Mario Pinball Land is an adventure developed by Fuse Games, released 26 August 2004 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
What Mario Pinball Land is
Mario Pinball Land is an adventure game developed by Fuse Games and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Jumping has always helped Mario perform heroic feats, but in Mario Pinball Land, the plumber must learn how to roll to rescue the princess. When Bowser kidnaps Peach and escapes to another dimension, a scientist transforms Mario into a ball to chase after the fiend. Now you must use your flippers to shoot a much rounder Mario into doors that lead to new areas. In his new form, Mario is also useful for knocking down enemies, picking up special bonuses, and finding power-ups.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series
Mario Pinball Land is the 35th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. It arrived 10 months after Mario Party 5. The next entry was WarioWare: Twisted! in 2004. Its critic score of 50 is 24 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario Pinball Land holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Mario Pinball Land launched on 26 August 2004, within three weeks of Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and The Sims 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, The Sims 2.
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