Your telling me there are bosses in this game? Worse, your telling me that there is even more then one level in this game? I've never even seen Scorpius as a kid when I played this game for hours on end.
Funny that this was the only game where SatAM Sally, Bunny, Rotor and Antoine ( I think ) make an appearance, as well as Scratch from the other Cartoon.
Ironically, that was because of the sound chip. From what I read on another comment, it was supposed to be quieter but the frequency (I think?) wasn't doable, or something, so it set itself at max.
This was a very good spin-off game - I always liked the bits in which you played as Sonic playing the pinball machine and could see his reflection deep in concentration as he was playing it.
I remember playing this when I was younger, and when I hit the spider for the first time, I turned my genesis off so damn fast! That scream still haunts me.
You’re right. While it is possible to get kicked out of the boss area, the only way you can “die” in this game is for Sonic to “drain” at the bottom of the stage map.
@@N8-PT didn't help they were basically baby bosses that Robotnik was trying to give birth to essentially, and you had to kill them off before they were born. 🤣
This was made by the American division, which went largely off western produced media. (Hence, also the appearance of Scratch from "Adventures" in the third bonus game.)
@Star Wolf 128 Sonic would rather free his good old doggo muttski than Antoine. In all seriousness, the game was released before the show so it's very possible that Antoine wasn't fully conceived as a character yet.
I remember when me and my brother would almost ragequit this game because we were dumb enough to not pass the first phase, ah... those were good time...
I'll never understand why the bosses for this game were made so scary looking... Their death screeches don't help either. Edit: I forgot about that ending, Eggman falls directly into the collapsing Mt. Mobius, an active volcano.
Back in the day this was a great addition to sonic collection. So much darker than sonic 1 and 2 pretty much like the tv series sonic. Rather than it being all cutesy.
I mean they were dark tho, Robotnik enslaving your friends in his machines and making that Mega Mack substance in his factory, plus those last zones...
@@Monacomaverick It's possible to code fast C, and even use assembly in C. Getting fast graphics on the Genesis meant using lots of hardware tricks which they had no time to finesse.
This is probably the only Classic era game constructed solely by American team (even the soundtrack). Hell, you could tell that's SatAM cartoon Sonic during the pinball stages.
I love the elements of satAM and AOSTH in it, also the bits of classic sonic thrown in, and some of the horror game aesthetic like how the bosses look... It's just the gameplay is a bit dull of you can say that
I remember playing that game too back when I had my Genesis/Mega Drive... For some reason, I often burst out laughing at the mini games you got after each boss - I found them hilarious XD
Never realized that the characters from the Sonic SatAM show were in the pinball bonus game. This is probably the only Sonic game that show cases them.
"No Damage" In that game, the only "damage" you can get is to either die or lose all your balls But in bosses fight, the worst they can do is trying to send you back to the level or to keep you at the bottom part
@@ruintheday13 Weeks old comment I know, but I do believe the actual reason was that they did a last second swap because the damsel-in-distress bit really isn't Sally's thing. It made more sense to use kid Amy (whose rights they had acquired fairly recently). They weren't able to update the manuals because of how late this change occurred.
You know a lot of people hate the music for this game? All because of the harder notes, but here I am saying that this music fucking rocks! I can't see this game with any other kind of soundtrack. I still listen to it in my fucking car.
For me this game was more Creepier than CD (USA ost) The stages that maked me fear this game was the Roboiler and the Veg-o-machine. But this game is a Great classic.
How to traumatise your kids tutorial : step 1 buy sonic spinball step 2 give it to your child as a gift step 3 insert the cartridge into the console step 4 show him all the bosses in the game step 5 your child has now died from trauma
You ever just make it to the first boss and fall all the way back down and die which caused you to throw your controller in rage because it took you hours to find the damn fourth chaos emeralds... I miss being young sometimes
The bosses still creep me out, that scream is still scary, and why are the birds being thrown in the machine turning into cats and then being turned into robot birds!?
Because...learning about anatomy sucks. But yeah, while those screams didn't terrify me the way it did to plenty of others, I was more afraid of the death/losing jingle associated with the words, "T O O B A D ! ! ☠️" and the ear-deafening Options Music which you got to hear in the Credits, so that's fun!
@@Surkk2960 Yeah, I'll at least give it props for horrifying me in my youth and annoying me in my adult years. I make a simple mistake and then I gotta put up with, "DOOOOOOOO, DOO-DOO, DOOOOOOOOOO~". I'd pick a better onomatopoeia, but ehh.
