Super Pinball: Behind the Mask

Super Pinball: Behind the Mask
Super Pinball: Behind the Mask
North American cover art
DeveloperKAZe
Publishers
DesignerTakashi Kobayashi
ComposerYusuke Takahama
PlatformSuper NES
Release
  • JP: January 8, 1994
  • NA: May 1994
  • EU: August 8, 1994
GenrePinball
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Super Pinball: Behind the Mask is a pinball video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1994 in North America and Japan.

Gameplay

The game has three tables: "Blackbeard and Ironmen", "Jolly Joker", and "Wizard". The game can be played in competition mode where up to 4 players compete for the highest score, or in conquest mode where a single player attempts to beat score objectives on all three playfields.

Reception

GamePro criticized the game for emulating early pinball machines, which were "straightforward and not very imaginative", rather than modern pinball video games. They elaborated that "The bumpers, flippers, and bonus markers are too small, and the angle of the board will give you a permanent squint." Electronic Gaming Monthly remarked that it "is probably the best looking home pinball game out there, but that's about it. The game play gets very repetitious and boring ..." Nintendo Power found the 3-D view of the machine on a single screen to be unusual, but praised the look, feel, and sound of the game.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
  2. 1 2 3 "Basic overview of game". MobyGames. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
  3. ↑ "Composer information". SNES Music. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
  4. 1 2 3 Lane, Gavin (2023-11-30). "Best Nintendo Pinball Games". Nintendo Life. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
  5. 1 2 3 "Review Crew: Super Pinball". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 56. EGM Media, LLC. March 1994. p. 34, 128.
  6. ↑ "Super Pinball: Behind the Mask Review Score". Archived from the original on 2019-05-04.
  7. 1 2 of Arcadia, Lawrence (June 1994). "Super Pinball". GamePro. No. 59. IDG. p. 66.
  8. ↑ "Flipper Frenzy". Nintendo Power. No. 59. April 1994. pp. 50–51, 105.