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29 Sep 2009, 6:00 pm

Sonic The Hedgehog was my very first video game obsession. Pretty much, when I think about my childhood the first thing that comes to mind is playing Sonic The Hedgehog for hours and hours and hours. Ever since the games went 3D I've completely lost interest though. Sorry to most of you on this thread, but IMO the only good games were on the genesis. I will say I've never really given the 3D games a shot though.

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30 Sep 2009, 12:59 pm

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I wish I could play Sonic Adventure 2 more, but I can only handle very small doses without getting motion sickness :cry:

I need to get back into the first game...it's annoying how big the "choose a stage" stages are, and there's way too many people to talk to...I just get lost and bored trying to find the next level.

Motion sickness?

I LOVED sonic 2, the rails and the SPEED in some of the stages was awesome, and I thought the stage Final CHase was awesome because of the spinning things

Me too! Though I played SA2B, not SA2. They're very similar I've heard though.
I like playing the old games too, but most of the new one suck now

Sonic Heroes wasn't too bad though.
EDIT: I don't keep track of my records, I do it for fun

I've gotten a few As before in SA2B though, which was really hard since I'm not that good

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30 Sep 2009, 1:17 pm

ebec11 wrote:

bdhkhsfgk wrote:

SabbraCadabra wrote:

I wish I could play Sonic Adventure 2 more, but I can only handle very small doses without getting motion sickness :cry:

I need to get back into the first game...it's annoying how big the "choose a stage" stages are, and there's way too many people to talk to...I just get lost and bored trying to find the next level.

Motion sickness?

I LOVED sonic 2, the rails and the SPEED in some of the stages was awesome, and I thought the stage Final CHase was awesome because of the spinning things

Me too! Though I played SA2B, not SA2. They're very similar I've heard though.
I like playing the old games too, but most of the new one suck now

Sonic Heroes wasn't too bad though.
EDIT: I don't keep track of my records, I do it for fun

I've gotten a few As before in SA2B though, which was really hard since I'm not that good

Records?

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02 Oct 2009, 2:03 pm

bdhkhsfgk wrote:

When it comes to the gamegear ones;

Sonic 1: This was hard, but i managed it eventually, and the fastest time i have on the first level is 16 seconds, it goes so fast that the screen to the righttries to catch up.

Sonic 2: Hard as hell, The first boss was so hard, one of the hardest IF NOT the hardest boss ive faced, it can be very hard to avoid the rocks and you can fall so easily.. I managed to get on the 3rd stage, i could have gotten further but decided to quit.

I completed Sonic 2 on the GG with all the chaos emeralds. It took me an eternity, but I managed it. The most difficult part is getting the emerald in level 2. If you don't get all the emeralds, the game ends after you kill the silver Sonic. You should persevere with Sonic 2; level 4 is a lot of fun.

You're right about the first boss being a bastard. I had the game when it first came out and spent the whole of that Christmas trying to get past him.

Sonic 1 on the GG is actually pretty easy. The Master System version is a lot harder.

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02 Oct 2009, 2:33 pm

I think the music in level 4 is the best in the game, it's an 8 bit instrumental of "You can do anything".

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06 Oct 2009, 6:33 pm

TOOT TOOT SONIC WARRIOR!?

Seriously though, I agree.

But, I just can't get past that pesky second level in GG Sonic 2. I go for the Chaos Emeralds, so I often lose lives. AND continues, even! :oops:

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06 Oct 2009, 11:45 pm

Ah, the Sonic games...
As I recall, of the first games that I ever owned, a collection of Genesis games that came with the system and even a 32X, the first that I played was Sonic 1.
Except that when I was a little kid, I used to call that game "Not For Resale"...

Because that's what it said on the cartridge! Yes, there was a label on the top, but it's written in logo font, so I didn't notice it.
But Not For Resale was a hard game. Die too many times and it's back to the title screen! 14 years later, I still haven't beaten it!

Why does the game limit your number of tries? I don't get it! In an arcade, another quarter gets you another try. Theoretically, you could have endless tries. But not on the console, despite the fact that you BOUGHT THE GAME AND TOOK IT HOME!! !!

Yeah... The first 2 games were really good, Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) let you SAVE, which was important, and Sonic X-Treme was never finished... After that it went downhill.
The Dreamcast games were good (On Dreamcast, stay away from the GameCube versions, stay away!), but Heroes was just okay. Shadow sucked, and the character should have stayed dead. (The ending of Sonic Adventure 2 was better than the whole game of Shadow the Hedgehog.)

I haven't played any of the 7th-Gen games, but I've been given opportunities to do so.

Many people claim that the last good Sonic game was Sonic Adventure 2... They are wrong. To those people I say, "Play the handheld games!"

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07 Oct 2009, 1:01 am

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The sonic adventure games are the same on GC, only with some extras, that makes them better, and the graphics are improved to, so no, stick to the gamecube ones. I liked Shadow The Hedgehog, because it was fun blasting enemies with guns, running fast with no control..... I loved StH

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07 Oct 2009, 1:19 am

No, no, no... Have you ever played an old game like Super Mario Bros. with a modern controller?
Personally, I find that it's not quite right.
I've played the GameCube versions, and I would never call them "better", because when I'm holding a GameCube controller, I expect GameCube graphics, GameCube control standards, etc.. These things being missing, the game largely fails to entertain. However, playing the game with a Dreamcast controller is entirely different. (This is not nostalgia, I didn't own a Dreamcast during its life.) In general, I would say "Stay away from Dreamcast ports!", because on the Dreamcast: the game is good, I'm having fun. On another system: the game is old, it feels disjointed.

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07 Oct 2009, 2:19 am

In some way you're right, but I never knew the GC versions were prots until a year or two ago, so I was lucky to grow up with the best versions without knowing were they originally came from

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07 Oct 2009, 2:46 am

Personally, I played the GameCube versions first, and I'm pretty sure that I had heard that they were ports, but I didn't have a Dreamcast, so it didn't matter. Though I still remember the games not being up to par with other games on the platform.
More recently, I've acquired a Dreamcast (I think February.), and playing them on it is just better somehow.

I have yet to assign a name to this phenomenon, but it was one of the leading reasons behind my recent acquisition of an NES (which was before my time, but due to this phenomenon, is still awesome).

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07 Oct 2009, 9:25 am

Sonic Spinball is probably my favorite Sonic game. I still play it to this day, but it's really difficult. I've only made it to the second table (well, I haven't been seriously working on it) but there are SEVEN TOTAL TABLES? On THREE LIVES? How the cripes am I supposed to do that?

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07 Oct 2009, 3:49 pm

Game Genie.
...That's how.

It shouldn't be too hard to find one... You are playing on the Genesis, right? If it's a port, then you just have to try and try and TRY AND TRY AND TRY!! !! SEGA!! !!

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07 Oct 2009, 9:55 pm

i love sonic. my favorites (in no particular order) are

all the sidescroller ones of course
sonic chronicles: the dark brotherhood
sonic adventure (and dx)
sonic adventure 2 (and battle)
sonic battle

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07 Oct 2009, 10:13 pm

Um... That sounds like all of them aside from the obvious rejected 3D ones. And Shuffle. And 3-D Blast. And Labyrinth...

Yeah, Sonic has a certain amount of cash-in.

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