Run Sonic, Run

I remember when I was a kid my mom surprised my brothers & I with a brand new Sega Genesis system. That system came with the Sonic The Hedgehog game. Back then it used to be standard to package one free game with the game system. I mean if you spend $150 to $300 these days on a game system you should get a free game. They don't really do that any more unless its a bundle package.

I played that Sonic game for hours on end. The graphics were amazing. So many colors to look at. Game play was fantastic. I favorite thing to do in the game was collecting those rings. I used to see how many ring I could collect in one level so that. The levels in the game were pretty creative as well. I think the Labyrinth Zone was my favorite level because of the water. You had to keep collecting water bubbles to breath under water.

The next two games, Sonic 2 and 3 were equally great. I loved changing into Gold Sonic which was. You had to input the cheat codes to do that which were creatively enabled through the music options menu. After the release of Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic Spinball the franchise sort of fell off. There was a release for the Sega CD, Sonic CD, and releases for the Xbox, Dreamcast, Xbox 360, and PS3 that went different ways in direction, but none, to me, really lived up to the Sonic brand.

Now Sonic is coming back with a new installment called Sonic Generations for his 20th anniversary. I can't believe its really been 20 years since I played the original. Wow, time flies when your having fun playing games. lol The game sort of revisits the original Sonic games that we used have fun with. So now they've come back with loop tracks with curvy twists followed with the lip ramps that pops Sonic up high in the air. There is a new feature where you can play the original classic Sonic or a updated modern version of Sonic getting two different views of the game. Finally I think I can enjoy another Sonic game again.The game will released sometime later this year.