Sonic Spinball GEN

by Sega

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005213X
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,172 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Sonic must collect chaos emeralds in a pinball style game. A Genesis classic.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for pinball fans, November 15, 2000

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jasenao (Dothan, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sonic Spinball GEN (Video Game)

"Sonic Spinball" is one of the best Sega Genesis games that I've got. I like all the Sonic games, and this one is definitely no exception. If you like pinball games, you'll like "Sonic Spinball" even better. It's a lot of fun and it puts what Sonic always has to do in with this game to make it a great game. You have to collect all the chaos emeralds in each level and then defeat a boss in order to pass to the next level. On the way, you'll also need to collect as many rings as you can. The game's difficulty is well balanced even though once you get to the third level, it gets pretty hard.

In "Sonic Spinball," the graphics, sound, control, and pinball mechanics couldn't be much better. The bonus levels are a lot of fun and are some of the best I've ever played in any video game. Sonic is at the controls and you try to knock Dr. Robotnik's teeth out in one of them, and then make him tilt by making him eat the pinball. While playing it, you can make the pinball table shake, or tilt, to change the direction of the ball if it looks like it's not going to head for the flippers. There are also other cool bonus levels.

You'll actually feel like you're playing a real pinball game at the arcades at times while you're playing "Sonic Spinball." There's everything from a lava level to a sewage level to keep you entertained while you're trying to conquer Dr. Robotnik's evil ways. Dr. Robotnik takes the form of many different kinds of cool bosses that you'll have to face. He can be a spider in one level, and a bunch of faces staring at you in another level, and many others.

"Sonic Spinball" is one of the best pinball games I've ever played and I recommend it to anybody that likes Sonic games or great pinball games.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most awesome video game ever made!, January 7, 2004

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Distant Voyageur "Nicholas Computer" (Io) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sonic Spinball GEN (Video Game)

Sonic The Hedgehog gets my nod as the greatest video game series ever created. The first second and third games along with "Sonic and Knuckles" are the greatest video games I've ever played in my life on Sega Genesis.

However, Sega shattered new ground with a totally new twist on this franchise.

In "Sonic Spinball", the geniuses behind Sonic, blend in the adventures of the three regular game and turn it into a huge pinball frenzy with a highly addictive atmosphere in the levels.

Considering that I've been a pinball addict almost my whole life, "SOnic Spinball" was the game I played almost more than any other video game in my life. I can recall when I once played for over 12 hours straight one night! It's that addictive. I absolute love pinball and Sonic The Hedgehog and seeing them blend these two worlds together is phenomenal!

Just like the three sonic games before then, I really dig the background music and still find myself humming ot the music especially the second and final levels and I love the boss villain music that plays when you battle the evil Dr. Robotnik in the end.

"Sonic Spinball" is the greatest video game ever created and seeing this game die off (stopped functioning on my system due to age) was like a relative or friend dying. It was that good.

They should re-release this on a computer CD-Rom or for the next video game system in the near future.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game is a blast to play!, July 9, 2004

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Michelle "TATIEBUG" (Wooster, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sonic Spinball GEN (Video Game)

This is a game that all ages enjoy. Everyone in my family loves to play this game.