The BitBag: "Sonic the Hedgehog was one of my favorite characters in video games. I used to play Sonic the Hedgehog for hours when I got my second console; the Sega Mega Drive, or better known in the United States as the Sega Genesis. Anybody born in the 90′s knew who Sonic was, I just happen to be lucky enough to win a contest selling candy for school for the bundle system. I was sitting in home room and suddenly I got called up to the main office. There was my family and the principal standing near the front desk and they informed me that I won. Now to a young child this was exciting news. It was the first time I ever won anything, much less anything that involved a few hundreds of dollars worth of prizes. It was huge."
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was something many wanted to see for a very long time. Continuing the story from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, many had lofty expectations for this title. When it finally released, many were split on the project. From it’s episodic nature, different feeling controls and changes that felt strange to fans of Sonic’s classic adventures, Sonic 4 Episode I and II were divisive games to say the least.
I feel like if they could keep improving on the Sonic 4 physics, formula and level design they could have gone from the good Sonic 4 Ep II to something genuinely great for Sonic 4 Ep III.
Strange games. Definitely shouldn't have been "Sonic 4". Seeing as it re-used alot of ideas, level themes enemies and bosses etc, it really should have been called "Sonic Megamix" or something and the levels should have been named after the originals. This would have given SEGA a chance to see what fans reaction was to this style of game, before going in for "proper" Sonic 4. Sonic Mania feels far more "Sonic 4" than the actual Sonic 4 does haha
After today’s leak, Microsoft just confirmed via Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb that a bunch of new games are going to be compatible starting today with Xbox One’s backward compatibility feature.
Casually Hardcore takes a detailed look at sonics 25 year history. This video covers Sonic's 25 year history from the birth of Sonic all the way up to Sonic Boom, covering all the major Sonic games as well as how he changed the gaming landscape both with video games and non video game things.
