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The Sonic Second
Are you a fan of classic Sonic, but too impatient to roll your way through all the forums and wikis? The Sonic Second delivers trivia, discoveries, and other soundbytes before you can say "I'm waaaiting!"I’ve been tracking down Dreams Come True videos for almost 10 years now, but this is a first - they incorporate cues from Sonic’s theme song in this live performance of “Ring! Ring! Ring!” from their 1990 album Wonder 3. You can hear it in the middle (1:27) and at the end (3:39) of the song.
Considering the title, and the refrain of “Speed Up!”, it’s a pretty appropriate song to give a little shout out to Sonic with.
Here’s a word cloud of the words in Sonic zone names, with words appearing larger the more often they are used. Maybe it would make a cute wallpaper. =P
Notes:
- I used wordle.net to make this.
- I modified some compound words, e.g Star Light to Starlight or Hydrocity to Hydro City so they’d be “detected” properly.
- Zones whose name appears in more than one game, e.g. Green Hill, Rail Canyon, Metal City, Angel Island were only listed once.
- I left out the gibberish alien words from Sonic Chronicles’ titles.
- I standardised the spelling of savanna to savannah.
- I added -opolis to the list separately.
- I removed possessives, e.g. Dragon’s to Dragon.
I listed zones from the following games:
- Sonic 1
- Sonic 1 (8-bit)
- Sonic 2
- Sonic 2 (8-bit)
- Sonic 3
- Sonic 3 (Competition)
- Sonic & Knuckles
- Sonic CD
- Sonic Spinball
- Sonic Chaos
- Sonic Triple Trouble
- Sonic Blast
- Sonic 3D Blast
- Knuckles Chaotix
- Sonic R
- Sonic the Fighters
- Sonic Pocket Adventure
- Sonic Advance
- Sonic Advance 2
- Sonic Advance 3
- Sonic Rush
- Sonic Rush Adventure
- Sonic Battle
- Sonic Rivals
- Sonic Rivals 2
- Sonic Adventure
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Sonic Heroes
- Shadow the Hedgehog
- Sonic 2006
- Sonic Unleashed
- Sonic Colours
- Sonic Riders
- Sonic Riders Zero Gravity
- Sonic Free Riders
- Sonic 4 Episode I
- Sonic 4 Episode II
- Sonic Chronicles
- Sonic and the Secret Rings
- Sonic and the Black Knight
- Tails Sky Patrol
And here is the zone list:
Green Hill Marble Spring Yard Labyrinth Starlight Scrap Brain Final Bridge Jungle Sky Base Emerald Hill Chemical Plant Aquatic Ruin Casino Night Hill Top Mystic Cave Oil Ocean Metropolis Wing Fortress Sky Chase Death Egg Under Ground Sky High Aqua Lake Green Hills Gimmick Mountain Sleeping Egg Crystal Egg Angel Island Hydro City Marble Garden Carnival Night Ice Cap Launch Base Azure Lake Balloon Park Chrome Gadget Desert Palace Endless Mine Mushroom Hill Flying Battery Sandopolis Lava Reef Hidden Palace Sky Sanctuary The Doomsday Palmtree Panic Collision Chaos Tidal Tempest Quartz Quadrant Wacky Workbench Stardust Speedway Metallic Madness Final Fever Toxic Caves Lava Powerhouse The Machine Showdown Turquoise Hill Gigalopolis Sleeping Egg Mecha Green Hill Aqua Planet Electric Egg Great Turquoise Sunset Park Meta Junglira Robotnik Winter Tidal Plant Atomic Destroyer Yellow Desert Red Volcano Blue Marine Silver Castle Green Grove Rusty Ruin Spring Stadium Diamond Dust Volcano Valley Gene Gadget Panic Puppet Final Fight Isolated Island Botanic Base Speed Slider Marina Madness Techno Tower Amazing Arena Resort Island Radical City Regal Ruin Reactive Factory Radiant Emerald South Island Flying Carpet Aurora Icefield Canyon Cruise Dynamite Plant Giant Wing Dark Valley Desert Road Iron Ruin Rainy Savannah Quake Cave Balloon Panic Emerald Ocean Milky Way Neo South Island Secret Plant Cosmic Casino Aquatic Relix Aero Base Gigantic Angel Last Utopia Chaotic Space Neo Green Hill Secret Base Casino Paradise Ice Mountain Egg Rocket Cosmic Angel X The Moon Leaf Forest Hot Crater Music Plant Ice Paradise Sky Canyon Techno Base Egg Utopia Double X True Area 53 Route 99 Sunset Hill Ocean Base Toy Kingdom Twinkle Snow Cyber Track Chaos Angel Altar Emerald Nonaggression Leaf Storm Water Palace Mirage Road Night Carnival Huge Crisis Altitude Limit Dead Line Point W Exception Whale Point Plant Kingdom Machine Labyrinth Coral Cave Haunted Ship Blizzard Peaks Sky Babylon Pirate Island Big Swell Deep Core Hidden Island Emerald Town Emerald Beach Battle Highway Tails Lab Colosseum Holy Summit Chaos Ruins Crater Central City Library Amy Room Night Babylon Club Rouge Gimme Shelter Metal Depot Forest Falls Colosseum Highway Sky Park Crystal Mountain Death Yard Meteor Base Blue Coast Sunset Forest Neon Palace Frontier Canyon