Retro Game Night: Sonic the Hedgehog, 8-bit Edition
This week in honor of our Sonic podcast, I’m playing the 8-bit (Master System/Game Gear) outings of Sega’s mascot. If you’ve never seen them before, they are drastically different than the 16-bit versions.
First up is the original Sonic the Hedgehog:
Next is, obviously Sonic 2:
And finally, Sonic Chaos (Sonic & Tails in Japan), which was to be the 8-bit companion to Sonic 3 had it not been delayed:
Gaming History 101 
Cool. I was never aware of there being a Master System version. Of course the Master System slowly faded from the shelves here in late 1992 after I bought my first Genesis. The Neo Geo, Turbo Graphix 16 and NES were amongst the goods found on the shelf when I bought the Genesis in June 1992.. (And of course the master System Converter for Genesis was readily available at the time)
Location: Lionel Toy Warehouse, Charlotte, N.C. (closed)
Chris Chandler
July 14, 2013 at 7:54 am