/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4795153
They're kind like coins.

>>4795163
What even are coins?

>>4795170
Coins are mushroom kingdom currency, Mario buys an extra life every 100 coins.
Now Rings? No idea, maybe is what sonic needs to live or what he is made of

>>4795153
doughnuts
see fat Sonic mod

>>4795380
Why are they left just sitting out? Who is selling the green mushrooms? Why does Bowser allow this?

>>4795424
Why does Bowser just get thrown into the lava? What sort of due process is this?

Cockrings

A hedgehog can run almost as fast as a stock Segway. Most you rent will be set a bit slower.

>>4795153
Sonic is better than Mario because he has bigger feet.

>>4795170
like salty milk and pussy

>>4795431

This, they are a metaphor for Robotnik's desire to keep raping the Earth of its resources.
the cock rings enable Robotnik to maintain a longer erection, thus prolonging the duration of his destruction.
By gathering up all the rings Sonic is effectively cock blocking Robotnik.

>>4795440
>Sonic is better than Mario because he has bigger feet.

>>4795656
What did you mean by this?

>>4795659

>>4795663
I'd forgotten about that.

IIRC they're supposed to be parts of a machine that Robotnik used to stabilize chaos emeralds so that he could draw energy from them, which then went full tschernobyl and blew up, scattering the chaos emeralds - and the rings, all over the world.

Onion rings, to go with his chilidogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1IBHlI-Og

>>4795474

This headcannon is better than any official lore that could exist.

>>4795153
Gameplay devices which serve as a cursory incentive to progress toward a certain route, while - in their absence - being indicative of areas which the player may have already explored.

Why are Sanicfags the biggest autists?

>>4795918
pls no ableism no f-slur pls k thx :-)

Just some kind of magic energy item. The joke is always "where does Sonic put the rings?", but I always assumed he touches one, it disappears and he absorbs the energy. Then when he gets hit, the shock make new rings materialize around where he crashed.

we just don't know

>>4795387
>doughnuts
Found the virgin. It's donuts.

They're canonically onion rings. Donuts don't have those proportions.

>>4796264
>It's donuts
Found the American who thinks everyone else is wrong, including the people who invented his language.

>>4796270
Haha based Nazi telling amerilard how it is

>>4796270
We spell it both ways but donut is less formal. It's like how an old man adds unnecessary hyphens to newfangled computer terms.

>>4796293
I can accept both spellings.
>>4796264 is the shithead who apparently can't and is willing enough to make a hard statement on it.
My statement doesn't apply to all Americans, just that one.
>>4796292
Honestly, you shut up. Again, I'm not the one who took a firm stance on how a word is spelled.

>this thread

>>4796326
Thanks for the (You)s :-)

They're chaos energy. Which is why you need a certain amount, and constantly lose them, when you turn super. And I think you need them for SAB2 multiplayer abilities? I don't think I played that part, because no friends.

>>4796270

The French don't spell it "doughnut".

>>4796264

So you're saying you lost your virginity to a donut?

>>4796510
That's what some call it.

>>4795170
I use 'em to play the slots

>>4796579
What's slots? Is that like American pachinko?

Who put them there, and how do they float?

>>4796609
Chaos energy is some weird shit, man.

>>4795663
wew lad

The fifth element.

Fremen water rings

>>4795663
I assume I should be glad the phone layout doesn't show all of it when first clicked.

>>4795663
he looks so happy...

>>4796121
Makes sense

Okay, so the big thing with the art design of the first Sonic the Hedgehog was showing off this new technology in graphics where you can create 3D objects with what's called tessellated rendering effects.

The dev team were looking at the latest 3D art during this time as inspiration for the look of the game and that's why levels have these checker board patterns; this was very common with 3D renderings in magazines during this time.

You don't need to know anything tessellation other than it fragments objects into different segments so each segment of an object is a different tone as it is hit by light. Look at the tree leaves from Green Hill Zone in my pic to see what I mean.

So, anyway - Sonic has rings because they look more 3D and have volume as they spin around, seeing as popular 3D renderings were the inspiration for the game's art design. The original option was to go with static coins because Mario but the spinning rings were more visually interesting and created a greater separation from Sonic and obsolete NES games.

>>4799405

Of course I would forget to post my image.

Is Sonic 2 XL the most challenging Sonic game?

>>4799410
Easily.

>>4795153
Health, essentially.

They were invented by uncle chuck so his son could defeat Julian. Only Sonic can harness their power. They come from the lake of rings.

>>4799579
Those are Power Rings, they're different from the normal rings you'd find in Zones. At least in Archie and X continuity.