S&K Collection - Sonic 3 PAL artwork saying "PART ONE"?

Holy fuck!

This is an excellent find! How come nobody ever noticed this before?

This is just more icing on the cake, I swear. You'd think the Sonic 3A/B/C deal was only a slightly plausible theory before—but what about now? :D

 

I noticed that a long time back, when I had an old Windows 98 computer with no internet access. I didn't say anything about it since I thought it would have been mentioned before.

 

I thought it would be redundant, also when I seen it I hadn't had membership here. I also thought it was on the final aswell.

 

Someone needs to tell these people that "unearthing" "lost" pictures that have been in Screensaver, Jam, and Gems Collection isn't really a big achievement. None the less, that's rather interesting. I never noticed that before.

 

Never saw this before. Nice find.
And also, on the same page, look at the Sonic 2 cover (sans text.)

Where is Sonic's other eye?

 

This might sound silly, but could his right hand be holding up 3 fingers due to the game being Sonic 3, and his left hand holding up 1 finger due to it being Part 1?

 

Makes sense to me. I don't know if there would have been alternate boxart for part 2 (I'd hope there would!), nor if it would simply be the same as Sonic & Knuckles' boxart; I'd expect it to have a similar reference, though. Nice observation!

 

Shade pointed this out to me months ago, I guess it just wasn't deemed newsworthy.

 

Uhhhh..

This is old as fuck. And I'm sure it's been pointed out before. Hell, I think -I- pointed it out at some point.

This artwork is even included in Gems collection's museum.

But yes, cool stuff nonetheless.

 

Even I knew about this, but didn't post it because, like someone else, I thought it was already known.

Good job, though.

 

The plague of such things is that some people notice them, and others don't—but nobody ever wants to post about it in fear of being screamed at with masses of "OLD." Quite frankly, unless it's mentioned on the wiki or any other major Sonic site (spoiler: it's not) then it's "new." If something is noticed but not documented, then it's the fault of those who deemed it "insignificant." Combined with recent findings, this is, in fact, very relevant, and very significant.

In summary: I don't give two shits if you "noticed it before"; you didn't post it. I think this is worth noting somewhere on the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 article, in addition to Oerg's article translations, in order to elaborate further on the original intentions for Sonic 3's distribution.

 

Nice find.

 

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That's a Sonic 1 art with "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" on it.

 

I liked the blue Sonic 3 logo a little more than the yellow one, but it'd look not too different from Sonic 2's.

 

I noticed this years ago when my cousin's sister destroyed my Sonic 3 cover when he borrowed it, so I needed to print out a new one. My Sonic 3 box still has it as its cover :P

 

I know this has been pointed out before, though now it's much more interesting because of the betas.