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Sonic Super-Duper Hyper Mega Collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 25
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Not only does this great game contain:
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Sonic & Knuckles
- Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis Version)
- Sonic Spinball
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
but it also contains 5 unlockable games:
- Ristar
- Flicky
- 3 Unknown (hopefully Sonic CD)
PLUS tons of extras:
- extensive collection of pictures
- complete character biographies and histories
- collection of Archie Sonic comic covers and one full comic ("Sonic Firsts")
and lastly of course:
- Sonic & Knuckles Lock-On Technology allowing you to play as Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic 2 and 3, and allowing you to explore new areas and new levels
Summary:
- GET THIS GAME NOW!

Hedge Hog Mania

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: August 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Nostalgic video games are really making a comeback right now, not just on the computer, for video game systems, and portable lookalikes of controllers from classic video game systems. Nevertheless, with so many classic from Nintendo, Atari, Sega, and others to add on. For Sega to add on this nostalgia, they put their classic mascot that really franchised a dynamic level for Sega, Sonic The Hedgehog. Arguably, the blue character has been in some magnificent video games predicaments and mazes. Arguably, he was a true giant during the Genesis days. Sadly, Sega was never able to rebound in the video game wars after the Genesis. Still, the Sonic days still come and go.

The Sonic Mega Collection, is a collection of seven great Sonic games from the Genesis days: Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, and Sonic & Knuckles, as well as 5 hidden games to add on. The games from those 2D days were just completely outrageous and still filled with fast speeds and excitement. The games still remain as addictive as they did then, but a little more. The collection also includes 5 hidden games: Flicky, Blue Sphere, Rishtar, as well as the 2 lock-on games that were added on to Sonic & Knuckles, that put Knuckles into the game, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Knuckles in Sonic 2.

The games were each remastered beautifully, without any flaws or detail missing from the Genesis days. The game also includes some extras as well, including the old Sonic comics that were issued from the mid 90's, well over 300 issues of them. Not only that, you see some trailers from clips from different games including Sonic CD, which was overlooked for this collection, as well as a video about the making of Sonic The Hedgehog. All in all this is truly a game for the record books. Sega has done this time & time again with their own systems, Saturn, Dreamcast, and the PC, but the graphics are crisper here, and the gameplay control is just as simple as it was during the Genesis days.

I'm just surprised this kind of collection hasn't been issued on any other console whether it is Playstation 2, Xbox, or the Game Boy Advance. Still, if you have missed the Genesis days from then, you get a second chane here with Sonic The Hedgehog, Knuckles, Tails, and the rest of the gang here on the Gamecube. Sonic Mega Collection is one well worth the twenty bucks spent.

Compilation...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This compilation disk has 7 default titles, 5 secret titles, movies, art, and his whole comic book collection on it.

Sonic the Hedgehog is a good game. A speedy 'hog runs through a series of loop-de-loops at brakeneck speeds. You must save your animal friends and defeat Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 introduces Tails, a sidekick, the Spin Dash (a charged-up, spinning, super-speed boost), and with all 7 Chaos Emeralds, transform into Super Sonic! Defeat Robotnik's Death Egg. A direct sequel, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has 6-10 zones. Eggman (Robotnik) trickes a new echidna, Knuckles, into thinking that Sonic & Tails are the bad guys and are out to steal the Chaos Emeralds! Sonic & Knuckles is another direct sequel to the prequels. Sonic & Knuckles team up and fight Eggman! There is a secret, "lock-on technology" to link STH 2 or STH 3 with S&K. Sonic Spinball is a game where Sonic is the pinball. You must escape Ivo's evil pinball fortress on your own! Sonic 3D Blast is in an isometric, 3D environment. Save Flickie Island before Eggman gets it. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is a button masher. Eliminate the objects quickly.

Sonic 2 & Knuckles is a secret game. You can now play through as Knuckles. Sonic 3 & Knuckles not only lets you play as Knuckles, but S&K adds all of it's zones! Flicky is a puzzle game where you must collect your bird infants before the cat gobbles them. Ristar is a platformer featuring a star as the hero. Blue Sphere is a minigame from S&K. There are movies, art, and his whole comic book collection. Buy it now!

Quality classics back to life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game consists of 7 sega classics, and 5 unlockable games. I have unlocked all the games, which is an unbeleivably long process, because you must access all the games about 50 times to do it. On the plus side, you don't have to be able to beat any of the games to do it. I would've spent the 40 bucks for sonic 1,2, and 3, but it also comes with sonic and knuckles, sonic spinball, and the mean bean machine, a dr. mario type puzzle game. Also 3D blast, almost forgot. You get to play as knuckles in the unlockable games, the blue sphere mini-game from sonic 3, and two lovable non-sonic titles, very hard by the way. I am 20, been around, and this is the best deal I've seen on one game ever. Besides, what's 40 bucks, if you wanted a used sega with these titles, you'd be payin around 100 by the end of it. I've never regretted buying it, and still haven't conquered everything. Plenty of gameplay, and good for all ages, definately a must have.

Finally! A good Sega compilation!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you're like me, you're probably wary of Sonic Mega Collection based on Sega's horrible track record with their "Smash Packs" and other horrible Windows ports. The vast majority of Sega's ports come nowhere near the quality of the original. Well, thankfully that's not the case here. All 7 appear to be flawlessly emulated. The sound, control, and graphics all look identical to the originals. Actually the graphics look better since I've got my Gamecube hooked up through S-Video, and the picture looks a bit sharper, brighter, and cleaner than on the Genesis back in the day.

