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SONIC FANS HAVE YET ANOTHER REASON TO GO CRAZY

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sonic Mega Collection is this version two of Sonic Jam - the late 90's Sonic collection which featured Sonics 1-3 & Sonic & Knuckles. Sonic Mega Collection includes all of the other Sonic games...or does it? It includes a lot of awesome games, comics, and other stuff for Sonic fans to go crazy about, but misses a few great Sonic games. Overall, Sonic Mega Collection as a whole is an awesome buy because it includes most of the Sonic games which made him so successful. Even though the graphics of the games are not that good, they're better not revamped and just there as the classics that they are known for. I'll list everything else for each game.

THE GAMES:

Sonic the Hedgehog (B) - The original Sonic game is a pure classic - the game that started the huge Sonic franchise. The graphics are "eh", but it was the early 90's! What are you expecting? DOOM 3 style graphics? No. But the gameplay is fun, high-speed, and includes much replay value. I wish Sonic Mega Collection implemented a save feature (like in Sonic 3), but it's more fun to just replay the game to win it anyway. OK, no, but whatever. Awesome music, also. Overall, awesome game.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (B+) - Much better than the original - not in the graphics, but in the levels. Many more levels, much more variety. More awesome music, but no save feature still. Another fun, fast Sonic game in the franchise.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (A) - Despite being really short, Sonic 3 is probably the best Sonic game in Mega Collection. Its graphics are MUCH better, and so is the music. The save feature is introduced and is very helpful because ALL of the levels here are hard. Play this game or you're missing out. Big time.

Sonic & Knuckles (A-) - Second best in the series, continues from where Sonic 3 left off. Kind of empty without Sonic 3 involved because there is no save feature, but the levels are really fun. More great graphics & music.

Sonic 3D Blast (B-) - The first 3D sonic game by a different publisher - Travellers Tales (I almost wrote 'Tails'). Decent, but the viewpoint of the whole game is kind of wierd, ruining the whole experience. The speed is kind of lost in the mix, so this game is not as good as the others. Listen to the Panic Puppet music, though :-) .

Dr. Eggman's Mean Bean Machine (C) - Tetris-style game which is not very good. Bad graphics, sound is kind of "eh" and, well, basically, the whole game is "eh". Dissapointment.

Sonic Spinball (C) - Pinball-style game which is known for being horrible. Bad graphics, slow-moving, too tough, 'nuff said.

UNLOCKABLE GAMES

Knuckles in Sonic 2 (B+/A-) - Same as Sonic 2, only with Knuckles. His ability to fly and stick to walls makes a lot of levels easier, therefore raising the score a bit. Fun game to play as Knuckles.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles (A+) THE REASON TO BUY SONIC MEGA COLLECTION. A fourteen level classic which is the best in the series. Now you can play as Knuckles or Tails also, and the save feature lets you explore Sonic & Knuckles after Sonic 3 is completed. Really fun...every single level is great.

Blue Sphere (B+) Remember that minigame in Sonic 3 where you had to collect all of the blue spheres on the outside of a 4x4 grid to unlock rings? Yeah, it's back. Play through endless levels of this game, each level extremely hard but they get progressively harder each time. Really fun, but really hard. Also, that music just repeats and repeats, somewhat coming off as annoying after hours on end of playing it.

Ristar (A) Fun, long game which almost was Sonic, but wasn't. Really fun and different from the sonic games. Nice music, decent graphics, and fun gameplay. Hard to unlock though.

THE MISSING SONIC GAMES:

Sonic R - The computer racing game with the cheesy lyrics.
Sonic CD - The second-best sonic game ever on Sega CD and the PC. Why isn't this here?
Sonic Game Gear Adventures - Short but fun sonic games on the 'unknown portable Sega console'.
Sonic Chaos - Another fun GameGear adventure.
Sonic on NeoGeoPocket - I don't really know about this one.

Why weren't those games there?

