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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread |OT3 & Knuckles|
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Hot Coldman
Banned
Azure Dream
Member
It's weird because in some ways Naka seems justified for having his infamous battles, at least at the start, but we know what that turned into.
And the secret credits are at the beginning of the game, not the end. (Unless it appears there also.)
http://info.sonicretro.org/Game_Secrets:Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(16-bit)#Hidden_Japanese_credits
Sonic Retro said:
On the Sonic Team Presents screen, text showing the full names of key staff members and their roles in development is placed behind the Sonic Team Presents text. You cannot see this, however, because both the text and the background color are black. With a cheat code, however, the game will hide the Sonic Team Presents text and change the background color to white, showing the hidden credits. In either ROM, with the region set to Japan, press C, C, C, C, C, C, Up, Down, Down, Down, Left, Right; you should hear a sound confirming this. Then, when the demo starts, hold Down + A + B + C and either press Start or wait for the demo to end.
The console has to be set to Japan's region, though, which is why it's easier to do in an emulator.
Ah, I see. It does sound like something productive.
Professor Beef
Banned
I haven't even had time to play Generations. Between trying to get more hours for work, and then practicing AE and Marvel for EVO, there's not enough hours in the day. 
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Well, this is the passage, so I dunno if it's erroneous or if it's at the end, too:
Wonder if it's in the very first print of the Japanese version.
Then it goes into Naka's time at STI to make a sequel for Fall 1992 and Mark Cerny (who had worked on Marble Madness at 16-years-old prior).
Hot Coldman
Banned
I haven't even had time to play Generations. Between trying to get more hours for work, and then practicing AE and Marvel for EVO, there's not enough hours in the day.
Priorities, man. Clearly Sonic is more alive than Marvel.
Professor Beef
Banned
DFO is also coming back. @___@
In theory yes.
In practice most threads consist of someone asking a question or making a complaint then all the other posts are people taking the piss.
Nack, Bark and Bean
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Depends on how they play and if they're mechanically sound.
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I posed this question to the FF community thread, and I guess I should pose it here because we never actually talked about this.
What was your first experience with Sonic like? Your first game, I mean?
And if you decided to drop the series and pick it up again after a while, why did you drop it, and from when did you pick it up?
Lightning Lord
Banned
That's not a real answer, Schala. :V
also i'm not gonna answer it either cuz
I was one of those dang nab Nintendo kids growing up, so I never actually owned a Genesis or anything. It worked out fine, however, since most of my friends had a Genesis and owned a copy of Sonic 2. I never played a whole lot of Sonic 2, granted, as I merely enjoyed watching them play, but I had plenty of opportunities although I never made it all the way to the end.
I didn't actually own a Sonic game until I got Adventures DX for the Gamecube because I was still a dang nab Nintendo fan.
... You know what, I ain't gonna say nothing. Reach for the stars.
Why you gotta be that guy?
Sonic and Knuckles.
Me: I like everything about this.
Then I played 1 and 2. Then adventure came out, I liked that. And then adventure 2 came out and I was like " this shadow dude, I like this guy."
I never really dropped the series, however there are some games I just avoided and played later.
My first experience with Sonic was also when I found out Santa Claus wasn't real, as I saw my parents buying the Genesis bundle lol. My mom and I used to play it together (as well as Sonic 2) and she always had to do Labyrinth Zone because I was terrified of the drowning.
I had this friend at school, he was an older kid, and way better at Sonic than me. He taught me about the level select code and other secrets and stuff further in the game, and we would share pictures that we drew of Sonic. I remember when I used to talk to him on the phone while he was playing Sonic 2 and hear this cool song playing in the background, which turned out to be the Super Sonic theme.
I also remember back when my sister, who was 3 at the time, would play Sonic 2 with me, and I would put in the level select code so she could play Sky Chase. My mom and I would laugh at how she would imitate Tails looking around in the plane.
Also, I remember when Sonic 3 first came out, and I was really hyped for it since it was a two year wait after Sonic 2 rather than the 1 year wait between 1 and 2. I was on punishment for acting up, so she wouldn't get Sonic 3 for me, but she changed her mind and got it anyway. Now that I think about it, I think she wanted to play it too lol.
I also remember how when I first got to the S&K Death Egg final boss, and I would have trouble dodging the laser, especially with no rings as I would usually run out of time before reaching him the first time, so I would have my sister play as Tails and we would just use the airlift move to dodge it, leading to the first time beating that boss.
I know you said the first game, but this is the Sonic thread. We never stay on topic.
