(02-18-2024, 01:59 PM)NeoMetallix Wrote: Must have been pretty cool to be around when it came out and how different it was from everything else from the time. I was only 3 when it came out. Lol But I remember the hype for Sonic 3 before it released.

Yep, it felt so good to be around when the game was released and the hype was as real as they come which the game meet all the expectations fans had for it.

For me, my dad got a SEGA Genesis as a hand me down, and Sonic 2 was one of the games for the console. Then I got Sonic Heroes and Sonic Advance 3 and from there I kept an eye on the series.

(03-11-2024, 11:01 AM)Channeleven Wrote: For me, my dad got a SEGA Genesis as a hand me down, and Sonic 2 was one of the games for the console. Then I got Sonic Heroes and Sonic Advance 3 and from there I kept an eye on the series.

Sonic Advance 3 was an awesome game!

i got into sonic because of a streamer i watch! he streamed a bunch of old sonic games back-to-back for a subathon, which got me interested in playing them for myself. particularly sonic 06, because i have a special place in my heart for strange/janky games like that, and i remember watching videos about the glitches in it back in the day. i started doing research and gathering the games to play, and... now i'm here, lol.

i still haven't been able to play 06 though... hopefully one day i can, i want to experience it for myself

I was in 6th grade when a kid in class was drawing Sonic all the time. I had no idea who that was or even what SEGA was. All I had was Nintendo stuff. I later saw him on a gaming magazine and thought he looked cool. It wasn't until I saw Sonic 2 and Tails' cute little face that got me begging for a Genesis. I worked hard to get it. Lots of extra chores, but eventually, I got it and fell in love with the series. I can honestly say it impacted my life greatly, maybe more than any other gaming franchise out there (especially with art). Mid 2000s I was part of several Sonic forums where I had lots of friends. Those days are gone, but they are some of my favorite memories - all thanks to Sonic. 

(06-01-2024, 06:27 PM)sundrowned Wrote: i got into sonic because of a streamer i watch! he streamed a bunch of old sonic games back-to-back for a subathon, which got me interested in playing them for myself. particularly sonic 06, because i have a special place in my heart for strange/janky games like that, and i remember watching videos about the glitches in it back in the day. i started doing research and gathering the games to play, and... now i'm here, lol.

i still haven't been able to play 06 though... hopefully one day i can, i want to experience it for myself

I know there's no replacement to the original experience, but have you checked out Sonic Project-2006? 
It may be a fan remake, it may lack the bugs that made the OG a case to study, but I believe it to be an amaazing game regardless... it could mess with your first impressions, though, so be aware of that risk-

(06-03-2024, 10:32 PM)Steel the Hedgehog Wrote: I know there's no replacement to the original experience, but have you checked out Sonic Project-2006? 
It may be a fan remake, it may lack the bugs that made the OG a case to study, but I believe it to be an amaazing game regardless... it could mess with your first impressions, though, so be aware of that risk-

i've heard of it! i definitely want to play it one day because it looks super fun, but i was planning on playing the original first to better get a sense of the changes they made in P-06.

...also, there's a chance my computer might not be able to handle it in its current state regardless. i would have to try it out to really know for sure, but my computer can't even run frontiers at the lowest settings anymore, so my hopes aren't high. ideally, i want to get new parts for it before trying P-06 out.

I've been a Sonic fan for almost as long as I've been alive. When I was really young, not sure how young exactly but my brother (who's only two years younger than me) was still a toddler so I must have been tiny, my dad got himself as a PS1 as the prices started to come down and me and my brother got our parents consoles as hand-me-downs, my brother the SNES and me the SEGA MegaDrive, along with Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Sonic ended up being the very first game I played!

I followed the series pretty closely most of my young life then. My dad bought me a Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure as a Christmas present way back in '99 the year it released, and me and my brother kept up with just about everything that released across the my Dreamcast, his GameCube and the family PS2. Watched Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Underground every time we caught them on TV, bought copies of the Archie comics from a comic book importing store (strangely never saw a single issue of Fleetway anywhere even growing up in the UK), my brother even still has our childhood DVD copies of the Sonic OVA and the Sonic Underground complete box set. Even long after we got the family Xbox 360 me and my brother would still burn away days raising chao in SA2B or devising new silly routes through Shadow the Hedgehog.

As for actually getting into the fandom, I don't know exactly when it was but back when I was in Secondary School I finally got my own PC in my bedroom to get onto the internet more often than just playing Flash games when I should've been doing work at school. One of the first fandom sites I latched onto was actually an earlier incarnation of this very site! I was Sonic obsessed for years, I remember being crazy excited for Sonic '06 after playing the Xbox Live Arcade demo, and then crushed when it actually came out in the state it did. 

I dropped off the fandom somewhere in the early 2010s. I'd been lucky as a kid, we weren't super well-off but my dad was as gaming obsessed as me and my brother and one of my dad's old college friends was a bootlegger, so most of the games we had weren't actually legitimate copies but with the money saved buying games instead we had basically every console that came out in the house somewhere and we got our hands on nearly anything that came out that we wanted to try. Console piracy both got harder and started to have a lot more drawbacks what with Xbox Live and the like from the 360 onwards so we couldn't and didn't keep doing it, and once I started being responsible for my own money I couldn't afford to keep up with grabbing nearly every Sonic game that came out anymore.  

I wandered through a few different fandoms since (some more embarassing than others) but fatigue with the modern internet and social media across the 2010s and the exhaustion of adult life eventually saw me drift away from fandom completely, Sonic or otherwise, outside of occasionally glancing at what insane "discourse" was happening on Twitter from week to week. Still kept up with the mainline games, at least up until Forces, but not so much with fandom.

Recently though I've been trying to "rekindle" my love for the franchise of sorts, maybe because I just miss the games I used to love with all the turmoil in the gaming industry recently, maybe just because I'm pushing 30 this year and I need to chase my childhood back down before the way the internet warps our view of age and time makes me feel so old my bones turn to dust .

Been going through just about every game in the franchise I can get my hands on or getting running in an emulator from the very beginning in order of release and it's been fun. It's slow going because I've been going through it with a few friends and scheduling doesn't always permit all of us being there with not enough going on to just watch one of us play an old platformer, but I'm just about finishing up everything in the Classic era of Sonic about to move onto Adventure. It's been interesting running through all the weird old games from back then and trying to think about them in the context of the era and what else was out at the time instead of just seeing them as "kinda crappy unlockables" in SADX/Mega Collection. Maybe I'll make a thread of my own talking about my thoughts and quick-reviews on each of the games when I get done with the last of the Classic era games if anyone would find that interesting?

Anyway, sorry for clogging the thread with the huge rambling wall of text!

(06-03-2024, 11:24 PM)sundrowned Wrote: i've heard of it! i definitely want to play it one day because it looks super fun, but i was planning on playing the original first to better get a sense of the changes they made in P-06.

...also, there's a chance my computer might not be able to handle it in its current state regardless. i would have to try it out to really know for sure, but my computer can't even run frontiers at the lowest settings anymore, so my hopes aren't high. ideally, i want to get new parts for it before trying P-06 out.

Fair enough, though I wouldn't be TOO worried about your PC, unlike Frontiers, P-06 is made with potato PCs in consideration, so you can lower the settings as much as need be and even get 60 FPS on a 10 years-old laptop! (Though, the game is gonna look like the original Star Fox...)