Welcome to the Archive site of The Sonic Stadium (2008-2023)
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Front paged on Newgrounds is the fifth installment in Sonic Paradox’s “Sonic Shorts” series, a flash comedy series with plenty of inside jokes for the avid Sonic fan. This episode jams twenty-one shorts into one fun package. The menu is really fuckin’ awesome to watch, too. I just about died at the “lol jetboots” portion of the menu. Who at SEGA came up with those damn things?
The new meme of 2009. Right here.
Skits include another trip to the Olympic games, why Sonic can’t swim (again), a peak into the lives of badniks, Sonic’s reactions to people confusing him as Shadow, and the destruction of Sonic X.
Chris Thorndike should get his own TV show. Srsly, guys. Srsly.
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When Sonic Adventure 2 was released on the Dreamcast, SEGA did a few promotions in conjunction with the hog’s 10th Anniversary. Three pieces of merchandise were produced in a limited series, alongside a special pre-order boxset – a ring featuring Sonic’s head; a high quality figurine and a wireframe model cube.
Today we’ve amazingly seen proof of a fourth. And it’s currently up for auction on eBay.
Apparently, unlike the other three pieces of merchandise (which were available for sale on Sega’s website), this goblet was given away to attendees of a special Japanese event for Sonic’s 10th, and the label includes Yuji Naka’s signature too. In mint condition, this is one prize posession for any hardcore merch-hunter. T-Bird?
At time of publish, the auction has 21 hours till close, with the bid standing firmly at £189.99. I’d buy it in a heartbeat, but alas I have a holiday to Japan to worry about first and foremost. As we may never see such a glorious item again, we’ll be saving these pictures here, forever immortalised for Sonic Gear to come and use.
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Wacky Workbench might be one of the more annoying, if not incredibly unique, stages of the Genesis-era Sonics, but it has reasons to keep coming back. For me, it is the catchy music (both soundtracks, mind you), but now, it’s this secret that I found in a video yesterday. I revisited the ol’ bouncin’ factory to find this secret room for myself.
Basically, all you have to do is use the level select code (up, down, down, left, right, A/Space) and go to either the past or bad future of Wacky Workbench. Then, make your way to the bottom path immediately to find a hidden room within the wall of a quarter pipe.
The room in the past has an angel statue. If you jump onto her, she spouts out an endless supply of rings. In the bad future, there’s an AWESOME Robotnik statue that you can blow up. However, once you do so, spike bombs will plummet from the ceiling and make you go “ouch.” If you’ve discovered this secret already, good for you. I haven’t, so deal.
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Sonic Megamix, the most well known Sonic ROM hack, has returned to the public spotlight with a post by, community oldbie, Stealth at Sonic Retro. Stealth revealed that the drama that resulted in the project’s cancellation months ago was a complete misunderstanding. Therefore, it was only canceled for three days and the once Genesis, now Sega CD project has had work done on it since being resurrected. When Stealth finally revealed that Megamix was not dead a few days ago, he and other team members brought videos with them to show the amount of progress that they have made in private.
Despite publicly announcing Megamix’s return, Stealth did lay some ground rules that I certainly approve of.
With that said, you know how I feel about my projects, and this is no exception. It never has been, less of Tweaker’s over-zealous promotion. I am protective, and I will remain so. We will do what we please with this project, and on a time-table of our own choosing. Requests and questions about release dates are annoying and pointless. There will be no further demos, or even “private” beta-tests. Fact is, Megamix was supposed to end development with “version 4″ (at a later point in time), until this mess happened. There is no way we can possibly make another non-final release and keep it substantially fresh. Trust me – you’ll thank us when you have much more to play with all at once than one level at the end of the game and a couple of menu text changes
(…)
Finally, and this is important, we reserve the right to halt completely at any time. We owe a debt to no-one, and we don’t have to publicize any newer builds. All we ask for is some decency and respect. Don’t launch into actual complaints about how we choose to handle our business. Don’t rip us off solely for the sake of riding off Megamix fame. Also, don’t go asking for or looking for things that don’t belong to you. If we hear about the leaked material, or see it being spread/used, that’s it. If you want to do our jobs for us, we just won’t, and when you can’t handle it, you’ll only have yourselves to blame.
