Spring Yard Zone

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Spring Yard Zone

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Spring Yard Zone
Third Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)
Number of Acts: 3
Location: South Island
Level themes: urban, carnival/casino
Boss: Egg Stinger
← Marble Zone | Labyrinth Zone →

Spring Yard Zone is the third Zone in the 16-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Following on from Marble Zone, Sonic arrives at a colourful urban environment.

Quotes

“	A city at sunset lined with exotic buildings. Jumping from the platforms onto bobbins, Sonic can fly like a pinball. If you accelerate, you can run even in very steep areas.	„
— Sonic the Hedgehog JP manualMedia:Sonic1 MD JP manual.pdf (translation by Vertekins)

“	Jump from springs and bounce off bumpers as if you're in a real pinball machine.	„
— Sonic the Hedgehog US manualMedia:Sonic1 MD US manual.pdf

Features

Spring Yard Zone is set on the outskirts of a city in loosely casino-themed areas resembling a pinball machine, with many Springs, Bumpers, and secret areas hidden within walls. Many flashing lights and signs adorn the wide-open spaces of the Zone, including block letters that spell out words like "UP", "ON", "CPU" and "COPE" for reasons unknown. This Zone's design inspired many similar stages in future Sonic games, especially Casino Night Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

This Zone is more open than the previous Zone, with large slopes to roll down on, pits full of Springs that will bounce Sonic back up, and many half-pipes that have spiked balls moving around in circles at different speeds. Bumpers bounce Sonic while awarding 10 points for hitting them. Moving blocks of different sizes are among the most common obstacles, with groups of small blocks moving in unison with each other, and larger blocks making up the slow-paced vertical sections where the player needs to squeeze between the gaps to move up or down.

Acts

	Act 1
	Map: 1️⃣  Rings: 157 + 20
	Act 2
	Map: 1️⃣  Rings: 222 + 0
	Act 2 is the only level in the game to feature more than one Signpost; there is a jump at the end of the level that if made successfully, will bring the player to another platform with more Rings than the one below it, and the other Signpost. In the 2013 remaster and Sonic Origins, a third Signpost is added that can be accessed by Tails and Knuckles using their abilities. Such an instance of more than one goal would be acquired by Collision Chaos Act 2 in Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
	Act 3
	Map: 1️⃣  Rings: 163 + 30

Enemies

Buzz Bomber

Crabmeat

Roller

Spikes

Animals

Cucky

Picky

Obstacles

Bumper

Chain of spikes

Large spike ball

History

Development

"Sparkling Zone" as shown in the prototype.

“	This map was the first one to be drawn and finalized. Wanting to bounce around on the pinball-like bumpers in this stage really can't be helped! Because the star-patterned bumpers make a "Bo-bin!" sound when you bounce on them, in Sonic Team lexicon we call them bobins (laughs).	„
— Naoto Ohshima, Sonic Jam Official Guide

Other media

Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW comics)

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Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Spring Yard Zone	Spring Yard Zone
Japanese	スプリングヤードゾーンMedia:Sonic1 MD JP manual.pdf
French	Zone de Court de RessortsMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
German	Federhof-ZoneMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
Spanish	Zona de RebotesMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
Italian	Zona di SbalziMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
Portuguese	Zona das MolasMedia:Sonic the Hedgehog MD PT Manual.pdf
Dutch	Spring ZoneMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
Swedish	FjädergårdszonenMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
Finnish	Ponnahduspiha AlueMedia:Sonic1 MD EU manual.pdf
Russian	Зона «Пружинный Двор»
Korean	스프링야드 지역Media:SonicClassics MD KR manual.pdf

Technical information

ROM data and code locations

Offset	Description
25A8	SYZ palette
6506	SYZ layer deformation info
7168	SYZ dynamic screen resizing
0001D3D4	SYZ object debug list
00050782	SYZ 16x16 block mappings
000510F0	SYZ main level patterns
0005481C	SYZ 256x256 block mappings
00064FE6	SYZ 16x16 collision index
00069B88	SYZ Act 1 foreground
00069C44	SYZ Act 1/2/3 background
00069C82	SYZ Act 2 foreground
00069D8A	SYZ Act 3 foreground
0006F2A8	SYZ Act 1 sprite locations
0006F734	SYZ Act 2 sprite locations
0006FC9E	SYZ Act 3 sprite locations