[Lobotomy]

December 25 or 26, 1993, Dunmore, Ireland. My cousin got a MegaCD for Christmas and he played Sonic CD into oblivion. I got a chance to play a couple times, but I was terrible at it since I was six at the time.

This post has been edited by Lobotomy: 15 March 2012 - 01:00 PM

[DNLeal]

My dad got a Genesis when everyone had either an Atari or SNES, followed by a Sega CD later on when I was about 4 years old (around 1993 I believe) My mother was the one that played the most out of it as she was an Atari fan. She recalls she could beat any game like Aladdin, Talespin, Ecco, etc. Just Sonic the Hedgehog one and two were the only thing she couldn't beat because she couldn't stand how everything "went so fast". After that, she says I always played those because I felt being "better" at them, even though the only game I was able to beat was Sonic CD.

[That One Jig]

My family raised me on Nintendo during my early years, so I had no idea what this "Sonic the Hedgehog" thing was until the new millennium. My brother was coaxed into buying Sonic Adventure 2: Battle because it had flashy characters on the front cover. My initial impressions from reading the instruction booklet were a bit...off. I don't know why, but, until I played the game, I was convinced that Knuckles was a female. I would learn my lesson after being stuck in his first stage for nearly half an hour...

I thought that Sonic was cocky (appropriately), so much so that I was kind of turned off from him. I actually kept playing the game for Shadow, just because of how mysterious and dark him and his past were. My brother and I actually grew really attached to him, so much so that he was, very temporarily, one of our top 5 video game characters ever. You should've seen the shock and despair on our faces when we finished the game. "Shadow...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Oh, the days before I played the classic games.

[Billy]

I wish I had the memories if playing Sonic for the first time like you guys; I was too young to remember. However, one of my earliest memories is my mom teaching me how to beat the Green Hill Zone boss in Sonic 1. Basically, I've been playing Sonic for as long as I can remember. I still have our original Genesis from the good old days, it's pretty beat up though.

[ashthedragon]

the first time I played Sonic was on my Sega Master System, the console came with Alex Kidd in memory and a Sonic 1 cart.

[RuRi]

I don't remember when I started playing Sonic, I feel like I was just born playing it. I do have one memory though, of going over to my cousins house, and she was playing Sonic 2 while setting on a bean bag, and I sat next to her and played as Tails on the single player mode.

One Sonic game I do remember getting though is Sonic advance, I got it for my birthday and played it while we was driving to Legoland. I reached Angel Island I think, good times.

[RGamer2009]

My first time seeing the blue blur was at a Christmas party around 1993. I was around 3 years old at the time, and was bored watching some black and white movie with a Red Balloon. Around that age I was quite the curious kid, and would venture around by myself to see what was around. I stumbled upon some older kids playing a Genesis in a back hallway. I saw what was on the screen and was absolutely entranced. The colors, the speed, the cool dude running along the landscape, all of it made my 3 year old self in awe.

Well the kids must have noticed, as they handed me the controller. "This is how to run, and this is jump." That was all my younger self needed to know, and I remember running straight into the first Motobug the very first try. I didn't care. THAT WAS FUN.

It wouldn't be until a few years later when I would get a Genesis of my own from one of my cousins. It came with Sonic 1 and 2, and I played those in the dark in absolute glee. One of my favorite moments in my life.

This post has been edited by RGamer2009: 15 March 2012 - 01:43 PM

[snow toilet]

Oh man it has to be around 92 or 93 when one of my cousins was playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
On this day it happened to be my birthday and we did have a Sega Genesis.
After he beat the Spring Yard Zone boss he asked me if I wanted it for my birthday and I said yeah.
So he gave it to me.
Since then some of the others like the second game and eventually Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles came around in my possession.
When Knuckles Chaotix was released for the first time I knew immediately I was hooked into the series.

