Sonic 8-bits - Close to the beta 16-bit versions

Play the Master System version instead then. :p
Normally I'd now make a nonsensical statement like adding ", as real men do!", but since GG is harder that would be wrong here.

 

Whenever I see Bridge Zone, I keep looking at the mountains in the proto picture. I realize the trees at the bottom match up with Marble Zone, but the mountains don't to well. I guess it could be limitations, but it also could be this.

Take a look here:


Now look at the mountains here:


I'm much more reminded of BZ's mountains whenever I look at that proto screen shot...

 

Actually... Scratch my previous idea...



I think I might just toss out the fact that originally the spiked badnik was originally in marble zone and can still be placed in debug mode. The spiked bug also appears in bridge zone, and since there's no spring yard for it to be in the GG/SMS game, that's the only place it really can be.

 

<!--quoteo(post=197007:date=May 24 2008, 03:02 PM:name=Tanks)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tanks @ May 24 2008, 03:02 PM)
The right sides of the mountains even have the same shape.

 

Not sure if non one said this here but we all no doubt remember that Sonic 1 MD has the interior Green Hill tiles similar to the 8Bit.

And I don't think the mountains are conclusive, they are mountains, they are the shape of mountains, and they all have similar shading.

 

...Not all mountains have a crest near the top, then a big slope and a smaller crest near the bottom. And only on their right side. =|

 

This might have been overlooked, but supposedly (I can't actually remember where I read this) Sonic was meant to be a lighter blue but it clashed with the art in Green Hill Zone. Intresting to note the Sonic at the credits and the SEGA start up is lighter blue:




I wonder if they were the first things to be worked on, clearly the sprites are the shade of blue we all know now.

 

<!--quoteo(post=197376:date=May 26 2008, 12:02 PM:name=MoI)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MoI @ May 26 2008, 12:02 PM)


I wonder if they were the first things to be worked on, clearly the sprites are the shade of blue we all know now.[/quote]

Aye, I've always wondered why Sonic was so light on the Sega screen.