/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6463698
>You two are so fucking dense.
And yet you're the one capslocking like an angry retard.
Nobody knows the exact detail on the game's production, and ultimately it doesn't matter much. What we know is:
-He said the project took off mentioning the Game Gear
-Master System version came out a bit earlier
-Game Gear version is more polished
It's not too farfetched to assume that Sonic, being a product mainly aimed at americans, got its 8bit iteration mainly made for Game Gear in mind, which was actually popular in USA during its first years, and was a new product Sega was trying to push, so making a Sonic game for it was a no brainer. The Master System port just makes sense because it's basically the same hardware than GG, with some limitations on the color palette.
I doubt they would have made the GG port in less than 2 months, so they most likely worked on both versions at the same time, and the extra time they spent with the GG one was most likely for polish and as I said probably also timing for the holiday season.