![]() Like some of the other games on this list, Spinball feels at times like it’s more of an action game with pinball elements rather than a pinball game with action elements, but in this case it’s six of one and half dozen of the other as so much of the traditional Sonic games have Sonic bouncing around levels like a pinball anyway. ![]() Fortunately, Sega also had him retain some of his platform skills in Sonic Spinball, being able to run, jump, and perform his spin attack at various points in the game rather than just having a spiky blue pinball and calling it “Sonic.” Also taking a queue from his core game series, Sonic had to progress through a series of levels as well as fight bosses and collect Chaos Emeralds. It wasn’t exactly a huge stretch to drop Sonic the Hedgehog into a pinball game, especially since he had spent a lot of time in pinball-inspired set pieces in his platform games. #4 – Sonic Spinball (1993, Genesis/Mega Drive) But it was a really fascinating attempt to truly combine pinball with an action/adventure game, and it’s a shame that nobody else has really tried anything like it since. Adventure Pinball was a bit difficult to keep up with sometimes, and the ways that the various areas were linked together and what was required of you to move between them was pretty convoluted. ![]() In some ways, it was more of a Breakout-style game than pinball, but that would imply that Breakout wasn’t very clearly inspired by pinball to begin with which it most definitely was. Adventure Pinball was actually the first non-FPS ever built with the technology, and it was put to good use, making for the first pinball video game that really left the confines of “tables” and let the ball travel around large, flashy 3D worlds. #5 – Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island (2001, XBX/PC)īack before Unreal Engine was used to power pretty much any–and almost every–type of game, it spent its first few years of existence primarily for first-person shooters. This is a list of the best “direct-to-video game” pinball games, not video game versions of real tables.
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