![]() ![]() ![]() What was I supposed to be doing? Where’s the end of the level? Why were there emeralds outside the special zones? Why is the music so different? Why doesn’t this feel like a Sonic game…? I found the game punishingly difficult as a child and rarely made it to the first boss, let alone beat it. Upon playing the game myself, I found the above description fitting my experience to a tee, especially the last part. Once you get a few more emeralds you can fight the boss. Well, you start off underground in one pinball machine, then you have to hit some switches before you can enter another pinball machine so that you can get an emerald. My uncle gave a somewhat confusing description of Sonic Spinball as he handed it over to me as an eventual birthday/Christmas present, which was along the lines of: Unfortunately, the ambiguity of these adverts and the difficultly of getting any games at all during those younger years of my life resulted in me playing it safe and getting the main games in the Mega Drive Sonic series before setting my sights on spin-offs. Such adverts for Sonic Spinball helped my young mind conjure fantastic images of a game where Sonic would speed through fields of larva, running, jumping and rolling on pinball ramps and flying up chutes, chasing or being chased by the evil Dr. Every night of every summer I would drift off to sleep in my Sonic & Knuckles boxer shorts, staring at the Sonic Spinball box-art poster stuck securely to my wall next to my bed with tremendous amounts of blue tack. I thought Sonic Underground was worth watching, considered Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik’s Laboratory my bible even managed to nag my parents into taking my brothers and me to Sega World, London. Oh, those mid-nineties days where I truly believed anything with Sonic on meant pure, unbridled fun. Join me as I revisit the Sonic oddity that is Sonic Spinball. In doing so I radically changed my whole outlook on the game in question but also recounted the nostalgic story of my wanting of the game, acquisition of the game and my memories of those precious first playthroughs. ![]() Recently I challenged the condemning opinions I had formed in my youth of one of Sonic’s early spin-off titles. ![]() For better or for worse, many of these experiences become exaggerated over the years, but are left unchallenged by the adult gamer, leaving these games mentally black listed unjustly. Decisions made when buying games old and new are often influenced by our perception of the experiences we had with similar or related games as children. Nostalgia in the realm of gaming is a powerful thing. ![]()
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