![]() Sonic Spinball, sometimes referred to with the clunkier title Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, involves Sega’s speedy blue hedgehog heading to the new volcano lair of Doctor Robotnik, the roboticist having built up an island fortress that Sonic must scale with the help of conveniently placed pinball flippers. Right out of the gate I was shown the potential video games had to add depth and greater interactivity to the pinball experience, and while Sonic Spinball certainly isn’t the metric I judge every pinball game by now, it certainly inspired me to seek out other games in the same style in the hopes they’d continue to evolve the formula. I chose Sonic Spinball to cap off the Pinball Palooza review series not only because it was my first encounter what I now call the pinball adventure genre, but it was the first pinball video game I ever played period. ![]() In his first two platform game adventures, there were already levels that featured pinball bumpers and other elements as obstacles, so having him actually take the leap into a full-on pinball title was not only a natural fit, but one that likely inspired the developers to make the game more than just straightforward point-scoring pinball. The Sonic the Hedgehog series is a perfect fit for a pinball game spinoff, and not just because its protagonist curls up into a ball quite often.
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