Who wants clearer Sonic 2 Nick Arcade videos?

This should be quite a help.

Thanks a bunch. =D

 

Was it really that long ago? God damn it, I feel old. :v:

 

I'm trying to remember, were there ever any other games as notable as Sonic 2 played on Nick Arcade?

 

Ha, this is great, especially the dates. Downloading.

Edit: Also, did you check to see if Sonic 2 was on episode 2x03?

 

Like Sonic 1 notable, or like R-Type notable?



Also, just to clarfiy, wasn't the only reason that one called the "Nick Arcade" prototype not because it was acquired from someone involved with the show but because it just looked like it?

 

It didn't just look like it - it sounded and played like it, to the extent that on "Green Hill" Tails is disabled. It's also the one build out of all the current ones that most resembles how it appeared on Nick Arcade, obviously.

While we don't have much more to suggest -exactly- what build Nick Arcade used, it was at the very least in the same builddate range as the prototype called the "Nick Arcade" proto.

 

Fun fact: If you copy those links and change "megaupload" to "megavideo" in the url, they actually play in a nice flash based stream.

 

Plus this is the only time the demos were recorded until final (or beta 8, I forget), and they stayed the same way (byte for byte) until they were changed for the retail release. Which is actually hilarious if you play them e.g. in the Wai alpha.

There's also that hologram thingy. I have around 1500 prototypes and none of them except this one has a hologram, 90% of them simply have handwritten labels (or no labels at all), some have printed labels but that's it.

All this circumstantial evidence points toward it being made especially for the show, though it doesn't prove it beyond doubt. I've been working to get some kind of proof for a while, I'll likely post about it if I get it.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if Sega had toyed with the use of "hologram" labels on the basis that "Nintendo's carts don't have them", "testing" the labels at the same time the prototypes were being playtested

it's all crazy marketing strategies I guess. They probably dropped the idea because of production costs or because it looks a bit tacky.

 

All I wanna know is, why did they get total morons playing that?

I mean, if you played the first one (and it should've been popular enough), you'd have an idea what to do in that build, even if the stage was something different.

 

Melissa Joan Hart, my four-year-old nephew plays better than you.

 

Hm. I remember watching this episode on Nick GaS.
Also, I also have an account on Classic Nick Shows.
Heh, To be honest, I was gonna post this. You beat me to it though
Nice work!