The videos below showcases Megamix’s progress since its move to the Sega CD. The game is not only “Sonic CD” smooth, but now has CD audio, composed by DM Ashura of DDR fame. Megamix’s design continues to, in my opinion, bridge the old and new styles of Sonic. In addition to the classic Genesis presentation, new moves, such as the homing attack, and a higher emphasis on speed make their mark.
Now, if only the level design wasn’t so masochistic.
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SSMB user ‘Ultrasinc‘ alerted the forums earlier today with news of a new Sonic the Hedgehog Retrospective video by downloadable game provider, ‘Game Tap.‘ The video itself consists of four parts, all of which are uploaded to Youtube for your viewing pleasure.
The fantastically made retrospective has some extremely interesting information- some of which is completely new. For example, did you ever know that Sonic’s shoes were based off Michael Jacksons boots from the front cover of his ‘Bad’ album? And that the colour of them was inspired from the worldwide known figure, Santa Claus? Game Tap interview the likes of Naoto Ohshima, Yuji Naka and a large variety of other developers and project managers from along the years as they discuss how SEGA of America took to the little blue critter, his changes of appearance and why he became so popular.
You can view the four parts of non-sonic-bashing goodness by clicking on the following links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
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Whoa. This kid, artificialCHAOS, is only 13 years old and he drew this awesome Sonic art with colored pencils. Like with the pastel Sonic work, I’m blown away with work like this one. Also, nice pose!
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The diabolical Dr.Eggman has finally damaged our beloved hero Sonic The Hedgehog with his latest vehicle contraption designed with a Mitsubishi car theme.
This was the moment Eggman reversed into Sonic who was posing for the media for upcoming game Sonic and the Black Knight…
The incident has left our spikey blue hero with his arm in a sling but he refuses to let it get him down because he’s cool like that.
After hitting Sonic, Eggman jumped out of his vehicle and ran off (as best an egg shaped man can) laughing like the evil villain he is. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
Sonic is recovering well after Princess Elise of Soleanna happened by and treated his arm with one of her thin white sheets she always carries around handy(see Sonic ‘06) which she made into a sling for the injured hedgehog.
When asked about the incident Sonic said “It’ll take more than a Mitsubishi to beat me Eggman! Next time you won’t be so lucky!”
Sonic has since given the Mitsubishi car to Tails who is now tinkering with the vehicle and plans to build a flying car called the Tornadobishi. More on that at a later date.
Joke’s aside, this is obviously a giant Sonic The Hedgehog statue like the one TSS’s own Brad Flick reported on last month. That particular statue started life on ebay at £500.00 and sold in the end with the winning bid at a whopping £620.00. Well, now we have another one on ebay at the cheaper starting bid price of £200.00 which is no doubt because, as the owner states –
Right arm original fixing broke, temporary repair made (bolted & mastic).
You can also ‘Buy It Now’ for £300.00.
The owner ronb8364 has taken plenty of photo’s of the gigantahog by his garage and Mitsubishi car which if I may say, Sonic is alot taller than as shown in this pic –
ronb8364 – Sonics head alone half filled back of Mitsubishi pickup.
The statue currently has no bids and ronb8364 although preferring collection is willing to deliver upon agreed costs, well everyone needs costly petrol to get places :p
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This picture has been buried in my DA favorites for a while now (since 2006!), but I still wanted to show it off to you. It’s by dark-kelsk and is a 3D scene of Sonic playing his Mega Drive and is picture perfect. The detail on the furniture and the Mega Drive is great and the lighting throughout is spot-on. The Sonic model is pretty badass, too.
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On the U.S. Sonic and the Black Knight website, you can engage in some fun and find surprises while you wait for Sonic’s next non-canon trip to Arthurtown.
The site is VERY flash heavy, so make sure that you have the latest updates.
Anyway, there are 4 references to classic SEGA games on the Black Knight site and I’ve given away two in Wonderboy and Alex Kidd. Can you find the other two references? First one to find them gets a shiny, red ball.
Secondly, Silver, who shall always be referred to as “Starfish Head,” is confirmed for this game through the site’s “papercrafts” section. You can print out paper versions of Sonic & Co.’s armor. Starfish Head has some slick gear:
If you ever wanted for someone to question your sexuality, then print this out, fold it up, and wear it to school. Then, at dinner, your dad will regret not making you play contact sports and/or not beating you enough. Good times.
