The game has two screens to represent the traditional pinball table and one for a bonus mode. Pinball is a game where the player controls the paddles of a virtual pinball machine. It was later re-released as an e-reader Card game, and is also playable as an unlockable mini-game in Doubutsu no Mori for the Nintendo 64 and Animal Crossing on the Nintendo GameCube and as a downloadable title on the Virtual Console for the Wii and Wii U. In 1985 it reached North America as one of 18 launch titles. It is based on a 1983 Game & Watch unit of the same name. Pinball is a 1984 pinball video game developed and released by Nintendo for their Nintendo Entertainment System. Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).