Galactic Pinball
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Galactic Pinball is a video game for the Virtual Boy
. It is pinball
game featuring several different boards, including a cameo appearance
by Samus Aran
Colony
A distinguishing features of the Colony board is a mini-game where the user shoots down various meteors
from a three dimensional perspective.
UFO
In UFO, the board initially starts with a large UFO
at the top of the board, which flies away to reveal triggers that open two holes. Knocking the ball into these holes accesses such bonuses as center posts and kickbacks. If the player gets the jackpot after 100,000,000 points, the game will lock-up with the music still playing.
Alien
In Alien, after getting the ball into the Alien's Lair, an alien will appear to be hit to gain points.
Cosmic
Cosmic is a classic pinball board that has a third flipper and a ramp that accesses a special area with several bumpers. It also has a rotating sphere that the player can enter for bonus points. Samus Aran
, protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid
series, makes a cameo.
Virtual Boy
The was a video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was the first video game console that was supposed to be capable of displaying "true 3D graphics" out of the box. Whereas most video games use monocular cues to achieve the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional...
. It is pinball
Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...
game featuring several different boards, including a cameo appearance
Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
by Samus Aran
Samus Aran
is the protagonist of the Metroid video game series. Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus is a female ex-army soldier bounty hunter usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include beams and missiles...
Gameplay
Galactic Pinball is based on the rules of pinball and players user flippers to control a ball on the playfield.Boards
Galactic Pinball features four boards, each with distinguishing elements and targets.Colony
A distinguishing features of the Colony board is a mini-game where the user shoots down various meteors
Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. If a meteoroid reaches the ground and survives impact, then it is called a meteorite...
from a three dimensional perspective.
UFO
In UFO, the board initially starts with a large UFO
Unidentified flying object
A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...
at the top of the board, which flies away to reveal triggers that open two holes. Knocking the ball into these holes accesses such bonuses as center posts and kickbacks. If the player gets the jackpot after 100,000,000 points, the game will lock-up with the music still playing.
Alien
In Alien, after getting the ball into the Alien's Lair, an alien will appear to be hit to gain points.
Cosmic
Cosmic is a classic pinball board that has a third flipper and a ramp that accesses a special area with several bumpers. It also has a rotating sphere that the player can enter for bonus points. Samus Aran
Samus Aran
is the protagonist of the Metroid video game series. Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus is a female ex-army soldier bounty hunter usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include beams and missiles...
, protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid
Metroid
is an action-adventure video game, and the first entry in the Metroid series. It was co-developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division and Intelligent Systems, and was released in Japan in August 1986, in North America in August 1987, and in Europe in January 1988...
series, makes a cameo.