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Sonic Gems Collection (2005)

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Original Air Date: October 11th, 2009

Sonic Gems Collection... there's a number of misleading things about this game. I love how Sega included Sonic CD and Sonic R in this compilation, claiming them to be the Sega CD and Sega Saturn games... but anyone who has owned either system can tell you easily that they are NOT ports of those versions. If anything, they're ports of the PC games, or ports clearly superior to either of the originals. Now that you know that, you can expect a "better" Sonic CD and Sonic R.

You know what else grinds my gears? The U.S. and European versions come with two hidden games: Vectorman and Vectorman 2. They're cool games... except the Japanese version also comes with Bonanza Bros. and all the Bare Knuckle (Streets of Rage) games. The excuse later was that they wanted to keep the game rated for everyone, but then how do they explain the exclusion of Bonanza Bros.? Also, this game comes with several Game Gear Sonic titles, but is missing one of my favorites, Sonic Chaos... the missing GG Sonic games are in Sonic Mega Collection Plus, though the games are said to oddly run at 50Hz even in the U.S. "Sonic the Hedgehog" is also based off of the final Japanese revision.

*Ahem*

But, if you don't have the time or patience to get a Game Gear and you don't care about all those things, then you get a nice collection of Sonic games with cool extras. It's one of the only ways to play Sonic the Fighters and one of the only ways to play a few Game Gear games on the big screen, even Tails' Sky Patrol (even if it's kinda lame). Playing them full screen though makes them very difficult to play and in some cases, rather ugly. This collection contains a lot of the more obscure Sonic games but used the "major 3" as a way to sell the game. It's more for hardcore Sonic fans.

Sonic the Fighters: A pretty basic Sonic fighting game, there are a number of rumors and interesting trivia bits that surround this game, but I'm not disclosing them here. It's got imaginative levels and a few cool tunes and tricks (I like grabbing the weapons of characters that have them), but it doesn't stand up to many other Sega fighters, imo. Good for its time.

Sonic CD: Heralded as arguably one of (if not "the") best Sonic games ever made, this game, Sonic the Fighters, and Sonic R are where much of the hype of this compilation come from. Truthfully, I didn't enjoy this as much as Sonic 3 + Knuckles, but it is an excellent game that I've completed a long time ago. The past, present, and future certainly add an interesting flare to the game and should be re-introduced in "modern" Sonic.

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