[XCubed]

GagaMan, on 14 March 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

TimmiT, on 14 March 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

Direct feed gameplay footage with an interview with Ken: http://www.gametrail...onic-the/728043

Haha did they intentionality avoid including the in-game music?

Sercive Merchandise. Miami, FL. I was 5. I would play it everytime I went and they had a setup in BJs Wholesale too.


I didn't own it until I was 6 when I was at my grandmas house. My parents had set the system up and the volume was too loud. I remember my brother and I in a room just waking up and I hear "SEGA!!!!!!!!!!!" I run to the living room and I was hooke 4 life. I got Sonic 1, Sonic 2, and John Madden Football '93 (and my brother STILL kicks my ass at this!) XMAS of 1992 was ingrained into my life forever. I also remember getting this metal balancing trinket thing I had on my dresser for years. My dad and brother got one, too, but mine stood the test of time.

Later on I got Sonic Spinball (completely unaware of Sonic CD until like 1996 and saw it as something that was too expensive and unobtainable....my first legit copy is in the GEMS collection) and Sonic 3. But nothing beats the years of replayability like Sonic 2.

This post has been edited by XCubed: 15 March 2012 - 02:42 PM

[Toasty]

I don't remember when I was introduced to Sonic. Was it a tv show, something I played at my cousins house, or the first game I was ever given? Not sure. I had to have been introduced to him early in life.

My first video game was Sonic 2. I remember playing the new Sega Genesis at the dining room tv with my mother. I loved to play Mario at my cousins house so I guess my parents thought it would be a good idea to buy me a Genesis and Sonic.

This post has been edited by Toasty: 15 March 2012 - 02:50 PM

[Overlord]

Lobotomy, on 15 March 2012 - 12:03 PM, said:

December 25 or 26, 1993, Dunmore, Ireland. My cousin got a MegaCD for Christmas and he played Sonic CD into oblivion. I got a chance to play a couple times, but I was terrible at it since I was six at the time.

Heh. About the same time you were first playing Sonic CD, I was first getting my ass kicked by Chemical Plant Zone 2, on my brand new Mega Drive. =P

[XCubed]

I saw Sonic CD for the first time around '94/'95 at a Best Buy. I think I was playing Palmtree Panic and I was very confused because the game looked like I was playing Sonic 1, but was different. Then I flipped a shit with I saw the Special Stage. I was like "OMGGG SONIC IS IN 3DDDDDDDDDD"....then my brother pulled me away and said we had to go home! Since I didn't have the internet, there was no way for me to research this, so I had no clue that I was playing Sonic CD on it's native system....and it was the first and last time I ever did

[SonKnuck]

I remember it perfectly. I was 8 at the time and I was left in the toy department at Sears so my parents could do their shopping quietly. Suddenly I came accross a DEMO MegaDrive and it had Sonic 2. I decided to play it and I loved it. After that day whenever we went to Sears I just headed straight for that demo megadrive and played some Sonic 2 until my parents were done shopping. I then proceeded to ask for it for christmas and I got it! I was even greeted with Sonic 1 as my parents had realized how much I liked Sonic, they might as well buy me the first one too.

[KidFox]

It was 1999 I think. I was over at a cousin's house and he just happened to have still owned a Model 2 Genesis console along with the copy of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 that came with it. As soon as the gamed booted, all I could do is stare like an awe struck moron. My life was never the same.

Nowadays I own the game myself and every time I start up the game I stare the same way. I think its a bad habit now.

[Yuzoboy]

Very interesting to see peoples memories of their first Sonic encounter. For me, my earliest memory of Sonic was of him in Starlight Zone, I must have been about 4 and remember my older brother playing it. Our Megadrive then got stolen and we got Sonic 2 after getting a new console. I was then reunited with Sonic 1 in 1995 after finally being given it as a birthday present. I remember we loved the music to Labyrinth Zone and the way Sonic gasped for air as he takes an air bubble underwater. Good memories:)