Sonic Pinball Party

Sonic Pinball Party is a video game released for Game Boy Advance in 2003. It is a celebration of sorts for Sonic Team, featuring many references to their proud history.

Sonic Pinball Party was released exclusively to Target stores in North America. Because of this, it went largely unnoticed and has since became highly sought after. This drew ire from fans in Canada and Mexico, which do not have Target stores, and Sega made no alternate arrangements to get the game to other stores in those countries.

Boards

The game features 3 Pinball tables: one is based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the second is based on the Sega Saturn classic NiGHTS into Dreams, and the third is based on the Sega Dreamcast and arcade game Samba de Amigo. On the Casinopolis boards, when you defeat enemies in story mode, you acquire slots and bingo. It has one roulette, and when you beat the chao mini-games, you acquire rings which let you choose one of the casino tables.

The Sonic table has a Neo Green Hill Zone, Secret Base Zone, Casino Paradise Zone, Ice Mountain Zone, Angel Island Zone, Egg Rocket Zone, X-Zone, and The Moon Zone boards. They are all based on the zones from Sonic Advance. The player must first acquire five hundred rings in Ring mode before beating Eggman at X-Zone to enter The Moon Zone.

On each board, the player must beat Eggman to move to the next are. Until the player loses, they will keep playing the zones in a circle.

Production Credits

Sonic Team

Producer: Yuji Naka Director: Akinori Nishiyama Art Director: Yuji Uekawa Designers: Sachiko Kawamura, Kazuko Ito, Makoto Yonezu Programmers: Takahiro Hamano, Yoshihisa Hashimoto, Takaaki Saito Sound Creators: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Yutaka Minobe

Jupiter

Producer: Hatao Ogata Planner: Motoaki Sasaki Programmers: Motoaki Sasaki, Daisuke Miyao Designers: Hiroshi Tanigawa, Tomoki Miyazaki, Naomi Sanada, Yoshihisa Watanabe