Sonic Pinball Party
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| Sonic Pinball Party | |
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 European cover art, depicting Sonic, Nights and Amigo | |
| Developers | Sonic Team Jupiter |
| Publisher | Sega |
| Director | Akinori Nishiyama |
| Producers | Yuji Naka Hatao Ogata |
| Artist | Yuji Uekawa |
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| Series | Sonic the Hedgehog |
| Platform | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genres | Action, pinball |
| Modes | Single player, multiplayer |
Sonic Pinball Party[a] is a video game released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. It is a celebration of sorts for Sonic Team featuring many references to its previous games, mostly prominently Sonic the Hedgehog, Nights into Dreams, and Samba De Amigo. There was also a release on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with Sonic Battle and Sonic Advance respectively in 2005.
The story is set in Casinopolis (in Station Square), where Doctor Eggman turns the people gambling into robots, and brainwashes Miles "Tails" Prower and Amy Rose. Sonic must rescue his friends by winning a pinball tournament called the "Egg Cup Tournament."
Gameplay
Sonic Pinball Party is a pinball video game with the objective being to earn as many points as possible. During both the Story and Arcade Modes of the game, the player starts each match with three pinballs, each one shot onto the playfield from the plunger. When the pinball rolls into the hole on the bottom of the table, the player loses a ball and must try again with another. Losing all three pinballs ends the pinball match. The player can control each pinball on the table using the two flippers set on the lower part of the table or the lone flipper placed in the upper right side of the table, and has the ability to shake the pinball table in three directions. With these methods, the player can make the pinball sling and hit one of the pinball tables' targets in order to gain points.[citation needed]
Story Mode features five different matches, while the basic goal of Arcade Mode is simply to gain points until the player has run out of balls. The player's best scores from Arcade mode will be listed in the Rankings if they are high enough. Rings/Blue Chips collected in either Story or Arcade Mode can be used to purchase Chao Eggs and similar objects in the Tiny Chao Garden or as wagers in the Casinopolis minigames.[2]
Development and release
Sonic Pinball Party was published by Sega and developed by Sonic Team. The game was first announced in January 2003 by Sega of Japan.[3]
The game was released in the United States on May 27, 2003.[4] It was sold exclusively at Target stores.[5] The game was later re-released in 2005 in compilation collections for the Game Boy Advance with Sonic Advance, Sonic Battle, and Columns Crown.[6][7] In Europe, the game was exclusively distributed by THQ, as part of a new co-publishing contract with Sega Europe.[8]
