Comments on: Games under the tree http://www.u-g-h.com/2009/11/21/games-under-the-tree/ Distracting the Mind with Information Overload Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:25:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: L.Bajana http://www.u-g-h.com/2009/11/21/games-under-the-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-76647 L.Bajana Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:25:26 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=3224#comment-76647 My family recently unearthed our Sega Genesis and once again we can not get enough of Sonic The Hedgehog. We have a pretty diverse collection of Sega games, but this one always seems to rise to the top. As far as the 'fun factor' goes, I'd easily stack it up against a fair percentage of my PS2 library. I don't know much about the ports, except to say that Sonic has been made available on the Playstation, the Xbox, and even made portable for the Game Boy Advance. I haven't played any of these, but the reviews I have seen are fair, at best. So, proceed with caution. Maybe its true that you can't improve upon perfection. The cartoony goodness of the frenetic hedgehog brings a smile to my face without fail. The way he zips along his path, snatching up rings is something straight out of a roadrunner cartoon. And on those occasions where he gets zapped by an enemy or a set of spikes, he flails his limbs, but gets right back into the fray again. I have never completed Sonic, but that doesn't make the game any less addictive. There's the constant quest to collect 100 rings in an attempt to extend game time. There's the challenge to find all of the secret short cuts and bonuses. And the boss battles with the evil Doctor Robotnik is just tons of fun. Maddening at times. But fun, none the less. If you have this game tucked away somewhere, you owe it to yourself, to dust off the Genesis and have another go. I promise you, its just as much fun the second, third, and fourth time around. My family recently unearthed our Sega Genesis and once again we can not get enough of Sonic The Hedgehog. We have a pretty diverse collection of Sega games, but this one always seems to rise to the top. As far as the ‘fun factor’ goes, I’d easily stack it up against a fair percentage of my PS2 library. I don’t know much about the ports, except to say that Sonic has been made available on the Playstation, the Xbox, and even made portable for the Game Boy Advance. I haven’t played any of these, but the reviews I have seen are fair, at best. So, proceed with caution.

Maybe its true that you can’t improve upon perfection. The cartoony goodness of the frenetic hedgehog brings a smile to my face without fail. The way he zips along his path, snatching up rings is something straight out of a roadrunner cartoon. And on those occasions where he gets zapped by an enemy or a set of spikes, he flails his limbs, but gets right back into the fray again.
I have never completed Sonic, but that doesn’t make the game any less addictive. There’s the constant quest to collect 100 rings in an attempt to extend game time. There’s the challenge to find all of the secret short cuts and bonuses. And the boss battles with the evil Doctor Robotnik is just tons of fun. Maddening at times. But fun, none the less. If you have this game tucked away somewhere, you owe it to yourself, to dust off the Genesis and have another go. I promise you, its just as much fun the second, third, and fourth time around.

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