Nintendo Life: Miles 'Tails' Prower has come a long way since his debut as a silent, second-player-controlled sidekick in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, becoming one of SEGA's most beloved mascots and appearing in dozens of games over the past twenty years. It's a bit surprising then that he's only had headlining roles in two titles, both on the Game Gear: the on-rails aerial action of Tails' Skypatrol, and a more traditional side-scroller, Tails Adventure.
oprainfall writes:
"Nintendo and SEGA were certainly two huge players in the early/mid-nineties, an age many consider to be the “golden era” of gaming. If today’s technology existed twenty years ago, I wonder how many posts we’d see on NeoGAF chronicling the ongoing “battle” between Mario and Sonic. …Regardless of all that, and the reflecting I’ve already done regarding the fate of these two companies—today I write with the shadows cast by both these characters in mind. While it took Nintendo fifteen years or so to give Luigi a starring role in a game—SEGA was much more generous when it came to Sonic’s two-tailed companion."
Sega dusts off the little-known 1995 Game Gear game Tails Adventure for a 3DS Virtual Console release. How does the fox fare today?
More Sega Game Gear titles are headed to the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in North America.
