With the power of the chaos emeralds, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are warped to Green Hill Zone and various other zones of the first four Sonic adventures and also brand new zones to delve into. The plot is simple: our blue hedgehog has just come back to Angel Island Zone to find that Dr Robotnik (I refuse to call him Eggman) is up to his old shenanigans again and this time he has a small robot army known as the “Hard-Boiled Heavies” to aid in his devious ways. Thankfully it did not.Ī warm feeling hit my black, artery clogged heart as soon as I heard the all too familiar SEGA jingle and was instantly immersed into a world of 16-bit graphics and enough eurotrash pop music to fill a dingy nightclub somewhere in Prague and keep my head bobbing or whistling along. I fell instantly in love, to say the least, and hoped that all the hype would not let me down. I held on dearly that one day my patience and frustration at SEGA would pay off and it did, when Sonic Team announced Sonic Mania: a true return to form with no silly mechanics, just you, the joypad and 16-bit sprites with all the chiptune trimmings. Sonic has been through the wringer in his over 25 year history with more rise and falls then your average rockstar, yet I held on. What can I say? I am so sorry I didn’t fall in love with a fat red plumber as a child.
Source: GameSpotįor me, Sonic the Hedgehog was more than just a game, it was a long lost memory, a memory of my father and I bonding, a game where the music is so engrained into my subconscious you can just hum the beginning of Spring Yard Zone and I will be shouting that song like a drunken club singer and the reason why I can’t go back into my local pub until I “sort myself out”.įor all the rose-tinted views I have on this franchise, I am the first to admit that the blue ball of “tude” has also had its fair share of atrocities that to this day, being a Sonic fan is considered taboo or at least gets you sneered at. Those treasured memories I would have of myself and my father at 7am on a cold Saturday morning trying to get through Sky Chase Zone on Sonic 2 or the delight we had when we first got to the Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic and Knuckles. As a child I was Sonic mad watching all the cartoons, collecting Sonic: The Comic, which in turn acted like SEGA’s answer to Nintendo Power with all the walkthroughs and cheat codes that helped you become king of the playground, and of course, the games.
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However, there was a series of games I could never get enough of and those were the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
I would toil away on games such as Golden Axe, Super Hang On and Disney’s Aladdin, soaking up all the 16-bit glory I could muster, before I had to wait another fortnight to travel down to my father’s house and do it all over again.
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Many a Saturday morning I would spend in a cold conservatory on a busted TV that could somehow pick up my neighbour’s TV reception – handy as they were the first family in the neighbourhood to own cable TV. Even as a humble young six year old, I knew I had to pick a side on the playground: was I SEGA or Nintendo? For me it was the Sega Mega Drive – or Geneses as it was known to our American cousins across the pond. As a child, 1994 was a glorious year: The Lion King made everyone between the ages of 4 to 10 cry in the first 20 minutes, Power Rangers were the hottest thing on the planet and the 16-bit era of consoles was reaching a peak climax.
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