![]() ![]() Other items put a Mario-themed twist on traditional pinball bonuses, such as the Yoshi egg, which acts like a multiball and can be used to unlock jackpot platforms, and the pipe item, which can be used to block the drain at the bottom of the room. Anyone familiar with the Mario series will recognize the super mushroom, shrink mushroom, and starman items. Luckily, Mario can bump into question blocks, or spend a few gold coins at Toad's shop, to take advantage of the different power-up items the game has to offer. The bosses take multiple hits to defeat, which makes them pretty tough. Of course, Bowser is waiting in his castle too. You'll find a supersized boss sitting in the last room of each world-specifically, a piranha plant, a spiny puffer fish, Big Boo, and Tutankoopa. Some of the bosses and power-up items from the Mario series have even made it into Mario Pinball Land. That's where the game gets most of its challenge-if you drop out of a room before you've managed to clean it out, everything in it will reset the next time you enter it. Subsequent rooms are interconnected, so the only penalty for falling down a drain most of the time is ending up back in the previous room. In fact, the only way to lose a life is to fall down the drain that's in the first room of each world. Some enemies, like the koopa troopa and spiny, need to be knocked onto their backs before you can get rid of them. There are underwater rooms too, which, besides looking bubbly, also slow things down quite a bit. In some rooms, you'll come across structures that you can enter, such as a windmill or an igloo. Sometimes, you need to knock Mario into a series of switches to make the enemies appear. The basic idea is to use the flippers to slap Mario into the enemies in the room, collect the coins and stars they leave behind, and then propel him into the next room to do it all over again. There's a pair of flippers at the bottom of each room and some doorways at the top. Inside each room, you'll find enemies and hazards that have been borrowed from the Mario series (goombas, shyguys, koopa troopas, and so on). Each world is set up as a series of rooms. The game has all the trappings of a side-scrolling Mario game. Instead, you use flippers to help a balled-up Mario smack into enemies, roll through doorways, and do battle with a quartet of bosses in an effort to collect the coins and keys that he needs to invade Bowser's castle and eventually rescue the princess. You don't use flippers to pound a shiny ball around a table loaded with bumpers, spinners, and loops in an effort to rack up the most points before the ball falls down the drain. Mario Pinball Land isn't pinball in the traditional sense. ![]() ![]() Mario Pinball Land has beautiful graphics, and it's fun to play, but it needs more levels. It combines the general concepts behind tabletop pinball with the characters and worlds from the Mario franchise to create a strange sort of adventure game that's fairly fun but a little on the short side. The company's latest game, a funky fusion of Mario and pinball called Mario Pinball Land, is a good example. Nintendo has a knack for coming up with quirky games that are easy to pick up and play. ![]()
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