Still more arcade fun on page 3! Playing Sonic games at home is great, so playing them at arcades should be fun too! All pages are a mix of new and old. However, if there's something about these consoles, they seem rather well made. Don't always rule out the older ones as being 'long gone'. For some reason, arcades/gaming areas can keep them around for quite some time. Also, when a game is retired (for whatever reason) it usually filters into the hands of collectors. The area or country where each item is found is listed in it's description.

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This is an air hockey table from the "Sonic Sports" Line. It's a large arcade size table with an all-Sonic theme. The pucks have the Sonic X face logo in black and white, the strikers are blue & red, and the side of the game says "Sonic All Stars" on the side with a stars graphic. The table top

Has a very big all-over graphic of modern Sonic. The top features a 'spin' like decoration and headline as well as the scoreboard, and score lights. The clear center divider says "Sega" on it. Above is the factory photo for the game, which is large. It's 70 inches high and 87 inches long. It also weighs 385 lbs. The top is polycarbonate, the sides are aluminum with edge bumpers. It uses chaser LEDs, displays score & time, and can be set for 2 or 4 players as well as having a ticket dispensing option. The spec sheet (at right) describes all the features and shows that it is from Sega Amusements Europe, even though it is in England. (So, it could appear at arcades throughout Europe) Highway Games may sell this game (if you are an arcade) This looks to be a stylish, sturdy and cool game to play. Hopefully it appears at many arcades starting in 2009! Photo discovered by Kirbycrew.

This basketball game is apparantly 2nd in the Sonic Sports line. As you can see, it has the same ad style, and graphic elements as the above air hocky table. You can link up to 15 of the units to create a head-to-head type battle of points, it plays its own hip hop mix music out of bass speakers that are built in, and it can dispense tickets when you set it up. It is 103 inches high, and weighs 573 lbs. All the balls are blue and have SEGA branding on them as well. This is a spec sheet/ad that describes the game and has contact numbers for if you are an arcade and want one. It too is made by Sega Amusements Europe (operating out of England) so these will likely appear in EU arcades during 2010. Ad discovered by SonicBoy19

This isn't an arcade machine...but rather an ad for one. This is likely to be a full or part-page ad that would appear in a trade publication of some sort. (As in, a magazine that is not for public sale) It's here to advertise the odd machine seen on Arcade Page 2, back when it was new. The bottom text reads: "You don't ask for higher collections, you capture them". Meaning that the game has the ability to earn you more money when you add it to your arcade. Colorful enemy art from Sonic 1 and the more Japan style title/logo give this ad an interesting look. Discovered by SonicBoy 19.

Here's an ad for a UFO catcher that's all in Japanese. What makes it interesting, is that it's from 1991. This was, of course, the first year of Sonic which shows that they went into merchandising almost right away. The dolls it dispensed are pictured in the ad (and can be seen on Sonic Plushes Japan) and it does include 'string legs' Sonic which was known to be a very early plush. You can also see that the machine itself is Sonic branded with pictures of him on the dispenser flaps as well as on art in the back of the machine. The bottom graphic illustrates how a user might be able to grab a doll from it. It's an interesting ad to see because it is so old! Discovered by Berzerker.

This card is from Segaworld Australia. It's an arcade pre-paid to play card, and it's made of plastic. You'd put money on them at a counter, then slide it into machines to play. Once it was done, you could then keep and collect it. Several characters were likely featured on the cards, but as you know, Sally was super big in Australian marketing at the time, so she gets her own. Photo discovered by: Calistine