Anyway, Sonic Mega Collection is an awesome collection of (mostly) awesome games - just exclude Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Spinball, and Eggman's Mean Bean Machine or whatever it was called. Buy this game if you loved the classics or are an avid Sonic fan.

OVERALL SCORE OF THE GAME AS A WHOLE: A-

Great Older Sonic Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my daughter for christmas and she loves it. It has the older games on it. This is the reason she wanted it. Hours of Fun. Great Price for the collection.
Thanks Mom

Delivers sonic to a new generation... at a price.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game collection is just what a new generation of gamers needs: a pile of good classics as they were meant to be played. I detest how there are less unlockable games than the japanese version, so it might be a good idea to get the japanese one if you like to unlock games. I also hate having to unlock games many times if I don't have a memory card, but I guess that's a problem with all game collections. Before buying this you should really consider how hard it would be to get the originals cartridges and an emulator (to play them legally on your PC). Note to the buyer: If you like this game collection you are missing out on "Sonic CD" which was a remake of the first Sonic game with many times more levels since there are past, present, and future versions of each. Sonic CD is also available on Gamecube as part of the "Sonic Gems Collection", but buyer beware that "Sonic Gems Collection" contains mostly Gamegear versions of said games and is generally not worth the money since the Gamegear versions were inferior in many ways. Still, if you are willing to buy the game this review is for, then you should check out the other half of the collection which is known as "Sonic Gems Collection" for the sake of completeness.

Excellent!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is great! I've been playing Sonic since 1992 when Sonic The Hedgehog was released. I eventually had to sell my Genesis, and I really missed my old sonic games. I'm so happy that they made this game. Now I can play all my favorite sonic games on my gamecube. Thank you, Sega I appreciate it. Although, they could have added a save feature.

great game !!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

when i was 4 my brother got a genisis for chrismas with a sonic level cartrige special. I never stopped playing that level! soon about 6 my brother gave it to me, and about 8 it broke !!! at 9 my brother downloaded a genisis system from the internet in our comp. soon i bought a gamecube and bought this game. I was so surprised of games from the sonic series!

Kick @** man, if your a real SEGA man, like me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is truly amazing to have every genesis game of Sonic on a single cd for GameCube. They don't call me the Speed Demon for nothing, topping out 30 mph.....yes no lie and my biggest insperation to such speed over the last, fast 13 years is Sonic the Hedgehog. I was fast back in 2nd grade but then I met Sonic, when he was first introduced into this world, with the games like Sonic the Hedgehog 3 I wanted to be like my new hearo and became faster. Many Great games including Sonic 1,2,3, Sonic & Knuckels(4 so to speak) Sonic Spinball and Dr.Eggman's Mean Bean Machine, which I personally don't care for ( not exact name of the name of the game, I just used Eggman's name) It also has a very fun game called "Blue Sphere",
which you have to unlock which is too easy to do. They say to play the games included to unlock these secret games but you don't have play them exactly, I won't spoill it though you'll have play and see, sorry. The unlockables I will unvail, they include "Blue Sphere" which is, on the old system the result conecting Sonic/Knux to Sonic 1 & pushing all 3 buttons down at the same time. "Sonic 2 & Knuckles","Sonic 3 & Knuckles" (my favorite) both of these connecting games and a new game not of the Sonic world "Rystar" a very fun game.(sorry no details it would take too long) it also has Sonic 3D blast. These and extras like scrolls on game guides, comics VIDEOS(ohhhhh...ahhhhh) which are fantastic man! Not to mention the animated menus with awsome music too them ohh yeah. This game's a party in can,man! Sorry, disc man!! Get it play it love it.
Note: The opening and ending videos for Sonic CD are on here but not the game just you don't get too disapointed like I did. I first saw these minimovies I thought the last secret game be Sonic CD but it was Rystar. ohh well Now on Sonic Gems collection you CAN plat that game(on sale here at amazon.com ta da.....37 blocks of memory requiered for Sonic gems collection, only 2 for Mega collection) A Must buy, so do it!!!

