Sonic The Hedgehog

[Videomaster21XX]

I kinda feel like we could make it's own thread on this topic. "What is your videogame story?" or something. (I'm about to make a long post. Feel free to ignore it. Or if we do start a new topic, we can move this post to it.)

I first got into vidya games by playing the commodore 64. Friend of mine had an atari.

Then I had a friend who had a NES and a small black and white tv in his room, which to me was mind blowing. No way could WE afford a tv just for the kids room. (I shared a room with my brothers till like high school. We were poor)

First systems were hand me downs. I got a gameboy first with some games from my dad. I remember saving up money to get Metroid 2 because I saw it in a Nintendo power mag in some doctor's waiting room.

Dad sent me an NES a few years later. I had played some MegaMan 3 at the friends house with the B&W TV, and loved what I played, so I picked up a used copy of MegaMan 5 from this rental place called Warehouse video. Cost me five bucks. (and I still have this copy to this day) From then on I wanted every MegaMan game I could get. I borrowed MM2 from my grandpa's house as he remarried and they had a few NES games. I wanted to play MM2 so I borrowed it as they never played the system. I figured I'd just give the game back when they wanted it.

Yeah they never wanted it. It was like almost five years later I was like: "You do realize I have your copy of MM2 right?"

Yeah they didn't care. So it's mine now.

We found MM4, my dad sent me MM1 (I was in California at the time, and him Florida) We eventually found MM3 in a pawn shop. Then one day I got told our local Toys R Us had MegaMan 6 for sale, and I got it brand new. Pretty sure I might still have it's box in my closet.

The rest were just normal purchases except I remember getting MM7 and some other rare SNES games from a video store that was selling off it's stock as people didn't rent them anymore.

Anyway I put what money I could get together toward a SNES on Layaway (remember that?) Which a friend of the family helped pay off for my birthday and even got me a copy of Super Metriod! I also got the Killer Instinct SNES bundle. Long since lost the box sadly. I still have the "killer cuts" KI soundtrack CD though! (and the game)

I believe my next system was an N64, again thanks to my dad. Star Fox 64 was actually my first (and well to this day pretty much only) foray into the Star Fox games. Nope never got it for the SNES. It was just that one game I never came across, or when I did no money.

Then I bought a Sega Saturn from a used game store for like twenty bucks? Got some games for it. Including Magic Knight Rayearth. Probably the most expensive game I own.

THAT was my first Sega System, and there wasn't really a Sonic Game for it. The two it had I never came across to own.

I got a PS1 next, and made sure I picked up MegaMan X4. Remember the first time I played Resident Evil on it. Sadly being poor in California. Roaches were always a problem no matter how much we bug bombed our place. A freaking nest got into the PS1 and ruined it. Took a year or two for me to get another one.

My next Sega system was the Dreamcast. The system had just been labeled a failure and Sega was leaving the console market to become a third party. So Dreamcasts were 50 bucks at this place called Media Play. I had a job by then and immediately snatched one up. At the time it was the most 'modern' system I could get as I didn't have a PS2 and didn't think I'd get one any time soon.

Sometime after that I was working for Hollywood Video and we were marking out and selling a few titles which included Record of the Lodoss war and Sonic Adventure Limited Edition for Dreamcast. I grabbed both. Played through Adveture and fell in love. Wanted to go out and get all the Sonic games so found a Genesis for cheap. (MIght have been a thrift store find. I also got my Phillips CDi from a thrift store for 13 bucks.)

Picked up Sonic 1, Sonic 2 (Both in their cases!) Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles (sadly no cases) Spinball and Mean Bean Machine. 3D Blast for the Genesis as well.

Found a copy of Sonic CD, but sadly it's Disc Only. Also the Sega CD I found and bought used ended up not working.

I remember I made a deal to work a shift or two for someone at Hollywood video in exchanged for their old Game Gear which came with Sonic 2!

After that my collection of Sonic games is lacking. I don't have many. Heck I don't actually have Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast. The copy I played was a rental I think.

