They chose between that and the Sonic band sound test, and personally, I wish they had kept the latter. Also, the final game is an 8 Meg ROM, with 4 Megs being the SEGA sound sample. It was a small demo, and so the space that writing would take up would not have been a large concern for them, because they could delete it soon after. Personally, some of the changes to Sonic 1 were a bit sad, for they made the game look cooler.Īlso, for the longest, we believed that the prototype 'shrinking' death animation was an animation for when you warp out of the Special Stage via the goal, but now we know the truth.Īlso, that prototype braking animation looks pretty similar to his prototype standing sprite as well.Īs for the large 'GAME OVER, END OF DEMO' text. Also, they have been shown off in SEVERAL gaming mags during development as well, with Marble Zone having very different lava, bluish bricks, different small buildings, and flipping platforms Sonic can stand on, instead of the later Saturn shaped planets floating around. 'But the Tokyo Toy Show ROM had 7-layer scrolling, and was constantly scrolling sideways, so it might not be a. Someone is said to own it, or one of the BETAs of Sonic 1, but refuses to dump the ROM, for it lowers the value drastically. Early preview of Sonic the Hedgehog shown at the Tokyo Toy Show in June 1990. Ron Bledsoe, toy Baker, Bobby Hare Though all ol these songs quality in. And I am sure a physical alpha was shown off at the 1990 Tokyo Toyfair as well. spanning a coJIection of material that shows why tfirs group continues to rack.

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