Bring Back Pokemon Pinball

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We’re all excited for Pokemon Scarlet Letter & Pokemon Violet Beauregard. New Pokemon to meet! New adventures to go on! New hot professors to be hot! Although one day we need to talk about Pokemon Professor Hotness Inflation.

Professor Oak was just a regular academic who only got you going if you had dad stuff. Now look at us. We’re tearing each other apart.

But as much as I love Pokemon and the endless quest to confine them to a hellish round micro-prison, the series has seemed to stop caring about what’s truly important. I don’t mean friendship or exploration. Those never mattered to me. You think I’d be here if I had friends or an appetite for going outside? What’s missing from Pokemon these days is something far, far more important: Pinball.

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You might be thinking, “Wasn’t Pokemon Pinball just a two-game spin-off series that last had a game 19 years ago?” And you’d both be right and have a great knowledge of release dates! Yes, Pokemon Pinball was two games in which the catching of Pokemon through roleplaying and adventure was replaced by - and hold onto your chair because this gets complicated - pinball.

As I’m sure you agree, we’re already far above the competition here.

I’m not here to wax nostalgic. This isn’t, “Oh, remember how good Pokemon Pinball was? What a time!” If you haven’t played either of these games, that’s on you and your god. I thought you were a fan.

Pokemon Pinball condenses the entire experience of playing Pokemon into a handful of minutes. Why spend hundreds of hours learning about a beautiful world when you can hit a bumper a bunch of times and catch your third Psyduck? A Psyduck you won’t really use that much in any larger capacity.