Pitt (and Patti) must walk around the mazes, collecting items and avoiding enemies (which include the Heitai from Toy Pop along with the Pookas and Fygars from Dig Dug); however, they have the power to drop their Tinker Balls, which are both invulnerable to the enemies, and move around by pressing the Line button, thereby creating a line between them and their balls.[1] Scott Alan Marriot of Classic Gamer in 2004 believed Tinkle Pit carried the same kind of simplicity present in games like Pac-Man (1980) and Dig Dug (1982).[2] In 2015, Retro Gamer found the game to be strange yet charming, liking its level variety and simplistic mechanics.They blamed the genre's severe decline in popularity and its confinement to Japan as the reasons for its obscurity, and said that it would appeal to Namco fans for its amount of references and cameos to their other properties.While Bandai Namco had not given any reason as to why the changes were made, several outlets have assumed it to be related to the character's ongoing AtGames dispute.