Pachinko App Reviews

Enjoyable game, kids liked it too. Seems true to the real Japanese pinball game on which it is based. It you like old pineball/arcade games this is a good bet.

This is an excellent facsimile of the famous Japanese pinball game.

V1.4 corrects the slowness. Gameplay emulates well with your common Pachinko machine.

This is a nice old-style mechanical pachinko simulator. The playfield design and graphics are simple but effective. Gameplay is an accurate simulation of the real thing. The ball physics seem realistic and accurate even with multiple balls bouncing around the field. The game audio is hit and miss. Some sounds (ball hitting pin, ball hitting wooden bucket, jackpot bell) are pitch perfect, others (Ball Launcher, drain, and alternate ball hitting pin sound) are so wrong as to be distracting. Resampling them would improve play. Altogether a good value for the pachinko fan. Recommended.

This reminds me of the pachinko machine I had growing up. Its been broken for quite a few years so I am really enjoying this game. The audio brings back alot of memories.

Would be more fun if it ever let you win

Just like the one we owned in Japan. Very nostalgic, but probably a little slow for todays user.

Very nice! The physics are exquisite and the sounds undeniably believable. Options provide countless variations and repeatable gameplay. Would like to be able to see statistics on overall play - total number of balls and high scores and similar on a daily basis too. Would also like to see more Pachinko boards with different pin layouts. A facility for users to create and share boards would be a plus.

Not bad but I find these Pachinko games worthless time-wasters without any sort of RANKING, highscore table and STATS. At least the Making games have a "ranking" (highscore) table. Try Lucky Clune or the Eagle. BTW, will we ever see Pajatzo again? I heard the developer got sued. Too bad. That game looks awesome. Update: bumped to 3 stars (up from 2). I found the highscores table. Very nice. If this game had less "floaty" physics and more stats (total wins, total balls played, gameplay time, profiles, etc) it would be a 5 star game.

Really nice. Physics have real weight, and the balls dont seem floaty. The sounds are spot on, and the handle even feels right. Another board or two would make an awsome update - but what is here is already worth every penny; thanks for a really enjoyable app!!!!

Reminds me of the old Pachinko machine my dad brought back from his tour in Japan. Physics are on par. Sounds and "mechanics" are authentic as well.

Sugoi disappointed!!! If you expect as one in Japan,dont buy this until it gets better. Playing this makes me sad. I have to hit a ball one by one.......I miss real pachinko!!!!

This game reminds me of the real thing. it does everything the machine does, including balls getting stuck and balls falling back into the launcher! Great work!

Awsome game!! I own 4 real Vintage Pachinko machines and this app is as real as it gets. The sound and the way the ball bounces off the nails and the lights and bell when you hit a payout Well worth the money lots of fun! I have other Pachinko apps that I paid more money for and are not as REAL as this one.. Great App Guys

Gets boring after winning once. Good for a couple of hours.

Ive downloaded several Pachinko apps, and by far, this is the best one. I own a vintage Pachinko machine, and the sound effects of this app are perfect, right down to the balls tapping on the glass as they fall through the pins, the sound of the balls hitting the pins, the sound of the lever being flicked, the launch of the balls, and the sound of the balls exiting the play area. If youre looking for an authentic Pachinko machine app, I recommend this one over all the others, and its less expensive. Great job!

My family used to own a real Pachinko game when we were young, which I "inherited" when everyone left home. When I had to retire and downsize I had to give it up & I have REALLY missed it. This game looks a little different but plays almost identically to the one we had - it is marvelous! Nice going!! I would only like it better if I understood better how it tracks High Scores ... am not sure thats working right or I am understanding how to set that up...

My brother had a real Pachinko machine, and this game is as close to the real thing as you can get! Including the sound effects. This game is well worth getting!! It might be cool to have different skins, to have an animation where you see the balls loading and being used from the hopper at the bottom.

I have about 5 vintage pachinko apps and this is the only one to deliver a true virtual pachinko experience. The play field is authentic down to the working tulips. But its the real pachinko sounds that make this game stand out above all the others. If you enjoy vintage pachinko DONT miss this one !!

I got this app about 2 years ago, one of the first on my iphone, and loved it. I dont know quite what has changed but it isnt fun to play anymore because scoring seems like a rare accident instead of something I have anything to do with. Almost like the change from real handles to electronic firing. Recently I have seen runs of over 100 shots where nothing went in. Before, it was possible to move the handle position slightly and change the trajectory slightly. Now the handle position doesnt seem to have the same effect, a little change might have no effect or it might launch the ball on a dramatically different path. The balls also act much more "live", bouncing off posts really fast and not coming off at the angles they would need to drop into little spaces. I am using Pachinko on an iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.0.1. I notice that with this combination many apps, not just Pachinko, perform differently than they did in the past - some faster, some slower, much more variability in performance. (Some work better in airplane mode.) For real-time computation apps based on user hand-eye coordination, changes in the OS could really foul up the user experience. I dont know what happened to Pachinko or whether its changes were intended by the developers or whether the change in the computing environment of the phone is responsible. In any case, Pachinko is more boring than it used to be because I dont have any illusion of controlling the handle anymore. It was my favorite before.