Crüe Ball

{{Short description|1992 video game}}

{{Infobox video game

|title = Crüe Ball

|image = Crüe Ball Coverart.png

|caption = European cover art

|developer = NuFX

|publisher = {{video game release|WW|Electronic Arts|JP|Electronic Arts Victor}}

|programmer = Lou Haehn

|designer = Mark Weston Sprenger

|artist = Mark Weston Sprenger

|producer = Richard Robbins

|composer = Brian L. Schmidt

|released = {{video game release|EU|September 1992{{Cite magazine |date=September 1992 |title=Twisted Flipper - MegaDrive Review |url=http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/pdf/twistedflippermd.pdf |magazine=Mean Machines |issue=24 |pages=96-97 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403015647/http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/pdf/twistedflippermd.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-03}}|NA|November 1992{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/video-games-and-computer-entertainment-issue-47-december-1992/Video%20Games%20and%20Computer%20Entertainment%20-%20Issue%2047%20-%20December%201992%20%28Compressed%29/page/n35/mode/2up|title=Video Game Previews First Look|magazine=VideoGames & Computer Entertainment|issue=47|date=December 1992|pages=36-37|accessdate=January 10, 2022}}|JP|December 26, 1993{{cite web |title=Software List (Software Licensee Release) |url=https://www.sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html |website=Sega Hard Encyclopedia |publisher=Sega Corporation |access-date=May 15, 2023 |language=ja}}}}

|genre = Pinball

|modes = Single-player, multiplayer

|platforms = Genesis

}}

Crüe Ball is a 1992 pinball video game developed by American studio NuFX and published by Electronic Arts for the Sega Genesis. Themed to glam metal band Mötley Crüe, it features three of their songs: "Dr. Feelgood," "Live Wire," and "Home Sweet Home."

The game's prototype name was Twisted Flipper.{{cite magazine |date=January 1993 |title=CVG Review: Crue-Ball|url=https://retrocdn.net/images/9/92/CVG_UK_134.pdf |magazine=Computer and Video Games |publisher=Future plc |issue=134 |page=38}} The producer of the game, Richard Robbins, initially pursued the name Headbangers Ball, but MTV balked at a license and Mötley Crüe was added relatively late in development.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

This game was designed by Mark Sprenger (artist for Space Shuttle, High Speed, and Diner) and Brian L. Schmidt (composer for Space Station and Black Knight 2000). The game was awarded the Sega Seal of Quality Award for Best Sound at the Consumer Electronics Show.{{cite web |url=https://segaretro.org/Sega_Seal_of_Quality_Awards |title = Sega Seal of Quality Awards - Sega Retro| date=14 June 2019 }}