[1] The main objective of Pin-Bot is to advance through the planets of the Solar System, starting at Pluto and reaching the Sun.

Once completed, the visor opens, enabling the player to lock two balls in the robot's eye sockets, starting a two-ball multiball mode.

Each shot up the left ramp increases the Solar Value until it is collected, and this jackpot is carried over between games.

The game's playfield also features a spiral ramp, which serves as a skill shot from the plunger, and a bagatelle-style mini-playfield at the Solar Ramp exit, which can feed the ball to the right inlane, the plunger, the pop bumpers, or directly back onto the playfield.

Pin Bot was also included with more enhanced graphics in the arcade game UltraPin.