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Box artwork for Mario Pinball Land.
Box artwork for Mario Pinball Land.
Mario Pinball Land
Developer(s)Fuse Games
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Year released2004
System(s)Game Boy Advance, Wii U
SeriesMario
Japanese titleSuper Mario Ball
Genre(s)Pinball
Players1
ModesSingle Player
Rating(s)CERO All agesESRB EveryonePEGI Ages 3+USK All agesOFLC General
LinksMario Pinball Land ChannelSearchSearch

Story[edit]

The game opens with a short cutscene. One day, Mario, Peach and a few toads were on a fair. They were playing with a machine that turned them into a ball, to later be shot into a target. A Toad went first, and it went alright. However, when Peach got in, a few Goombas changed the direction of the machine, and sent Peach to Bowser's Castle. Mario then decides to turn into a ball himself, and go across the kingdom in order to save Peach. The twist here, is that since Mario turned himself into a ball, he must advance through the world through pinball mechanics.

Gameplay[edit]

The game is pinball but with Mario elements. You control the flippers that you can use in order to give Mario the direction you need in order to do certain things in each section. You get points and/or coins by hitting the various objects and enemies laid out in each section. Across these sections, there's stars that you can earn. The way of earning stars may differ in each section, but in most, the star appears after beating all of the enemies that are in the section (for the first time only). Between the flippers there's a space in which Mario can fit through, and if he does, he'll return to the previous stage, and if you fall in the first section of a stage, you'll lose a life. Mario can not be destroyed, however he can be hit by certain enemies, and objects, altering the path he was taking before the collision occurred. Additionally, some sections are underwater, and in these, Mario can be sent upwards, in order to hit certain objects across the section.

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