Sonic the Hedgehog: Pocket Adventure (Neo Geo Pocket Color) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
446A playthrough of Sega and SNK's 1999 platformer for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, Sonic the Hedgehog: Pocket Adventure.
This playthrough shows the collecting of all of the chaos emeralds for the best ending. It does not focus on the puzzle pieces.
This is probably the least known of the official Sonic games, or at least so I'd assume going by how little people have to say about it (if they even know it exists) online. Of course, the Neo Geo Pocket isn't a stranger to this, hosting myriad exclusives from several well-established series.
For those of you that don't know what a NGP or NGPC is, you aren't alone. It was on life-support for just about all of its brief US shelf-life (I remember stacks of them in Wal-Mart for insanely low prices - like system with a coupe of games for $20 brand new), but it was quite a powerful little thing with a somewhat small but largely excellent library. It competed directly against the Game Boy Color, but even with its far more powerful yet just as cheap hardware, it never really had an impact.
And I have to ask, with games like Sonic Pocket Adventure, how did that happen? It was a brand-new game heavily rooted in the designs of the Genesis titles (which it is about equal to in terms of quality, though it most heavily borrows from Sonic 2) with more colorful graphics, new play modes (that in many ways remind me of SMB DX), link-cable 2-player (think Sonic 2), and brand new remixes of several classic tracks from Sonic 3 and Sonic Jam.
It was an amazing Sonic game. But nobody cared. For what it's worth, I'd take this over any Sonic Advance title. Maybe not over Sonic CD, but it's at least is just as good. It totally dusts the SMS and GG games.
And a neat bit of trivia - the game was mostly developed internally at SNK, but they did work with members of Sonic Team, and Yuji Naka himself co-produced it.
Mind-blowing stuff, huh? Anyway, if you haven't played this before (and I'm assuming that means most of you), you really need to. It's pretty much Sonic 4, years before such a game actually would happen.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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