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Since the ranking system was introduced in Sonic Adventure 2, the way the letters have been displayed has changed for pretty much every game, right?

Does anyone have any images of what the Rank Letters look like in every game since SA2?

My topic titles don't leave much to the imagination, do they? (quite the contrast to my book titles, actually...)

Anyway, I'm serious - do you guys remember the first time you played a Sonic game? If so, what game was it?

I remember the first game I played was Sonic 3 & Knuckles for the Genesis, around '97 I believe. I was hooked on the game, and I still play the hell out of it today. Probably if for no other reason than Hyper Sonic, who sadly, has not reappeared, but, beggers can't be choosers, they say.

Yeah. It was pretty cool, actually. *gets lost on memory lane*

The Mysterious Seat

Okay, so this is something that I've seen a few times across YT and something I've had happen to me a couple times. It's really strange in that Robotnik never shows up. And after the fact, when you loose rings one of them will have part of the seat's pallet connect to it. Does anyone know why this occurs?

Okay, it's almost 1 am where I live, but I can't get this outta my mind. We've been classifing levles into cliches recently. I have to ask... At what point does a level become a cliche? The reason I ask is because with the current chilches, I can't think of one in which to classify the Sonic Heroes levels Hang Castle and Mystic Mansion. If anyone can think of where to put them and why, let's hear it. If not, how can we determine if their level style has used enough to make it a cliche?

I see two options on determining cliches:
1. We determine it by the number of games the level style appears in, or
2. We determine it by the number of levels that fall into the category.

Which brings up another question: There are levels that fall into multiple cliches. Marble, Lava Reef, Underground Zone, to name a few. But, how do we list them on their articles? This is a big question with Lava Reef, because it is listed as bot Lava/Volcano and Underground Mine cliches. Trouble is is that act 2 doesn't have a whole lot of volcanic qualities save for the lava shortly before and in the boss area.

Any thoughts?

<And now I go sleepy-time, no?>

Okay, So I'm making a YouTube series which covers the history and evolution of the Sonic universe in its entirety. My problem is that I cannot find proper images.

What I'm Covering:
Follow this link for a complete list of what will be covered in the videos:
Evolution Of The Sonic Universe ~ Wikipedia

What I Need:
I need images to showcase each of the items on the list. For arcade games and comics, this means one or two pictures for whatever it is. For classic Sonic games, this means a picture of the title screen (animated if possible, if I can get that to work), one or two images for each stage, and an image of characters who make their DEBUT appearance in that game, if any. Finnaly, for 3D Sonic games (not counting the 2.5D isometric game Sonic 3D Blast/Sonic 3D Flicky's Island, as I put that in 'classic'), that means everything I need for the classic games, but it also includes the bosses of the game.

If you can find a suitible image, post a reply with the FULL link so that I may check the image first-hand.

Your friend and Chaotic Reign Guru,
Dan Genesis