A personal video on what I love about the classic era of Sonic, and why I have made peace with the fact that it will forever remain in the past.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
4:07 Creating an Icon
11:09 Sonic the Hedgehog
25:25 Development of Sonic 2
34:42 Sonic the Hedgehog 2
50:28 Sonic 3 & Knuckles
1:12:59 Interlude - Memories with Classic Sonic
1:17:23 End of an Era
1:21:29 Sonic CD
1:31:49 Conclusion
Thumbnail by Tripplejaz: https://www.twitter.com/tripplejaz
Time Travel Overhaul Mod for Sonic CD (2011): https://gamebanana.com/mods/50080
OVA Knuckles in Sonic Mania: https://gamebanana.com/mods/244309
Special thanks to Sonic Retro for being a fantastic resource on all things Sonic. Used for a lot of my research.
Also big thanks to KingK for helping me with the script!
Video Sources
Ghouls ‘n Ghosts Footage from NintendoComplete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsMiyr9M6lM
Yuji Naka & The Sonic Team Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkosWFNRko
Sonic: Birth of an Icon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpFIfpbZwK0
Eurogamer - Miyamoto on World 1-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGRJRUWafY
Sonic Archives Official - 1990 Sonic and Madonna Tech Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbaDltkfTc
Synthetic Frost - Skip the bath in Chemical Plant Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYF8nNusWOQ
Sonic Panic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbshEiRferY
Sonic 2 Japanese Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnQdzRXVQ8U
Espyo - The Pit in Sonic 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LD9Yekzajk
Ashman792 - The Pit Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDabQqRykgo
Sonic 3 McDonald’s Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4z6S6SErYA
Sonic at Macy’s Day Parade in 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmTC0m7wQbs
saburoinc3 - Sonic CD Wacky Workbench Generators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9psDHy2KI-c
Online Sources
Gamerant - Sega Admits it “Betrayed” Fans https://gamerant.com/sega-betrayed-fans-419/
Sonic Producer Admits That Rise of Lyric’s Main Priority Was to be Shipped https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/sonic-producer-admits-that-rise-of-lyrics-main-priority-was-to-be-shipped/
Gamerant - Sonic Frontiers' Focus on Quality Over Timeliness is a Good Sign for the Future https://gamerant.com/sonic-frontiers-sega-sonic-team-quality-delay-rushed-game-history/
Sonic the Hedgehog’s rocky history https://www.polygon.com/2016/2/8/10756318/sonic-the-hedgehog-great-rocky-history
Yuji Naka Sonic Interview - February 1995 https://mdshock.com/2018/07/19/yuji-naka-sonic-interview-february-1995/
FreeGameTips - Mark Cerny https://freegametips.com/mark-cerny-who-is-the-genius-behind-playstation-5/
Sega-16 - Sega Technical Institute https://www.sega-16.com/2007/06/developers-den-sega-technical-institute/
Sega-16 - Interview with Mark Cerny https://www.sega-16.com/2006/12/interview-mark-cerny/
Interview with Brenda Ross, 2001 https://info.sonicretro.org/Brenda_Ross_interview_by_Deviance_(February_2001)
Sonic 2’s scrapped time travel, courtesy of Yasuhara-san https://twitter.com/necrosofty/status/866702759357292544
GDC - Classic Sonic Postmortem https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024928/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Sonic-the
Written Sources
“The open sky is blue forever” quote from Naoto Ohshima - pg. 328 of Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works https://readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/sega-mega-drive-genesis-collected-works/
Retro Gamer, Issues 45, 175
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
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