It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and in the spirit of one of the most iconic balloons in the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, let’s take a look (and listen) to a Sonic the Hedgehog game that might not be the first on everyone’s mind....
No, it’s not an ode to Street Fighter II’s Guile, but rather a focused compilation of Sonic the Hedgehog melodies created by Spencer Nilsen, a music composer, arranger, and producer best known for his work on first-party Sega CD games. Yet Sonic Boom, which...
Blast processing. Sega had it, Nintendo didn’t. I had no idea what it was and most other kids didn’t either. Of course, we now know it was a made up term used by the Sega marketing department, but that didn’t matter to us in 1991. All we knew was that there was this...
The 1990s were a watershed moment in the video game industry. Arcades were closing down, and desktop computers were making a cautious and clumsy entrance into people’s homes. Yet, the 1990s saw the evolution of video gaming like no other decade. We moved from...
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