Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
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| Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball |
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Publisher: Sega |
| Developer: Sonic Team, Sega Technical Institute |
| Genre: Pinball |
Sonic Spinball is a pinball game (using Sonic as a ball) combined with the storyline of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The plot of the game is that Sonic must infiltrate Eggman's new ship, the Veg-O-Fortress. By retrieving the Chaos Emeralds and advancing through the levels of the game, you can defeat him. It is the only official game to involve SatAM characters.
Contents
Manuals
Levels
Also Released On
- Sonic Spinball for the Sega Game Gear and Master System
- NOTE: Reissues of Sonic Spinball for the Game Gear may be found on that page,
- Sega Smash Pack for the Game Boy Advance (2000)
- Sonic Mega Collection for the Nintendo Gamecube (2002)
- Sonic Mega Collection Plus for the Sony Playstation 2 and Microsoft X-Box (2004)
Bosses
Unlike traditional Sonic games, you can actually fall outside of the boss arena. The bosses take a lot more hits than normal Sonic bosses, but to compensate it's easy to hit them multiple times in a row.
Production Credits
Programming: Polygames, Scott Chandler (SEGA Technical Institute), Jason Plumb (SEGA Technical Institute), Ken Rose (SEGA Technical Institute), Dave Sanner (SEGA Technical Institute), Earl Stratton (SEGA Technical Institute), Steve Woita (SEGA Technical Institute)
Game Design: Peter Morawiec, Hoyt Ng
Art: Tom Payne, Kurt Peterson, Brenda Ross, Katsuhiko Sato, Craig Stitt
Sound and Music Effects: Barry Blum (Sega Multi-Media Stuio), Brian Coburn (Sega Multi-Media Stuio), Howard Drossin (Sega Technical Institute), OUI Multimedia
Director of SEGA Technical Institute: Roger Hector
Producer: Yutaka Sugano
Art Director: John Duggan
Marketing Product Manager: France Tantiado
Lead Testers: Joe Cain, Wesley Gittens
Testers: Michael Bench, Steve Bourdet, Daniel Dunn, David Forster, Rick Greer, Casey Grimm, Jason Kuo, Simon Lu, Dumot Lyons, Bill Person, Kimberly Rogers, Kirk Rogers
Manual: Neil Hanshaw, Carol Ann Hanshaw
Special Thanks: Thomas J. Abramson, Alan Ackerman, Dominique Adevereaux, Justin R. Chin, Diane A. Fornasier, David Javelosa, Deborah McCracken, Patrick Meehan, Bert Mauricio, Stephen Patterson, Noel Pulido
A Special Bow To: Hirokazu Yasuhara (creator of Sonic The Hedgehog), Yuji Naka (creator of Sonic The Hedgehog)
Resources
Box Art
EU cover
US cover
JP cover
Asian cover
| Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems | |
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1991 Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic Eraser 1992 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 1993 Sonic the Hedgehog CD | Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine | Sonic Spinball 1994 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Sonic & Knuckles 1995 Chaotix | Sonic Classics 1996 Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island |