Kirby’s Pinball Land (Game Boy - HAL Laboratory - 1993 - USA)

It’s with Kirby’s Pinball Land that I’ve come to realize that I don’t have any skills with pinball. Nevertheless this game is really charming, reprising most of the first Kirby’s Dream Land universe and assets. You got to love the packaging that emulates a real pinball, with buttons on the side and the launcher at the bottom... Such attention to details! I remember lending this game to my cousin, only to witness month later that she’d kicked me out of the leaderboard’s hi-score entirely. I would spend hours getting the best score back but never succeeded: her hi-scores are still present in the cartridge to this day. I was also upset that she lost the instruction manual, that’s why I had to get a new one later, but from another territory...