Sonic Spinball

Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, also known as Sonic Spinball, is a 1993 pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. It is a spinoff of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Players control Sonic the Hedgehog, who must stop Doctor Robotnik from enslaving the population in a giant pinball-like mechanism. The game is set in a series of pinball machine-like environments with Sonic acting as the pinball.

This article is about the video game. For the roller coaster, see Spinball Whizzer.

Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
Developer(s)Sega Technical Institute
Publisher(s)Sega
Producer(s)Yutaka Sugano
Designer(s)
  • Peter Morawiec
  • Hoyt Ng
Artist(s)John Duggan
Composer(s)
SeriesSonic the Hedgehog
Platform(s)Sega Genesis, Game Gear, Master System, Windows, Game Boy Advance
Release
November 23, 1993
  • Sega Genesis
    • WW: November 23, 1993
    • JP: December 10, 1993
    Game Gear
    • EU: August 1994
    • NA: September 1994
    Master System
    • EU: January 25, 1995
    Windows
    • WW: February 1999
    Game Boy Advance
    • NA: September 23, 2002
    • EU: August 1, 2003
Genre(s)Action, pinball
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Sonic Spinball was developed by the American staff of Sega Technical Institute, as the Japanese staff was occupied with developing Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. When Sega management realized that Sonic 3 would not be completed in time for the 1993 holiday shopping season, they commissioned another Sonic game. After a hasty two-month development, Sonic Spinball was released for the Sega Genesis in November 1993 and for the Game Gear and Master System in 1994.

Sonic Spinball received mixed reviews, with critics praising the novelty and graphics but criticizing the controls. A second pinball game, Sonic Pinball Party, was released in 2003, and a Sonic Spinball spinning rollercoaster opened in Alton Towers theme park, in 2010. Spinball has been ported to various consoles and included in Sega compilations.

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