Card & Pinball

Card & Pinball (also known as NiGHTS Pinball) is a minigame in Sonic Adventure located in Casinopolis. It is a NiGHTS themed pinball game where collecting and matching picture cards score rings.

It also has a challenge of collecting Ideya in a bonus playfield.

Gameplay
The game plays like a regular pinball game with Sonic as the ball. You use the flipper to keep Sonic falling down the drain and try to score as many rings as you can. You have three "balls" which you will loose if Sonic falls down the drain. If you loose all balls with less than 100 rings then you will fall below Casinopolis into it's garbage and sewers. If you score more than 100 rings you will end up in front of the vault to deposit them.

NiGHTS Pinball game that have two seperate playfields as well as miniture cutscene events depending on your performance.

Main Playfield
Square picture cards of various characters from NiGHTS into Dreams can be collected. The maximum of five cards can be collected and depending on how many of the same cards you have may result in points.

The collectible cards are Elliot Edwards, Claris Sinclair, NiGHTS, Reala, Puffy, Gillwing, Gulpo, Jackle, Wiseman the Wicked, a Nightopian and a chip.

When you score a set of cards a door at the top-right of the playfield will open granting access to the bonus playfield of cards where you can collect more cards and attempt to collect Ideya.

Bonus Playfield
The bonus playfield allows you to collect more cards with ease. Above the playfield is a Ideya Capture. By launching yourself with the flippers and ricocheting off the bumpers it is possible to attack the Ideya Capture which plays a cutscene of Sonic and NiGHTS flying around Twin Seed.

Falling down the drain in the bonus area will allow Sonic to fly around Spring Valley where NiGHTS is taunting him over the Ideya Palace showing how many Ideya are collected and return to the main playfield without loss of balls.