The Pinball of the Dead

by Sega

Product Features

• Unique spin on genre, combining everything you love about pinball with new challenges and evil monsters
• 3 multi-tiered boards filled with zombies and traps
• Based upon the classic arcade favorite House of the Dead
• Shoot your way into hidden zones to battle Boss Monsters,Unique spin on genre, combining everything you love about pinball with new challenges and evil monsters

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V3F8
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 18, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,241 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Inspired by Sega's popular House of the Dead franchise, Pinball of the Dead challenges you to shoot, tilt, and flip your way across 3 boards in order to rescue citizens and destroy zombies. Each multi-tiered board is packed with challenges, hidden horrors, and vile bosses. Do you dare to enter the world of the Dead?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great gameplay, great visuals and design, makes pinball fun!, March 26, 2003

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Squidgey Flint (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pinball of the Dead (Video Game)

Pinball of the Dead is a strange combination of a modern day pinball machine and the House of the Dead arcade shooter. The graphics and design are stunning and the gameplay is good too.

There are 3 different machines to play, and they are all pretty different from each other. Before you shoot any ball you get to shoot a zombie via roving cross hairs. Hitting the zombie will net you some type of bonus, like multipliers or lost ball kickbacks,etc.

Within each machine (not really levels) there are the standard pinball sequences to hit like spelling out words to get big bonuses. More interestingly though, is the House of the Dead flair. All kinds of zombies are roaming the table. If the ball is going slow enough the zombies can deflect the ball. If the ball is going fast enough it squishes the zombies in a great big splat of green goo (color is configurable).

There are also special zombie battles and boss battles. The zombie battles are engaged by squishing a bunch of zombies and then dropping the ball in a hole. This will take you to a mini-game in which you have to squish a variety of flying/running/floating zombies.

The boss battles are even better. By engaging the right combination of table features (hitting areas, balls in holes, etc), you can cause a boss to rear his...ugly head in the middle of the table. Your immediate task of couse is to pound his ugly mug with the ball until he dies/goes away.

Of the 3 tables, I like the 3rd one the best (has hands for flippers) although the 2nd table has this neat pulsating heart/molecule thing that grows/changes as your ball rides the rails around it as well as a 2nd level area with extra flippers underneath the main table that see via a glass window in the main table. The first table is good too although I seem to have difficulty getting the ball out of the bottom area and up into play. The 2nd table is definitely the hardest to play.

Game play is good. Flipper action is accurate as is ball motion. NOTE: you HAVE to use "nudge" to be good at this game. The other note is that pinball tables are vertical and the GBA (SP) screen is horizontal which makes for a bit of machine controlled scrolling. There are plenty of times that you ball will drop between the flippers too quickly because the scrolling is not fast enough to keep up.

All in all this is an addictive game with a broad area to explore. The unlockable elements just add to the exploration.

This is a game definitely worth owning.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Pinball of the Dead - Great Game!, January 20, 2003

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Totenkopfstandarten (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pinball of the Dead (Video Game)

Whoever came up with this must have been on some quality Hydro. I have been a fan of House of the Dead games since the Arcade shooter came out and I have to say, Pinball of the Dead keeps up with the theme. The graphics are great, grisly and clear. The Sound is choc-full of "house of the dead" sounds from the cheesy music to the horky comments. The game comes with a save feature, music, custom options... and what I like the best, It keeps a toll of your damage. Zombies killed, bosses beaten... ect. You can unlock added features as well as you get better and better with the game.

The game plays like a normal pinball machine, flippers, bumpers, ramps.. all the stuff. But with a added fun feature... Zombies and Creatures, LOTS of Zombies and Creatures. They move about on the screen and after a little practice you can kill them with a hard hit from the Ball. It comes with 3 different pinball machine layouts, all crusty and grizzly looking with 3 dimensional graphics and layers.

If you like freaky weird games... You will like The Pinball of the Dead. It's entertainment value is high and very enjoyable.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Resident Evil horrifying graphics + pinball, June 21, 2002

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Jeff Johnson "Jeff Johnson" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pinball of the Dead (Video Game)

This is a fabulously detailed pinball game, detailed with graphics, good music (especially for Gameboy), good voice-overs, and easy to use controls (L button for left paddle, R button for the right one, up to tilt the machine). Pinball of the Dead combines the horrifying graphics of Resident Evil, with multi-level pinball tables and just a twist of "use the pinball to destroy creatures." The game focuses around three major pinball tables, the first with a 19th century England theme, the second with a high tech sci-fi theme, the third with a ghoulish red cemetery theme and various hidden tables you can unlock. The tables also adapt, move and live, such as little creatures constantly appear in open spaces waiting to be run over by the pinball for points. Along with secret tables to unlock there are also cinematic horror scenes which can be unlocked through points, hitting something a certain amount of times or discovering a secret area. There are also secret areas with bosses for you to defeat by hitting it with the pinball several times. The gameplay is smooth, and instead of having the entire table viewable on one screen, the screen scrolls up and down following the pinball. It's a good pinball game, but although the graphics are for mature audiences, the game is quite easy. You can play for ten minutes on a single ball! After all is said, pinball is pinball.