I remember loving the music to Hill Top Zone so much that I would die intentionally just to hear it again, so that one
― yachts on the reg, sex on the reg (jamescobo), Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
chemical plant zone had those insanely fast chutes and it was AWESOME.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 February 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Maaan one of my best friends and I would play this game like every day after school and we agreed that if we had to live in any level, it would be Aquatic Ruin Zone (did anyone else do this as a kid? choose levels from games you'd most want to live in if they were real?) I'm pretty sure Casino Night Zone takes it overall though. Could almost do a separate poll for Sonic 2 music as well, the soundtrack to this is pretty consistently great.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 5 February 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
are we voting on the soundtrack or
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 5 February 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Casino Night, obv. But Sky Chase is madness in a good way!
― Favourite Song, Album and Band? Icehouse. (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 5 February 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
casino nights, of course
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 February 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Aquatic Ruin, not because it's a particularly good zone, but because as a kid (and still today) I found the idea of water filled with plant life and architectural fragments extremely appealing.
― EDB, Saturday, 5 February 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
just your favorite level, taking everything into account
― ciderpress, Saturday, 5 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i went w/ oil ocean btw
― ciderpress, Saturday, 5 February 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i want to play this again
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 February 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i always got the sense that people considered this one THE classic sonic game but thinking back, i like most of the levels in 3 & knuckles better than 1 and 2. 3&k also had nuts music (hydrocity!)
― ciderpress, Saturday, 5 February 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I always took this to be the least classic game.
― EDB, Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
feeling hilltop a bit more today
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
same. this thread bugs me
― F-Unit (Ste), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
All the first 3 Sonics were pretty classic, especially the music...Sega has since done a lot of 'hip' music that sometimes ends up quite embarrassing, but Sonic was really the first time you heard THAT kind of music in a video game, plus the rumored Michael Jackson involvement put it all over the top for me.
Believe it or not I always thought the Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) games had the potential to be as good as the originals, but they ruined it by adding in so many boring non-Sonic levels...the actual Sonic gameplay was cool.
I always thought Sonic was one of the coolest video game characters, as long as he was depicted as kind of a psychotic goofball like he was in the original cartoon.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This is *my* classic Sonic game because it's what came bundled with my Genesis (along with Aladdin and a 3-in-1 that included World Cup Italia '90, Columns, and Super Hang On 2) so it's by far the one I played most.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the bonus round in this was nowhere near as good as sonic 1
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
the bonus round was ruined by tails always getting hit by spikes
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally agree with this actually!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ pretty compelling for me too. Hard for me to separate the levels from the music though - - Emerald Hill Zone's 2-player version gets in my head a lot.
For pure like, high-flyin' ADVENTURE and drama I think Hill Top Zone captured my imagination the most as a kid.
Don't get the Casino Nights votes at all - - frustrated the HECK out of me getting stuck in those ding-ding-ding-ding things, I wanted to keep speeding along!
Sonic 2 was my favorite as a kid even though I prefer the bigger sprite "look" of Sonic 1 and I think the levels/music are better there - - - but 2 was huge, and the Super Sonic chaos emeralds quest was awesome. Looking back I can't beLIEVE I actually sat there and systematically got good enough to pull that off. No saves! One play-through, you had to be close to perfect to get all the damn emeralds... real sense of accomplishment there.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, same here!
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Chemical Plant Zone is the best level, best music is Oil Ocean
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
also really dug the aquatic ruin vibe but didn't think it was the most fun to actually play through.
chemical plant or sky chase are the ones that come to mind but my memory's hazy.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
might give the edge to sky chase zone just because of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9wizxn0-ik
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm thinking about sonic 3 now and damn every zone in that one was fun and complex, way better than 1 or 2 imo
and hydrocity had the best music in the whole series
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish I'd owned Sonic 3 and also Sonic & Knuckles - - I would probably rank the games very differently if I had. I remember being wowed by the environments in those ones on rentals, and having a playable character with different abilities who could actually access different parts of the game seemed really neat to me, too.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Sky Chase zone btw also seems like a funny choice - forcing Sonic to do a precise-jumping kind of platformer thing seems just out of the spirit of the game. I like that it's in there, to break up the format and so on, but it's not really the "pure essence of the cartridge" or what have you...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
w/o reading the other posts: oil ocean
― polymath & psychics club (Lamp), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 24 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
casino nite sux yo
― thomp, Thursday, 24 February 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
nine people disagree
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
sonic chaos for the master system is the best sonic game fuiud
― thomp, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
played through the whole game today for the first time in like six years. pretty much the perfect game for me, except for those bonus levels which you probably do have to spend 1000 hours perfecting. oddly enough i feel like sonic 1 is actually harder than this one -- can't remember if i ever made it to the end of sonic 3 or sonic and knuckles.
metropolis zone has the best music, by far -- killer tune.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 3 July 2011 08:00 (twelve years ago) link
i just found out that this game had a bunch of planned zones that got cut. one of them was called GENOCIDE CITY ZONE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpi4N9v2fc
― anorange (abanana), Sunday, 25 September 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTq5dINYL-Q
― DDD, Saturday, 8 March 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
I’ve got a load of old sega games for the switch so playing this through for the first time, and fuck me, it’s hard! Metropolis zone is hell.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
oil ocean > mystic cave > chemical plant
gyac, do you have the sega ages version or the mega drive classics collection? the classics collection has infamously bad input latency
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
Only 1 vote for Aquatic Ruin? Wtf?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
The classics collection - I’m not sure if it does or doesn’t on switch but I was surprised I was so bad at it!
― caută tu singur (gyac), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
Fuck the hilariously named Death Egg Zone. However I have now completed this game but fuck getting 100% on it tbh.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 20 August 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link