Pinball Quest

Pinball Quest
North American cover art
Developer(s)	TOSE
Publisher(s)	Jaleco
Composer(s)	Akihito Hayashi
Platform(s)	NES
Release	JP: December 15, 1989 NA: June 1990 AU: 1992
Genre(s)	Pinball Role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single-player or multiplayer

Pinball Quest is the name of a Nintendo Entertainment System video game developed by TOSE and published by Jaleco in 1990. The game is based on the popular arcade game pinball. The role playing aspect of the game makes it unique from other pinball-based video games.

Gameplay

During the course of the "quest" mode, the player has to take on a nasty-looking witch in order to advance.

The game is short, with six linear stages of gameplay. The player controls a ball-shaped character in the castle scenes and controls flippers used to shoot the pinball in the other scenes, at which time the pinball has no control over itself.

In many scenes the objective is to shoot the ball into an opening or kill an enemy by striking it with the ball. Accomplishing these objectives allows the player to advance to the next stage of the game. Upgrades that add abilities to the flippers and/or ball can be purchased during castle scenes with gold earned throughout the game. The final boss is a red demon that is fought in a room of demonic symbols. After beating the role-playing portion of the game, the player is forced to confront a giant magnet - which is destroyed by the pinball.

Reception

Allgame gave Pinball Quest a rating of 3.5 stars out of a possible 5.

See also

• List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
• Pinball (1984)
• Rollerball (1984)
• Rock 'n Ball (1989)
• Pin*Bot (1990)
• High Speed (1991)

External links

• Game review and overview for Pinball Quest at VideoLamer
• Pinball Quest at GameFAQs
• Pinball Quest at allgame