Is Galactic Pinball on Steam?

No. Galactic 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 Galactic Pinball on?

Galactic Pinball is available on Virtual Boy.

When did Galactic Pinball release?

Galactic Pinball was first released on July 21, 1995.

Galactic Pinball

Jul 21, 1995PuzzlePinballVirtual Boy

Galactic Pinball — frequently asked questions

Is Galactic Pinball on Steam?: No. Galactic 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 Galactic Pinball on?: Galactic Pinball is available on Virtual Boy.
When did Galactic Pinball release?: Galactic Pinball was first released on July 21, 1995.

About Galactic Pinball

Prepare to enter the vast expanse of the Milky Way. Put your pinball skills to an interstellar test with four incredible space tables. Blast your pinball at rotating planets and turn them into dust in the Cosmic world. Send your puck flying through galactic formations in the deep-space Colony. Defeat an evil skeleton and hit the ultimate UFO jackpot! Knock down multiple rings and destroy wicked assailants in an Alien place. Defy arduous obstacles and save the world from impending devastation!

Summary via IGDB.

Galactic Pinball on Wikipedia

Galactic Pinball is a 1995 pinball video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy. The game was released on July 21, 1995 in Japan and on August 14, 1995 in the United States. It is one of five launch games for the Virtual Boy, along with Mario's Tennis, Red Alarm, Teleroboxer, and Panic Bomber. In the game, which is set in the Milky Way galaxy, players maneuver a puck around one of four pinball tables available in the game. The Virtual Boy's standard red-and-black color scheme resulted in criticism of this and other games on the platform for causing nausea, headaches, and eye strain. It uses parallax, which allows the game to display three-dimensional effects. It has received a mixed reception; it was praised for its authenticity, while reception to its physics and controls were mixed. It has received criticism for its lack of ambition and originality.

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

Game details

Developer: Intelligent Systems
Publisher: Nintendo of America
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action, Science fiction
Official site: Visit

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Virtual Boy · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-22

Loose

$30

Complete

$70

Sealed

$124

Release record

Territory	Date	Serial	Barcode	MSRP
Japan	21 Jul 1995	VUE-VGPJ-JPN	4902370502268	¥4,900
North America	21 Aug 1995	VUE-VGPJ-USA	045496770051	$39.95
Mexico Gamela México	—	VUE-VGPJ-USA	045496770051	—
Brazil Playtronic Industrial Ltda.	18 Sep 1995	VUE-VGPJ-USA	—	R$69.00
Japandemo	—	—	—	—

Community score: 73/100
Region: JP+NA
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Low

On Nintendo Switch Online since Feb 17, 2026 — the cartridge is now a collectibleLow counterfeit risk

Virtual Boy prices, all games & how to spot a fake

The best low-cost game on the platform, and the one to test a headset with.

Intelligent Systems — the Fire Emblem and Advance Wars studio — building four pinball tables for a red LED display, and it is much better than that sounds. Pinball is the right genre for this hardware: a fixed table with real depth, no scrolling, no navigation, no motion sickness. It is the one Virtual Boy game you can play for forty minutes without your eyes complaining.

Practical tip: its bright, high-contrast, mostly-static tables make display faults immediately visible, which makes it the ideal cart to inspect a unit with before you buy.

What the press said at the time

Electronic Gaming Monthly #75	October 1995	6.3/10
Weekly Famicom Tsūshin #347	1995	24/40
MAN!AC	October 1995	3/5
GameFan Vol. 3 #11	1995	60/100

One of only four Virtual Boy games Electronic Gaming Monthly ever reviewed. Middling scores, but it placed in all seven of Nintendo Power's reader-voted Virtual Boy charts — no other title managed that.

Before you buy

Low counterfeit risk. This cart saves to battery-backed SRAM on a soldered CR1616 cell that is now over thirty years old; if saves vanish at power-off that is the battery, not the game. A Japanese demonstration version exists for variant collectors.