Video Pinball for the Atari 2600 is an arcade-style pinball simulation game released in 1980. It is one of the early attempts to recreate the pinball experience on a home console, featuring simple digital renditions of bumpers, flippers, and a ball. Players use the flippers to keep the ball in play and hit targets for points, mimicking the physics of a real pinball machine. The game's objective is to rack up as high a score as possible. Its genre can be classified as action or arcade, and it captures the essence of classic pinball in a digital format for solo players.