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• SEPERATE SONIC 3 AND KNUCKLES ROM SERIES

The biggest feature by far was that the physical cartridge was made available as a " lock on", allowing it to have two other games plugged in on top. Firstly, Tails was dropped as a playable character and replaced with Knuckles, who wasn't as fast as Sonic, but could glide and climb walls, making his character choice quite interesting for certain areas of the game. This title would offer two major features. Later that year, Sega released a second title called "Sonic and Knuckles". The game was praised highly for its quality and polish, and it's rumoured that Michael Jackson (a long time fan of Sega) assisted in some of the music composition for the title (despite never being formally credited). He is an unplayable protagonist in the game, tricked by Sonic's long term nemesis " Dr Robotnik" (or "Eggman" depending on which region the game is from) in fighting Sonic. Initially "Sonic 3" was released in early 1994, and featured the same Sonic and Tails combination, with a new character named " Knuckles the Echidna", strikingly coloured red to offset Sonic's blue. The game got to a point where it was considered too big for a single project, and it was decided to be split in two. It took everything great about the first title and expanded on it brilliantly, delivering an even better game.ĭevelopment of a third game took two years this time (which doesn't sound like a lot by today's standards, but was considered enormous compared to the usual few months of development for most games of that era). "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" arrived in 1992, and introduced a friend for Sonic in the shape of a two-tailed fox named Miles "Tails" Prower (his name was a pun - "Mile Prower" sounds like "Miles per hour", a reference to Sonic's speed).

SEPERATE SONIC 3 AND KNUCKLES ROM SERIES

While the character can be criticised for being a heavily commercialised, " designed by committee" style affair, it was a hit, and the first title in the series "Sonic the Hedgehog" released in 1991 saw incredible commercial success, with it's emphasis on the speedy blue mascot. Programming royalty Yuji Naka and artist Naoto Oshima together came up with " Mr Needlemouse", now know as Sonic the Hedgehog. Professor Asobin, Opa-Opa and Alex Kidd had all come and gone, but none of them could seem to attract the attention that Mario had done for Nintendo. Sega were struggling to come up with a solid mascot character for their brand. These titles are currently ranked number 18 in HardcoreGaming101's top 47,858 games of all time: Released in two parts as "Sonic the Hedgehog 3", and then later "Sonic & Knuckles" (with "Lock-on technology", covered in detail below), these games were first developed and published by Sega both in 1994 for the Sega Megadrive and Genesis console. Retro Let's Play for early July 2018: "Sonic 3 & Knuckles"Ĭlick here if you want to know why we're playing these old games.