The encroaching surreal horror is what made this game stand out more than silent hill ever could, and an underestimated marvel for what it could accomplish despite the janky physics. A side note, the narration bar at the top would taunt you if you loitered around in safe spot on a boss fight lol.
The darkest part about this game is the fact that robotnick doesn’t lose. He DIES. In the final boss fight, he wasn’t trying to kill sonic. He was just tryna keep sonic out so he can escape. But he failed. Then died.
@@skylercanterbury_games Yeah but bosses can't "damage" you at all is more the point. If you fall out of the arena, you're basically still at the very tip top of the map and need several screw-ups in a row to die. It's just a time waster to get back to it.
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Boss list:
00:17 01 Scorpius
02:06 02 Roboiler
05:10 03 Veg-O-Machine
08:08 Final Boss - Robotnik's Ship
09:48 Ending
Back on the day this game was criticized for being too hard, but it's still fun. Did you had fun?
Your telling me there are bosses in this game? Worse, your telling me that there is even more then one level in this game? I've never even seen Scorpius as a kid when I played this game for hours on end.
The 1 looks scary
It took me a couple of tries to get past the 3rd stage but I finished the game.
The highest level I got was the second.
Funny that this was the only game where SatAM Sally, Bunny, Rotor and Antoine ( I think ) make an appearance, as well as Scratch from the other Cartoon.
Scratch makes an appearance in Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine as well.
Antoine doesn't appear here, but Sonic's dog Muttski does.
Scratch and Grounder are normal enemies in Sonic 2, although they look a bit different.
@@schwarzerritter5724: Grounder's red in Sonic 2, Coconuts is in the trees in Emerald Hill, and I never found Scratch
@@Alysa-Aiday Scratch is operating the turrets in the Wing Fortress Zone.
And so ended the life of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, not with a bang, but with an "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE."
Didn't know robotnik was demonic
That's what vocalizations sound like when emulated.
KREEeeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe
It does end with a bang alright. After the fortress sunk and then Exploded!
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
The robo smile scream is just the screech of a thousand tortured souls
9:55
Ghast
6:30 This is the most satisfying thing to pull off. Pure badassery.
I've had that luck on several runs and it is truly satisfying XD
The way the eyes in Sonic's reflections follow the ball movements is such a nice detail.
Who thought it was a good idea to make Eggman’s pain noises sound like horrible SCREECHES?
I love those pain nosies and his big, stupid teeth ! Eggman should always look and sound ridiculous !
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ironically, that was because of the sound chip. From what I read on another comment, it was supposed to be quieter but the frequency (I think?) wasn't doable, or something, so it set itself at max.
Horrible? No it’s great!
TAILS!?
This was a very good spin-off game - I always liked the bits in which you played as Sonic playing the pinball machine and could see his reflection deep in concentration as he was playing it.
Everyone afraid of Sonic CD's secret, but no one told me about that creepy bosses of sonic spinball!!! Especially that egg-scorpio...
That 3rd boss tho...
@@Megabyte256 The Veg-O-Machine?
@@anaj.fernandez4544 2nd
The 2nd one is the Robo-Boiler
It's not that bad
Aren't all playthroughs of Sonic Spinball a no damage run considering, aside from dying, you can't get hurt?
So the title is accurate
You can get hurt, you get hurt by hitting the boss. No, Sonic doesn't get hurt, you do if your volume is high enough.
There should be a yes damage run... thatd be interesting
I remember playing this when I was younger, and when I hit the spider for the first time, I turned my genesis off so damn fast! That scream still haunts me.
I played this game when I was like 4, the bosses aren't scary.
@@ProjectNaturePrds It wasn’t the boss, it was the noise it made when you hit it that spooked me.
You mean Scorpion?
@@ProjectNaturePrds Different people have different things that scare them.
Pússy
I still stand by that the Sonic Spinball boss theme is one of the most badass boss themes ever.
Way past badass♥️
*_Laughs in Sonic 3_*
@@gneu1527 only the final one
Sonic Advance 3 Boss Themes: *are you sure about that?*
@@roderickstockdale1678 yep
>No damage
Wouldn't "No drain" or be more accurate in this sense?
Was that a nitpick?
You’re right. While it is possible to get kicked out of the boss area, the only way you can “die” in this game is for Sonic to “drain” at the bottom of the stage map.
As a kid, I thought the scorpius looked terrifying
Me too and how it howls when hit. I stopped playing when I saw that.