Mystic Haunt Chaotic Inferno Emerald Coast Windy Valley Casinopolis Twinkle Park Speed Highway Red Mountain Sky Deck Lost World Final Egg Hot Shelter Sand Hill Station Square Mystic Ruins Egg Carrier City Escape Wild Canyon Prison Lane Metal Harbor Green Forest Pumpkin Hill Mission Street Aquatic Mine Route 101 Hidden Base Pyramid Cave Death Chamber Eternal Engine Meteor Herd Crazy Gadget Final Rush Iron Gate Dry Lagoon Sand Ocean Radical Highway Egg Quarters Lost Colony Weapons Bed Security Hall White Jungle Route 280 Sky Rail Mad Space Cosmic Wall Final Chase Cannon Core Sea Gate Seaside Hill Ocean Palace Grand Metropolis Power Plant Casino Park Bingo Highway Rail Canyon Bullet Station Frog Forest Lost Jungle Hang Castle Mystic Mansion Egg Fleet Final Fortress Westopolis Glyphic Canyon Digital Circuit Lethal Highway Prison Island Cryptic Castle Circus Park Sky Troops The Doom Mad Matrix Death Ruins Iron Jungle The ARK Air Fleet Space Gadget Lost Impact Lava Shelter GUN Fortress Black Comet Cosmic Fall Final Haunt The Last Way Wave Ocean Dusty Desert White Acropolis Crisis City Flame Core Radical Train Tropical Jungle Kingdom Valley Aquatic Base End of the World Windmill Isle Savannah Citadel Rooftop Run Dragon Road Cool Edge Arid Sands Skyscraper Scamper Jungle Joyride Eggmanland Tornado Defense Tropical Resort Sweet Mountain Starlight Carnival Planet Wisp Aquarium Park Asteroid Coaster Terminal Velocity Metal City Splash Canyon Egg Factory Green Cave Sand Ruins Babylon Garden Night Chase Red Canyon Ice Factory White Cave Dark Desert Sky Road Babylon Guardian Digital Dimension SEGA Carnival SEGA Illusion Dual Towers Snow Valley Space Theater Megalo Station Botanical Kingdom MeteorTech Premises Aquatic Capitol Gigan Rocks Crimson Crater Gigan Device Nightside Rush Snowy Kingdom MeteorTech Sparkworks Tempest Waterway Security Corridor Mobius Strip Astral Babylon 80’s Boulevard 90’s Boulevard Dolphin Resort Rocky Ridge Frozen Forest Metropolis Speedway Magma Rift Forgotten Tomb Final Factory Splash Hill Casino Street Lost Labyrinth Mad Gear Egg Station Sylvania Castle White Park Oil Desert Sky Fortress Fire Bird Nature Riot Train Fourth Dimension Space Blue Ridge Ground Zero Colony Beta Alpha Nocturne Lost Prologue Sand Oasis Dinosaur Jungle Evil Foundry Levitated Ruin Pirate Storm Skeleton Dome Night Palace Misty Lake Camelot Castle Deep Woods Titanic Plain Crystal Cave Molten Mine Faraway Avalon Knight Passage Shrouded Forest Great Megalith The Cauldron Dragon Lair Dark Hollow Ruin Wood Dark Castle Metal Island -opolis -opolis -opolis -opolis -opolis -opolis -opolis -opolis
Decided to reblog this since it makes more sense here at The Sonic Second than on my currently fallow personal blog.
New images of the Sonic 1 prototype from the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show, showing more clear frames of the pre-Badnik enemy and slight differences in Sonic’s sprites.
The images are from the August 1990 issue of MegaDrive Fan magazine.
h/t Sonic Retro
Sonic wasn’t the first to use the ribbon and ring emblem for its title screen. Quite a few things did it before Sonic 1, in fact.
Toriyama’s Dr. Slump is the earliest (that I’ve discovered), and it was extremely popular, so it’s possible it started the whole trend. It’s also the most similar to Sonic, with the characters popping through the ring.
Can you feel the Sunshine? Does it brighten up your day?
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Picked up this 1994 Sonic calender from a car boot this morning, some great artwork in, nostalgic!
Hudson’s Adventure Island III (1992) appears to have been, shall we say, heavily influenced by the faux-polygonal graphical style of Sonic. I mean, look at that palm tree! They even added a new dinosaur friend with a very familiar rolling attack…
It’s interesting that the ending sequence - falling through the sky after defeating the bad guy, and being caught at the last moment by a flying friend - actually bears more of a resemblance to the concept Sonic 1 ending, and of course the ending of Sonic 2 which was released later. Maybe it was a common trope at the time?
Anyway, try this headcanon on for size: The Adventure Island games actually take place on South Island in prehistory.
One of the silly things from the early Japanese manuals was characters going through the “what not to do with the cartridge” list. Sonic here with his new fangled cellular phone and stomping on a cart is real cute.
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