| Muppet Pinball Mayhem | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Digital Eclipse |
| Publisher(s) | NewKidCo (US) Ubisoft (EU) |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Pinball |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Muppet Pinball Mayhem is a 2002 pinball video game for the Game Boy Advance developed by Digital Eclipse and published by NewKidCo in the United States and Ubisoft in Europe.
Muppet Pinball Mayhem is a pinball video game. The game features local multiplayer through allowing between two and four players to take turns on the board. [2] [3]
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| IGN | 7.9 [4] |
| Jeuxvideo.com | 14/20 [5] |
| Game Boy Extreme | 65% [3] |
| Nintendo Official Magazine | 6/10 [6] |
Tim Wright of Game Boy Extreme considered the game to "play well enough" and feature "good graphics", highlighting the added "tricks, secrets and minigames" and "oodles of detail" on the game's pinball tables. [3] Describing the game as "good fun", Nintendo Official Magazine praised the "imaginative and colourful" tables, but considered them to lack detail and "any real tension or excitement" to sustain interest. [6]
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