Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A playthrough of Nintendo's 2005 pinball game for the Nintendo DS, Metroid Prime Pinball.
This video shows two loops through the Multi Mission mode. Finishing the game once unlocks the expert mode, which sets the minigame difficulty to level two from the start, but I had most of them maxed at level three by the end of the second loop.
Metroid Prime Pinball is Metroid Prime, adapted into pinball. I don't know how or why anyone would come up with such an idea, but I'm glad they did. This is pretty good.
It was the second game to be created for Nintendo by Fuse Games, the developer of Mario Pinball Land (youtu.be/hjy6NWaE9Xw) which had come out on the Game Boy Advance a year prior. I was not a fan of Mario Pinball Land, but it seems that Fuse was quick to see the error in their ways, because Metroid Prime Pinball addresses the litany of issues people had with that game.
Over the course of the game, you'll need to collect twelve artifacts in order to open the path to the Artifact Temple, where upon defeating Meta Ridley, you gain access to the Impact Crater and the final battle with the Metroid Prime. There are six tables, each one based on an area from Metroid Prime, and you earn artifacts by completing various table-themed minigame challenges, like mowing down droves of beetles and triclops, kick jumping up vertical shafts full of enemies, and collecting globs of phazon.
The tables have plenty to do and are laid out simply, and the game moves things along at a quick pace, so you'll rarely get stuck playing a table past the point that you've grown bored with the scenery, and the boss battles are surprisingly tense for being built around pinball mechanics. Once you get used to the dead zone between the screens and the touchscreen tilt mechanic, the game feels good to play.
But it's the presentation that sells this as a Metroid experience. The tables are beautifully rendered and full of neat little details that you'll recognize from the GameCube game, the FMV sequences pull off some impressive gameplay transitions, and the soundtrack fits the bill as both Metroid and pinball music. The buttrock remix of the Brinstar theme used for the Space Pirate Frigate table is gold.
Metroid Prime Pinball is an excellent pinball game wrapped in an equally excellent Metroid-themed coat of paint. If you enjoy video game pinball, this is worth checking out it!
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A playthrough of Nintendo's 2005 pinball game for the Nintendo DS, Metroid Prime Pinball.
This video shows two loops through the Multi Mission mode. Finishing the game once unlocks the expert mode, which sets the minigame difficulty to level two from the start, but I had most of them maxed at level three by the end of the second loop.
Metroid Prime Pinball is Metroid Prime, adapted into pinball. I don't know how or why anyone would come up with such an idea, but I'm glad they did. This is pretty good.
It was the second game to be created for Nintendo by Fuse Games, the developer of Mario Pinball Land (youtu.be/hjy6NWaE9Xw) which had come out on the Game Boy Advance a year prior. I was not a fan of Mario Pinball Land, but it seems that Fuse was quick to see the error in their ways, because Metroid Prime Pinball addresses the litany of issues people had with that game.
Over the course of the game, you'll need to collect twelve artifacts in order to open the path to the Artifact Temple, where upon defeating Meta Ridley, you gain access to the Impact Crater and the final battle with the Metroid Prime. There are six tables, each one based on an area from Metroid Prime, and you earn artifacts by completing various table-themed minigame challenges, like mowing down droves of beetles and triclops, kick jumping up vertical shafts full of enemies, and collecting globs of phazon.
The tables have plenty to do and are laid out simply, and the game moves things along at a quick pace, so you'll rarely get stuck playing a table past the point that you've grown bored with the scenery, and the boss battles are surprisingly tense for being built around pinball mechanics. Once you get used to the dead zone between the screens and the touchscreen tilt mechanic, the game feels good to play.
But it's the presentation that sells this as a Metroid experience. The tables are beautifully rendered and full of neat little details that you'll recognize from the GameCube game, the FMV sequences pull off some impressive gameplay transitions, and the soundtrack fits the bill as both Metroid and pinball music. The buttrock remix of the Brinstar theme used for the Space Pirate Frigate table is gold.
Metroid Prime Pinball is an excellent pinball game wrapped in an equally excellent Metroid-themed coat of paint. If you enjoy video game pinball, this is worth checking out it!
_____________
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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This is the third part of a five-part playthrough, showing Chapters 25 through 32.
Chapter 25: A Storm of Romance 0:00
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Chapter 27: The Dimensional Cliff 2:07:23
Chapter 28: The Realm of Overlords 3:26:37
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Chapter 31: Key to Another World 8:10:57
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Part 1: https://youtu.be/5f_TWkgrLQQ
Part 2: https://youtu.be/bKeli3Y0mqk
Part 4: https://youtu.be/_1CiFNkRWwA
Part 5: https://youtu.be/9wD2_hMu6RY
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This video shows the entire Level Card mode from the Wii U Virtual Console release of the game that is currently available through the Switch Online subscription service.
Super Mario Advance 4 was essentially an enhanced GBA port of the Super Nintendo remake of Super Mario Bros. 3 (https://youtu.be/1kdrLp4sUMg). What made this version notable was that it was one of the tiny handful of games that supported Nintendos e-Reader, an accessory for the GBA and GameCube that could read data from barcodes printed on trading cards. These cards provided a means of delivering new game content post-release, and in the case of SMA4, included new stages and power-ups. Nintendo put out a total of thirty-eight stages on these cards - 32 brand new ones and 6 taken from the original Super Mario Bros. - and they patched all of them into the base game when they rereleased SMA4 on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2016.
And these stages tend to feel pretty wild. The approach to level design is more Mario Maker than Mario 3 in spirit, and a load of stuff from Mario 2 and Mario World has been tossed in, like capes, radishes, and Chargin Chucks. It all makes for a novel reinterpretation of Mario 3s core gameplay tenets, and its cool that Nintendo made an effort to preserve it all in such an accessible way.
*Recorded with a Retroarch shader to mimic the look of the original hardware.
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