Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
| Sonic Spinball | |
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European box art
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| Developer(s) | Sega Technical Institute |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Producer(s) | Yutaka Sugano |
| Designer(s) | Peter Morawiec Hoyt Ng |
| Artist(s) | John Duggan |
| Composer(s) |
Howard Drossin Brian Coburn Barry Blum |
| Series | Sonic the Hedgehog |
| Platform(s) | Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Sega Master System, iOS |
| Release date(s) |
Sega Genesis
Sega Game Gear
Sega Master System
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| Genre(s) | Action, pinball |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, known as Sonic Spinball (ソニック・スピンボール Sonikku Supinbōru?) in Japan, is a pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. The game was originally released for the Sega Genesis in 1993, and later ported to the Game Gear and Master System in 1995, and iOS in 2010.
The term "Spinball" is a portmanteau on pinball and "spin dash", a move Sonic performs. Along with Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, it was the only two Sonic games released to use characters and elements from the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons.
Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball is a pinball game in which the player controls Sonic the Hedgehog, who must navigate upward through (and ultimately destroy) the Veg-O-Fortress, the setting of the game created by the main antagonist Doctor Robotnik. The majority of the game takes place within the "Pinball Defense System", which resembles a series of gigantic pinball machines. The game is split up into four such levels, each containing numerous sets of flippers that can be used to aim Sonic's trajectory and launch him upward through the level. While Sonic is moving, he can be moved left and right with input from the directional pad, which can be used for better positioning following an impact with a bumper or target, or when Sonic is descending toward the drain, bumpers or flippers.
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