Played through an NES game I loved as a kid: Pinball Quest
It's one of those games that has gigantic flaws but the concept and presentation alone win me over. It's a pinball game with lite RPG elements and a quest to progress through. The physics are awful, the RNG is brutally merciless, the graphics are passable but definitely lack polish, and at least one of the tunes is a bit ear-grating, but it's sooooo fucking charming. As unforgiving and repetitive as the game is, if you stick with it you accumulate money, which allows you to purchase flipper upgrades and life-saving stoppers. Eventually you get the Permanent Stopper, which blocks off the left and right gutters indefinitely and can be used on every screen, and the Center Stopper, which needs to be re-purchased for each use but is virtually essential in later levels. As broken as the physics are, you do eventually kind of get used to it. Definitely not for the impatient or easily-frustrated.
