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If the player finishes the stage with a shield power-up, they will notice that when Sonic leaps off the corkscrew, his sprite is just left suspended barely off screen, and half of his shield will remain visible in midair.

Also! FUN SONIC FACT THAT HEAVYSIGH PROBABLY MISSED In 1993, probably around the height of Sonic's popularity, scientists had discovered a new type of protein involved in the development of human life during gestation. Found on chromosome 7 of the human genome, it enables the development of limbs. ...

Fun Sonic Facts! Once the two parts of Sonic 3 were finally out, much of the Japanese staff at STI decided to return to Japan, including Yuji Naka. Yasuhara, however, elected to remain in the United States despite promises of a higher salary. Though the exact reasons as to why were never made public...

Fun Sonic Facts! Prior to the first official showcase of Sonic & Knuckles, 40 competitions were held all across the world (or at least in Canada, Japan, Brazil and 16 competitions held at Hard Rock Cafes across America), where players would compete on Sonic 3 carts to see who could collect the m...

Fun Sonic Facts! STI's preferred solution to the music issue was to hire Howard Drossin to compose new tracks to replace the Jackson ones, but they had little time to do so, as six months before release was essentially the final hour for the game's release (as mastering and producing cartridges requ...

Fun Sonic Facts! Now, while Sega had indeed accepted Jackson's offer to score Sonic 3 (under the condition that his involvement would be kept under wraps until the game released), that didn't mean his name would end up on it, as Jackson had a history of going uncredited (or using pseudonyms) in prod...

Fun Sonic Facts!

Super Knuckles is immune to slam dunk attacks, unlike Super Sonic.

Fun Sonic Facts! Since Sonic 3 was, like Sonic 2, being developed in the USA at STI, SEGA thought it might be good to look there for some musical talent. This is where most evidence is scant and circumstantial, but what there is points to the fact that, somehow, pop sensation Michael Jackson got win...

Fun Sonic Facts! MUSIC EDITION Unlike other Sonic games, the music of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a bit of an issue for SEGA due to the many, many choices made during development. It is not clear how much of the soundtrack is actually owned by SEGA itself, since it had outsourced music production to thi...

Fun 'already said by raocow in todays video'! While in the west Sonic 3 was released in February, the game would not see release in Japan until May of that year. Though no official word was ever given for the delay, industry scuttlebutt had it that Sega was planning on releasing a 24-megabit version...

Fun Sonic Facts! In the United Kingdom, Sega commissioned pop group Right Said Fred to compose a song connected to the game. Thw song, "Wonderman", was released with a music video utilizing Sonic the Hedgehog imagery as well as using Steve O'Donnell, the face of Sega's advertising in Europ...

Fun Sonic Facts! For the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, an incredible marketing event was planned. Having been slated for release on February 2nd in the United States (as the game simply could not hit a Christmas season release date, SEGA execs grumpily accepted a February date as it was a time wi...

Fun Sonic Facts! With the genius idea of Lock-On Technology, The first game, simply titled 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3', would be an experience that could stand on its own. However, left inside the code for the game were numerous pointers for the second half to take advantage of using Lock-On Technology. ...

Fun Sonic Facts! It was only a little while into development before the fourteen Zones of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 were laid out, the earlier levels given higher priority due to the game being split in half. As the release date for North America drew closer, it was decided that Flying Battery, once the ...

Fun Sonic Facts! As development on Sonic 3 got underway, rather than brainstorming behind locked doors, the dev team decided to take more inspiration from the world around them, designing entire Zones from the names of places the group visited on field trips to get away from production for a scant f...

Fun KNUCKLES Facts! Just like in Sonic 2, it was decided that a new character should be added to the world of Sonic the Hedgehog. To find this new character, the development team held an internal competition similar to the one that had yielded Sonic's adorable sidekick Tails. Of the many designs ent...

Fun Sonic Facts! As the plans for Sonic 3 were laid out, Yasuhara and Naka wanted to create a large, sprawling game, with more content than any Sonic title to date, essentially accomplishing what they had first hoped to do in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Roger Hector, a director at STI and Executive Coordi...

Fun Sonic Facts! At first, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was intended to be developed using a new technology Sega was working on to counter the power of Nintendo's Super FX Chip. This was the SH-1 chip created by microprocessor producer Hitachi (to be dubbed "Sega Virtual Processor" in all marketi...

Fun Sonic Facts! At first, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was intended to be developed using a new technology Sega was working on to counter the power of Nintendo's Super FX Chip. This was the SH-1 chip created by microprocessor producer Hitachi (to be dubbed "Sega Virtual Processor" in all marketin...

Fun Sonic Facts! In the wake of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and its nothing short of stupefying success in the west, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that another sequel was wanted. This time ready to hit another one out of the park, Sega once again looked towards the Sega Technical Institute and the dy...

Fun Sonic Facts!

The 8bit version of Sonic Spinball was the final Sonic title released for the Sega Master System, excluding Brazil, which had a local SMS port of Sonic Blast as well.

Fun Sonic Facts! Although the levels of Game Gear Sonic Spinball carry the same themes as the 16-bit game, the different layouts of the levels contain several more opportunities to travel on foot. Also, there are hidden rooms which hide monitors which, when broken, will display a cheat code to be ac...

Fun Sonic Facts! The Sega Pico, known in Japan as the Kids Computer Pico (キッズコンピューター・ピコ) and later the Kids Communication Pico (キッズコミュニケーション・ピコ), was a an odd hybrid between a Mega Drive, a graphics tablet and an electronic book reader. It was aimed at young children between the ages of 2 and 8 yet ...

Fun Sonic Facts! Sonic Drift is the first 8-bit Sonic game to be released exclusively for Sega Game Gear without a separate port for the Sega Master System. It is also the first Sonic the Hedgehog console/handheld game release to remain originally exclusive to Japan, with the only official western a...

Fun Sonic Facts! The Game Gear version of Mean Bean Machine is a total retooling of the Japan-only Puyo game, Nazo Puyo, famous for being exclusively released as a pack-in title for specially marked Game Gears. (So you'd be spending about ¥15,800 to purchase one) However, Mean Bean Machine has a muc...