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) | Arcade, Neo Geo AES, Zeebo |
| Release | Arcade
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| Genre(s) | Platform, beat 'em up, run and gun |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, co-op |
| Arcade system | Neo Geo MVS |
Spinmaster 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. 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 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 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.
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.