Retro Corner: Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis) Review

​In this edition of Retro Corner Reviews, we take a look back at another early review I wrote over four years ago. It was my review on the Original Sonic game on the Genesis and was the first title I went over for the console. The reason for bringing this up is thanks to Game Shack and Pixel Games Squad on YouTube. They made me remember fondly about why my love for the old Sega still holds up and their retro lineup from all those years ago. It brought my love out so much I busted the model 2 Genesis from storage and played some games. I even bought the Genesis/Mega Drive Collection on Steam because of the Autumn sale which included almost 60 titles. Now, if only Sega can ask third parties like Capcom to bring classics such as their Genesis’ Street Fighter II. The massive collection has more things then Nintendo’s Super NES Switch app has at the moment. That will eventually change as more Super NES classics come out but right now Sega has it better.

That brings me to the first Sonic that gave Sega the ammo they needed to take on Nintendo’s Super NES and Mario. The first entry wasn’t groundbreaking by any means, however; it was still drastically different from Mario and Mega Man. By 1991, they dropped their Arcade marketing for the system and pushed Sonic as the next advertising ploy. By then they would promote the concept of Genesis having “blast processing” to show how capable the console was. In fact, “blast processing” is actually a truthful thing about the Genesis as it ran at 7.67 Mhz. While the Super NES ran at 3.58 MHz which is half the speed. Does Sonic’s first outing hold up or has age slowed the hedgehog down?
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis) Review