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You’ve read TSS’ Comic Con impressions and you’ve read some semblance of an article on IGN AU yesterday. Now, check out some previews that I have picked out for one reason or another.
From the title and opening paragraph of this incredibly brief preview, it didn’t look like Jim Reilly was too excited about another Sonic game, especially one with a sword. Despite first impressions, he turns around in the end by saying that he would have “obviously loved to play [the game] more.” He said that the game is done and probably won’t undergo any more changes. He is concerned about stage variety (which was a problem in games like Super Mario Sunshine – what with all the tropical shit) and the game’s difficulty, as it was too easy. He did play the first level, though, so take that comment however you want to. Reilly notes that the sense of speed and controls are the game’s high points.
If you’re still on the fence about Black Knight, especially if your age happens to be 20 and over, Reilly’s closing remark might be of help: “It’s clear from not only playing this, but talking to the Sega people as well that this game, and series, is for a different, younger generation of Sonic fans.” Now, if you’ve come to the realization that this game is not designed for you, then you can stop complaining about it and ignore it.
ONM loves how we are finally given full control of Sonic on the Wii. They relish in the lack of “race car” controls and welcome the simple concept of walking backwards. ONM comments on how agile and stylish Sonic is while he swings his sword around. Overall, they are pleased with this demo copy.
Still, even with the solid play-through that they received, they have the right to be pessimistic. Sonic has had many proclaimed “returns to form” that have failed to deliver on more than one occasion. I think that their advice is wise. I’m not ensuing to that you be entirely downtrodden on this new game, but I wouldn’t run around saying that this game is going to kick the biggest of asses either.
Matt Casamassina feels better about Black Knight than most people would suspect (you know, since it’s IGN and “biased” or something). He spent hours playing through the final build and gave the most detailed previews of them all, so I’d read it, despite some people’s outrageous and unnecessarily aggressive opinion of the site.
Matt comments that SatBK has more in common with Unleashed than it does its prequel, Sonic and the Secret Rings, thanks to the control scheme. You can move Sonic freely with control stick movement, but when going backwards, the camera will not turn around. The camera, when walking backwards, in SatSR was a huge problem, in my opinion, so it’s sad to not see that corrected. Matt closes his section on the controls and gameplay by describing Black Knight as an “action racer.” He says that you’ll be using your sword a lot and he describes the control scheme in detail. The impressive part is the B trigger, which iniates a bullet-time lock-on system.
Just like with my buddy, Keith, the sheer amount of remote waggle starts to wear on the player and Matt wishes that there was an alternative control scheme. There are tons of enemies and they pop up incredibly frequently. At least they look really pretty!
Oh, and a potential “sad face moment:” “we have yet to encounter any trademark loop-de-loops or corkscrews.” 🙁
Critic Consensus
Things are looking up for the upcoming adventure, but they are reserving their full judgment and excitement for when the game ships next month.
As somebody who thought Sonic and the Secret Rings was a decent outing, I like hearing about improvements made in Black Knight. My only concern is whether or not the sword creates a whole new set of problems. While ironing out the old, SEGA and Sonic Team might overlook a problem with the new.
Remember, kids, we’re talking about the previews here.
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Morita919hk’s DA profile has a lot of cool stuff, but this picture is my favorite out of all of them.
It’s a picture of Sonic drawn with hard pastels. When I see Sonic art done in a medium like watercolor/paint, acrylic, or pastel, I always think that is so much cooler. No offense to computer artists, of course.
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Today’s featured work comes from SomaKun, who took a Sonic action figure that he found a few years back and sculpted a gauntlet and sword for it. An incredibly impressive feat here, as I thought the gloves and sword were actual accessories to the figure.
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Brainiac the Hedgehog from DA put this picture on his profile back on Halloween of ’08, but I just found it and I think that it rules. I don’t know how he did it, but here it is:
Take away what you will from this fantastic edit of this infamous Sonic Unleashed snapshot.
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You might remember my handy guide to Sonic-izing your copy of Animal Crossing: City Folk and how it pointed you in the right direction for Sonic patterns and town tunes. Now, “Secretchaos” has tipped me on something far greater than having Sonic on a shirt or as your town tune. How about…as your neighbor?
