Sonic Pinball Party

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 its previous games, mostly Sonic. This was Sonic's second pinball game since Sonic Spinball.

Story
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." For those competing in the latter, see [[Media:Sonic Pinball Party.png|this list]].

Characters

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Metal Sonic
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Cream the Rabbit
 * NiGHTS
 * Amigo

Boards

 * The game features three 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 Dreamcast and arcade game Samba De Amigo.
 * The player must beat Eggman to move to the next area in the Sonic Board. The player moves to the next area when they collect all the Ideya and defeat the Nightmaren in the NiGHTS Board. The Samba De Amigo Board never changes, as there are no real objectives exept for performing songs and getting a high score.
 * In the Sonic Board, going into a hidden hole three times changes your character to Tails, then Knuckles, then Amy, and back to Sonic.

Receptions
The response to the game, overall, was positive.


 * IGN - 8.3/10
 * GameSpot - 8.1/10
 * GameSpy - 74 out of 100
 * GamePro - 4 out of 5
 * Nintendo Power - 4.1 out of 5
 * Electronic Gaming Monthly - 7.5/10

Game Rankings currently scores it 78.8%.

Trivia

 * The game, when not included with the combo pack with other games, was released exclusively to Target for the first weeks of being released.
 * The Sonic board in this game uses music from Star Light Zone and the Dr. Robotnik theme from Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). It also reuses the sprites of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and some animal friends and Badniks all from Sonic Advance.