212. Sonic Warrior
Toot toot Sonic Warrior!
One of my favourite birthday memories as a kid was the birthday I got Sonic CD. Sounds sad, I know, but as a 7 or 8 year old it was the most important thing in my life at the time.
Before the days of unboxing videos on YouTube, my parents did a great job with boxing up my Sonic CD. It’s all I wanted for my birthday so I shredded through all the obvious CD-sized items to find it… Looking depressed but trying to be grateful to my parents by putting on a weak smile, I had one giant box left to open. I’m sure you get where I’m going with this. I really was an ungrateful shit as didn’t care whatever it was, but when I got to the bottom and found Sonic CD I was ecstatic …and probably foaming at the mouth a little.
Anyway, I love Sonic CD. Not just for the unboxing magic, but it is actually a fantastic game. One of my favourite Sonic games by far. This was a quick sketch for the Sega Blog’s competition. I’m assuming I didn’t win (shame), so I’m posting it up anyway. Update: Turns out I did win! Huzzah!
It’s Sonic mid-dimension as he moves between the time zones. I remember thinking that whole idea and the effect for the transition was really strong. But not as strong as the awesome special stages – Those were simply brilliant.
December 7, 2011 at 2:23 pm
“Judging will be completed on or about December 14, 2011″]
You might still win!
Also, star fields are supposed to have purple auroras, not green.
December 8, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Oh feck… misread that. We’ll see if posting this online made any difference to the judging then! Whoops!
As for the stars – they’re Sonic stars, it’s a blue hedgehog, it all makes sense… maybe.
April 14, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Classic. I hope you won something for this!