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Sonic Spinball available on Virtual Console

Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, News, Virtual Console. Tagged with Game Gear.

If you fellows haven’t gotten your fix of Sonic after playing Sonic and the Secret Rings, then you might be interested to know that Sonic Spinball is now available on the Wii’s Virtual Console for the ripe ol’ price of 800 points.

Sonic Spinball was originally released on the Genesis in 1993.

Here are some interesting tidbits about the game taken from its Wiki page:

• Sonic Spinball is the only Sonic game to feature characters from the animated series. Those being Scratch, Princess Sally, Rotor and Bunnie Rabbot;
• It’s the only Sonic game that was developed and produced entirely in the U.S.;
• On the box art for the Game Gear version, Robotnik is drawn as he looked in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog animated series, as opposed to the box art for the Genesis version, where he was drawn in his official game design; and
• Issue #6 of the Archie comic book features a cover story based on Sonic Spinball. The game was also loosely adaptated in the AoStH episode “Attack on Pinball Fortress.”