New Era Pinball Game Black – Interactive Tabletop or Floor Arcade Pinball Machine for Kids & Adults – LED Scoring, Lights & Sounds, Fast & Fun 3-Ball Launch Game – Ideal Gift for Birthdays & Christmas

This pinball machine is terrific. It is well made & holding up nicely. We all have a lot of fun with it.It comes with three silver balls. Many of the other pinball machines come with only one ball.The flippers work great and the sound and lights make it feel as if you are at the arcade.Our grandkids love having competitions with us. It makes a great gift. I gave one each to my two grandsons for Christmas & I bought one to keep at our house for when they come to visit. I felt the price was reasonable for the value!

The Good-I think it's longer than the average tabletop pinball. The "3 ball" dial option makes it so that one can "prep" a ball while playing with a singular ball, or shoot all marbleesque balls at once- making the game more like a video-game than a "arcade analog" machine.The score element is convenient, and rewards the player a paltry 5 points per hit, so there's a lot of strategy in trying to get the most combos. The flipper action could be better, but it's generally functionable. Occassionally the ball gets caught on one of the flippers, though a slight tilt of the machine or a push of a flipper can knock it off.The BadThe collection of sound effects aren't the problem, in my opinion. They have a sort of descending siren quality, which means it sounds oddly harmonious when the ball ricochets on multiple light dots.BUT IT IS SO LOUD THAT I PUT ELECTRICAL TAPE OVER THE MONO SPEAKER.The UglyOne, since there aren't any "lives" of sorts, you're left making up the rules for a game over. Since there are three game-balls, I choose to give myself "one life" per ball. I also don't count losing a ball if it gets batted back into the game plunger (which is a lever made of hard plastic)This wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't make you "win" at 1000 points. (there's a brief light show of sorts and the score stops counting)I think part of the arcade experience is a game being virtually unwinnable, so this is a defect.Also, the button is a reset (to 0) button, not a high score one, so if you don't beat the game, you're stuck remembering the high score.Also, in terms of assembly, it's pretty easy, but in my experience the cable threads were exposed, which aren't a problem if you connect them before putting the batteries in..but may be a shocking hazard if one isn't expecting them.The Merchant Ambassador Pinball retains the high scores, but I didn't want a pinball machine with bumpers (I feel like that would lower the difficulty for smaller tables) so it's a bit of a trade-off.POSTSCRIPTIt's not perfect, but has its own sense of charm, and I think it does a better job than most of not being in situations where the ball is caught in the middle of it.4.5/5

Kids loved it.

Works well. Way too loud!

Does not work

Purchased as a gift for a coworker. They loved it!

It's neat, but a fairly cheap pinball machine. Maybe a little overpriced for what it is.

My son was so excited to open this gift for Christmas and even more disappointed when the lights and sounds and scoring didn’t work:( We were hoping to quickly get seller to replace it but could not find an easy contact seller option leading us to plan a return through Amazon but truly would’ve preferred to replace the item now that our son had his hopes up after opening the package.