Through hacking AC:CF, you can have Sonic as one of your neighbors that annoy you and give you gifts that you promptly sell. It’s one of the tiger models with a face lift, but it’s about the closest you can get to interacting with Sonic.
I’m considering of hacking him into my game, but that means I’d lose Rolf, my tiger neighbor. He’s so badass! I don’t think that I’ve met someone who hates people more than Rolf (he’s up there with Roscoe the Horse). So cynical, so funny.
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Let’s cut to the chase here. I don’t own an XBOX360, but I’d sure as hell love to have one if it was skinned like the one below. Check out the skin job DA user, ricepuppet, gave to his 360 console:
AWESOME. Check out his DA profile for more awesome 360 paint jobs!
But wait, there’s more! EGGMAN-X has some modded XBOX360’s of his own! The one in the foreground is absolutely classy. The second one is cool…if you like Shadow the Hedgehog. I can still appreciate the work that went into it, though.
Dag, yo. On his DA profile, you can also check out his WIP Master System Controller Coffee Table! That’s dedication, kids/
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As anyone in the UK will know, it was a very white day yesterday with the blizzard that arrived in the morning, and what better way to have fun in the flakey weather than to draw Sonic in the snow? After 2 attempts this is what I ended with – it only took 10 minutes but I don’t think it came out too bad and I labelled Sonic’s name under it too just in case people in the area didn’t recognise it right away.
I originally planned for it to be bigger and use all of the patch of grass but I slipped and fell on my arse while ‘drawing’ the first attempt to which some guys nearby laughed at, oh well it was worth it to immortalize some hedgehog love outside my block of flats. After 2 hours nobody trampled it so I assume it’s got some fans. Some people in the surrounding blocks of flats should have a good view of it.
You can see more of my pics and the members of the SSMB’s pics here.
How was your snow day? Have you done anything Sonic related in/with the snow today? Let us know in the comments.
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More awesome Sonic CD art. This piece is by liquidshade and it’s a beauty. He actually talks at length on his process, so I’m going to be lazy and copy-paste:
The characters took ages to get right, then I had to outline them, then I had to re-outlight them because I wanted the lines alot thicker, but in the end I’m satisfied with that thick black outline and cel-shaded look. I was gonna try soft shading, which probably would have gone better with the un-cel-shaded background, but that just looked a bit tacky. When I used to buy the British Sonic the Comic as a kid, they always did Amy with her spikes up, like I’ve drawn them here, but on more recent investigation into official pics, old-school Amy’s spikes are actually more like Sonic’s, and are only up in one particular pic, where she’s with Sonic. The poses in that pic are similar to how Metal Sonic is holding her though, so I figured they’d be better like that anyway. Speaking of Metal Sonic, that’s probably the best pic of him I’ve ever done, and all his awkward shapes and limbs ain’t easy to draw. I’m not 100% happy with Sonic’s pose, but I suppose it’ll do. The background only took the last 2 days to do, and even though that rough look and technique isn’t normally me, I think in the end it came out rather well. I used screenshots to get those Palmtree Panic cliffs just right.
The only critique that I have for it is that the color of Sonic’s mouth and belly region look sickly. Otherwise, it’s bitchin’.
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We have a community project over at Sonic Fan Games HQ that’s not a fangame, but rather, the essential tools for you to create your own. Yeah, it’s something manageable and not a community game, which never see development past the first stage (if even that far). Making an engine is one of the most tedious parts of the game creation process, especially with a Sonic game, so Worlds provides a pre-made engine with a basic set of objects and features in order to allow designers to mainly focus on level design. Due the collaborative nature of this project, everyone can freely use this pre-made engine, modify it and submit additions to the official releases to enhance the quality of the engine. The engine is created in the Multimedia Fusion 2 software.
The engine has been used a countless number of times since its initial release in mid-2007. It was debuted alongside the release of Sonic Nexus’ second demo at the 2007 Sonic Amateur Games Expo. The engine has become incredibly popular for fangamers and you can see many YouTube videos whoring it out. Yeah, the downside to a engine completed for the public is that there’s only about one good project for every dozen or so. Still, when you get a good project, it is good.
