Spinball (video Game)
Spinball may refer to: * " Death Game 1999" (later rebranded as "Spinball"), a British comic science fiction/sport story published in ''Action'' and ''Battle Action'' * '' Sonic Spinball'', a 1993 pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega * ''Spinball'', an officially released video game for the Vectrex console * Spinball Whizzer Spinball Whizzer is a spinning roller coaster located in the Alton Towers#Adventure Land, Adventure Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. Built by Maurer Söhne, it was previously sponsored by Sega, the company that created the ' ...

Death Game 1999
"Death Game 1999" is a British comic science fiction/sport story published in the weekly anthologies '' Action'' and ''Battle Action'' from 8 May 1976 to 3 November 1979 by IPC Magazines. The story is centred around a highly violent gladiatorial futuristic sport, played by convicted prisoners. Following the controversy which saw ''Action'' withdrawn from sale in October 1976, the story was retooled as the less violent "Spinball". After ''Action'' was folded into war comic ''Battle'' in 1977, the story was renamed a second time as "The Spinball Wars". Creation Devised by ''Action'' co-creator Geoff Kemp, "Death Game 1999" was heavily inspired by the successful science fiction film '' Rollerball''; Roger Corman's '' Death Race 2000'' has also been suggested as an influence. Part of the comic's appeal and image was featuring such stories when the movies themselves were largely unavailable to readers due to their certification. While ''Action'' had aimed to blood new writers, ...
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Sonic Spinball
''Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball'' is a 1993 pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. It is a spinoff of the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' series set in the continuity of the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' animated series. Players control Sonic the Hedgehog, who must stop Doctor Robotnik from enslaving the population in a giant pinball-like mechanism. The game is set in a series of pinball machine-like environments with Sonic acting as the pinball. ''Sonic Spinball'' was developed by the American staff of Sega Technical Institute, as the Japanese staff was occupied with developing ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' and ''Sonic & Knuckles''. When Sega management realized that ''Sonic 3'' would not be completed in time for the 1993 holiday shopping season, they commissioned another ''Sonic'' game. After a hasty two-month development, ''Sonic Spinball'' was released for the Sega Genesis in November 1993 and for the Game Gear and Master System in 1994. ''Sonic ...
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List Of Vectrex Games
This is a list of video games produced for the Vectrex, a vector graphics-based video game console. There were 28 games officially released for the console (includes built-in game) in the US.Classic Videogame Hardware Genius Guide
Imagine Publishing. Chapter 9. This list also includes official unreleased games from GCE, as well as homebrew titles released from 1996 to the present (games, music, demos, utility and diagnostic cartridges).

Official releases (1982–1984)

Games were released in the US by General Consumers Electronics (GCE), in Europe and Canada by (MB) and in Japan by