Mario Pinball Land

The best pinball video game ever made? Okay, so maybe that?s like saying ?the best Black Sabbath album featuring Dio,? but Mario Pinball Land is still looking damn good.

Mario Pinball Land could be the best translation of pinball to video games. Okay, so maybe that?s not saying much, but the preview version is a challenging blast that begs quick reflexes, precision aiming, and intuition for ball physics. The control scheme is simple?you tap the shoulder buttons to operate two flippers that knock a sphere-shaped Mario around variously themed tables?but there is a clever depth and manic energy at play here.

Each world has multiple levels that are accessed by knocking open doors, squeezing through openings, and triggering hidden drops with the help of power-ups like growth-inducing (and reducing) mushrooms and multiballs, while the environments themselves, ranging from desert plains to arctic fantasias, affect the ball physics. After defeating man-eating plant and puffer fish bosses, you can warp to other worlds in your effort to rack up the most points while staying alive as long as possible.

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