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Fun Tails Facts! WESTERN PLOT SYNOPSIS "Having parted ways from Sonic for a little vacation time from their adventures, Tails has traveled to his favorite holiday spot called 'TAILS ISLAND'. However, upon attempting to take a little rest in the forest, Tails was awoken to a loud explosion and t...

This update right here is how you can tell this game was still actively worked on in 2019.



Roll Boss Rush #3: Geometry Transformation (Heavy Sigh, Combat Lobster, Jspades, and Shinryu)

Fun TAILS Facts! "Far in the southern Pacific, there exists a tiny island that can't be found on any map. In ancient times, this island was part of a coral reef that was pulled to the surface by the power of the Chaos Emeralds. It's here on this beautiful oasis, Cocoa Island, that Tails resided...

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Roll Boss Rush #2: MIDI Enabled (Heavy Sigh, Combat Lobster, and Jspades)

Fun Sonic Facts! Tails' Skypatrol (テイルスのスカイパトロール) is a Sonic spin-off game for the Game Gear and was only ever released in Japan (possibly because Tails being the hero was too much for American audiences to accept, or because the Game Gear was basically dead in American waters by 95'). It stars Mile...

Fun Sonic Facts! The prototype ROM of Sonic Crackers will crash on real Mega Drive hardware, but only if the player does not skip the SEGA screen quick enough or hangs around the title screen for too long. The cause of this crash is due to the sound driver trying and failing to find a music ID for b...

Fun 32X facts! SEGA of America's marketing pitched the 32X as being 40 times more powerful than the Super NES and 6 times more powerful than the 3DO. This was a little misleading, as it was only referring to CPU performance, as the 32X's dual Hitachi SH-2 are capable of processing over 59 MIPS, comp...

Roll Boss Rush is a 2D Action Platformer that consists of nothing but boss fights and ''''''''sexy'''''''''' Robot Master girls. You play as Megaman's sister Roll, but not the one from the games, rather, the one from the Ruby Spears Megaman Cartoon because she is taller and therefore better . There ...

Fun Sonic Facts! The story of Knuckles' Chaotix actually has a great deal of difference between the Japanese and Western releases of the game, with two completely irreconcilable storylines! Let's start with the Japanese version! "A mysterious island rose from the southern sea a few months after...

Fun Sonic Facts! Knuckles Chaotix's roots can be traced all the way back to an internal Sega Mega Drive demo, Sonic Crackers. That was a game where the pitch was that Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower were literally joined together by a stretchy connection, and must use their com...

Fun Sonic Facts!

Sonic Drift 2 sold over 3 million units between 2012-2016, making it more popular than the original release of Sonic Adventure.

I've been scooped.

......oh well.

Fun Sonic Facts!

Fang is completely absent from the North American and European Sonic Drift 2 box arts due to an absolutely abysmal cropping job, with only a tiny corner of his machine, Marvelous Queen, left of him.

Fun Sonic Facts! Fang the Sniper was designed (with permission from Naoto Ohshima) by Shinichi Higashi, who worked for Sega between 1994-2002 and later became a popular freelance artist in Japan. His design for Fang was explicitly based on a jerboa (トビネズミ?) motif in his mind (originally giving Fang ...

Fun Sonic Facts!

This Zone actually gives our heroic duo exclusive powerups! Sonic gains the Propeller Shoes, which actually let him swim instead of sink like a stone. The real winner here though is Tails, because he gets the Sea Fox, a personal submarine.

Fun Sonic Facts!

This zone's boss is simply known as Giga Thomas "Pen". The quotes are indeed part of his name.

Fun Sonic Facts! A very easy level select code exists in the game; hold up on the D-pad as the game boots up and don't let go, and in the opening cutscene, press start at the exact moment Knuckles grabs the third Chaos Emerald. Your timing has to be nearly frame perfect, even a slight miss won't wor...

Fun Sonic Facts! Sonic Triple Trouble is known as Sonic & Tails 2 in Japan, and even had its title screen changed from Sonic and Tails running across the screen before the logo appeared, to having Knuckles jump onto the title and laugh for the American version. Interestingly, while the Japanese ...

FUN BLUE SPHERE FACTS! If a game is locked on to Sonic&Knuckles which brings the total file size of both to more than 4MB (for example, Super Street Fighter II), Blue Sphere does not load, instead Sonic & Knuckles starts up. This is because, when locked-on to a ROM larger than 2MB, Sonic &am...

Fun Sonic Facts!

Mecha Sonic is the only robot in the entire series to achieve a Super Form.

Fun Sonic Facts!

The Eggrobo Knuckles fights against is the same Eggrobo that emerges from the pile of destroyed Eggrobos in Sonics' Chaos Emerald only ending, as Knuckles' storyline takes place after the destruction of the Death Egg.

Fun Sonic Facts! Tiertex, developers of Sonic's Edusoft (on commission from publisher US GOLD), actually focus tested the game at a primary school in Didsbury, Manchester to a crowd of adoring five year olds. This was after a very long time in development, as the game had started only a few months a...

Fun Special Stage Facts! The Special Stages of Sonic 3 & Knuckles were created by Yuji Naka after watching Dragon Ball one day, thinking that the tiny planet King Kai lived on was an amazing visual for a Special Stage. To realize this 3D sphere effect without actually making use of polygons or d...

Fun Sonic Facts! Sonic 3 and Knuckles was a huge success for SEGA, selling over four million copies between both releases. While a little disheartening after the bonkers success of Sonic 2, it was still enough to keep the Sonic train rolling, and more importantly, Sega wanted to create the next &quo...

Fun Level Facts!

It is possible, if the Master Laser fires during the rising portion of the Great Eggman Robo's step forward, for Sonic to duck and avoid it.

Any other time results in Sonic eating a Master Laser for his last meal.

Fun Sonic Facts! Sonic has been immortalized in genetic science, with a gene and the protein it codes for named after him, the 'Sonic Hedgehog' gene. But, this was not the result of some mad marketing stunt by SEGA, but because of a little girl's comic book. The sonic hedgehog gene was one of a set ...