So Sega needed a return to form for Sonic’s debut on the Dreamcast, especially since as part of the launch line-up, the game would be responsible for selling the new console to people. Sonic had already been the Sega mascot for several years by then, this being based more on the character’s success on his original home, the Mega Drive, rather than his limited and uninspired appearances on the Dreamcast’s predecessor, the Saturn, which never actually received an exclusive Sonic platform game.īetween the Mega Drive and the Saturn, the five people in the world who owned a Sega Mega-CD (myself being one of them – thanks, parents!) could enjoy Sonic CD, a worthy successor to the early Mega Drive games, while the two people in the world who owned Sega’s 32X add-on (don’t look at me this time – even I wasn’t that much of a Sega fan) only received Knuckles’ Chaotix, a spin-off starring Knuckles the Echidna rather than Sonic. Sonic Adventure was a launch title for the Sega Dreamcast, released in Japan on 27th November, 1998. (And later sold it to pay the rent, but that’s another story). It was a brief sequence but also a thrilling and visually spectacular one that helped launch the blue hedgehog onto a new console generation in style. The demo in question showcased the game’s opening level, Emerald Coast, the highlight being the now-famous sequence where Sonic sprints along a wooden bridge, closely pursued by a killer whale leaping through the water and smashing the bridge behind him. I was in Another World (a shop that sold video games, comic books and other cool stuff), and they had a then-brand-new Sega Dreamcast on display, the console hooked up to a TV monitor showing a Sonic Adventure gameplay demo on a loop. I was about 18 years old, a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed university student with a smile on my lips and a song in my heart, years before I became the angry, whiskey-soaked misanthrope I am today. That – or something along those unpunctuated lines, anyway – was the thought that ran through my head the first time I saw Sonic Adventure in action. “ SweetJesuslookatthatwhalethatlooksawesome!”

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