Pokémon France was born in November 1999, a few months before Pokémon Pinball reached French stores in October 2000. Since then, the Game Boy Color pinball game and its sequel have regularly had a place on the site: reviews, re-release announcements, guides. This page gathers those archives and puts them back into the game’s history.
Our reviews
Pokémon Pinball review (2016)
Our first full review of the pinball game, published in May 2016, introduces the game’s principle to an audience discovering or rediscovering it: a ball that serves as a Poké Ball, two tables, Pokémon to catch by hitting them. It remains a good, short way in: Pokémon Pinball review.
The review published with this guide complements it and goes further, with a score out of 20, the details of the modes and the question of how to play it today: our Pokémon Pinball review.
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire review (2014)
The Game Boy Advance sequel got its own review in February 2014, a few months before its re-release on Wii U. It looks at what changes compared with the first pinball game: Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire review.
The news
In December 2014, we followed the arrival of Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire on the Wii U Virtual Console live. First the Japanese announcement, then the pleasant surprise of a European release only a few days later:
- Pokémon Pinball R&S coming soon to Virtual Console (December 4, 2014)
- Pokémon Pinball R&S arrives Thursday in Europe! (December 8, 2014)
These two short news items date from a specific moment: when Nintendo was re-releasing older Pokémon spin-offs one by one on its home consoles. The first Pokémon Pinball, for its part, never followed that path, as the page sequels and re-releases explains.
This guide, in 2026
The guide you are reading was entirely rebuilt in October 2026, from the game’s data and cross-checked sources (Bulbapedia, Poképédia, Serebii, the game’s disassembly project and the press of the time). It has around thirty pages, including:
- the two tables detailed element by element: Red Field and Blue Field;
- the Catch and Evolution Modes, the map and the bonus stages;
- the list of the 151 Pokémon linked to our Pokédex, with the rare Pokémon and the method to get Mew;
- behind the scenes: history, rumble, music and regional differences.
All our archives on Pokémon Pinball
Do you have a memory, a tip or a record to share about Pokémon Pinball? Write to us from the Contact us page: the best contributions may enrich this guide.
