Originally Posted by
Aussie2B
Love, love, loooooooove On the Ball. One of the happy accidents of my childhood. I had played and liked Revenge of the Gator on a borrowed Game Boy, and since all I had at the time was a SNES (and I was completely oblivious to what was available for it), I asked my mom for a pinball SNES game for Christmas or my birthday or some such, not knowing that there were basically no pinball games in the US SNES library. I ended up with On the Ball instead, but I wasn't disappointed at all. Besides just being really fun, it's got a funky, interesting atmosphere about it. The music, background graphics, the weird "inspirational posters" you get for clearing stages, it makes for a bizarre, captivating experience. I played the heck out of the game in the 90s, and I specifically got Taito Legends 2 for Cameltry but it's not nearly as good. I also got Labyrinth for DS, but it also pales in comparison.