No flippers, so i guess to me, its not a traditional pinball game. I'm not a fan of Hyperball and found it to be quite boring and repetitive.

I have heard of Hyperball in my cyber travels. What is it exactly though? I am thinking the LCD screen 2-dimensional game replication? s the price delta comparable? Is it the same as some "2000" digital theme I read about also? Can't remember the full name and no disrespect intended when I say that I am not always up -and- up on the newest tech out there

PBD

This game

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/my-balls-are-hyper-x2

pins and balls

Personally I would not consider Hyperball as a pinball.

You can make an argument and say pitch and bats are pinballs if you want. (Personally I don't consider them a pinball either)

Pachinko have more right to be called a pinball machine as they actually have pins and balls. Pinball machines haven't really had "pins" in them for close to 75 years- so you really have to generalize what is considered a pinball to have a real definition.

Just me, but I would consider flippers a must.

Plenty of Hybrids out there.
If they are at least in some way pinball as well as video game or whatever gimmick they might have. I still consider them pinball. Like Anim8ormatt said I would disclaim the comment with its a pitch and bat or its a half video half pin hybrid. In this case it's just simply Hyperball enough said. I would do the same for avery nice virtual, visual or hyperpin as well as long as it was emulating a real cabinet. Just my opinion.

Bottom line if you really love to play the game it does not matter at all what it is called or categorized as.

Have fun first and foremost

I just watched that video...and i still have no idea what the objective is here. Do you chase the light by shooting the balls at it?

the machine tells you what to do

on the playfield you see a word and you have to spell it (letters are the targets from left to right), also at the same time you have to be carefull at those thing coming down on you, kind of like space invaders!
thats about it.

had my friends game in my basement... not for long.

Hey, I played the Zizzle version of this game as a kid!

I don't care if Hyperball is a pin or not, it won't be in my collection anytime soon.

Think missle command in a pin cabinet. Fun in a larger collection. Isnt worth it if you only have space for a couple games.