So…Mario is a really big gaming icon and basically the mascot of Nintendo, and who do sega have? Alex Kidd…I mean sonic the hedgehog! Everyone remembers sonic the hedgehog right? The blue blur that started it all on the sega mega drive (or genesis) on a game that definitely has not aged well…

Sonic 1 is…strange. Strange in the sense that it definitely hasn’t aged as well as the Mario games (or at least most of them). That can easily be put towards the levels…and oh boy do we have something to talk about. We start off at green hill zone, great first level, and then marble zone…still a decent-ish level but a major pace killer. We then go to spring yard zone where the pace seems to catch up a bit…but now…we’re at labyrinth zone, where the pace seems to grind to a halt…and there’s no surprise why. We then make it to star light zone where the pace finally seems to catch up a bit and then we make it to scrap brain zone where the first 2 levels are pretty challenging but still cool…and then act 3 comes along and we go back to labyrinth zone style levels…WHY???

Hasn’t aged well, birthed an icon, star light zone was great…and I never want to see a water level ever again…