Sonic & Knuckles

Maybe next time.

Well, the last one we have is a specialty cartridge that you and I wanted to talk about, and that is the Sonic & Knuckles Sega Genesis cartridge.

Okay,

so aesthetics on its own, not great.

So I want to put it in the eights here for that.

I put it at the top of the A tier.

And I would say Sonic & Knuckles with a Sonic 3 cartridge in it is S tier.

Because you look at that and you go, now that's a game.

And then Sonic Origins came out.

which was just another repackaged way to play the Sega Mega Drive Sonic games because it had Sonic & Knuckles on it and the Sonic & Knuckles where you combine the games and you actually get the full package, the full game.

I absolutely loved that and I blasted through that when that came out about two years ago and they included extra characters in there that you could play through as well, like the Armadillo and Amy.

I really, really enjoyed that.

They're missing that physical back who can pass protect and just take some reps off the game changer.

They're missing the knuckles to Sonic when they used to have the Sonic and Knuckles combo that's...

They're missing the knuckles.

They are

Let's have a look when this game came out.

Sonic & Knuckles.

So whilst you're doing that, I was looking up a game that I believed I played in childhood because I have a memory of me and my best mate round at his playing the game and his dad coming in and saying, guys, you're going to stop.

You have to stop screaming like I'm trying to sleep.

I thought, well, we were kids then because in my head I was like, we must have been like 15, maybe 16, but we were 20 years old.

Getting told off for being too loud, screaming at video games.

Well, this is, for me, like Sonic, I was playing, like the games I was playing before, Sonic & Knuckles came out in 1994, near the end of the year.

Tomb Raider's coming out in 96.

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some lovely stuff with tapioca if you have the tapioca flour right fire it into your pan don't put any oil or nothing let it there for a while it'll congeal together you put some cheese on it and you wrap it up Sega Mega Drive Sega Mega Drive if you get enough tapioca and you put the tapioca into the Mega Drive it'll play Sonic and Knuckles class

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if you eat streets or h2 in tapioca you'll turn into blaze fielding fucking amazing

This is the Saturn game that was a compilation of the complete classic Sonic titles.

But the game conversion had drastically simplified stages inspired by Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles.

The character, whose defining trait is speed, ended up having a handheld with bad motion ghosting and choppy animation.

So this is kind

Games Cage, the homie, Super Chat saying, hey guys, just wanted to say Tim and Blessing genuinely hate me personally for not getting Sonic on the list.

No Sonic Adventure 2, no Mania, no 3, no Sonic Knuckles, no Sonic X Shadow Generations.

It's time to redo the entire list.

I love you so much.

I loved how every single stage had its own identity and the music too, which I couldn't believe how good it sounded.

And then even when I thought it was all finished, I then found out, I think a year or two later, that there was a second part, like Sonic and Knuckles, which completed the whole story.

So it just kind of gave a whole different aspect to how you could play the game.

And then you could play as Knuckles, which... you could go to Sonic 3's levels but play them in in different layouts and different enemies too so it was a game that just made such an impact and that was like the day pretty much Simon on December 25th 1994 that my interest in games like really began and there's a picture of me playing the game on that day in the first Tomb Raider book in the intro because it just it defines like what's what it meant to me what it still means and I'm and I play it still every year because it's just a joy to play I don't really feel like there's a I just don't feel like there's a negative in I just love it and the music is just yeah something else so um yeah and my son's starting to play it now so it's like a passing a torch oh very sweet

Of course, yeah.

But yeah, and then you got lock on technology as well with having to put the Sonic Knuckles car into the Mega Drive and then putting that in on top, that Sonic 3 on top.

Or you could just leave it and play Blue Sphere if you want constantly for the rest of your life because there's a ridiculous amount of levels in that.

Yeah,