Pinballer
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The Pinballer[1] is a blue machine in Mario Pinball Land that can transform a character into a ball form. The machine has two yellow halves of a sphere that squeeze a character into a ball. It also has a gray platform that can extend upwards to move the character. The Pinballer appears only in an opening cutscene, after the player starts the game, and after they lose a life.
After Toad gets transformed into a ball and launched out of the Sky Cannon, Princess Peach enters the cannon as well but gets blasted to Bowser's castle by two Goombas. Mario then enters the machine in order to save the princess.
Trivia
- Interestingly, the Pinballer and F.L.U.D.D. (and to some extent, the Magic Paintbrush; the Magic Orb; the Hydrogush 4000 and Robo Mario) share the exact same color palette. Given the fact that they are both inventions with magical properties, it's may be possible that Professor Elvin Gadd is also the creator of this machine.
References
- ^ Mario Pinball Land instruction booklet, page 7.