WordNet
n. a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets [syn: pinball]
Usage examples of "pinball game".
After counting his register out, he dropped two tokens into the old Star Wars pinball game.
They competed in a two-player pinball game that was decorated with paintings of big-breasted, long-legged girls in skimpy bikinis.
He spoke casually, as if he were talking to a man playing a pinball game.
A scent that, surely as the pocket at the bottom end of a pinball game swallows the ball bearing, swallows him.
The creature's right eye flashed red like something in a pinball game, then winked out.
At that point Nomuri stopped playing the vertical pinball game and changed location to a place down the block.
She panicked, and her personal life began careering around like the ball in a pinball game.
It crossed the rocks, paused for an instant, then took off again, cutting an angular trail up toward the wall--paused and exploded into a series of zigzags that was like nothing so much as a crazy pinball game, then hit the wall and ran almost straight up at him.
A sort of vertical pinball game called pachinko involved dozens of tiny steel balls rolling around and around and bouncing into numbered and lettered slots.
He nearly missed the call, as he started to half dream about a pinball game he used to play on his old Pentium as a teenager.