Here is the entire list of improvements, with authors cited, to Sonic Worlds:
Ceiling Landing – If Sonic hits a curved ceiling at a high enough speed, he’ll “land” on it and continue run on it. (Damizean)
Peel Out – This has been set so only sonic can do this action (look in Actions [10] Peel Out) (APPO)
A save point – This saves all the data such as ring count, what shield you had etc.. so that at the beginning of the app if you press continue all of this will be loaded (AZU)
Checkpoints – Not the same as a save point as this only places sonic at the last checkpoint you ran through and doesn’t hold ring count, or what shied you had, just position (APPO)
Protection shield – Sonic can be hit a number of times before loosing his rings (AZU)
Magnetic shield – Rings are attracted to sonic when in frame also sonic does an extra jump if you press jump in the air again (NITEMARE & APPO)
Flame shield – Makes sonic immune to fire and also allows sonic to do a little dash forward if you press jump again while in the air (APPO)
Water shield – Stops sonic from drowning and does that bounce thing if you press jump again in the air (APPO)
Boost pads – gives sonic a boost as he runs over them (APPO)
Water slides – sonic slides down them (APPO)
Drowning – If sonic is underwater for to long the music will change and a warning will flash above sonic if he doesn’t manage to get air, sonic will drown (APPO)
Air bubbles (under water) – Gives sonic air if he’s drowning (APPO)
Water run – the ability to run on water at a fast speed (AZU & APPO)
Breakable Rockswall – When jumped on or rolled into destroy and produce
I hope you fangamers create a nice, solid product out of what is provided for you. Study how these gimmicks and badniks are programmed so that you can create your own, thus making your game more original!
EDIT: Link updated to a site that didn’t exceed bandwidth!
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Today’s featured fan-work is the winner of the mini-game contest over at Sonic Fan Games HQ. LarkSS made this special stage without even thinking that he would win, but he ended up running away with the entire thing. The stage’s premise is to get from point A to point B without falling into the bottomless pit below. There’s a strict time limit, so collect the blue spheres scattered across the stage to gain boost energy. Here’s Lark’s record setting run through his stage:
The minigame has a sweet, 80s vector look that I absolutely love. It’s like colorful version of Metal Gear Solid’s VR Missions.
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It’s kind of hard getting a daily article in when the site that you write for goes down for entire days at a time. :s
Anyway, now that I’m actually into TSS, check out some damn art by gsilverfish. It was made for the GHZ art contest, but was an hour late and not entered. I hope a TSS front page feature is enough of a consolation, Mr. g.
Sonic CD is my favorite Sonic game. Shock. I know that people in the SSMB are discussing how overrated it is, but fuck ’em. Not only is this picture set within Sonic CD, but it just has an undeniable charm to it. The colors really pop with some excellent shading techniques and seeing Sonic ride on the back of a badnik is awesome. Also, +10 points for the use of that wacky flying jet-ski that Robotnik is riding.
Nice work, g. I hope people in the comments section will talk about your art and not about Sonic CD. *wink wink everybody*
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I’ve been battling bronchitis and I really, really, didn’t feel like writing anything for the front page. Nothing. Sonic news has been pretty dull anyhow, since SEGA has turned all of its attention to the success of House of the Dead: Overkill. Well played, SEGA. Anyway, on to fan-made things that make you go 😮 …
DeviantArt user, Zero20-2, made a plush Metal Sonic doll. Yep, it’s awesome. Cuddle with it as you hum the tune(s) to Stardust Speedway and drift off to Dream Land.
You want to know what’s more awesome? Zero20-2 made an entire set of Sonic plushies!
There’s more art at Zeros 20-2’s DA page, including more plushies, awesome NiGHTS and Sonic drawings, and a whoooooole lot of fancharacters. Oh, fancharacters, how ridiculous you are.
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IGN has a preview of the upcoming (and umpteenth) compilation from SEGA, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, up on its website. Despite the game having the infamous “butt Sonic art,” the previewer, Ryan Clements, is all smiles about this upcoming batch of 40 Genesis tiles on one disc.
Ryan notes that the game features a filtering system in the game selection menu. You can arrange the titles by genre or your personal rating, thus putting all of your favorite 16-bit adventures at the top of the list. It looks to be yet another winner for SEGA, as it continues to rehash its back catalog until the end of time (and by back catalog, I mean Genesis games. My homebrew-enabled Wii can’t emulate a Saturn, SEGA. A little help here!)
