utter brilliance of this game. It does not get much weirder than Flipnic. If you are a pinball fanatic and looking for something weird, look no further. It was released in 2006 for the Gamecube and when I spoke about pinball games with some of the guys from Nintendo, they too had this in mind as one of the most intriguing pinball games ever. You control armies with voice commands while a huge rock is rolling over the battlefield, smashing friend and foe in its path. Without a doubt, Odama (translated as “Big Rock”) is the craziest pinball game ever built. Therefore – in honor of those games that came before us, out of respect for the innovators who have taken on the challenge to give pinball a twist, I present to you: Our top 10 list of the craziest flipper games ever. It is hard to create a good pinball game – the physics simulation is hard, the level design is hard, the balancing is hard. Most of these pinball games have been forgotten by the masses, but they are true gems. Almost everyone we talked to, refered to a game they remember from the good old days. There is a whole history of amazing pinball games that go beyond simple cabinets. The more we talked to people about this idea, the more we were proven wrong. Wrong, because there are dozens of examples on other platforms. Right, because on iOS there is only a handful of games that took a shot at it. When we started the idea of “ Pinball Forever” (the ugly prototype that later turned into Momonga Pinball Adventures), we honestly thought that there were not that many pinball games out there that gave the genre a twist. Some programmers might consider it a simple mechanic, like Pong or Tetris – a nice hobby project, but not something to spend serious time on. Pinball is not the sexiest game a developer can choose to make – especially on iOS it is a bit old-fashioned and targeted towards a niche audience.

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