Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire

Pokemon Pinball has all the features you'd demand of a pinball game, including bonus tables, lots of bumpers and ways to score massive points. As with your standard videogame pinball game, the left button on…

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Adventure Arcade Pinball Action

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is an adventure developed by Jupiter Corporation, released 1 August 2003 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

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What Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is an adventure game developed by Jupiter Corporation and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version are 2002 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. They are the first installments in the third generation of the Pokémon video game series, also known as the "advanced generation". After years of Nintendo being the sole publisher of the franchise in all regions, The Pokémon Company co-published the games for the first time since the establishment of the joint-owned company in 1998. They were first released in Japan in late 2002, and internationally in 2003. Pokémon Emerald, a third version, was released two years later in each region. Remakes of the two…

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is the 92nd of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Dai-2-dan: Pokémon Battle Card e+ - Yuruginai Chikara in 2003. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 52 votes.

What it launched against

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire launched on 1 August 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic.

Cheats and codes

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