Ryan does not touch upon the “hated” (I guess?) upscaling filter that makes all the games “HD.” Don’t worry, because WorthPlaying.com has some “HD” screens of Sonic 2and they are awful. Let’s sneak a peak at the legendary special stage:
Aw, man, who wiped their nose with the Sonic screenshots again? Wait, nobody did? Well, shit.
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Who would buy this statue? Most likely, somebody at TSS (and by somebody, I mean DiscoPonies), so that’s why I’m telling all of you broskis. eBay user, Luxmans40, is selling this magnificent specimen, starting at £500. Considering that Luxmans40 states that this thing normally goes for £1200, £500 is a steal of a deal.
Check out the specs on this bastard:
Figure Height: 186 cm
Base Height: 25 cm
Total Height: 211 cm
The figure was only open for photo purposes, so it’s guaranteed to not have any residue on it from a confused furry on a Saturday night.
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Now you too, just like Sonic, can become a Knight of the Wind! Providing you’re fifteen centimetres high, of course.
Earlier today SSMB member ‘Fox Gungrave‘ reported to the ‘Sonic and the Black Knight’ section of the forums with something a little different than the usual, some photographs of a miniature ‘Calibur’, Sonic’s talking weapon from the upcoming Wii adventure available this March.
It appears the quite amazing looking fan work was earlier posted on French Sonic fan site ‘EVERSONIC‘ along with new screen shots from the upcoming 360 and PS3 exclusive ‘SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection’, something that was also posted on the SSMB forums earlier today by fellow TSS staff member ‘Shadzter.‘
The sword appears to have been hand crafted and painted by an unknown fan of Sonic’s medieval escapades, or simply a guy/girl who just loves producing miniature replicas of talking swords. If the creator of mini-Calibur is anywhere out there, please let us know who you are via the SSMB. We would love to add credit to the article!
UPDATE: It seems original poster of the sword miniature, Fox Gungrave, has done a little research behind the model and figured out the creator is none other than SomaKun, a member of the DeviantART website. The Calibur sword is actually a part of a fully customized Sonic Unleashed figurine, of which also has a customized armoured glove to match. Fantastic stuff!
What would be your ideal piece of ‘Sonic and the Black Knight’ merchandise and why? A miniature Sonic and Calibur statue? A Sonic and the Black Knight storybook? A limited edition ‘Lancelot Legendary’ version of the game, complete with free steel Knight’s helmet? Let us know in the comments below!
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If any of you out there are familiar with Screwattack.com’s ‘Angry Video Game Nerd‘, you may well have heard of the Nostalgia Critic. He’s been mentioned in quite a few different episodes throughout the Nerd’s escapades and even starred in a couple of cameo roles. For those of you who haven’t a clue who either are, allow us to explain.
The Nostalgia Critic is a character played by an Internet comedian whom takes the roles of several different people, records some hilarious skits as those characters and uploads them onto the Internet via his website. The Nostalgia Critic is, as you’d expect, a ‘reviewer’ of old eighties and nineties movies and television shows, focusing more on jokes and entertainment than professionally critiquing the subjects themselves.
After recently making a video on Nintendo’s ‘Super Mario’ and ‘The Legend of Zelda’ cartoons, the Critic has decided that it’s SEGA’s turn next, announcing his ‘review’ of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog to be uploaded on the 17th of February.
For a bit of fun, it’ll be interesting to see what the Critic thinks of SEGA’s attempt at an American cartoon compared to his, quire underwhelming, opinions on Nintendo’s efforts. Do keep in mind though, the Nostalgia Critic’s videos are more or less solely for entertainment purposes, it’d be a bit silly to take the video too seriously once it comes online, whether it be good or bad.
Thanks to SSMB member ‘hurtfulthings‘ for the heads up! You can also discuss the video once it comes online next month in the SSMB topic located here.
