Not quite a pinball machine

I've never been very good at pinball -- neither pinball machines or computer / console pinball games. We just don't seem to get along very well. The only one I ever managed to get a decent score at was the original "Pinball" for the NES, where you could unlock the bonus room with the princess up top and... I don't really remember much else, but it was fun!

Pin Bot, on the other hand, isn't all that fun. It's just standard pinball based off an actual Williams machine (so I'm told). Sure there are some extra features in the game that they couldn't replicate with an actual pinball machine at the time, but nothing really memorable.

The biggest problem is that the "board" consists of primarily two colors - purp le and blue, and it's really hard to tell where the pathways and bumpers are. It looks messy and I've played pinball games on my XT computer that looked better in monochrome.

Besides that, it's really just pinball. If you hit enough triggers the "Pin Bot" awakens and says some stuff and will trap your balls (I can hear you jeering, stop it). You can also unlock a comet tail on your ball, but I don't even remember how to do that (that's thorough journalism at work, folks!).

It was the cost of a normal NES cartridge when it was released and for what you got it was really not worth it -- one board with underwhelming gameplay and a messy design. The game supports four players swapping off the controller, but would you really want to sit around your TV waiting for 3 other people to take turns playing pinball before you got to do the same? Didn't think so.