The Game: It’s a game of video pinball where you can even bump the table to influence the ball’s path. You can even launch the ball into a second level to score big bonus points. Just don’t let it slide out of the reach of your flippers… (Mattel Electronics, 1981)
Memories: As a rule, I don’t do the video pinball thing. You can look throughout Phosphor Dot Fossils and you’ll find very few big thumbs-up for video pinball. But so help me, Pinball on Intellivision is rather fun. It takes into account some of the physics (though far from all) involved in a pinball table, even the external factors such as the good old-fashioned, time-honored bump-the-machne maneuver.
The graphics are also on a finer level than what you’d be able to generate with the Atari 2600 or the Odyssey², so the “table” in its various levels is more detailed, with more features, bumpers and other items on the landscape – it’s more like a real pinball machine. The changing lights and other 
finer visual details also help the thing feel a little more like, well, a decent simulation of real pinball.
As always with video pinball, you’re dealing with some blinkered simulations of the physics, but I’ll admit that I had more fun with this game than I do with most of that genre, so this Pinball actually comes with a recommendation.