Prior to last month, I had no idea this video existed. I used to hear this song in random flash movies from the 2000s, but I did not know much about the song or the existence of its music video. Apparently this song was made for a Sonic the Hedgehog album in 1996? According to a website and the Sonic Retro wiki, one of the composers to the album was named after a zone from Sonic 2. I find it odd this entire project even exists, especially since some of the footage to the music video came from Sonic Ride. Does anybody here know why this song exists? Is there a version of the music video in better image quality or in a resolution higher than 240p? I would love to learn more about this project.
Yup, it's from one of those weird European Sonic albums that usually just contain random songs from artists like Guns N' Roses and Scatman John. I believe this video was included as an extra on the disc, and would play if you'd put it into a PC's CD-ROM drive.
Oh wow, so that's why it isn't in quality better than 240p? Is there a way someone can download the original video without compression that came from the CD?
I have the CD so I'll see if I can do that if nobody else does. For anyone unfamiliar with the Arcade Sonic album, I highly recommend checking it out, especially Final Zone. After ten tracks of upbeat cheesiness it hits you with a really cool, moody synth piece, like a discount Blade Runner/Terminator type thing.
The Sonic model comes from a set of random pre-rendered clips Sega AM3 created. https://forums.sonicretro.org/index...ics-or-colloquially-cgi-graphics.41441/page-2 Incidentally, this Sonic model is the great grandfather of the infamous Marza Sonic cutscenes made popular with Sonic Unleashed; Sega had accidentally become a CGI film studio throughout the 2000s, and it had become so massive said division was split off and became Marza.
Arcade's Sonic album is so weird. SEGA definitely doesn't actually own it, or at least because They Call Me Sonic has been rereleased as a single by a group that isn't Wave Master. Pretty much nobody goes by proper credits either, and I recall finding the name of the woman who recorded all the samples of "Sonic" but I don't rememeber it off the top of my head. You're thinking of the Sonic Dance Power series or something else. Arcade's album was wholly original. (from what I can tell)
Yup. There was a demo of Comix Zone slapped on here. Although no one has dumped it to the best of my knowledge
I copied the contents of the CD and uploaded the folder here: https://mega.nz/folder/u5NXWIQT#tCCz9C0j1DrEM6HA_nqB8A
Double post but I forgot how computers back then didn't have a native video player, so movie DVDs often included a bonus DVD program for computers... Giving me bad InterActual flashbacks here! Look at all these install files! It's like a Dagwood Sandwich. Sheesh!
THANK YOU! I discovered something fascinating about the music video version compared to the audio found in the CD release of They Call Me Sonic. The audio for left and right got reversed in the music video. The music video version also cuts off a small portion of the song's intro. Edit- I uploaded the music video using a nearest neighbor filter and I replaced the audio with CD quality audio. These videos are now the best quality versions on YouTube for the music video. Huge thank you to @Dek Rollins for uploading contents from the CD. I would not have been able to upload these versions if it weren't for your help.
Wave of nostalgia just hit me. It's sad for me that I can always find this on the internet unlike some like animation of a white silhouette of Sonic breakdancing on a black background.
