A player can select from among several musical styles, including Country, Rock, Jazz, Rap, Classical and Soul.

[1] The game features an ignition key to start the game, an auto plunger, a shaker motor that let the table rumble like a racing car and a Porsche Carrera theme with a spinning wheel in the backbox and an image of Neuschwanstein Castle in the background of the backglass.

[1][10] Checkpoint is one of the few pinball machines designed by DataEast that was not exclusively linked to a film or television show in this period.

Graphics and animations in the back-box showed players such data as their progress during the game, the mode in which they were currently playing, and available bonuses.

These displays usually use Neon gas, which glows orange when ionized by a high voltage electric current pass through the segment.

[3] Other display innovations on pinball machines include pinball video game hybrids like Gottlieb's Caveman and Bally's Baby Pac-Man in 1982[14] and Bally's Granny and the Gators in 1984[15] and the use of a small color video monitor for scoring and minigames in the backbox of the pinball machine Dakar from manufacturer Mr. Game in 1988[16] and CGA color monitors in Williams' Pinball 2000 Games Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Revenge from Mars (1999) that utilize a Pepper's Ghost technique to reflect the monitor display onto a specially-designed semi-transparent glass inside the head of the machine and above the playfield.

The game has its LCD screen for scores, info & animations located in the playfield surface at player’s eye view.