Anyway, I dropped the series after Heroes. Not out of an active disappointment or anything (although at the time I did find Heroes pretty middling), I just didn't have any interest for any of the games after that. The reception of the games during that period didn't help though.
I got back into the series with Generations, thanks to the hype here on GAF actually. And now, here I am.
SonicGAF exists solely because a bunch of us kept having the exact same conversations in multiple threads. Doesn't matter how beaten to death a subject is, we'll talk about it some more.
In a perfect world where such a thread wouldn't result in a firestorm and an enormous amount of finger pointing, yes. I've never known any forum's leadership to take kindly to users stirring up unsolicited debate about the state of the forum, either.
Professor Beef
Banned
Sonic 1 was my first Sonic experience, you darn kids! Although I didn't own a Genesis of my own until maybe the PS1 era, but I did manage to play each Sonic game because my cousins were Sega kids.
As for when I dropped it? I think Sonic Riders/Zero Gravity were the last ones I played before the parade ofshits like Shadow and 06. I didn't write off the series (mainly because of that godlike music), but I certainly didn't play the games as much as I liked. Combine that with my newfound desire to get better at fighters and Pokemon, and that was a wrap for a while.
As for when I dropped it? I think Sonic Riders/Zero Gravity were the last ones I played before the parade of
I played Sonic for a good decade of my childhood, from 1, 2 and Spinball on the Genesis to Sonic & Knuckles Collection, Sonic R, and 3D Blast on PC, to Adventure 2 Battle and 1 on Gamecube/Dreamcast. Sonic & Knuckles Collection was one of my favorite games, and I played the crap out of Adventure 2, but I fell out of the series there because after playing Heroes briefly I really didn't like the new look, sound, or character switching and it turned me off from the series.
Last year, a decade or so after Adventure 2, I finally ordered Colors on a whim and found it to be a surprisingly good game. Around that time my sister stayed over for a few months, we reminisced a bit and once again on a whim decided to catch up on all the major games in the series we missed since then. That's when I started posting in this thread, so some of you probably remember me cursing my luck when I pulled Secret Rings, Black Knight, Sonic 4, and Shadow the Hedgehog from the hat while my sister got Generations, Heroes, Adventure and Unleashed.
Come to think of it, I think playing Secret Rings and trying to express how much I hated the game is what caused me to start cursing online more often. I literally couldn't put my hate into words.
When I saw Shadowhog's essay on Sonic 3, Schala's Ni no Kuni tome, and just good, respectful, fun discussion all around I knew I'd be sticking around after finishing the series.
... and that's the story of how I came to SonicGAF? lol. Once again went on a tangent.
Shadow Hog
Member
Ah, yes, I remember quite vividly what my first experience with Sonic was. Quite vividly.
If only it were as easy as this guy makes it.
For some reason, I stuck with it, though. Masochism, I guess - that, or because my only other game for that console at the time was this significantly-more-fair game, but I wasn't any good at it, either.
Still, I remember seeing a Genesis playing Sonic 2 at Blockbuster, where they had these dumb circuits designed to reset the Genesis every few minutes. I went to Mystic Cave Zone in 2P and got hopelessly lost, but I was having a lot more fun than I was with, well, that game!
Not sure which came next, though: getting Sonic [1] for the Game Gear as a reward for a dentist/doctor visit (expensive reward, in retrospect), or getting a Genesis for Christmas to replace the NES, along with Sonic [1], 2, 3 and Spinball (as well as Ms. Pac-Man, Goofy's Hysterical History Tour and Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye - maybe others, but I glanced over my Genesis collection, since I still own all of those games, and nothing else sounds right). The Genesis games were enough to hook me on the series for good, including cartoons and comics (both Archie and, when I learned of its existence after moving to England in Summer '96, Fleetway), so here we are.
Well that could very well be Marine already, so that's my wildest choice covered. Almost said Emerl, but nah, if he doesn't fit the Boom universe that's cool.