I do have Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for my Gamecube.

After that the games I have are:
Sonic Unleashed for the PS3 (which I hear people say is not the best version)
Sonic Colors for the Wii
Sonic Secret Rings Wii
Sonic Black Knight Wii
Sonic Forces for my switch (and the only one of these I've actually played through)
Sonic Frontiers for the PS5.

Yep that's it. As you can see I'm missing so many.

I've always been a: "I get the system with the games I want" I only eventually got a PS3 for Tales of Graces F. Sure I've added a ton of games since then, but it took a Tales game to finally get me to grab one.

But if you have a series I want to play, I'll get your system first, otherwise I wait till you're cheap enough to grab, then go back and pick up all the games I want before prices skyrocket.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I kinda feel like we could make it's own thread on this topic. "What is your videogame story?"

Ha! That's not even my whole story. I could probably write a whole book on mine...

Hmm...

This right here. Nintendo won the 16-bit console wars with its persistence. DKC was a huge push for them. I think that was the first time that they sent out VHS tapes to people to hype up the game. (On a side note, I just want to say how crazy it was that we all had VCRs in the 90s, and people could just send you VHS tapes and expect you to be able to watch it) I remember getting one in the mail for DKC, and it really made us excited for this game. We got it that Christmas, and had a ton of fun showing it off at the Grandparents' house to all the cousins.

Still got mine! Among a few others, in fact.

As a huge Garfield fan in the 90s I am surprised that I didn't get this one. Heck, I don't even think I have heard of it.

Wild. It was on Genesis, PC, and Game Gear, and I think each has a different mix of levels? Got magazine advertising, too.

I have never played the latter two, however. I would very much like to someday.

Oh, and the SEGA Channel version, which I think had its own "lost levels," as I believe it's sometimes called.

Anyway, I quite enjoyed it. Gameplay isn't the greatest of anything, but it wasn't enough to stop me from playing, beating, and enjoying it. Animation and music and graphics are all good. It also has one of my favorite Halloween levels in a video game, inspired by the Halloween special (not the one shown below).

It may not be the greatest game ever made, but it was good enough for me, and probably the best Garfield game ever made, for whatever that's worth to anyone.

Me too! I still have my SNES box that my brother saved but my Genesis box is long gone.

Sadly, I don't have that, either. Just didn't have room, and then my dad just sold his house without any regard for the stuff I had there. /_\

Why the hate for the GBA? Granted I didn't get one until 2004.....

What hate? It was just a luxury we couldn't afford at the time. Did have a Game Boy Player for our GameCube, though, given to us as a gift.

I did finally get a GBA SP when I signed us up for some cell phones at Rogers, and they had one leftover from a promotion I'd missed, and he gave it to me for signing up, along with a Pac-Man collection.

I got a belt case for it, and it rarely left my side... at least, until I got a Nintendo DS (first model).

I have a Saturn and a few games that I got for helping out my local retro game store. My cousin had one back int he day, and it was a fun system. I haven't ever been tempted by Master system though. Something about the boxart and the games I have seen for it, just makes me ignore it.

Oh, that box art is part of the charm for me. It's wrapped around from being bad back to being good to me again.

My biggest reason for wanting one -- besides SEGA's tendency to ignore it with compilations and such -- is because I want Alex Kidd in Shinobi World. Love that game.

 

[Sabrblade]

I wonder if Carrey has ever considered going the Mark Hamill route and getting into voice acting. At a certain point he's going to be too old to play a cartoon character in live-action (or at least characters as young as Stanley Ipkiss or Dr. Robotnik), but he'll have potentially decades left in him for playing them in actual cartoons.

So, I just watched the following video and was reminded of this post above, here, and according to said video, Jim Carrey actually did once try to get into cartoon voice acting at some point in his career, but the roles he auditioned for were ones where his auditions were bested by the likes of Jim Cummings and Townsend Coleman, so he pursued a career in front of the camera instead: