Sonic Pinball Party

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Sonic Pinball Party

Developer(s)	Sonic Team
Publisher(s)	Sega
Release date(s)	July 17, 2003 (JP) June 1, 2003 (US) October 31, 2003 (EU)
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E) PEGI: 3+
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance
Media	32-Megabit cartridge

Sonic Pinball Party is a video game released for Game Boy Advance in 2003. It is a celebration of sorts for Sonic Team featuring many references to their previous games.

Sonic Pinball Party was released exclusively to Target stores in North America. Because of this, it went largely unnoticed and has since became highly sought after. This drew ire from fans in Canada and Mexico, which do not have Target stores, and Sega made no alternate arrangements to get the game to other stores in those countries. More recently, the game has started being sold at other locations in a bundle pack with Sonic Advance.

1 Story
2 Characters
3 Mini-Games
4 Boards
5 Modes
6 Trivia
7 External links

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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". In the Sonic chronology, Sonic Pinball Party takes place before Sonic Heroes, as Metal Sonic still works for Dr. Eggman.

At Neo Green Hill Zone, Knuckles goes against Sonic because he thinks he wouldn't be able to win the tournament. If Sonic wins, the Samba de Amigo boards are now playable.
At Casino Paradise Zone, Miles "Tails" Prower, who appears brainwashed, goes against Sonic to defend Eggman.
In Spring Valley, Amy Rose, who is also brainwashed, goes against Sonic as well for Eggman.
Metal Sonic challenges Sonic, and the player must play through all seven Sonic stages.
Finally, Sonic goes up against Eggman himself on the Sonic table.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Mini-Games

Sonic Pinball Party features several mini games:

A Chao Garden, which is also from the Sonic Advance games.
You have to take care of the chao by either playing a game that require you to remember things, or Chao's CC Shoot (it's similar to a puzzle).
Hot Potato requires you to use flippers to whack around bombs into your opponent's table.
In hockey, you're supposed to block your goal from your opponent.
In Ladder Climb, the players have to toss the ball to a checkpoint.

[edit] Boards

The game features 3 Pinball tables: one is based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the second is based on the Sega Saturn classic NiGHTS Into Dreams, and the third is based on the Sega Dreamcast and arcade game Samba De Amigo.
On the Casinopolis boards, when you defeat enemies in story mode, you acquire slots and BINGO. It has one roulette, and when you beat the Chao mini-games, you acquire rings which let you choose one of the casino tables.
The Sonic table has a Neo Green Hill Zone, Secret Base Zone, Casino Paradise Zone, Ice Mountain Zone, Angel Island Zone, Egg Rocket Zone, X-Zone, and The Moon Zone boards. They are all based on the zones from Sonic Advance. The player must first acquire five hundred rings in Ring mode before beating Eggman at X-Zone to enter The Moon Zone.
On each board, the player must beat Eggman to move to the next area.
Until the player loses, they will keep playing the zones in a circle.

[edit] Modes

[edit] Sonic Boards

Normal
Egg Mode
Ring Mode
Mini Game Mode

[edit] NiGHTS Boards

Normal
Dualize Mode
Boss Mode
Chip Mode
Mini Game Mode
Acrobat Mode

[edit] Samba de Amigo Boards

Song Select Mode (Normal Mode)
Song Play Mode
Fever Mode
Letter Collect Mode

Sonic Advance / Sonic Pinball Party combo pack boxshot

[edit] Trivia

There is a stone carving of Tikal on the "Angel Island" board.
Sonic Pinball Party appeared on a Combo Pack along with Sonic Advance.
There are several remixes of music from previous Sonic games. The most notable ones are Eggman's boss music from Sonic the Hedgehog, "Super Sonic Racing" from Sonic R, and "Open Your Heart" from Sonic Adventure.