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Sonic Mania Plus (2018)

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Originally Recorded/Aired on September 17th, 2022

We're going back to Sonic the Hedgehog for this month's viewer request game on #SuperOldGameSaturday, courtesy of DollyFinn who wanted to see Sonic Mania. For this one, Proterova and Nocturne joined me and we had a good time with what'll be our first look at this 2017 2D Sonic classic that was made "by the mania, for the mania". Nocturne and I played the Mania mode of this one co-operatively with me as Sonic and her as Tails as we played every stage and showed some funny glitches along the way, al while we had great discussions together and with the chat on topics as varied as this Sonic game, how this nods to our favorite classic Sonic titles (and our memories with those), the multitude of announcements from the recent Nintendo Direct, Sony State of Play and Tokyo Game Show, aspects of the making of this game from Simon Thomley and Christian Whitehead, love of the music, 1980s and 90s PSAs, Law & Order SVU actress Mariska Hargitay and much more. As always, we were joined by our great chat that gave their input on everything we discussed. Also, we showed off some of the extra modes, namely, the Competition, Blue Spheres, Time Attack, D.A. Garden and Mean Bean Machine modes... or, at least, I did, due to another case of line-crossing tension I needed to edit out/deal with (Nocturne personally apologizes for that here, Proterova also apologizes for that with Goldeneye, and both promise that will never happen again with their future appearances on the show, and I'm holding them to that, with all due respect), and we lastly gave a brief preview to the Encore mode that we'll return to another time, because we just didn't have enough time to cover everything in this game. We had a great time with this and I thank DollyFinn for the request, the chat for joining us, my guests for joining me and all of you for watching. Hope you enjoy our first play of Sonic Mania (and you like what you see here, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag each Saturday at 7 PM EST to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week)!

Also, here's the Link List, linking to everything me, my guests and chat referenced and/or linked to for this show:

A link to the Sonic 3 Music Theory playlist going into the mechanics of the Sonic 3 music, referenced by Nocturne and courtesy of Alex Yard & Knuckles on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaberbaryjHBJ4uRwZ5S9ad4OerJLuE8E

A link to Songwriting Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog, another music theory video tied to this series, referenced by Proterova and courtesy of 8-Bit Music Theory on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Xw8YAtGpI

A link to SegaBits, a cool Sega-dedicated site that I thank for providing the SegaSonic The Hedgehog cabinet picture I put in, courtesy of SegaBits.com:

http://segabits.com/

A link to our play of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIHXA8OK9io&t=2745s

A link to our play of Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for Game Gear and Genesis (which was also the first show Nocturne was on):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2RdsSSfgg8

A video showing how to enter Hidden Place Zone in a garbled state on an actual Sonic the Hedgehog 2 cartridge using a Game Genie, courtesy of clywaters on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-utgZ31POM

A link showing every time Sonic 1 and the Sonic 2 beta were played in the Video Challenge section on the TV show, Nick Arcade (including the play by Melissa Joan Heart), courtest of Phanpy Ken on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3uI9pzimc

A link to Tee Lopes on YouTube, the man behind Sonic Mania's great music, who also has many other great game remix songs and original works, too:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TeeLopes

A link showing a commercial from the 90s for Pepco indicating how dangerous playing with electricity is for children (albeit in the form of a rap that I never heard before, but the Peanuts-esque animation is the same), courtesy of PepcoTV on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuD_aznmDXg

A link describing the Children's Television Act of 1990 (and other American regulations signed into law regarding PSAs for children's entertainment) that likely is why Sonic Says exists, courtesy of Wikipedia.com:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulations_on_children%27s_television_programming_in_the_United_States

A link of every G.I. Joe end of episode PSA, courtesy of Phantom Beast General on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyh_nEuh3M

The 1990s "This is your brain" anti-heroin PSA starring Rachael Leigh Cook, referenced by Proterova and courtesy of Retropond on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlqSNjbhNc

A video of "Games I Hate", which indicates the Sega Master System version of Dynamite Dux, the game that Bean the Dynamite came from, referenced/provided by ElecVerse and courtesy of HappyConsoleGamer on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYs4w1fHIOs

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