Amusement theme

Stages with an amusement park theme typically have bright lights, bouncy obstacles (mostly springs and bumpers) and colorful backgrounds. The theme is highly varied, and levels may include balloons, theme park rides, pinball-style flippers or casino-style gambling games. Many of these stages occur at night.

Many of the elements of the amusement park theme appear in Doctor Eggman's bases, most obviously Eggmanland from Sonic Unleashed. The game Sonic Colors is entirely set in an orbital amusement park, and most levels shares some elements with this theme.

Stages with an amusement park theme

 * Spring Yard Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) - The earliest stage with springs and bumpers, the Spring Yard Zone is the prototype of amusement park stages, although its background and setting is more similar to the urban theme.
 * Casino Night Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) - The Casino Night Zone is the most famous example of the theme and introduced most of the elements that came to define it, including flippers, pinball-style gameplay, nighttime setting, and gambling games in the style of slot machines.
 * Carnival Night Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) - Although Carnival Night did not include gambling games, it incorporated the other elements of the theme and brought them into an actual amusement park setting for the first time. It also includes some underwater areas in Act 2. Balloon Park Zone, a multiplayer stage in the same game, used the same setting and some of the same gimmicks.
 * Night Carnival, Sonic Rush (2005)
 * Sky Park Zone, Sonic Rivals (2006)
 * Eggmanland, Sonic Unleashed (2008)
 * White Park Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II (2012) - This zone is a hybrid of the amusement park theme, the winter theme, and the underwater theme. The amusement park theme predominates mainly in the second Act.