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I admit, news has been slow lately so I thought I’d dig around Ebay and see what Sonic treasures there are to be found and I managed to find a few gems for you lot to get your grubby little mits on. One of the item’s I found was a 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog 15th Anniversary Limited Edition statue, one of only 2,500 made. The item still has the certificate of authenticity too and looks to be in mint condition. The statue is currently going for $19.99 and has no bids at the moment so get bidding while you still can. Link
The 2nd item I dug up was an original 1994 Sonic the Hedgehog sketch from a Sonic artist Manak NR. I don’t know much about this one or wether this was an artist from the comics or games. After researching around the net I could only find an artist from that time known as David Manak who designed for the Sonic 3 comic adaptaion. The item is currenty going for $9.99 and has no bids at the moment. Link
The 3rd item I came across is a SEGA Gold Collection edition of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Mega Drive. I’ve never seen one of these before but it looks pretty cool and very collectible. It even has a little gold Sonic at the bottom right of the box. The item is being sold at a ‘Buy It Now’ price of $10.00, pretty cheap if you ask me. Link
Now hop to it bargain hunters! *God damn I hate that show…*
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Earlier this week SSMB member ‘Hero of Legend‘ reported to TSS with some high quality screen shots of the PAL box artworks of ‘Sonic and the Black Knight’, Sonic’s latest medieval themed adventure on Wii. Earlier today, the same member updated us with a first look at the Japanese front cover of the title, and as per usual, it’s entirely different to other PAL and NTSC territory artwork.
Sporting a brand new CG render of Sonic ad Calibur, the Japanese box artwork for Sonic and the Black Knight also shows off the blue ‘Nintendo WiFi Connection’ logo, putting our minds at ease that the title will still offer ‘item trading’ over a wireless Internet connection.
You can check out the SSMB thread for the artwork here and also feast your eyes on a brand new screenshot of the game, of which sees Sonic bartering with some odd looking peasant character.
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In their latest issue, Official Playstation Magazine: UK have revealed their 2008 game awards as voted by you the public.
Sonic Unleashed was 1 of 4 games to be voted ‘Biggest Disappointment’ for 2008, the other 3 titles are Haze, Need For Speed: Undercover and Army Of Two.
Here’s what OPM:UK had to say –
Only disappointing in the same sense as a wayward child’s final, severing act of betrayal. We fervently hoped the hog would come good. He didn’t.
Many fans of the series have seen this game as a high turning point for the series, a step in the right direction but it looks like the general UK Playstation public don’t feel that way about the PS3 version at least. The PS2 version of the game has been placing pretty high on Chart Track in the UK Budget Priced charts since release.
The UK Playstation public didn’t stop striking Sonic Unleashed there, oh they had a problem with a certain someone from the game… Namely, Chip who was unfortunately crowned ‘Worst New Character’ for 2008.
Here’s what OPM:UK had to say –
Another year, another disastrous attempted comeback from Sega’s answer to Elvis. But for all the bile Sonic Unleashed triggered in our bellies, we reserved the purest rage for our spiky (ex-)friend’s latest sidekick, Chip: a purple douche who loves ice cream, trots out an endless stream of banality and looks like a flying Chihuahua. Which is kind of fitting given that we’d rather let a lap dog gnaw on our own undercarriage than play the big bag of balls that was Unleashed ever again.
That has to be the biggest over-exaggeration I have ever seen, there is no real reason given as to why he has been voted Worst New Character. Anyone can say they hate a character and just describe said character with vulgar words and phrases. Oh well, I guess this childish rant fits in with their review score of 4/10
Do you agree with the UK Playstation public’s votes? Let us know in the comments.
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Ever faffed about with those LEGO building blocks when you were a kid? Did you find yourself creating crappy, contorted (yellow) versions of cartoon characters and super heroes you saw on the TV? Well, now that you’re a teenager with nothing better to do (or an adult with nothing better to do, except your job), you can revisit those powerful Danish bricks of creation and make your very own Sonic the Hedgehog!
Gaming blog Kotaku has an excellent post on how to grab a computer game character sprite, size it up for LEGO-ssimilation, and glue your masterpiece together so you can hang it on your wall. The example they use here is, funnily enough, Sonic the Hedgehog, albeit a squishy one that we may take to the gym to get straightened out a bit. If you have kids, it’s also a great way to bond with the little critters. Or, if you’re having a turbulent relationship, create with your wife for some awesome divorce-repellant building fun. LEGO heals all wounds.
