When did Sonic Pinball Party come out?

Sonic Pinball Party was released on 1 June 2003 for Game Boy Advance.

Sonic Pinball Party (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Sonic Pinball Party

It's time to get the party started right with "Sonic Pinball Party" for the Game Boy Advance. Sonic The Hedgehog returns to the Game Boy Advance, with the ultimate handheld pinball experience, delivering fresh…

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What Sonic Pinball Party is

Sonic Pinball Party is a pinball game developed by Jupiter Corporation and released in 2003. It was published by Sega. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sonic Pinball Party is a video game released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. It is a celebration of sorts for Sonic Team featuring many references to its previous games, mostly prominently Sonic the Hedgehog, Nights into Dreams, and Samba De Amigo. There was also a release on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with Sonic Battle and Sonic Advance respectively in 2005.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Pinball Party is the 110th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut in 2003. Its critic score of 81 is 10 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Sonic Pinball Party holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 64 rated pinball games in our database, which average 75. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sonic Pinball Party launched on 1 June 2003, within three weeks of Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Silent Hill 3, Rise of Nations, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Pinball Party yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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