*EEEEEEEEE*
Second boss was the most creepiest in my opinion. Looked like tortured souls.
@@kairi4640 Right? They’re like the souls of the damned with hollow eyeholes and realistic teeth, and the lava they’re drooling looks like blood
@@N8-PT didn't help they were basically baby bosses that Robotnik was trying to give birth to essentially, and you had to kill them off before they were born. 🤣
God damn the pain sounds Robotnik makes tho is horrifying
“Freedom Fighters will never appear in Sonic games”
Sonic Spinball: 1:28
MAIN games. XD
This was made by the American division, which went largely off western produced media. (Hence, also the appearance of Scratch from "Adventures" in the third bonus game.)
@Star Wolf 128 Sonic would rather free his good old doggo muttski than Antoine.
In all seriousness, the game was released before the show so it's very possible that Antoine wasn't fully conceived as a character yet.
@@mkge7206 Considering Sally was the purple color she was in the comics for a little bit, yeah.
@Star Wolf 128,
"SACRE BLUE CHEESE!!!"
We all know the true villain of this game isn't Robotnik, it's the options/ending theme.
It was not irritating in this video, oddly enough.
Why the hell is the options theme the ending theme though? That's question
@@Eden_M0rgan The same reason they used the title theme for the victory theme
I always die on that part
What a throwback, I never made it past the first boss
I ain’t even reach the boss yet 💀
You too played this when you were little on Sonic Adventure DX compilation.
Dude, HOW ARE YOU THIS BAD? I’VE BEATEN THE GAME.
@@teko4752no the sadx compilation was the game gear/master system version of the game, this is the Genesis version.
0:17 “Sonic shouldn’t have terrifying bosses”
That scream is terrifying
@@cixlo KREEE
Nightmare fuel. I’m telling you.
Edit: Wait, what about the robo smile or whatever it’s called? Yea, that and the robo-boiler.
Oh a fellow danganronpa fan pleased to see another one do what i do
The boss you timecaped looks like Red from the Godzilla NES creepypasta, exept somehow Eggman's face makes it scarier.
This game was a sega classic
Ok
Eh, I want to say kind of but, there were better classic game's for it's time
I remember when me and my brother would almost ragequit this game because we were dumb enough to not pass the first phase, ah... those were good time...
@Agustin Vicencio why
If by classic you mean garbage then yes lol
Ladies, if your man:
*Loves eggs
*Screeches when someone physicaly hits him
*Tries to murder hedgehogs
That's not your man, that's Dr. Eggman.
Dr Eggman with the master plan :o
But if they don’t, then it’s hunky-dory OK to date them.
I would honestly date eggman
I'll never understand why the bosses for this game were made so scary looking...
Their death screeches don't help either.
Edit: I forgot about that ending, Eggman falls directly into the collapsing Mt. Mobius, an active volcano.
Because it was made by a different team. Also the freedom figthers (Sally, Rotor and Bonnie) show up in the bonus pinball game.
It was designed to tie-in to the SatAM continuity of cartoons and comics, which were a lot darker than the main series.
@@l0stndamned uh
EEEEEEEEEEE
One of the best Sonic spin-offs (no pun intended) that I've played in my youth.
Do you still have ur Genesis
Its alright
@@Pēm̐cā ALRIGHT
@@Jaypeapolaris _Alriiight_
@@raihidara it's alright it's alright
Huh all these years I've never noticed that Sonic's eyes on the pinball mini game follows the ball around
When I was a kid I played this so much and the farthest I got was the second level. Nice graphics and music but holy shit this game was frustrating
"Showdown" is way harder than "the Machine"
Yeah Sega doesn't knew how to make right diffuculty.
I got to the last boss but never managed to beat him, too much randow $hit and RNG in this game.
Sameeeee I always got stuck in the second level
@@williamzeo2493 i even can't get all 5 emeralds to get to that GODDAMN boss.
when i played this as a kid, all i did was spindash and die in the first level, literally had no idea what i was even doing, but i still loved it
6:56 ahhh the good old scratch from sonic cartoon only grounder is missing in this boss fight
(SIGH)
The only game where the Freedom Fighters got to show up.
Some of Eggman's more creepy designs.
These bosses look like fever dreams.
Today I learned: This game has boss battles.
Boss list (fix):
0:17 Scorpius
1:11 Robotnik's Egg Mobile
2:07 Roboiler
3:10 Robo Smile
5:10 Veg-O Machine
6:56 Egg Capsule
8:13 Robotnik's Ship (final boss)
Robo Smile loss his teeth though...