Sonic 1 and 2 were two of the first video games I'd ever played (at age 2), were part of what got me into gaming, etc. I never owned a Genesis (we had an NES and a PC before getting a Playstation in '97) but the lady that ran the daycare I occasionally went to had one. I was one of those "ahead of the curve" kids, reading and speaking and such earlier than others my age, so sometimes I got to go with my older siblings and cousins when they left my mom's daycare to go to another and do some pre-kindergarten learning. After lessons we could watch movies and play games and stuff while we waited for the other daycare to end. That was where I played Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (and saw the movie), Comix Zone, and Sonic. (She also had a Streets of Rage, a Street Fighter II, and either Rocket Knight Adventures or Sparkster; don't remember which versions of these)
I was pretty hooked on Sonic after that (no pun intended). I think it was two years later when we were at Target and I saw the Sonic 3&K + Sonic R + Sonic CD PC bundle. I gave my mom that "I AM 4 AND I NEED THIS SHIT O_O" business and she actually went for it. Played the fuck out of those, then I got into Crash Bandicoot when we had our PS1 later that year. The only Sonic game I bought for a few years was 3D Blast through fucking WildTangent, but I was keeping up with the Dreamcast and the "awesomeness" of the Adventure games I was missing out on.
But then my neighbor got a Dreamcast with Adventure 1 and a demo disc with Rayman, Tomb Raider and Adventure 2, and I got to play them that way. Then I got a GBA and played those games, bought the PC version of Heroes and played through it at 10-15fps, played Shadow at a friend's birthday sleepover, and somehow managed to avoid Sonic 06 until well after I found out it was putrid. Hilarious in hindsight, as my friend and I were actually hyped for it. Sigh, junior high...
I was born in 1994 and my memory of my first 3 years is hazy, so plausibly it could be any of the original 3, but the first image that pops into my head whenever I think of sonic is emerald hill, so probably 2. I played 1 and 2 a bit at home, but most of time playing was at an after school club kids went to if their Parents couldn't pick them up immediately. I was hooked on lots of games, but Sonic was my fave until CTR came along. Each kid was allowed a limited time playing for fairness, so you had to be quick to show off how at you could get. I became the best of the group, so people would give me their time to see how far I could get. Also, when I was young I had no idea the spin dash was called the spin dash, so I called it 'razzing' after the noise it makes. That's what my username is based off, a 'Razzer' is someone who spindashes. I kept with it, and was supremely hyped when I got a dreamcast for my birthday, the first time I ever got my own console. It had Sonic adventure, and I played that game over and over and over. Same for SA2 after that. When the dreamcast faded my dad got me an Xbox which was my main console line for a while, and I played heroes on it. I skipped Shadow for some reason, then got 06. You can imagine how that went. My interest in Sonic started to fade, and I was going to get unleashed but my Dad said no because reviews were bad, the IGN one playing a big part. Then I forgot about Sonic until I came on gaf, where generations hype got me back into the series. I started playing the classics again and fell back in love with the series, buying gens and colours. Still need to play Unleashed though.
Seeing as this turned into tell your story with sonic for most people I thought I would do the same.
Tizoc
Member
So long as Bean is his crazy self from the comics I will support this so hard.
Shadow Hog
Member
Accept the facts, SonicGAF.
Fuck, I have a lot of Sonic Retro wiki pages to edit now. [/shamelessplug]
Accept the facts, SonicGAF.
Goddamn Sonic truthers, always trying to convince us the Master Emerald never existed
Accept the facts, SonicGAF.
Freakmonkey
Neo Member
I'm with you there dude, I still get parts of sonic 1-3 mixed up cause my strongest memories of them were the super blurry memories of early childhood.
mother of god
i first started playing sonic the hedgehog from the first or second game, most likely. my friends had a genesis, but my first exposure to the series was through store kiosks. the genesis 'd-pad' sort of blew my mind back then. i distinctly remember asking for an nes or a super nes or a genesis or a game boy or a game gear one christmas, so i think at that point i must have played the first sonic.
and i actually never owned a sega genesis. i bought my first console in 1997 and it was the nes (i was 12). the only versions of the game i've played from things i own were on collections like sega smash pack for the dreamcast or sonic mega collection on gamecube. i remember sonic adventure really sold me on the dreamcast way back then, and i loved sonic adventure 2. after playing a demo for sonic heroes though, i stopped. i did buy sonic advance, and i may have purchased sonic advance 2, but i don't recall ever playing it much if i did.
regardless, any time spent not playing games in the series was negligible. i may not have purchased the latter two gba games or sonic heroes and shadow the hedgehog, but i did buy sonic rush when it came out, as well as the other ds games. i also purchased sonic gems collection- mainly to have a copy of sonic the fighters for myself, but also because i never played sonic r or sonic cd before and i was really curious. i guess i've been a pretty avid fan of the series since 2000 despite not really buying every game.
