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Pinball (NES, Famicom Disk System)

Pinball, contrary to what the US box and cartridge label would have you believe, is not a Mario game.

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Developer Credits#

Present at offset 0x17A:

BY S.MATSUOKA & S.IWATA

(Source: CaH4e3)

S. Matsuoka is Satoshi Matsuoka, a programmer for HAL Laboratory, while S. Iwata is the late Satoru Iwata. According to Iwata, this was the first game HAL developed for Nintendo.

Unused Graphics#

Bonus Game#

The bonus game (featuring a pancake-prone Lady) has rollovers with numbers "1", "2", and "3". Graphics exist for a "4" rollover, using the top-right tile from the "1" rollover.

Lady (Pauline) about to walk and then fall off an edge. Unused because the bonus game ends as soon as she falls below the paddle.

General#

A little 8×8 ball graphic in the background tiles. May have been used for showing the ball count instead of the text "BALL".

Pop-up bumpers to add realism to the slingshots. As is, the ball just bounces off for no real reason.

Unused one-way gates. Some were clearly meant for the top of the table.

A hole surrounded by a moving gate. Might have been used to block off the minigame?