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Yes, you heard right! Sonic Retro member (and man behind the name ‘Dr. Ivo Robotnik’), Dean Sitton, has been kind enough to auction his malfunctioning gateway keyboard on eBay for the bargain ‘Buy It Now’ price of $66.60 (quite the joker, Dean.)
Along with the keyboard however are some very rare pieces of Sonic Merchandise, something any collector would want to get their hands on. A Canadian printed 8 page promotional Sonic Comic with a 7 page copy of the original pencil drawings illustrated all the way back in the August of 1991.
Deans auction is currently sitting comfortably at the bidding price of $31, though is quite the bargain even at the ‘Buy It Now’ cost. You can check out the auction here and read up on some interesting discussions with the man himself over at Sonic Retro.
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My main man Hunter Bridges just dropped a sick Sonic remix over at the Sonic Nexus blog, dudes. This new remix is a part of the second soundtrack of the game, the “Retro Remixes,” which consist of taking classic Sonic songs and remixing them into the style of the Nexus zone. The 8th zone, Wicked Works, is very groove heavy with guitars chugging along, so the Retro Remix had to follow suit. Hunter remixed Rusty Ruin from the Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast and well…just listen to it.
It’s in the media player at the top of the Nexus page. It’s track #11.
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Enjoy these latest high quality images of Sonic and the Black Knight’s PAL box artwork, fresh from SEGA themselves. Taking a note from the book of Sonic and the Secret Rings, it seems that each territory’s title will be translated for their respective audience. We have images of the German (which once again always manages to sound cooler than the English one), Spanish and Australian packshots, but no UK one. Which is a bit odd.
We’ve got these in maximum resolution, so if you want a massive Schwarze then simply click on the images above, and select ‘Full Size’ to receive your prize.
Thanks to Hero of Legend on SSMB for the heads up!
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So, I was browsing Ebay for rare Sonic merchandise and stumbled across this little gem being sold by user 1ninja*com. I’ve never seen it before as apparently it was only released in Japan. It’s a karaoke add-on for the Dreamcast that comes with a microphone, this particular pack I assume has Sonic tracks on the CD with it to sing along too since the seller lists it as ‘Sonic Karaoke’, though I don’t know which tracks they are. Continue reading Own a Dreamcast? Fancy singing with Sonic?
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Don’t you tell me that this isn’t cool! SFGHQ member, Ironrind, posted this yesterday in the General Fangame Discussion forum and I j’d in my p. He explains his concept:
This is still an early protype, but the idea is that each act is broken up into three ‘tracks’. Scattered throughout each track will be buttons, switches, doors and various types of gimmicks which link all tracks together. I plan to design most of this game in a team-based fashion simular to Knuckles Chaotix.
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We’re on a Super Sonic tangent in honor of Sonic’s latest lulzfest of a super form. The previous, and first, entry in the “Sonic Storybook Series,” Sonic and the Secret Rings, brought us a form that we’ve given the name “Darkspine Sonic.” ShadoHejjihoggu has created an amazing blotch rendition of this super form and it’s incredible! Check out the laundry list of materials that ShadoHejjihoggu used to make this piece:
Tools:
Watercolor Paint
Prisma Color Pencil
Prisma Lightfast Pencil
Salt
Rubbing alcohol
Que Tip
Paint brush
Colorless Blender, with brush tip
Watercolor Prisma Pencils
Cheap Ballpoint pen
Sketch book paper
Nice work, Shado. Send some more in, will ya?
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A Japanese commercial for Sonic Spinball. Priceless. Why are the Sonic commericals in Japan so badass?
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We have a community project over at Sonic Fan Games HQ that’s not a fangame, but rather, the essential tools for you to create your own. Yeah, it’s something manageable and not a community game, which never see development past the first stage (if even that far). Making an engine is one of the most tedious parts of the game creation process, especially with a Sonic game, so Worlds provides a pre-made engine with a basic set of objects and features in order to allow designers to mainly focus on level design. Due the collaborative nature of this project, everyone can freely use this pre-made engine, modify it and submit additions to the official releases to enhance the quality of the engine. The engine is created in the Multimedia Fusion 2 software.
Who would buy this statue? Most likely, somebody at TSS (and by somebody, I mean DiscoPonies), so that’s why I’m telling all of you broskis. eBay user, Luxmans40, is selling this magnificent specimen, starting at 