2000 - sonic adventure; 2001 - sonic adventure 2, sonic advance; 2002 - sonic mega collection; 2003 - sonic advance 2; 2005 - sonic rush; 2007 - sonic and the secret rings, sonic rush adventure; 2010 - sonic colors, sonic rush colors; 2011 - sonic generations, sonic generations 3d; 2013 - sonic lost world (wii u)
having played the sonic adventure games, i have no desire to touch unleashed. non-standard sonic segments just aren't something i have time for, and i barely put up with it in sonic rush adventure. it's also why sonic boom barely registers on my radar.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
I think I've mentioned before that the Master System games, and Sonic 2 SMS in particular, were pretty much Sonic to me as a kid as far as games are concerned.
We were a Nintendo and PC house so I only ever played Sega at the houses of friends or relatives. I distinctly remember playing Underground Zone in a friend's basement (I think the only basement I've ever been in, they just don't seem to be a thing here) and thinking it was pretty cool, and later playing the next Zone with the hang gliders with some cousins. I think the only time I ever touched the Mega Drive version was on a demo station at a store, I never really knew anyone that owned one until later on.
At one point we had the PC demo for Flickie's Island. I didn't really get it, but it was like "hey, now we have a Sonic game."
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle was the first Sonic game I owned. We got it as our GameCube since there wasn't a Mario platformer at launch. After that I went back and played the old games and followed the series from there.
My biggest "oh god I'm so old" thing yet was commenting on an actor being cute in tokuGAF before noticing he was born in 1996 :s I mean he's 18 but I'm at the point where that makes me feel like a creep
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I wrote literally a novel about this on Tumblr a couple months ago.
http://blazehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/79487329498/what-got-you-into-sonic-in-the-first-place
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I guess I'll answer my own question.
My first actual exposure to Sonic was when I was staying over at my cousin's house and he had gotten his brand new Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 2. He's only a year older than me, and was pretty much a spoiled brat who got everything he'd wanted, so when he wanted a Genesis he got one right away and gave me his old NES because he didn't need it anymore. He was fairly invested in the console war angle, so I had one cousin who got every Sega console there was, and a few who got the other stuff (including one who was very Nintendo-centric, and one who did get a Master System). So I guess you could say that because we lived like 15 minutes away from most of my cousins, I ended up getting the best of multiple worlds through borrowing.
Anyway, my cousin said he ditched his NES because Sonic was the next big thing and showed me how fast Sonic could go through loops and my cousin kinda sucked at both games so he died a lot (and he was one of those kids who wouldn't let other kids touch his stuff so I never got to try it until my cousin's fiance gave me his old Genesis). What got me about Sonic, though, was the amount of colour on the screen. It was so vibrant and the music was so catchy. Sonic provided a neat atmosphere, and I really wanted to find an opportunity to try it myself.
The thing is, we couldn't afford much. A lot of what I played came from what I borrowed from my cousins, what we rented, and anything I could get my hands on at demo kiosks. If I saw a demo kiosk with a game that looked really cool, I'd try to play that demo kiosk as much as I could. We had this old department store called Eaton's in Canada, and that's where I first tried Sonic. I thought it was the coolest thing. Zipping past the checkerboard patterns, dying in the stupid lava surrounded by purple bricks, going through loops, all in abundant colour.
So later on, I got a Model 2 Genesis as a hand-me-down. I liked the RF cable it had because you could just push it in without dealing with the screw that the NES RF cable came with. First thing I wanted to play was Sonic. I was terrible at it after the third stage. But I kinda didn't care. I ended up renting the other Sonic games. I ended up doing more chores (poorly) so I could save up to get Sonic 2 which I saw for $20 used and loose. And man, I loved Sonic 2 before I got it. Everything about it to me back then was so rad so I was so happy I got my own copy.
I rented Sonic 3 a lot, then got S&K and wondered what the top half was for. The guy at the rental place said that I should try to put my copy of Sonic 2 on top since I couldn't rent more than one game at the time. And S&K turned into this magical cartridge where I thought you could put any Genesis cart on top. I tried my copy of Contra Hard Corps, even.
I'd only watched my cousin play Sonic CD before getting the PC version of it and it honestly blew my mind by how big the stages felt. My dad ended up getting me a Game Gear, and by then, they had a lot of the Game Gear games discounted (so I got Sonic 1 and Sonic 2). I borrowed my cousin's copy of Sonic Triple Trouble for several days before he made me give it back. I got Sonic Blast as a Christmas gift and uh... it's uh... well, you know what Sonic Blast was.
My first experience with Sonic Adventure made me nauseous, and that was just by watching my cousin play it on his Dreamcast. I kinda didn't like it? I think my first thought was, "Where's the colour?" followed by "Why is Sonic running around a place like in an RPG?" I didn't play it until I was 12, but I think this was the time that I felt less enamoured with Sonic.
