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Gamers have... collected over 66 billion gold rings playing Sonic The Hedgehog games

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Ah Sonic, probably the first video game I remember playing. I grew up watching the cartoons and playing the games. Then 9/9/99 came. The Sonic franchise hasn't been the same since that day, almost all of the 3D Sonics have sucked. Hopefully this will chane with the Wii game. The GBA game sounds interesting but probably not enough for me to warrent a purchase.

hmm...I personally want Sonic 2, so I don't have to resort to using the Nomad in the back of my closet. (I'm thinkin' it should go to eBay).

EDIT: Obvoiusly I mean for portable use...yeah, I do know about the numerous compilations available, not to mention ROMs...

$20 for a port of a game where the new toutable features are "Sonic's famous Spin-Dash move and a new save ability"? No thanks, especially considering that most likely still have the Mega Collection.

Also hard to justify the GBA version's cost when this game has already been confirmed (and has been played) on Wii and will likely cost no more than five bucks in that format. But I guess portable is a big draw for some people. I tend to think of the first Sonic as a rough start -- 2, 3, and Knuckles are so much better.

"Also hard to justify the GBA version's cost when this game has already been confirmed (and has been played) on Wii and will likely cost no more than five bucks in that format."

That's probably why they're releasing it now. Might as well port the game to everything under the sun before the Wii VC comes out and changes things.

Now I assume the spin dash won't be in the Wii version since it wasn't in the Genesis game. There's a reason to justify the existance of the port I guess. I think Sonic 1 had the Spin Dash in Sonic Jam for the Saturn as well.

I agree with Jonny that Sonic is a bit of a rough start. It's historically significant but if you were going to pick one Sonic game to be preserved for all eternity Sonic 1 would not be it. It's still aged better than the first Metroid and Zelda though. I'd compare it more to Super Mario Bros or the first Mega Man: not as good as later sequels but still playable.

I don't see what's bad about Sonic. It has no annoying chem plants and doesn't crash, two big plusses over Sonic 2.

I think it's a great idea since I find Sonic 1 to be the best of the Sonic games. It actually had a challenge to it and could be considered a platformer. Sonic 2 and 3 while still fun games, were just rollercosters where you held right on the controller the entire level and watched Sonic run. Only the later levels in Sonic 2 and 3 actually made the games exciting again but it doesn't help that I was bored playing through the first 75% of the games before getting to thoughs.

Sonic 1 on the other hand has never gotten boring. The levels were designed in ways that your not holding right the entire way, plus there's plenty of traps and challenges that actually require skills to get through. Which makes it fun everytime I sit down to play.

How come no Sonic Rush 2? Sonic Advance 4? Yet the PSP gets a brand spankin' new adventure? Has Sega learned nothing? Time and time again, Nintendo fans have shown their support for the blue blur (and the blue bomber but that's another story...), and all they get is a re-hash at a ridiculous price?

That's enough bitching. Adding the spin dash would make it laughably easy. Adding the save feature is understandable for a portable, but its just 18 or so levels. They have to add something else for replayability....

I'm almost tempted to check it out just to see how they handle the resolution difference. Porting SNES games was one thing since the only real hurdle you had to jump was the downsizing from 224 to 160. Sonic is gonna have to take visual cuts going both ways and I really don't see that boding well for it.

Adding the spin dash would make it laughably easy.

How so?

Because then you could spin dash.

Sonic 1 will always be a classic because of the level design and brilliant music, and because it introduced Sonic!

I'll probably pick this up, a portable version of one of my favorite games ever~. But the music has me worried, previous Mega Drive ports on GBA have suffered from raped soundtracks, but then I think most of them were handled by THQ or something.

The spin dash is only good for regaining speed when you don't have enough room to start running.

Sonic 1's level design was interesting but mismatched with the controls. I agree with Jonny: 2 or 3&K would be better portables. And yes, the spin dash is only good for regaining speed, which should really come in handy for Sonic 1.