1755: Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Origins) PC \\ my first 2D Sonic playthrough! = D
1Playing Sonic the Hedgehog (aka Sonic 1) in Sonic Origins from Steam on PC!
My Sonic playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMQt4FKIZafIKq1LZwrOXBR
0:00 - start
5:25 - menus
26:00 - Green Hill Zone
38:14 - Marble Zone
1:10:33 - Spring Yard Zone
1:46:27 - Labyrinth Zone
2:09:10 - Star Light Zone
2:25:13 - Scrap Brain Zone
2:55:42 - Final Zone
3:01:44 - ending & credits
3:05:00 - Museum
3:19:35 - Amy Rose GHZ1 mirror mode
This was great! What a fun game! = D Probably a lot easier than the original what with the smoother engine, wide view, addition of spin dash (even in 4:3 "Classic Mode," which only omits Mania's Drop Dash), ability to choose different characters (still not tempted to try the other characters, even hammerin' Amy whom I hadn't played before) and infinite lives.
Marble Zone is so Altered Beast!
Labyrinth Zone underwater distortion effect is really nice.
Going to play the Genesis games in release order (1, 2, CD, 3) rather than the "story" order (1, CD, 2, 3) in which Origins arranges them. : P
The keyboard mappings are kind of a nightmare (WASD and LI...?? default, can't map arrows to game movement, only menu movement, can't map Enter to Start or ESC to Cancel...); fortunately, the DS4 seems to be set up just fine.
The huge Museum section has full scans of all region manuals of the Genesis games; dang the Japanese ones are snazzy.
You can replay and leaderboard time attack any stage you've completed, with any character; the leaderboards only show the top 100 times. : P I've read that level select codes work too, haven't tried those.
Beating Sonic 1 unlocked the ability to play it in flipped "Mirror Mode." There's also a Boss Rush mode available by default for all the Genesis games.
According to Wikipedia--and it definitely feels this way, too--the 12 Sonic Game Gear games added in the "Plus" DLC are emulated, rather than remastered in Christian Whitehead's "Retro Engine" as the Genesis games are. The 12 are listed in release order except, for some reason, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, which is placed at the end of the list, instead of where it should be in release order: 4th, between Sonic Chaos and Sonic Drift (the Japanese version of Mean Bean Machine, Puyo Puyo, would have been 3rd).
Okay so https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Eggman "Doctor Eggman" was the antagonist's original Japanese name, changed to "Doctor Ivo Robotnik" for the Western localization of Sonic the Hedgehog by Sega USA without Sega of Japan's consent. Later the names were combined, with Robotnik being the "true" last name, and "Eggman" the nickname: "Doctor Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik"--although "Robotnik" is apparently still little-used in Japan so that was probably just a sop by Sega of Japan to Sonic's apparently much larger Western audience. ; D
Muted a minute or so in two of the zones due to music copyright claims--one from Sony Brazil! = P
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