The Simpsons Pinball, is an arcade pinball machine based on the Simpsons Shorts, which at the time were made into a thirty minute comedy cartoon. The game worked like any pinball machine, you use a spring propelled bumper to launch a ball into a playing field full of bumpers, chutes, and gates, and the player controls two flippers (Activated by two buttons on the sides of the machine) to keep the ball in play. The game was based on the look of Springfield, and the game was released in 1990, just before the T.V. show aired.