Sonic Team

I love to pretend...

I love to think we live in a world where the Sonic team is entirely ignorant to the degeneracy of their fandom.

Yeah.

But they can't be, right? They can't be, yeah.

i i recommend you go and checking out um some of the twitter posts about this because it's some insane shit uh there was a guy who jumped on there pretending to be uh yuji naka going gets very lonely in the cell could someone sing me a beautiful beautiful song um yeah eight of the nine channels are now locked they've added slow mode to prevent people from spamming uh someone was going israel supports uh sonic um i like super mario someone got banned for that um That's crazy.

That's just

fucked up, Sonic Team.

Yeah, I mean, they're like, hey, fuck you.

[ChuChu Rocket theme music] Released alongside the Game Boy Advance June 11th, 2001 in North America.

It was developed by Sonic Team, one of the properties that they worked on other than that fast blue hedgehog, and developed by Sega, of course, alongside that.

It was originally released for the Dreamcast before being ported to the Game Boy Advance and then way, way later coming to iOS and Android as fun puzzle games that you can download.

ChuChu Rocket was originally released to try and test the Dreamcast, see how many mice they could get on screen at once.

This is Sonic '06.

Sonic Team and Sega released on the Xbox 360 in November of 2006.

It was supposed to be a franchise reboot for the 50th anniversary.

Big deal for them.

That's a confession with a press release attached.

And it's not even the worst version of it.

The reporting is that Sonic Team rushed the final stages, ignoring control problems and bug reports that were coming back from Sega's own quality assurance department.

They ignored their own testers.

I don't think they're talking about an actual chili dog.

Are we talking about an actual chili dog? Sonic Team after gathering every Sonic fan in the Discord server.

Oh my God.

First thing I see when joining the Sonic Discord.

So I'll just go ahead and kick off a little description with this.

Sonic Adventure is a 3D platform-adventure video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega, originally for the Dreamcast in 1998 in Japan and worldwide in 1999.

Uh, it's the first full 3D Sonic game, uh, or a, a game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and it follows Sonic and friends as they try to collect the Chaos Emeralds and attempt to stop Dr. Robotnik from releasing an ancient evil named Chaos.

That name will come up a bunch probably during this.

More...

Definitely more on him later.

Uh, development by Sonic Team, uh, began in 1997.

Uh, and when the game released, it was met with a mostly positive reaction.

I've heard of it, yes.

So Burning Rangers is kind of famously the, the 3D action adventure game on the Saturn that Sonic Team made.

'Cause, like, famously there was not a 3D Sonic game on Saturn, right? Like, they had the, the kind of team made, like, Nights into Dreams w- you know, and stuff like that.

And then the Sonic team, they made, uh, this game called Burning Rangers.

And then later they went on to make the Sonic Adventure games and stuff on Dreamcast, um, if I'm remembering that part correctly.

But either way, uh, it's sort of this noteworthy weird one-off game where they never made a sequel or anything, but it's actually this really, really good idea, really cool game, really well executed.

But what I did look up I found an interview with Yuji Naka over on Shmupalations that had some interesting bits.

It was kind of like a talk about like the history of Sonic Team type of thing.

So I was looking specifically for just stuff on Sonic 2.

And apparently Yuji Naka went to Silicon Valley shortly after release of Sonic 1.

Yeah.

Everyone tried to be Sonic.

everyone tried to be sonic but uh it really no one was able to quite make it uh the only game at least for the sega genesis that i always compared to sonic visually was because it was made by sonic team and that was uh restart rystar um however you say i think it's rystar but i think it's

rystar yeah