No. Pinball is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Pinball on?

Pinball is available on Intellivision.

When did Pinball release?

Pinball was first released on December 31, 1983.

Pinball

Dec 31, 1983PinballArcadeIntellivision

Pinball — frequently asked questions

Is Pinball on Steam?: No. Pinball is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Pinball on?: Pinball is available on Intellivision.
When did Pinball release?: Pinball was first released on December 31, 1983.

About Pinball

Pinball is a pinball simulation for one or two players. You begin the game with five balls, and need to score as many points as possible by hitting the ball into the various bumpers and targets on the pinball table. The pinball table consists of three different screens, each with a different layout and level of difficulty. To advance from one screen to the next, you need to use a single ball to hit several targets and then get the ball into a white cup that appears. If you are on the second or third screen and the ball falls off the bottom, you will be back to the lower screen; if the ball falls off the bottom screen you will lose that ball. The game ends when all five balls have been lost.

Summary via IGDB.

Game details

Platforms: Intellivision
Developer: Mattel
Publisher: Mattel
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Party

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Intellivision · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-20

Loose

$13

Complete

$23

Sealed

$55

few sales

How often it sells

Loose: about once a month
Complete: about once a month
Sealed: about once a year

Prices marked “few sales” rest on about one recorded sale a year, so treat them as a rough guide: the next copy could sell well above or below. Expect to wait for one to come up.

Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-20.

Price over time

Loose
Complete

A loose copy sold for about $14.95 in Oct 2009, $18.27 five years ago, and $12.63 as of Oct 2026.

Show as table

Month	Loose	Complete
Jan 2010	$8.00	—
Jan 2011	$5.00	—
Jan 2012	$12.95	—
Jan 2013	$14.99	—
Jan 2014	$7.99	$50
Jan 2015	$7.75	$10.50
Jan 2016	$12.99	$25
Jan 2017	$8.99	$17.95
Jan 2018	$8.52	$19.95
Jan 2019	$8.94	$19.05
Jan 2020	$8.65	$21
Jan 2021	$11.77	$24
Jan 2022	$18.14	$24
Jan 2023	$17.56	$29
Jan 2024	$11.86	$20
Jan 2025	$10.92	$21
Jan 2026	$13.78	$22
Oct 2026	$12.63	$23

Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.

Release record

Territory	Product #
North America Mattel Electronics	5356

North America: Product number confirmed by the game's own manual.

Source: Product numbers: each confirmed by the game's own manual, a publisher-prefix UPC that encodes it, a box scan, or INTV Funhouse's collector list where Mattel's own 1979–83 catalogues or manual order forms print the same number; barcodes from PriceCharting, check digits verified

Region: NA
Released: 1983
Controller: Hand controller
Players: 1 or 2
Authenticity: Low

Modern re-releases are not tracked for the IntellivisionLow counterfeit risk

Intellivision prices, all games & how to spot a fake

Mattel's long-promised pinball cartridge, finally out in 1983, and the standing example of an overlay the game did not need.

Pinball took a long time to arrive. Electronic Games complained in late 1983 that Mattel had never gotten its long-promised pinball cartridge off the drawing board, leaving Intellivision owners with no pinball of their own. Computer Entertainer had it back on the schedule among the games Mattel redesigned for enhanced graphics after scrapping the Intellivision III, and Electronic Games listed it among the first SuperGraphics titles.

Mattel's packaging rule, according to a former INTV packaging employee quoted by collectors, was that every game had to ship with overlays even when they were not really needed, and Pinball is the example given.

What the press said at the time

Computer Entertainer Vol. 2 No. 8

November 1983

Graphics ★★★½ · Play-Action ★★★½

“Those who enjoy pinball simulations will find a lot to explore in this game.”
— Computer Entertainer, November 1983

Computer Entertainer rated graphics first and play action second, from four symbols (excellent) to one (poor) — diamonds through early 1987, stars after — comparing each game only with other games for the same system.

Worth knowing

From the Intellivision manual. There are three playing screens (green, red, blue); you climb between them on the same ball, and the blue screen can award an extra ball.
From the Intellivision manual. Leave the title screen alone and a demo mode plays the game by itself; you also get five balls each turn.

Before you buy

Mattel's copy came with two overlays, which the game itself barely uses, but they are part of a complete copy. Sealed copies sell for a large premium over loose carts, and boxed ones sit in between.