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Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

This is a thread about pinball not spinball. You can fess up if you thought it was going to be about spinball, I won't think too badly about you.

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Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
i thoguht it was gonna be about spinball :saddowns:

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret
Robotnick in Spinball was a jerk and I always loathed him

Brrrmph
Feb 27, 2016

Слава Україні!

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

yoku's island express is a fantastic game even if it lacks sonic 'tude and an fm synthesis score

Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer
What's better, sonic spinball or pokemon pinball? I rented a gameboy to play the latter.

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

right i understand

Beefed Owl
Sep 13, 2007

Come at me scrub-lord I'm ripped!
I'm still of the opinion that Sonic the hedgehog is the worst intellectual property ever produced and I don't think anything's going to change my mind on that

And yes I am aware that Pokemon exists

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Imagine how gross a Sonic ripoff of Pokemon would be.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k

Beefed Owl posted:

I'm still of the opinion that Sonic the hedgehog is the worst intellectual property ever produced and I don't think anything's going to change my mind on that

And yes I am aware that Pokemon exists

Worst, but the strongest

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Beefed Owl posted:

I'm still of the opinion that Sonic the hedgehog is the worst intellectual property ever produced and I don't think anything's going to change my mind on that

And yes I am aware that Pokemon exists

I completely agree; the draw of early Sonic games was going fast in pretty environments. Beyond that, I don't really see anything interesting about the characters or franchise.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
I wanna play spinball again, with that ridiculous soundtrack

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


The game would have to be completed in under a year to be ready in time for the 1993 holiday season. Morawiec considered this a "tight" schedule for a game that would capitalize on the series' popularity in North America.[21] To speed up production, Sega sent veteran staff from Japan to assist, including regular Sonic the Hedgehog artist Katsuhiko Sato. Despite the transfer of these staff, the game was still not predicted to be complete in time. As a result, Sega Technical Institute staff changed the programming language from assembly to C, an unusual choice for Genesis games at the time.[21][22] Morawiec said the choice caused frame rate and optimization problems, but greatly accelerated development. In the space of 61 days between June and August 1993, the project evolved from a roughly playable build with no collision detection systems or character animations to a completed game.[21]

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


Nooner posted:

i thoguht it was gonna be about spinball :saddowns:

Vitruvian Manic
Dec 5, 2021

by Fluffdaddy

Beefed Owl posted:

I'm still of the opinion that Sonic the hedgehog is the worst intellectual property ever produced and I don't think anything's going to change my mind on that

And yes I am aware that Pokemon exists

I feel like it is mostly mismanaged. Like, Sonic is such an international sex symbol and they are going to have him playing against Idris Elba? I get that they don't want it to get too sexy but why tamper it down that much? Are they trying to make it be like a chastity belt? Is Idris Elba telling me he needs to be restrained?

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

oh, I had one of these but it was Goosebumps :shobon:




I also thought this thread was gonna be about spinball

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I completely agree; the draw of early Sonic games was going fast in pretty environments. Beyond that, I don't really see anything interesting about the characters or franchise.

The only interesting thing about it is really all the porn of all the animals loving, they should totally just lean into it. At its heart Sega is about smoky skeevy bloodstained dives run by the yak, all eighties cyberpunk and FM synthesis, not fun happy family mascot games. They started to realise it with some of the marketing but they never made the final jump to just churning out high budget smut and if they did they would own the market.

That Fucking Sned
Oct 28, 2010

Ziv Zulander posted:

The game would have to be completed in under a year to be ready in time for the 1993 holiday season. Morawiec considered this a "tight" schedule for a game that would capitalize on the series' popularity in North America.[21] To speed up production, Sega sent veteran staff from Japan to assist, including regular Sonic the Hedgehog artist Katsuhiko Sato. Despite the transfer of these staff, the game was still not predicted to be complete in time. As a result, Sega Technical Institute staff changed the programming language from assembly to C, an unusual choice for Genesis games at the time.[21][22] Morawiec said the choice caused frame rate and optimization problems, but greatly accelerated development. In the space of 61 days between June and August 1993, the project evolved from a roughly playable build with no collision detection systems or character animations to a completed game.[21]

Should've just used the source code from Sonic 2 and made more Casino Night levels.

Actually, Yuji Naka would have gone ballistic and we'd never have gotten Sonic 3 so maybe not

Canine Blues Arooo
Jan 7, 2008

when you think about it...i'm the first girl you ever spent the night with

Grimey Drawer

chaosbreather posted:

The only interesting thing about it is really all the porn of all the animals loving, they should totally just lean into it. At its heart Sega is about smoky skeevy bloodstained dives run by the yak, all eighties cyberpunk and FM synthesis, not fun happy family mascot games. They started to realise it with some of the marketing but they never made the final jump to just churning out high budget smut and if they did they would own the market.