I borrowed the Sonic Advance games from a classmate in high school, but by then I wasn't playing a lot of games outside of RPGs on consoles and handhelds much and primarily played games on PC and focused more on my studies than anything else.
I ended up not caring much for SA, SA2, and Shadow. By Heroes, I think I was done with the series. The comics' writing didn't help much either and I bowed out of reading them. I didn't like a lot of the games at all. I got a DS because my cousin got one and showed me Ouendan so I got one and a few games for my commute to the city for school (including Rush and Rush Adventure). The DS games were pretty decent. I'd had my Wii since launch day. I ended up getting Secret Rings which was odd, and Black Knight which was ...Black Knight.
I was lurking GAF in 2010 and saw a few trailers for Sonic Colours and noticed that the OT for it said that it was getting good reviews, so I ended up getting it. And man, I liked it! 2010 was great for games, and I was very happy with what Sonic Colours was. Much like how Super Mario 3D World was, Sonic Colours was kind of what I wanted Sonic to be like in 3D.
I ended up joining GAF in 2011, having SonicGAF convince me to play Unleashed and Sonic Chronicles, and... here I am. Yep.
My first actual exposure to Sonic was when I was staying over at my cousin's house and he had gotten his brand new Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 2. He's only a year older than me, and was pretty much a spoiled brat who got everything he'd wanted, so when he wanted a Genesis he got one right away and gave me his old NES because he didn't need it anymore. He was fairly invested in the console war angle, so I had one cousin who got every Sega console there was, and a few who got the other stuff (including one who was very Nintendo-centric, and one who did get a Master System). So I guess you could say that because we lived like 15 minutes away from most of my cousins, I ended up getting the best of multiple worlds through borrowing.
Anyway, my cousin said he ditched his NES because Sonic was the next big thing and showed me how fast Sonic could go through loops and my cousin kinda sucked at both games so he died a lot (and he was one of those kids who wouldn't let other kids touch his stuff so I never got to try it until my cousin's fiance gave me his old Genesis). What got me about Sonic, though, was the amount of colour on the screen. It was so vibrant and the music was so catchy. Sonic provided a neat atmosphere, and I really wanted to find an opportunity to try it myself.
The thing is, we couldn't afford much. A lot of what I played came from what I borrowed from my cousins, what we rented, and anything I could get my hands on at demo kiosks. If I saw a demo kiosk with a game that looked really cool, I'd try to play that demo kiosk as much as I could. We had this old department store called Eaton's in Canada, and that's where I first tried Sonic. I thought it was the coolest thing. Zipping past the checkerboard patterns, dying in the stupid lava surrounded by purple bricks, going through loops, all in abundant colour.
So later on, I got a Model 2 Genesis as a hand-me-down. I liked the RF cable it had because you could just push it in without dealing with the screw that the NES RF cable came with. First thing I wanted to play was Sonic. I was terrible at it after the third stage. But I kinda didn't care. I ended up renting the other Sonic games. I ended up doing more chores (poorly) so I could save up to get Sonic 2 which I saw for $20 used and loose. And man, I loved Sonic 2 before I got it. Everything about it to me back then was so rad so I was so happy I got my own copy.
I rented Sonic 3 a lot, then got S&K and wondered what the top half was for. The guy at the rental place said that I should try to put my copy of Sonic 2 on top since I couldn't rent more than one game at the time. And S&K turned into this magical cartridge where I thought you could put any Genesis cart on top. I tried my copy of Contra Hard Corps, even.
I'd only watched my cousin play Sonic CD before getting the PC version of it and it honestly blew my mind by how big the stages felt. My dad ended up getting me a Game Gear, and by then, they had a lot of the Game Gear games discounted (so I got Sonic 1 and Sonic 2). I borrowed my cousin's copy of Sonic Triple Trouble for several days before he made me give it back. I got Sonic Blast as a Christmas gift and uh... it's uh... well, you know what Sonic Blast was.
My first experience with Sonic Adventure made me nauseous, and that was just by watching my cousin play it on his Dreamcast. I kinda didn't like it? I think my first thought was, "Where's the colour?" followed by "Why is Sonic running around a place like in an RPG?" I didn't play it until I was 12, but I think this was the time that I felt less enamoured with Sonic.
I borrowed the Sonic Advance games from a classmate in high school, but by then I wasn't playing a lot of games outside of RPGs on consoles and handhelds much and primarily played games on PC and focused more on my studies than anything else.