EEEEEEEEEEE,EEEEEEEE,EEEEE
Sega: makes a Sonic says cartoon saying drugs are bad
Also Sega: these bosses
One of my favorite games on the Genesis. Good job with these bosses!
Nobody going to talk about the cool detail of Sonic's eyes following the pinball around in the reflections during the miniboss stages?
Back in the day this was a great addition to sonic collection. So much darker than sonic 1 and 2 pretty much like the tv series sonic. Rather than it being all cutesy.
I mean they were dark tho, Robotnik enslaving your friends in his machines and making that Mega Mack substance in his factory, plus those last zones...
fun fact: due to time constraints, STI had to code Sonic Spinball in C instead of Z80 assembly.
Is that why it feels so sluggish?
@@Monacomaverick It's possible to code fast C, and even use assembly in C. Getting fast graphics on the Genesis meant using lots of hardware tricks which they had no time to finesse.
Roboiler was the thing of nightmares for me as a wee child. I always ran off when my dad got to it, lol.
This is probably the only Classic era game constructed solely by American team (even the soundtrack). Hell, you could tell that's SatAM cartoon Sonic during the pinball stages.
I love the elements of satAM and AOSTH in it, also the bits of classic sonic thrown in, and some of the horror game aesthetic like how the bosses look... It's just the gameplay is a bit dull of you can say that
You make this game look so easy, I don't think I ever got through the first stage.
This game get a little more creepy each boss
The Machine's boss is just a pause of creepyness xD
0:31 as a child I was terrified at this boss and the scream didn't help either (I just stopped playing at this part)
Toothless Robotnick is genuinly terrifying.
Toothless eggman in American eggman
Glad to know I was doing the final boss wrong, just going head-on.
It's weird how sega tried multiple times to tie in the games with the satam cartoon, failed, and then proceeded to give all of us nightmares.
OK WHOS IDEA WAS TO MAKE A BOILER A BOSS!? IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY TURN HELL INTO A BOILER AND ADDED NIGHTMARE FUEL TO IT
Sonic: *you’re done for robuttnik!*
Robotnik: *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!*
LOL
I remember playing this game when I was younger. It was so difficult, I could never make it past the second stage.
I'm not sure what counts as "damage" in the context of this game, other than dying outright.
I guess getting booted out of the boss room?
I couldn't even beat the first level as a child. Very cool to watch!
My favorite part is where you knock robotniks teeth out. Kids love seeing stuff like that 🤣
Wtf.
You and your children.... Don't speak to me.
@@cixloits a common trope in american cartoons (so no suprised devs made this 😂)
No idea why but every boss in this game was nightmare fuel when I was younger.
Even now seeing these bosses makes my skin crawl.
I remember playing that game too back when I had my Genesis/Mega Drive... For some reason, I often burst out laughing at the mini games you got after each boss - I found them hilarious XD
Those are some horrifying boss fights. Ngl I don’t know if I should be greatful not getting past toxic caves when I was a kid.
Never realized that the characters from the Sonic SatAM show were in the pinball bonus game. This is probably the only Sonic game that show cases them.
Boss List:
Scorpius - (Toxic Caves)
Roboiler (Lava Powerhouse)
Veg-O-Machine (The Machine)
Robotnik’s Ship (Showdown) - Final Boss
Ending And Credits
4:13 - Okay. That cracked me up.
I like the little detail of Sonics reflection in the pinball machines glass when playing the bonus levels, it's a nice touch for a mega rushed game
"No Damage"
In that game, the only "damage" you can get is to either die or lose all your balls
But in bosses fight, the worst they can do is trying to send you back to the level or to keep you at the bottom part
I enjoyed the heck out of this game.
Yup. This is the kind of content I need in 2021.
The only game Sally and the freedom fighters appear
Which hardly qualifies. XD
@@ruintheday13 Yeah
And it's weird that they mention Sally in Sonic CD's instruction manual. Wish they got a proper game.
@@Graywing Yeah, the translators gave Amy the name "Sally" in that.
@@ruintheday13 Weeks old comment I know, but I do believe the actual reason was that they did a last second swap because the damsel-in-distress bit really isn't Sally's thing. It made more sense to use kid Amy (whose rights they had acquired fairly recently). They weren't able to update the manuals because of how late this change occurred.
