Sonic Spinball

Video Game
1993
E

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

373

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Robotnik has a new plan to take over the world. He has built a new weapon, the Veg-O-Fortress on Mount Mobius and with it, he is transforming all creatures into robots. Sonic sneaks into the... Read allRobotnik has a new plan to take over the world. He has built a new weapon, the Veg-O-Fortress on Mount Mobius and with it, he is transforming all creatures into robots. Sonic sneaks into the fortress and tries to stop Robotnik.Robotnik has a new plan to take over the world. He has built a new weapon, the Veg-O-Fortress on Mount Mobius and with it, he is transforming all creatures into robots. Sonic sneaks into the fortress and tries to stop Robotnik.

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6.2/10

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Trivia
On the final day of Spinball's development, the team was throwing their 'end-of-project' party when the Japanese group working on Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1993) dropped in to see how things turned out. Among the group was Hirokazu Yasuhara, who, upon seeing the start-up sequence, wondered how the Spinball team talked Sega into paying for the rights to the original Sonic theme song. It turns out that the Spinball team was completely unaware that the rights for the original Sonic music belonged to Dreams Come True, who had become quite famous since the music was composed two years prior. Their asking price was more than Sega was willing to pay, so at the very last minute composer Howard Drossin whipped up a new opening jingle which became Spinball's theme.

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Edited into Sega Genesis Classic Collection: Gold Edition (2011)

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It's a pretty fun game once you get the hang of it

This is a Sonic the Hedgehog pinball game. It gets pretty addictive. The goals are difficult enough, and they require lots of aiming the flippers in the right way. Once you get the hang of it, it's really fun to play. There is a problem with it, though. It lacks the smoothly animated graphics of the Sonic platformer games, and Sonic's look has been changed. The sounds are also different, and duller-sounding. Maybe this is because it was produced by Sega of America instead of Sega of Japan. Sega of Japan produced the Sonic the Hedgehog platforming games. All in all, though, it's a good game, and will keep you playing for hours on end.