[Vangar]

I remember the only time I beat Sonic 1 SMS I thought I saw sonic singing into a microphone. Then I looked it up and found out that it is real. A left-over from when Sonic was supposed to be in a band?

https://www.youtube....h?v=mzD_qSx459g

[Mr Lange]

When I was 5 years old I had rented Ristar over and over again. I loved that game to pieces. I played it all the time and I could never get past Undertow. Or, I did once or twice, and died immediately in world 3. Despite having played it so much, my brain did a terrible job of filing away those memories. In 2006 I started to remember it again and my memory was mostly the aesthetic beauty of it, but I could barely remember the gameplay or details in the game. Even then it took me a month to remember the game's title. I thought B button was a charge attack and star-guy bashed into enemies. I had completely forgotten the grab mechanic. Curiosity got the best of me so after I remembered the game's title I gave it a spin via emulation, and was blown away by all the things I had incorrectly remembered. Various details I thought were one way were very different, and some things I had forgotten entirely. As I played, it all started to come back correctly.

I'm betting whatever you're remembering is broken childhood memory. The only things I could possibly connect those to have already been mentioned on this thread.

[Billy]

I had a somewhat strange one. When I was a kid I got to the final level of Sonic Spinball, once. I was never able to get there again, for whatever reason. So my memory of the level was completely wrong -- I didn't imagine it as the top of the volcano/veg-o fortress/whatever. I imagined it as being a lot like Toxic Caves, but more... mechanical. Instead of the background being rocks, it was metal. Not so much like The Machine where the background was a circuit board, but the same style of metal instead in the background. So basically, I thought the last level was a combination of Toxic Caves and The Machine. Also, I'm pretty sure this mishmash of levels came from a dream.

I was a little confused when I got there when I was older.

[SaviourDCX]

When I was about 4-5 I went to my cousins house and saw Sonic for the first time on the Mega Drive/Mega CD Model 1 (slot loading).

My memory of the game in action appeared to be a strange mix of Sonic 1 and Sonic CD. I remember seeing Scrap Brain Zone and Sonic running on a track that moved backwards. I remember my cousin performing a run dash. Sonic just spun one of his legs before he dashed! I also remember seeing a bear looking creature on the title screen! I'm pretty sure I remember him going to the time attack mode so I'm sure it was a Mega CD game. Now here is where things get even stranger.. he started playing Marble Zone on Sonic 1 and at the end of the level he did something to the sign goal post like some sort of cheat (weird broken game icons started mixing around) and a special stage ring started lurking downwards on to the screen.

My cousin wouldn't let me play. Eventually I went out of the lounge in to a bedroom with another Mega Drive with Sonic 2 but that was completely normal, my sister wouldn't let me play either. My mum forced my sister to let me play then she walks out of the room and my sister just grabs the controller out of my hand (she was 3 years older). Hell I even remember the Mortal Kombat Annihilation movie being broadcasted on TV about a year before it came out on tape. It could have just been a long trailer though of Lui Kang vs Baraka but I don't remember it that way. I held on to these memories because they are very interesting. I highly doubt we live in a normal reality sometimes.

EDIT

Forgot to add! When my sister got her Mega Drive I received some money as a present and bought Sonic 3. The background music on Angel Island Zone had different music. Then I think a few days later the Mega Drive sound stopped working.

This post has been edited by SaviourDCX: 23 January 2014 - 12:11 PM

[Dashtube]

It's fascinating how much our minds can distort our memories, even in a topic as specific as remembering Sonic experiences.

[Vangar]

SaviourDCX, on 23 January 2014 - 12:08 PM, said:

I remember seeing Scrap Brain Zone and Sonic running on a track that moved backwards. I remember my cousin performing a run dash. Sonic just spun one of his legs before he dashed!

Up + A sounds pretty close to the run dash. If he was playing it on a bad CRT with a tuner instead of A/V it might look like he's spinning just one leg.

And Quartz Quadrant has a similar theme to Scrap brain zone, not to mention the boss has a track that moves backwards.

