Spinmaster

Spinmaster
Developer(s)Data East
Onan Games (Zeebo)
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Mitsutoshi Sato
Atsushi.Sir
Programmer(s)C. Enomoto
Kenichi Minegishi
Osapan
Mya
Artist(s)Hiroki Narisawa
Kazumi Enomoto
Sachiko Moizumi
Yuzuru Tsukahara
Kaori
Composer(s)Tomoyoshi Sato
Mihoko Ando
Platform(s)
Release
  • Arcade
    • WW: 16 December 1993
    Neo Geo AES
    • JP: 18 February 1994
    • NA: 18 February 1994
    • EU: 18 February 1994
    Zeebo
Genre(s)Platform, beat 'em up, run and gun
Mode(s)
Arcade systemNeo Geo MVS

Spinmaster[a] is an arcade game developed and released by Data East on December 16, 1993 in North America, in Europe the same year and on February 18, 1994 in Japan.[1] It is the first game Data East developed and released for the SNK Neo-Geo MVS hardware. Its character designs are almost identical to the ones in Data East's Sega Genesis game titled Dashin' Desperadoes; however, the rest of both games are completely different. Also, Spinmaster's gameplay, artwork style, animations of some characters and the styles of its weapons were heavily inspired by another arcade game by Data East titled Joe & Mac, according to the Japanese Miracle Adventure arcade flyer.

After Data East became defunct due to its bankruptcy back in 2003, G-Mode bought the intellectual rights to the Neo-Geo game as well as most other Data East games and licenses them globally.[2]

The game was later re-released on the Virtual Console in Japan on August 3, 2010, the PAL region on November 12, 2010 and in North America on November 22, 2010.


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  1. ^ "Oh! Neo Geo Vol. 16 - ミラクルアドベンチャー". Beep! MegaDrive (in Japanese). No. 51. SoftBank Creative. December 1993. p. 126.
  2. ^ "Spinmaster - Data East Games". G-Mode. Retrieved 2009-01-09.