I'm unironically waiting for some IP to do this. The Official Porn of [Franchise] or something. I honestly don't think we are that far away. Sonic uh...I mean, I'm not gonna judge, but he's not my first pick.

HORSE-SLAUGHTERER
Nov 11, 2020

H O R S E - S L A U G H T E R E R

Edmund Sparkler posted:

Imagine how gross a Sonic ripoff of Pokemon would be.

did you know that the sonichu guy chris-chan is in a secure psychiatric hospital awaiting trial for raping his mother (egged on by some kiwifarms psycho apparently).

Skeleton Ape
Dec 21, 2008



chaosbreather posted:

right i understand



Give me a purple dog

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vicY7PmAL0

Yeah it's spinball so what :colbert:

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

This is my favorite track in the game. But also I could only ever get to level 2.

Commodore_64
Feb 16, 2011

love thy likpa




Mean Bean Machine sounds like a euphemism for something.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Tails it is time to play Pinball said Sonic The Blue Hedgehog.
Sonic Liked to go fast but Tails was scared he had never played pin ball with Sonic and knew Sonic was very good at it.
"Do it now Tails. Got to go Fast." Screamed Sonic so loud that windows exploded and his mom got made. So tails did what Dr. Robutnik had said to do and got into position at 'The PinBall Table' which had a lot of lights and full sonic sounds and actions. He was ready now for it.
"Ok Sonic Lets see what you got!! I've been training for This!" Said Tailed. "Ok." Said Sonic as the metal balls dropped.
Tails lifted up his Tails. Gotta Go Fast he said as he closed his eyes and thought of England

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



I had that pinball machine, it was terrible. And the sound was loud as poo poo if I remember correctly.

Sonic Spinball is still a pretty fun game to play today, and the soundtrack owns


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Zzb1yu_x4

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

Beefed Owl posted:

I'm still of the opinion that Sonic the hedgehog is the worst intellectual property ever produced and I don't think anything's going to change my mind on that

And yes I am aware that Pokemon exists

worse than Bubsy?

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

Charles Bukowski posted:

What's better, sonic spinball or pokemon pinball? I rented a gameboy to play the latter.

Pokemon pinball imo

Wilkins Micawber
Jan 27, 2005

as we leave this existence
looking for another
Fallen Rib
Sad flashback to Jordan W bringing Spinball by my house around Xmas of that year and my dawning horror of a bad Sonic the Hedgegog game. Now listen to the sewer song playing in your head. You can't get it out. ever.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psPxZ-FNivo

This is the best sonic pinball game

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
its called spinball idiot. not reading anything here

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Beefed Owl posted:

I'm still of the opinion that Sonic the hedgehog is the worst intellectual property ever produced and I don't think anything's going to change my mind on that

Sonic is shocked at your comment.

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003




Fun Fact: This is a rebranded version of Kong Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2jYegnchY

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
my wife calls sonic "blue cat"

Beefed Owl
Sep 13, 2007

Come at me scrub-lord I'm ripped!

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

worse than Bubsy?

We're talking about IPs people know about

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I completely agree; the draw of early Sonic games was going fast in pretty environments. Beyond that, I don't really see anything interesting about the characters or franchise.

IMO the draw of the original 16 bit era games was more about the feeling of momentum the character had, and how angular momentum was preserved over curved ground. In Mario and pretty much every other platformer at the time you just move in the direction you press, but in Sonic it's more like manipulating a rolling ball. The speed aspect was hyped up because it makes for good marketing but you didn't really even go that fast in those early games, and most levels were full of platforming obstacles that would punish you if you just tried to hold right.

Regarding the characters, yeah they kinda suck but they weren't designed to be fully fleshed out individuals that the player actually cares about, just vehicles for making a fun platformer, like Mario. The only people who care about Sonic characters are the people who jerk off to them, and even then the are probably a lot of people who jerk off to them and still don't care.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




gently caress you, Vector the Crocodile owns and I've never even thought about jerking off to him

Although now that you brought it up, I can't stop thinking about it

lilljonas
May 6, 2007

We got crabs? We got crabs!
I thought it was going to be a bout spinball :( :(

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

flavor.flv posted:

gently caress you, Vector the Crocodile owns and I've never even thought about jerking off to him

Although now that you brought it up, I can't stop thinking about it

Just imagine Bog the Cat holding you in his big strong arms, never letting you go…

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The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

Shinjobi posted:

I wanna play spinball again, with that ridiculous soundtrack

funny thing about that soundtrack is that if you play it on an emulator it sounds like trash but if you play it on a model 1 genesis it's mostly pretty catchy and good

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