/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10383648

Sonic 3&K is my fave, partially because as a kid I was just too dumb to know how the combined game worked and never fully experienced it till I was older, which was pretty awesome for me.

I just treasure all memories of Sonic in the 90s even beyond games. It was his era. Everything from lazy days watching his cartoons on TV, always getting the Sonic pasta at the store, playing with Sonic bubblegum containers and Happy Meal toys because video game toys were a rarity back then. Getting Sonic comic books off the magazine rack at the drug store everytime I was sick and had to go get medecine. I remember being at a laundromat and there was a claw grab machine, and my mom got me this plush Sonic thing that was like Sonic curled into a ball with a suction cup, one of those car/window decoration things, just seeing anything Sonic in the world felt cool. At that time, Sonic was just one of the coolest characters in pop culture, he wasn't some icon of internet fandoms and deviantart autism or an underdog of gaming, he just was the unironic coolest.

I prefer 2D all day. I'm not against 3D Sonic but like you said they never really nailed it unfortunately. I don't know why but 3D Sonic has always felt like this weird experimental playground where they're always trying to reinvent Sonic with a mindset of "what if Sonic was like this instead" rather than trying to just make the definitive Sonic game that has all of the appeal of the classics, just in 3D.

When I was a kid I had these Sonic and Knuckles shoes until they wore out. Besides that, some Mario Kart shirt from a Nintendo Power subscription that I never wore and that's about it.

I wanted these so bad as a kid