[SaviourDCX]

Vangar, on 23 January 2014 - 10:40 PM, said:

SaviourDCX, on 23 January 2014 - 12:08 PM, said:

I remember seeing Scrap Brain Zone and Sonic running on a track that moved backwards. I remember my cousin performing a run dash. Sonic just spun one of his legs before he dashed!

Up + A sounds pretty close to the run dash. If he was playing it on a bad CRT with a tuner instead of A/V it might look like he's spinning just one leg.

And Quartz Quadrant has a similar theme to Scrap brain zone, not to mention the boss has a track that moves backwards.

Really? Up + A is run dash? wow, I never knew that. I guess you can do this in any Sonic game right? :D?

[ICEknight]

You guys do realize that you're just remembering old dreams, right?

[Dark Sonic]

ICEknight, on 26 January 2014 - 10:33 AM, said:

You guys do realize that you're just remembering old dreams, right?

Dreams or misinterpreted memories. Who knows, we were all like, 6. Don't ruin our fun

[KingofHarts]

When I was 5... a short time before I got my own SEGA, I'd play Sonic 2 with my babysitter. I could've sworn based on those memories, that Mystic Cave was after Emerald Hill.

[Zycor]

That sounds like you're just remembering the 2 Player mode, that's the most logical way I can think of going from Emerald Hill to Mystic Cave. My only "misremembered memory" was when I was a kid, I had heard about "Super Sonic" so naturally I thought it was Sonic with a cape... I never really thought about it too long as I never owned any of the games officially till I got the Gamecube Mega Collection (actually no, that's a lie, I had Sonic 3 for PC as well as Sonic CD). Though by then I had played all the games on emulators and I never really thought about the Super Sonic thing again, so now a Yellow Sonic that's like a Super Sayain is just normal looking to me I guess.

This post has been edited by Zycor: 26 January 2014 - 01:21 PM

[FlackoWeasel]

I know my mind didn't play tricks on this one, but I have no idea how am I able to redo it. I know it happened once and couldn't do it again.

I was around 12-13 and I know I loved to mess around in Sonic games and try to "glitch" it. I was Super Sonic and I know I sometimes got stuck inside the pipe in AI2 before the ship bombing and went back. Then jumped around to see how the background changed. Then I went to the boss battle and fooled around. I dunno why but I made Sonic to duck and put a small chair on the down button so super Sonic was always ducking.

Then I went to make myself a sandwich and when I came back, the screen has scrolled further down and it wasn't "locked". I remember I jumped off the platform and graphics started to disappear and then appeared red and finally black graphics and I died. Was a llooong falling.

Love reading what others write here . Interesting to read what people thought at young age and what they remember.

[winterhell]

My weird Sonic childhood memory is of Sonic 2's final boss. Me and my father couldnt for the life of us to hit Robotnik in the front. Multiple times we got to the final boss with 50+ lives collected at Wing Fortress.
So, instead we were hitting him on the butt. I still play that way 20 years later.

[PsychoSk8r]

I once had a dream when I was about 5, that I got Sonic 2 from a video game store I'd never been to, and got home, and the title screen was more like S2 Beta's (My guess is due to the manual print in memory which I looked at a lot), only the background was like a desert area, and sonic had a cowboy hat on.

When I was about 18, I seen a shop that resembled the one in the dream. Never went in. =P

This post has been edited by PsychoSk8r: 27 January 2014 - 11:09 AM

[XCubed]

When I was five I remember going to BJs wholesale one day and I saw these kids turning Sonic into different objects abd being able to move anywhere on the screen. I was in awe and for years I wondered how they were able to do that! In 1998 I thought I blew all there was to all the cheat codes, but I always avoided the "debug" mode. Up until then I thought that it meant that you could play through the game with no badnicks. I though debug referred to them since many of them resemble insects, thus assuming debug meaning taking the bugs out. Silly me. I found out with Sonic 2 one day in 1998 when I was bored. So I guess printed cheat guides were out for Sonic 1 way back in 1991/1992? I was shocked because I would always play it on Service Merchandise (RIP) too and never knew what was possible with the game.

I miss cheat codes and the ability to do abnormal shit with games. Games today lock you the hell out unless you are running on a special emulator.