The only fully released sonic game to date thats based on SATAM
If you can beat this game without clipping into the floor in lava powerhouse you're a true legend
You know a lot of people hate the music for this game? All because of the harder notes, but here I am saying that this music fucking rocks! I can't see this game with any other kind of soundtrack. I still listen to it in my fucking car.
The first 2 bosses definitely suggest that Eggman was doing techno-organic experiments with himself..... kinda messed up when you think about it
This sonic game had the most weirdest creepiest bosses in all the sonic games I swear lol.
I played this so much as a kid and I didn't even know the first level had a boss. I don't think I'll play pinball ever again.
The bosses in this game are kind of bizarre...
Hello there
Eggman sure was on drugs when he created those contraptions… especially the roboiler
For me this game was more Creepier than CD (USA ost)
The stages that maked me fear this game was the Roboiler and the Veg-o-machine.
But this game is a Great classic.
0:54 as a kid I always thought the pieces of the boss scorpion looked like COMBOS 😂
God. I loved This game. But god was it scary.
I never knew Spinball had terrifying looking bosses
Veg-O machine? Oh, so that is how vegetable juice is made.
How to traumatise your kids tutorial : step 1 buy sonic spinball step 2 give it to your child as a gift step 3 insert the cartridge into the console step 4 show him all the bosses in the game step 5 your child has now died from trauma
This was my Dark Souls when I was growing up, zero saves... zero mercy.
Oh good. My memory of the bosses being nightmare fuel was real.
This game is a lot harder to beat then it looks
This was such a classic when I was younger
This Game plays in the Sonic Satam Timeline
You ever just make it to the first boss and fall all the way back down and die which caused you to throw your controller in rage because it took you hours to find the damn fourth chaos emeralds...
I miss being young sometimes
Good afternoon! Love old school games
Y?
"Headache!"
Very accurate, knowing a single tooth can give you helluva time...
I am just now finding out that this game has bosses. I don’t remember ever getting past stage 2.
I mean probably someone is thinking this, but to get to level 2 you need to beat the boss of level 1.
What would even count as "damage" in this game? Maybe "No Death" or "No Leaving the Arena?"
You failed to confront the most difficult boss of all: The Options Menu Music.
The bosses still creep me out, that scream is still scary, and why are the birds being thrown in the machine turning into cats and then being turned into robot birds!?
Because...learning about anatomy sucks. But yeah, while those screams didn't terrify me the way it did to plenty of others, I was more afraid of the death/losing jingle associated with the words, "T O O B A D ! ! ☠️" and the ear-deafening Options Music which you got to hear in the Credits, so that's fun!
@@georgecortes3416 Oh yeah, forgot about the game over music...
@@Surkk2960 Yeah, I'll at least give it props for horrifying me in my youth and annoying me in my adult years. I make a simple mistake and then I gotta put up with, "DOOOOOOOO, DOO-DOO, DOOOOOOOOOO~". I'd pick a better onomatopoeia, but ehh.
I mean I couldn’t even get past the first level
The encroaching surreal horror is what made this game stand out more than silent hill ever could, and an underestimated marvel for what it could accomplish despite the janky physics. A side note, the narration bar at the top would taunt you if you loitered around in safe spot on a boss fight lol.
To this day, i still don't understand how sonic just hops right into the roboticiser but doesn't get affected
I fear no man...
0:20
But that thing...
It scares me.
One boss in and I can see where the inspiration for RED came from.
the torture of robotnik game
I like this game it's a very well developed anti-drug message
So is no one going to bring up the Veg-O-Machine is an animal torture device?
The darkest part about this game is the fact that robotnick doesn’t lose. He DIES. In the final boss fight, he wasn’t trying to kill sonic. He was just tryna keep sonic out so he can escape. But he failed. Then died.
This game was one of the first Sonic games I played as a kid, and let's just say I didn't get very far...
I only got out of the first area you start in like 3 times
When I mean the first area I mean the first room that you start with :/
Anyone else here after seeing Scorpion Robotnik referenced in Sonic The Movie 3?
Yeah... You really can’t get hurt in this game apart from falling at the bottom of the pinball table if that counts! XD
"No damage" is an interesting qualifier. I don't recall this game *having* damage.
I remember if you fell into places u died that
@@skylercanterbury_games Yeah but bosses can't "damage" you at all is more the point. If you fall out of the arena, you're basically still at the very tip top of the map and need several screw-ups in a row to die. It's just a time waster to get back to it.
It's weird that everyone except Robotnik have their Sonic Sat-am Cartoon design
His suit looks more like AOSTH's version of robotnik but he looks more like classic eggman