THE BEST SEGA GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is so great! My favorite game that is in this series is Sonic The Hegehog 2 this is also the best game in the series. I can remember in 2002 when I got my gamecube I was in need of a good sonic game so I bought Sonic Adventure 2. Then Sonic games were the best! When Christmas came I needed another Sonic game so I asked for this one. It was so much fun! I still enjoy it. Once you buy this youll never want to sell it. I also love Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine. All of the games on here are great. So why are Flicky and Ristar on this? Flicky is on this because in Sonic 3D Blast you save the Flickies. Ristar is on this because that is almost what Sonic was supposed to be. Only instead of a star he was going to be a rabbit with strechy ears.

Thank you SO much Sega!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Oh my gosh!
I can't beleive Sega actually made this game with Sonic 2! My sister Asra loved Sonic 2 when our uncle gave the Genesis to us, with Sonic 2! Asra and I were crazy about this Genesis game. It was so fun. Now my sister was happy to see Sonic Mega Collection had Sonic 2. She was happy because our Genesis went dead(I think. It somehow got frozen). I was also happy to see Sonic 3! THANK YOU SOO MUCH SEGA!!!!! ^_^

this game is good , but i could expect better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this is a good game. it includes
sonic 1,2,3,& knuckles,spinball,3d blast and
dr. Robotniks mean bean machine.with secrets like
ristar,flicky,32,000 Bonus lenels,knuckles in sonic2 and
my all time favorite sonic 3 and knucles.the didnt include sonic cd.but its not genesis(duh)but it includes extras like artwork,commercials,animations,movies and best of all comics!
so heres a list of things to expect for game cube &gba
sonic adventure balttle(1),
sonic collection gear:
sonic gamegear

sonic gamegear 2
sonic drift 1(in america)
sonic drift 2
sonic chaos
sonic blast
sonic triple trouble
sonic labrynth and
tails adventure & sky patrol
(gba)
sonic compilation:
sonic cd-yay
sonic r
knux.'s chaotix

sonic drift 3 & alpha
sonic rally
sonic 2 in 1(sonic 1&knux. in sonic 2)
sonic advance 2
sonic advance 3(with rouge and mecha tails)

and the most anticipated game of the year for gamecube:
sonic adventure 3 (battle or no battle.)

good now that all this wonderful info is off my mind and to the public. i can have a happy christmas. C YA,!

Cool complation on 1 disc

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, this a cool game, but I dont play it much, but maybe I do. Here's the rating I give for all 7 regular games...

Sonic The Hedgehog 1: Great game, but Sonic cant use spin dash, but still pretty cool. 10/10

Sonic The Hedgehog 2: BEST GAME!!! Tails's 1st appearance, & cool 2-player action, & lots of stages!!!! 10/10

Sonic The Hedgehog 3: Cool game, but pretty hard. I cant beat Aquitaic Zone 1 yet, but I will soon thoh. I like this game thoh, & Knuckle's 1st appearence. 9/10

Sonic & Knuckels: Cool game, & u can play as Sonic or Knuckles, & its better than Sonic 3 but kinda harder. 9/10

Sonic Spinball: 3d best game on here!!! U can use Sonic pinball-shaped, and go through only 4 long levels by warping alot. Play this 1, folks! 10/10

Dr. Robotnicks Mean Bean Machine: No worst game on here or this 1ns not wither, but this 1ns pretty fun & weird. Its like a bean tetris, & u put lots of shapes down. its weird 2 brake them & get 2 next levels thoh. 5/10

Sonic 3D Blast: Some people hate this one, but I love it. Well, Sonic's not really 3D in this one, but cool. U have 2 rescue Flickies, & their's something weird with Knuckles & Tails thoh. 10/10

Good complation game with movies, comin book covers, etc. People should buy this anytime. They should make Sonic Mega Collection 2! With the games... Sonic CD, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Jam, Sonic Blast, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Advance, & Sonic Advance 2. PICK IT UP!

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