Review, by Christian Nutt: "If you find yourself playing it a month after purchasing it, well, it's time to dust your alphabetized Dreamcast collection again, because you are a true Sega otaku. That said, I had a great time catching up with Sega via Spikeout, and I trust many of you will also enjoy its small pleasures." [Score: 3.5 out of 5] (April 5, 2005)
Review, by Douglass C. Perry: "The single-player mission, graphics, dialog, music, animation, AI, and level design are all so shockingly retro in all of the worst senses, that one wonders if this game weren't really designed about 20 years ago and just recently uncovered from some sort of lost chest of unwanted arcade titles that never got the green light." [Score: 5.5 out of 10] (April 4, 2005)
Review, by Jeff Gerstmann: "People that are totally hooked on unlockables will find a lot of dudes to unlock here, and if you're an absolute fiend for cooperative gameplay, it's nice that the game offers it up, even though you'll only get about two hours of content." [Score: 5.2 out of 10] (March 31, 2005)
Review, by James Mielke: "The bottom line is pick it up if 1) you can find it, and 2) if you dig this old-school kind of hootenanny." [Score: 7 out of 10] (March 29, 2005)
