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Welp, I fell for it thanks to the first damned video.

So since I made this topic, talk about docfuture's amusingly weird series.

Sonic the Hedgehog is a popular series, no doubt, and with every popular series comes references in other series. I'm curious to the amount of Sonic the Hedgehog references that you can find out there. And to show what I mean, I'll use the Pokémon Series as a reference:

Now, don't that look familiar? How many can you guys find?

I've been wondering this since I played Sonic 3's Carnival Night Zone, where in the background you can clearly see buildings overlapping other, more distant, buildings. This made me wonder if that effect can be created in Sonic 1, seeing as Sonic and Knuckles, of which a disassembly exists, also does it, or if the Sonic 1 engine can not handle it. I'm no good with the technical side of things, so I cannot try it personally.

The reason I call it multi-layered is because it looks as though it uses more then one layer.

After Cybershell13's telling off in his Let's Play, it got me wondering, who here had difficulties with that damn barrel in Carnival Night Zone. I personally took two minutes to figure it out, and it was by complete accident due to my habit of pressing down on the D-pad when annoyed at a puzzle on the game consoles.

I've been wondering this since the day I played Sonic 3 and Knuckles, and saw the lack of cutscene.

In Sonic the Hedgehog 3, if you start off as Sonic/ and Tails, you get a cutscene of Sonic's arrival on the island.

In Sonic and Knuckles, Sonic doesn't get a cutscene of his arrival in Mushroom Hill. Instead, it's Knuckles who gets one, and shows him chasing the EggRobo after being bombed.

Those sparked my curiousity, as when you play Sonic 3 and Knuckles, said cutscene is removed, and is instead replaced by Sonic 3's levels, without any reason as to WHY he was there. This made me wonder if Mushroom Hill, before the games became seperate, was instead assigned to be Knuckles' starting stage, as an answer to Sonic's Angel Island.

Your thoughts?