Wow. So before Frontiers, before Generations, before Unleashed... Stage loading with graphical hiccups has been there since the beginning. At first I was amazed, but considering Sonic speed, I guess it does make sense.
Here's another fun fact related to this. In Sonic 1, they forgot to put the speed limit on the camera when moving left! This is why you can cause some graphical glitches if you were to move too fast to the left. This was fixed in Sonic 2.
hmmm, well, you had that early scrapped SegaSonic Bros and then the actual trackball arcade game that came out. I also could've sworn that Sonic 1 got an arcade port at some point. More contemporaneously, Sonic the Fighters had an arcade version and of course the Dreamcast contained Sega's NAOMI hardware for near one-to-one arcade ports, so they even managed to be slightly correct about this...
Here's something you might not know: the so-called 'Cybersquares' that decorate the sky of every Cyberspace stage in Sonic Frontiers aren't actually a 2D animated skybox. They're physical animated models placed throughout the entire background, and using freecam mods you can actually "break out of the simulation" and see the point where they end!
LIVE UNDER THE SKY '91 OUT OF THE WORLD This text would have actually fitted well on the cover, if the original "Sonic The Hedgehog Band" idea had been included in the game. But the band did not appear in Sonic 1. So the text is: THE MOST FAMOUS HEDGEHOG IN THE WORLD I wonder how Sonic suddenly became the most famous hedgehog? It was his first game! Spoiler: Ah yes, he is the fastest Maybe he just ran through the world, showing up everywhere.
Screw that noise - "Live Under the Sky '91" was a genuine event: I've got a date of 21st May 1991 at the Nippon Budokan. So what's Sonic doing there?
I was under the impression the designer took the festival's logo for the mockup and then changed it to the "Most Famous Hedgehog In The World" for the final version. I tried to look to see if Sega was a sponsor or if Dreams Come True performed but can't find anything about them.
Yeah, that's almost certainly the case. Live Under The Sky was an annual jazz festival that ran from 1977-1992 (the "Out of the World" subtitle was just for the 1991 festival). Seemingly no connection to Sega, they just used the logo as inspiration for that part of the packaging. The 1990 festival had the same logo, besides the year and the subtitle: https://www.facebook.com/7844829849...-the-sky-kyushu-japan-1990-/3576303222443143/
i hope i'm not wrong in assuming this is of marginal interest to sonic retro: https://x.com/doctor_cupcakes/status/1756486797909966907 liam robertson, known for digging into the history of games that were cancelled or entered development hell, went off on twitter claiming that sega simply chose arzest over evening star on the topic of mania 2, even going so far as to contest hunter bridges' claim of the opposite
Ah, yes. Liam. I heard of that guy and the stuff he did. Does he have any evidence that Arzest was deliberately chosen over Evening Star?
If that's a thread or more I'm supposed to read I can't read it because they blocked me and the one alt I should have access to, I actually don't have access to. But from what I can read, I'm glad we now block each other.
It's him saying Evening Star is lying about everything in regards being in good standing with Sega and that ACTUALLY Sega screwed then over for Arzest instead because it can't be fathomed that Evening Star would want to do their own thing while someone else is using the plot of Penny to speculate if that is what Sega did to the team. Everyone else is calling him on his bullshit.
Looked into his profile and he's one of the writers for that "Did You Know Gaming" YouTube series that frequently gets facts wrong. This seems like a case of "dumb person being dumb on Twitter" which... isn't really noteworthy.
