Win the tickets. Light up the pier. How PIER CARNIVAL plays: its rules, its modes and its playfield.
PIER CARNIVAL is an original pinball machine in the style of a 1990s dot-matrix game, for one to four players, built by Holmes Computer Consultants. A game is three balls, and its author estimates a ball lasts about 60 seconds. Its author rates it 2 out of 5 for difficulty, and it is rated for everyone.
PIER CARNIVAL is part of Pro, which unlocks the full roster on every device you sign in on.
The playfield has two flippers, four pop bumpers, two slingshots, six drop targets in two banks, one spinner, two kickers and nine rollovers. Everything on it — the art, the lettering and every sound — is generated in code when the machine loads, so there is nothing to download.
The card on PIER CARNIVAL's cabinet sums up the rules in three lines:
PIER CARNIVAL has one mode.
Multiball puts up to two balls in play at once.
PIER CARNIVAL plays in a browser on a computer or a phone, and in a Meta Quest 3 headset. Every game runs the same simulation, stepped a thousand times a second, on every device.