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[[File:Video Games 1 - Pinball Screen.png|center|500px]]
This game has many features so let's go through them one by one.
=====Score=====
Your score is shown in the bottom center of the screen. The score for the last game and the highest score in this session of Pinball are shown to the right and left of this, respectively.
=====Walls=====
The thick black line shows the boundaries of the playing area. Except for the bottom wall, the ball will bounce off the walls with a sound effect and an addition to your score. If the ball crosses the bottom wall, it is lost and you hear the "lost ball" music.
=====Flipper=====
You can keep the ball in play by moving your "flipper" so that the ball bounces off it, again with a sound effect and an addition to your score. The flipper is the black shape sticking up from the bottom wall. When a ball is in play, you can move the flipper left or right with the lever on the Wired Remote Controllers or with the ← ('''S''') and → ('''D''') keys on the keyboard. The flipper cannot move the full width of the bottom wall, so there is always a space at each side where the ball can be lost. If it weren't for this feature, a skilled player could keep the ball in play forever!
=====Targets=====
At the top of the playing area are three pairs of colored triangles. The black diagonal lines on the triangles are targets. As the ball hits a target, it bounces off with a sound effect and an addition to your score. The computer also remembers which targets you have hit. As soon as you have hit both the targets on the triangles of the same color, the targets will disappear. These triangles now become "rollovers." Now when you hit them, you still score and hear a sound effect, but instead of bouncing off, the ball rolls over the triangles.
=====Bumpers=====
When all three pairs of targets have been hit in this way, the following events happen:
* All the target and rollover scores are increased!
* Bumper targets appear as black horizontal lines through the green circles in the playing area.
* The triangle targets reappear.
Now you can score more for hitting the same targets and have extra targets to hit. The second time you hit all the triangle targets, the scores increase, the yellow bumper targets appear, and the triangle targets reappear. If you are really skillful and can hit all the triangle targets for a third time, the red bumper targets appear and the scores are increased to the maximum level. Be careful of these bumper targets though! Before, the ball rolled over the circles, but now it bounces back. When the yellow and red circles become bumper targets, you have to move your flipper very quickly to keep the ball in play.
=====Flipper Target=====
The white horizontal line which joins the two sets of triangle targets is a flipper target. If you hit this, the flipper gets bigger, making it easier to keep the ball in play. At the same time, a black line appears above the flipper and follows its
movements across the screen. If the ball hits this line, the flipper shrinks back to its normal size.
