The concept of Sonic the Hedgehog
is not hard to grasp, and you need to seek medical help if you do find it hard to take in. You take control of the blue blur himself, speeding through the vast levels in the game, while at the same time dodging the many traps set out to impede his progress using his super speed and his super spin attack, which will help destroy Eggman's many robots.
To make your journey suck just that little bit more, you have to contend with a guy who's eaten a few Hamburgers too many at the end of each zone. Yes, it's our chubby friend, Dr. Robotnik. As in the Master System version, he changes his hovercraft every level, so you must find out his pattern and destroy him. The very last level is a big boss, where Eggman isn't in his hovercraft for once! What sucks is that he may be a bit trickier to beat than the other bosses.
You need to collect all of the chaos emeralds in order to stop Eggman's plans completely, and you do this by finishing a level with over 50 rings. when you get there, a massive ring will appear. Jump into that to enter a whole new dimension. This Special Stage has you floating around a 360 Degree environment, full of bumpers and icons, to find the Chaos emerald encased within special diamonds that you have to hit to make them disappear.
Hitting different icons affect different situations. For example, hit a
circle with an 'R' on it and the 360 Degree rotation will reverse the other way. Others include 'Up' and 'Down' circles which, amazingly, speed up or down the rotation. These are just
a few things you can find in the Special Stage, which you can use to your advantage, or it can just be a pain. You decide.
The Mega Drive/Genesis version of Sonic 1 has major improvements than the Master System one, being 16-Bit and all. Aswell as the graphics, the music's top notch. The extra 8-Bit really makes a difference. The levels are longer, the bosses harder (but still easy), and Scrap Brain's the bomb!
The real question is - is this any good? Well, yes! This is the one that started it all! People may find it a bit easy in places, but it has that sort of 'medium' difficulty that'll make you play it over and over, even when you've completed it. Obviously the hype of this game is ultimately low, there's been many more Sonic games released. But if you're out for a little bit of nostalgia anyway, best get Sonic 1 out from the attic, eh? You know it makes sense. It's a classic.
Sonic Score: 8 out of 10!
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