Is Pinball Jam on Steam?

No. Pinball Jam 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 Jam on?

Pinball Jam is available on Atari Lynx.

When did Pinball Jam release?

Pinball Jam was first released on February 1, 1990.

Pinball Jam

Feb 1, 1990PinballAtari Lynx

Pinball Jam — frequently asked questions

Is Pinball Jam on Steam?: No. Pinball Jam 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 Jam on?: Pinball Jam is available on Atari Lynx.
When did Pinball Jam release?: Pinball Jam was first released on February 1, 1990.

About Pinball Jam

Pinball Jam is a Lynx conversion of two pinball tables: "Elvira and the Party Monsters" (Midway, 1989), and "Police Force" (Williams, 1989). Both feature authentic table layouts, targets, and bonuses; the conversion of Elvira and the Party Monsters also features digitized sound effects, including the voice of Cassandra Peterson (Elvira). Each table scrolls up and down during gameplay (as opposed to just "snapping" to a new area as the ball reaches it).

Summary via IGDB.

Pinball Jam on Wikipedia

Pinball Jam is a 1992 video game for the Atari Lynx, developed and released by Atari Corporation. It features two pinball tables licensed from Williams, with playfield graphics and rules based on Elvira and the Party Monsters and Police Force, but with different music and sound effects.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari Lynx
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari Lynx · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07

Loose

$23

Complete

$24

Sealed

$33

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1992
Authenticity: Low

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playLow counterfeit risk

Atari Lynx prices, all games & how to spot a fake

Two licensed Williams tables on a handheld, and pinball is a genuinely good fit for this screen.

Atari developed and published it in 1992 at $39.99, adapting two real pinball tables — Midway’s Elvira and the Party Monsters, which greets you with a digitised "Oooh, let’s party!" as you pull the plunger, and Williams’ Police Force. Contemporary reviewers rated it good value precisely because it was two full simulations rather than one.

One caveat, and it cuts against the obvious assumption. Pinball looks like an ideal genre for a fixed, high-contrast screen, but German reviewers of the period complained that the ball vanishes into the busy table art and that the Lynx’s sluggish LCD is poorly suited to tracking something moving that fast. On an unmodded console that criticism still lands; on a modded one it largely disappears, which makes this a title the screen decision genuinely changes.

What the press said at the time

“Two different machines to play... each loaded with bumpers, slides, ramps, bonus targets, and every type of contraption you'd expect to find on a modern pinball machine. These are noisy machines too. Lots of boops, beeps, sirens and electronic sounds make you feel as much like the conductor of some alien rock band as the mere manipulator of two flippers.”
— Atari Explorer, November/December 1992

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 2 megabit (256 KB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Catalogue part number PA2055

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Worth knowing

Elvira talks to you, and the tables are reproduced feature by feature. Atari Explorer's 1992 review lists the Elvira table's Bat Lane, Monster Slide Ramp, Boogie Eject Hole, Skull Passage, BBQ Coffins and Wake The Dead Head Targets. Elvira herself comments on play — "Leaving so soon?" when a ball drains, "How about another ball?" The police table answers with radio chatter: "Robbery in progress. Subject is armed and dangerous." There is a working tilt control for nudging the machine.
It is two real pinball machines, not invented tables. The cartridge adapts Williams/Bally's Elvira and the Party Monsters and Police Force. GamePro noted in 1992 that both keep their digitised speech — "the digitized Elvira seduces you with her praise, and the Police Force's digitized voices bark 'Attention 12, 411 in Progress!'" — and that the tilt mechanic works.