While the contents are excellent choices for any Sonic aficionado, a lack of content and poor presentation values make this collection of Sonic titles fall short of expectations, even despite being a decent compilation. Sonic Classic Collection on the Nintendo DS can be summed up in two words: wasted potential.
Carl Williams writes, "It is unclear what was going through the minds of the executives at Sega when they got the designs for Sonic the Hedgehog but it is clear that gamers loved him. Sonic proved that gamers were tired of slow games and they wanted speed- not just in racing games but in action games too. By the time Sega got to the third Sonic game, the whole speed and nothing but speed was getting a little thin with fans. Sega had to change things up a bit and so they did to great fanfare of fans across the world."
Sega's generosity extends a lot by giving up some of their games again and that includes the two popular retro Sonic games (by which I claimed it to be popular because of the gameplay) on which is the Sonic Blast and Sonic Labyrinth. How was that for all of the 3DS gamers?
Despite being available on just about every major console, the original four Sonic the Hedgehog games have yet to be released properly on a handheld. Sure, there was the much maligned Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis on Game Boy Advance, but that was so riddled with bugs and other problems that it was pointless. That being said, the Sonic Classic Collection does a good job of bringing the series to the Nintendo DS. Taking the original four games from Sega Genesis (Sonic 1, 2, 3, and Sonic & Knuckles), the ports are pretty good, even if there are some slight flaws here and there.