I ended up not caring much for SA, SA2, and Shadow. By Heroes, I think I was done with the series. The comics' writing didn't help much either and I bowed out of reading them. I didn't like a lot of the games at all. I got a DS because my cousin got one and showed me Ouendan so I got one and a few games for my commute to the city for school (including Rush and Rush Adventure). The DS games were pretty decent. I'd had my Wii since launch day. I ended up getting Secret Rings which was odd, and Black Knight which was ...Black Knight.
I was lurking GAF in 2010 and saw a few trailers for Sonic Colours and noticed that the OT for it said that it was getting good reviews, so I ended up getting it. And man, I liked it! 2010 was great for games, and I was very happy with what Sonic Colours was. Much like how Super Mario 3D World was, Sonic Colours was kind of what I wanted Sonic to be like in 3D.
I ended up joining GAF in 2011, having SonicGAF convince me to play Unleashed and Sonic Chronicles, and... here I am. Yep.
What the fuck, guys? This is cruel.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Carrier pigeon, bro. What, you haven't been invited into our flock yet?
(There are IRCs we use, yes. There is a SonicGAF room, technically, but... it's not exactly ours any more :V)
(There are IRCs we use, yes. There is a SonicGAF room, technically, but... it's not exactly ours any more :V)
I'm also rebooting the yearly #E3withthegang IRC to go along with the drinking game, so you can come rant about The Last Guardian there
Tizoc
Member
Last Guardian? Amigo, if there's one game I'm gonna rant about it'd the lack of a re-release of this masterpiece
Hot Coldman
Banned
Sweet, is that on Rizon or somewhere else?
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
The differences in the backgrounds of the S3&K stages between Sonic and Knuckles' scenarios, indicating that Knuckles' scenario occurs after Sonic's. (Death Egg's absence in Lava Reef, the fact that the island is floating in Knuckles' scenario, etc.) Also how you can see the 2nd act of Launch Base in the background while playing the 1st act, and vice versa.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention handhelds. I played Advance 1 and 3 a reasonable amount, but battle is what I spent most of the time on that wasn't spent on pokemon ruby.Then later I played Rush and enjoyed it a lot. That's as far as it goes though, no game gear stuff. Hell I've never seen a game gear.
Seven Force
Banned
First Sonic experience?
Well, back when I was about 2 or so, my uncle and my older sister bought a Genesis and four games: Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, DeCap Attack!, and the first two Sonic games. Whenever my older sister would play the latter two, I would sit down and watch her play. She never got past Mystic Cave in Sonic 2, though. I remember being fascinated with how damn colorful the games were and how catchy the tunes were. After a while, my sister started letting me play along as well, and that's how I ended up getting into the series.
So in a nutshell, I got into the series because it had pretty colors.
Well, back when I was about 2 or so, my uncle and my older sister bought a Genesis and four games: Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, DeCap Attack!, and the first two Sonic games. Whenever my older sister would play the latter two, I would sit down and watch her play. She never got past Mystic Cave in Sonic 2, though. I remember being fascinated with how damn colorful the games were and how catchy the tunes were. After a while, my sister started letting me play along as well, and that's how I ended up getting into the series.
So in a nutshell, I got into the series because it had pretty colors.
Why would you want to look at failure?
I remember this one time I saw a game gear, I got an E on my homework because it being near me made me get all the answers wrong.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Sonic 2 on Game Gear is my wasted childhood. I played that so much that I can still effortlessly beat that game, all Emeralds included, without any trouble save for that boss. Even found an infinite 1-up glitch on the second zone.
Professor Beef
Banned
Oh god, Sonic 2 Game Gear...the horror...
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I'm confident that I still remember exactly how much to adjust my trajectory in Green Hills 3, and exactly how many loops to run in the pipes in Scrambled Egg 2.
Trial-and-error to the extreme, and forever burned into my brain.
Thank god even mediocre Sonic games always had good music.
Trial-and-error to the extreme, and forever burned into my brain.
Thank god even mediocre Sonic games always had good music.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
Hate typing long speeches on my phone, so I'll answer that "First Sonic Experience" thing at a later date.
Read Sonic #260. Really good issue with a decent amount of world building. I love the designs of the new characters; they fit more with Sonic than most of the characters in the comic do.
Read Sonic #260. Really good issue with a decent amount of world building. I love the designs of the new characters; they fit more with Sonic than most of the characters in the comic do.
I can host it on Rizon this year. Last year was Slacknet