![]() It's not as cool as the picture above, but I figure someone would get a kick of out of it (and show that eventually, I got my Sonic and Tails on!) While cleaning out my house for a future move, my mom came across the following and I figured I should digitize it for the heck of it. This leads me to my contribution to this thread. It also established my life-long relationship with the Splatterhouse series (for years, I searched, convinced by an issue of Game Players Magazine that the first game was on Genesis instead of being a Turbografx exclusive). Plus, while my friends looked forward to newer games like NFL 94, NBA Showdown, and so on, I explored the "before Sonic" era of Genesis and fell in love with the classics like Joe Montana Football, Ghostbusters, Ghouls N Ghosts, and even Moonwalker. (it helped that Genesis games were super-cheaper than SNES ones). The brother and I got a real Genesis a short while later. My mom said we can get an add on for the system and a clerk suggested the stupid-ass magnifier instead of something more useful, like the AC adapter so I didn't have to change batteries every 2 hours! Fucking Tails wasn't even playable in Sonic 2 GG! (Still, I'd be fibbing if I said I didn't like the game)ĭespite this, the Sega bug bit. I didn't listen and learned the hard way. My little brother warned me otherwise and begged me to get the (much cheaper) Streets of Rage 2 bundle. As a Nintendo kid, I figured to how Game Boy games were often trimmed versions of NES games, I wanted the Game Gear with Sonic 2 so I can play Sonic and Tails on the go. Oh, well.īut funny enough, my first Sega was due to a misleading. To this day, I have yet to find the exact replacement. It wasn't Mario and I'd be lying if I said it was better than that, but it was different in a good way a new and exciting way.ĭuring this time, I actually got a 4-foot poster of the Sonic 2 art on my bedroom door. Then, of course, was the day I was actually able to try Sonic for a long period of time at a friend's house. But the media blitz alone made you aware who Sonic (and eventually Tails) were, even if you never picked up a Genesis controller. Sure, as a reader of Nintendo Power, you heard all of the propaganda. Sorry, ERA.īut anyways this was the one: this was the game that knocked me from being a strictly-Nintendo fan. I was gonna post something like this when the movie came out, but I was lazy. In a way I was right, sort of, I mean the Saturn is somewhat in the middle of the Model 1 and Model 2 arcade boards. I was actually looking forward to the game from the start I was surprised the first Sonic put Sega, an arcade manufacturer on the map with consoles, and I hoped the second game would give Sega enough success so that their next console would be based on their arcade boards. Sometimes you just don't attract the same amount of people twice is how I look at it. I certainly don't think that Sonic 2 ruined Sega either. Many said the Sonic 2 became too simplified, Tails was a gimmick, and they ruined the momentum based stage design from the first game, claiming that's why the game couldn't sustain or grow from the sales of Sonic 1.Īs for my personal opinion of the game, I though it was good and was impressed by the MP holding up at high speeds. ![]() Still know many people that dislike Sonic 2 and blame it for Sega falling out of favor with console gamers. Maybe not the fad part but they were right about the sales collapsing and what would happen with the Saturn. People blew up, even I thought they were crazy. This led to people predicting Genesis sales would collapse by 1994 and that it would have an impact on the Genny2 (Nobody knew about the name of Sega's next console yet) claiming Sega was a fad. iirc at the time it was 10m Sonic 1 sales to Sonics 2's 4m, and the idea was that the missing 6M sales from Sonic 1 went to the new games that were suddenly selling loads of copies, instead of those games attracting real new users, so they said it was showing that there wasn't sustainable growth for the Genesis and users were just being moved around different games. Some guys on the net boards did the numbers and claimed that other suddenly appearing games selling blockbuster numbers on the Genesis were actually taking away sales from Sonic. Discussions over the net later after release were eventually baffled by the sales figures that were released, which weren't being covered as much compared to the first game despite the cultural marketing involved with the game, and all the excitement gamers, especially younger kids had about its release. I remember people being excited but looking at it as a double edged sword.
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