The nice folks at http://video-game-ephemera.com have recently made a blog post about something which seems to have gone under the radar until now: the world debut of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Here's the footage! I recommend saving it on your hard drive, as Youtube videos tend to be short- lived. I think that's the final game in the footage, but I may be wrong. Keep your eyes peeled for small changes that could indicate a beta. Also, I've never seen those Sonic 3 pins before. Rare!
There's a man in a top hat playing Sonic 3. Now THAT is classy. Verryy classy. Unfortunately Sonic 3 was not the biggest game of all time, but it's wonderful. Oh and stuff people won't find for weeks and months? Try years.
To me, nothing looks out of place from the final so its all final footage. but that guy playing sonic 3 with a top hat and that old sonic 3 commecrial made this video great.
Gentlemen... I am disappointed. This video was released two months ago, and you're just now picking up on this? Regardless, this is a way past cool discovery. I never imagined that I would actually see footage of the Sonic balloon or an old man in a suit and top hat playing Sonic 3 for the first time in gaming history. This must be archived for future generations. Oh and look at that. A Sonic 3 promotional poster. Do we have a scan of that somewhere?
Seeing all these people's hearts warming up at the first time playing S3, and the massive amounts of popularity the game seemed to have, it's a bit awe-inspiring. It's hard to believe at the time, Sonic was just as massive as CoD and Halo is now; especially since I've spent my entire life seeing Sonic practically be the underdog of video games.
In the video at 8:25, Sonic actually could skip the avalanche part in Ice Cap Zone, I didn't notice any other differences with the final game, if it actually has they are really subtle. =P By the way, great footage.
For the record I saw the video when it was first posted but the whole thing almost put me to sleep. I fast forwarded through most of it because it was really boring and not terribly interesting.
I've never seen this commercial, but I do remember my first time hearing about and playing Sonic 3. Good times. :,)
Twice as big as Sonic 2? While S3&K deserves that claim, Sonic 3 is way too short to deserve that honor.
You sometimes forget just how massive Sonic really was! The Trocadero in London was once known as Segaworld for fucks sake! And there was a massive Sonic statue above the entrance. That's one prime piece of real estate don't forget, and I really don't see any modern video game hero getting a place up there. That video reminded me just how hyped I was for Sonic 3 at the time. As time has gone on, I've come to prefer 1, 2 and CD, but at the time Sonic 3 was the best thing in the world to me, as was the wonderful unexpected surprise that was Sonic and Knuckles a few months later. 1994 was a good year for me, and a very expensive one for my folks! The whole S3K experience together cost £100! Although I suspect mine was used because I recall I had a full save game on the data select screen when I first switched it on. I DID delete the fucker straight away though, I had alot of integrity for a 9 year old.
Well, Sonic 3 was supposed to be all of S3K originally, so I guess they just kept that claim despite cutting so much.
Hey, thanks! I was looking carefully some strange stuff there, when I saw that suspicious thing. By the way, like I said, maybe there are even more things that I'm missing.
I just foamed nostalgia out of my ears. That's how hard it hit me. Wow look at the old cars haha. I miss the 90s.
I don't miss the cars, they were shite mostly. Apart from the Beemers and Mercs. I DO miss the music though, and the pudding basin haircuts.
That is the same as Sonic 3 final. The avalanche doesn't have any effect on movement in regular S3. It's S3K that changes it.
Someone send this video to Iizuka. Might jog his memories of what made Sonic enjoyable to everyone. I also hope that kid got good grades!
Tiddles' is right, I was mistaken probably because I didn't touch Sonic 3 alone for some long time. My bad.