“You are now under our control!” That’s the annoying little mechanized voice you hear every time you play Pinbot. Ponbot is a small one NES-Pinball game. Pinbot features the typical plot. Save the Earth from Android robots and everyone goes home happy. Simply put, Pinbot's story plays no role in the gameplay, nor should it, since it is a pinball game after all.
In a normal pinball game, you prevent a round ball from falling into a hole at the bottom of the screen by using two pinball machines, one in the lower left corner of the screen and one in the lower right corner. By preventing the ball from falling into the pit, you collect points on various tricks and ramps throughout the pinball board. However, this is the case in a normal pinball game.
In Pinbot, you do about the same thing, with less fuss. The ball moves slower than normal pinball machines due to strange factors like gravity. However, this doesn't make the game any easier. It is very likely that balls will make the craziest jumps of objects and shoot right into the center of the pit leaving you no chance of countering. That being said, when it comes to pure pinball action, Pinbot is decent. The points awarded are fairly distributed based on the tasks you are performing (i.e., more points are awarded for more difficult tasks), and no aspect of the pinball experience dominates the gameplay.
The game offers eight levels. If you know what you are doing, it only takes about 30 minutes to get to the second stage. Scale that up to eight levels, and you'll play around four hours to get to the final level. This assumes that the level of difficulty remains constant. She doesn't. Other objects that eliminate your ball will appear in later stages. Now, most pinball enthusiasts will tell you that pinball takes a lot of skill. However, you will admit that it takes a lot of luck to win. To get into the later stages of Pinbot you either have to use an infinite life cheat with a device like the Game Genie. If you are not one of the elite pinball players in the world, you will have a hard time moving up in stages. As a result, the depth and rendering value of Pinbot suffers tremendously.
Sure, there are eight levels, but you'll rarely see the first or second level unless you're willing to play for more than an hour. Seeing the same old scenery in an NES game isn't all that great, especially when it's a pinball game that isn't exactly the most technically demanding genre.
Graphically, there are deep, varied backgrounds, but most of them are dark. The sounds in Pinbot are ruined by a digitized voice. “YOU ARE OUR CONTROL! “Orders the robot voice. If it weren't for the voice, the sounds would be above average as they contain some pretty decent techno tracks. Overall, Pinbot is only worth playing if you can't get your hands on a pinball game for a format other than the NES.
Originally posted on 2021-02-15 08:24:00.
