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There’s way more examples than that, but those two alone should give you all the context you need to know about why SEGA would make a game like Sonic Spinball. Just look at Sonic 2’s Casino Night Zone, or Sonic 3’s Carnival Night Zone.

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The Sonic series has long had a love affair with pinball. Platform(s): PC, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear If nothing else, Knuckles’ Chaotix is a weird curio of a game, but it’s still worth checking out. The unique mechanic in question sees Knuckles and a partner character tethered together, which they can use to solve puzzles and gain speed boosts. The only leading role for the red echidna, Knuckles’ Chaotix sees the former Eggman ally turned Sonic bestie working together with a brand new cast of characters known as the Chaotix, as they travel through various different worlds to stop Eggman and Metal Sonic from enacting an evil plot. Knuckles’ Chaotix definitely falls into the latter. Granted, a lot of times, those experiments don’t go to plan, but some of them are just unique enough to be worthy of merit. Unleashed is a game of two halves, and if that second half was a lot better, it’d be way further up on this list.Ī lot of Sonic’s mainline games tend to follow the basic formula of just running really fast and hoping you don’t get smashed by a robot along the way, so sometimes it’s nice to see a Sonic game come in and try to do something different. Meanwhile, night-time Sonic sees the Werehog form battering the snot out of a bunch of inky demons with combat that feels like an infinitely worse version of the original God of War trilogy. This gives Sonic Unleashed two distinct playstyles, with daytime Sonic dashing through 3D levels with incredible speed, providing some of the biggest highlights in 3D Sonic’s entire career. Sonic Unleashed sees Eggman enact a new plot to try and take down Sonic, turning him into a Werehog. At least half of Sonic Unleashed is great. Both are likely to elicit a confused response from some of the Sonic faithful, but Sonic Unleashed takes the cake just by virtue of the fact that Sonic The Fighters is a mostly rubbish game that’s kind of fun.

Truth be told, it was a toss up between Sonic The Fighters and Sonic Unleashed for the “barely scraped by” spot on this list. With that in mind, here’s the 20 best Sonic games of all time. With over three decades of games, the Sonic franchise has quite a few excellent games under its belt, and while his more recent form tends to mean any new announcement of a Sonic game is met with scepticism and uneasy hope (looking at you, Sonic Frontiers), the potential is always there for the next Sonic game to be absolutely brilliant.

Fortunately though, we’re only here to talk about 20 of the best ones. There’s been dozens of different Sonic and Sonic related games over the years, but it’s undeniable that not all of them were actually good. Despite being one of the most recognisable mascots in all of gaming, the blue blur that is Sonic The Hedgehog hasn’t exactly had the most amazing time of it in recent years.