My only two complaints are pretty minor. First, the Gamecube control pad isn't the greatest for games that need digital directional control. The d-pad is small and kind of positioned strangely. It works fine, and actually the analog stick feels okay for these games too, but for these games it will never feel quite as good as a controller with a more "normal" d-pad. Secondly, this is theoretically a compilation of older Sonic games, but it's missing by far the best game in the series-Sonic CD. It's strange that Sega would include only marginally related titles like Bean Machine and Spinball, but drop one of their best platformers ever.

Still, most of these games have stood the test of time well (most of them are far superior to Sega's somewhat flaky Sonic Adventure games). The first three Sonic games plus Sonic & Knuckles still look pretty great, and even after a decade, there's nothing else that plays quite like them. This collection is a great deal if you don't already own most of these games.

Sonic Sonic!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well I've been playing sonic games since 1991 when sonic the hedgehog came out. Here are all of the games.
1.Sonic the hedgehog- Sonics first game. Help sonic by saving his animal friends from the evil Dr.Robotnik.
2. Sonic the hedgehog 2- This time robotnik tries to take over the world using the giant ship called the Death Egg. Help sonic And his new bud tails to stop the death egg from destroying the world.
3.sonic the hedgehog 3- Continues right after sonic 2. This time after crashing the death egg on the floating island sonic and tails must stop Robotnik before he finds the master emerald.
4.Sonic&Knuckles-Join sonic and knuckles as they try to protect the master emerald.
5.Sonic spinball- Help sonic escape robotniks evil pinball fortress.
6.Sonic 3D blast- Save all of the filkies befor Robotnik captures them all.
7.Dr. Robotnik's Mean bean machine. A fun puzzle game. Sort of like Dr. Mario.
There are a ton of unlockables so I really encourage you get this game.

Who could rate this anything less than 5 stars?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

An exquisite collection of Sonic hits. This one disc holds 7 Sonic the hedgehog games + extra games and bonus material. If you purchase this game here is what you will get... SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, SONIC 2, SONIC 3, SONIC & KNUCKLES, SONIC 3D BLAST, SONIC SPINBALL, DR. ROBOTNIK'S MEAN BEAN MACHINE, A HAND FULL OF ATARI-LIKE GAMES (with better than Atari graphics), A SONIC COMIC BOOK, COMIC BOOK COVERS, RARE ARTWORK & MORE. All of which is playable or veiwable on a tiny little disc. These games originated on plastic cartridges and have been all placed on a compact mini disc for GAMECUBE. The games never looked better. Any SONIC fan would give their right arm for this MEGA COLLECTION if they thought they could still play it afterwards. A great collection that is very much worth the low price. Buy it now because a game like this goes up in price, not down.

Chock Full of Sonic Goodness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What a value! For less than the cost of most new Gamecube games you get several great Sega Genesis titles on one disk. There's very little to complain about here. The disk even contains copies of the original manuals to every game included. I'll give a short description of each game on the disk.

Sonic the Hedgehog: a perfect copy of the first Sonic game, right down to the secret stage select and debug mode.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Tails the fox joins Sonic, enabling fun two-player simultaneous action.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3: only minor changes in the gameplay separate this one from Sonic 2.

Sonic & Knuckles: more of the same. The Genesis cartridge had the distinction of being able to open it's top up and have Sonic 2 or 3 plug into it. Doing so allowed the player to use the character Knuckles in either of those two games.

Blue Sphere: a larger version of the minigame found in Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. This game opens up only after accessing other games on the disk a certain number of times.

Knuckles in Sonic 2: an alternate version of Sonic 2 which allows you to play as Knuckles the Enchida. Must be unlocked in similar fashion as Blue Sphere.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles: this is just like Knuckles in Sonic 2 except, well, it's Sonic 3.

Sonic 3D Blast: essentially a non-polygonal, 3-dimentional Sonic game. The controls are horrible.

Sonic Spinball: if you love pinball video games you might like this one. It's a vast scrolling pinball field with Sonic as the ball. It never interested me.

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine: an addictive Tetris-style strategy game for 1 or 2 players.

Flicky: very cutesy, simple 1 player game that has nothing to do with Sonic. It's another game which must be unlocked.

Ristar: another cute game that has nothing to do with the blue hedgehog. But unlike Flicky, Ristar has rich graphics and deeper gameplay. Like Flicky, though, it must be unlocked.

As if the games weren't enough, Sonic Mega Collection offers a slew of bonuses including cover pics of every Sonic comic book produced, detailed illustrations of various Sonic characters, and video clips from non-Genesis Sonic games.

Along with Super Smash Bros Melee I play this game the most.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is my most played game along with Super Smash Bros Melee.Why do you ask?Maybe its the gameplay and the music,maybe its because these games never get old but most of all its becuase its a highly addictive compilation.Few games have this much replay value.You just never get sick of it.My favorites are Sonic 1 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles.Those 2 games are masterpieces.I dont know what else I should say except that anyone with even the slightest interest about games should get this.They definitely wont be disappointed.

THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is great and very fun. I love this game. I never really got into Sonic until recently. I'm glad I bought this game. You have 7 games on 1 disc. I really like the Sonic and knuckles game. They are all good. But the thing I don't like is you have to unlock 3 of the games. Alot of hours of fun. It reminds me of the older mario games. It's great. I plan to get all the Sonic games for the gamecube. I'm really happy with this one.

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