SONIC SPINBALL

VARIOUS, 1993

This was the first of Sonic’s major spin-off outings, released to cover the lack of a

Mega Drive platformer for the 1993 holiday season. Inspired by the pinball action of Sonic 2’s enjoyable Casino Night Zone, the game expanded on the pinball formula with large multi-table environments and boss battles. Although it only contains four stages, they’re relatively tough to complete. Sonic Spinball is a perfectly serviceable game, but nothing incredible. It showed up nearly a decade later on Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance.