"Ungracefully Banging That Button" - PART 3 - Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball
22Let's be real honest here. It wasn't very graceful.
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Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball is a pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. The game was originally released for the Sega Genesis in 1993, and later ported to the Game Gear and Master System in 1995, and iOS in 2010. Along with Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, it was the only two Sonic games released to use characters and elements from the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons.
Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball is a pinball game in which the player controls Sonic the Hedgehog, who must navigate upward through (and ultimately destroy) the Veg-O-Fortress, the setting of the game created by the main antagonist Doctor Robotnik. The majority of the game takes place within the "Pinball Defense System", which resembles a series of gigantic pinball machines. The game is split up into four such levels, each containing numerous sets of flippers that can be used to aim Sonic's trajectory and launch him upward through the level. While Sonic is moving, he can be moved left and right with input from the directional pad, which can be used for better positioning following an impact with a bumper or target, or when Sonic is descending toward the drain, bumpers or flippers.
The goal of each level is to collect all of the Chaos Emeralds that serve to stabilize the volcano the Veg-O-Fortress is built upon and subsequently defeat the newly-accessible boss enemy located at the top of the level. Some Chaos Emeralds are blocked off by some sort of obstacle that requires certain switches or bumpers to be hit in order to be alleviated and create a clear path to the Emerald. The boss enemies at the top of each level each require a specific strategy to defeat. Hints toward such strategies and encouraging messages when progress is made are displayed on the "status strip" at the top of the screen. When all of the game's Chaos Emeralds are collected and all four boss enemies are defeated, the game is won.
"Green Hill Zone (SONIC's 25th Anniversary Remix)" by TOY
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOfficialTOY
"Sonic 3" by Rare Candy
https://rarecandyband.bandcamp.com/
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